True Wind Magic

"Oh? You know a little hand-to-hand combat?"

Adam raised an eyebrow, put away his Grimoire, and rolled his wrists.

"Funny, so do I..."

Although Gabriel's restrictions limited Adam's total mana, preventing this clone from freely piling a bunch of buffs onto himself, that did not mean Adam could not fight.

It had been mentioned before that this world possessed techniques known as Mana Skin.

This was a state achieved when mages refined their mana and continuously used it to enhance their physical abilities, allowing the magical attributes that normally appeared only when casting spells to envelop their bodies.

This technique did not have an absolute relationship with one's total mana. Although only mages with sufficiently large mana reserves could usually master it, that was merely because having enough mana supported frequent practice.

For mages who already possessed extremely strong control over both mana and their own bodies, Mana Skin was nothing.

Even Magic Domain—

The advanced form of Mana Skin. It could manipulate the mana floating in the surrounding area. Within the domain, one could release mana exceeding their own reserves from any angle, making the same skills more powerful. At the same time, perception and reaction speed were greatly enhanced, and one could move freely through the air with the aid of mana.

—was merely a technique that required some familiarization before it could be mastered.

Clearly, Adam was precisely that kind of mage.

It could only be said that Adam had always possessed the ability to master such techniques. It was just that, compared to directly enhancing himself with mana, he had preferred stacking a pile of buffs on himself.

Although that consumed more mana and required knowledge of more spells, neither had been a problem for the Adam of the past.

As for why he had begun