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The next few days went by with a fairly clear routine for Magna, mostly filled with reading, eating, and playing with Faye.

He also started training his muscles, curious whether he could improve his basic stats that way, but progress turned out to be painfully slow. 

Even after following Titus's guidance, his strength only went up by one point in an entire week.

He never sparred with Titus again during this time. Titus never brought it up either, still seeming to regret what had happened last time, or maybe Celeste had simply forbidden it. Magna couldn't tell which.

By the end of that week, Magna finally managed to trigger Gaia's options again, though it had gotten noticeably harder. 

He figured that without access to mana-rich food, filling the energy gauge from now on would take weeks, even months, in the near future.