“Oh… come on, if it really doesn’t work out, Mr. Lynn should just come back too~”
Layla blinked from the side, still looking very worried about the two people inside the temple. However, Keti seemed completely oblivious to the voices of discussion, walking straight toward the statue.
“No… I want to go.”
“Hey, little cat, wait a second. Didn’t you hear what she said? That thing is dangerous!” Lynn was startled and subconsciously reached out to pull her back.
But it was already too late.
Keti took a deep breath. In the darkness, she felt a force—a mysterious and powerful force calling out to her, as if it had been created to exist here solely for her sake.
Without any hesitation, as if possessed, she reached out her slender, fair hand and gently pressed it against the statue’s body.
*hum — !!!*
The very moment her fingertips made contact with the statue, the entire temple erupted with a deafening hum!
“Keti!” Lynn’s expression changed drastically. His magical power erupted instantly as he tried to protect the girl from harm.
However, the cataclysmic magical explosion he expected did not occur.
The moment Keti’s hand brushed against it, the statue, which had been emitting a soft glow, began to dissolve at a speed visible to the naked eye.
No, it wasn’t dissolving.
It was transforming into countless pure, emerald-green sparks of magic, shimmering like fireflies!
These sparks weren’t aggressive at all. After circling in the air once, they seemed to find an outlet and surged frantically into Keti’s body like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea!
“Ah… but… th-this is…”
Keti was completely enveloped in a massive cocoon of green light. Her feet even left the ground as she slowly drifted into the air.
Immediately following the infusion of magical power was a stream of information so vast it nearly made her brain shut down!
*Ancient Elven Potions: Basics and Advanced*
*Compendium of Lost High-Level Potion Illustrations*
*Potion Refinement: From Entry to the Grave*
Countless pieces of knowledge regarding potion refinement, along with the necessary magical circulation methods, poured into Keti’s mind and body like a flood.
“…So… I’m being filled up so much…” Keti closed her eyes in pain and let out a soft groan.
“Oh, my… is she being… cuckolded?!”
Her enemy cracked a strange joke from the side, but Keti was in no mood to retort.
This sensation of being forcibly stuffed with knowledge was indeed a bit hard to bear. The primary issue was receiving such a massive amount of information all at once; it felt like her head was about to explode.
Fortunately, the absorption process was quite fast. A moment later, Keti, having lost the magical support, began to fall from the air.
Lynn was quick to react. With a swift step forward, he steadily caught her soft, delicate body in his arms.
“Hey, little cat, are you all right? Was that… your special power activating again?”
Lynn looked at Keti in his arms. Her eyes were tightly shut and her eyelashes were still trembling slightly. A hint of rare concern crept into his voice.
“Phew… It… it seems so. It felt similar to the time I defeated that Succubus…”
After a long while, Keti slowly opened her eyes. Panting heavily, she wiped the sweat from her forehead and felt the flow of magical power within her body.
“Lynn…”
“I’m here. How do you feel? Does it hurt anywhere?”
“I…”
Keti suddenly sat bolt upright and grabbed Lynn’s collar. Her originally dazed eyes instantly burst with an incomparable light of excitement, and her voice even cracked from the intensity.
“I’ve realized it! I understand everything!!”
“The roots of a mandrake must never be sliced during processing—they have to be crushed using magical power! The current recorded recipe for the luck enhancement potion is wrong!”
“And that advanced mana recovery potion that’s been bothering me—damn it, the most troublesome part isn’t the main material, but the catalysis sequence!!”
“Huh?” Lynn looked at the girl in front of him, who had suddenly transformed into a grandmaster in the field of potions, with a look of utter confusion.
“Hahahaha! This is amazing! This trip definitely wasn’t in vain!”
Keti began to dance with joy. Nothing was more exciting than suddenly gaining an epiphany about something she had spent her whole life researching!
“After absorbing that statue, not only were various ancient texts automatically engraved into my mind, but my magic talent has also improved by a lot.”
“At my current level, I should be at least A-Rank, right? Plus, I understand all the high-level Alchemy Arrays now!”
“This, this, this… Lynn, we’re taking off! We’re really taking off! Let me enter the Magic Tower directly; I feel like I could be an alchemy regent!”
Looking at the silver-haired girl who was jumping around in his arms like a happy puppy—completely forgetting that she had almost lost her virtue on this trip—Lynn let out a helpless sigh and affectionately rubbed her head.
Fair enough.
Though the process was a bit ridiculous, it seemed this little cat was not only safe but had also picked up a massive “cheat” along the way.
Outside, Celthina fell into a shocked silence as she watched the statue be dealt with so quickly. After a long moment, a flash of light suddenly crossed her pupils!
Meanwhile, Sylvia and Layla were completely baffled. The two of them were just dazed.
‘What’s the situation?’
‘Did Keti just say… she broke through to A-Rank talent?!’
‘How… how is that even possible?!’
It wasn’t that Layla and Sylvia were stupid; it was just that they had never seen anyone able to increase their talent by such a large margin.
No, it would be more accurate to say they had never even heard of such a thing.
This…
‘Wait! Hold on!’
‘If Keti keeps getting stronger, how am I supposed to show my reliable side, protect her, comfort her, and make her mine?!’
In an instant, Sylvia, feeling a massive sense of crisis, felt a deep anxiety about her own strength well up within her again. She even forgot about the matter of settling scores with Lynn.
“Phew… what should I do?”
“Phew… I really didn’t expect that one day I would be able to reach A-Rank talent.”
Keti lowered her head and took a deep breath. After her outburst ended, only unspeakable emotions remained in her heart.
Lynn patted her shoulder from the side and said with a light chuckle, “Alright, since that’s the case, let’s head out.”
“Oh… right, speaking of which, can our little cat turn into a beautiful elf girl now? You do have that transformation ability, after all.”
“Hiss—now that you mention it…”
The silver-haired girl immediately took a deep breath and then—transformed!
Instantly, the girl’s ears grew significantly longer, and her hair turned into a long golden mane—a hair color seemingly as common as green among the elf tribe!
The beautiful elf girl, Keti, had grandly arrived!
“Ahem… alright, alright, just transform for a bit of fun. The knowledge is already in your head, and this form isn’t even as useful as the Succubus one. Switch back. This trip can be considered a full harvest… let’s go back to school!”
“Hmph, little cat, there’s still a competition waiting for you over there. Don’t get careless~”
“Hiss… I almost forgot if you hadn’t mentioned it. The training grounds you promised me!!”