Inside the training room.
Karl felt the mighty power surging through his body, and he couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
Kamar-Taj's magic really was incredible.
And a god-tier talent was more than strong enough to back it up.
Magic that ordinary people wouldn't know how long it would take to cultivate—he learned it in the blink of an eye.
The key was, it was also this powerful.
Karl didn't even know exactly how strong he was right now.
That overwhelming strength made him feel a little unsettled.
"Aldrich-sensei, how about we change locations to test this?"
"I think my strength might be… a bit too much."
Karl said with a sigh.
Hearing that, Aldrich didn't take it seriously at all.
Too much strength?
How much could it possibly be?
This training room had undergone special reinforcement.
It definitely wasn't as fragile as the library.
Besides, combat arts weren't the Eldritch Whip!
Combat arts weren't offensive magic at all—it was support magic, used to help them better bring out the power of all kinds of formidable spells.
Karl had only strengthened his body once.
How strong could he be?
It wasn't like he was a Grand Sorcerer!
By Aldrich's estimate, even if Karl's strength increased severalfold, it would only be about the level of a full-fledged sorcerer.
Damaging the floor was fine.
But destroying the entire training room? That was a joke.
After all, extremely powerful Roof Reinforcement Runes were carved in here.
Even a sorcerer close to the level of a senior sorcerer couldn't do that.
Aldrich didn't believe Karl could either.
When Karl heard Aldrich say it so confidently,
he thought about it and agreed.
He did feel his strength was huge, but as for what it meant in concrete terms, he didn't really know.
After a sudden surge in strength, it was easy to get a false sense of scale.
Since Aldrich sounded so sure, it probably wouldn't be a problem.
"Aldrich-sensei, how should I test it?"
Karl asked.
"Simple. We have dedicated testing equipment."
Aldrich pressed something on the side.
The wall emitted a burst of mechanical noises, and that section of wall split apart to both sides.
A massive machine with rubber padding was pushed out from inside the wall.
Aldrich looked proud.
"Karl, we're not primitives. Equipment made by ordinary people can be very worth learning from."
"This is a custom-built strength testing device. It can withstand impacts of up to three hundred thousand newtons."
"It's absolutely enough."
Aldrich said.
What did three hundred thousand newtons mean?
It was the impact produced by a heavy truck weighing thirty tons, charging in at a hundred meters per second.
Even a tank taking that kind of impact would probably deform.
Even if a senior sorcerer trained their body to the absolute peak, they still wouldn't have that kind of strength.
Even if Karl was cultivating it for the first time, no matter how strong he was, this equipment would be enough.
"Alright. No need to worry. Go all out."
"Let's see what your strength is like now."
Aldrich said eagerly.
Karl's performance had been far too astonishing.
The first time he cultivated, he had absorbed so much natural energy.
Aldrich was very curious how far Karl's body could be strengthened.
Karl was excited too.
He also wanted to know just how far his physical body had been enhanced.
He took a deep breath.
Karl took a short advancing step.
Crack!
The area around Karl shattered directly from his sheer power.
Within a ten-meter radius, everything collapsed straight down.
Aldrich's expression turned pale with shock.
Before he could even react—
Karl had already thrown a punch.
Vmmm!
A white ring appeared in the air.
His fist had exceeded the speed of sound, producing a sonic boom.
A piercing screech rang out.
Aldrich still hadn't processed what he was seeing.
Karl's punch had already swung through.
Time seemed to slow down.
Aldrich could see it clearly.
That device that supposedly could withstand an impact of three hundred thousand newtons—
burst apart in an instant.
Not only that.
That terrifying force shoved the device violently outward.
Boom!
A massive crater appeared in the wall.
No.
To be precise, an entire section of wall vanished—sent flying by Karl's punch.
The device that got blasted away, along with the half-meter-thick wall, slammed straight into the mountain behind it.
Bang!
The mountain caved inward, forming a huge pit.
Shattered rocks on the mountain kept sliding down.
Enormous cracks snaked upward along the mountainside.
Gulp.
Aldrich couldn't help swallowing hard.
Fortunately.
Fortunately, the training room was built against the mountain.
If it weren't, with a single punch like that, half of Kamar-Taj would've been punched clean through!
This strength…
Was this really something a guy cultivating Kamar-Taj combat arts for the first time could produce?
Aldrich's face twitched nonstop.
He…
What kind of sin had he committed?
Why did he keep making the same stupid decision again and again?
He already knew this kid was a freak.
So why did he still let this kid strike?
This guy…
Aldrich's annual sorcerer stipend was probably gone now!
Aldrich clutched his head in agony.
If he ever let Karl test magic again, he'd be a dog!
When Karl saw the power of that punch, he was pleasantly surprised too.
With strength like this, he could probably rival an ordinary Asgardian warrior.
And he still felt like he hadn't even used his full strength.
But then Karl started to feel a bit embarrassed.
This…
He wouldn't have to pay for it, right?
If he'd known, he wouldn't have used that much force.
In just a few days,
he had already smashed two ancient buildings in Kamar-Taj.
If he were an ordinary person, he'd probably have been detained long ago.
"Ahem."
"Aldrich-sensei, I don't need to compensate for this, do I?"
Karl asked awkwardly.
Aldrich's face twitched, his heart aching.
"No."
Aldrich said painfully.
"Good. If I don't have to pay, that's good."
"Aldrich-sensei, why does your face look kind of bad?"
Karl asked.
"I'm fine. I'm just… a little happy."
"You did very well."
"With this kind of strength, you're already not inferior to an ordinary senior sorcerer at all."
"If your magical power can meet the standard, you might really become the fastest one in Kamar-Taj history to be promoted to senior sorcerer."
Aldrich said.
"Not at all, not at all. I still need to cultivate properly."
Karl said very modestly.
"You're still young."
"Having this level of strength is already very good."
Aldrich said.
This wasn't "very good."
It was insanely freakish, alright?!
Among people Karl's age, where was there even someone this monstrous?
Kamar-Taj combat arts had no upper limit.
You got this strong on your very first cultivation.
What about later?
At this rate, later on, wouldn't you be using your physical body to hard-tank magic?
Aldrich looked at Karl and felt more and more that the kid's future was utterly limitless.
This kid was a full-on monster.
(End of Chapter)
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