After delivering a perfect victory in his duel with Rebecca, Theodore didn’t head toward the dinner venue. Instead, he headed to the infirmary of the royal palace.

While he had come down from the stage in a much better state than Rebecca, he hadn’t escaped unscathed. Rebecca’s aura blade storm had been sharp enough to cut through Battle Song’s defensive ability and cut through his forearm.

The healer clicked his tongue when he saw Theo’s bleeding forearm. “... How terrible. It isn’t easy to heal injuries caused by aura, but this is more than that. Simple treatment using potions or herbs would be more effective than magic.”

Mana that passed through a person’s body would often dye itself with the colors of a person’s inherent nature. In order to resonate with that nature, magicians minimized the degree of deterioration by forming an artificial circulation organ called Circles, but knights were different. They embraced their inherent nature. Since aura strengthened physical abilities, the closer it was to the user’s own nature, the greater the efficiency and power would be. However, this left behind traces...