77 The Necromancer and the Priestess 11 (1/2)

”Rosella, are you really sure you want to go through this?” Kai said with a worried expression, but Rosella had on a determined expression. She was dressed in trousers and light leather armor, holding a wooden practice sword in her hand.

”Yes!” She said with a firm nod. She had asked Kai to train her in swordplay, and after a few months of basic strength and stamina training, she was finally ready to be taught some actual techniques. Kai was a little reluctant, but she had persevered this far, so he felt like he couldn't say anything. Maybe because of what she had experienced from a young age, but Kai felt that Rosella's determination was even better than many novice squires.

While Rosella and Kai were training, Yu Na was also going through harsher and harsher training.

She wanted to know the reason why she had to do this, and the reply from Yin Mei was always that she wasn't ”strong enough”.

Yu Na furrowed her brow. She had been able to take down that evil creature that had worried them so much, so how was it that she wasn't ”strong enough”? From what the others had said, she could gather that she was actually pretty strong - the high priestess was considered one of the strongest mages on the continent, and she had potential comparable to hers. She wasn't stupid, so why did the high priestess continue to insist this?

When she confronted Yin Mei, Yin Mei's expression was calm, only raising an eyebrow. ”Potential doesn't equal skill,” she said, turning her attention back to the magic book on her lap. Because she had finished her previous summoning project, aside from teaching Yu Na, there wasn't anything more for her to do in her free time, so she started to research something else again so that she wasn't bored all the time.

Yu Na didn't buy it. Maybe it was because of what those around her had said, or perhaps because of all the books that she had read, but she already had it in her mind that she was a ”genius” magic user, and even more, the ”protagonist” of this story. All those heroines in the story would be having such an easy time, so why was it that it was only her going through such harsh training?

Suddenly, an overwhelming pressure hit her, bringing Yu Na to her knees. Yin Mei looked down at her coldly, as the area was flooded with holy aura, but it was concentrated to just the area around them. It was heavy, like a ton of water crashing down on Yu Na's body. She tried resisting it, biting her lip so hard that she drew blood, but for some reason she couldn't. Why was there such a big difference, even though they should have similar ability?

”You see? Your ability to manipulate your magic is still too clumsy.” Yin Mei said, calmly flipping a page in her book as she released her pressure. Actually, she didn't want to make Yu Na any stronger, but too bad that she had to at least put on appearances, or the Bishop would never allow her to succeed Celestina as the high priestess. She was already going through the trouble of suppressing Yu Na's holy aura, so that it didn't affect anyone, so why was it that she have to make her stronger on top of all that?

It was such a pain in the ass!

She even had to personally teach her too, or else if someone else taught her something that was actually useful, then wouldn't she be screwed? D*mn, she wished that the time for the succession ceremony could already hurry up and come!

Because of her stupid decision, so many of her previous efforts were all in vain, she definitely wasn't going to let summoning Yu Na be in vain as well. She fell unconscious for a week because of this girl; she would definitely have her repay her by dying splendidly.

Yin Mei looked thoughtfully as Yu Na's face alternated colors from red to white to blue before she finally stalked away angrily. Actually, considering Yu Na's progress, her talent really wasn't as good as Celestina's. At least, she wouldn't be able to reach Celestina's status of archmage any time soon.

The only problem was, was that because of Yu Na's affinity, it was hard for Celestina's magic to have an affect on her - at least, certain aspects of her magic. Specifically any mental manipulation magic, such as charm or mind control. Brute forcing it like she had done earlier still worked, but that sort of thing also had a limit.

The issue was that Celestina was not good at offensive magic, and instead specialized in support magic. On the other hand, the Bishop was the opposite way. Because of this, Yin Mei had been specifically looking more into offensive magic.

She hoped that whatever El was planning wasn't too dangerous. That being said, she couldn't see El losing to the Bishop. Actually, when she thought about it, El was even stronger than the Bishop? Hm? She tilted her head. Maybe it was because as the villain he was destined to die under the hands of the protagonist that Yin Mei kept on thinking of El as weaker than he actually was, but could El in fact be the strongest person here?

She started measuring strength. In terms of bullshit strength, clearly Kai ranked number one. But in terms of pure offensive magic capability, El, who had an affinity rivaling that of Celestina's, and also specializing in offensive magic, could be considered the strongest attack oriented mage on the continent.

She was mind blown. Did this guy even need her help?

Well, wait, the issue still remained with the protagonist though. El could take care of other matters by himself, but certainly he would need help so that he wouldn't die to the protagonist.

Yin Mei felt that since the male and female leads were no longer useful, she should just get rid of them now so that there were no issues later, but on second thought, they could still prove to have some use. After all, they were both loyal to her at this point in time. As long as she continued to keep her involvement with El a secret, there shouldn't be a problem.