Chapter 660
With the week of resting granted to the student body before academy duties resumed, Liam had spent most of that time away from the dormitories and the idle conversations drifting through the academy grounds. While others used the break to relax, wander the city, or simply enjoy the rare absence of lectures and drills, Liam had taken advantage of something few students even knew existed.
An underground training hall constructed beneath the city of Grandeur.
It had been built quietly under the authority of Queen Lucy herself, designed specifically to give Liam a place where he could train without unnecessary attention or interference. The space remained isolated from the daily life of the academy above, allowing him to focus entirely on the one task that now mattered most.
Adapting to his new mystic level.
For the entirety of that week, Liam's routine had remained simple and methodical.
He did not rush the process.
He did not test his strength recklessly.
Instead, he approached the adjustment the same way he approached most things in combat—by studying it carefully, step by step.
The first thing he began doing was regulating the flow of Myst within his body.
Most mages, upon reaching a higher star level, immediately attempted to test their new strength through spells or techniques. Liam did not. He understood that the real danger after an Ascension was not lack of power, but lack of control.
So he began with the most basic task possible.
Circulation.