Bottomless Talent
Amira appeared to be a refined young girl of about ten—someone you might see anywhere—but as expected from a member of the Glaberson family, one of the continent’s most distinguished magical lineages, her true abilities were utterly extraordinary, a complete contrast to her youthful appearance.
She had just taken down a Jewel Lizard—a creature even seasoned knights struggled with—by freezing the entire tunnel in a large-scale magical attack.
“Ah! Sorry! It might get a little chilly up ahead!”
Amira apologized with a guilty look, but that wasn’t what had left us speechless. As knights, we often worked alongside magicians from the Magic Corps. Those magicians were all formidable talents, having gone through rigorous training and tough exams, just like us.
—But even they paled in comparison to Amira’s overwhelming ability.
I had never seen another magician with such power. Honestly, she might be able to go toe-to-toe with the commander of the Magic Corps.
What shocked me most was the time it took her to cast the spell.
Even in a narrow tunnel, the distance to the Jewel Lizard had been considerable. Freezing the entire path to reach it in an instant was something no ordinary magician could pull off—yet Amira had done it effortlessly.
“U-um, is something wrong?”
“… No, nothing. More importantly, that was some incredible magic.”
“R-really? I thought ice magic would be best to stop its movement… It’s just, controlling the mana is difficult, so I had to hold back a bit.”
“Huh, I see… wait, what?”
She had to *hold back*… with *that*?
The knights began murmuring in disbelief at Amira’s words. While they reacted like that, I, out of pure curiosity, asked her something a little more daring.
“H-hey… what would happen if you used your full power with ice magic?”
“Eh?—Hmm, I guess this place would probably turn into a snowy mountain.”
Amira answered with a smile, but the entire knights' order collectively recoiled.
As expected of someone from the Glaberson family, but this wasn’t talent that could be described with mere words like “genius.” No wonder the McCreed family had their eye on her.
“Come on, let’s keep moving. Since there was a Jewel Lizard here, there must be mana ore nearby.”
“Y-yeah, right.”
After witnessing that unbelievable magic, I’d completely forgotten our original goal—we needed to find the mana ore.
We continued deeper into the frozen tunnel, and eventually reached a spot where—
“It looks like the mana ore is just beyond this point,” Amira said.
But—
“Beyond this point? It’s just a wall, isn’t it?”
No matter how you looked at it, it was a dead end.
Yet Amira insisted that mana ore existed beyond that wall.
What do you think about this chapter?
