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>She's good at mana supression because Heither taught her to do it since day one.
>Ferm skipped 200 years of training [for mana surpression] because she’s a TOWERING GENIUS random orphan
I got the impression that she just doesn't have much of a presense innately, which is why she survived while her parents got killed in the war.
>Is that why she lost to Methode as well?
The Methode clone lost to or got stalemated by Laufen of all mages. So Laufen > Methode > Fern. Following this Fern is actually just barely stronger than a 3rd class mage.