Celestine Novak, Mistrala Magic Academy's top fourth-year graduate, bearer of the "Infernal Realm" Formula, held the rank of High Mage, yet possessed combat power comparable to a transcendent Mage. She was also the only Limit Breaker since the previous Demon King to break through the ten-formula circuit limit. Having now mastered a hundred different types of formulas, she was widely acknowledged by Brown Kingdom's upper echelons as someone who might surpass the previous Demon King of the Empire, the figure who had made countless people tremble, and inherit the Demon King title that had stood vacant for decades.
Although the Novak Family publicly claimed that she was the illegitimate daughter of Peter Novak, the current family head, Celestine had inherited neither the Novak Family's hereditary six fingers nor their other distinctive traits.
Instead, she possessed blue hair unlike that of ordinary people—hair with a strange rippling pattern and an independent will, a trait supposedly found only among the Flower Fairies of Morno Province, who had always lived in the habitat of the Sun Flowers and whose adult bodies never exceeded 0.8 meters in height.
Moreover, due to a magical mutation, the Sun Flowers had gradually withered away, making it difficult for newborn Flower Fairies to receive a complete blessing from them.
What was more, aside from the fairy queen born in each generation from the most vigorous Sun Flower, the other Flower Fairies had not only lost their longevity, but their brains had also become incapable of fully developing. Thus, a thousand years ago, their average intelligence had already regressed to that of a thirteen-year-old human child, forcing them off the stage of civilization.
Yet because they were too innocent and simple-hearted, exceptionally beautiful, and because the fairy race was no longer as powerful as it had once been, they