" Iver... really does know a lot."
Isabel widened her eyes. Her emerald-clear eyes sparkled beneath the bright moonlight.
The full moon outside the window shone like a mirror, its light spilling over the two of them like gauze. Both Iver's body and the white pajamas draped over Isabel glittered beneath the moonlight.
She looked at Iver with deep admiration. "Whether it's the Lower District or the Round Table Hall... you even know about lost rituals and Path Traits. I could never do that... I have a hard enough time just memorizing the tables my teacher gave me. They're really too difficult to remember."
Too difficult to remember?
Iver's heart stirred. Curious, he asked, "What does the Path Trait recommendation table Master Yanis gave you look like? Is it complicated?"
"Mm."
Isabel nodded and complained softly, "It's a table my teacher made for me not long ago. She said that the first time you undergo the Promotion Ritual, it doesn't matter much, because you won't be able to choose any particularly good entries anyway. But starting from the second Promotion Ritual, you can't just pick randomly.
"Most of it is something like, 'If you've mastered this ability but not that one, then when these Path Traits appear, choose this one and don't choose that one.'
"For example, unless there's truly nothing else to choose, I can't pick container-type entries, even if they're purple. That's because the 'Art' abilities of the Path of Beauty basically don't consume mana.
"Like the Resilient Illusion I chose this time. My teacher specifically said that if Cunning Spell, Resilient Illusion, and True Illusion appeared together, I should prioritize Cunning Spell, followed by Resilient Illusion. And if I hadn't mastered Resilient Illusion, I shouldn't choose True Illusion even if it appeared. But if I had already