I had made it an unconscious habit to create clothes and dye my hair black with Lightning Edict, else I would always be walking around naked. However, Lightning Edict did not just give me these disguises; it also reduced my presence to that of an Acolyte.
The truth was that I was growing so quickly that a part of me still held on to the Acolyte it had been all those loops ago when I woke up inside a tent. So I was not surprised that when the Conclave mages saw me, their initial reaction was not fear, but more of surprise.
I had spent less time as an Adept than I did as an Acolyte, and I did not fully stay at this level for long to observe a lot of Adepts, and I wondered how mages that were so weak were so capable of causing so much destruction.
