The Greatest Sinner

Evan had slept for days after yesterday's battle. He wasn't wounded or mentally exhausted, but using two sigils at once took a lot of energy out of him. His body was not yet capable of sustaining such a thing without a corresponding recoil.

Evan woke up because a loud knock on the door awakened him. If not for that, Evan would have slept for at least a few more hours.

"What the fuck...who is that?" Evan muttered grudgingly and headed for the door. He had no idea who needed him this early, and Draven would have unlikely bothered him, and Evan had no other variants which it could be.

When the young man opened the door he saw a girl with red hair, oddly enough it was Olivia.

Evan looked at her, puzzled. He didn't know what she wanted, in his opinion, they had already decided everything in the arena.

Seeing Evan's confused face, Olivia frowned and said: "I owe you something."

She pulled out a card depicting a bright blue moon and held out her hand forward. Just then, Evan remembered that Olivia owed him 5,000 "Moon Coins" since she had lost their duel. She was disappointed in her defeat, but she couldn't help but keep her promise.

Evan nodded, and a card appeared in his hands. Olivia quickly transferred the correct amount, and her debt was paid. 

The young man put the card into the spatial ring and said sleepily: "Don't have to come again." Then he closed the door.

But no sooner had he taken a step than there was another knock at the door. Evan reluctantly opened it and said: "What do you want?"

He wanted to sleep, but Olivia didn't leave him alone. This girl was beginning to annoy him.

"I've wanted to ask you, what was that spell you used against me the other day? I don't know any such spells of the zero rank. Did your teacher teach it to you?" Olivia immediately flooded Evan with various questions.

"The spell...? It was taught to me by... my teacher when I was still living in Mossy Vulture." 

Evan answered calmly. Initially, he'd wanted to say that it was a spell taught to him by Draven, but then he realized that would not be the best idea. Draven hadn't taught him anything, and that would be an inconsistency that could get him in trouble.

"I see, you're really lucky that your teacher knew such a powerful spell. Without it, you would have had a hard time beating me!" Olivia said loudly and walked away.

Evan rolled his eyes and went back to his room. Even though his dream had been interrupted, Evan was about to continue it.

It's worth noting that Olivia hadn't yet noticed that Evan had reached the "One-Pointed Star." Evan wasn't emitting his aura, and there was no reason for the girl to use the "Eye of Truth." She wouldn't have believed Evan could reach that level so quickly.

It had only been a little over a month since Evan had entered the Academy, and he could already be considered a student of the first rank. Of course, a magician could get stronger without the Academy. It only accelerated the process. Evan could only advance so quickly because he'd quickly received a lot of "Moon Coins" and got into a lot of deadly situations.

Unlike Evan, most other students and all magicians, in general, didn't get into that many dangerous battles in a short period of time. For such people, the best option would be to complete tasks, earn "Moon Coins," and spend them to increase the speed of "Creation."

...

After a few more hours of sleep, Evan finally woke up. He wasn't feeling great because of Olivia's visit this morning, but his state was clearly better than a few days ago.

Evan headed straight to the Academy. He had a lot to do there, he had a lot of things to read about.

After a while, Evan got to the Academy and at once headed to the library. Luckily, no one bothered him this time. When Evan got to the first floor, a lot of students paid attention to him. Evan rarely came to the Academy, but every time he did, something happened.

It is worth noting that some particularly curious students used the "Eye of Truth" and looked at Evan's "Pillar of Soul." They were shocked to see that a circular platform was now floating inside his pillar. Each of them knew what that meant.

Upon reaching the library, Evan decided to go around all four floors first. Last time he had limited himself to one. This time he was going to see what was on the others as well.

<Hmm, the floors generally don't differ much from each other, but the lower the floor, the fewer books, and the more narrowly focused topics.> Evan thought as he strolled around the fourth floor.

To his surprise, none of the students paid any attention to him. There were only fourth rank students here, and they knew Evan had access to it. They were quite a few compared to the students of other ranks, and each of them was very focused. They came here for knowledge that couldn't be found elsewhere.

As Arabella had said, though, there was not much for him to do here. All the books with general topics were on the first and second floors, and the third and fourth floors were beneficial for blacksmiths, alchemists, formation masters, and other similar people.

There were also special sections on each floor of the library where there was a huge number of spell books. Evan was going to that section to choose the first rank spells, but a little later. Right now, he was more interested in the magicians` lifespan.

There were books with this information on each of the library's four floors, so Evan decided to start from top to bottom. He headed to the first floor, thinking about how many more floors there were in this library.

There were four floors of the library allotted for students, one per rank, but that was only part of it. Evan saw several teachers in white and silver mantles going down below the fourth floor.

He didn't know what kind of books were in there or how many other floors there were in that library, but Evan was very curious to find it out. He was sure there was definitely something unusual and maybe even forbidden.

<I should ask Draven about it, he'll probably tell me something if it's not such a big secret.>

Evan thought as he returned to the first floor. He headed to the right section and picked out a red, battered book. Countless people had read it before Evan, just as they were curious to know how long the magicians lived.

Evan opened the book and began leisurely reading it. From the first pages, Evan was surprised. It told how long an average person with no talent for magic lived in this world. It was as long as 100 years. It wasn't ordinary for Evan, as the average lifespan of people without magic was about 60 years in his past world.