"Is this what you call a Master Mage?"

The barrage of spells raining down was anything but ordinary.

‘If I were the type to fall to something like this, I wouldn’t have survived this long.’

The other side knows full well that I wouldn’t fall to attacks of this level. That’s why, instead of responding with all my strength to the spells pouring down above me, I focused my attention elsewhere.

‘…So this is what it was.’

With my senses heightened to the limit, I felt a thread-thin strand of mana. If it were the old me, I wouldn’t have …