Ascension: Strongest Fateless Mage

*Ding!*

"Got Touma-sir's message," Zevien spoke while looking at his Digi-watch and reading the message.

[The experiment went successful. Magician Growth Boost is now officially official ッ. However, the kid we used the boost on didn't awaken his 2nd magic labyrinth, so…you were right. It seems that the magic labyrinth awakening was indeed due to your magical touch, hahaha.]

[Anyway, I can't call you right now, but we'll have an important talk regarding this and your fairy summoning spell after a month. For now, we are all going to Astral Land for something important. Another teacher will replace me for a month. The city lord's position will also temporarily be given to someone from the central government headquarters who knows nothing about you. Heck, nobody besides a few people knows about you, so don't cause any trouble, for there won't be anyone to save your ass for a month.]

After reading the message, he showed it to the others with a speechless expression, "it seems that I will lose my VIP status for a month."

"Haha, no worries. There are very few problems that money can't solve," Dan said with a grin, "the matter regarding the Gio family is also solved, so we can just peacefully live and prepare."

"Though it kinda saddens me that we will have to wait for a month to get our Magician Growth Boosts," Erica sighed.

"It's fine. We can focus on learning magic spells that we will need when we become 5th class magicians," Vernisia said with a smile.

"Oh, and I have already learned another tier-1 magic spell, Fire Spark, and combined it with my other tier-1 spell, Cushion Steps, which I got from Touma-sir's library to create the peak tier-1 fusion spell, Fire Burst Steps. I have already weaved it in my magic core after removing Cushion Steps."

Fire Burst Steps could let the user burst dash on the ground or in the air multiple times, according to the user's wish and the remaining mana the user has. On top of that, dashing releases flame sparks that cause tiny explosions from the user's feet to deal small damage to opponents.

"That's not all, right?" Erica sneakily smiled.

"Yep, I also learned another tier-1 spell called Water Beam and learned one more tier-1 spell called Lightning Tendril so that I can create another peak tier-1 fusion spell, Discharged Beam," Vernisia grinned, "once my opponent is paralyzed either by my Shadow Bind Hex awakening spell or Discharged Beam, I win."

Zevien was surprised, "eh? Your magic core has enough space for two tier-1 spells even after getting a 2nd awakening spell from your 2nd magic labyrinth?"

"Yeah. Although barely after I removed my Split Mana Saber spell," Vernisia wryly smiled.

"Oh yeah, we know you awakened your 2nd magic labyrinth. What is its name, and what's your second awakening spell?" Erica asked curiously.

"It's an unrecorded magic labyrinth just like my Inviolable Blood Garden," Zevien smiled.

Vernisia nodded as she grinned, "It's called Primal Elemental Utopia. The awakening spell I got from it is called Primal Conjuring."

"It seems like the second magic labyrinth awakened by Zevien's touch will be an unrecorded one," Dan grinned.

"Hopefully, that's the case," Erica nodded with a hint of excitement in her eyes before she asked, "so what does Primal Conjuring do?"

"It's a unique spell from what I understood so far," Vernisia said with a thoughtful expression, "there are four styles of conjuring when I activate this spell, but I can only conjure the 1st style right now, which is called Water Terror Fish."

Vernisia waved her hand as she used the 1st style of Primal Conjuring; Water Terror Fish.

*chaaa!*

An adult palm-sized ocean blue fish materialized in the air as it flew around speedily.

"Use it on me," Zevien said as he got away from the table and jumped four meters away before using Somatic Sadness to create a barrier around him.

Vernisia nodded as she controlled the fish to hit the barrier.

*crack!*

The barrier cracked in a second as the fish continued for half a second before it exploded and turned into four tiny vertical water vortexes that shot towards Zevien as fast as an arrow and as sneaky as snakes.

"Woah!" Zevien was startled as he jumped back and turned into his cat form before taking them head-on.

The water vortexes hit him but couldn't do much damage since he was in his cat form, which provided him a slightly higher physical strength and bodily magic defense.

"It's a pure offensive spell and also a barrier breaker to a certain limit, I guess," Zevien said with raised eyebrows before he nodded with a smile, "it's pretty powerful."

"Yep. I feel like I will unlock the rest of the styles after evolving my magic core," Vernisia nodded, "I also need to master the 1st style. I can't control it well."

"You just got it today, so take it easy," Erica said before turning to Zevien. "Dan and I have created one peak tier-1 fusion spell. What about you, Zevien?" She asked curiously.

Zevien sat down at the table before speaking with a helpless smile, "both my awakening spells have taken up a lot of space in my magic core because of their versatile nature, so I can at most weave one tier-1 spell, which is going to be the peak tier-1 fusion spell, Brilliant Burn. Currently, I have Flash Curtain weaved, but I will remove it tomorrow and have Brilliant Burn weaved in my magic core since I have already learned the spell concept and mastered spell formation of Burning Spark."

"I don't remember that spell," Erica frowned.

"I remember! It is a combination of Flash Curtain and Burning Spark, damn," Dan said as he smiled nastily and nodded, "It's an annoying spell to deal with when it suddenly pops in front of you."

Brilliant Burn started similar to Flash Curtain, but instead of just blinding enemies with bright light like Flash Curtain, Brilliant Burn also burns the eyes and skin of whoever is facing it along with inflicting blindness like Flash Curtain.

"Well, Zevien also has three more spells that he can use when he turns into his cute and handsome cat form," Vernisia said before she suddenly grinned happily and demanded, "Hey, I can now tell you that I want to touch your cat ears without feeling embarrassed, hehe. Come on, show it."

"Ahem, we can do that when we are alone. For now, I have to go and start my plan to get a quota to enter into the Skyward Academy without participating in the tournament at the academy," Zevien said smilingly as he stood up, "you three do whatever you want and help Yowen if he requires something. He is too busy handling the company right now."

Afterward, Zevien left Zenith Corp. with a vampire blood vial in his pocket.

…

Zevien rode on his bike and went towards the magic guild branch in the city. On the way, he stopped at a fancy outfit shop and bought an outfit. Afterward, he stopped at a club and went inside before appearing in his vampire form and wearing a count Dracula outfit.

"Nice get up, man. Are you going to a fancy outfit fashion show?" A man in his early twenties asked as Zevien came out of the club.

"Yep," Zevien grinned and nodded while walking by that man before starting his bike and moving towards the magic guild branch.

He had red eyes, vertical irises, and two fangs outside his mouth: A true vampire to boot roaming outside. But with this outfit and the various spells available, people would think that it was just a temporary enchantment or work of an accessory that allowed him to have this vampire get up.