How a Catastrophe-Level Magician Lives

Aina von Frost.

She is the daughter of the Grand Magician of House Frost, which is in charge of the northern region of the Orwen Empire, the Duke of the North, and is called the Flower of the North by the northern people.

Born as the eldest daughter among one son and two daughters, she had left the family to her only brother and enrolled early in this Sephirion Middle School Academy.

Because those born in House Frost for generations had innate talent in ice magic several times greater than others.

Aina herself had also mastered ice magic to a considerable level.

In fact, her talent even easily surpassed that of her brother, who was the heir to the family.

If she had wanted, Aina herself might have become the heir to House Frost.

But Aina von Frost, Aina, wasn’t particularly interested in things like power or noble succession.

Anyone who knew her could easily guess this just by looking at her personality.

What she was interested in was just magic.
She had only one desire: to train ice magic to its extreme.

In some ways, considering only this aspect, she might have a similar tendency to Free in front of her. They might even get along well.

Contrary to her usually quiet personality and cool image, Aina listened carefully to Free’s story and teachings with sparkling eyes, clenching both fists in front of her chest with an excited heart.

What he taught her was a degraded version of his original arcane magic.

After hearing all the principles, Aina quietly closed her eyes and exhaled after taking a deep breath.

“Phew…”
“How is it, did you understand everything?”
“Yes. Every single bit. I’ve memorized even the incantation to activate the magic without missing a single letter.”
“…That’s impressive. Honestly, I thought I might have to repeat it several times. Do you have good memory?”
“Thank you. For teaching me.”
“Well, as long as you pay the proper price.”
“Yes. I’ll give you the rest right away.”

Aina, who answered like that, raised her hand in front of her chest.

Then, with a blue light and coldness generated in her hand, gathering in one place, she soon created a light blue magic book.

It was Aina’s grimoire, containing all her magical knowledge.

Then Aina chanted a spell.

“Summon.”

With a short partial incantation, two magic books were summoned from Aina’s grimoire with a bright light on open pages.

“Here.”
“Thank you.”

The two books received from Aina.
They were [Most Efficient Mana Training Method II] and [Most Efficient Mana Training Method III], which looked even more luxurious than the one received earlier.

‘With this. The most problematic issue has been resolved.’

For him, who mainly used silent magic that consumed a lot of magical power, it was something to be very happy about.

To the extent that it could be called an extraordinary coincidence.

“Then let’s proceed with the contract I mentioned earlier.”
“Okay.”

Aina had already heard from Free what this contract meant.

Free activated the magic.

“Contract. The content of the contract is not to disclose any information about the Magical Eye I taught you. This includes writing it down.”
“Okay. I’ll make the contract.”

With Aina’s consent, a light seeped into her heart once.

“Is that it?”
“Yes. With this, the contract is established. If you break it, your mana heart will collapse.”
“I understand. I wasn’t planning to disclose it to anyone else anyway.”
“Good. Then I’ll be going now.”
“Okay. Take care.”

This time, she obediently followed Free’s words.

She’ll probably go back right away and try to practice the magic he taught her.

Free, heading back to the dormitory, thought.

‘It was an unexpected harvest. I’ve also put a safety measure in place just in case. I should learn this mana training method right away when I get back.’

That magic couldn’t be undone by oneself unless they were the subject of the contract.

If one tried to forcibly undo it, it could lead to death as the flow of mana would become entangled.

Free, who returned to the dormitory, studied the magic book he received from Aina late into the night.

Since the room was for one person, he could concentrate quietly on the training method.

The next day.

Chirp chirp-

Bright sunlight was seeping through the curtains into Free’s dormitory room along with the sound of sparrows.

Free, who was sitting cross-legged in the room, slowly opened his eyes.

After working all night, Free had succeeded not only in reading but also in completely mastering the training method.

‘I did it. Based on all the contents written up to the third volume, the most efficient training method. I succeeded in perfectly pioneering the full-body mana breathing technique.’

Currently, his body was repeatedly absorbing natural mana floating in the atmosphere through all the pores of his body, converting it into magical power. At a speed several times faster than the existing mana training method.

In this way, he was accumulating magical power at a tremendous speed by transferring the magical power converted by his own strength to his second heart, the mana heart.

“…I owe that girl an unspeakably great debt.”

He was referring to Aina.

Because the mana training method she had handed over was a training method that far exceeded his imagination.

“……”

Free, who stood up, was silently looking down at his palm, clenching and unclenching it.

‘It’s an incredible training method. Now that I’ve actually learned it, I know for sure. This is not just an advanced level magic book. At least top-tier.’

It was at least a top-tier magic book.

‘…What on earth is her identity? No matter how much of an imperial noble she is, it doesn’t make sense to know and possess such a high-level training method. Could she be a highest-ranking noble?’

Free was speculating about her identity in his own way.

‘Huh, it’s none of my business anyway. What’s most important now is to develop the habit of constantly absorbing mana based on this training method. To the level of proficiency where I can use it naturally, like breathing.’

Free became greedy.
He couldn’t help but be.

Compared to absorbing mana with the existing low-level mana training methods, the current training method was showing more than ten times the value and performance.

Moreover, it wasn’t a process where he had to sit in a limited place with his eyes closed and absorb only through his nose and mouth, but he could naturally absorb external mana into his body even while going about his daily life.

While filtering out impurities almost perfectly in the first stage when absorbing external natural mana.

‘It’s an amazing performance. At this rate, I might be able to accumulate tens or even hundreds of times more magical power than I’ve accumulated so far by the time I graduate from middle school.’

However, there was one thing Free was mistaken about.

One truth that even he didn’t know.

It was that even Aina von Frost couldn’t constantly absorb external mana in her daily life in this way and method.

Because even if one followed exactly as written in the book, the body, which is the vessel of magical power, might not be able to withstand it and could break if pushed too hard.

Breaking meant the possibility of a catastrophe where all the blood vessels through the absorbing pores could burst simultaneously.

But surprisingly, Free.
He had mastered this almost perfectly, and without knowing why, he was smoothly absorbing external mana constantly through all his body’s pores and respiratory organs without any strain or risk.

He didn’t know, but the reason Free could do this was in the size of Free’s blood vessels and the capacity they could accommodate internally.

Free’s body.
Because Free’s soul itself was an impossibly large vessel.

His body had become too suitable for containing magical power.

And this had a close relationship with Free’s previous life.

His one and only wish to desperately learn magic just before death in his previous life.

Because it had a direct influence on making him endure severe negative energy and darkness in the realm of death multiple times as he approached death.

The fundamental reason was that the size of that soul had become enormously and naturally large, expanding the allowance of magical power that Free could contain in that soul to an astonishing degree.

Free’s current body, which had accepted the soul from his previous life, was also gradually changing to match the size of the soul it could accommodate, little by little, to the extent that he himself couldn’t notice.

It was a kind of evolution, transformation, elevation of class.
It was not wrong to see it as such.

That’s why when he was young, he integrated the five major attributes early on, and when he suddenly created a grimoire, this had a profound influence on the fundamental cause of his posthumous awakening of talent for the light attribute that didn’t exist before.

A very special and extraordinary soul that was formed after overcoming the darkness of death, going against providence once.
A soul that should have gone to heaven for reincarnation originally came back to earth with only its soul size inflated. In a state where the size of the soul had naturally increased, unintentionally, after spending hundreds of years as a spirit in pitch-black darkness without being aware of time.

Free was already not of the caliber of an ordinary human soul.

The soul contained in his body was becoming something transcendent, even as we speak.

His gradually strengthening soul was already receiving some direct and indirect influences and stimulations from the magic of the magic books he had learned, and its size was expanding and growing, little by little, in real-time, albeit at a very subtle pace.

And Free,
Was in the midst of not noticing this fact at all, even in the slightest.
That the true extraordinary coincidence had become his soul itself, which had gone through a previous life and death once.

Grumble~

“…Oh my, I was so focused all night that I’m already hungry today.”
Maybe I’ll go eat a little early today.

While saying such nonsense.

He was just heading towards the cafeteria for students staying in the dormitory, knowing nothing.