Chapter 122: The Terrifying Big Eater

Vilyric’s usual total MP is 560w, and her automatic recovery speed is about 1000 per second. Just looking at that, it really can’t compare to Noviya’s absorption speed; she would probably deplete her reserves in about 20 minutes.

Although it’s unclear how much magic power the other party actually needs, considering she’s been absorbing for several minutes without any sign of slowing down, it seems like it’s going to take quite a bit of time.

Luckily, the Priestess isn’t the type to just rely on automatic recovery and her magic power cap to tough it out; she’s faced similar situations in the game before.

“Wisdom, Source.”

Two light shadows spread out beneath and behind the girl. Wisdom is a light gold phantom that spreads like an ancient tree, while Source ripples out in watery patterns from her feet—both are halos from the Holy Light Ten Glories that enhance MP recovery effects and are rather difficult to acquire.

Wisdom, while primarily leaning towards enhancing intelligence attributes and the casting speed and power of skills, also has an additional recovery effect of 1000/s in MP, and Source specializes even more in that.

This light pattern, spreading like rippling water, covers all allies within range, unconditionally doubling their MP recovery in any form, which includes natural recovery and various skills or potions.

Although it doesn’t have any other effect, that alone is enough for Source to rank among the Ten Glories, especially suitable for a Priestess or Mage like Vilyric.

Vilyric’s regular MP automatic recovery speed is around 1000/s, adding another 1000/s from the Wisdom halo, and then Source doubles that sum, bringing the efficiency to over 4000/s.

While maintaining Holy Light Ten Glories does require some MP, compared to Noviya’s absorption speed, it seems negligible and completely can be ignored.

Thus, even without using any other special skills, tools, or potions for MP recovery, Vilyric has managed to lower her loss to just under 1000 MP per second. Although this is still a significant consumption for ordinary beings, it’s not much of a bother for a Priestess with ample magic reserves.

Feeling her MP slowly decrease amidst the chaos, the howling winds stirred by the swirling magic echoed in her ears. Vilyric didn’t do anything more; she merely maintained this knee pillow-like posture, quietly supplying Noviya with magic while observing changes in her physical state.

Ten minutes, thirty minutes, an hour…

Time passed slowly, the Silver Moon hanging high in the night sky, while the silver-gray-haired girl’s body seemed like a true bottomless black hole, having absorbed a terrifying 20 million MP yet still maintaining her original posture, seemingly showing no change, even dozing off.

Even Vilyric couldn’t help but be stunned by the other party’s terrible appetite. She wasn’t quite sure what 20 million MP meant in this reality, but that much magic power could allow a max-level player in the game to cast at least over 20 regular tier-10 spells like Eternal Shield of Light, which are known as forbidden spells.

Even with dual halos coupled with the rapid recovery from high intelligence, after so much time had passed, Vilyric’s magic reserves had already been depleted by more than two-thirds; going any lower would place her in a dangerous territory.

If too much magic power is consumed, facing a formidable opponent might become quite challenging. Although she still held special equipment for direct MP recovery, or skills to exchange a large amount of MP using SP, and stocked high-level recovery potions from the game, if Noviya kept on consuming endlessly, Vilyric couldn’t provide support indefinitely.

After all, they weren’t particularly close or had any special ties. Vilyric felt obliged to keep Noviya safe during this time due to her cooperation agreement with Tiyelu, and also because this little girl, so small and adorable, compelled her to generously allow her to absorb magic power—it’s renewable after all; a good night’s sleep would fill it right back up.

However, the Priestess couldn’t risk putting herself into jeopardy or incurring significant losses to do so.

“Whimper~”

Just as Vilyric was contemplating whether to use an item to replenish some magic before observing for a while longer or temporarily halt the supply to think of another strategy, the little girl comfortably lying on her thigh suddenly let out a cheerful whimper, her body shining with a silver light akin to her hair color, quickly enveloping her.

“Huh?”

The black-haired girl lowered her head in surprise, only to see Noviya had transformed into an indistinguishable ball of dazzling light. As it shrank, morphed, and then revealed its true form again, she had turned back into her original fluffy little wolf cub shape, lazily closing her eyes and snoring.

The cloak that was draped over her and the translation tool had slipped off her body due to the shape change, the former half-covering the little wolf cub’s belly as she lay nearly on her back, while the flat translation device simply dropped beside her.

That feeling of frantically absorbing magic power vanished at that moment.

Oh? Did she finally get full?

Letting out a quiet sigh of relief, Vilyric reactivated the effect of Feather Garment: Glarya, stowing away the cloak and translation tool back into her backpack, and tried to poke the little wolf cub’s soft belly.

“Whimper~”

Unlike her previous unmoving state, this time the wolf-like Noviya actually wiggled her little paw in a spoiled manner during her sleep, as if expressing dissatisfaction and protest at being disturbed from her beautiful dream.

Additionally, a very obvious change was that the blue-gray fur the little wolf cub had before had now completely transformed into a silver-gray, resembling her human form’s hair, and the tuft of black fur at the back of her neck, representing royal lineage, had disappeared.

This girl has turned into a little white wolf—uh, or should I call her a little silver wolf?

Although it’s still not entirely clear, it doesn’t seem like it was simply reverting back to the original look.

Well, that astonishing 20 million MP couldn’t have been absorbed for nothing; it’s even close to four times Vilyric’s usual MP total. Aside from her, Vilyric couldn’t think of anything else that could provide so much magic power in one night.

Even the Life Goddess Xi Fu Lin might find it challenging unless She descended upon the divine realm.

Source of Magic is really something else; if nothing else, the mere fact that Noviya can contain such a massive amount of magic power in that tiny body fully lives up to such a title.

However… after this ended, Vilyric couldn’t help but grumble.

How does this Source of Magic absorb power from others? By normal logic, shouldn’t it be the other way around?

After using Information Detection to investigate once more, perhaps because Noviya was finally full, Vilyric didn’t encounter any failures in detection this time, but also didn’t uncover any remarkable information as she had hoped.

This little wolf cub’s soul had completely returned to an activated state; right now, she was just like one who had eaten and drunk enough, sound asleep. It was somewhat strange that although she absorbed so much magic, Noviya’s physical condition and attributes hadn’t undergone a significant upgrade—it felt like even Aiste wasn’t as good as her, still just a little cub.

As for the massive magic power absorbed from Vilyric, it also didn’t all accumulate within Noviya; it felt more like it had been used for something else, with only less than one percent remaining.

Hmm, while it’s all rather baffling, at least the problem should be solved… right?

   

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