Outside the Forbidden Forest, after Hilia left, Oston casually picked up the fishing rod and prepared to go inside.
But he suddenly noticed the fish fin and the note beside the fishing rod, and he picked them up for a look.
[Mr. Oston, this is a thank-you for lending the fishing rod, please accept it ^_^]
"A... fish fin?"
Oston picked it up and examined it.
"Why is it blue... huh? No, it’s not blue, it’s sealed with blue runes."
Oston imdiately opened the door and entered the house, found a magnifying glass, and examined the rune on the fish fin carefully. The more he looked, the more he found it incredibly intricate.
"This rune, in terms of style or carving material, I’ve never heard of it. This child, who knows where she got it from."
Looking at the note again, Oston pondered for a mont and finally made a decision—
To try eating it.
Sending a fish fin, what else could it be for if not eating?
"But it seems you forgot to teach how to eat it."
Oston stroked his beard, thinking a small fish fin couldn’t have any special way to eat.
He grabbed it directly and swallowed it in one gulp!
As the fish fin entered his mouth, Oston imdiately enveloped it with magic power, breaking it down into small particles with chewing, then sent it into his body.
Once it reached his stomach, Oston’s eyes widened.
"Such dense magic power, and... pollution!"
He quickly sat up, entered a ditative state, and began purifying the pollutants.
While purifying the pollutants, he felt the magic power and strange energy contained in the fish fin starting to enhance his magic power and improve his body.
After a long while, Oston opened his eyes and expelled the last bit of pollution.
"A wonderful thing, despite the pollution, it can refine the purity of magic power and strengthen the body. If I have ten more, maybe I could reach Tier Six... There aren’t many things that can refine the purity of magic power, let see what kind of fish this is."
He searched the school’s literature with his wristband for a long ti but couldn’t find any record related to it. He paused, connecting to the Star Spirit Network of the Holy Court, to search through various docunts.
Soon, he found a few pieces of suspicious literature.
Those depicted extinct species of fish.
Oston suddenly noticed one kind.
"Sea Successor Beluga?"
An idea popped into Oston’s mind—
Could it be that what he just ate was a Sea Successor Beluga’s fish fin?
It seems possible but quite absurd.
It doesn’t seem feasible for Hilia to capture a Sea Successor Beluga.
No, wait!
There’s another possibility.
Oston recalled the Sea Successor Beluga recalled today.
According to the principal’s words, that Sea Successor Beluga beca the prey of a mysterious figure.
If Hilia knows that mysterious master, being gifted so fish fins is not impossible!
"Perhaps the Tier Seven Mage asked Hilia to borrow my fishing rod for catching the beluga, who knows?"
Oston chuckled to himself.
He didn’t think any further.
So things are better left unthought.
Especially for soone like himself, who only knows how to drink tea and fish all day.
...
Hilia’s dormitory.
"Given your power isn’t enough to directly digest the fish fins, you need a special processing thod. Follow my instructions: first, slice the entire fish fin into strands..."
Under Rose’s guidance, Hilia seriously processed the fish fin.
Under the enchanted knife, the fish fin was cut into 30 even thin strips.
By inputting magic power along a specific route, she simply purified the pollution in all the fish fins, then proceeding to soak and stew them.
Luckily, there was no class today, allowing Hilia to work non-stop until night.
Even the next day wasn’t finished, and she continued processing.
The second day returned to normal classes, but Hilia didn’t attend, choosing to take leave and continued working in her dormitory.
By evening, the fish fins processed through various complex procedures finally appeared before Hilia.
"Take out one strip, freeze the rest well."
Hilia took out one strand.
"Do I eat it directly?"
A strand approximately twenty centiters long and only one to two milliters in diater, like a noodle.
"It’s up to you — eat it directly, or cook it with other ingredients. But rember, you can only eat one processed fish fin per day; eating too much will prevent you from purifying the inner pollution."
After all this effort, Hilia clearly had no intention of making a full al, and simply opened her mouth and ate it.
Mmm...
No taste, like chewing on chewy jelly.
Hilia guessed it was because nothing was added during processing, not even salt.
After all, Rose’s processing thod seed like cooking, but in reality, no other ingredients were added, only magical materials.
Those magical materials weren’t bitter, which was fortunate enough; expecting them to taste good was impossible.
Thinking so, Hilia felt a slight bitterness in her mouth from the fish fin.
She quickly chewed it and swallowed.
Massive magic power exploded inside her, forcing Hilia into ditation to guide the magic power and refine her own.
"After processing, the beluga’s fish fin, besides refining magic power purity and body strength, can also absorb remaining magic power and transform it into your own, for an all-around enhancent."
Rose’s voice ca, and Hilia couldn’t respond, enduring the turbulent magic power, guiding as best as she could.
Much later, Hilia opened her eyes and expelled a mouthful of pollution.
She felt her magic power seed cleansed of many impurities, its purity improved.
Purified magic power has many advantages, not only for smoother operation of the magic puppet but also enhancing the magic’s power and reducing consumption.
Ordinary mages cannot finely manipulate magic power like Rose; the only way to reduce magic consumption is by improving magic power purity—excluding the reduced consumption from Tier advancent.
At the sa Tier, the amount and purity of magic power significantly influence a mage’s actual combat power, second only to the performance of the magic puppet.
"Ice Spike!"
Hilia controlled the magic puppet to execute an Ice Spike attack, then carefully felt the impact of purified magic power on casting.
"It feels like magic consumption decreased by ten percent."
"At your Tier, the first ten fish fins can reduce consumption by about ten percent," Rose said.
"Doesn’t that an I can cast spells without consumption?"
Rose looked at her like a fool: "Yes, yes."
Hilia took out her wristband and began calculating how much magic consumption could be reduced after ten tis.
After calculating, she exclaid: "Consumption can be reduced by about sixty percent, so much!"
"After the tenth ti, the effect dramatically diminishes, ultimately reducing consumption by seventy percent," Rose said.
"That ans the magic power originally casting three spells can release ten after being completely refined!"
Such a clear improvent made Hilia eager to use a second fish fin.
But she felt the remaining pollution inside hadn’t completely purified, so she gave up.
"No rush, there’s still three months until the finals; aim to reach Tier Two by then!"
The girl began pondering how to mix fish fins with other dishes for tomorrow’s al.
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