Chapter 145 - Graduated from Apprenticeship

『 Mia LV.1 』

『 HP: 15/15 MP: 50/50

Class: Mage

—STR: 4 —INT: 10

—AGI: 4 —VIT: 3

—LUCK: 2 AP: 0 』

Seeing the blue game-like window appearing above the card, Sheila couldn't help but nodded her head as she marvels at how romantic it looks like no matter how many times she saw it, the feeling never changes. Rather than thinking it was some kind of magic, one would think it was the result of science since the way the interface appear seemed something out of sci-fi. The 'identification' card in Mia's hands is different than the one Sheila and the others had gotten when the first entered the Trial Tower.

This card could be said as one of her experiment to see whether it could be implanted near the future, depending on its potential, she might add more useful functions into it. After all, she is the 'host' of the leveling system, she could easily modify the card since it was a downgrade version of her system. Yes, she had really put a lot of hard work in experimenting with all sorts of stuff. Sheila took full advantage of the time dilation in the Trial Tower, without it, she might have not gotten this far on her own.

Although it was an experiment card, it actually functions normally like the normal card, there was no problem with it aside from a few things which was modified by her. 

"W-What is this?!"

Understanding her surprise, Sheila was about to step forward to answer her question when Ria intercept her on the spot. Sheila sent a questioning gaze at her but the latter ignored it and stepped forward, walking toward Mia before she started explaining everything about the card from A-Z. Although Sheila wants to be the person in that position, she didn't mind Ria taking her place since she knew the latter would do much better than herself. It seemed that Mia didn't even know what game is as Ria had to start explaining from there which took longer than expected.

Once everything is deal with, I will invite her to turn-Cough, play some games with her. I definitely didn't have any wicked plan of turning Mia into a full gamer, definitely no such a thing. Wait a minute, who am I even explaining this for?  Sheila sighed.

"Now do you understand?"

"I only understood a gist of it. You meant to say that all the information on this window-like interface was actually my overall capabilities turned into a digit to make it easy for someone like me to understand it?"

"So long as you know and play a few games⁠—no, even if you didn't play any and only heard it from your friend, you would understand how some part of it works. For example, your strength as shown in the 'status window' is 4, which means you have an average strength of what one would expect from a girl. Average people would have around 4-6 on each attribute, this didn't include luck, unfortunately. Now..."

Ria then continues explaining further into details about what each attribute means. Sheila didn't interrupt into their conversation and only watch them from a distance while seated on the chair she had just brought from her inventory, practicing her telekinesis ability as one would be amazed to see a few floating objects around her. 

Ever since she had gotten the skill, Sheila has been practicing it whenever she had spare time, this also included the other skills but that's not the main point here. Her hard work was enough to raise the skill to level 3 where she could now move a few objects in the air as if she had another invisible limb of her own, but it was still not enough to make it useful in the battles. 

Though Sheila couldn't deny how useful it is in her everyday life as she could lay on her back on the bed while watching the movie from the phone floating in front of her face. That was one of the many examples that could make use of telekinesis, it seemed that her laziness had gone up in level too due to that! After all, don't most people have this one dream when they were kids, where they are so lazy to move and wishes the remote control would fly into their hand? 

Sheila didn't know how much grateful she felt when the skill was in her hands as at that time, she imagined the future where she doesn't need to move and simply will it in her mind and the remote control would fly into her grasp—rather, she could even change the channel by using the remote control from afar! No movement required! That was the heavenly dream she had—that's definitely not the reason why she was practicing hard on using the skill, alright? Alright.

When Ria was done with her explanation, the two turned around and was amazed at the sight of gold coins hovered in the air surrounding Sheila at the center, with her beauty included, it was as if they were blessed with a Goddess of Fortune in person. When Sheila saw their eyes went wide with amazement, her lips curl up in response, shattering the stoic expression she had a moment ago.

When the two arrived close to her, two chairs materialize out of thin air and Ria calmly took her seat, and though Mia was surprised, she eventually also took her seat next to Ria. Sheila turned her head toward Ria before opening her mouth and ask.

"Did you tell her about the Trial Tower?"

The latter nodded in response.

"She asked me about it so I answered everything that I knew."

"Then that makes thing easier, so—"

Sheila stopped her words midway when she realized Mia didn't have any weapon in hands and she also remembers the girl didn't know any offensive spell, she would have graduated from being apprentice otherwise. With that being said, Sheila brought a couple of skill books from her inventory before giving it to Mia, followed by her saying.

"This will be put in your debt, for now since you don't have anything to pay with it, just know that this book is very expensive and could only acquire from me, alone."

Though she was visibly confused, Mia nodded her head and promise herself to repay this debt in the near future. As to why she didn't question her? It was because of the book disappeared and turned into glittering light the moment she touches it with her finger, followed by a torrent of strange memory rushing into her brain. Although it was a bit painful to the head, Mia took it in without m.o.a.ning as she understood how important it is once she learned briefly on what it was. If this was Sheila, various notifications would have appeared in her view.

『 Mia has learned Fire Magic! 』

『 Mia has learned Mana Sense! 』

Since she had already acquired the two skills, Sheila thought it would be better if someone else learns it than just let it rot in the inventory. Mia didn't inquire anything as she appeared to be deep in thought as if organizing the sudden appearance of a new set of memory in her brain with her eyes closed. When she opened her eyes, Sheila didn't need to say anything as the latter understood her meaning simply by looking at her face. Although it was hard as even with the help of Mana Sense skill, she still frowns for a moment and a few minutes passed, a small ball of flame at the size of lighter suddenly appeared in the air before flickering for a moment and disappeared soon after.

It seemed that she couldn't control it properly as one could see how unstable the fireball is with just one look. When Sheila had asked the level of her skills, surprisingly, the mana sense skill didn't seem to be in the passive slot but instead, in the active one with a level 1, different than the one she acquired where it was already maxed due to it being a passive skill. Sheila didn't know how and why the way both of them acquire the skill differently, no matter how hard she thought about it, it was useless as she didn't have enough information. 

The skill books could be bought from the system's shop but the couple of skill books that she had just gifted to Mia was actually something that she earned from the lottery. When she had gotten her hands on it, Sheila thought of selling it to the system but the price she got was absolutely ripped off where she only gets 30% of the overall price in the system's shop, so she decided not to sell it and stored it in her inventory. 

Sheila tried asking Mia whether there is a magecraft skill in the latter skill's interface but was met with disappointment. Though Sheila was sad that she couldn't learn the secret of Mage Association, on the other hand, Mia was happy beyond everything as she could finally conjure a fireball of her own, even though it ended up unstable. It makes sense considering she had never once conjure any sort of spell when she was an apprentice in the Mage Academy. It was strange though, considering how high her INT is, she should be able to conjure at least one spell even if it cost a lot of mana. 

Perhaps it was either she was bad at learning, or that the instructor was just bad at their job. It could only be one of the two, or maybe both.