At Not Even Five, It Was the Perfect Age to Venture Out

"Ah, everything over there had been going so smoothly. We should put in some effort on our end too."

Having finished the usual fairy tale session, Adam looked at Gabriel, who had fallen fast asleep after his grueling training.

There were still a few months until the Grimoire acquisition ceremony. Waiting patiently and taking things as they came was certainly an option, but what came after that?

Gabriel's background meant that the Grimoire he received was destined not to be anything particularly high-grade. There was a ninety percent chance it would be an ordinary Three-Leaf Clover Grimoire with only one or two pages.

Adam had originally wondered whether Celestial Spirit Magic might affect that, but aside from a slight increase in magic power from Gabriel's diligent training and abundant food these past days, he had shown no improvement in aptitude.

There were no shortcuts to obtaining magic in this world. Gabriel also did not have a background like Felt's, which let her borrow the power of the strongest man in the world. If his contractor was weak, then there would be countless Grimoires Adam would be unable to access.

At the very least, he had to increase Gabriel's magic power.

At the same time, Adam's other selves had also been somewhat spurred on, becoming even more invested in collecting magic.

"If we're talking about a shortcut to collecting magic, then without a doubt, the shortcut in this world is August."

Adam Reed of Fairy Tail pondered.

The son of Zeref and Mavis, the foremost of the Alvarez Empire's Spriggan 12, he possessed the ability to instantly copy magic. Through that, he had mastered nearly every kind of non-item-based magic. He was practically the Index Librorum Prohibitorum of the Fairy Tail world.

Beyond that, the magic of the other members of