Just planting the idea that ordinary elderly mages couldn’t possibly handle me was enough. I had no doubt that they’d bicker among themselves. This was simply about making them feel that the situation was already beyond their reach. 0

Of course, once it came down to actually demonstrating or implementing spells, that would be more difficult for me, but when it came to solving problems, formulas, or theory, it wasn’t hard to make them feel as though they had nothing left to teach me.0

‘Primitive, isn’t it?’0

Magic engineering and alchemy weren't the only schools of magic that hadn't been able to make any progress. Since these schools of magic had developed in a strange way, the rest ended up stagnating, stuck in what would barely pass if they were in the middle of the continent's second phase.0

In some fields, the state of things was downright pitiful. The fact that only a handful of people could even understand a paper that Jung Ha-Yan had written at a grade-school level said it all. 0

The elderly mage Giena could be one of the few who could follow it, but even she surely hadn’t grasped everything. That was why her...0