Semilis stood frozen midair, her mouth agape.
She used it… This girl actually used it!? Three-Element Magic! You—are you really a Three-Element Magician!? How on earth have you been training this past month!?
Before Semilis could even recover from her shock,
Xiu Lim continued her performance.
“Next up, the fourth one!”
Wait! Wait! The fourth one? Could it be…
“【XMMnpx】”
The first-rank Non-Attribute Magic — Purification.
On the last day of the month, while fretting over how to learn non-attribute magic, Xiu Lim suddenly realized that non-attribute magic mostly affects the self.
So, might learning this magic require starting from within?
She began carefully observing herself and discovered the presence of a seventh element within her.
Compared to the other six elements, the non-attribute element was glaringly obvious and hard to miss.
When she attempted to manipulate the non-attribute element, she found it far simpler than the others.
Because this element coexisted with her from the start, it was like part of her body, with no communication barrier whatsoever.
Xiu Lim easily mastered the first-rank non-attribute magic, with the effort required seeming like a joke compared to the other elements.
As the light of the non-attribute magic “Purification” shone on Xiu Lim, cleansing the dust from her clothes, it also snatched away the last shred of Semilis’s sanity.
“…Has this world broken down?”
“?”
Seeing Semilis with dull, unseeing eyes, a question mark appeared above Xiu Lim’s head.
“Semilis, Semilis, what’s wrong? I won, you know!”
“Ah, ah, ah…”
Semilis let out incomprehensible moans, clutching her head tightly, then emitted a loud scream.
“This isn’t right!!!”
Flap! Flap! Flap…
Semilis’s wings beat rapidly, revealing the extreme turmoil within her.
She pressed her face close to Xiu Lim and shouted nonstop.
“This isn’t right! This is too weird! How could someone like you even exist? This isn’t reasonable! Is this world really doomed? Mother Goddess, what should I do—!?”
Xiu Lim covered her ears tightly, shouting in annoyance:
“Semilis, your voice is too loud!”
After a long while, Semilis barely calmed down, but she still stared at Xiu Lim as if looking at a monster.
Xiu Lim felt a surge of irritation.
“Even if you’re pretending to be crazy, you can’t back out now. I won the bet!”
“Oh, right, there was that!”
Semilis seemed to suddenly remember and punched her palm.
“These are small things. Compared to that, your problem now is bigger! Xiu Lim, how exactly did you do it? Why can you use Seven-Element Magic?”
“Weren’t you the one who bet with me? Why are you the one doubting now? Could it be…
You were planning to back out from the start?!”
Xiu Lim eyed Semilis cautiously and subtly moved closer, ready to grab her in case she tried to run.
Semilis took in Xiu Lim’s move and a line of frustration appeared on her forehead.
“Ahem, ahem, I am the great Fairy King, how could I possibly back out! But you, Xiu Lim, do you really understand what it means that you can use Seven-Element Magic?”
“Meaning? Is that strange?”
Xiu Lim looked puzzled.
“Listen…”
Semilis pinched her forehead.
“The person with the highest aptitude in today’s world is only suited to Four-Element Magic! Seven elements? Not now, nor in the entire history of Hymriel has such a thing ever appeared!”
“Eh? But Semilis, aren’t you…”
“I’m different! I’m a born Magic Lifeform fairy, and even among fairies there are magical attributes. When I was first born, I couldn’t use all elemental magics; it was only after many experiences and coincidences that I could use all elemental magics. And my case is the only one in the whole world. That’s also why the Mother Goddess entrusted me with the Blessing…”
As Semilis explained, Xiu Lim gradually realized she had misunderstood something.
When first reading the magic books, it said learning magic requires the corresponding aptitude.
But it never said one couldn’t learn magic without aptitude.
Plus, Xiu Lim had barely interacted with magicians; the only deeply memorable example was Semilis—the world’s unique exception.
Because Semilis left such a strong impression, when Xiu Lim read that section, she instinctively thought that even without aptitude, magic could be used.
Though the books emphasized aptitude, it was likely referring to how aptitude makes learning magic easier.
Now, with the misunderstanding cleared,
Xiu Lim was left stunned.
“Eh… then what am I?”
“I want to know that too!”
Semilis scoffed.
“Forget it, forget it. If I’d known earlier, I wouldn’t have been lazy!”
Semilis muttered as she stared intently at Xiu Lim.
“?”
Just as a question mark appeared above Xiu Lim’s head,
Semilis’s eyes suddenly lit up.
Two small magic circles floated in front of her eyes.
“Eyes! They’re glowing!”
Xiu Lim shouted loudly, shaken to her core.
So eyes could also cast magic?
At the same time, Semilis’s eyes showed another change.
A series of text appeared above Xiu Lim’s head.
【Xiu Lim·Haiyelaer
Race: Human (Female)
Age: Seven
Life: E-rank
Magic Power: D-rank
Magic Aptitude: Fire Affinity C-rank, Water Affinity C-rank, Earth Affinity C-rank, Wind Affinity C-rank, Light Affinity C-rank, Dark Affinity C-rank, Non-Attribute Affinity C-rank】
“…”
Seeing Xiu Lim’s information, Semilis fell silent once again.
This girl… not only truly possesses aptitude for all elements, but each affinity rank is exactly the same?!
What on earth is going on!?