Ascension: Strongest Fateless Mage

"Hmph, consider yourselves lucky," the group leader of Ravenous Wolf Clan said after seeing three more people coming to aid their prey. "Let's go!"

Six vs ten was bad for them. Moreover, five of them were 3rd class magicians just like them.

"What do you mean by let's go? Are you dumb?" Afina snorted as she pointed her spear toward them. "Give us what you got, and then you can leave. Otherwise, we will fight here, right now!"

*Swoosh…*

Afina waved her sword twice as a cross sword slash released, resulting from her using her awakening spell.

"You!" The group leader quickly created a round shield, but the cross sword slash broke it. However, another person quickly used a defense-type spell and conjured a rectangle shield that blocked the attack.

"What? You think you can threaten to loot us, but we can't do the same?" Afina sneered. "I don't really need the junks you have. Even so, empty your loot, because why not? You also like to do the same, no?"

Lax and others were surprised, but they also joined the fray. After all, they tried to rob them first!

"Give us what you got, and we'll let you leave this forest without harming you," Lax snorted as he pointed his dual pistols towards them.

"Yeah, it's time you get a taste of your own medicine," Carmaine smiled.

"Assholes…" the group leader muttered, but he reluctantly took out some materials and resources. "You all, we won't forget this, hmph."

"Leader…" the other people in the group were unwilling, but they didn't want to get hurt and beaten. Also, they might die in such reckless fights, so they didn't want to take a chance.

The group of Ravenous Wolf Clan dumped their materials and resources on the ground with unwilling expressions on their faces.

"Yo, don't you have any magic crystals?" Mihan asked.

"I have one, but you can only take it over my dead body!" the group leader retorted. "I will at least take one or two of you with me to the afterlife if you want my magic crystal."

"Fine, fine. You can get the hell away now," Afina said nonchalantly. "We know magic crystals are important, so we won't force you. But remember, there's always someone stronger than you, and what you do to others might get done to you in the future."

"Hmph. Let's go, boys!"

After the group left, Lax and the others walked toward the small pile of resources and materials.

"Nice. They got some tier-3 and tier-2 magic potions, some herbs, ores, and magic beast materials."

"This is a small fortune to us. We can sell these and get some money."

"How do we split?"

"Kaal and I don't need any share from that," Afina said with a smile. "Anyway, we will leave now. You all enjoy."

"Thank you for the help."

"Haha, no problem. We are all clan members, so it's natural to help each other."

…

"Hehe, it feels good to help," Afina chuckled happily as she and Kaal flew back to the academy on their flying boat.

"Sis, don't you feel that Zevien, Vernisia, Tigger, and Kerolin are slightly strange?" Kaal asked doubtfully. "They have many powerful spells that feel like awakening spells. Moreover, we can generally infer it since awakening spell from the same magic labyrinth has the same magic attribute powers, but these four…"

"I noticed it too, but it could be normal magic spells too," Afina nodded before she hit her fist on her palm. "Well, we can just directly ask them. If they want to tell us, then it's fine. If they don't want to, then it's fine as well. No hard feelings."

Kaal was speechless. His sister was too frank.

"Anyway, let's not go to the academy right away," Afina grinned.

"What? Why?" Kaal asked, confused.

"I want to visit that famous Heaven's Symphony town. I've seen many people talk about it in the Magic Guild headquarter, so I am super curious about it right now," Afina said.

"No! We can't slack our physical body strengthening anymore. Since our magic power is now past 5000, we have to refine our bodies using our stronger mana," Kaal said with a slightly stern voice, which was rare for him. "The last strengthening we did was at 1500 magic power, so our physical bodies are very weak right now. Those tier-3 spells can insta-kill us if they hit us in our current physical constitution."

Afina clicked her tongue, but she didn't argue against that. "Alright, let's return and refine our physical bodies. But we will go to that town after we finish our physical body refining."

"Yes. Once we have reached the peak strength of our current limit, this also includes learning tier-3 magic spells," Kaal said with a serious expression, "We have progressed faster regarding our magic power but we are not as strong as other 3rd class magicians."

"I know, I know. Don't go in your lecture mode. Fine, we will spend the next fifteen days learning some tier-3 magic spells and refine our physical body to the peak constitution possible before going out."

There was a limit on how much refinement they could do to their physical body every day. So, after spending 3 to 5 hours refining their physical body every day, they would learn magic spells.

…

Six hours passed by as Zevien and Vernisia returned from Shadows of Hex magic labyrinth. Their physical bodies had reached peak constitution possible after killing a few grade 3 magic beasts and absorbing their motes.

"Nice, hahaha. This higher physical power really gives a sense of toughness in a way," Zevien laughed as he stretched his arms and legs, feeling the powered physical constitution. A higher physical constitution means they would take less damage from magic spells correlating to magic power.

For instance, now that Zevien and Vernisia's physical bodies had reached the peak physical constitution possible, the spells with 5.2k - 5.4k magic power in the normal cast wouldn't hurt them that much.

"Come, hit me with a tier-3 spell in a normal cast. I want to check my physical body in normal condition and then after using <Blood Morphing Art> in vampire form. I want to see how much this awakening spell strengthens my physical body by comparing injuries," Zevien said.

"What? No," Vernisia shook her head. "You couldn't see me get hurt, right? So why do you think I could see that? It's not like we are sparring. What you are telling me to do could actually hurt you badly."

"Hmmm…" Zevien fell into thought for a few seconds before looking at Vernisia seriously. "We need to talk."