Nana

**Nana**, also known as **Lady Nerea**, was a prominent Healer from the village of Lutia, Lith's first teacher, and Mage. She was a War Mage from the Lightning Griffon Academy, but was ostracized by the Mage Association after conflict with nobles. She was close friends with Count Trequill Lark and also taught Tista Verhen Healing magic after Lith began attending White Griffon Academy. She passes away from old age.

## Appearance

Nana was an old woman who is in her 60s, but looked to be the same as a woman in her 80s on Earth. Her back was so hunched over that she needed a cane to walk properly. She had sharp grey eyes, a face full of wrinkles and a big aquiline nose. Nana always wore a shawl over her head, to avoid her long grey hair bothering her during work.

## Personality

Nana often appeared snarky and gruff, not bothering with niceties or compliments. She held a deep grudge against nobles due to her past, and looks down on "young masters." She seemed to care more about money than anything else, often putting high prices for her services, but was also bitter about her sour past and exploitation by nobles and commoners alike. However, she could be quite whimsical and funny, laughing about a kidnapping attempt on her and sending Lith off to the academy with a contraceptive spell.

Later, she softened and became loving towards Lith and Tista, especially after Lith shows her consideration by gifting her a dimensional ring.

## Abilities

As a youth, Nana was able to imitate mages' simplest spells just a few days after watching them in action despite not having received any explanation.

## Background

### Nerea

Nana was born as Nerea, the daughter of Lutia's shoemaker, 75 years ago. From a tender age, she showed a brilliant mind and an amazing talent for magic. She learned how to write, count, and use all kinds of chore magic by the age of three. Even without a master nor proper training, by the age of six, she started to take care of her own family thanks to the spells that she learned simply by observing the village's healer. By the age of ten, she started to develop several personal spells and rumors spread throughout the Lustria County that she had inherited from her ancestors the power of the Dragon's Eyes.

The rumors reached Count Cenar Lark, Trequill's father, who arranged for Nerea the exam at the nearby Lightning Griffon. There, she shocked the examiners by showing complete mastery over the first three tiers of magic and even hexa-casting. After noticing their scorn against a commoner, she performed Silverwing's Hexagram, forcing the Headmaster to let her enroll. During the first months Nerea was subject to intense hazing and few Professors did what they could to help her. However, instead of breaking Nerea as her enemies hoped, the treatment made her stronger. After a while, Nerea started to ambush her oppressors while they were alone in the academy corridors, and then she beat them until the only feeling they had at her sight was fear. She always healed them before leaving so that no proof remained.

With her growing talent and outstanding grades in both her specialization as War Mage and Battle Mage, she piqued the interest of the Royals themselves. Queen Medalia asked Nerea if she was interested in becoming one of the secret assets of the Kingdom in exchange for protection for her, her family, and more money than she could count. Nerea accepted and officially failed her Battle Mage specialization to have the time to attend the Mage Assassin specialization lessons that took place on the hidden seventh floor of the academy.

Though Nerea was considered to be a student with only one specialization, no one dared to mock her especially after the Queen exacted revenge on her behalf and wiped out two noble families that had been persistent in troubling her. With her life happier than ever, however, it made Nerea conceited, mistaking bootlickers and fair-weather friends for people she could rely upon. After graduating from the academy, Nerea started her work in the field. The more her body count grew, the more the burden of her actions made her reliant on her so-called friends.

A few years later, when Nerea was 21, one mission went horribly wrong. Anela Linnea, future Headmistress of the Lightning Griffon and Nana's handler, sent her to kill Grand Duke Creghan, a known traitor to the Kingdom. However, there was no solid proof of his traffics with the Empire and he was too powerful to kill him off with a flimsy excuse. Since he never remained alone, not even when meeting his lovers, the plan was to kill Creghan in his sleep and keep the body count to a minimum. Unfortunately, due to complacency and faulty info, Nerea killed Lady Creghan and her son, mistaking them for husband and wife. She killed Lord Creghan who returned late before escaping, but left behind a massacre that years later would inspire Balkor.

Nerea's team falsified the reports and pinned all the blame on her, claiming that even after receiving the news of Creghan's change of plans she had decided to continue the mission. The Royals had no reason to doubt their loyal servants and they needed a scapegoat. Creghan's death had already ruffled the noble household's feathers so punishing noble heirs would have only made things worse. Making an example of a grassroots commoner mage, instead, would give everyone enough reason to celebrate and create a scandal that would obfuscate Creghan's death, especially after they found proof of his treason.

Nerea found herself alone, stripped of her titles, riches, artifacts, and even forbidden to ever use dimensional magic again. It was another of the classes that she had allegedly failed and, if she exposed the truth, only death would await her. After that, Nana returned to Lutia, indulging in alcohol and self-pity until age made her health so poor that her blue core degraded to bright cyan.

### Nana

When Derek McCoy reincarnates into the newborn body of Lith at the start of his 3rd life, Nana saves him during his birth, and demonstrates magic to Lith for the first time, who decides to stay in this reincarnation. As Lith grows up and shows an aptitude for magic, Nana promises to become his teacher when he reaches 6 years of age.

During the village spring festival, Nana reveals that she had received a scholarship and graduated from the Lightning Griffon Academy. However, her status as a commoner/grassroots mage led her to choose between submitting to a powerful noble or living freely with the status of a healer, upon which she chose the latter. She never recovered from being rejected by the magical community after being framed for a failed mission and being labeled a fallen mage. She settled down in Lutia, charging sums for her protection as well as healing services. In the County of Lustria, Nana holds an authority equal if not greater to Count Lark, leaving her free to execute lesser nobles on a whim. Baronet Lokar Trahan's son Ricker Trahan performs chore magic poorly, and after witnessing Nana's magical skills, considers becoming her mentee before applying for a Lightning Griffon scholarship.

On the first day of Lith's apprenticeship, Baronet Lokar sends his personal guards to ambush Lith and prevent him from meeting Nana in hopes that she will take Ricker instead. However, Lith easily kills the guards and brings evidence of Trahan's scheme. Nana promptly infects them with darkness magic that causes their delayed deaths. Nana officially begins teaching Lith tier 1-3 magic, and also brings him on as a healing assistant. On his first day, Baronet Trahan sends his personal guard to force Lith into not going and thus letting his son Ricker be Nana's only apprentice. However, they fail and Nana in retaliation infects both the Baronet and his son with darkness magic, due to which they die gruesome deaths after some time.

After Lith resolves Lark's ex-wife Koya's assassination plot, Koya sends kidnappers after Nana to Nana's great amusement. Nana sends Lith off to the academy entrance tests with a contraceptive spell, wishing Lith fun, though he is rejected by Headmistress Linnea due to Nana's status as a fallen mage. Afterwards, Nana and Lark convince Lith of the benefits of attending an academy, and urge him to apply to the White Griffon. Lith returns during the first trimester and crafts her a low tier dimensional ring, earning her gratitude.

After the 4th year rankings are revealed, Lith returns to Lutia and cleanses Nana of her body's impurities, slightly prolonging her lifespan.

At the end Tista's 4th year at the academy, Lith and Tista return to Lutia to visit Nana on her deathbed. She refuses any visitors aside from Count Lark and the Verhen family, and gives final words to Lark, Lith, and Tista before passing away.

## Quotes

* *"Good faith my wrinkly a\*s! I have met enough nobles to understand how your kind thinks, and how cheaply you value a commoner's life."* (Nana to Baronet Lokar Trahan, Chapter 22)
* *"From now on, you can choose to introduce yourself as bachelor or a widower. I'd go with widower, is more dramatic, chicks dig rich lonely men and makes less awkward explaining why you have two children already. Ta-ta!"* (Nana to Count Lark, Chapter 38)
* *"Life is unpredictable, and many things you'll need to survive are not written in any book."* (Nana to Lith, Chapter 52)
* *"I hope that once you graduate, you'll not change your mind and take me as your first client. There is so much I still want to get back."* (Nana to Lith, Chapter 86)
* *"I don't give a f\*ck about them. I just live here."* (Chapter 165)
* *"By the gods, whatever you did, you just put me in a pinch, young spirit. I suddenly feel the need to take a bath, eat the biggest lunch I ever had, and take a massive dump at the same time!"* (Nana to Lith, Chapter 245)
* *"Never trust shameless people, kids."* (Chapter 340)
* *"Thank you, Lark. Despite my stigma, you never stopped being my friend. A good, honest friend I never deserve. If there are gods on the other side I'll make sure they compensate you properly, or they'll taste my wrath. Don't search for my enemies, Lith. It's only thanks to them that I had the opportunity to meet you and your sister. I rejoiced for your achievements like they were mine. I know it's hypocritical to say from someone that never wanted a family, but I'm glad a part of me will always live inside your magic. Thanks to me a new magical bloodline was born. My enemies will probably follow me in death out of desperation."* (Chapter 340)
* *"Whenever someone bothers you, don't give them a second chance. Do like I would and fry they their a\*s."* (Nana to Tista, Chapter 340)

## References

1. ↑ Legion on Discord
2. ↑ Chapter 19
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chapter 25
4. ↑ Chapter 86
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 Chapter 1489
6. ↑ Legion on Discord
7. ↑ Chapter 1
8. ↑ Chapter 8
9. ↑ Chapter 19
10. ↑ Chapter 1021
11. ↑ Chapter 21
12. ↑ Chapter 22
13. ↑ Chapter 22
14. ↑ Chapter 38
15. ↑ Chapter 42
16. ↑ Chapter 44
17. ↑ Chapter 245
18. ↑ Chapter 340