Three months.
That was all the time remaining before the inter-academy competition—a tournament Kael had been told almost nothing about, save that it would determine the top seven first-year students across fifteen academies to represent each of their academy.
Kael wanted to a breakthrough into the Mana heart realm before the competition.
The timeline should have been impossible. Even with his Transcendent Core, even with the academy's triple-density mana, even with every advantage he'd scraped together over the past year—breaking from Foundation Establishment Peak to Mana Heart typically required four years for talents. 5-9 months or more for genuine geniuses with flawless cores. But Kael had both an improved purple grade talent and a transcendent Core.
Kael wasn't planning to rely on typical.
Two months quickly.
