Chapter 51 Is There Something Wrong With Your Magic?
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After a brief session of self-criticism, Ron's emotions settled down.
What? You want me to move to a new place? I’ve already criticized myself, so why do I still have to move? Then my self-criticism was completely for nothing!
Ron thus comfortably accepted his new setup as a cat bed.
Anyway, plenty of cute cats were being "chest-killed" every day; one more wouldn't hurt.
Jokes aside.
Up to this point, things were actually quite normal.
Crucially, looking at the time, only ten minutes had passed since his attention was diverted by the Spirit Realm dungeon.
This meant that Vivienne was going to completely demolish the Magic Association's mage tower within the next ten minutes.
Ron reviewed the skills Vivienne currently had at her disposal.
To be honest, even when he used the Demon King's combat experience to work backwards from the actual outcome, he still couldn't figure out what method Vivienne had used to blow up the mage tower.
This was the mage tower of the Magic Association!
It was the very pride and face of the empire's magical community!
Even in a small border town like Palavich, the association's mage tower was designed according to the highest specifications.
Such mage towers were built from the ground up with the potential impacts of internal magical combat already taken into consideration.
Not even the recent battle between Wiegraf and Trevor had managed to tear down the tower.
Just how on earth did Vivienne pull this off?
Filled with doubt, Ron continued scrolling down.
Since Wiegraf had claimed that all her students possessed great magical talent, and Vivienne happened to be right there as one of those students, she was naturally pushed onto the stage.
She needed to demonstrate her talent through combat on stage.
Sophia was actually itching to give it a try.
Unfortunately, as a high-status princess, Trevor was determined not to let her step onto the stage under any circumstances.
In the end, it was Trevor’s own disciple who stepped up to face Vivienne in a duel.
["If you win," Trevor looked at Vivienne, the corners of his mouth lifting into a mocking sneer, "I can directly grant you a Level 3 Mage rating."]
[Upon learning that Vivienne had come to complete her magical rating, he intentionally arranged for a Level 3 mage to be her opponent.]
[In Trevor’s eyes, this was already an extreme form of deliberate making-things-difficult.]
[Given Vivienne's age, possessing the strength of a Level 3 mage at this point would make her an absolute genius among humans.]
[Since you, Wiegraf, claim your student has exceptional magical talent, I'll just dial it up to the maximum.]
[I refuse to believe that a random student you picked up off the street is a once-in-a-millennium prodigy!]
Watching Trevor’s expression and thinking about the final outcome of this plotline, Ron silently made a mental note of his behavior at this moment.
When the time came to write the main text, he would make sure to thoroughly describe Trevor's condescending psychological state toward Vivienne.
No! He would expand on it even further!
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That way, when Vivienne tore down the mage tower later, it would be all the more satisfying for the readers.
Ron scrolled rapidly.
The subsequent part naturally described the battle between Vivienne and her opponent.
Ron had originally assumed that Vivienne would stick to her usual routine: activating Immolation, charging into close combat, and bashing the enemy over the head with a club. He had even been secretly worried that Trevor might see right through it.
The reason Trevor hadn't suspected Vivienne during his two failed rituals was purely because, based on the crime scene, he had pinned his suspicions on a warrior.
Otherwise, just based on the fact that Vivienne had survived as the designated sacrifice for the first ritual, Trevor would have come running to investigate her.
And if Vivienne were to use her signature fixed routine right in front of Trevor, there was no telling if he might start suspecting her.
Fortunately, Vivienne was relatively smart.
Although she was unaware of Trevor's suspicions, she still understood the importance of keeping a trick up her sleeve.
Therefore, she decided against using Immolation, opting instead to open with Cella’s Charm spell to instantly control and defeat her enemy.
To this end, she had specially fished out a grimoire from Ron’s ring to use as camouflage, masking the traces of the *Gospel of Suffering*.
Logically speaking, the use of magical items was not permitted at the start of a magic rating evaluation.
However, as the empire drifted toward its twilight years, facing a massive wave of wealthy nobles wanting higher magic ratings just to show off better, the Magic Association had also begun to show some flexibility.
Their justification was entirely righteous: magical items were part of a mage's combat power and could not be singled out and excluded from the exam!
Of course, to prevent those spoiled brats from going too far—such as a supposedly Level-1 mage passing Level 6 or 7 evaluation exams by relying on a magical item crafted by their Archmage grandfather—the association still imposed limits on item usage.
Items used in combat could not exceed the combat power limit corresponding to that rating.
So, what rating was the grimoire in Vivienne's hands?
As the collection of the Mad Demon King, it must have been immensely powerful, right?
Uh... not really.
It was a spicy romance novel Ron had written. Because it was written in Ancient Elven script, the contemporary mages of the magic world couldn't understand a single word of it.
However, based on the residual aura emanating from it, they had still provided an objective evaluation:
This book possessed great academic value, but zero value as a magical item. Perhaps the only noteworthy thing about it was its sheer durability.
Such an evaluation naturally allowed Vivienne to smoothly smuggle this grimoire into the arena.
When Ron watched Vivienne go into battle holding his spicy novel, he instantly lost his composure.
[As the battle commenced, Vivienne put on a serious act and flipped open the grimoire in her hands.]
[Her lips chanted an incantation.]
[Then, she quietly applied the *Gospel of Suffering* onto the grimoire.]
Because Ron had granted Vivienne permissions, she was able to utilize the skills currently available to Ron.
[Vivienne cast Cella’s Charm toward her opponent.]
[Vivienne missed completely.]
[Why on earth isn't this thing a targeted spell?!]
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[Vivienne panicked and dodged the opponent's Magic Missile.]
[The Charm spell brushed past the enemy's side, and the pink heart-shaped magic collided with the magical barrier enclosing the arena.]
[The enchanting magical energy was conducted through the barrier and spread across the entire mage tower.]
[Vivienne had charmed the mage tower.]
"..."
Seeing these words, Ron furrowed his brow.
How bizarre...
Let's look at that again.
Ron continued reading.
[The mage tower fell madly in love with Vivienne.]
No! Damn it, it's still so weird!
Vivienne! What on earth is wrong with your spells?!
How can casting a Charm spell end up charming an entire building?!
[The mage tower witnessed Vivienne struggling pathetically in the face of the enemy's magical onslaught.]
[Those damn bastards! How dare they attack my beloved!]
[None of you deserve to stay inside my body!]
[The mage tower decided to initiate the expulsion procedure.]
["Hmph! It seems the magical genius you spoke of is nothing much after all," Trevor chuckled, mocking Wiegraf from the side.]
[Ahhhhhhhhh! This damned bastard who loves messing with other people's sons! He actually looked down on my Vivienne!]
[I'll kill you! I'll kill you!]
[The mage tower's boundless fury triggered its power furnace.]
[I'll send all enemies of Vivienne straight to the heavens!]
[Offering my ultimate loyalty to my dearest Vivienne!!!!!!!!]
[Accompanied by the explosion of the power furnace, the mage tower was instantly reduced to ruins.]
"..."
"..."
"Damn it!" Ron maintained a long silence, finally squeezing out a single word.
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