Taming The Villainesses novel Chapter 133

(EP-133.1) Exam Time #1

133 – Imps And Exam Time #1

A few days passed since my meeting with Professor Balan that night.

The spring flowers had slowly faded, while the summer heat started ramping up.

It had been two weeks, to be exact.

A fortnight.

14 days.

During that period, which could be described as either short or long depending on how you looked at it, I dealt with various bothersome tasks.

First of all, I decided to accept the Sages’ offer. Thanks to this, I received a lot of credit and was able to climb up to Rank 98, which was at Gold Rank.

And I finally had a private room!

Although it was modest compared to the luxurious dormitories of the Single-Digit Rankers, having my own personal space was truly delightful.

━You caused my ranking to drop! I challenge you to a duel-!

Of course, since I ascended the ranks in a non-traditional method, it naturally incited jealousy among others which led to petty disputes. But...

━Pauli lost? What kind of magic did that guy just use? I didn’t even see anything!

━I don’t know, something like a gust of wind shattered his armor-!

They weren’t significant enough to warrant a detailed mention.

However, it didn’t mean I was just sitting idle.

“Oh, what? You’re running a bit more like a human now, about 10 seconds faster than yesterday.”

“Haaa, heuu-.”

Thanks to Elga’s harsh training, my stamina had been steadily increasing.

Of course, there wasn’t any dramatic change. But working out diligently got me closer to the level of an ordinary person’s stamina – an achievement at my level that I could be proud of, I guessed?

“Now then, Theo. Drink this. It’s a special tonic made by the Lioness Family. Don’t mind the taste and just swallow it, got it?”

“Hieek...!”

“What are you ‘hieeek-ing’ for? You’ll freeze to death. I’ll say it again, if you spit it out, you’ll die. It’s all for your own good, alright?”

It didn’t work.

“Then can you at least tell me what’s in it?”

“... It would be better if you don’t know. Do you really want to know? Are you sure you’ll drink it after hearing it? As I said before, you must drink it all!”

“... Then I’ll just drink it blind.”

Over the course of 2 weeks, the relationship between Elga and me had been progressing smoothly.

There were really no big incidents or happenings, but Elga seemed to like seeing me work hard in my training. She even gave me expensive tonics and such.

She said it was for the body and stamina, but surprisingly, it also helped in increasing my magic power. So my Mage job was also steadily increasing.

If my total mana capacity was 200 two weeks ago, now it was around 220.

Someone might scoff and say it would only be a ‘10% increase’, but in two weeks, a 10% growth was quite significant.

In fact, even Hynax, who started to teach me magic, couldn’t believe my progress.

“Sir Theo, judging by your magic power, it looks like you will soon reach Rank 5. To achieve what took me 30 years at such a young age is nothing short of amazing. A mystery of Half-Fairies....”