The Country of Lijanos

Nadita just stood there with an open mouth after about a minute she finally calmed down a little and started speaking again.

"You are WHAT?"

She still looked like she had seen ghost. After another minute she was good again.

"Can you teach me magic?"

This surprised Leon initially but it made sense her goal was to become a mage and he was a very powerful one at that teaching would also benefit him because it would also save him the trouble of killing her later on and after telling her the truth he had no other chance than taking her in.

"Ok, but you have to be ready to give up on your whole social live because we will travel the country and probably never return here."

He said that but he knew for that was no problem her family got killed and she didn't really have friends. And as predicted Nadita agreed without even thinking about it.

Leon spend the next five days explaining basic tier one spells that could be used even by non-mages but she never learned those because she was to young and her parents didn't even know many themselves because they were poor. After a month of practice Nadita mastered tier one spells and could now register herself at a small guild. Bigger guilds wouldn't take her because low level mages are quite rare but when you look on the whole country there are about 20,000 mages with most of them being low level so big guilds would only take magicos or above. One would reach the level of magico when you are able to cast tier 3 magic to reach that level the average mage would need around ten years but with Nadita's initiate talent and Leon's guidance she should be able to reach that level in half a year.

Her daily routine consisted of getting up at six in the morning then meditating to train mana manipulation until eight. By then Leon would have prepared breakfast and they would eat together. After breakfast she would train her body which is extremely important because a weak body can't handle strong magic and she could delay her breakthroughs or in bad cases even seriously harm herself. She would train till noon and then eat lunch after lunch Leon would show her new magic, help her if she reached a bottleneck or spar with her that would go till six in the evening. They would enjoy dinner together and go to bed at eight. It goes without saying that this routine was extremely exhausting especially for a ten-year-old girl.

And like that half a year passed and Nadita was finally able to cast her first tier three spells. Leon even though he would deny it slowly grew into a father figure for Nadita. Nadita also practiced her beast tamer abilities but Leon couldn't really help her with that because he didn't have the ability and the ten never shared the secrets behind their special skills so there was no record of people learning how to use it. But something like that couldn't stop her so she slowly tried to make progress. After the six month she was able to completely control beasts up to the size of a mouse and could befriend beasts up to the size of an elephant that's also what she did with the Wargs. Leon called Nadita into the lounge.

"We will leave towards the country of Lijanos. I can't create a portal with such a high range I think I will need at least twenty portals but I can only open five a day so we will travel for at least four days."

A smile formed on Nadita's face never in her life had she even left the city before meting Leon and now she will see another country, so she was naturally very excited.

They didn't have to pack anything because the tower was a magic item called tower of the grand mage it could be resummoned every twelve hours and the interior would stay the same. The item was crafted by Laurentius's predecessor the previous rune smith of the grand mage council. They used five warp steps and arrived around 500,000 kilometres north. The continent Limane consisted of 3 big countries that are constantly at war with each other. The conflicts arose around 200 years ago when the three countries were created. They were born from the destroyed Linota after the fight between Leon and Laurentius the two other countries are Lijanos and Rem. The battlefield from Leon and Laurentius would later become Rem so the population of Rem knew the truth and the members of the council were celebrated as heroes. They had to fight the hardest out of the three countries but nowadays they were the strongest nation out of the three. That was because they build giant magic academies and have double the number of trained mages than the other countries because anyone can enter one of the academies.

"Stop, give us everything you got!"

A small group of bandits suddenly jumped out of a bush. When Nadita noticed that all of them were normal people not a single mage she wanted to laugh out loud.

"This is a fine opportunity to show me what you got."

Nadita nodded and walked towards the bandits when she was about ten meters away, she suddenly conjured a fireball that flew straight towards the face of one bandit. The bandit got knocked out before he could do anything. Nadita boosted herself with wind magic and dashed forward through her training she was as strong as a grown man and when she also boosted her fists with fire magic two more bandits were instantly knocked out. But Nadita made a grave mistake and left her bag exposed. One of the bandits saw the opening and slashed his sword down on her back. A hot pain went through her back and she started to get into a rage. She retreated a few steps and used light magic on herself to heal her wound. Then she suddenly dashed forward again and knocked two more bandits out so there was only one left. She conjured a tier three fireball and was about to fire it when someone grabbed her hand and stopped her.