Manaless Mage

“Stop this, Both of you!” A loud voice rang out behind them, causing Harry and Trent to turn their heads towards the direction of the voice.

‘The librarian…’ Trent mumbled inwardly. Sweat dripped down his face as he noticed the attention of a few students on him.

Most of them immediately started leaving the hall when they saw the librarian approach Trent.

They didn’t know what happened between Trent and Harry and the last thing they wanted was to implicate themselves.

The only thing that attracted them was Trent’s shout, no one witnessed their confrontation since they were covered by the shelves beside them.

Even though the wind spell librarian wasn’t that powerful or talented, the academy students didn’t dare disrespect her.

The main reason for this was her background, it was well-known among the wind Elementalists that her father was a powerful mage who had a high standing in the AMO.

After all, her father wasn’t called ‘the mad flame’ for nothing, it was a name he got from how destructive his flames were.

In the current time and day, a mage could be considered a powerhouse, no one wanted to cross their paths or be get into their bad books, it could cause trouble for them.

Besides, she was still quite powerful when compared to most of the academy Elementalists, after all, she was a stage two Elementalist and most of the academy students were simply stage one Elementalists.

However, Trent wasn’t nervous because of her background or anything but rather it was because he still hadn’t found the spell book.

He barely held the urge to slap his forehead. Due to him losing control of his emotions after setting eyes on Harry, he forgot about his main purpose for coming to the library—to find the misplaced spell book.

Trent suddenly felt a weird prickling sensation around his body, he shivered subconsciously due to the sudden feeling.

Meanwhile, Harry’s squinted his eyes as he read through the set of tabs that were flashing across his eyes.

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[Name: Trent Morton]

[Race: Human]

[H/P: 100/100]

[Mana Core: 3rd Stage]

[Mana: 900/1800]

[Strength: 36]

[Agility: 49]

[Stamina: 30]

[Perception: 50]

[Endurance: 31]

[Intelligence: 70]

[Mental: 37]

[Charm: 47]

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Harry’s eyes widened slightly when he saw Trent’s stats. The first thing he noticed was that [Probe] now displayed more information than before, it now showed information like “Race” and “Mana core”.

He was surprised by Trent’s stats, he had expected them all to be quite but contrary to his expectations, they were quite high.

Trent highest physical attribute was his agility and speed while his highest stat was his intelligence.

His stats back when he absorbed the peak stage four beast core couldn’t even compare.

Although he was surprised by Trent’s stats, he wasn’t intimidated. While Trent stats were quite high, they couldn’t compare to his. His lowest stat had a value of 75 and he was a lot stronger than Trent, at least physically.

However, it could be a different case when Trent’s spells and elemental were added to the equation.

Trent had an insane amount of mana, that was still the most surprising part about his stats.

Besides, Trent was already a stage three Elementalist. This was something that even Harry found quite impressive, getting to the third mana core stage was anything but easy.

The average Elementalist reached the third mana core stage between the age of 20 to 25 but Trent was only 15!

While his talent had a huge contribution in his advancement speed, his own personal efforts couldn’t be disregarded also. After all, talent and potential were useless without training and efforts.

Though Harry had leveled up and gotten a lot stronger than before, his energy was still barely 300, while Trent’s was 1800–almost 2000!

Though Harry acted like Trent’s spell hadn’t affected him in the slightest bit, he had actually felt the strength and power behind the spell.

He would definitely take some damage of the spell had hit him. He was only able to stop the attack midway due to his high strength and agility and even then, he still felt his hand tremble.

Harry couldn’t help but wonder: ‘Does this mean Trent could cast spells for longer periods… than me?’

[Elementalists mana consumption and your energy consumption are different.]

A familiar voice rang out in his head. 𝒆𝙣𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝙚𝙩

Harry was quite excited when he heard the other voice, it had been silent for quite a while.

Though the system might reply his questions, its explanations were always quite vague, and most of the time, Harry found it difficult to understand it.

“Hey you.” A soft voice broke him of his thoughts.

Harry’s brows furrowed as he turned his head to the librarian. ‘I really need to stop getting lost in my thoughts when conversing with the system.’ He said inwardly.

Trent’s head also turned towards Harry when he heard the voice. He was still annoyed about his earlier humiliation but he could only hold his anger as losing control of his emotions would only complicate things.

The weird prickling sensation he felt earlier had finally stop and he no longer felt uncomfortable.

The librarian was a black haired woman with a slim and petite figure. She had a slight frown on her face as her gaze went back and forth between the two students.

The only reason she had chosen this job even though she had a strong background was because she didn’t want to stress herself. She also loved being in a library as she loved reading books.

Her talent was poor so there weren’t many options for her in the first place. Fortunately for her, she was at peace here and no one dared take her for granted or disrespect her—not even the principal.

This wasn’t the first time students had a commotion in the library, but she was quite surprised this time.

She recognized Trent as he was very popular in the academy—after all, the elite students in the academy were well known among students, especially one like Trent who was more of a dark horse.

She couldn’t help but wonder what caused the commotion between them. She didn’t recognize Harry as this was the first time she would be setting her eyes on him.

Her eyes squinted slightly as he turned her head to Trent. ‘First things first, why would an elite student like Trent bother to even visit the spell library?’ She wondered.

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I wrote this chapter in a hurry so I’m sorry if there are a few things off in the writing, I’ll edit it later.