Thanks to her outstanding talent, at the third lesson Quylla was able to execute Loop. Even though he practiced night and day, Lith needed until the fourth one, ending up as the tenth to complete the exercise.

At first, he had been frustrated by his inability to keep up with Quylla. Despite her private lessons on dimensional magic and the long hours of hard work at night, he was always up to two or three steps behind.

But then, he understood that being tenth on over two hundred students wasn’t such a bad result, especially since most of them had a way to go. Not to mention that his mana sensitivity was slowly but steadily improving.

It was an odd experience, feeling the energy flow with the mind rather than his eyes. Dimensional spells seemed to have hot and cold spots at the same time. The secret to stabilize a Gate, was to infuse water magic only on the hot spots.

Using too much of it or affecting an already cold spot, would cause the spatial distortion to collapse.

When the weekend arrived, Lith needed to vent out his frustration, so he proposed a trip to the forest to forget about their worries and fetch some ingredients for extra points or money.

Since he got admitted to the academy, Lith had stopped working, and in case he needed to get his family out of the Kingdom and rebuild their lives from scratch, it would require a lot of gold.