Chapter 472

Once the complaining was over, it was time to get down to business.

If it had been some self-taught mage, they would surely have been at a loss in this situation, able only to take things one step at a time—put nicely, adapting to circumstances; put bluntly, gritting their teeth and charging ahead. But Yui was no self-taught mage. She came from the only magic school in the northwest. Her teacher was a top-tier mage standing at the threshold of legend, and from time to time she could also receive instruction from another top-tier mage at that same threshold. Sometimes, even the great God of Knowledge would send down an incarnation to teach.

Across the entire Material Plane, apart from the Supreme Tower, where His Majesty Imia Luperus, the God of Spellcasters, had an incarnation stationed, there was no second magic school with faculty of such lofty caliber. Though Isuka Magic School had not existed long enough for its students to grow dazzlingly brilliant, quite a few of her upperclassmen had already become intermediate mages—even Yui herself could have reached that level by now, if she had not been focused on laying a solid foundation.

The price of spending several extra years building that foundation was that her spellcasting level could not keep pace with gifted youths her age. The benefit, however, was that the knowledge and skills she possessed far surpassed those of an ordinary mage.

For instance, she knew how to set up magic arrays—and ones of a rather high level at that.

A marvelous magic array developed through years of painstaking research by Mr. Satan, the chief mage of the Church of Void Mask and revered as the "Sage of Purification," capable of effectively cleansing negative energy contamination.

This magic array was extremely complex, involving several different