Loa could no longer call up his status panel at all.
After Edith explained exactly why she had altered his skill panel, she had simply removed the function. It was hardly a bad thing for Loa, so he had no objections.
Ever since he first received the system's power, Loa had felt as though he were playing a game.
Using a skill had little to do with his own will. It was like clicking a skill icon in a game: the damage was fixed, and so was the magic it consumed.
But after he broke through to the Third Tier, that changed dramatically.
Using a skill was no longer a matter of simply releasing it. It felt more like charging it up, and he could freely control its power and cost.
Ice Control was born under those circumstances. It was also proof that his strength had earned Edith's recognition.
Neither of those stages compared to where he stood now, though. Only after Edith removed the system—not just its source code, but the entire system—did Loa finally feel the power of magic.
It was utterly different from Haki!
He could now clearly sense every trace of magic flowing through his body: where it went, why it vanished, and how it formed. Things Loa had never experienced before were now perfectly clear to him.
Losing the system's support was certainly a considerable loss. But if this control was what he gained in exchange, it was worth it.
That feeling of freedom, without the slightest restraint—Loa would make that trade a hundred times over.
So his training was no longer limited to strengthening a single skill, as it once had been with Ice-Make Magic. He could improve his abilities from the ground up and grow stronger in every respect.
That was what he