Volume 2, Chapter 9 – Flight Magic!

To use specific numbers as an example, normally, if a person’s mana is 10, then each use of [Food Creation] would consume 1 point. If the total mana becomes 1000, then [Food Creation] should consume 100 points of mana.

Up to this point, the mana consumed is always ten percent. However, when a person’s mana reaches a quadrillion points, [Food Creation] cannot consume ten percent of a quadrillion points, because one hundred trillion points of mana has already exceeded the consumption limit of [Food Creation].

For example, if [Food Creation] can at most consume one thousand points of mana, then no matter how much more than ten thousand points of mana one has, [Food Creation] will only create food based on one thousand points of mana, and at the same time, can only consume one thousand points of mana.

This was why she could use [Food Creation] dozens of times in a few seconds without her mana hitting rock bottom. One thousand points of mana was the limit of [Food Creation].

Of course, the specific numbers here were just an analogy. Fia neither knew the exact mana consumption limit of [Food Creation] nor the specific total of her own mana. Fia only knew that her total mana far exceeded the consumption limit of [Food Creation].

“Hah, trying to exhaust my mana with a First-Tier spell is just asking too much. [Firestorm].”

Sighing softly, Fia raised her hand, letting a firestorm burn the small mountains on the plain to ashes.

Although leaving these food mountains on the plain could serve as food for later refugees, they would also attract wild beasts while sating the refugees’ hunger. Not to mention magical beasts with mana, even the packs of wolves on the plain were not something ordinary people could handle. If this place accidentally became a gathering area for magical beasts, it would undoubtedly bring great disaster to passing travelers and refugees.

Not to mention, there might be people who would claim the food mountains for themselves, leading to the formation of bandit-like organizations. Therefore, burning them was the safest option.

Thus, following the golden-yellow city wall, one after another, pillars of fire bloomed on the plain.

Soon, a rather helpless Fia returned to the carriage.

“Your Highness, just now you were…?”

“Testing magic.”

“But food like a small mountain, and with no problem with the taste, I have never seen anything like it. I heard before that His Majesty the King, a quasi-Eighth-Tier, could create black bread with [Food Creation]. But that black bread was as hard as wood and could even be used as a club to beat the second prince. For you to create meat like this… I have never heard of it. Could it be that this is not the ordinary [Food Creation], but a higher-tier spell?”

Anastasia’s eyes were filled with a thirst for knowledge. Fia thought for a moment and nodded.

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“Mm… I suppose so.”

After being optimized by [Hypercomputation], it was not wrong to say that [Food Creation] was a higher-tier spell.

Unfortunately, for her, the practicality of [Food Creation] was limited. After all, no one wanted to be gnawing on a salted fish all day.

It was better to look at other spells.

What Fia didn’t realize was that after this display, Anastasia and Liti’s perception of Fia’s strength had risen to a new level. A hint of joy and respect was added to their expressions when they looked at her.

After that, Fia on the carriage quickly learned another spell called [Telekinesis].

The so-called [Telekinesis] had nothing to do with willpower or the soul; it was actually a type of spatial magic. It involved creating the desired spatial force with mana, and then using the entity created by this spatial force to influence and control other things.

For example, one could make the spatial force form a thin plate, allowing heavy objects to be placed on it and dragged along, freeing up one’s hands. Because the spatial force had no color, it looked like moving objects from a distance, which was the origin of the name [Telekinesis].

It sounded wonderful, but there was a reason it was classified as a First-Tier spell. The strength of [Telekinesis] was not high. For example, the thin plate mentioned earlier could at most support an adult male. If the human male were replaced with a bear-kin male, the plate would shatter.

In addition, [Telekinesis] had the setting that the heavier the object supported, the more mana it consumed. It was only useful when one was too lazy to get up to grab something, or when a companion was injured and needed to be carried.

However, like [Food Creation], [Telekinesis] was transformed into another spell after being optimized by [Hypercomputation].

For example, Fia could make herself hover motionlessly a dozen meters in the air, or even jump and turn in the air. If one could color [Telekinesis], they would find that Fia had actually created a dozen “legs” reaching down to the ground to support herself, looking much like a spider.

Of course, it could do more than that. Under the optimization of [Hypercomputation], Telekinesis could even lift giant rocks, dig the ground at extremely high speeds, or forcefully tear out a large chunk of the ground. Its power was astonishing.

Although limited by the spell’s own limits, [Telekinesis] could at most interfere with things within fifty meters and could not exist in too many instances at once (it couldn’t become a tentacle monster like a sea urchin), but even so, it was an extremely practical spell.

It could be used to make arms formed by [Telekinesis] hold [Ice Bullets] or [Fireballs] and make them curve in the air, build temporary bridges over impassable roads, and create invisible shield walls against attacks. Most importantly, [Telekinesis] was completely transparent and had no fixed shape. Combined with the camouflage of [Cloud Moon of the Illusory Sea], when used in battle, the enemy would often be pushed into a desperate situation before they even saw her.

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After mastering [Telekinesis], Fia set her sights on a spell she had always wanted to learn and had placed on her must-learn list.

The Third-Tier spell, [Flight].

In the spell description, after using [Flight], the user could move freely in the air according to their will. The principle was that the elements in the air would cooperate with the user’s will, allowing them to fly.

Fia naturally found this abstruse principle hard to understand. How exactly did the elements make a person fly, why could they make a person fly, and how did it affect the elements—it was truly difficult to figure out. But exploring the principles could be left for later; learning [Flight] was more important now.

“—[Flight].”

To not disturb Anastasia and Liti, Fia, sitting on the roof of the carriage, softly chanted the spell.

As her voice fell, Fia gradually lifted off the roof. After experiencing the speed of [Flight] for a moment, she returned to the roof and dispelled the spell.

The ordinary [Flight] spell had a speed of about 40 kilometers per hour, much faster than an adult running at full speed. If more mana was invested, the flight speed could be faster, but it still wouldn’t exceed eighty kilometers per hour, which was quite slow.

Let’s see what surprise [Hypercomputation] can bring.

With this thought, Fia called upon the information in her mind.

However, Fia was surprised to find that [Hypercomputation] seemed to be stuck; the simulation of the elements was completely frozen. Although [Hypercomputation] would restart and simulate from the beginning when she used [Flight] again, each time the simulation reached the moment she left the ground, it would immediately get stuck, preventing the simulation from completing.

In layman’s terms, the computer hadn’t crashed, but the program had stopped responding.

“Mmm…”

Without panicking, Fia frowned and thought calmly.

Since coming to the World Tree Continent, [Hypercomputation] had never been stuck like this before. Although this was also related to her not having encountered high-tier magic, Fia didn’t think [Hypercomputation] was incapable of simulating intermediate or high-tier magic. If her brain was not up to the task, then her brain should be running at full speed right now, leaving her no room to think about other things.

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However, the fact was, her brain didn’t feel tired or unable to think about other things.

This meant the problem lay elsewhere.

For example, she had never understood what elements really were, and related to [Flight] magic, how the elements could sense a person’s will.

In the spell description, [Flight] magic was the element catering to the user’s thoughts to make them fly, not the person themselves generating some kind of power. All along, she could only see what the elements looked like, but couldn’t communicate with them like an ordinary magic caster. Perhaps this was where the problem was.

As for why she could use [Flight] properly with a chant just now, it should be that the incantation completed the process of communicating with the elements for her. It should be known that [Hypercomputation] allowed her to omit the medium of incantations, thus giving her the ability of non-chanting.

However, spells like [Ice Bullet] also required resonance between elements and mana, yet [Ice Bullet] could be easily recorded by [Hypercomputation]. This negated the explanation that the inability to use [Flight] was because she couldn’t resonate with the elements.

Fia’s frown deepened.

Since the problem wasn’t that her mana couldn’t resonate with the elements, did that mean the problem was with her will? The elements couldn’t sense my will, so that’s why they can’t make me fly?

Was there any way to make the elements sense her thoughts?

The moment the question appeared, Fia had a wild answer.

She couldn’t talk to the elements directly, so what if she expressed it with a pattern instead? Ordinary creatures need wings to fly. If she made something like wings appear behind her when using flight magic, maybe that would allow the elements to clearly sense her thoughts?

She used [Flight] magic again, but this time, Fia focused all her attention on imagining that she had an auxiliary tool like wings behind her. After flying a circle, she landed back on the roof.

The [Hypercomputation] in her mind began to simulate from the beginning.

Fia became nervous.

Colors symbolizing various elements twisted, merged, and decomposed under [Hypercomputation], and finally rearranged themselves in a specific order.

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Everything was the same as before.

The little figure representing her in her mind was ready to fly. As expected, it was going to get stuck here again.

Just as Fia was about to click her tongue, several pairs of wing-shaped luminous objects gradually condensed behind the little figure representing Fia.

“Eh?”

A cute, soft sound escaped Fia’s lips.

Immediately after.

Her vision suddenly brightened.

The light source came from behind Fia—a total of three pairs of light wings, like those of a cicada or a butterfly, spread out from behind her. Each pair of wings emitted an extremely strong golden light. They had no physical form but were purely a product of combined elements.

In an instant, Fia, with her elf appearance, looked like an enlarged fairy. The presence of the light wings made her incredibly dazzling. The strong wind they created made her black hair and skirt dance together, making her whole body radiant.

If the previous Fia had a cold and elegant temperament, then the current Fia, with her glowing wings spread, exuded a holy radiance that demanded worship. Especially the specks of golden light particles scattered from the wings, which instantly transformed Fia from a grim reaper to a revered goddess. Her existence made the environment bright and sacred.

However, Fia couldn’t see herself from a third-person perspective. As a brand new piece of information flooded her brain, she chose to first use the ordinary [Flight] spell to move a distance away from the carriage, and then, immediately use the information in her mind.

The target was the other side of the sky.

[Flight]

Boom!—

A huge sonic boom instantly echoed through the atmosphere. Accompanied by a strong gust of wind, in just the blink of an eye, Fia disappeared from the plains.