Ascension: Strongest Fateless Mage

Both of them dumped their beast cores in front of the teacher, who revealed a speechless expression. "You guys are fast. Are you constantly using mana cores to not run out of mana?"

"Exactly," Vernisia grinned. "We have many mana stones with 50,000 mana in them. Hehe, high-quality mana stones."

"Rich," the teacher was even more speechless before she started counting the beast cores and separated the pile into 4th and 5th-grade beast cores.

"A total of 337 beast cores. Two-hundred and seventy-six fifth-grade beast cores and 61 fourth-grade beast cores. Total points 4590. Give me your card," the teacher said after explaining and putting all cores in her storage ring.

Vernisia took out the card and gave it to the teacher, who added points to the card before returning it.

"We have 6410 points now," Vernisia smiled. "We can buy a single Yellow-rank magic crystal."

"No, wait. Since the magic crystals increase our magic power by a percentage it's better to use three white-rank crystals that increase 10% magic power each, rather than a single yellow-rank magic crystal that increases 30% of our magic power at once," Zevien said thoughtfully while walking towards the edge of the ship with Vernisia. "To hit the 1500 magic power mark, we need four gray-rank magic crystals and two white-rank magic crystals."

"So we need a total of 20,000 points, huh…" Vernisia wryly smiled as she and Zevien jumped off the ship and landed at the riverbank. "Well, let's continue hunting until we are mentally exhausted, or this magic eruption spot disappears."

"Haha, yep! That's the only way. Gotta grind hard," Zevien laughed before he unfurled his dark blue feathered wings and flew away while Vernisia summoned Lyn and flew away in another direction.

…

Twelve hours later, Zevien and Vernisia were finally exhausted mentally, but the magic eruption spot was still there. Zevien called Vernisia using Digi-watch and told her to return to the ship.

After they returned to the ship, they saw many students resting on mattresses provided by the academy to rest. Many students were injured as well so they were resting and some were getting treated by the medical staff of the academy.

Fortunately, the ship was big enough for more than half of the students to rest concurrently. Still, half of the students were hunting in the forest since they had taken a rest early.

Only Zevien, Vernisia, Erica, and Dan fought for a longer period without taking a break because they had mana stones.

The group of Starlight city was also resting on mattresses with magic crystals in their hands. They were absorbing the magic crystal's power to increase their magic power.

"It seems that they had already bought magic crystals and are absorbing them," Vernisia said with an exhausted smile as she looked at the group.

"Let's see how many we got," Zevien grinned. "We should have enough to reach our goal, I think."

Both of them walked toward the same teacher who counted and assessed their beast cores previously and dumped their beast cores in front of her.

*clank, clank, clank, clank,….*

The continuous sound of beast cores hitting each other soon attracted the students.

"Jeez, Zevien and Vernisia. Just how long were they fighting to gather that many?"

"That Dan and Erica also made a big pile, but this one is bigger."

"Sigh… I was happy with how much I gained, but now I am depressed again."

The teacher weakly smiled and looked at her peers. "I could receive some help, you know?"

The other teachers wryly smiled and parted the pile of magic crystals before they started counting and separating them into different piles.

"Call us when you are done," Vernisia tiredly smiled. "We'll take some rest there."

"Good work," the teacher nodded with an encountering smile.

"Nice haul," Teacher Dunlax grinned and thumbs up towards Zevien and Vernisia.

Zevien and Vernisia nodded with a smile in return before they sat down on an empty mattress. They sat cross-legged and entered meditation to remove their exhaustion and slowly recover their mana. They didn't use mana stones to recover before coming here as they had decided to take some rest.

After several minutes, the teacher called them.

They opened their eyes and walked toward the teacher with anticipation. "Let's hope we have gathered enough," Vernisia said.

"Ahem, so the total beast cores you have gathered are 1345. Of them, 1096 are fifth-grade beast cores, and 249 are fourth-grade beast cores. That's a total of 18,430 points."

*Uproar!*

The students had perked their ears to listen to the figure and were dumbfounded after hearing the points.

"Alright, good night. It's already 1 AM. We should sleep."

"Just how long were they hunting for continuously?"

"I don't know, but definitely very long."

Vernisia gave the card to the teacher with excitement in her eyes. Zevien was also excited as they could become 4th magicians soon.

After getting their cards back, Zevien and Vernisia entered the cabin to see the special shop.

Dunlax activated his Digi-watch and opened the shared database where all pairs' total points were recorded.

1st. Zevien & Vernisia:- 24,840 points.

2nd. Dan & Erica:- 20,780 points.

3rd. Afina & Kaal:- 18,670 points.

4th. Tigger & Kerolin:- 17,150 points.

5th. Roman & Hemil:- 14,980 points.

6th….

7th….

"Big gap. The hunting speed of Zevien and Vernisia is quicker," Dunlax nodded. He had also occasionally observed their fights with his Scout-type magic spell. He felt they were more experienced in battle and killed fast with precision. Of course, no resting was a big factor as well.

…

Zevien and Vernisia were looking at a big screen with items displayed.

The first row had three images displayed. Yellow-rank magic crystal, Gray-rank magic crystal, and White-rank magic crystal.

The second, third, and fourth rows had ten items each, ranging from gemstones, magic equipments, magic potions, and such things.

There was a counter table in the cabin with a board in front that had--[Come here to buy after looking at the items on the display]--written on it.