Time passed in the blink of an eye, and three months vanished just like that.
On the first-floor training ground.
“BOOM!” Amid blazing flames and an earsplitting roar, Igor and Mirajane appeared in the arena.
“Take Over — Bomb Demon.” Noticing the distance that had opened between himself and Mirajane, Igor immediately switched from “Shredder Demon” form to “Bomb Demon” form.
Well — over these three months, Igor had finally discovered the flaw of the “Shredder Demon.” In “Shredder Demon” form, Igor could crush any physical or energy attack that came close, but the attack range was extremely narrow.
The range in which he could use “Crush” was limited to what both hands could reach.
Beyond that range, he was completely powerless.
Therefore, during the three-month training period, Igor devised a brand-new tactic: switch to “Shredder Demon” form when approaching the enemy, and switch to “Bomb Demon” form when putting distance between himself and the enemy.
“Igor, you’re really sly, aren’t you?” Mirajane spread her wings and floated in the air.
Seeing Igor transform into the “Bomb Demon” after pulling away from her, she couldn’t help complaining.
That Igor wouldn’t care about even the slightest loss!
“MOAB!!” Without saying a word, Igor fired an MOAB (Mother of All Bombs) straight at Mirajane in the air.
“BOOM!!” Mirajane was in a panic and couldn’t dodge.
To be precise, faced with a gigantic MOAB, Mirajane had no way to dodge.
Then, accompanied by an earsplitting roar, Mirajane was blown away by Igor and forcibly ejected from Demon Soul Take Over.
However, compared to three months ago, Mirajane’s magic control ability had now reached a completely new level… So although the massive impact forced Mirajane to abandon Demon Soul Take Over, she mobilized the magical power inside her body to keep her balance and avoid falling from a height and getting injured.
After withdrawing from Demon Soul Take Over, Mirajane descended from the sky and stood firmly in the arena.
“Mira, you’ve improved.” On the opposite side of the arena, Igor also withdrew from the “Bomb Demon” contract form, returned to his normal appearance, and praised Mirajane.
“But Igor, I still can’t catch up to you.” Mirajane gave a bitter smile.
She had done her best, but still couldn’t keep up with Igor.
Even though she and Igor had awakened “magic” at the same time, the gap in their power was immeasurably large.
“That’s not true!
Mira, you’re already strong enough.” Igor shook his head and said that.
In fact, Mirajane’s sensitivity to “magical power” and “Ethernano” had, according to Igor’s system evaluation, risen from “B-” level to “B+” level — only three stages away from the “A+” level Igor had currently reached.
“Open control panel!” Thinking this, Igor opened the character panel.
[Chomp.] Character Panel: Name: Igor Age: 16 Guild: None Magical Power: A+ (+) Ethernano: A+ (+) Magic Container: First Magic Container (1 year remaining until magical power and magic barrier particles reach the next level.
Combat accelerates level-up.) Currently contracted demons: Bomb Demon and Shredder Demon.
“The training speed is still too slow.” Igor looked at the system panel and muttered to himself.
Well — a full four months had passed since Igor awakened the Demon Contract System.
In these four months, through unremitting effort, Igor had more than doubled his training speed.
At Igor’s original training pace, reaching the next level would have taken 1 year and 8 months.
But now, only four months later, Igor would be able to upgrade his “magical power” and “Ethernano” to the next level in just one more year.
However, this so-called one-year period was merely the system’s estimated duration, based on the premise that Igor did no daily training and relied only on the passive effect of the “improvement method.” If Igor maintained the same training intensity every day, he would be able to break through to the next stage in both “magical power” and “magic particles” within six months at most.
The progress could be called rapid.
“We need to work even harder.” Igor muttered to himself.
His original plan had been to raise both his magical power and magic particles to S-rank before joining Fairy Tail Guild, but it seemed that plan might fail.
“Igor, Mirajane, Elfman, and Lisanna.” Just as Igor was thinking this, a whisper sounded in everyone’s ears.
Igor and the others saw that Warrod Sequen, who had been living in seclusion for three months, had finally appeared and now stood before them.
“Teacher Warrod!” When Warrod Sequen appeared before them, Igor and the others all greeted him with respect.
“Mm.” Warrod Sequen nodded lightly, then took out a magic book a full forty centimeters thick and handed it to Igor.
“This is?” Igor looked at the grimoire in his hands, a slightly surprised expression appearing on his face.
“These past three months, I have constantly gone back and forth between the Magic Council and the secluded residences of several old friends.
After carefully examining some ten thousand ancient books, I finally completed this brand-new Complete Guide to Magic Extraction with the help of two friends.” At that moment, Warrod opened the grimoire in Igor’s hands and said with a smile, “Take a good look.” “Good.” Igor glanced at the several-kilogram magic book in his hands.
There was no name on the cover.
His eyes twitched slightly.
He said unhappily, “Teacher Warrod, if my memory is correct, our hideout should be about a thousand miles from Magic Council headquarters, right?” “Hmph.
A mere thousand miles.
Once you reach my level, you’ll understand that distance means nothing.” Warrod laughed faintly, his eyes overflowing with confidence.
“All right.” Igor remembered that Warrod could instantly travel thousands of miles by stepping on vines, and said nothing more.
Once power reached the “non-human realm,” one could easily cross the entire “Ishgar” Continent.
“This is?” Having regained his composure, Igor opened the grimoire in his hands.
On the endpaper of the grimoire, three names were written.
All of them were names familiar to Igor: Warrod Sequen, Hyberion, and Wolfheim.
Three of Ishgar’s current Four Gods.
However, the name “God” Serena did not appear.
Serena and Gildarts belonged to the same category — both relied on their own talent.