"It feels cheating…" Amelia muttered.

"I think the existence of magic is already cheating in the first place," Sophia said as she released Riya's hand.

After all, if they didn't know the principle, it would really look magical. Now that magic truly existed, there were already many things that overturned their previous common senses.

"True." Stephen stood up and turned around. "Anyway, I'll wait outside."

"Me too."

Arnold and Ruben stood up one after another followed by Sophia.

The four of them knew that this was not the place for them to stay no matter how curious they were about what Sean might want to say.

"So, are you still letting me stay?" Riya asked again.

Sean nodded. "You're a returnee…. I believe that you have more knowledge about this matter."

"Depends on what you plan to ask."

"I… I want to know how good is my talent is good or not."

Sean looked at the two people in front of him and Amelia had already moved to another chair. After all, she felt that her brother's gaze was a bit too sharp when she was hugging Riya's hand.

Tsk, a jealous man is really not cute!

While Amelia was complaining madly in her head, Samuel had moved his gaze away and listened to his brother's words. His expression turned a bit strange. "Your talent is definitely not bad, Sean."

"How good or bad it is?" Sean asked.

Samuel looked at Sean thoughtfully.

The talent test machines didn't exist in this world, so he could only improvise it himself when he wanted to test his family member's talent. To be honest, except for Amelia's talent that was slightly off the chart in terms of fighting skills' improvement, the rest were actually pretty good.

"Both are above average," Samuel replied. "In terms of mana refinement, you're actually better than Amelia since her talent is a bit imbalanced. But in terms of physical strength improvement, you're far better than many other people."

"Huh?" Sean looked at Samuel, his expression contained disbelief.

"But… I'm the slowest in training," Sean muttered in a low voice.

In their small group alone, he was the slowest one in their training. No matter what he did, he didn't seem to be able to catch up with the others. This made him frustrated more than once.

But even if he forced himself to train over and over again, Sean felt that his training result was far from his expectation.

"Your mana is disordered, which meant that you have other thoughts when you're training," Riya replied. "Based on the degree of disorder, this has happened for months and you have too much thoughts in your mind. Meditation and training has to be pure for you to truly improve."

"Pure?" Amelia was stunned with Riya's words selection.

"I mean… why do you want to become a magic warrior in the first place?" Riya tilted her head. "Think about it and just let it be the sole focus when you're training. Your training will increase faster than when you're too busy thinking about the gain and losses."

Even though Riya said that, she also knew that it was hard for people to truly do this.

When one was training, especially one that lasted for a long time, there might be time when they doubted themselves.

Why can't they improve?

Why does it seem worse than yesterday?

Can I really do this?

This was something that people who trained day by day would definitely experienced.

But…

"Human's states are full of ups and down. Training will ensure that you're at least at the good state and will continue to maintain it. The improvement might be small or big in a day but what you have to do is to continue training and training again," Riya said and then yawned. "A magician and magic warrior's path is extremely long… if you can't hold on after only two years, you won't be able to hold on for another hundred years."

Because they couldn't stop their training.

In order to keep their state at the peak, they would have to continue their training day by day until their death.

For Riya, the training might be boring, but she has a goal that she wanted to reach. So even if the improvement was in negligible percentage that she couldn't feel, she would never stop.

"Your body will be tired and your mind will be exhausted," Samuel continued. "The training will not become easier just because you reach higher rank but will instead become even more difficult. Because your improvement could no longer be seen by the naked eyes and you might fall into doubts."

He had seen people who stopped training because of their frustration.

Once they were no longer standing firm on their path, they would not be able to continue walking on this path.

Many of them chose to live a good life after abandoning their path forward.

They will stay stuck on that rank until the day of their death.

Some worse one even has their rank plummeted and eventually died earlier because they wasted their lives.

He had seen so much.

And Samuel believed that Riya had also seen them in that world.

What people would do when they couldn't reach their goal, especially when they lost what they used to have… the sense of frustration and the desperation that they felt was more than enough to push them even further.

What people could do when they were desperate…

It was definitely not ordinary.

Samuel didn't want to see his brother being pushed to the point of desperation.

"I…"

"Let's change the question," Riya interrupted and slowly asked, "Do you want to continue your practice to become a capable magic warrior or do you plan on following a different path and your practice as a magic warrior will only be your side profession?"

The fundamental reason why Sean asked this question should be related to this matter, so Riya directly asked the key question.