"Are you in the condition to do it now?" Max asked with an amused smiled.
"That…" Rima was speechless. It was right, she wasn't in the condition to do it after being ravaged last night so much.
Max didn't tease her any further and let go of her. Rima jumped off of his lap like a rabbit and sat one meter away, warily looking at him.
Seeing this, he couldn't help but smile wryly and ask "You know, you are my woman right?"
Rima nodded meekly "I-I know. But I-I'm just embarrassed a bit." Max didn't say anything more.
After that they watched Haory and others battle. Ten minutes later, Leticia was first one to withdraw as her mana reserves emptied out even though, she had more mana than Haory.
It was because, she had to constantly move around at rapid speeds which also used up her mana albeit at a low rate while each of her wind blade needed at least 50 mana units or higher, and right now she only had a bit more than 2500.
"Ah! You've woken up." Leticia exclaimed seeing him sitting beside Rima and quickly ran over and started asking him with about how she fought etc.
Seeing her behave so casually with him, Rima became a bit envious and couldn't help but sigh 'Maybe I'm a bit too much self-conscious.'
After a few more minutes, Haory also used up all her mana and the spar which marked the end of sparring session. After seeing him, she nodded slightly in greeting and sat in meditation right after.
After sparring, Belen also came over sat close to Max. She still had some mana left, after all she was a middle stage two-star mage.
After talking for a while, Max understood why they suddenly decided to start sparring.
It turned out that the fight against Bartan and his group made them realize their situation which could only be defined by word 'pathetic'.
Therefore, Haory proposed that they should focus on actual fight apart from cultivation. This way their cultivation would be consolidated quickly and they would know that in which aspect they were lacking and how to improve themselves.
After hearing this, Max nodded as he found this idea very good. He also realized that although he held quite a bit of strength which was almost at the top of his realm because of his new skill and high physical attributes, he was lacking in many aspects which he needed to work on, such as shortening the cast time of his spell.
Therefore, from then on, all of them started sparring and practicing their spells.
…
Days flew by and now only a week was left before their outing period ended.
During this time everyone made significant progress. Because everyone was mainly focused on battling and improving their spells, Max didn't have much time to have sex. He could only do it at night just a few times since he and others would be too exhausted to do it anymore.
Therefore, he would do it with only one woman a day so that they would be satisfied and can benefit properly. However, even then, he accumulated one hundred thousand LPs.
However, he had to spend forty thousand to unlock a grade three spell called [Destruction wheel] which he taught Rima because, she was getting more depressed by the day seeing them improving more and more.
It was a very powerful spell and didn't require any elemental mana. Like everyone else, Rima considered the mana spells useless since their power wasn't comparable to elemental ones. So, she didn't think much when he told her that he had a mana spell for her.
She didn't even want to learn it because she already had a few of such spells but the power they had wasn't anything good. She only agreed to learn it to show that she appreciated his help.
However, after hearing the chant, she was shocked. This spell wasn't anything ordinary and had the potential to kill or at least fight a three-star mage who has awakened his/her element, on equal footing.
After realising this, she took it seriously and learnt the chant from him. After which, she showed unparalleled focus and dedication towards it.
Initially, she couldn't even cast it properly because it required at least a thousand MP, just like Max's [calidus Brachium] required 1500 MP to cast it at its lowest strength.
Rima was only an initial stage mage with a little more than two thousand MP. To cast and control it, she needed at least 1800 MP since she didn't have enough control over it. So, obviously it wasn't feasible for someone with two thousand mana points to exhaust ninety percent of their mana in a single cast unless they wanted permanent damage to their bodies and mana core.
After a few days of hard work on both field practicing the spell and on bed with Max, she became more familiar with it and gained a bit more control over it while her mana levels also rose by another thousand points making her a middle stage two-star mage.
When she cast it successfully for the first time, its power shocked everyone except Max. The reason of their shock was understandable since It was slightly more powerful than Leticia's wind bullets even though, it was clearly in its beginning stage and Rima's control over it was far from perfect.
The most shocking thing, was the fact that it was only a mana spell and not an elemental spell.
It made them wonder, where could he have gotten this spell from. In response to their questioning gazes, Max only smiled.
...
Right now, all of them were sitting on the edges of the water stream, chatting.
"Max, there's only one week left now and we don't have enough beast cores to pass. I think we should start hunting down the beasts." Haory suggested. She was getting impatient now and wanted to collect as many beast cores as they could, and earn more mana stones from the academy.
