"Really?"
An old Mage said excitedly, having steadily held his ground in the academic faction for many years, relying on his long-term endurance tactic, finally seeing clear skies after the rain with a little talent and a lot of time.
Seeing no hope of further advancement, the old Mage also plans to slightly shift his future development direction from pure theory to practical combat.
However, due to years being stuck in the academy and aside from teaching students, he has hardly moved, resulting in his combat experience seeming somewhat insufficient now.
It's not that the old Mage couldn't defeat those newly emerged novices; the years of Dungeon experience are not supposed to make an old-timer like him so rusty.
Everyone was a genius back in the day, right?
But compared to those even geniuses among his peers, who had to invest more energy into spell research to catch up, his combat experience is indeed showing signs of lagging behind that group.
