"Magic net?"
Holding A Ke in his arms, Liszt's eyes lit up. His earlier worry vanished without a trace, leaving only delight. "Touching the magic net... A Ke, under the stimulation of the Mermaid's Tear, has touched the magic net? Jonas Evening Primrose once said that for a great magician to advance to a magus, they needed to touch the magic net!"
The Smoke Mission had proven not to be the work of some hidden mastermind, but merely a projection of his will.
Perhaps his constant subconscious prompting, his hope that A Ke could advance to become a magus, had brought about this mission for the ruins map, which in turn had led to the Mermaid's Tear.
Thinking of this, he could not help sighing again. "I never expected A Ke to advance to magus before I've even succeeded in riding a dragon. Strictly speaking, she's only an underage girl... I have to admit, A Ke's talent is truly formidable. Ysi is also a sea demon and studied magic too, but she only knows a few ordinary spells."
Brushing the loose azure hair from A Ke's face behind her ear, Liszt continued casting Magic Eye to observe the state of magic power within her body.
The phenomenon of magic power exchanging invisibly became clear to him as though clouds had parted to reveal the sun—it was not exchanging with free magic power, but connecting to that unknown magic net and continuously exchanging magic power within it.
"Looking at it this way, a magus no longer draws magic power from the free magic power outside, but takes it directly from the magic net. Does that mean that even on the battlefield, a magus can still rely on the magic net's power to cast devastating spells?"
If that was truly the case,