"A mage!?"
Abi stared wide-eyed at Xia Nan beside him, unable to hide the astonishment on his face.
At the moment, the "Green Blood" party had already left River Valley Town and was in the open wilderness between the town and Thin Mist Forest.
It was daytime, so it was still relatively safe. There were basically no Monsters around.
Along the road, they occasionally saw adventurers who had just finished their missions and were on their way back, looking exhausted while still eyeing the group with wariness.
During the last stretch of easy travel before entering the forest, the members of the party chatted idly.
Xia Nan had no intention of hiding anything, nor did he think too much of it. He simply treated it as a topic to pass the time and took the opportunity to tell Adeline and the others what he had seen in the association.
That high-level adventurer party from the Association Second Floor, seemingly made up of Professionals.
"Was he really a mage?" Abi was especially excited, leaning in beside Xia Nan and asking curiously.
"Did he have a ball of light over his head?"
"I remember a bard who came to our village once performed one. It was only the size of a fist, but it lit up the whole barn!"
Because of their extremely high requirements for talent and wealth, "Spellcasters" were not common on the Aifala Continent.
Perhaps those who spent years hanging around the Adventurers Association, or people whose own strength had already reached the Professional level, were so closely connected to Transcendent Power through their environment that Spellcasters appeared around them often, making them unable to feel this.
But if that scope were expanded to the entire Aifala Continent, especially to commoners who had spent their whole lives in some