Ascension: Strongest Fateless Mage

[Zevien]

-Magic power: 141.4

-Mana: 1414/1414

"My trips are getting better, alright."

Zevien stood up after checking his progress.

"Did you get any relic, boss?" Yowen asked with curious eyes.

"Nope, the location was far," Zevien shook his head as he walked toward Yowen and asked, "how is the progress in production?"

"Everything will be set up in three days," Yowen nodded as he showed the underground floor of the Zenith Corp. building with digital machine models.

Zevien nodded before saying, "the cards are completed, so we should make a batch after the production setup is finished. Then we need to hire some popular celebrities, make a demo play, and advertise the game. We will limit the marketing to Starlight city first. After we get the first batch of income, we will expand it to other regions of Lopax country. Oh, you finished the application, right?"

"Yep, it's finished. The app is perfectly running without any glitches or bugs after Electra and I made the last test run yesterday."

"Great," Zevien patted Yowen's shoulder and smiled, "did you sign the papers?"

Hearing that, Yowen revealed a hesitant expression before asking, "but…20% for me, are you sure?"

"Absolutely! You will be declared CEO of this company upon its launch as well. Haha, you will be in the news and magazines, so handle it well," Zevien grinned, "I will hire a good accountant and manager for you to share the burden because this company is just for financially supporting our adventures and endeavors in Lankrena region, the Capital of Magic. I will need your skill in there more than here."

After planning for the launch a bit more, Zevien and Yowen contacted people they needed for marketing and other departments. Raven had referred some of the people she hires for such works, so things became easy with her contacts.

They spent the whole morning preparing this. At noon, Vernisia, Erica, and Dan also arrived after finishing the academy.

"How was your progress?" Zevien asked.

Vernisia smiled, "78 magic power, and I am just ten minutes away from completing my first chain. I think I will get a new magic spell and a relic."

"67 magic power," Dan sighed, "I completed my chain and got a relic. But goddamn, the requirements to complete the relic are ridiculous. First, I need five hundred magic power as the first requirement, and until I finish this relic, I won't get another chain."

"66, humph. I will surpass you in the next entry," Erica snorted before speaking about her relic, "my situation is the same as Dan's. Got a relic known as Bud of Scarlet Witch but can't complete even its first step, which requires five hundred magic power."

"What about you, Zevien?" Vernisia asked as she put her hand on her chest, "I am prepared for the shock."

"Ahem. My magic power is at 141 now, but it will increase by another 40 tomorrow," Zevien faked a cough as he spoke. He had already told them he could enter two separate magic labyrinths when he was discharged from the hospital-like lab.

They knew he could turn into a vampire or any other beast due to his second awakening magic spell.

"Damn, I thought I would surpass you this time, but….," Vernisia shook her head, but her eyes burned fiercely with passion and determination, "I will catch up to you."

"You will," Zevien nodded with a loving smile, "honestly, I am surprised you had such a large increase. Great."

"Yeah, she nailed it this time," Erica chuckled while shaking her head, "Even Tiggers only reached 69, but Verny made a big jump. She broke all existing records."

"If you were there, you would have broken the records," Dan said wryly, "previously, you had 102 magic power, but it reached 141 now. That's an increase of 39 compared to the 37 of Vernisia."

"Well, now we have a shortcut to increase our magic power, which is the magic crystals," Yowen said as he pointed at the monitor, "there is one in the market right now, and it's making a big commotion."

Zevien and the others quickly looked at the monitor, which showed an ethereal yellow crystal with blue sparks flashing inside.

"Any news on how much magic power it increases?" Zevien asked.

"Yeah, someone managed to get information about magic crystals in the magic labyrinth and posted it online," Yowen said as he showed a different scene on another monitor, "there are seven types of magic crystals. The weakest to strongest are white, gray, yellow, green, orange, purple, and red. The increase in magic power doesn't directly evolve the magic core, so the increase will stop at a point even if the crystal could increase your magic power more."

"So if you are less than 500 magic power and you use a magic crystal that gives 1000 magic power, it will not increase your magic power past 500 as we have to evolve our magic core there. The increase will stop at 500," Zevien said.

"Yep," Yowen nodded.

The increase in Zevien's magic was not fundamental but temporary when he used the shaman seed so he could go past the 500 mark. However, doing that didn't evolve his magic core as it requires 500 fundamental magic power, the original and permanent. Evolving the magic core creates more space in the magic core to learn more magic spells.

Zevien and the others saw a chart displaying the details of the seven ranks of magic crystals on the monitor.

White: 10% increase in magic power.

Gray: 20% increase in magic power.

Yellow: 30% increase in magic power.

Green: 5% increase in magicules.

Orange: 15% increase in magicules.

Purple: 25% increase in magicules.

Red: 35% increase in magicules.

"Magicules? What's that?" Dan wondered.

"Meow~ Magicules is this," Tarto appeared and waved its paw as a sublime dark river filled with starry sparks materialized and started flowing around the room.

"Woah!"

Everyone was startled to see Tarto suddenly pulling this stunt.

"So does it replace the term magic power or what?" Erica asked.

"Magicules will become your cornerstone of magic after you reach a certain point in your path of magic," Tarto said as he absorbed the mystical river that he summoned, "for now, you don't have to worry or know about it because you are who knows how long away from it or will you even survive before reaching that point, hahaha."

"Fine, screw it. We will know when the time comes. Back to the main topic, how much is the price for that yellow crystal?" Zevien asked as he looked at the monitor, "seems to be the highest quality one that a magician can presently use in the Gaia continent."

"Well, you don't want to know that because it's not about Lopax or Gaia credits," Yowen said with a wry smile as he showed the price that the person put on his magic crystal in the monitor.

...

There was a buzz due to the announcement from this person called Rotheon, a 3rd class magician. He wanted to sell the yellow-ranked magic crystal, which was the most valuable for every powerhouse in the Gaia continent right now.

If a person possessing 20,000 magic power used this magic crystal, they could instantly gain 6000 magic power. This would shorten their journey to reaching the peak of 1st class magician by a lot.

However, Rotheon demanded quite a price for this yellow-ranked magic crystal.