After emerging from the trial grounds, Marfa seemed to have been granted a cheat code. Over the following years, she progressed at an astonishing rate.
The inheritances she had obtained from those trial sites gave her a vast amount of ancient knowledge and new soul-type spell structures.
This made her soul core more stable than those of others at her level, and her efficiency in wielding spiritual power began to noticeably surpass her peers.
Her rapid rise stirred a sense of crisis among her rivals, who wanted to suppress her before she had fully risen.
The rivals joined forces and laid a trap.
But Marfa was no helpless lamb. Using the connections she had accumulated and the spies she had planted, she learned of it in advance and struck first.
By the time those rivals realized that the situation had completely veered away from their expectations, there was no longer any room to salvage it.
Then... came the great purge.
Those who submitted prospered; those who resisted perished!
After Marfa dealt with the last batch of rivals, those who remained were all willing to submit to her.
She began deliberately observing those people.
Some excelled at combat, some at research, and some had accumulated intelligence channels.
Though some were not particularly powerful, their methods were strange and could prove more effective than direct confrontation in certain situations.
She used these people to establish a small force of her own, which later spread into various departments of the academy.
This made her path of cultivation even smoother.
Later, as time passed, Marfa gradually touched upon the threshold of Stigma.
Stigma was a realm countless Wizards dreamed of attaining, and there were not many such figures in the entire academy.
But the greatest obstacle to advancing to Stigma was comprehending rules.
Comprehending