To give a concrete example with numbers: normally, if someone has 10 mana, using “Food Creation” once would consume 1 point.
If their total mana increases to 1000, then “Food Creation” should consume 100 mana.
Up to this point, the mana consumed is always ten percent.
But when someone’s mana reaches ten trillion points, “Food Creation” can’t consume ten percent of that, because a trillion mana is already beyond the consumption limit of “Food Creation.”
For example, “Food Creation” can only consume up to a thousand mana at most, so no matter how much your total mana exceeds ten thousand, “Food Creation” will only use a thousand mana to create food, and only consume a thousand mana.
That’s why I can use “Food Creation” dozens of times in a few seconds and still not run out of mana.
A thousand mana is the upper limit for “Food Creation.”
Of course, these numbers are just metaphors.
Fia doesn’t actually know how much mana “Food Creation” can consume at its limit, nor does she know her own total mana.
All Fia knows is that her mana far exceeds the consumption limit of “Food Creation.”
“Haa, trying to run out of mana with a first-tier spell is just too much to ask.
‘Flame Storm.'”
With a light sigh, Fia raised her hand and let a storm of fire burn away the little mountains in the field.
Leaving these food mountains out in the open could feed future refugees, but while they could fill bellies, they’d also attract wild beasts.
Not to mention magical creatures, even just packs of wolves on the plains aren’t something ordinary people can handle.
If this place accidentally became a monster gathering spot, it would be a disaster for travelers and refugees.
And there’s always the chance someone would claim the food mountains for themselves and form a bandit group or something.
So it’s safest to just burn them.
So, after the golden city walls, pillars of fire bloomed one after another across the field.
Soon, Fia, looking rather helpless, returned to the carriage.
“Your Highness, just now you were…?”
“Testing magic.”
“I’ve never seen food piled up like mountains, and it even tastes fine.
I’ve heard before that His Majesty the King, who’s almost eighth-tier, can use ‘Food Creation’ to make black bread.
But that black bread is as hard as wood, you could use it as a club to hit the second prince.
But you can create meat… I’ve never heard of that.
Is this not ordinary ‘Food Creation,’ but a higher-tier spell?” Anastasia’s eyes were full of curiosity.
Fia thought for a moment, then nodded.
“Yeah… you could say that.”
After being optimized by “Super Computation,” it’s not wrong to call “Food Creation” a higher-tier spell.
Unfortunately, for me, “Food Creation” isn’t all that useful.
No one wants to gnaw on a salted fish all day.
Better to check out other spells.
What Fia didn’t notice was that after all this, Anastasia and the others’ impression of Fia’s strength had gone up another level, and there was more joy and respect in their eyes when they looked at her.
After that, Fia quickly learned a spell called “Telekinesis” while riding in the carriage.
“Telekinesis” isn’t about willpower or soul or anything like that—it’s actually a kind of spatial magic.
You use mana to create the kind of spatial force you want, then use that force to affect or control other things.
For example, you can make a thin plate out of spatial force, put something heavy on it, and drag it along, freeing up your hands.
Since spatial force is colorless, it looks like you’re moving things with your mind, which is where the name “Telekinesis” comes from.
Sounds great, but there’s a reason it’s classified as a first-tier spell.
“Telekinesis” isn’t very strong.
For example, that thin plate can only hold up an adult human male at most.
If you swap in a male from the Bearfolk, the plate will break.
Also, the heavier the thing you’re holding, the more mana “Telekinesis” uses.
It’s only really useful when you’re too lazy to get up and grab something, or when you need to carry an injured companion.
But, just like “Food Creation,”
“Telekinesis” gets turned into a different spell after being optimized by “Super Computation.”
For example, Fia can make herself hover motionless a dozen meters in the air, or even jump around in midair.
If you colored in the “Telekinesis,” you’d see Fia is actually making a dozen “legs” reaching down to the ground to support herself, looking a lot like a spider.
Of course, that’s not all.
With “Super Computation” optimization, Telekinesis can even lift boulders, dig through the ground at high speed, or rip out a huge chunk of earth by force—the power is pretty crazy.
Even though the spell itself has limits—Telekinesis can only affect things within fifty meters, and you can’t have too many at once (so you can’t turn into a tentacle monster like a sea urchin)—it’s still a super useful spell.
You can use Telekinesis arms to grab “Ice Bullets” or “Fireballs” and make them turn in midair, build temporary bridges over impassable paths, or make invisible shield walls when you’re attacked.
Most importantly, Telekinesis is completely transparent and has no fixed shape, so when you combine it with the disguise from “Cloud Moon of the Illusory Sea,” it’s great for combat—enemies usually get cornered before they even see you.
After mastering Telekinesis, Fia set her sights on a spell she’d always wanted to learn and had put on her must-learn list.
Third-tier spell: “Flight.”
According to the spell description, after using “Flight,” the user can move freely in the air according to their will.
The principle is that the elements in the air cooperate with the user’s intent to make them fly.
Fia didn’t really get this mysterious explanation.
How do elements make people fly? Why can they do that? How does intent affect the elements? She couldn’t figure it out.
But she could worry about the theory later—learning “Flight” was more important right now.
“—’Flight.'”
To avoid disturbing Anastasia and Liti, Fia chose to sit on top of the carriage and quietly chanted the spell.
As soon as she finished, Fia slowly lifted off the roof.
After testing the speed of “Flight” for a bit, she returned to the roof and canceled the spell.
A normal “Flight” spell goes about 40 kilometers per hour, much faster than an adult running at full speed.
If you pour in more mana, you can go even faster, but it still won’t go over 80 kilometers per hour—pretty slow.
Let’s see what surprises “Super Computation” can bring.
Thinking that, Fia called up the information in her mind.
But to her surprise, “Super Computation” seemed to freeze up, and the simulation of the elements stopped completely.
Even though “Super Computation” would restart and simulate from the beginning every time Fia used “Flight” again, it would always freeze the moment she left the ground, making it impossible to finish the simulation.
To put it simply, the computer didn’t freeze, but the program stopped responding.
“Mmm…”
Not panicking, Fia frowned and thought calmly.
Since coming to the World Tree Continent, “Super Computation” had never frozen up like this.
Sure, it might be because she hadn’t tried high-tier spells before, but Fia didn’t think “Super Computation” couldn’t simulate mid- or high-tier spells.
If her brain wasn’t up to it, her mind should be running at full speed right now, leaving her no room to think about anything else.
But in reality, her brain didn’t feel tired or unable to think about other things.
So the problem must be somewhere else.
Like the fact that she never really understood what elements are, or how elements sense a person’s intent, which is related to the “Flight” spell.
According to the spell description, “Flight” works because the elements respond to the user’s thoughts and make them fly, not because the person generates some kind of force themselves.
All this time, she could only see what elements looked like, but couldn’t communicate with them like normal spellcasters.
Maybe that’s where the problem is.
As for why she could use “Flight” just fine when chanting, it’s probably because the incantation handled the communication with the elements for her.
After all, “Super Computation” lets her skip the incantation and cast silently.
But spells like “Ice Bullet” also need the elements to resonate with mana, and “Ice Bullet” can be easily recorded by “Super Computation,” so that rules out the idea that she can’t use “Flight” because she can’t resonate with the elements.
Fia frowned even deeper.
If the problem isn’t with mana resonating with the elements, then is it with intent? The elements can’t sense my intent, so they can’t make me fly? Is there a way to make the elements sense what I’m thinking?
The moment the question popped up, Fia had a wild idea.
If I can’t talk to the elements directly, what if I use images? Normal creatures need wings to fly, so if I make wings appear on my back when I use “Flight,” maybe the elements will get what I mean?
She tried “Flight” again, but this time, Fia focused all her attention on imagining wings on her back as an aid.
After flying a lap, she landed back on the carriage roof.
The “Super Calculation” in her mind started simulating everything from scratch.
Fia tensed up.
All sorts of colors representing elemental symbols twisted, merged, and broke apart under the “Super Calculation,” then rearranged themselves in a specific order.
Everything was the same as before.
The little figure in her mind that represented herself was ready to take off, and as expected, she was about to get stuck at this point again.
Just as Fia was about to click her tongue, a few pairs of glowing, wing-shaped objects slowly formed behind the little Fia figure.
“Huh?” Fia let out a cute little sound of surprise.
Right after that—
Her vision suddenly brightened.
The light came from behind Fia—three pairs of wings, as thin as cicada wings and as beautiful as butterfly wings, unfolded from her back.
Each pair of wings shone with an intense golden light.
They weren’t physical, but were made entirely from a combination of elements.
In an instant, Fia, with her elven appearance, looked like a magnified fairy.
The presence of the glowing wings made her dazzling, and the strong wind they created sent her black hair and skirt flying, making her whole body shine brilliantly.
If Fia had seemed cold and elegant before, now, with her glowing wings spread, she radiated a holy, awe-inspiring brilliance.
The golden particles drifting from her wings instantly transformed her from a death god into a revered goddess, making the whole environment feel bright and sacred.
But Fia couldn’t see herself from a god’s perspective.
As a stream of brand new information flooded her mind, she chose to use a regular “Flight” spell to leave the carriage for a bit, then immediately put the information in her head to use.
Her target was the far side of the sky.
“Flight”—boom! A massive sonic boom echoed through the air, and with a powerful gust of wind, Fia vanished from the plains in the blink of an eye.
