On a drizzly afternoon two days later, after wrapping up their two-month journey through Adlock, Ivette and Lucia arrived once more at the airship harbor of Truth City.
Fine rain wove a gray curtain through the air, blurring the outlines of the academy spires in the distance. Ivette used Wind Magic to create a rain shelter overhead, and such extravagant use of magic drew countless sidelong glances from those around them. Lucia dragged a large suitcase behind Ivette, with a one-star gold adventurer badge pinned to her chest.
That gold adventurer badge was her greatest gain of the summer. Back when her father Aimon had still been in the village, what he had been proudest of was having once been a gold-ranked adventurer. Yet less than a year after leaving home, Lucia had already achieved the same feat. Whenever she walked down the street, the corners of her lips could not help but curl into a small, smug smile.
Half an hour later, after taking a carriage, the two returned to their room at Scholar's Haven Apartments on Flowering Street. Lucia began cleaning the room, while Ivette did not slack off entirely. She used Wind Magic to help while thinking over certain details of the divine battle from the night before last.
After using Spell Hijacking to disrupt the Sun God's Faith Method, Ivette came to understand one thing even more clearly: Faith Magic was no different from other forms of magic.
The only difference was that Faith Element was far too scarce.
When a mage cast a spell, both Internal Mana and External Mana had to be supplied at the same time. Internal Mana had no attribute and could acquire one through the External Mana drawn in. Meanwhile, the world was filled with abundant Elemental Magic that could be