《Chaos Scientist》


 Are you serious?! A truck!?

    The bell rang.


    "Go home students" said teacher Smith.


    Jax packed his stuff, and stood up and started to walk towards the exit.


    "Tomorrow we have a test, you remember?" Jax heard a voice below him.


    "Yeah, I know, but I don''t care, Adam" it was his friend Adam, he was short as hell and Jax needs to constantly lower his to see, Adam''s face.


    They were talking more, until they were outside of school, they went in opposite directions. After some time, Jax stopped, and hit the button for green light.


    "Test tomorrow next one in few days, it''s just a vicious circle, at least vacation are near" Jax sighed.


    He waited for some time, after he saw light turned green. He stepped on the street, but after moment he heard something is coming.


    "Are you serious?! A truck?!" Those were the last words Jax said.


    After some time in darkness, Jax heard a voice.


    [Host died. System is activating.]


    "Huh, so after death, I got some luck" said Jax, though he didn''t know how he did that, he didn''t have a body.


    [You have 20 paths to choose from] after that, Jax saw different brackets like:


    [Emperor. You will become emperor of nation, you need to build power of your nation. Skills and abilities you get will be connected to ruling, for example emperor aura, or charisma.]


    [Divine Swordsman. You have potential to become the strongest swordsman in history. Skills include: sword comprehension, keen sense.]


    Jax saw most of the remaining, but he didn''t find them interesting. Sure, Emperor is a nice job, you rule people and have power, but people will constantly want to kill you etc. Divine Swordsman is nice, but you are bound with swords, and you probably will not have talent with other things. After looking at rest, he saw something which pinged his attention.


    [Scientist. You will become scientist who explores the world and learn, conduct experiments, creates etc. Skill and abilities are connected to experiments or creating tools, etc.]


    Jax was interested in that, he didn''t know how to click it? "I don''t have anything" Jax was pondering, about it but system helped him.


    [Host doesn''t need to use physical contact, you can use your will] Ajax felt stupid, he read a lot of reincarnation stories, and he didn''t think about it. He wished to choose it, and after he did that, another window popup.


    [What scientist type you want to be?]


    "What do you mean?" Jax asked. A scientist is a scientist, or isn''t?


    [Host must choose if he wants to be good, evil, neutral or chaos type of scientist]


    "Can you explain the difference between each of them?" Jax asked, filled with curiosity.


    [Of course Host. Good type is scientist who spends his time to create things like medicine etc. Evil are those who create weapons, poisons etc. Neutral are those who create things that aren''t bad or good or don''t lean too much on any side, like nuclear energy. Nuclear energy itself isn''t bad or good, its use makes it bad or good.]


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    ''Yeah those options are interesting, but let''s hear till the end'' thought Jax." And what about chaos type?"


    [Chaos type is just, do whatever you want, research things you want at the moment, it doesn''t matter, if you do good or bad]


    Jax choose without hesitation Chaos type.


    "Why should I be bound by morality or rules. I will do what I want."


    [Are Host sure? You can''t change your decision later on.] System said completely serious.


    "Yeah, I choose to be Chaos Scientist" Jax answered with excitement.


    [Acknowledged. Reincarnation in progress.]


    Jax felt as if something was sucking him, after some time he saw the light. He saw some blurred figures, and soon after someone pick him up and spanked him. '' So I was born again, well I should respond somehow'' Ajax started to make noises, after a few moments he stopped. The person who was holding him gave him away to some woman. ''So that is my mother. Well let''s hope everything will be nice'' Jax fell a sleep.


    Two months went by. Jax was in his cradle thinking about the future. ''Let''s see my stats, Status Window'' Jax said in his mind and in front of his eyes screen popup.


    [Name: Jax]


    [Race: Human]


    [Status: Healthy]


    [Level:1]


    [Path: Chaos Scientist]


    [Strength:0.1]


    [Agility:0.1]


    [Endurance: 0.1]


    [Vitality:0.1]


    [Intelligence:15]


    [Abilities]


    [Adaptive Body lv1]


    [Photographic Memory lv1]


    [High Comprehension lv1]


    [Cold blooded lv1]


    [Appraisal lv1]


    [Genius lv1]


    ''Hey System, can you explain how the stats works?''


    [Of course Host. Strength is just how strong you are. Agility is about how agile and fast you are. Endurance is about how powerful the defense of our body is and how much you can withstand. Vitality is about how much your body can withstand before it dies, and also it shows your life expectancy, also it can influence your body processes like healing, metabolism etc. Intelligence is about how smart you are, how fast you understand things etc.]


    '' What about the abilities?''


    [Adaptive Body: Your body can with time adapt to outside factors, or to inside factors.]


    [Photographic Memory: You can remember everything with every detail]


    [High Comprehension: You can understand everything at very high speed and improve yourself very quickly.]


    [Cold blooded: You are always calm and emotions will rarely take over]


    [Appraisal: Allows you to see status windows of others, block people from looking into yours without permission, also you can get information about things like ores, materials etc.]


    [Genius: You excel at everything, but you aren''t the best in every category]


    ''Sure enough, my abilities aren''t combat oriented, maybe [Adaptive Body] could be considered connected to battle, or [Cold Blooded], for now let''s understand, this world. Ajax fall asleep.


    After another two months, Jax understood the language of this world to a satisfying point, and then Jax heard sound, in his head.


    ''Ding''


    [Host understood language, skill [Common Language], and [Language Learner] were created.]


    [Host gained 10EXP, and leveled up!]


    ''Status''


    [Name: Jax]


    [Race: Human]


    [Status: Healthy]


    [Level:2]


    [Path: Chaos Scientist]


    [Strength:0.1]


    [Agility:0.1]


    [Endurance: 0.1]


    [Vitality:0.1]


    [Intelligence:15]


    [Stat Points:1]


    [Abilities]


    [Adaptive Body lv1]


    [Photographic Memory lv1]


    [High Comprehension lv1]


    [Cold blooded lv1]


    [Appraisal lv1]


    [Genius lv1]


    [Skills]


    [Common Language lv1] [New]


    [Language Learner lv1] [New]


    ''Can you explain the difference between skills and abilities?''


    [Abilities are something you can''t create yourself or are extremely hard to do so, for example your [Genius] ability you can''t create it or learn it, skills are something you create, or learn like [Common Language] or others]


    ''Well, for now, let''s wait''


    Jax heard the opening of the doors to his room.


    "How is my little baby doing? Mommy missed you." The woman picked up Jax. She is Jax new mother, her name is Abigail. Jax liked her, but she was too clingy in his opinion. She was a tall woman, around 175cm tall, she had blue eyes and white hair. She was a very beautiful woman. Abigail took Jax to play with him.


    ''Well we are nobles, that for sure'' Jax stated after seeing all kinds of ornaments and staff that bowed to his mother.'' I''m lucky, this is a good situation for me, if I want to make experiments, I need to create business, but for that I need money and connections, and being a nobility will help me a lot, for now let''s just grow up''


    Jax was now six months old, and right now he was bathed by servants. '' I don''t like the idea of being washed by others but when in Rome, do as Romans do'' Jax signed in his mind. When servants cleaned him, they helped him with dressing, after that one of them took him to his mother. Abigail was happy to see her son, Jax was bored doing a lot of things, but he got the idea. He started to point at books that were in the room.


    "Do you want me to read books for you?" Asked Abigail, to which Jax nodded.


    "Alright, sweetie, I will choose some book for you"

 Experiments Part1

    When his mother was talking with people, Jax was reading a book, until he heard sound.


    ''Ding''


    [Host leveled up [Common Language] skill]


    [Host gained 20EXP, Host leveled up!]


    ''Finally, I leveled up this skill'' Jax tried to level that skill for a long time, well long for his current age, it took him a week. Jax discovered that leveling up [Common Language] required for him to learn to understand words and reading.


    ''So probably skills, like language, can only be level up by developing the most important aspects of language etc.'' Jax was deep in thought, when his mother picked him up. Abigail thought it was cute how Jax was watching pages and browsing through them.


    ''My child is so cute!'' she screamed in her mind, at the same time hugging Jax. She then took him to, his father office, after few minutes of walking they arrived, at his father office.


    "Dear, it''s me and Jax, can we enter?"


    "Of course" when they entered, Jax saw his father, Haytham. He was a massive man, he stood at least 185 cm, and he was muscular. He was wearing a suit, his hair was black, and he had black eyes.''he is tired'' Jax stated. Jax liked his old man, he wasn''t around all the time, but when he did, he was nice to him and Abigail. ''In future I must search for something like maybe some kind of tea, or maybe something else.''


    "Jax, you can''t go to the library all the time. You always stay there for hours, and sometimes I must drag you out from there." Abigail shakes her head, Jax was one year old now, he already knew how to read, she didn''t know how he did that, but he did, and now he is staying in the library for hours to read.'' He doesn''t want to play with me anymore'' lamented Abigail. Jax just shook his head, he didn''t like to use it, but it was the easiest way and the fastest. He hugged his mother leg, and made puppy eyes.


    "Please mummy, I want to read so much" Abigail fall for it.


    "Okay, but don''t stay there too long" She couldn''t say no to her cute son. Jax went to his family library. He greeted Maximilian, who was his family librarian.


    "Greetings Maximilian"


    "It''s nice to see you, young master" Maximilian smiled, at first he didn''t want Jax to be here, he feared he will destroy books, but after seeing he knows how to handle them, Maximilian changed his mind. Jax walked to some shelf and picked up some books, some of them were about geography, others about monsters. Jax couldn''t pick all of them up, so he asked Maximilian for help. Maximilian agreed and took the books Jax pointed out and carried them to the reading table. Jax thanked him and started to read them. After some time, he heard a sound that made him happy.


    ''Ding''


    [Host leveled up skills[Geography] [Monster Knowledge]...]


    ''Can you fuse all those skills into one? Like [Geography], [History] etc.''


    [Skills [Geography], [History] ... Were fused into new skill called [General knowledge], Host must still learn each subject to level up this skill]


    ''Yeah I understand'' After some time Jax sighed, because he understood something.'' This fucking world doesn''t have any science'' Jax discovered that there are not one book, about things like medicine, chemistry etc. They don''t exist in that world, you are sick, you go to healer or take elixirs. They don''t ponder about how physics works or biology, because they have magic, magic was the most important, but after a moment Jax thought, it is a good opportunity for him. ''If no one research such topics, I will have easier time to get money'' after that Jax started to create some plans.


    Jax was now two years old.


    "I have a lot of potential" said Jax looking at his reflection in the mirror, he had his father face and hair, and his mother eyes.


    ''Status''


    [Name: Jax]


    [Race: Human]


    [Status: Healthy]


    [Level:4]


    [Path: Chaos Scientist]


    [Strength:1.5]


    [Agility:1.5]


    Unauthorized tale usage: if you spot this story on Amazon, report the violation.[Endurance: 1.5]


    [Vitality:1.5]


    [Intelligence:15]


    [Stat Points:3]


    [Abilities]


    [Adaptive Body lv1]


    [Photographic Memory lv1]


    [High Comprehension lv1]


    [Cold blooded lv1]


    [Appraisal lv1]


    [Genius lv1]


    [Skills]


    [Common Language lv3]


    [Language Learner lv1]


    [General Knowledge lv3]


    [Science lv1]


    "I don''t have a lot of skills, but it will probably change over time, but the bigger question is where should I put those stats points. I will probably just add them to intelligence, I don''t know what will happen if I put them into strength etc. before finishing growing up." Jax added all points into intelligence, immediately he felt that everything is easier to understand than before.


    "I think it''s time to, put my plans into motion"


    Jax was standing in front of his father office and knocked.


    "Who?"


    "It''s me, Jax. Can I enter?"


    "Sure go ahead" Jax went in, and he wasn''t happy, about what he saw, his father was tired as hell. He looked like a zombie. ''I really need to do something, about this''


    "Father I have a business plan" Haytham looked at his son.'' what plan could two years old kid think about it, well he isn''t normal to begin with, so maybe he really has something in his mind''.


    "I am interested"


    "I want to create games and toy factory." Jax thought about it, from information he gathered, servants and people were bored and in their free time all they could do is to drink something, so Jax figured out he could plagiariz no, no, get inspired by games from Earth.


    "Son, are you sure about it? Business isn''t easy." Haytham warned his son. Jax nodded, he understood the risks from it, also he checked that in this country, Phoenix Kingdom exists something like patent law, also who would want to steal from noble a toy business.


    "I understand father" Jax replied. Haytham wanted to say something, but he saw confidence in his son eyes, he stopped.


    "Okay, I will contact Andrew. He will judge if your ideas are good."


    "Thank you, father" Jax stormed out from his father office to prepare, some sketches. A few days later, Jax meet Andrew. Andrew was a middle age man, his hands were very neat and clean. ''The hands of craftsman''


    "So young master, my lord said you had the idea of making games and toys, do you have any sketches or ideas?" His lord request, surprised him, but he didn''t disobey and he himself was curious about young master ideas.


    "I have them, I can''t write yet, so I couldn''t describe everything, so feel free to ask me" Jax handed the papers to Andrew, who started to look at them, and ask questions.


    "So what are the rules of this game" Andrew asked.


    "So it works like this..." They were talking for some time, after that Andrew took sketches and went to his lord. 10 minutes later he was already at Haytham office.


    "So, how it went?" Haytham was interested about what Andrew thought, about his son ideas. He himself wasn''t that good at this, he didn''t like to act as some omnipotent being, so he gave the task to Andrew, he was a craftsman, but he also knew something about being a merchant.


    "Young master ideas are very good." Andrew answered with joy." These games will make free time a lot more enjoyable, also toys he has in mind are very creative." Haytham was surprised, Andrew wasn''t a man who praised someone without reason. ''So my son is genius, even, at business. Jax, don''t worry, father will help you''


    "Andrew, contact gold merchant guild. I think they will be very interested to sell it"


    "As you wish my lord" Andrew bowed and went to contact the merchant guild.


    A few months later, in Jax''s workshop he asked his father to build for him, from money he earned from his products which became the bestseller of the year, Jax was holding a bottle with blood in it.


    "Interesting, I am curious, if I can create something with it" Jax grinned at the thought, of what he can create now with his new skills.

 Experiments Part 2

    "Orc blood, Orcs are known for being big strong green giants, who are stupid as hell, well for me those things aren''t important, the thing that interest me the most is their amazing regeneration powers" Jax used [Appraisal] on it.


    [Flask of orc blood:That flask contains blood of orc. Legends say orcs descended from more advanced species]


    "Thanks to being level 10 already I can do something with it" Jax smiled, when he created toys and games, he gained EXP which surprised him so he asked system about this.


    [Host, do you remember when you choose path? It was said that scientist path is about experimenting and creating, and you created things, if they were completely new, or you had craftsman path you would gain even more levels]


    Jax was happy about it, and continued to gain more exp. At level 5 and 10 combined he gained, three abilities and three skills. [Researcher Eyes] is ability that allows him, to see details of things, like deformations, mutations etc., another ability was [Experiment Log] it allows him to gather all possible data from experiments and research he conducts, third one is [Mana Sense] allows him to see and interact with mana. First skill he gained is [Dexterous Hands] his hands doesn''t shake or move unnecessary, and are very precise. Second skill is [Mana Control] this skill allows him to control mana very easily and with much higher precision. Third one is [Focus] which allows him to never lose concentration during experiments. Thanks to all that, Jax was confident about his experiments. He took a cage, in which was a big rat. Jax pull out syringe, he invented it, and it became a big success, it was far easier for hunters to get clean blood of a monster using syringe compared to just cutting the monster, and cleaner the blood the more they can get it. He pulled orc blood into a syringe, and injected the rat with it.


    "Experiment 1. Injecting pure orc blood into another living organism" Jax while speaking activated [Researcher Eyes], using them he saw that rat''s body reacted violently to orc blood, it started to fight it, but orc blood started to mutate rat''s body and after few moments rat died.


    "Experiment 1. Living organism couldn''t handle pure orc blood. Orc blood started to mutate body, it was injected into. Failure. Conclusion: weaker living organism can''t handle orc blood, there is possibility that diluting or using stronger organisms can result in different outcome." Ajax opened a cage, and he put down the rat''s body on the table and started to cut it open.


    "Interesting from what I see using ability, tissue orc blood was able to mutate before rat die is a lot stronger. If I can isolate it, I can create serum that will change the body to a sturdier version. It''s worth experimenting with, but for now I need to do more experiments." Ajax threw a rat body into a hole in the ground, that leads to the composter he created. He took another cage with another rat. This time he took orc blood and diluted it in water.


    "Unfortunately, I don''t have any special equipment or substances to do it, well water should work for now" He pulled blood diluted in water into a syringe and injected it to another rat.


    "Experiment 2. Injecting diluted orc blood into another living organism" Rat died, but Jax was happy, because rat lasted two more breaths than the previous one.'' So diluting a blood is a way''. After that, Jax killed at least a dozen of rats the more he diluted the blood, the longer they would survive. He stopped experiments because he heard knocking on his workshop door. He cleaned up and opened the door. Abigail was standing there, unhappy.


    "How long do you want to be there? Do you not like spending time with your mother?" Jax didn''t want to make his mother sad, so he went to play with her.'' I think it will be beneficial for me to not focus only on experimenting, for now I must figure out different ways to approach this topic, regeneration serum is the most important piece in my plans''


    "Temple? Can''t it wait?" Said Jax.


    "No, you need to go to temple when you are three years old" said Abigail, and Haytham nodded. ''Fuck me sideways, why now, what if Gods want to kill me, because I''m Chaos Scientist''. People who are three years must go to temple, to receive blessing from the Gods. Gods in that world are real and can even bestow blessing on people they see as worthy or interesting, but there were cases when people were immediately killed by them.'' I don''t have a choice, I hope they will listen to my explanation''.


    "Okay, fine, when we are going?" Jax gave in.


    "We are going tomorrow" said Abigail, that was happy, her son stopped resisting.'' I hope he can get blessings from the Gods''. The trip was three days long, during that time Jax saw a lot of different animals and monsters. Jax was the most interested in slimes, he used [Appraisal] on them.


    The author''s content has been appropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon.[Slime: common monster which isn''t actively aggressive towards humans, it only attacks when threatened. Its weak point is the core inside its body, which contains it soul. Its body is made from mana. Slime doesn''t have higher intelligence]


    Jax made so everything he used [Appraisal] on will be straight to the point.'' Interesting slimes are creatures made from mana, also their souls are in the core, it can be useful in the future''. Jax also saw that there are different kinds of slimes like red, blue, yellow etc. When he checked, colour indicated their element. After some time, Jax arrived at the temple of Gods. It looked like a grand church but instead of symbols of Christianity, they were symbols of different Gods. When they entered, the priest greeted them.


    "May the Gods be with you"


    "And with you priest" answered Haytham. They walked to a platform, where a shiny white ball was located.


    "Touch it, young one. Gods for sure will bless you" said the priest.'' Yeah, sure, they will bless my ass with lightning strike''. Jax touched the ball, and then he was blinded by light, after he got his sight back, he saw he is in some white room levitating above the ground.


    "Don''t be frightened, little one" he heard the smoothing voice of the woman.


    "So you are god? What is that place?" Asked calmly Jax.


    "Oh, you aren''t scared?" Asked a surprised voice, "other children are scared when they arrive here."


    "Yeah, but I''m not ordinary also I''m scared, but what can fear give me? You can with using a single word kill me and erase me from existence, I just accepted what can happen" said Jax. After Jax said that he saw a woman appearing, the only thing he could think about was ''beautiful'', but after a moment he heard system.


    [Ability [Cold Blooded] is resisting charm of the goddess]


    Jax snapped back, but he felt that [Cold Blooded] is failing. ''I don''t know what will happen, I must endure it''


    [Host is using his willpower together with the ability [Cold Blooded]]


    [Host willpower affected ability [Cold Blooded], ability leveled up]


    [Ability [Cold Blooded] successfully resisted charm of the goddess]


    [New skill created [Charm resistance]]


    [Charm resistance is fused into [Cold Blooded]]


    "Oh, you resisted my charm, that''s interesting? I didn''t use it intentionally, it''s just the nature of being a goddess." She said apologetically.


    "You should be careful about it, he is just a mere mortal, and to this just a child." Another voice said. It was the voice of an older man.


    "He is right, but I''m curious how he did that? He for used some skill" This voice belonged to a young woman. Two new gods appeared, one of them was an older guy with a big belly in robes, he looked like Santa, but had a scholar aura. Second new God was a young woman in her middle 20. She was wearing a pointy hat and was ridding a broom, ''A witch?''. She appeared near Jax.


    "It''s very bad to think about a woman this way, you know?" She said with a smile, Jax jumped back. ''I''m such an idiot, it''s probably a mental space or something it''s obvious beings at this level can hear my thoughts''


    "Exactly junior, but I must admit she is a witch sometimes, haha" said older God.


    "Who is talking, you old fart?" Older God wanted to retort, but the first one stopped them.


    "Why are you acting worse than this child" she pointed at Jax." Jax, I am goddess of creation Shiro"


    "I am god of wisdom and knowledge, Herodot"


    "I am goddess of magic, Sabrina"


    "We are here to give you our blessings" explained Shiro.


    "Okay but why me I understand God like Herodot wants me, because I''m scientist but you both why?"


    "Well I liked your experiments with orc blood and your thoughts about slimes, and I''m curious how you use magic during your journey" said Sabrina.


    "You brought something interesting to this world, also your ideas can change the world, I am goddess of creation, not goddess of stagnation." Said Shiro.


    "Okay I understand, so how it works, I need to say I accept?"


    "No, just don''t resist" after Shiro said that he felt as if something wanted to enter his body.


    [Three blessings are detected, do you want to absorb them?]


    ''Absorb?, Sure, go ahead''.


    "Wait absorb?! No, no" Shiro wanted to say something, but Jax already disappeared from that space. "Shit, well it''s not his fault, let''s just hope ''they'' aren''t angry." Shiro knew it will be headache even for her as goddess of creation. Jax mind came back to his body.


    ''That was interesting, to say at least''


    ''Hey what I am doing here'' Jax heard a second voice in his head.'' What happened ?''now third one. ''Fuck me how this happened'' this was forth voice. '' You are fucking kidding me''

 Accident

    ''Wait, Shiro Sabrina and Herodot? What the hell are you doing inside my head?''


    ''We wanted to ask you the same question'' said Shiro ''say what your system said when you received blessings?''


    '' It said do I want to absorb it, how could I not know it, you were absorbed into me, blessings are just parts of your souls, so when I absorbed blessing I also absorbed these fragments'' Why it took so long for him to understand? At the same time, Shiro was confused, how he understood the nature of blessings? It''s something only a handful of people know about.


    "Did something happen? You look confused, young one." Asked the priest when he saw that Jax was shaking his head.


    "It''s nothing, I am just amazed by this place" Jax found an excuse, he couldn''t say that, he has pieces of three Gods in his soul.


    "Oh I understand, yeah I agree with you" Priest smiled warmly at Jax. Jax went to his parents and departed to his home.


    "So did you get a blessing?" Abigail asked, and Haytham was curious, as well. '' I can''t lie, but I can say half-truth''


    "Yes, Herodot God of Wisdom and Knowledge blessed me." Abigail hugged her son.


    "That''s amazing! Being blessed by God like Herodot, you are very lucky" Abigail praised him, Haytham didn''t say anything, but he smiled at Jax who nodded.


    "So you are telling me that, you are stuck with me until death?" Asked in disbelief, Jax in his workshop.


    ''Yeah I know it can be quite uncomfortable for you, but we will not stop or limit you in any way, and we will help you'' said Shiro, she felt guilty, being part of Jax soul is a blessing for him, but people will kill him for it.


    "Yeah I understand, well you will be quite helpful in my research" he said when he injected another rat with a mix of healing potion and orc blood." Experiment 123. Injecting mix of diluted orc blood, and healing potion ratio 2:8 into living organism." After a few minutes, the rat died.


    "Experiment 123. Failure. Test subject died, but healing potion allowed it to resist orc blood and live longer, [Researcher Eyes] shows that few cells adapted to orc blood.


    Conclusion: orc blood should be further weakened, and ratio for potions increased."


    ''I''m curious, what do you want to achieve exactly?'' asked Shiro. She understood that he wanted to create regeneration serum, but she didn''t know the true reason for it.


    "Well, I want to protect myself and my family, also I want to have some trump cards to use against people." He didn''t hide it, this Shiro Sabrina and Herodot weren''t the same as originals they were fragments bound to his soul, his dead isn''t a guaranteed method to make them free, also if they betray him, they will be used to a lot worse things than what he would do.


    ''I think you should try to separate mana from orc blood to weaken it'' Sabrina suggested.


    "Yeah I tried it, but even though I have [Mana Sense] and [Mana Control] without actual teacher, mana in blood can go berserk and some of it can invade my body, I have [Adaptive Body] but it couldn''t help much, I''m too young and weak to survive it." Jax stated. He tried to do something like this in the past, but he felt instability of mana in blood when he did that, and he threw away that blood, a minute later it blew up. It was something like atomic fission, he separated energies and it blew up.


    ''I can teach you this, I want to see results of your work'' Sabrina said. She wanted to see if magic can help create something like this.


    "Thank you, so what is the starting point"


    ''First you must...'' Sabrina was explaining and guiding Jax in this process. After a few hours, it was done.


    "[Appraisal]"


    [Weakened orc blood: orc blood, which by using secret magical technique, was weakened by separating big quantities of mana from it]


    "Let''s see how it will work" he took a syringe and pulled it in, and injected it into a rat. "Experiment 124. Injecting weakened orc blood into a living organism." To Jax surprise rat didn''t die, but started to shed skin after some time it grew bigger, and its skin was green. He used [Appraisal] on it.


    [Orc rat [unstable]: species of rat that drank orc blood and survived, this species is stronger and faster than normal rat, but because of the quality of the method it''s unstable, and will die very quickly.]


    Orc rat died a few minutes later.


    "Experiment 124. Partial Success. The living organism survived injection and transformed into orc valiant, but was unstable and died a few minutes later." Jax was happy, it was his first successful experiment. He did more experiments, and he found something interesting in one sample of orc blood.


    The author''s narrative has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon.[Strand of High Orc bloodline: it''s a piece of bloodline of orcs ancestor species, High Orc. High Orc were bigger, stronger, faster and far more intelligent compared to present orcs. This strand was extracted from blood of orc]


    "Interesting. Herodot, do you know something about High Orcs" Jax asked God of Wisdom.


    ''Well they were very powerful species that ruled a big chunk of the world, but after they angered,"The Will of the World" they became orc of today''


    "Interesting, do you think "The Will of the World" will have problems, if I use powers of High Orcs or other species, it punished in past?" He thought that it wouldn''t matter for "The Will of the World" but it was better to ask.


    ''If you don''t try to do the same things as them, it will not care about it'' said Herodot, which made Jax even happier, but Herodot extinguished his happiness. '' You were extremely lucky to find blood of orc that had a strand of that blood, all orcs have some high orc blood, but it''s impossible to extract''


    "Well, for now, it is still a nice thing to have." Said Jax, ''now I have a clear path in making regeneration serum, I need to expand my business and skills even further''.


    "Experiment 200. Injecting weakened and diluted orc blood mixed with healing potion and strengthening potion." Jax was now four years old. He injected the mix into another rat. It transformed into an orc rat, but surprisingly it lived for an hour. He used [Appraisal] on it, he skipped most of the information until he saw something different.


    [Orc Rat(unstable)]


    [Abilities]


    [Adaptive Body lv1]


    "So [Adaptive Body] really can help in it"


    ''You didn''t know?'' asked Herodot. ''How someone like him would not know it''.


    "Well I knew that [Adaptive Body] can help it, I tried to use my blood, but when it was mixed with orc blood, orc blood destroyed my blood instantly, also mixing two different monster blood, can further complicate my experiments, I don''t have methods to extract properties from the blood, at least for now."


    Jax went outside, his regeneration serum project was put on hold until he gets skills or knowledge how to do it. Jax''s workshop was just a small building near the garden that was next to his house. He now went to the library. Maximilian greeted him, and Jax greeted him back. Jax picked some books and sat down, he didn''t read them, but touched.


    [Do you want to absorb knowledge inside?]


    ''Yes'' after this Jax felt that some outside knowledge is injected into his brain.'' I think I will never like it, at all''. Thanks to the blessing of Herodot, he gained ability named [Knowledge Absorption], he can absorb contents of entire book, also Herodot blessing gave him, even more powerful memory and comprehension ability, some resistance against evil powers and curses, also every time he acquires new knowledge and develop and level up knowledge skill he gains 200% EXP. Thanks to that he was able to memorize 80% of library, but to not reveal it, he took few minutes per book and flipped pages. He was contemplating about what should he do now. He wasn''t discouraged by failures, he knew that he is able to achieve regeneration serum project, and others projects, he just needs to take his time, and develop his skills. Sabrina saw it as an opportunity.


    ''Maybe you can try magic experiments? With your genius and my help, we can create something new'' Sabrina wanted to flatter Jax. ''Sabrina is shameless as hell, well it''s not she is wrong'' Jax thought.


    "Well it''s not a bad idea, I can easily acquire some magic books or blueprints for some magical equipment, and I already had some ideas and desires" he stood up and put the books back into their places and picked up more. "We will start it, after I finish memorizing everything here"


    "So these are the magic stones? Interesting, I can see and feel mana inside of them." He picked up a blue stone, magic stones are just solidified mana, it is created when magic is condensed in one point or area for long periods of time, under enough pressure.


    ''Yeah, but they are the lowest grade and purity'' said Sabrina.


    "I know, but for beginning it''s better to get the lowest and weakest" he put down the stone." Unless you want to me to become paint on the walls" he chuckled.


    ''We all know that if you could, you would already do tests on humans, only your age is stopping you'' Sabrina said, and Jax smiled.


    "You are correct, so now teach me how to work with these stones"

 Audience

    "Jax you get a letter from her majesty" Haytham said, and handed him the letter with royal seal that depicted a Phoenix.


    "Jax, son of the Haytham and member of Zephir Clan, I invite you and your family for audience" he read aloud skipping, things like her majesty queen of phoenix kingdom etc., etc.'' I''m curious why she wants me to come to palace''


    "Son it''s a very serious matter, remember you can get so much from it, but also lose a lot more, don''t bite more than you can chew" Haytham warned Jax.


    "I understand father, so when we are going?"


    In the letter, there was a date when he was supposed to arrive.


    "I will write a letter to ask for permission to use the teleportation gate, if they allow it we don''t need to worry about anything" Haytham answered. Teleportation gate were magic circles that allowed a teleportation from one gate to another, usage was strictly controlled and nobles must send letters to ask for permission to use it. Jax doesn''t have power over it, so he doesn''t bother. He went to toilet in his workshop.


    "I think it will be one of my greatest creation" he said looking at toilet, when he learned how to make magic circles or arrays, the first thing he created was a toilet, before toilets were just sits with a hole. ''I thank all the Gods that I was able to do it'' Jax prayed honestly.


    Other than that he created things like central heating, but instead of normal fire, he used fire magical stone, that way there is no possibility of carbon monoxide poisoning, and as always it brought him a lot of money, and thanks to gold merchant guild, his products are in all neighboring countries, as side effect he doesn''t need to worry about copying of his designs. Gold merchant guild earns too much money from it, so they will never allow for copying to grow. Jax took cage near him, compared to rat cage, this cage more like glass box. In that box was light blue slime. He used the ability from the Sabrina blessing, [Mana Eyes] and [Researcher Eyes] at the same time. They showed him, how slime core is connected by mana to the entire body.


    "Interesting, so what will happen to these threads, after I pluck the core from its body" Jax opened the box, and cast paralysis on slime, after that he took a tool similar, to tongs and pulled out the core. Jax saw that when he was pulling it out, threads started to break, and after that when he pulled the core out all threads broke and the slime body became just goo on the bottom of the box. The core itself wasn''t damaged, but something left it, and it was empty.


    "The core needs a body to protect a soul, from outside mana, but is it possible to separate the core and keep at least a single thread?"


    Jax took another cage, thanks to him being a VIP he doesn''t need to pay for things like rats or slimes, even orc blood is in price. He repeated the entire process, but when he saw that only one thread is connecting the core to the body, he tried to reinforce it, by using his mana. It worked, but only for a short moment, because pulled out core lost a soul again after a minute.


    "So it is possible, this is great. Hey Sabrina, is it possible to put soul into this slime core?"


    ''Yeah it''s possible to do it, but you need to capture soul and inject it into this core, but this core can''t handle average soul, you would need something much stronger''


    "Thanks for the answer, btw Shiro and the rest I will need your help, we need to prepare" Jax said with full solemnity, after that he explained what he wanted.


    Now, Jax was in a carriage with his parents on the way to the royal palace, but firstly they need to use spatial gate. What Jax saw was the big fortress that was full of soldiers. Jax activated [Mana Eyes] he saw that the entire fortress was covered in magic dome. When they got closer, the soldier came to their carriage.


    "Are you Haytham, Abigail and Jax from Zephir Clan?" Soldier asked, the rest of soldiers were ready to strike. Haytham took out the letter of acceptance of usage of this spatial gate and handed it to the soldier. Soldier took it and read, few minutes later he gave it back.


    "You are free to use it" soldier went back to fortress. Jax carriage went into the middle of a gigantic circle. He saw that a lot of mages are operating it, after a moment light blinded him, when his sight came back, he saw they are in different place, near the capital of Phoenix Kingdom, City of Rebirth. The legend says that in that place phoenix was reborn from ashes and thanks to that it was blessed by that phoenix. After some time, they arrived in the palace. It was lavish and rich, there were a lot of golden statues of phoenix or paintings with golden frames. The throne was shaped like a phoenix and in it was a woman that looked like as woman in her middle to late 20s. She had red as fire hair and red eyes, her gaze was that of a predator, that can strike its prey at any moment. She was tall 180cm and had a very voluptuous body. That woman was Queen Elizabeth.


    "We greet fire of our kingdom, Queen Elizabeth" all of them kneeled and say it at the same time. Elizabeth looked at them and smiled.


    "Get up, you don''t need to kneel" all of them stood up, and she gazed at Jax." It''s nice to finally meet such a young man, who created so much, say how did you do that?"


    You might be reading a pirated copy. Look for the official release to support the author."It was thanks to blessing of the God of Wisdom, thanks to it, I was able to gather a lot of knowledge and use it, your majesty" Jax answered, Elizabeth was amazing queen because she was blessed by goddess of justice Themis, she gained ability called [Lie Detector] thanks to it, she always knew the truth. Jax couldn''t lie but what he said wasn''t a lie, knowledge from magical books helped him and Herodot blessing helped him a lot in extracting knowledge from them. Elizabeth wasn''t pleased with it, but he didn''t lie, although she didn''t show it, she still had a smile on her face.


    "It''s great to have such a blessing, young man. Could you go with me to talk in private?" She asked, but Jax knew it wasn''t a request, but an order.


    "I will accompany you with pleasure, your majesty" Jax bowed.


    "I''m happy to hear that." She smiled, and after that, she took a bell and ringed it, few minutes later a butler showed up.


    " You called your majesty?"


    "Yes, took my guests to guest room, when I talk with Jax alone"


    "Yes your majesty" he turned towards Abigail and Haytham." Please follow me" After that, Elizabeth and Jax went to the room. When they arrived, she gestured Jax to sit on the sofa opposite to the one she is sitting in.


    "You love your parents, don''t you?" She asked, while pouring him tea.


    "Of course your majesty" he sipped a tea, after that he put, tea back at table."but could a lowly one as myself have one request?" Elizabeth was surprised, but she answered.


    "Of course Jax, you are my guest of course, and I''m a host"


    "Could you remove that spy over there that was spying on me during my experiments?" He pointed at the corner of the room. Elizabeth face changed into a frown, and she nodded her head, after that in the corner of the room a black clothed figure appeared.


    "So you know, thanks to that I can be frank with you, hand over all your research data and work for me, unless you want your family to die" Elizabeth spied on Jax after he created company, and after one day when she got report that, Jax is making progress on orc blood and even changed rat into orc variant, she wanted it for herself.


    "I must disappoint you, your majesty because I refuse to do it, and I will not change my mind" Elizabeth knew it wasn''t a lie." Also, to be honest I don''t recommend you to threaten me or my family, because if you cherish your country you will not do that" Flames appeared around Elizabeth. She was furious.


    "How dare you! You are a child, do you think I will not kill you and your family!? Who do you think you are!? Why you think I shouldn''t kill you right now?!" She was yelling at him, and the entire room was shaking, and because of it, Jax spilled some tea on him and used a handkerchief to wipe it off. When he wiped all he could, he gave an answer.


    "I created boxes that are sealed using my soul flames and I sent them to all neighboring countries. I filled them with all my knowledge, experiments and ideas for weapons with blueprints. If something happens to me or my family, the spell I engraved on my soul, which will cause my death and allow these countries to open these boxes. Your majesty understand, what will happen if they get their hands on it, and I assure you, my weapons will wipe out an entire continent" Jax said looking straight into eyes of the queen. Elizabeth paled when she heard it, because all of it was true [Lie Detector] says that he doesn''t lie. She gritted her teeth, and calmed down.


    "So what do you want then?" She hated that she lost to mere child.


    "I want unlimited access to kingdom library and all experiment''s documents, in future I want an unlimited number of slaves to experiment on. My family should be protected by you, also I want royal family to supply me with materials." She sighed in relief, his demands weren''t that bad.


    "Fine, do you want anything else?"


    "Yeah, I want your blood in constant supply" when he said that, spy moved to his position with the dagger, but before Elizabeth could say something, Jax did.


    "Stop" Jax''s voice was filled with power, and spy froze in the middle between him and Elizabeth.'' Magic words'' Elizabeth thought. Magic words were a type of magic that allowed to imbued words with magic and affect reality.


    "I will not use it to harm you, if you don''t believe me, use your [Divine Contract] ability" It was another ability of her blessing, this contract connected two parties and the person who will enforce penalty for breaking it, is goddess herself.


    "Yeah we will do it" Elizabeth snapped her fingers and a gold contract appeared, he wanted to use [Appraisal] on it, but before he did that Shiro confirmed it was a real thing. Elizabeth and he signed this contract, other than stuff he mentioned, he wanted support of the royal family when needed, but requirements were, he will not use his ideas against the kingdom unless, the kingdom betrays him, his family or people close to him, and he will help the kingdom in times of need. When Jax left the room, Elizabeth destroyed everything there in rage.

 New Guest

    "Okay, you are doing good, young master, but you also should hit it here." Said blacksmith.


    "Thank you, Jack" Jax finished his work a few minutes later. He made another tool for himself. He made scalper. ''It''s fun to create something from just an ingot'' Jax smiled while thinking.


    ''Hey Jax, when you see notification, use absorb. Can you do it for me?'' Shiro asked. Jax was able to hear the mischievous tone in her request. Well, it''s not like, it''s a big deal.


    ''Sure''


    [Detected blessing from the God of Blacksmith, do you want to absorb it?]


    ''Yes'' he knew what will happen in next minute.


    ''Hey, what I am doing here? Why I am in body of mortal? Shiro, Sabrina, Herodot what the hell are you doing here''


    ''Shiro, you will explain what''s going on, it was your idea'' Jax said


    ''Sure, I understand'' she laughed. ''Sometimes I feel those Gods are just children, well at least I have some company'' Jax smiled, after a few minutes Hephaestus calmed down.


    ''Why should I help you?'' Hephaestus had his pride, he doesn''t everyone. Jax just sent him, his ideas and blueprints.


    ''What is that? Is that even possible? When are you starting?'' Hephaestus, as god of smiting, was overjoyed to see new types of creation. Jax learned that Gods held, all the knowledge connected to their divinity, but they can''t learn on their own, they gain their knowledge from all species, they give blessings to talented people, and these talented people discover and produce new things, which gives them new knowledge. That knowledge is forbidden, because people can''t understand how Gods aren''t omnipotent, and they have limits, for churches of all Gods or specific God, it''s blasphemy to think that Gods have limits. Jax didn''t care about it, knowledge of Gods is still boundless and expanded each second, their teachings will help him. ''Now it''s time to use the royal library'' Jax thought, and went to his room to write a letter.


    A few days later, Jax was in a carriage that was approaching spatial gate. A soldier came out to approached him.


    "Do you have permission?" Soldiers asked and in response Jax pulled out the golden phoenix insignia, it was a symbol of royal power that gave a lot of benefits, in that case unlimited access to spatial gate. Soldier bowed to Jax.


    "I didn''t know such estimate sir will be here, I apologize if I was rude to you" Soldier apologized, while sweating pockets. ''Shit, I can even lose my head for this''.


    "You don''t need to apologize soldier, you only did your job, which I''m thankful" said Jax to calm down soldier.


    "Thank you sir, I hope your travel will be safe" Soldier thanked Jax, few minutes later Jax was already teleported.


    "It''s always nice to come here, even if a dozen pairs of eyes are spying on me" Jax stated picking books, Phoenix Kingdom library was at least 20 times bigger than, one in his house.'' Well, at least knowledge here will help me expand my horizons''. He already visited royal library few times, each time more and more books were recorded into his memory.


    "Hey Gregory carry those books for me" he said to the guard that Elizabeth assigned to him.''well he is more a jailer, at least he can be used to carry my books''.


    ''What do you plan now? We have more than enough materials for creating "this", also you don''t need to worry about slaves.'' asked Shiro.


    ''We must wait until my body matures or at least grown a bit, I think when I will be 10 years old is optimal, also I will go to academy, after my sixth birthday. I will skip most grades, but I will not graduate instantly, at academy there are information I can''t get access to even while using royal family name. Speaking of which I will go to see experiments notes, and experiments themselves'' He added another thing to contract, as reason he gave that spy wanted to kill him, the thing was that he had full access to all experiments of royal family. He went to a corner of the library and took the insignia, which started to shine.


    If you spot this tale on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation."In the name of Phoenix I command you to open" Jax recited, after that wall disappeared, and he saw a staircase that led into darkness. He stepped into it, after a few moments the wall appeared again and lights started to appear. He was walking for a few minutes until he saw big iron doors. Jax opened it and when he breathed air there he thought about one thing, the entire room had a smell of death. That room looked like a library but smaller and instead of books, most of the information here were in form of diaries or journals. Jax went to the section where everything related to blood, mutations etc. were located. He picked up some of the journals, they didn''t have titles, so Jax must remember each cover. He opened one and started to read, he didn''t use [Knowledge Absorption], because some mages used magical spells on their work, so Jax would extract only surface of information or just bland text, also he liked to read. A few minutes later, he frowned.


    "Idiotic, they thought that they can use pure monster blood without weakening it or diluting, it''s no wonder they didn''t find anything more complex. At least they found an interesting combination of herbs that created a reaction with monster blood." Jax read a few more pages. He was surprised at his discovery." They successfully bounded together different types of monster blood, but what the results were bloody to say at least."


    Humans that were forcefully injected that fused blood using magic, grew a lot. Their muscles swelled, they got extreme level of strength and durability but at the cost of mind and life. They only lasted for one hour, also most of the time they killed a lot of people when they were alive. ''The biggest problem is that monster blood affects the entire body and tries to change the host into being similar to its origin. It isn''t a problem with monsters like dragon which are highly intelligent, but orcs or others far less intelligent than humans, they destroy humans minds and force animalistic instincts. It can be useful for creating cannon fodder, but nothing else. Maybe if someone is related to similar species as the origin of the blood it could help in controlling animalistic instincts and transformation'' Jax was deep in thoughts. Two hours later he went to experiment room. He was greeted by Ainz head of experiments.


    "So you are Jax, the one that queen took interest in" Ainz looked like the typical evil scientist, and he was crazy. Jax walked with him looking at his experiments, for him, they were crude and idiotic. Ainz relied more on luck than science, during all of his experiments. Jax thought process was how will this affect the experiment, Ainz''s thought process was, what will happen if I add this during this. Although Jax was forced to admit this method had some unexpected benefits, Ainz discovered a lot of different mixes or connections. One of them was his experiment where he achieved a potion that created a new type of zombie, he wanted to create a potion that would resurrect dead, but his potion instead, healed wounds and corrupted body. The difference between normal zombie and this was one that, this new type was of zombie could regenerate from most damages. It was considered very dangerous and locked up in a cell, it wasn''t destroyed as this could be used in the army. Jax knew it, because Ainz was talking nonstop about his "achievements".


    "Also that one time I created chimera of different monsters, I used¡­" Jax listened to everything, and acted that he was in awe of Ainz achievements, and asked questions like


    ''that amazing, how did you do that sir?'' or ''I would never think about can you explain how did you found out''. Ainz ego was enormous, so Jax got a lot of information. Jax walked with Ainz for some time, after that he returned to his house.


    "Thanks to all that information, we can push regeneration serum experiment even further"

 Academy

    Jax was in the carriage that was heading towards the Royal Academy. The Academy was created by the King of the Phoenix Kingdom; although it was created by the royal family, the Royal Academy has a wide range of autonomy. Big enough that even Elizabeth can''t go against it without good reason.


    ''Status''


    [Name: Jax]


    [Race: Human]


    [Status: Healthy]


    [Level:30]


    [Path: Chaos Scientist]


    [Strength:5.5]


    [Agility:5.5]


    [Endurance: 5.5]


    [Vitality:5.5]


    [Intelligence:30]


    [Stat Points:14]


    [Abilities]


    [Adaptive Body lv1]


    [Photographic Memory lv3]


    [High Comprehension lv3]


    [Cold blooded lv2]


    [Appraisal lv2]


    [Genius lv3]


    [Researcher Eyes lv4]


    [Experiment Log lv4]


    [Mana Sense lv4]


    [Mana Eyes lv4]


    [Creation Eyes lv4]


    [Knowledge Absorption lv4]


    [Blacksmith Eyes lv4]


    [Researcher Hands lv3]


    [Split Mind lv3]


    [Skills]


    [Common Language lv8]


    [Language Learner lv4]


    [General Knowledge lv7]


    [Science lv6]


    [Dexterous Hands lv6]


    [Mana Control lv6]


    [Focus lv7]


    [Technical Knowledge lv6]


    [Magic knowledge lv6]


    [Two-Handed lv5]


    Jax gained some skills and abilities. Some he got from leveling up, he noticed that each 5 levels, he gets new ability and skills or upgrade to others. [Researcher Hands] works practically the same as [Appraisal] and [Researcher Eyes], but he needs to touch something. It''s useful because both skills require Jax to look at objects, but with that ability, he just needs to touch them. He got [Split Mind] when he used status points to increase his intelligence to 20 points. This ability created a second mind that Jax can use to do various tasks, like searching through all his knowledge or helping during experiments. [Two-Handed] is a skill that allows him to use both hands at the same time, at the same level. What really made him happy was a vial that he had in his hand.


    [Experimental regeneration serum: grants the user regeneration ability, but because it''s experimental, side effects and mutations are possible. Use with caution]


    After hundreds of experiments, which at some point became humans, Jax created this serum. He created it in the royal palace laboratory, because it was safer and easier to hide. Of course, the royal family wanted to discover how he did that, but he destroyed the surveillance circle, and never left any materials or evidence other than dead human experiments. Jax also had a different vial in his hand.


    [High Orc blood: complete blood of High Orc.]


    ''Now I just need to create a stable version''


    The academy was located in Feather City, which was a few days away from the City of Rebirth. Fortunately for Jax, the academy had its own spatial gate. A few hours later, they arrived at the academy. ''This will be a pain in the ass'' Jax frowned. The academy was divided into early, middle and late. People in this world are considered adults when they reach 16 years old. Early, and middle are each three years old, and late is four years old. When someone enters the middle academy, they have to choose their path. The academy has three paths. The first is being a knight, which is divided into smaller paths like cavalry, swordsman, spearman, archery, etc. The second one is the mage path, it''s also divided into smaller paths like enchanter, elemental mage, etc. The third is civilian path lawyers, officials, scholars, etc.


    ''What will you choose, Jax? We know that you aren''t interested in civilian path that much, but do you prefer mage path or knight path'' Shiro asked.


    ''I think the mage path is better, but aura can also be useful, we need to get our hands on the techniques to figure out a way to use both at the same time,'' Jax answered. Other than mana in that world exists something called aura. Knights use it to boost their bodies beyond their limits. People can use both aura and mana until they choose one path, after that, they are restricted to usage of mana or aura. Jax wanted to know if it is possible to use both, some species are able to do that, but he doesn''t want to use their blood on himself.


    ''It''s far better to just create a new technique, than to inject more and more inside myself, but I can create that serum for soldiers, because I will never reveal my technique'' Regeneration serum was a bargaining point, that he can use to get benefits across the world. When he completes it, all countries will make contracts with him, but it will not change the balance that much to make countries angry. While he was thinking, his carriage arrived at the academy.


    "We arrived, young master," said the driver


    "Thank you," he took out a silver coin and handed it to the driver." Here, have some fun, you deserve it." Jax was able to see greed in that man''s eyes.


    "Thank you, young master." Jax knew that servants don''t need to love him, but they must know that he isn''t stingy with money, and it''s better to stick with him. He walked to the gate, where a queue was already formed. He searched for the end of it and stood there. When he was standing there, he felt that someone touched him. He turned around to see a girl with green hair and green eyes.'' She has some elf blood.''


    "Do you need something?" He was polite because he knew that all people here are just children and that most of the time they aren''t aware of the world. Girl nodded.


    This book was originally published on Royal Road. Check it out there for the real experience."What is your name?" She asked shyly, and he noticed she was shaking. ''She is nervous. Well, it''s not like, I don''t understand it, you go to the academy, probably your parents have high expectations, and you don''t want to fail them. It doesn''t cost me anything to help her''


    ''It''s nice of you to help her,'' Sabrina said, and others agreed.


    ''I am maybe cold-blooded, but I still have emotions''


    "I am Jax, and you?" Jax smiled at the girl and held out his hand. She smiled and shook his hand.


    "I''m Bethany, what path do you want to take in the future?" She started to talk with Jax, and he answered all her questions. Half an hour later, he was in front of the table where the clerk was checking letters of acceptance.


    "Name" the clerk asked


    "Jax"


    "Letter" Jax handed the letter to the clerk. He placed a letter on a round metallic plate that had inscribed magic circles. The plate started to glow, and a few moments later it went off. The clerk gave Jax a round plate with the number 218.


    "It''s your number, don''t loose it, go there" he pointed to the big plaza." Find a spot where your number fits." Jax thanked the clerk and went his way.


    "Here it is from numbers 200 to 300," he said, finding his spot. Moments later, Bethany appeared.


    "Oh, hey Jax, so we are in the same group," she said, and a moment later she added. "Aren''t you nervous? If we fail this occasion, we will need to wait the entire year"


    "Well, I am confident in my knowledge, you also should believe in yourself, nobody other than yourself can help you, if you lose your cool and start to doubt your knowledge, you will fail" He warned her. She nodded, but was still shaking. ''It''s not my problem, I can''t help her''. At some point, a person appeared before Jax''s group.


    "Hello everyone! I am Theodor, a teacher of botany. I will show you the way to the examination hall. Remember, remember don''t put your hopes on luck or Gods, use your own mind. Now follow me"


    He led them to the big hall in which were 100 seats each with assigned number.


    "Everyone, go to the seat that matches your number, there is already a test waiting for you, but you will not be able to read it, because it''s enchanted to appear 20 minutes from now.


    Cheating is prohibited, failing isn''t bad, but if you cheat, you aren''t allowed to try for 3 years. Do you have any questions?" One person raised a hand, it was a boy, Theodor nodded for him to ask.


    "How much time do we have to finish our test?"


    Theodor took something from the desk in front of him. It was a mechanical clock.


    ''Your own device is used against you, quite ironic, don''t you think?'' asked Herodot.


    ''Well, it''s not like I can fail, but I agree''


    "This clock will be set for two hours, after that, your tests will automatically be handed to me, or you can turn them manually if you finish earlier. Are there any more questions?"


    No one raised a hand, and Theodor nodded. After 20 minutes, questions appeared on paper. Jax finished them in 20 minutes and went to Theodor to give it to him. He looked surprised, but Jax already left the hall.


    ''Driver will come back in 30 minutes, for now, I should deal with some pests. Jax went to the forest that was right next to the academy. He walked there for 10 minutes, and moments later, a shadow appeared at the location he was before.


    "Where did he disappear?" The figure started to check its surroundings until it felt something falling on its back and a prick on its neck.


    "I am right here." The figure wanted to shake off Jax, but it couldn''t move.


    "It''s a paralysis agent, you shouldn''t care about it, though." Jax pulled a small box from the sleeve. It had a metallic bottom and top, that were covered in circles and runes. The corners that connected the bottom with the top were glass tubes filled with blue goo, and the sides were made from glass. Inside was a levitating slime core, but that one was a few times bigger and thicker than normal. Jax created an invisible thread that connected the slime core with the shadow body. When he saw the connection was stable, he plunged a hidden dagger into the shadow eye, killing the shadow instantly. The box started to glow, but a moment later, it stopped. Jax went back to the entrance of the academy. He waited a few minutes, and there appeared his carriage.


    "I''m sorry for the delay, young master." Said driver.


    "Don''t worry, just take me home." Jax wanted to go home, as fast as possible.


    Some time later, Jax was at his workshop.


    "So, who sent you?" He asked the box.


    "What did you do to me? Where are my arms?legs? Everything?" Jax just cut off one of the threads connected to the corner.


    "No, please don''t, I will do anything." voice said. The box was a soul capturing device, by combining slimes cores, he was able to create one that could handle the human soul. To capture the soul, Jax needs to connect the soul with a modified slime core. After killing the body, the soul will seek protection from the slime core. When Jax cuts off the thread, the soul feels the feeling of inevitable doom.


    "I ask you again. Who sent you?" Jax asked.

 Conspiracy

    "I don''t know anything else, please don''t kill me." Shouted the voice. Jax wasn''t happy with what he heard. ''They want to rebel against Elizabeth, I can get more from her using it.'' Jax took paper and started to write a letter.


    ...


    Elizabeth was in her office, signing documents and reading reports.


    "People are getting anxious because of the famine, and the activity of monsters is rising. What else will come?" She heard knocking on her door.


    "Come in." Her butler came in with a letter.


    "It''s a letter from Jax from the Zephir Clan." When he finished, he felt that the temperature in the air is rising. For Elizabeth Jax was a topic of great shame, he as a kid, outsmarted her, but she calmed down.


    "Put it on my desk and go." Butler put a letter on the desk and exited the office.


    "What did he write to me?" She opened it and started to read.


    "Elizabeth, first thing, I ask you to send a letter to the academy to make an exam for me to skip grades." She hated that Jax didn''t even refer to her as a queen. "The second thing is that I have something extremely important for you. I could go to you myself, but it''s less suspicious for you to come here" Elizabeth didn''t like Jax, but if he was saying it''s something extremely important, he must mean it.


    "Guards!" She yelled. A few soldiers appeared in her office.


    "Yes, my queen"


    "Prepare carriage I go to Zephir Clan," She ordered, and she prepared herself.


    ...


    Jax was playing with his mother outside, when he heard horses. ''She is quick.'' He smiled. Abigail looked at carriage.


    "Oh God, it''s the carriage of the royal family. Why would someone like that be here?" She was scared. Jax, on the other hand, was calm.


    Some time later, he and his family were sitting with Elizabeth.


    "It''s an honor to host you, your majesty. We are ashamed we didn''t prepare anything." Said Haytham.


    "Don''t worry, it''s my fault, I came here unannounced." She smiled. "I want to talk with Jax. Is that okay with you?"


    "Yes, it''s a great pleasure that you want to talk with our son." Abigail smiled.


    "I''m happy. Jax, can you lead me to your room?"


    "Yes, of course, your majesty." Jax answered. ''Your majesty, your ass.'' she thought.


    Some time later, they were in his room.


    "So what was so important for you to contact me?" Jax put the soul-capturing box on the table.


    "You should look yourself, Elizabeth." He cut off the soul thread.


    "I said, it''s all I know." Elizabeth was surprised to hear voice from the box.


    "It''s the soul of someone who wanted to kidnap me and use against you, Elizabeth. There is a conspiracy against you. Hey Shadow, tell her majesty everything you told me"


    Soul started to tell Elizabeth everything, from who hired him, to why they wanted to rebel, and that they even caused famine to stir up people. When Shadow stopped talking, Elizabeth barely held back her anger. She calmed herself a few moments later.


    "I don''t like you, but I must thank you for this. I know that you didn''t do that for free. What do you want?"


    "I want my family to gain part of the assets of rebels, I want my own land and title, also I want you to give me mages and knights that you will capture for experiments."


    "That''s a lot, but I accept. Could you give me that box?" She asked.


    "Sure, take it, you will not be able to copy it anyway, and also, we don''t like each other, but I don''t want unnecessary wars, and you aren''t a bad ruler, so do anything you can to make sure they will be killed." Jax''s reply shocked Elizabeth. ''Is he sick to give me a compliment? No, there is no way, someone as annoying as him would never be sick.''


    Elizabeth took the box, and instructions from Jax on how to use it, and went back to the palace.


    ''What is your plan now?'' Hephaestus asked.


    ''I need to create a stable version of the regeneration serum, it will take a few months. Elizabeth will then destroy rebellion inside the kingdom, and then we will be able to work with mages and knights.'' Jax went to sleep.


    ...


    A few months later, in the royal experiment room.


    "You fucking child, I will kill you, because of you, my entire family was killed. You heard me! I will destroy you!" Yelled the man who was cuffed to the metallic table.


    "Yeah, I know this, but you will die, and I will live." Jax said, while he injected regeneration serum into the man''s body. Using [Researcher Eyes] he was able to see that serum was able to perfectly fuse with a man''s body. This man was one of the rebel soldiers that Elizabeth captured. He wasn''t a knight, so he was good for experimenting on. When Jax saw that the process of fusing was done, he took a knife and stabbed the man repeatedly. He missed vital organs, and to his delight, the man''s wounds were healing in front of his eyes.


    "The only problem is that, his body is using a lot of stored fat. It''s not a big problem, I just need to give instructions and create some meals that are packed to the brim with everything." He already suspected something like this will happen, and was halfway through creating, highly energetic bar that had 4 or 5 thousands calories.


    "You are a monster!" Man yelled.


    "Maybe I am, maybe I am not. For you, I am a monster, but for my family, I am their son. What I am depends on people''s views." He cut man''s body more and more, and at some point, man''s body lost a lot of weight, because of how much he regenerated. Jax knew that he wasn''t useful anymore, so he just killed him. He used the button in the room to call soldiers to take body of dead soldier and bring him another one. Another slave was a female soldier. Soldiers cuffed her to the table and left the room.


    The narrative has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the infringement."Hey boy, do you want to know how it feels to be with a woman? Uncuff me I will show you"


    She tried to seduce him, and Jax was disgusted. He took another regeneration serum, but that one was different. He injected it, and after he saw everything had ended, he plunged a knife into the woman''s eye.


    "You fucker, you little piece of shit!" She yelled, and Jax pulled out the knife without pulling the eye out. A few minutes later, the woman''s eye was regenerating itself, after that, he destroyed that woman''s muscles and tendons. Which also regenerated. He killed at least 30 people, this day. He wanted to test the limits of regeneration against different types of damage. Some prisoners were electrocuted, some poisoned, and another few he threw acid at them. He needed to test everything. A few days later, he was in Elizabeth room.


    "So this is a finished product?" She wanted to grab the box with regeneration serum and run away, but she knew it was stupid.


    "Yeah, there are three versions. The first one is [Lesser Regeneration], it will not be as useful as others, but you can train more, endure more, etc., useful for training and also as a side effect, you need to consume a lot, so ladies will love it, they can eat as much as they want, without getting fat." Elizabeth was ashamed, but she wanted that effect for herself.


    "And the other two types?" She urged him to talk.


    "The second one is just [Regeneration] stab wounds, average poisoning, and broken bones. You can regenerate in minutes, if they aren''t big. If all your bones are broken, you would need, at least a few weeks, but still, it''s just a few weeks for full recovery compared to months. The third type is [Greater Regeneration] shattered bones, powerful poisons, acid, torned muscles, all of that and more can be easily regenerated. You can''t regenerate with that missing limbs or lost eyes, but if it''s still connected to you, it''s highly possible that you will regenerate that part." Elizabeth''s heart skipped a beat. It was too great to be true.


    "Are there any side effects?" Elizabeth wanted to know.


    "Other than eating a lot, if you take too much damage, your body will slow down regeneration. Also, also if you are seriously hurt, you need to eat something similar in size to a pig, but for that, I created bars that will give you a lot of everything you need to regenerate most things."


    "What about infertility?" Elizabeth asked.


    "Depends, is it because of the wound or a born defect?"


    "Battlefield." She said, clenching her hands.


    "It should be possible, but I don''t guarantee it. If the wound is too old and already healed, you would need to force your body to destroy and regenerate." Elizabeth lost all hope.


    "Well, I can, in my free time, try to see if I can figure something out." Elizabeth nodded absentmindedly. Jax explained the details he didn''t mention, and how to use regeneration serum, and he exited the room. He didn''t notice or tried to ignore that when he was exiting the room Elizabeth cried.


    ...


    Jax was in the basement of his workshop. In his hand, he held completely different serum than what he showed to Elizabeth.


    [Superior Regeneration Serum: serum made from using high orc blood. It can regenerate almost everything, and even heal birth defects]


    "So here comes the moment of truth." Jax took a big breath. He wasn''t sure if everything will go well enough.


    ''Don''t worry, you did everything you could, and you couldn''t detect anything using all your abilities.'' Shiro tried to comfort him.


    "Yeah, you are right." He took a syringe and injected [Superior Regeneration Serum] into his body. Immediately, Jax felt pain in his chest." It''s worse than I thought, it will be." He scoffed, he sat down on the chair, and tried to just wait, but at some point he felt something deep down is awakening.


    [Gods fragments in your soul influenced, [Superior Regeneration Serum], it creates deep roots in your body. Host doesn''t need to worry. It''s beneficial for the Host]


    "How long will it take to finish that process? Also, also are there any side effects for the duration of this process?"


    [It will take a week. Host will feel dizziness, also Host will feel sleepy, your body will hurt. Your mind will not be affected]


    "At least my mind isn''t affected." He stood up and started to walk out of the basement, but his body hurt at each step." Uhh! It really hurts"


    ''Take it as an opportunity to relax, your test results will come in a few days, and after another few days, your school will start. Your family misses you, especially your mother.'' Shiro tried to convince him.


    "Fine, I will." With each step on another and another stair, he was more and more convinced that ''I need to make a fucking elevator''. After 10 painful minutes, he was at the base level of his workshop.


    [Skill [Pain Resistance] was created]


    [Skill [Pain Resistance] is integrated into ability [Cold Blooded] ]


    [Ability [Cold Blooded] leveled up]


    "Are you mocking me?" He felt angry, and he also heard laughter in his head. All the Gods laughed at him. He painfully dragged his body home.

 Exam

    "So how is your relationship with her Majesty going? Are you polite to her? You didn''t anger her?" Abigail asked question after question, and Jax could only smile wryly. He can''t say that he is talking to the queen using her name, and he is using her to get materials, and slaves.


    "It''s not bad, we are getting along." He lied through his teeth." Btw, mom, dad. I have something for you both." Haytham and Abigail were surprised but also curious. Jax took out a small box, and when he opened it, they saw two syringes with strange liquid inside.


    "What''s my child?" Asked Haytham.


    "Well, this is something I created. It''s called [Greater Regeneration Serum]. It gives you the ability to regenerate most damages, your stamina will be increased." he winked at his father, who didn''t say anything, but Jax saw sparkles in his eyes." Also, you will need to eat a lot, but at the same time, you will never get fat." When he said that last part, he looked at his mother, and her face blossomed into a big smile.


    "Okay, so how should we use it?" Asked Abigail, and Haytham nodded. Jax was happy inside that his parents trust him fully.


    "Stick out your arms, I will stick it in your vein and inject it." They did that, and Jax injected serum into them. "For a few days, you can feel weak, but it will be gone soon. It''s advised for you to take a break or work less." He talked more with his parents, until they felt sleepy and went to bed. He stood up and went to his room. Pain he was feeling wasn''t that bad, but it was annoying to feel each step and move or even blinking to be painful. He lay on his bed.


    "I planned all this time, but I didn''t take into account that your fragments could affect it. Quite stupid for someone with the ability [Genius] to not think about it, don''t you think?"


    ''Jax, you are just a child, sure you have the mind of an adult, but your soul needs to sync with your body, which causes you to not be a full adult. But it''s not important, you can''t predict everything. Our main bodies couldn''t predict that you would swallow their fragments. We are Gods and we couldn''t predict it. Just take your time, cherish people you love, spend time with them, live to your fullest, and now sleep Jax'' said Shiro, to which Jax fallen asleep.


    ''Shiro, he should know'' said Herodot


    ''I know, but he is too young. He just took the first step on his path.''


    ....


    Abigail and Haytham felt better a few days later. Them being weak because of the serum is caused by them not having [Adaptive Body] and, because of the class of the serum. People Jax killed, could use serum abilities so fast, because he injected them with a different formula that had the same effects, but as a price for how fast they could use it, their lifespans were shortened, by at least 10%.


    Jax spent time with them playing games and talking. He didn''t go to his workshop and just spent time with his family, and talking with Shiro and rest. And finally, at 7 day he got notification.


    [Influencing [Superior Regeneration Serum] was completed. New ability is granted [Perfect Regeneration] ]


    [Host gained [Divine Orc Lineage] which grants the Host with [Divine Sense], [Divine Body], [Divine Power], and [Limit Breaker] ]


    "I hope I will not get additional teeth, green skin, etc.," said Jax


    [When Host gains lineage, you only get abilities and skills from it. Your looks aren''t changed by it.] System explained.


    "Okay, so I can now make ''that'' without waiting" Jax stood up and went to his workshop. He picked up a lot of different magic stones and aura stones. Aura stones are the same as magic stones, but they are filled with aura instead of mana.


    ''Are you going along with the original idea, or do you want to upgrade?'' asked Sabrina. This idea was something they did together.


    "I will change it, instead of [Superior Regeneration] I got [Perfect Regeneration], and my plan was based on [Greater Regeneration]. I need to change it"


    He activated the furnace in his workshop. After the temperature reached a high enough level. He took some different pieces of metals, and put them together into the pot. He placed them into furnace and waited until they completely melted. Then he poured metal into the mold. When he waited for it to cool down, he took some tools, and started to work with stones, he cut them into a more square shape. It took him some time to work with every stone. He had countless processed stones. When mold calmed down, and he opened it. It was a big, round plate. He started to carve holes and paths into it. When he finished, he wiped sweat from his forehead.


    This narrative has been purloined without the author''s approval. Report any appearances on Amazon."The most tiresome part is behind me, and now it''s the hardest part." He started to place all the stones into the holes he created into plate. When he finished, he started to channel mana into the plate, which started to glow, and a few moments later it started to shrink. Jax controlled mana the entire time. When he finished, plate was size of his palm.


    "Okay, now I only need to put this into case" Jax took from the desk, already prepared case. It was something that looked like the pocket watch. He opened it and put plate inside and closed it. He then put it on his neck using chain that was attached to it.


    "So either I succeed or I explode." He used some mana to activate the plate. He felt that different types of energies started to invade his body.


    [Magical energies are invading Host body. [Adaptive Body] tries to adapt]


    [Magical energies injured Host body]


    [ [Perfect Regeneration] healed the host body.]


    "It''s working, but it stings as hell"


    ''You dare to complain!? Normally, a person would be dead in a few minutes or mutate into some abomination.'' Sabrina said.


    "Well, I can always complain, also how long do you think it will last?" He asked.


    ''Depends, looking at how much energy goes into powering it up, and how much it releases over time, I think two or three years, but you will for sure increase how much its release, so maybe half a year.'' Sabrina said, shaking her head.


    "Now I just need to wait for the letter from the academy about me skipping grades." Jax went to bed.


    ...


    Few days later at the academy.


    "So, Jax, you want to skip grades?" It was a dean of academy William. He was a man in his 30s. He had blonde hair and brown eyes, wore elegant suit.


    "Yes, sir, my knowledge is beyond junior or middle and late." Jax said it without arrogance or pride. He just stated a fact. William wanted to say something, but it was a request from her majesty to allow him to take a test.


    "Sure, go with me, if your knowledge is really so high, you say, we will talk after the exam." They went to a small room. In that room two people were already waiting. One was a big man with scars all around his body, on his belt he had a sheathed sword. The other was an old man in robes, he had a very calm look and an aura of wisdom.


    "Jax, this is Sebastian, head of the knight path, he is Grandmaster." He pointed at a man with scars, then he pointed at an old man." This is Merlin archmage and head of mage path. Skipping grades exams are important, also to ensure that no one break the rules, all of us must be here"


    "It''s a pleasure to meet you, sir Sebastian, sir Merlin." Jax bowed down. They only nodded.


    Jax went to the chair and waited until questions appeared. He then started to answer question after question. He finished it in an hour and handed it over. Trio started to read his answers. Test was divided into three parts, each part was connected to one stage. If Jax answered only the junior part, he would go to the middle academy etc. Jax answered all the questions. Trio started to ask him questions themselves.


    "What happened in year 189?" William asked


    "In that year war with..." Jax answered all the questions William and others asked.


    "So what do you want to do?" William asked Jax. Jax''s knowledge is beyond academy.


    "I want to stay at the academy. I will just skip general knowledge, and other things I know. Academy library can be useful for me, also I need to have some training." Jax could theoretically get everything from the Gods, but they have restrictions placed on them, because they are only fragments, and he doesn''t want to rely on them for everything.


    "Sure, go ahead, for now, just go to your home, we need to fill out documents." Jax said goodbye to them and went home.


    "He is a monster." William sighed, others nodded.


    "His knowledge is beyond what I have seen in all my years." Merlin replied.


    "I''m more curious what path he will take, we can all agree he will go to either knight or mage" said Sebastian.


    "I agree, btw, don''t you try to escape from paperwork," William said when he saw that Merlin and Sebastian wanted to exit the room.'' Why do I need to do the paperwork? I am head of the knight/mage path of academy, I am beyond it''

 Contact

    "If you don''t want to be killed, show yourself." Jax said, looking at the tree in front of him. Shadow appeared a moment later.


    "Our king wants to meet you, sir." Shadow bowed to him.


    "Sure" Jax agreed, and shadow touched him and they disappeared.


    ...


    At her office, Elizabeth was looking at a sealed letter.


    "He sent me this, but why is it sealed? If he wants to say something important, he just says that I should visit him."


    A few moments later, the seal on the letter broke.


    "Elizabeth, I am beyond the Phoenix Kingdom. You don''t need to worry about me, they will not dare to hurt me, even if they do, I assure you, they will beg Gods for death"


    "What does he plan to do?" She sighed, but when holding the letter, she saw, that postscriptum appeared at the end of the letter.


    "I know you will sigh or be angry, so when you read the last letter, a postscriptum will appear. If my serum doesn''t work, I have two experimental solutions, but I don''t want to say how long it will take for me to complete them, because I don''t know." Elizabeth smiled at this.


    ...


    "It''s nice to meet you, king of the Dragon Kingdom, Malcolm." Say Jax.


    "I am honoured to meet the creator of regeneration serum" said politely Malcolm. Malcolm was a man in his 40s, he was one of few supreme sword masters, and king of dragon kingdom. He had long black hair and golden glowing eyes, that had vertical pupils.


    "So what you propose your majesty" Jax asked calmly, he didn''t care about the aura Malcolm emitted. Malcolm was surprised that Jax was calm.


    "Go to my country, I will give you all you want" He said directly. Jax sipped tea and replied.


    "I can''t, I am bound by a contract with Elizabeth, also I don''t want to leave my country" he shook his head.


    "So, what you propose?" Malcolm knew that Jax knowledge and talent were priceless, so he wanted to make a deal with him at all cost.


    "As you probably tried you can''t copy my regeneration serum, and you know about different types of it, something like normal or lesser one doesn''t interest you. Well, it''s opened to the public anyway. What you want is greater one, also you want me to help you create something to help to create swordsmen or accelerate they grow. Is that right?" Malcolm nodded.


    "You know very well that you and Elizabeth and other countries have box with my work, so I want to make a deal with you. I will help you create that kind of thing, also I can promise that I will not use my inventions and machines against your country unless you attack my family and people I consider close or just me."


    "It''s all sounds perfect, but what is a catch?" Malcolm asked.


    "Unlimited access to resources, slaves and knowledge including experiments and your Royal Academy, and also your blood in constant delivery."


    "Fine I agree, let''s swear on our blessings after we talk the details" Malcolm said. He was blessed by God of Fire, Sultur. Jax nodded, after everything was done he was teleported away.


    "Why your majesty accepted that deal, wouldn''t it be better to force him by torture?" Shadow asked.


    "No, it wouldn''t be so easy. He has a spell carved into his soul. He can kill himself when he wants, also thanks to our deal he can''t do anything to our country, also he just wants immunity from or the countries. That guy isn''t a threat until we do something to him, his inventions are helping everyone, it''s better to be allies with him." Malcolm said.


    ...


    "That was interesting, I have another source of income" Jax said while stretching on his bed.


    ''Now we need to wait for another countries''. Shiro added. The biggest countries around are Phoenix Kingdom, Dragon Kingdom, Elven Republic, Beast Federation. Phoenix and Dragon kingdoms are mostly populated by humans kingdoms, Elven Republic by elves, and Beast Federation by beastman and sentient monsters like centaurs or lamias.


    "Yeah, but I need to get stronger to be able to take, from them, what I need. If I create some weapons and go to Beast Federation, I will be able to convince them to make a deal with me." What could surprise people is that Jax was happy. He was never tired, and always had a goal in his life. ''Well the pockets of Phoenix and Dragon kingdom will bleed for few next years.''


    ...


    Jax was now 8 years old. He was very tall for his age 148 cm, he attributed it to divine orc lineage. He was reading research on new types of monster that were spotted few months ago. It was a new species of manticore. This new species of manticore is faster, stronger and instead of a tail that can inject venom, it can shoot its venomous spike.


    "Interesting what caused this mutation? Maybe some mana vein, or some of them ate some fruits or drank blood of stronger species. Without any body or live specimen, I can''t figure it out. Academy will invite me anyways, to study it" He stood up and went to magic path headquarters. The academy had three main buildings. First one is general area, in that place people learn general knowledge and study civilian path. Second is for knight path section, it includes places like training field or areas for fighting. Third is magic path section. It has a vast variety of rooms for things like enchanting, alchemy etc. The academy is surrounded by the forest that the Academy uses as training grounds for students and place to hunt monster to get money for hunters. Jax took out cube and throw it on the ground. The cube transformed into a skateboard that he created for this. This skateboard is soundless, also Jax doesn''t need to use his feet to power it up, the only thing Jax does is to control speed and direction. The academy is huge, to walk from one end to another it can even take an hour. Jax didn''t want to waste so much time, so he created this portable skateboard. Few minutes later he was at the doors of magic path section. He took skateboard and injected his mana into it, which caused skateboard to come back to the cube form.


    The author''s narrative has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon.He opened the door and walked in. Jax was greeted by mages that were walking near him. He went to Merlin office. When he arrived, he knocked and waited for an answer.


    "Come in" said Merlin from inside. Jax opened the door and walked in, at the sight of Jax, Merlin smiled." Nice to see you Jax, come let''s talk" Merlin poured him a tea.


    "Sir Merlin, I have a question. Do you have any information, about that new species of monsters that were discovered?" Merlin sighed.


    "I don''t have any information, why they appeared"He shakes his head"The only thing I can tell from information I have is that, they appeared near Frozen Mountains, and they have abnormal levels of not innate elements."


    "This isn''t normal at all, small fluctuations are natural, but if they have abnormal levels that means either something is mutating them, or worse someone is doing that" Jax wasn''t against mutating monsters, but freeing them to walk around is just stupid and reckless. ''People here don''t know about DNA and genetic inheritance, most monsters are descendants of a lot more powerful beasts, if someone awakens it, we are in deep trouble''


    "I know, but I can''t do anything about, in a few weeks our country will make an expedition there to check it out. Do you want to come?"


    "Yeah, I want to see if I can figure it out."


    Jax talked some more with Merlin and went back to his dorm room. When he was near his room, he saw one of the servants holding a letter.


    "Young master Jax, you got a letter from your family." He handed the letter to Jax, who nodded.


    "Thanks." He took a silver coin and handed it to him." Here as a thanks." He didn''t look at the servant and just entered his room. He sat at the chair and opened the letter.


    "Son, you should visit us, we have something to tell you." He closed the letter" Well what would they want to tell me? Well it''s not like I need to go to school" He exited his room and used the box again. When he exited the academy, he used mana to activate the second mode of the box. Wheels disappeared and it became longer and wider. When everything ended, Jax was on something that looked like a snowboard, but it was levitating. He then started to speed towards spatial gate. Normally it took the carriage two days to go from spatial gate to city. It was because of safety in case someone was able to control it. Jax instead using his board was able to do it in few hours. His arrival at spatial gate caused a lot of stares. He didn''t care and just show, his phoenix insignia. Soldier nodded, and Jax 10 minutes later was in spatial circle.


    ....


    At Jax family home


    "So, what you wanted to tell me?" He was eating cookies and drinking tea. Abigail looked at Haytham who nodded.


    "I''m pregnant, you will be big brother."announced Abigail with a big smile. Jax nearly choke on the cookie he had in his mouth. He knew that his mother, after giving birth, couldn''t have children. ''Huh, serum affected it''. Jax used [Researcher Eyes] to look into Abigail womb, a few moments later he sighed in relief.'' Child is developing well, nothing is wrong'' Jax knew that regeneration serum, doesn''t affect fertility. It was because one of the soldiers he tested [Lesser Regeneration Serum] on, after that, made his wife pregnant. Jax met both of them, and confirmed it was this soldier child. He also saw that there are no defects in the child''s body, and everything is the same as it should be. Although Jax knew it, he wanted to check to be sure. He spent some time with them, and after that he went to his workshop, to create a necklace for his mother. That necklace had function of sending all information about her and baby status to him. It had a lot of gems imbued into it. He gave it to her, which made her extremely happy.


    "My little man made such a beautiful necklace for me." She said hugging him and kissing. Jax was embarrassed, but he didn''t say anything.


    ...


    Some time later, Jax finished creating a prototype he was working on for a few days.


    "Well, I need to fix some issues, but I will test it during expedition"

 Expedition Part 1

    "Here we are, Frozen Mountains. Everyone it''s dangerous area, be careful. If you spot anything unexpected, don''t try to be a hero, and just call others." Said Merlin.


    "Yes, sir!" Every young mage answered. The Frozen Mountains is a region on the south of Phoenix Kingdom. It is covered in snow all the time, and temperature was well below zero.


    Everyone was shivering in the cold. Enchanted items that could help them, are very expensive and rare. The academy provided them only with clothes that protect them from freezing to death. They could use magic to help them with cold, but they would need to constantly use mana, which could result in lack of it during the fight.


    "Nice weather" After Jax said that, he felt envious gazes, from all directions. He was the only one except Merlin to have enchanted clothes. ''It''s not my a fault that I have materials to create most things.'' Weather here wasn''t a problem for him. He just liked to be warm. They walked in the snow for some time until they found frost ape. Frost apes were like the apes from earth, just bigger with white hair and able to withstand extreme cold.


    "Students, knights will not always be with you. You need to find a way to deal with tough enemies yourself." Said Merlin. Expeditions like this, other than to accomplish its goal, were made to make knights understand and respect mages and vice versa. Knights were mostly put against, powerful monsters that were flying or used magic. Mages were put against monsters that were very tough and durable that they need to fight for long period of time. Merlin watched and nodded.'' They aren''t bad'' Mages which were proficient in earth magic bound frost ape, and others attacked it. An hour later, frost ape was dead. Mages sat down on the snow, exhausted from the battle.


    "Okay everyone, we will make camp here for an hour, try to regenerate as much mana as you can" Merlin said. Everyone set up tents and make a fire. Jax leaned against the tree.


    He was thinking about his prototype.


    ''You used mountain glass as a lens, I don''t think you can get anything better'' Said Hephaestus.


    ''He is right, but you should look at formation at the part when it''s going to concentrate, I think we can change few symbols and delete more to gain better efficiency'' Sabrina suggested. While they were talking about, someone approached him.


    "Do you need something?" Jax asked. The person who approached him was a boy, probably 14, close to graduation.


    "Why did you not help with fighting?" He asked frustrated.


    "Well I am not here to help you fight, also if I did fight, you would get zero experience. Btw, who are you?" He asked, of course he could use [Appraisal] to get information, but for him, it wasn''t useful in this situation.


    "I am James from Fire Crow clan." He said proudly. ''Branch of royal family? And he doesn''t know me?'' Jax was surprised. Average people only know his name, he doesn''t appear in public, but heads of clans or other important personal have his pictures.


    "You should be ashamed of yourself, that you hide behind sir Merlin." He mocked him loud enough for other people to hear it. Merlin wanted to act, but Jax send him a message to stand down.


    "Do you have any proof of what you are saying? Or you just want to hide your own inferiority complex by insulting me? I don''t care about your opinion, you aren''t worthy in my eyes to care about." Jax casually replied and closed his eyes and continued to talk with Sabrina, Hephaestus and the rest. James was mad, but he couldn''t attack Jax.


    Merlin just shook his head, ''Foolish child, you are trying to go against someone, who can crush you between his fingers.''


    When the hour ended, they picked up everything and went deeper into the mountains.


    Some time later, they found another frost ape. They started to attack it. At some point, frost ape started to run towards Jax, who was leaning against the tree with closed eyes.


    ''Pathetic'' Jax scowled in his mind. He knew exactly what happened. Jax was using constantly [Divine Sense] which granted him the ability to detect any entity living or dead and everything in radius of few km. Combined with [Mana Sense] he was able to detect that James used a spell to make frost ape attack him. When frost ape punched towards Jax, he casually caught its big fist in his palm. Jax opened his eyes, and for everyone disbelief, he ripped off the entire arm of the frost ape. Ape started to howl in pain, but Jax just flipped over its arm in his hand, and he held it by sticking bone. After that, Jax casually waved it''s ripped off arm towards ape''s head, which flew away from the body. When the big body of ape felt in front of Jax, nobody said anything, everyone was dead silent. Thanks to his clothes, he didn''t have any blood stains anywhere.


    "The Battle wasn''t long thanks to Jax, so we can continue." Merlin broke the silence. No one after that dared to bother Jax. Few hours later sun started to fall down.


    "Everyone, night is coming. You need to be careful in the night" said Merlin. He wasn''t going to help them, his job was to prevent their deaths, or protect from too powerful beasts. Everyone set up tents, some who knew something about formation, created some that masked their presence. Jax took some boxes from his sleeves and threw them on the ground. They started to change until they created small house.


    The genuine version of this novel can be found on another site. Support the author by reading it there."Sir Merlin. Do you want to come over?" Merlin nodded and they went into the house.


    The insides of the house were cosy, it had fireplace, kitchen, bathroom and everything house needs. Jax made tea for them.


    "You know Jax about" Merlin started to talk, but Jax cut him off.


    "Yeah, you don''t need to apologise for James. I will send a letter to Elizabeth myself when we come back." Merlin paled. James was in bigger trouble than he could imagine. Jax stood up and went to the fridge and took meat and some other ingredients." Btw, what you like to eat?"


    "I will leave it to your decision." ''He is strange, but he isn''t a bad guy''. Jax prepared some steak, salad and other stuff. He wasn''t the best cook, but he learned how to infuse mana and aura perfectly into food, which enchants its taste a lot. After they eat, Jax washed up and went to sleep. Merlin was fascinated by things in Jax house. ''I need to ask if I can get something like this for myself''. In the morning, Merlin asked about if he can get something like this. Jax smiled and agreed. He wanted to create a better relationship with Merlin, and by using Merlin create a new market for his products. When they exited the house, it went back to cube form. Jax picked them up and waited for Merlin to give orders.


    "Okay everyone we will continue moving forward" Merlin ordered.


    ...


    "That Jax is a monster" said one mage. Other covered his mouth.


    "You idiot, what if he hears you? You saw what he did to that ape" the other mage said. He had chills every time he thought about it.


    "Yeah, you are righ..." First one fell over.


    "Hey, is everything alright?" Asked second one and helped his friend.


    "Yeah, everything is alright... Wait is this?" First one saw that something black and long was sticking from the ground. It looked like a giant snake.


    ...


    A few minutes later, Jax and Merlin were looking at this. Jax used [Appraisal] on it.


    [Pipes: they connect XXX to XXX] ''Blocked information? That''s interesting!''


    "Jax. Do you have any idea what this thing is?" Jax always knew things, Merlin never thought about it.


    "They are pipes that connect two places, I can''t get more information from this"


    "What do you plan?" Asked Merlin.


    "I want to check it myself. You should look after students. I have a feeling it''s connected to mutation" Merlin nodded. Jax took out a box which turned into his snowboard. He used [Divine Sense] to see if he can detect anything interesting nearby. He found that nearby his position is located mana geyser, which is in the same direction as one end of the cable. Jax wanted to check this first.


    ...


    "So here it is mana geyser" Jax was near a deep hole in the ground. There are two phenomenons connected to mana. Mana geyser and mana vein. Mana vein is just a big amount of mana underground that affects the world above, for example better farming land or mines with magical stones. Mana geyser is when mana vein erupts in the ground and creates a hole that spits out mana. They are more powerful than mana veins, but are far less stable and harder to work with.


    "So, where it is?" He looked around using his skills and abilities. He couldn''t find anything, so he tried a different approach.


    "If I can''t find it, I can just look for a place that sucks mana." He didn''t want to try because looking into mana geyser using [Mana Eyes] was like looking at sun using via thermovision. He used [Mana Eyes] and second later he closed his eyes.


    "Fuck this was bad idea, but I don''t have a choice" He looked again, and after few minutes he found the place. He started to melt snow and dig the ground. When Jax finished, he saw something strange. He found a strange, enormous square shaped container.


    "It looks like the part that sucks in a vacuum cleaner. Well it has the same role" Jax looked at the top of it and found some kind of panel.


    "It''s interesting, there are several colours, but few of them have different writings to them compared to the rest" He looked at the colours that had different writings. Red, Dark Green, Black and few others.


    "Hmm, these colours match elements that were recorded in abnormal levels in monsters. Red-Fire, Dark Green-poison, Black-Darkness."


    ''So, what do you think is happening?'' asked curious Shiro.


    "Something that use that mana geyser and change natural into elemental in that box have some kind of damage which cause energy to leak. And because it has lower quantity of these elements, it sent signal here to get more to compensate it. For now, it''s not bad, probably damage is new and didn''t spread yet. If it spreads, more and more energy will leak to surroundings. Mutation, contamination, all of that shit. I need to find it and fix it or turn it off for good." He shook his head. He covered everything back with snow and dirt. When he checked if it''s properly hidden, he went off to the second end of that pipe.

 Expedition Part 2

    "I don''t see any magic here. It doesn''t have any fluctuation, mana flow normal. Zero carvings other than natural." Jax scratched his head, he was at the bottom of mountain that pipe led to. He looked for some mechanisms that don''t use magic, like hidden lever or fake wall, everything he knew. Finally, he sighed.


    "I don''t have a choice, other than to try this" Jax closed his eyes and inhaled cold air, and took step back. Jax''s fist started to glow in different colours and mana started to gather around him. Few moments later when Jax exhaled world froze, he opened his eyes and punched the mountain. When his fist touched the mountain, it started to crack. He jumped away, and look at crumbling mountain. When dust settled itself, Jax saw that enormous gate was carved into the mountain.


    "Good choice, stones were probably moved here by magic and placed to block the gate, and to enter this place people needed to use spatial gate or move the rocks themselves." Jax nodded with approval. He walked to gate and touched it, formations there tried to restrict him, but were badly damaged and unable to defend themselves.


    "The core of formation is not damaged and most of it is intact, I will need just few days to fix it." He nodded. He created some formations around the gate to hide it, and then went inside.


    "I feel mana growing stronger" Jax was walking downstairs for already an hour. He was careful and watched each step with his abilities. Finally, the doors at the end of the stairs.


    He checked them out using [Mana Eyes], [Mana Sense], and everything he had.


    "They don''t have any enchantment, probably gates outside are for the defence. So if someone breach the gates, that means you already lost?" He smiled and opened the doors. When he entered he saw that this place is at least 20m tall and wide for at least 200m or more, but what truly stunned him, is what he saw in this place.


    "Artificial magic stones factory?" He saw countless glass domes and in them magic stones veins were growing. He found that pipes were connected to each dome, and led to big crystal dome in the middle of the hall. Jax saw that each part of crystal dome had different light inside. He also found some of them had cracks.


    "So I was right, even better our situation could be far worse, if that energy leak was in these domes it would explode already" Jax walked around the crystal dome, each section had pipe connected to it that led to some dome with magic stone vein.


    "Fire, water, earth, wind, light, darkness"He started to list every element he saw on the crystal dome. It took him more than 20 minutes to count all of them.


    "I need to fix it, it''s too precious to destroy."


    He started to plan how to do it, when he suddenly moved to a corner of the hall.


    ...


    "What this guy is doing?" Merlin was pondering, until he felt extreme levels of energies and few moments later he felt explosion of mana and aura. He looked into direction that it came from.


    "Wait, isn''t it the direction that Jax went to?" He just shook his head.'' That guy is probably doing something reckless''.


    ...


    "Give me one reason, why should I not kill you?" Jax asked soul that he captured in his [Divine Power]. He felt that something is observing him, and he found this soul.


    "I don''t want to harm you my lord!" The soul pleaded. Soul looked like very tall, old human male, but there were parts that weren''t human. Soul had long pointy ears, and long fangs that sprouted from his mouth outside. ''High Orc?''


    "Why do you call me your lord?"


    "You are divine orc, you are worthy of worship" Jax face turned serious.


    "How do you know this?" He never told anyone about it, also he wasn''t divine orc, and he only gained lineage of it, which is just bloodline.


    "My lord, you have [Divine Power] and I can feel familiar scent from you" Soul admitted.


    [Divine Power] is something that only demigods or Gods naturally have. People can gain by becoming apostle of the God. Only [Divine Power] is able to destroy souls and trap soul without containing it like his soul capturing box.


    "If you want to survive, allow to use slave mark on you." Jax said. Slave mark was just slave contract. Master could do anything to his/her slave, and order them to do anything.


    "Of course my lord" Soul replied. Jax didn''t say anything, he made slave mark on the soul, he was cautious and kept vigilance until the mark was created. Then he released the soul, it couldn''t do anything against him now.


    "So what''s your name?" Jax asked, he didn''t like the idea of not knowing name of someone.


    This narrative has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. If you see it on Amazon, please report it."I am Kurkhak, my lord. I am keeper of this place."


    "So Kurkhak. What did you mean by familiar scent?"


    "Well in the past during our reign, there were legends about divine orcs. In them divine orcs were godlike beings that could even fight the gods. In cathedral that was dedicated to our ancestors, existed vial of blood that was said to belong to divine orc. You have the same scent as that blood." Kurkhak explained. ''So some beings can tell that, it''s bad.''


    "And what this place is, I know it''s artificial magic stones factory, and how it works in general, but are there any other things I should know?" Jax asked, that was something he needed to take over.


    "Other than what you said it''s nothing much, it wasn''t a research facility, sure there were some studies conducted here, but it was mainly a production facility. What I can tell you that there are some defense mechanisms, but I disabled them when you entered this hall." Kurkhak explained, he sensed Jax presence and because of his connection to the divine orcs he disabled all defenses.


    "How long it will take for you to make them running again?" Jax immediately saw guns coming from the celling.


    "That''s long" Kurkhak replied.


    "Are there any materials here to fix these leaks?" Jax asked looking around.


    "Yes, but there is a problem" Kurkhak scratched his head.


    "Materials are behind some barrier, or it''s just about being exposed to extreme levels of elements" Jax shrugged.


    "I am bound here, and I am of this place keeper, but I can''t control the creation process, so during repairs, you will be exposed to enormous levels of pure elements." He didn''t like it, he couldn''t move from this place, but he didn''t have full control.


    "You don''t need to worry about it, just show me where materials are." Kurkhak led him to the room with spare parts and materials for repair.


    "So what exactly I need to grab and do?"


    "The sides were created to be just replaced, so you need to pull off the pipe from it, and insert new plate. After that plug the pipe back. Energy is stable and calm, but it''s extremely pure and in huge quantity." Kurkhak tried to warn Jax because he had divine orc blood, and he wanted him to be safe, and this energy can mutate him.


    "Like I said don''t worry, I don''t go there unprepared." Jax took his clothes off and they disappeared.


    "Subspace?! How did you get one? During our reign only a handful of people had them."


    Subspace was something like inventory in games. You could put there anything as long as subspace was big enough. Jax got it from Shiro blessing, his subspace could fit up to 100m^3 of materials, clothes etc. He mostly used it for storing the most important stuff, like his inventions or enchanted clothes. Jax took his clothes off, because he didn''t want them to be destroyed by the energy of the factory. He walked closer to the dome and saw that damaged parts were at least at 10m. He looked over and found an enormous long ladder lying around. Jax picked it up and leaned it against the crystal dome, after he checked if it''s stable he started to climb. Few minutes later he was in front of the damaged part.


    [Powerful energy is detected. Energy tries to invade host body.]


    [[Adaptive Body] adapted, energy is absorbed]


    Jax smiled, and started to work with crystal dome. He removed the pipe and held it under his armpit. He then transported the damaged plate into subspace and summoned a new one. Jax carefully placed in the spot. When he saw there aren''t any leakage, he plugged the pipe back. He repeated the process for two hours.


    "Hey Kurkhak. Did I miss something, or is everything done?" Jax asked. Kurkhak was dumbfounded, in his time high orcs needed protective suits to do it, even then it was a job for slaves, because suits couldn''t protect them for a long time." Did you hear me?" Jax asked again. Kurkhak snapped from his thoughts.


    "Yes, yes, my lord. Everything is done"


    "That''s good"smiled Jax, then he looked around. ''This entire place is mine'' "Hey Kurkhak, I will fix the gate and put stones back in place, so do you have any method for me to not use the gate." He didn''t want to create some new formation here, he didn''t know everything about formation used here, and high orc society, so it''s better to study it.


    "You don''t need to worry my lord, I can teleport you inside when you are nearby. Thanks to slave mark I will know it." Kurkhak answered politely.


    "That''s great. I must go now. I will fix the gate and put the stones back. Probably I will visit you in next few days, or a week" Jax said and run towards the exit.

 Expedition Part 3

    "It will require some work for at least two or three days if not more." Jax started to work on the gate. Thanks to Kurkhak being in the factory, he didn''t need to worry about formation defense mechanisms. Jax at the beginning fixed the closest parts to the core of formation. Each formation have a core that defines properties and role of formation, it works similar to CPU in computer. The thing that has core created or placed in, is like motherboard. It allows core to connect to entire formation. The runes and entire arrangement are like software and files that allow formation to perform more sophisticated actions. For Jax it was fun to work with formation, to create new stuff and improve.


    "Oh, that symbol is inefficient, I can replace it with another one, and increase defensive power by few percents." To fix formation the only thing needed was to use magic, but because Jax wanted to improve it he needed to change pathways of formation.


    ...


    Elizabeth was writing a report.


    "Just what is he planning to create?" Jax used an enormous amount of money and resources. She also got a letter from Dragon Kingdom about it as well." It should be worth it." She trusted Jax in that matter. When she thought about Jax, she touched her stomach. After taking the greater regeneration serum, she asked royal healers to check her. They said that something was changing. Which was her was a good sight.


    "If only you were here, my love." she said, looking at the portrait in her office.


    ....


    A few days later, Jax finished working on the formation. He was satisfied with his work.


    "Everything is repaired, and I was able to raise the efficiency and power of gate by quite big percentage." The runes used in this gate were quite ancient, but they weren''t that much different compared to these used now, also Jax have knowledge about ancient formations.


    "Now the boring part." Jax started to move broken stones over, he covered the entire gate with them. After that, he started to mend stones together using his power. When he was done, Jax left the place.


    "I need to find some monsters to test the prototype." He sped up, looking for monsters. Some time later, he found a bunch of frost apes.


    "This should be enough". He appeared before the frost apes. When they saw him, they roared and started to run towards him. He pulled out the box and placed it on his forearm. It started to expand and change, and few moments later, Jax had arm cannon.


    He pointed at the charging apes. Cannon started to absorb energy in the air. When Jax felt it couldn''t absorb more, he fired it towards the nearest ape. Energy exploded from the cannon in the form of a bright beam of light. The nearest ape felt something was amiss and looked down to see that there was a big hole in its stomach. It was the last thing it saw.


    "It isn''t bad, but it lacks power. I can increase it, but it will come at the cost of durability. This cannon is still just a prototype, so I don''t expect it to be perfect." He fired it more times, each time it completely penetrated the body of the frost ape, and if some ape was behind the one he shot at, it was dead too.


    "This should be enough, I gathered some data. I just look for Merlin and the rest"


    He changed the arm cannon back to the box, then he spread his [Divine Sense] to search for expedition. He found them, but they weren''t alone.


    "Mmm? These aren''t monsters, but a beatsman? I need to show them soon, to not attack each other." He threw the box, and went on his snowboard towards the expedition.


    ...


    "Haha, pathetic humans, not so tough, aren''t you?" The beastman laughed, he had a wolf''s head. He was holding a sword against Merlin''s neck.


    ''Why Grandmaster Knight Beastman is here'' Merlin lamented. Merlin tried to protect his students, but because his opponent was someone at the same level, he couldn''t use all the spells in fear of harming his students.


    Other beatsman also laughed, they were all at master knight level. Jax was hiding using camouflage formations.


    ''I am not at the level of grandmaster, but if I can get rid of him, others will be just sitting ducks.'' Jax placed the arm cannon again, but now he removed all safe protocols, and limiters put on this.'' I can''t kill him, but thanks to grandmaster knight vitality I can easily put a hole in his stomach, and he will live long enough.'' Jax aimed at the wolf beastman.


    "What will you do now? Beg for mercy? Lick my shoes? Or become my slave? What is your choi" he didn''t finish, because he coughed blood and fell on the ground. Merlin smiled. ''I need to thank you Jax, I will definitely repay you''


    "Boss! Who did this?!" Yelled one of the subordinates of wolf beastman, but a few seconds later he saw the world upside down, and then the world was swallowed by the darkness. Jax started to kill every beatsman around. It took him only a minute to do that, with his bare hands. He turned toward the wolf beastman. Jax walked towards him, and turned him around.


    "You beatsman have great vitality, don''t you agree?" Jax asked.


    "Fuck you, I will not beg for mercy, and I will never say anything!" Wolf beastman wanted to yell, but his mouth was filling with blood. Jax just took the soul-capturing box and connected the string with the wolf beastman.


    "I don''t care. You will talk this way or another." Jax put his hand into the wound, and ripped the beastman''s heart from inside. It was the easiest and the quickest way. When he did that, soul capturing box shined for a moment.


    "Sir Merlin, how many casualties did we suffer?" Merlin smiled bitterly.


    "20% of students are dead, others are wounded." Jax nodded, and summoned the box filled with medicines.


    This story has been unlawfully obtained without the author''s consent. Report any appearances on Amazon."Here are [Temporary Greater Regeneration Serum], and bars to cover energy consumption, use them only for people on the verge of death. For lighter injuries, you have healing potions. I must go now, Elizabeth must get information." Merlin nodded. Jax flew towards the nearest spatial gate.


    ...


    Elizabeth was enjoying, her free time while eating some cookies and other sweets. ''I must admit, not having to care about my weight and looks is great''. She was enjoying the moment of peace and quiet, until her nightmare appeared. Jax opened the doors to her room.


    "Elizabeth, I have something extremely important to sa... Why are you so pissed?" He asked. ''I had finally free time from Gods know when, and he had to appear right now.''


    "Jax, if this isn''t something extremely important, I will kick you." Jax felt a shiver running down his spine. He took a soul-capturing box and created a soundproof barrier around them. He cut off the string connected to slime core.


    "I will never tell you anything. I am a proud member of the Wolf clan." Soul said. Jax, in response just started to cut off and fix one string after another. It didn''t work.


    "Haha, I don''t fear death." Soul laughed. Jax turned his head toward Elizabeth.


    "Can you use your flames?" She nodded. Legends say that the royal family of the Phoenix Kingdom are descendants of human and phoenix. Thanks to that, Elizabeth has access to [Phoenix Flames], which can burn anything around, even souls. She started to burn inside of the box.


    "Ahh! It hurts! Stop it!" A few minutes later, the beastman started to talk.


    "I am Fenn from the Wolf clan. We were tasked with capturing a human called Jax, and to fake his death by using monsters in the Frozen Mountains. After that, create an avalanche to cover our tracks. We couldn''t find him, so we created a trap, using academy expedition members."


    "Who tasked you with this?" Asked Elizabeth.


    "It was a federation council idea." Fenn replied


    "I must make purge them from my country, I will not tolerate killing my people." Jax just shook his head.


    "If you do that, more beatsman will help federation,just search for the culprits, and silence the witness." Jax said.


    "Fine, I will do it your way." Elizabeth agreed.


    "I will leave interrogation to you, now I must go." He turned to leave, but Elizabeth grabbed his arm." Something happened?"


    "Why did you need so many resources?"


    "I will show you in the near future, so don''t worry"


    He exited the room and went to visit his parents.


    ...


    "So how are you feeling, mom?" Jax asked, and information from the necklace said that everything was alright, but he wanted to check himself.


    "Everything is fine, thanks to the thing you gave me, I don''t feel sick. It''s just like a dream." Abigail smiled. Jax was happy. ''Well, I could tell the gender of my sibling, but let''s just keep it as a secret''


    "Son, do you have plans for your territory?" Haytham asked. Jax was gifted a land not far from the capital that included mines, a lot of farmland, and cities.


    "I will take it, after my 16th birthday," Jax replied. If he took it now, he would need to spend time governing it instead of doing experiments.


    "Do you like Queen Elizabeth?" Abigail asked a question, which caused Jax to spill the tea.


    "I''m an 8-year-old mom, and I also don''t want to think about it." Jax shook his head.


    "And so what? You don''t have the mind of the child, and you didn''t reject it. I don''t want you to marry someone unworthy of you, and Queen is young and nice." Jax wanted to say that the queen isn''t so young, but Abigail looked him deep into the eyes. ''Mother is older than Elizabeth; if I say Elizabeth is old, that means mother is even older'' he didn''t have a death wish, so he just didn''t say anything.


    "Think about it. Queen also doesn''t want to be with just nobody and try to think of a better person than you." Abigail continued. Jax just stayed silent.


    ...


    At the same time as the royal palace.


    "You should get remarried," said a middle-aged woman.


    "Mom, I don''t want it, also I¡­" Elizabeth wanted to answer, but her mother, late Queen Eleonora. She looked the same as Elizabeth, just older.


    "I know you still grieve for your husband, but you need to find someone else. I don''t say do it now, but you should do it in future" Eleonora interrupted. She didn''t want to force her daughter, but an heir is needed." Kingdom needs new queen after you pass away."


    "I can''t have children, don''t you remember?!" Elizabeth yelled, and flames appeared around her." I lost my fucking child on that battlefield, my husband, and my ability to be a mother! And you dare to expect me, to have a child with those disgusting nobles, who only look at my breasts, and pretend to respect me?!" The flames around her grew even more.


    "I didn''t say you need to choose someone from them." Eleonora calmly replied.


    "So who do you have in mind? Someone from the Dragon Kingdom? To make some deals with them?"


    "Nope. I have in mind Jax from the Zephir Clan." After Eleonora finished, the entire room became dead silent.


    "So I should be with a small kid? Am I a pedophile?" Elizabeth asked through teeth.


    "His mind isn''t that of a little kid, he tricked you into a deal. It''s just his body that needs to grow."


    "Still, he is a kid." Elizabeth started.


    "That doesn''t see you as a pretty woman, but as a business partner. You never felt from him any gaze other than a normal one." Eleonora cut her daughter off. Elizabeth wanted to say something, but she couldn''t disagree with that. Jax didn''t treat her as just a pretty woman or a queen, but as an equal. She didn''t like it at first, but it wasn''t bad to just talk with someone without false courtesy.

 Test Part 1

    "You don''t need to worry about the mutated monster." Jax said, sitting in Merlin''s office.


    "It was connected to pipes?" Merlin asked.


    "Yeah, it was," Jax replied while drinking tea.


    "Fine, you don''t need to say anything I owe you. Also, when can I expect that house?" Merlin asked excitedly. Jax smiled and pulled a few boxes.


    "Here, it has everything my has, and even food, if you want to customize it, just give me a word." Jax answered, and Merlin shook his hand.


    "Thanks Jax. These old geezers will envy me, Haha" laughed Merlin. Jax talked some more with him, and exited his office, and went to the training fields. When he arrived, he saw that the group of young knights, were sparring. Each of them was covered in aura most of them had a red aura, but some of them had a yellow or green aura. They also had different shades of aura.


    ''Most of them have one or two rings, and they don''t have affinity, but there are a few that are already at the third ring, and even have some rare affinity''. Knights create rings of aura around their hearts, which allow them to use them to enchant their bodies or weapons. Aura is the natural force inside the human body. The knights are divided into junior knights, who are people who create one to three circles, after that, there is the senior knight, who is from four to six. When someone advances to seven, that person is called a swordmaster, and at eight rings, people are called grandmasters. When someone reaches nine rings, they are called the supreme master.


    "You are not here to slack off! Hey you there, if you don''t want to be dead, don''t swing a sword like this!" Yelled instructor. Jax watched them training, but he was mostly curious about how they use their aura. Jax wanted to improve the basic aura ring technique as much as possible. To do this, he needed data in the form of how people circulate their aura.


    "This thing is just unnecessary and just uses aura." Jax started to find more and more flaws in how students used their aura. He used his second mind to look at how people used aura, when he was making adjustments in real time.


    ...


    "Who is he, instructor?" I asked a girl. She was 14 years old. She had long blonde hair, and green eyes.


    "This is Jax, you don''t need to worry about him, Marceline. He is a special case of a student. He probably just looks to help his research."


    "What kind of research could such a young person conduct?"Asked another person.


    "You all heard about the opposite aura technique?" Everyone nodded. It was a technique that allowed for a boost of destructive power, by collating energies in the body. It strained the body and could lead to permanent damage, but it was still useful.


    "So he is the inventor, it was Jax who created that technique." Everyone was surprised and ashamed, he was a lot younger but created so much.


    "Don''t feel bad, he is just who he is. He didn''t use it to gain any benefits other than to gain access to research on the knight path."


    "Can I challenge him?" Asked Marceline. Instructor shook his head. ''Battle maniac''


    "If he agrees, why not?" Marceline ran towards Jax.


    ...


    ''Why, every time someone must come and bother me.'' Jax looked at the girl in front of him.


    "What do you want?" Marceline bowed.


    "Would you mind fighting with me?" She asked, with sparks in her eyes.


    "No" Jax rejected. Unfortunately for him, Marceline was stubborn.


    "Oh, come on, please!" She held his hands


    "No" Jax rejected her again.


    "Please, only once." Marceline didn''t give up.


    "No"


    "Please"


    ....


    "Fine, I will." She asked Jax for 10 minutes, and he had enough.


    "I knew I could convince you." She replied with a smile. She held his hand in fear he would escape. A few minutes later, they were already at the training area. It was square 10 by 10. Jax picked up the training sword from the side.


    "The first to fall unconscious, to lose a weapon, or to be incapable of continuing a fight loses. You both understand the rules?" The instructor asked, and Jax and Marceline nodded.


    "You can start"


    Marceline ran towards Jax, but he disappeared from her sight, and she lost consciousness.


    "Jax wins." Replied instructor. He was shocked at Jax''s speed. He moved from his place and just hit Marceline in the back of her head, before she even reacted. Jax just went back to watch people training. A few minutes later, Marceline woke up.


    "Ughh my head, what''s happened?" She massaged the back of her head.


    "Long story short, Jax moved so fast you didn''t see it, and he hit you in the back of your head." Instructor replied. Marceline was shocked, but she wanted to know how he did that. She looked for Jax but couldn''t find him. The instructor, on the other hand, looked at one spot. Jax looked at him and smiled. He used invisibility to observe in peace, and the instructor was able to see through his disguise. Instructor didn''t reveal it to Marceline, but he knew she would either way look for Jax.


    Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon.....


    Some time later, Jax traveled to the Frozen Mountains. He went towards the gate of the fabric, and waited. He was teleported soon after.


    "It''s nice to see you, my lord," Kurkhak greeted him.


    "You too. I wanted to ask. When can we harvest these magic stones?"


    "If you want, my Lord, you can do it even now. I will send you a message when you need to stop"


    "That''s great, mining tools are in the same place as spare parts?"


    "You are correct" Kurkhak confirmed, and Jax went to the room. He found a pickaxe, it was made from a very durable metal called orichalcum. Pickaxe didn''t have any enchantments, it was caused by the risk of contamination of magic stones by the mana of the pickaxe. ''I need to make some drills''.


    Jax went to some domes and started to mine magic stones. If someone wants to mine magic stones, they need to be careful not to damage the core of magic stones formation. Jax hit the crystal formation, cracked a huge chunk of it, and repeated it in a few other domes. When he finished, he teleported away from the factory and, went to the nearest spatial gate.


    ....


    "Now I just need to shape them to the shape I need." Jax was at his workshop. He took out a tool that was a laser cutter, but it worked on concentrated mana. He focused it on the chunk of neutral magic crystal and started to cut it. Neutral magic crystal is just magic crystal that is made from pure mana, and it doesn''t have any energy like fire, water, etc. The chunk he was working on was very big, 1 meter long, 50cm tall and 10cm thick. He cut it until, it became a cylinder. He did that with other chunks. In the end, he had five cylinders made from:Neutral, Fire, Lightning, Wind, Poison.


    "Well, five should be enough for demonstration if not, I can just use mana in the air." Jax said. He decided it''s time to finally reveal it, but he needed help from Elizabeth and Malcolm.


    ...


    Jax was in the royal palace and was walking towards the Elizabeth room, but he was stopped by a butler.


    "You shouldn''t come there, young sir." he said.


    "Why not Alfred? Did something happened to Elizabeth?" Jax replied worried. Alfred just shook his head.


    "No, it''s just that her majesty is in a bad mood. "Alfred explained politely. ''Something is going on, I should check on her anyway''


    "I understand it, but I still need to visit her"


    "As you wish, but I warned you" Alfred said, stepping back. When Jax arrived at Elizabeth''s room, he saw her with the bottle of alcohol.


    "What are you doing here Jax? Are you here to mock me? Look, you are able to see me drunk." She waved her hand with an alcohol bottle in it.


    "What happened?" He asked. ''She isn''t like this normally''


    "I''m perfectly fine" She said.


    "Elizabeth, we both know I''m too smart for this, and you are a bad liar" Jax said. After that, he tilted his head to dodge the bottle of alcohol.


    "You smart guy. You always act as you know everything, you try to control everything, but you can''t. You don''t even treat me with respect. I don''t know why my mother wants me to marry you. You are just a bastard that doesn''t know his place. I am the queen of this kingdom." She started to vent all her emotions. Jax just listened to everything.


    "Am I the cause of all your misfortunes?" He asked.


    "Yes! If you were born earlier and gave that serum to my husband, he would be alive and so my child!" She yelled, and started to fall down, fortunately Jax appeared and caught her.


    "You should, in the future, be more honest" he said, carrying her to the bed. He wanted to leave her, but she grabbed his shirt.


    "Please, Arthur, don''t leave me I''m scared" Jax saw. She was crying in her sleep. Jax sighed and took a chair from subspace.


    "I hope you will be well" He said, holding her hand.


    ....


    "Ughhh my head, it hurts so bad." Elizabeth touched her head, but only one touched it. She looked in the direction of her other arm and saw that Jax was holding her hand.


    "Why are you here?!" She yelled and took her hand back.


    "Well, I wanted to talk with you about something, but you were drunk, and passed out, so I carried you to bed" Jax answered bluntly. Elizabeth then remembered what happened, and she turned red.


    "I I" she started, but Jax cut her off.


    "Listen, just rest and eat the food I cooked, also I healed already some of your hangover. When you get up, we will talk" Jax said and went for a walk. Elizabeth smiled. ''Who would guess he had such a side to him''

 Test Part 2

    "Sorry for yesterday" Elizabeth apologised.


    Jax just waved his hand.


    "Don''t worry, and I want to ask you is that true late queen said you should marry me?" Jax asked. Elizabeth nodded.


    "Yeah she did that. You are a child. Why should I be interested in you." She said.


    "To be honest my mother said the same thing about you, that I should marry you, so be prepared to get letters" he said.


    "Are you for real?" She asked and Jax nodded. "Okay so what about the thing you were working on" She wanted to the topic as fast as possible.


    "Well I just need a place to test it, the best one would be one without too much importance in terms of like soil or mines and without life. Some desert would be the best, and I need you and Malcolm to invite people from Beast Federation and Elven Republic. The rest is on me."


    "So you want me to create contracts with them to ensure they will not get hurt or attacked during test." She asked.


    "Exactly and Malcolm as a supreme swordsman is nice warning." Jax replied.


    "Fine I understand I will organise it, it will probably take som" Elizabeth couldn''t finish because servant entered the room.''Why people always cut me off'' She nodded at the servant.


    "Your majesty, late queen Eleonora asked you to come to her and you sir Jax were also invited." Said servant.


    "We both know the reason." Jax said, and Elizabeth nodded.


    "Just follow me Jax" Elizabeth said.


    ...


    "So you are that famous Jax a toymaker that is also creator of regeneration serum and a lot more. It''s nice to finally meet you" Eleonora said.


    "You flatter me your majesty" Jax bowed.


    "I know, that you understand why I invited you here" She looked deep into Jax eyes.


    "It''s about your plans to marry me and Elizabeth." He replied, while keeping eye contact.


    "Yeah that''s true, I will announce your engagement at your next birthday." Elizabeth stood up, but Jax stoped her.


    "What if I don''t agree?" Jax asked.


    "I can easily take over the throne again, and your deal is with my daughter and not me." She threatened him.


    "And I can just go to the dragon kingdom, and use my weapons against you. I said that I will not use my inventions against you, but if I give Malcolm my weapons, and he decides to fight you. It will not be my fault" He threatened her back. For few minutes they only stared into each other eyes. After that Eleonora smiled. ''He is quite smart''


    "So what you propose?" She asked


    "I am too young for now, but I know this will help me get away from nobles trying to give me their daughters now and in future, but you didn''t ask Elizabeth" Jax turned towards her. "What do you think about it" Elizabeth was surprised he asked her about it.


    "I can''t give a answer" She shook her head. Eleonora sighed.


    "You have one week, if you don''t decide it by then I will do that" Eleonora announced, and gestured them to leave. When they arrived in Elizabeth room, she asked.


    "What do you think about it?"


    "Well, even if she tried to cancel contract she can''t because you accepted that royal family will help me." Jax replied.


    "I didn''t ask about it, why you agreed? I know the reason you gave is only part of truth" She said.


    "You know me quite well" He smiled" to be honest with you, I just don''t see why should I reject it. I will not lose anything by it"


    "You know that I still hold feeling for my dead husband." He nodded." And I don''t know if I will ever love you?" He again nodded.


    "Do you think, I will say that loving your deceased husband and your unborn child is bad?" She nodded."I don''t care about it, until you ask me to be your Arthur in bed" Elizabeth turned red, and Jax laughed at her.


    "You little" She wanted to jump at him, but he stopped her. Jax snapped his fingers and around them appeared dome made from divine power.


    "Elizabeth I want to you to create contract that say that, everything I will tell you stays here" He turned his tone to that of complete seriousness. Elizabeth did that, both of them signed the contract.


    "I am not from here. I was reincarnated into this world, but I have memory of my past live. That world was without magic, and we created our civilization using stones fire, metal, and steam." Elizabeth was confused.


    "Why are you telling me this?"


    "If I need to have fianc¨¦ now, I want her to know the truth at beginning, if she can''t I will not marry her.So what do you think?"


    "It''s not like I can''t believe it. Sometimes miracles happen and people are ressurected or they can take over someone body. And I finally understand why you are so much different compared to others. So looking at people your age is like looking at children?" She asked with curiosity.


    "Yeah, I am at similar mental age as you. Every daughter nobles want to give me, are my age it''s like I''m a pedophile."


    "I felt the same about you. It really feels strange to be in child body, and have mind of adult?" Elizabeth was happy that she had someone with similar experience.


    "Yeah, but I can''t do anything about it. There are some spells and potions that could help me mature faster, but there are side effects. I just wait until I''m 16."


    "Do your parents know about it?" Elizabeth asked the most important question.


    "I didn''t tell them, and I don''t know how. For you I''m just a business partner, but for them I am their son. If they know I''m not from here, they could reject me. It''s the only thing I''m scared about." He smiled.


    This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report."You know I''m thankful you say that. And I agree to our engagement. I don''t have doubts anymore, because you aren''t a child, well technically you aren''t. Also you didn''t look at me like I was some meat piece." Elizabeth responded.


    "Well to be honest, I found it bad to do such thing. Also I found you attractive, but it would be strange to hear it from a kid." Elizabeth laughed.


    "Yeah I agree. Thank you that you find me attractive, but don''t say such thing with this body. Even if I know that you aren''t a child, it''s strange to hear it" Jax agreed. Jax displayed the dome.


    "I will leave everything to you. I need to make some finishing touches on prototype." Jax exited the room.


    ....


    Few weeks later at Burning Desert. Burning desert was region in Dragon Kingdom. It''s mostly used as death penalty, because of extreme conditions here, people who are sent here and survived and also escaped, are free. However in the history of Dragon Kingdom no one achieved it. At safe spot under a shadow made by building several figures were standing. One of them was a woman with dark violet hair, and violet eyes. She was 170cm tall, and had hourglass figure, and was dressed in black dress and didn''t wear shoes. What someone could see are marks on her hands and legs that looked like heads. That woman was leader of Beast Federation. The Beast Federation was union of several micro countries ruled by different beastman clan. They also choose leader, which is the most powerful member of entire federation. This woman is called Enna. She is a hydra, in her human form. Other person was very tall 180 woman. That had green hair and green eyes. She had long pointy ears, and wear white dress. She was president of Elven Republic. Elves choose their representatives amongs the oldest and wisest of them, president on another hand is chosen by world tree which is the most important part of their country. World tree doesn''t intervene in politics, other than to choose it representative, a president. Under a shadow were also Elizabeth and Malcolm.


    "How long we must wait for?" Enna asked. She had strong voice.


    "Just wait for some time Enna. We are guests here remember?" Said politely elf president. Her voice was calm and warm.


    "Well not everyone can wait as long as you,Elora. We aren''t elves that can live up to thousand years." Replied Enna. She didn''t like to wait. Few moments later Jax appeared next to them. He bowed to both women.


    "I''m glad to meet you beast federation leader Enna. And you Elora president of elven republic."


    "Just do what you need to do" said Enna.


    "Don''t be rude Enna. It''s nice to meet you too Jax" Elora smiled.


    "Okay I will show you what I made." He went on the flat piece of sand, and threw few boxes. That started to connect. First they created a round platform. Next pillar started to appear. After that boxes started to create long and wide rectangular shape. Which started to have carved long lines along the length of it. Few minutes later it stopped growing, but then it created long legs that dug into sand. Jax opened it, and put inside cylinder made from neutral magic stone. Then he shut it up, and went back to all the rest.


    "What is that?" Asked Elizabeth. It didn''t look like anything she knew.


    "You will know soon. Malcolm can you cover us using your aura?" Jax asked, to which Malcolm nodded. Everyone felt that some invisible force is covering them." Thanks, look closely at the machine I build." Jax touched his forearm that had control panel.


    "What is that?" Elora asked with innocent curiousity. Jax smiled at her. ''She is like a puppy''.


    "It''s a control panel that allows me to control it." He started to click it, and the machine started to glow. Jax made it turn towards a horizon. Machine started to glow more and more, and then they heard sound similar to a thunder. Beam of energy shoot from the machine. Destroying everything in it''s path, it even turned sand into glass.


    "What was tha"Elizabeth asked but Malcolm was faster, he picked Jax and started to shake him.


    "What did you do? What the hell is this!?" He yelled at Jax.


    "Fuuck meee, leet meee dooown" Jax said.


    "Let go off him!" Elizabeth yelled. Malcolm calmed down and put Jax down who was dizzy. Few moments later he felt better. ''Supreme swordsman power is terrifying''


    "So that thing is called a artillery. It uses mana in atmosphere or in mana vein. You can also power it up by putting inside magic stone."


    "You know that it was at level of supreme swordmaster, but without special properties" Malcolm asked pinching his nose bridge.,


    "Well it''s only 70% of normal power. Also if I remove all limiters it will be even more powerful" after that it was Elizabeth turn to shake Jax.


    "What do you mean even more?!" Elizabeth asked.


    "Is that how you treat your" Jax wanted to ask, but Elizabeth glared at him.


    "It''s business between us." She said.


    "So lovebirds I don''t want to interrupt, but why did invite us here?" Enna asked. She was curious why would he show them a weapon, instead of keeping it as a secret.


    "Well I just wanted to show you a reason, why you should have agreement with me. Otherwise that kind of weapon can destroy your Legacy Stone and World Tree"

 Test Part 3

    "What did you say?" Enna asked coldly. Legacy Stone was a big obelisk made from unknown material. It stored history, techniques and other important information. It only allows access to knowledge connected to bloodlines. Only Hydra can access hydra legacy, centaur will access centaur legacy and so on. Threatening to destroy it, is a grave offense. The same goes for the World Tree.


    "I said what I said. You send people to kidnap me, so don''t try to act." Jax said, but he saw that Enna had a puzzled look on her face.


    "I sent someone?" She asked confused. Jax was shocked.'' So she didn''t send anyone!''


    "Yeah, we captured Fenn from wolf clan, he said that the council gave him an order to capture me." Jax couldn''t believe it. He could understand if that was an order from one land, but if the entire council agreed, she should know it.'' Unless she doesn''t care, and is a muscle head''


    "Oh, so that''s why I didn''t hear about him. Well, I didn''t send him." Enna stated.


    "It''s very bad to send assassins, Enna" said Elora.


    "I didn''t do that!" Enna defended herself. Jax started to massage his nose bridge. ''We have a muscle head, and innocent one. I hope council and republic members will have something in their heads.'' He looked at Elizabeth and Malcolm. They were also disappointed, but three of them knew it was an opportunity to create a good impression.


    "So we finished, our presentation. Would you like to have a tour around our countries?" Jax smiled and asked.


    "Sure, it will be fun," Elora replied excitedly. Enna wasn''t as excited as Elora. Jax saw this and added.


    "If you agree, I will ask Malcolm to fight with you. Of course, without injuring each other." Jax proposed. Enna was happy and nodded. Malcolm, on the other hand, wanted to kill Jax. ''It''s your punishment for shaking me''


    "Yeah, I will gladly go." Enna replied.


    ...


    "It''s amazing, it''s so much fun!" Yelled Elora. She was riding a snowboard that Jax gave her. They were in the Frozen Mountains and having fun. Jax took her there to check if she could sense the factory, but she didn''t. ''So for a race so connected to nature, they can''t feel it. It''s a good sign, technology of that place is a jackpot.


    "I''m happy you have fun, btw it must be boring leading a country?" Jax asked. Elora made a sour face.


    "You don''t even know how boring it is. My lady that, my lady this. I didn''t want that role." She sighed.


    "How was it to be chosen by the World Tree? Do you have any blessings in your status?" He asked. Elves keep specific information about the World Tree, and it''s chosen as a secret.


    "I shouldn''t say tell you, it''s supposed to be a secret." She shook her head. Jax was prepared for it.


    "I have blessing myself, you know? The God of Wisdom bestowed it on me. It allows me to absorb the entire content of the book I''m touching. Other than that, it gives me better memory and other very important stuff" Jax explained it. In average people''s eyes, it was giving his trump cards, but every high level person knows what the Herodot blessing does. Also, he never mentioned remaining blessings. "I trusted you with that, you can do the same with me." Elora was conflicted, and Jax used it.


    "I swear on Herodot name, I will not tell anyone your secrets." Elora was taken back. ''Why did he do that''? "Now I can''t tell anyone what you will tell me." He smiled at her.


    "Well, the World Tree blessing gives me great affinity for nature. I can feel what is happening around me, and I can communicate with trees, animals ..." She started to explain it. In a nutshell, she is one with nature, and has command over land and life, but she can''t control someone at the same intellectual level as her or higher. ''This information is precious, good news for me that it can''t affect people.'' Jax talked more with Elora about Elven Republic, and World Tree.'' So it''s the same everywhere, people who are elected become corrupted over time.'' He sighed. Elora didn''t say it, but instead she talked about rumours that circled in the republic. ''If they are rumours, then there must be some truth in it, even if not, people who spread it are guilty''


    Unauthorized usage: this tale is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings."Does World Tree speak with you?" Jax asked.


    "It''s not exactly speaking, but sometimes it appears in my dreams, or lead me in some way." Elora replied, while avoiding obstacles.


    "And how exactly choosing of new president works?"


    "I just felt I need to go to world tree and when I touched it, I just felt connection. Protector of World Tree, can tell if someone has the blessing and connection." Elora answered the question. After that, they went to Jax pocket house. Elora went to wash herself. Jax meanwhile was making food for them. ''Why do you like making food?'' Jax heard Shiro voice. He smiled at that question. ''It''s relaxing, also when you do things like that, ideas will very often come to you.'' He answered and heard the sound of footsteps. Elora walk out of the shower in pyjamas, Jax gave her, that had the theme of some cat like creature. She sniffed the air.


    "What are you making?" She asked, and sat down on at the table.


    "Well I know you don''t eat meat, so I make you some salad and pasta" He gave it to her. She was very curious about that new food, and started to eat. Few moments later the plate was empty and she wanted more.


    "Did you like it? He asked. To which she nodded with the face dirty from the sauce.


    "Yeah, it''s very good. It''s a shame we don''t have something like this at home." She made a sad face.'' She is like a puppy. Elora isn''t fit to be president, maybe some ambassador. Elora is just too innocent''


    "Well, maybe in the future, you will be able to taste it at your place. I want to create agreement with Elven Republic and create alliance to keep peace." Jax really meant it. War is good for him because of the increased number of slaves, but everything else is sparse. He doesn''t like unnecessary killing. "In that I need your help. I am not an elf, so your people will not listen to me. What do you say about it?" He smiled at her. Fortunately for him, she liked the idea.


    "I will gladly help you with that" Elora answered while eating more food, Jax made.


    ...


    Few days later, Elora and Enna went back to their countries, and Jax was in Elizabeth office.


    "So you convinced her to help you to create some relationship with Elven Republic? I must say I''m impressed, well it''s expected from someone who will be my husband." She replied with proud.


    "Aren''t you bragging too much?" He asked.


    "Didn''t you tell me that in your old world, men bragged about how beautiful or how good a cook their wives are? I want other people to be jealous." Her answer defeated Jax.


    "Touch¨¦" He smiled at her, and gave her a letter. She was surprised why he can''t just say it, but when she started to read, she understood.


    "Complete knowledge about World Tree blessing, political situation in Elven Republic and so much more. It''s one of the most important documents."


    "Well, it was quite easy to get it, I just needed to swear on Herodot name." Jax said. Elizabeth was sceptical.


    "You should then have some punishment." If he swore on the name of his patron, and broke the vow, he should be crippled in some way.


    "Well, there was a small detail. I swore to not Tell, I didn''t swear to not Write it. I still respect the vow." Jax replied, and was enjoying a look at Elizabeth face that this time, it was him over her.


    "You should be called Jax the Fox." She replied, but was pleased with his work." I know you don''t work for free. So what you want for this?"


    "You hurt my fragile heart. Why would you think that your future husband wants something from you?" He pretended to be deeply hurt.


    "You have a fragile heart? And I''m a queen of Dragon Kingdom. So tell me what you want." She replied without falling for his act.


    "Well nothing much. You just need to accompany me to visit my parents to announce our engagement." Elizabeth dropped her tea.


    "No way, I will not go there!" Elizabeth replied.

 Visit

    "I can''t believe, I agreed to this." Elizabeth sighed. She and Jax were in a carriage that was heading towards Jax''s home.


    "You don''t have a choice, you know?" Jax replied.


    "But what am I supposed to say? Oh, my mother decided we are engaged." Elizabeth was nervous.


    "It''s a better excuse than we have fallen in love" Elizabeth got shivers running down her spine.


    "I agree. I don''t want rumours to surround me, about me having a taste for children." She sighed, and was tapping her fingers on her legs.


    "Why are you so nervous? It''s just basic,''Hello, I am engaged to your son''. Also, it''s not like they can say anything against it." Jax tried to comfort her.


    "Yeah, from your perspective, it''s easy, but for me, it''s an important thing. I don''t want to look like someone who is using you. Of course, in our relationship, it''s You who use Me, but never mind. I just don''t want to look bad in front of them."


    "Elizabeth, you are the queen of our kingdom. You do politics, and everything, and you also put up with me. Something like that isn''t hard." Jax tried again, and this time Elizabeth relaxed a bit.


    ...


    "I''m curious when Jax will get queen, as his wife." Said Abigail. Haytham only shook his head. He wanted that too, but she already wants to be a grandmother, even if Jax is just 8 years old.


    "My love, he is just 8 years old. Just give him some time." He wanted to change the mind of his wife.


    "He is 8 years old, with the mind of an adult. Also, it''s irritating to hear all those nobles, coming here to just get their daughters with him. I love that he is popular, but they don''t deserve him, at all." Abigail was adamant about it.


    "I know, it''s making me irritated, but it''s normal, so could yo" He didn''t finish, because they heard a horse coming. They saw it was a royal carriage, and from this carriage, two people exited. Abigail had a very happy smile because she saw Elizabeth, who was nervous, and Jax talking to her. ''So he finally got her. That''s my son.'' she thought, but she decided to act oblivious.


    "Hello, dad, mom. I wanted to pay a visit to you with, her majesty." Jax smiled towards his parents.'' She knows'' That''s what he thought.


    "It''s nice to see you, son." Abigail bowed to Elizabeth. "We are honoured to have you as a guest again. Come, we will prepare some food." They went inside, while Abigail had some small talks with Elizabeth, who answered in a very polite and nervous way. Elizabeth was glancing at Jax in a begging tone. Jax only shook his head.''it''s your battle''


    Some time later, they were in the room.


    "So why you visited it us? Your majesty must be very busy, and we don''t deserve such honour." Abigail said. ''She wants her to say it, and because she saw in what state Elizabeth is. Mom tries to subtly made her do it. My mom is scary'' Jax made a promise, he will never try to hide things from her. Jax felt pity for Elizabeth, she tried to answer, but words didn''t come out of her mouth. ''Well she is cute while being embarrassed, because she can''t say a word'' He sighed and decided to help her. He held her hand, and answered that question.


    "Mom, dad, I am engaged to her majesty." He said.


    "Oh my. I am surprised you did that so soon. In that situation, can I call you by your name, your majesty?" She asked, Jax saw a glimpse of dissatisfaction directed towards him.


    "Yeah, sure, miss Abigail." Elizabeth answered.


    "You don''t need to call me that any more. Just call me and Haytham mother and father-in-law. We are family." Abigail smiled at her


    "Of course, mother-in-law." Elizabeth was happy about how it went.


    "I''m curious how long will you hold hands?" Abigail smiled, and only after that Elizabeth felt that Jax was holding her hand. She blushed, and took her hand away. ''He shouldn''t do that, but I''m grateful he did that... Also, it didn''t felt bad.''


    "Haytham could you show Jax, our new planes for development?" Jax and his father knew it wasn''t a request, but an order.


    "Yeah of course my love." Haytham took Jax from the room they were in. When he and Jax were far away, he sighed.


    "I need to congratulate you on getting a wife." Haytham smiled at his son. Jax was embarrassed


    "Thanks, I didn''t plan it, though. It was the idea of Late queen Eleonora. She called us to her office, and made us an engaged couple." Jax said.


    Stolen content warning: this tale belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences elsewhere."Even then, you already have protective instincts about her. When your mother wanted to pressure her to tell it, you held her majesty hand, and helped her. I''m proud of you" He patted Jax''s head. Jax blushed because of that situation.


    "It wasn''t intentional, I just didn''t like that she couldn''t say it." He explained. Haytham only kept smiling.


    "You and her majesty are already creating affection. You hold her hand and helped her, and she, who didn''t dislike your touch at all. Jax, just take it slowly. Also thanks for getting engaged, thanks to that I and Abigail don''t need to worry any more, about rejecting nobles marriage offers." Haytham had a relieved expression on his face. Jax didn''t have a heart to tell him, he would need to wait a few months until he is 9 for his engagement to be made public.


    ...


    Few hours later Elizabeth went back to palace, just wanted to go with her but Elizabeth with blushed face said he needs to stay. After that, Abigail asked him to talk with her.


    "I understand you don''t want Elizabeth to feel bad, and I praise you for that. But she needs to say such things herself. You don''t know how dense your father was. It was up to me to take over our relationship. I see you took after me, which I thank Gods for. Still, Elizabeth needs to understand how to convey her thoughts in that topics." She stood up and hugged Jax. "I''m still happy, though. You will have a wife, and you already show you know how to care after her. Elizabeth had a husband already, but she is inexperienced in life. Her husband died very soon after marriage, and after that she was alone. So melt her heart, and make a lot of grandchildren for me."


    ....


    "Well, it wasn''t that bad, don''t you think?" Jax asked. He was with Elizabeth in her room.


    "Yeah, it wasn''t, and thanks for helping me." She smiled warmly at Jax, and his heart skipped a beat.


    "Well, it''s my duty, isn''t it?" Jax blushed a little. ''Father is right!''


    "Yeah it''s true. I have something that can interest you." She handed him some documents. He started to read them.


    "Are information correct?" He asked.


    "Yeah. All evidence suggests that, some secret realm was discovered. It isn''t opened, but all mana fluctuation and all our tools say there is a secret realm that will open somewhere." She replied.


    "That interesting. I need to prepare some stuff for this. Also, I have something for you." Jax took a bottle with red liquid in it from his subspace. The bottle was burning his hand. When Elizabeth saw it, some primal instinct awoke in her, that was telling her to drink this.


    "What is that thing?" She asked, controlling her urge to take it.


    "When I took your blood, I started to separate your human blood with your phoenix blood. Over time, I was able to extract pure phoenix blood. It''s my gift for you, drink it and awake power in your blood." He handed it to her, and she drank the entire bottle at once.


    "It feels amazing. It''s like I found a missing piece of myself." She exclaimed, and started to get to strip off her clothes.


    "What are you doing?" Jax asked.


    "I just feel very hot." She said, while taking off even more clothes. ''Phoenix blood is already acting''. Jax opened the door, to Elizabeth room.


    "Hey, you!" Jax shouted at the servant. It was a young man.


    "Yes, sir!" Servant replied.


    "Go and say late queen Eleonora, that she should come here. As for the reason, tell her. The blood is boiling. Now go!" Jax rushed the servant.


    ...


    Eleonora was drinking tea and enjoying the view.


    She heard a knock on her door.


    "Come in" She saw a young male servant entering the room.


    "Your majesty, sir Jax said you need to go to her majesty room, the reason he gave is that ''blood is boiling''" The young servant didn''t even feel, when Eleonora stormed from her room.


    ....


    "Why did you give that to her?!" Asked enraged Eleonora.


    "It''s phoenix blood extracted from her own blood. It can''t harm her, also I wouldn''t give it to her, if that could hurt her." Jax answered.


    "So why did you ask me to come here?" Eleonora was confused.


    "It''s an important moment, and you are her mother, also she will strip her clothes off, and I don''t want to see her naked in that situation, so you are the only choice. She is your only daughter, if you lose the relationship with her, you will lose everything." Jax then exited the room.

 Malcolm Request

    "Mom, what are you doing here? Why am I naked?" Elizabeth asked. She woke up, after drinking phoenix blood.


    "Jax gave you phoenix blood extracted from you, and you started to strip yourself and went to sleep. He asked me to come here, because he didn''t want to be here while you were naked." Eleonora explained, and Elizabeth was extremely embarrassed, but also, deep down, she was a little hurt about him leaving.


    Eleonora saw it. "He didn''t want to see you naked like this. He wanted for you to show your body when you wanted, not because of some accident." She explained.


    ...


    "So, how are you feeling?" Jax asked.


    "I feel better than ever, my stats increased quite a lot, and my affinity for fire also increased." She replied. Jax used [Researcher Eyes] on her, and saw that everything in her body works correctly.


    "Your body is changing right now, but it''s a beneficial change. Over time, your body will change more to resemble a phoenix, but I will still need to give you more blood to speed up the process." Jax said


    "Will something like this happen again?" She asked shyly.'' She is really cute,'' Jax thought.


    "Well, I can''t tell for sure, but I think it''s unlikely, because the process has already started." Jax''s reply calmed down Elizabeth. Jax wanted to speak more with her, but he felt a tingling sensation in the back of his head.


    "I need to go. You need to rest, and under no circumstances, don''t try to lower your body temperature using potions, or magic. Use just plain ice or cold water to help you." Jax snapped his finger and a small refrigerator appeared." Here you can cool down your drinks, or make ice cubes. That''s all" He then exited the room and went outside the town.


    ...


    "So what does Malcolm want?" Jax asked one of the Malcolm agents.


    "I can''t tell you. His majesty said it''s urgent, and he will pay a lot for it." Said the figure in the black suit. Jax was interested in what Malcolm wanted.


    "Sure, let''s go now." Agent put his hand on Jax''s shoulder, and they disappeared.


    ...


    "So, what do you want?" Jax asked Malcolm who was sitting next to him.


    "My sister was poisoned." Malcolm said it with a sad and powerless tone.


    "Didn''t you give her greater regeneration serum?" Jax asked.


    "Yeah, she already took it a long time ago, but this poison or thing is still attacking her body. She is in a coma." Malcolm replied. Jax raised his eyebrow. ''Something that can overpower combined dragon blood, and greater regeneration? There are very few things that could be able to do such a thing.''


    "Show me the way." Jax stood up, and went after Malcolm. A few minutes later, they arrived in the room, where the young woman was laying unconscious in bed. She was a very beautiful woman, with pretty face and nice skin. She had black hair.


    "So how did this happen? Did she fight with someone recently, or ate something and fall unconscious?" Jax asked. He checked her with his skills, but he didn''t find anything in her body.


    "She was fighting some rebels and bandits, and was cut by one of them, it was only a superficial wound, that healed a few minutes later. And she didn''t eat anything." Malcolm answered. ''Nothing in her body, so probably it isn''t related to some poison. We can exclude something like poisoning using things like carbon monoxide, or other non magic things. There are only a few options. One is that something cut the connection between her soul and body to some degree, or someone poisoned her using energy. It could also be a direct wound to the soul. I shouldn''t check it until, I am sure it can''t attack me.''


    "Do you have a weapon she was wounded with?" Jax asked, without it, his options would be limited. Malcolm nodded and ask guards to bring it. A few minutes later, guards arrived with the box.


    "Here it is, your majesty." The guard bowed, and gave the box to Malcolm. He opened it, and inside was a dagger with odd inscriptions.


    "Malcolm, bring me some slaves, I need to test this thing." Jax said.


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    Some time later, at the Dragon Kingdom secret laboratory, Jax cut a male slave with the dagger. The slave started to scream, but nothing happened to him.


    "Malcolm, how long did it take for your sister to feel any effects?" Jax turned to Malcolm, who was with him.


    "Her companions said she seemed ill a few hours after the battle." He replied.


    "Let''s wait then." A few hours went by, but slave was fine." Strange, so it wasn''t an accident," Jax said.


    "And why do you think so?" Malcolm was curious.


    "It didn''t work on the man. Yeah, you can say that maybe it''s a mistake, but something that could hurt your sister so much isn''t ordinary. But if that doesn''t work on men, it''s only on women, which means."


    "She was targeted, at least some other woman." Malcolm finished, and Jax nodded.


    "Exactly, we need to check how it will work on women." Malcolm nodded. Guards brought a female slave, and Jax cut her using a dagger.


    ...


    A few hours later, nothing happened.


    "So dagger needs something to activate. Well, the only way to find out is to give her your blood. If that works, you will have hands full of work." Jax took a vial of Malcolm blood, and injected it into a female slave. The woman started to wriggle on the table, trying to escape. It was a reaction to getting Malcolm''s blood into her bloodstream. Jax used his magic to help the process succeed. Some time later, everything was finished.


    "It''s amazing you can do such a thing." Malcolm praised Jax.


    "Yes and no. To make it fully work, I would need to weaken your blood exponentially. There is also conflict of affinities, mutations, etc. What I did was just a half-assed product, that is just enough for our investigation." Jax shook his head. He then stabbed the woman with the dagger. A few hours later, the woman lost consciousness, and soon after, she died. Jax sighed.


    "I recommend you to look for your enemies. I can assure you, it''s no one from my country, and even if that is the case. It wasn''t Elizabeth''s fault." Jax said, to mad Malcolm.


    "Well, I know that, and it''s nice you protect your fianc¨¦." He smiled, and Jax wasn''t surprised he knew. There are spies all the time surrounding him.


    "Back to the topic, I can now recreate how it went. To be honest, I can try to heal your sister even now, but I don''t know if I can succeed. So just send me some more slaves." Malcolm nodded.


    ...


    One day later.


    "So, what did you find out?" Malcolm asked curiously. ''Only a day passed.''


    "Well, I will skip unnecessary details. That''s a dagger, something that theoretically shouldn''t exist. When it comes into contact with someone who has dragon blood, it infuses their soul with the death dragon''s will. It acts like a parasite that takes over part of the victim''s soul, and because of the dragon character, it causes victim dragon will, and death dragon will to collide. Because of what kind of existence death dragon is, it always wins, but fortunately for your sister, greater regeneration serum, gave her soul and body a lot of vitality, which helped in surviving."


    "So what can we do then?" Malcolm asked, desperate to save his sister. Jax smiled.


    "One way is to just let her dragon will try to win against death dragon will, which is suicide. The other is to help weaken it, which is very hard." Jax said.


    "Wait! We have, something called a dagger of life inside our treasury." Malcolm stood up, but Jax stopped him.


    "You want her to explode? If death and life crash in a normal person, they have small chances to succeed, but she will die."


    "So, what am I supposed to do?" Malcolm knew, he couldn''t try to act superior here.


    "Well, the next option is for me to just go inside your sister''s soul and help her." Jax said.


    "Are you sure that you can do it?" Malcolm was sceptical. Soul is one of the most complicated magic category.


    "Yeah I am, also it''s the best choice, the more we wait, the more damage death dragon will, will cause." Jax went to Malcolm''s sister.

 Confrontation

    "What am I supposed to do?" Malcolm asked. He was a supreme swordsman, he knew a few things about magic, but he wasn''t an expert.


    "I will touch your sister''s head and heart, after that, I will create a temporary soul link, between my soul and hers. This will cause me to lose consciousness, and you need to guard me. After I''m done, I will wake up. Also, if she wakes up before me, you need to make her not shake my hands off." Malcolm nodded. Jax then placed one hand on Malcolm''s sister''s forehead and the other near hers left breast.'' This will be unpleasant'' he sighed and connected his soul to Malcolm''s sister''s soul.'' Malcolm saw how Jax went limp and laid down his head, and most of his body was on his sister''s body.


    "I hope everything will go well." Malcolm said that and prayed.


    ....


    "It''s an interesting feeling to be inside someone soul" Jax said while wandering in empty space. To be precise, it wasn''t completely empty space, but Jax created a barrier around him to push the soul contents aside, to not taint it. He looked at different memories of Malcolm''s sister, whose name he saw in her memories.


    "Maya? Nice name." He said and went deeper into her soul. He found a nickname of Malcolm ''little Mal''. Jax found it useful to irritate him. Some time later, he found the place where the death dragon will was. He saw that it was fighting with Maya''s own dragon will. Dragon will is something that all dragons or their descendants have. Their ego and character are everything. It is the core of their being. It can''t be accessed, by just wanting. The dragon will only work under certain conditions. Life and death is one of them. The Maya dragon will look like a typical dragon, with red scales, and fire coming from its mouth. Death dragon will, looked like a rotting corpse of dragon, it''s scales were pitch black, and from its mouth came a dark mist. Jax saw that something was amiss with the death dragon will.


    "It''s corrupted? No, it''s controlled." He saw that the core of the death dragon will had spells engraved into it. "So the dagger isn''t as simple as just to inject death dragon will into the victim." Jax smiled and pointed his hand towards the death dragon will. Then he used his divine power to capture it.


    "ROAR!" Death dragon will tried to resist, but it was soon captured and was in the palm of Jax''s hand. He then spent some time deleting all spells from its core.


    ...


    "So you are telling me you are an ancient dragoness called Hel?" Jax asked.


    "Yeah, my physical body was destroyed, but my soul was fused with the dagger. Originally, I was supposed to be fused with some dragon, but someone changed the entire structure of the dagger." The Hel replied.


    "So, what are you planning to do?" Jax asked. Hel knew that her existence depended on her answer.


    "I can''t do anything. If you free me, I will help that girl." She said.


    "And you think I believe you?" Jax asked, amused.


    "I don''t. But I swear upon my true name, and in the name of the beast god, I Hel will not harm that girl." Jax saw that chains appeared on Hel''s dragon will. ''So she is sincere'' Jax was pleased.


    "Sure, I will help you, but I want something in return." He wouldn''t leave it be.


    "I will not give you my heart." She said.


    "I don''t want your heart, just give me a portion of your power." He said. After that, Jax felt that death energy was feeling his soul.


    "Okay, I have done it" She said.


    "So, what am I supposed to do?" He asked.


    "Well, just plunge a dagger into this girl''s heart." Hel was brutally honest.


    "Sure" Jax nodded. He then cut off his connection to Maya soul.


    ....


    Malcolm was covering Jax and Maya in his aura.


    "I hope it will go well." Malcolm said.


    "It went well, but you will not like what I will say" Jax said. He was back in the normal world.


    "What do you mean I will not like it?" Malcolm was nervous.


    "You know, the dagger that made her into this state, right?" Jax asked


    "Yes?" Malcolm was confused.


    "Well, I need to plunge it into her heart"


    "Just repeat what you said, because I think I didn''t heard you correctly."


    "I need to Plunge a Dagger Into Your Sister''s Heart" Jax explained once more.


    "You aren''t serious?" Malcolm asked.


    "I can swear on Herodot''s name that it''s something I need to do" Jax said without any discomfort, while being under Malcolm''s aura.


    "If she dies, I will skin you alive." Malcolm said it through his teeth.


    "Yeah, yeah, I get it." Jax took the dagger and plunged it into the Maya''s heart. The dagger started to glow, and after that, it melted and fused with Maya''s body. Her body started to change. Her hair became even darker, and she gained white hair tips. Maya''s skin became completely pale, and her nails turned black. After that, Maya woke up, and opened her eyes. Jax was able to see how they changed from golden to dark gold.


    "Where am I?" Maya asked.


    "It will be a long story." Malcolm said.


    ...


    "So that dagger contained the soul of the death dragon, and you plunged it into my chest?!" Maya was mad at what Jax did. He, however, didn''t care.


    "You don''t need to worry, death dragon made a promise to not harm you, and it was a promise made, by using the beast god name, and her true name. Also, I placed myself some seals, into that soul." Jax said. Maya calmed down after hearing this.


    This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere."Can you tell me what consequences it will have for me?" Maya asked. She was scared of what would happen. Will she turn into some beast?


    "Well, you gain the power of death, although it''s limited to your understanding. Necromancy is one road you can take. Also, your appearance can change over time, the closer you are to death, more changes will appear."


    "So I can control death?" Maya asked excitedly


    "Do you really think you, as a mortal, can wield death so easily? Are you a kid? I told you, you have the power of death, but having and using it, are miles apart." Jax mocked Maya''s thoughts. Maya became mad. ''How dare he say something like that to me?''


    "I will show you, I can control it!" Maya yelled, and stood up from her bed, and ran away from the room. Jax looked at Malcolm.


    "Is that really your sister?" He asked. Malcolm wasn''t sure himself.


    "She doesn''t like when someone is mocking her." He explained.


    "Not my problem. She just doesn''t understand that there are limitations on everything. The good thing is that the death dragon, will not allow its vessel to just destroy itself. She is safe, but she will probably be bedridden, if she tries to use that power too much." Jax shrugged. Maya being unreasonable wasn''t his problem.


    "I will try to keep her in check."


    "Sure, btw, show me that dagger of life, you have." Jax said. Malcolm nodded. ''That dagger can be the same as the death dragon dagger'' Malcolm thought.


    ...


    "These are doors to the treasury" Malcolm said. They were in front of big doors, that were covered by countless formations.


    ''High-grade metals, very complicated arrays, and connected to the mana vein. It would take at least a week to safely open them.'' Jax thought. Malcolm used his aura to open the mechanism. When Malcolm finished infusing his aura into them, they opened. Malcolm then gestured for Jax to follow him. A few minutes later, Jax was in an enormous room filled with riches.


    "Gold, silver, enchanted weapons, legendary potions. Nice collection you have here." Jax praised the Dragon Kingdom treasury. "In the future, I can improve it." Jax had an idea of how to increase the defensive mechanisms of treasury.


    "Sure, we will talk about it. The dagger is hidden." Malcolm went to the side of the treasury, and took a disk from his suit. It was made from gold. He inserted it into the wall. Then a secret passage appeared. Jax whistled.


    "It''s probably not the only hidden passage here?" Malcolm only smiled. He then gestured for Jax to wait. Jax started to look around. He found something interesting. It was a black, shiny rock. Jax used [Appraisal].


    [Heavenly metal ore: It''s a piece of heavenly metal ore. Heavenly metal is an extremely durable, and flexible metal. It has great compatibility with its wielder. It''s metal from another world]


    ''So it''s something that doesn''t exist here, but why can I access that information? It isn''t native to this world. The only way is that because my soul also isn''t native, so it allows me to pass restrictions.'' Jax wanted more pieces of that metal. ''Well, I don''t think my fianc¨¦ will ask me why I need this.'' He smiled at this thought. A few minutes later, Malcolm exited the hidden passage with the box in his hands. He then opened it, revealing a shiny white dagger, and handed it to Jax. Jax inspected it, and a few minutes later he knew the answer.


    "It''s the same thing as a death dragon dagger, but it could probably have a good effect on you. I don''t know if that will work on someone without dragon blood, or if you can use it multiple times. To be honest, I don''t recommend stabbing yourself with it."


    "The soul inside doesn''t need to work exactly as a stereotyped life dragon." Malcolm replied. To which Jax nodded.


    "It''s possible that this dragon wanted to just torture its victims by healing, or experimenting on them. And that its soul was transformed into this dagger as punishment. What do legends say about it?" Jax asked.


    "My father told me that, our ancestor was hunted by assassins sent, by his enemies. He then hid inside caves, and found this dagger. It healed all his wounds, and it even increased his strength. It didn''t work again, though. Everyone tried to activate it somehow, but no one succeeded. We blame it on the low level of dragon blood inside our veins, compared to our ancestor." Malcolm''s explanation was rational in Jax''s mind. ''It''s possible that is the case, also the damage suffered by Malcolm ancestor needed to be big, maybe something like half of internal organs damaged or broken.''


    "Well, so what do you want as a reward?" Malcolm wanted to keep his word. Jax threw at him heavenly metal ore. He caught it effortlessly.


    "That rock? You probably discovered something that, no one knows." This time, it was Jax who smiled.


    "It''s my secret. I want all the stones you can get, and I want the opportunity in the future to test this dagger."


    "Sure." Malcolm nodded, and they shook hands.

 New Experiment

    "Bring another slave!" Jax yelled, and a few minutes later guards appeared, with a new slave, and they handed him, why this man was a slave.


    "So pedophile, huh? I needed someone like you. I don''t like using my energy to give anesthesia." Jax said. He arranged that every slave he used, had his or her entire history marked on paper. If someone wasn''t bad, he sent them to his land, as workers. People like pedophiles however, were subjected to the worst experiments Jax worked on. He paralyzed the old man. Then he injected old man with modified greater regeneration serum. A few minutes later, it was completely fused. Jax went to the side of the room, and started to look for some tools.


    "I like to keep the mouths of people like you still operational, because I love hearing how you beg for mercy. When you couldn''t do it for children, you raped and killed. I will not show you mercy." Jax finished finding tools he needed. He then created a very deep cut, using a scalpel, on the entire thigh of the old man. Jax cut so deep, that he was able to see bones. Then he used tongs to expand the wound.


    "Don''t worry you will eventually die" in the old man eyes Jax saw hope, but he extinguished it, by getting a pot with melting metal and pouring it on the man bones. The old man hissed in pain."but only when I allow it" Jax added.


    ...


    "So it''s possible to fuse bones with metal." Jax said, while looking at the old man dead body. Its face was distorted into face of pain and despair. "At least you did something good in your rotten life." When Jax poured liquid metal on old man''s bones, he used magic to create a bond between metal and the body. He wasn''t able to do that on a large scale, but on small fragments of the bones he was able to create a bond. Thanks to the bond, metal and bones will be inseparable, and will not cause any problems for the body, like poisoning. Although person will be weaker because muscles aren''t accustomed to carry such weight. For Jax it was funny joke.


    "People tend to look down on [Adaptive Body] because to use it effectively you need to increase it to at least second or third level. Before it''s nothing much, and to increase it to such level you need decades. And even then because of how old person body is, it just helps to not feel so bad. The only use people found the [Adaptive Body] to be useful is for merchants that travel through the entire world. But if someone wants to effectively change their body, it''s the most important ability" Jax smiled, and asked for more slaves.


    ....


    Jax was standing outside the room. He closed his eyes and focused on using his abilities and senses to the maximum.


    "Everything is going well, for now." Jax smiled. Some time later, he heard a cry. He entered the room. Inside his mother and father were crying, and Abigail held white cloth near her chest. Inside this white cloth, was a newborn baby. Jax cast few spells, and gave Abigail potions to help her regain strength. He nodded when he saw that, Abigail was only tired and her body was already regenerated. He then asked.


    "So, what name do you want to give her?" His question shocked everyone.


    "So you already knew?" Abigail asked, and Jax nodded.


    "I just didn''t want to ruin your surprise" He replied." So what you choose?" Jax asked again. Abigail and Haytham smiled at each other.


    "We both know, that without your serum, she would never be born. So we wanted for you to help with that matter. Of course, we must like it to accept." Haytham said. Jax felt warm inside, and started to think about the name.


    ''Well, she is miracle for us, so let''s go with that.''


    "How about Angelica?" Jax asked. Abigail and Haytham, looked at each other and smiled.


    "Yeah, that''s a great name" Abigail nodded.


    ....


    "She is so cute! Unlike her big brother" said Elizabeth. Jax felt offended.


    "You know you are talking about your husband?" Jax asked.


    "I don''t care. She is just cute." Elizabeth was holding Angelica in her arms. Jax was happy, that Angelica seemed to like Elizabeth, but he also saw sadness hidden deeply inside Elizabeth eyes. When Elizabeth gave Angelica to Abigail, Jax held her hand tightly. Elizabeth was on the verge of tears.


    Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon."I know." That''s all he said, and pardoned himself and Elizabeth. When they entered the room and Jax closed the door, Elizabeth started to cry.


    "Just let it out." Jax hugged Elizabeth and caressed her head.


    ...


    Jax was again at Phoenix Kingdom laboratory.


    "Angelica, your big brother will give you something amazing." Jax said to himself. When Jax checked the status of Angelica he saw, that she also had [Adaptive Body], and greater regeneration was passed to her, from their parents. Jax needed to finish, as quickly as possible, the entire process of fusing bone and metal together. When Jax was deep in thoughts, guards brought the slave to him. It was a middle age man. Jax checked his papers.


    "Stealing, killing a guard who was after you, other minor crimes." Jax looked at the slave." Well you are quite lucky, thanks to you, not doing something extremely bad, your death will be painless." Jax wouldn''t keep him alive, but he wouldn''t torture him too much. Jax put man into sleep using a spell. He then opened the man''s arm.


    "Let''s try now with something like orichalcum." Jax poured the liquid orichalcum on the bones, of the slave. After that, he started to use, man''s aura to bond metal with his body.


    "So the more mana conductive metal is, the easier bonding process is going." Jax looked at the unconscious man." You aren''t aware, but your body is now worth the same as several villages." Jax checked more things, and left to get his reward.


    ...


    "We could only get this much" Malcolm said, displeased. He thought his country could get more, but reality disappointed him.


    "It isn''t your fault. Also, these should be enough for now. It''s not like, I need to worry, you will get more in future." Jax replied. He was looking at a hundred ores of Heavenly Metal. ''This should be enough for now, I can use it for my goals, and have some left.'' Jax turned to leave, after taking all the ores, but something stopped him. He caught dagger between his fingers. He felt that this dagger had specific aura. ''Death aura''


    "Tch, I thought I caught you there." Said Maya, who appeared in front of the Jax face. Jax twirled the dagger in his hand, and looked deep into Maya eyes.


    "You know, I didn''t want to do that, but you should know how to show respect." Maya looked at him without fear.


    "I must admit you have some skills, but I am someone greater than you. You are just average noble. I am sister of the dragon king." Maya boasted herself, and held her chest high. Jax throw a glance towards Malcolm who nodded. Jax sighed.


    "Stop." Maya paused. She wanted to say something, but she couldn''t move or do anything else. Jax grabbed her arm.


    "You know what''s the most painful thing to regenerate? That thing is the nerves." Jax took the dagger he caught, and infused it with his own death aura. Then Maya felt that her arm is cut, and then she felt the worst pain she ever felt. But she couldn''t say anything or do, because she was paralyzed.


    "What did you do?" Malcolm asked, without any anger. He knew his sister deserved it.


    "I used my power to kill every non-essential nerve in her body. She will regenerate it over and over. Everything will be gone, after a few hours." Jax replied, and then he turned to look deeply into Maya eyes.


    "The only reason that you are still alive is because you didn''t throw it, with killing intent, but if you do such thing again. I will rip out Hel, and your entire death power, and believe me your body will crumble. And the only person who could and will save you, will be me. Get it?" Jax didn''t wait for the answer and exited the room. A few moments later, Malcolm sighed, and Maya felt killing intent coming from her brother body.


    "I give you warning. Don''t you dare to mess with him. He already had a weapon that can rival my power, and probably, no, for sure he made it even more powerful. " He then left his sister to endure the pain she was in.

 Birthday

    "Our country will be in uproar in a few days." Jax said it with a smile. Elizabeth sighed at it.


    "This is an understatement. After our engagement becomes public, everyone will talk about it." Elizabeth already felt a headache.


    "Well, for me, it''s freedom, from feeling like a pedophile. But maybe some older woman will send me a proposal letter." Jax said teasingly. Elizabeth hit the table.


    "As if I allow you, to get more wives. You are mine alone!" She yelled, and then she realized her words, and became red like a tomato from shame. Jax started to laugh at her expense.


    "I am yours? From when?" He asked with the amusement in his voice.


    "You idiot. Why do you need to tease me?" She asked, pouting. He smiled and caressed her hair. When she felt his touch, she looked at him.


    "I am yours. I will get more wives, only if you agree." She liked his touch. Although his body was that of a child, she was happy that she could rely on him. They wanted to spend more time like this, but someone had different plans.


    "Akhem, I understand you are engaged, but wait for some time, until Jax grows up." Eleonora appeared in Elizabeth''s room. Elizabeth was thrown away from that feeling and was angry.


    "Can''t you give us some time alone?" She asked.


    "I gave you a lot of time. He was doing that already for 10 minutes, we also need to prepare you for his birthday." She then turned towards Jax. "Son-in-law, I''m sorry, but could you return home? We will see each other in a few days." Jax stood up and bowed to Eleonora.


    "Of course, mother-in-law." He smiled at Elizabeth and exited the room. Eleonora waited a few minutes, and she turned towards her daughter.


    "So you have already fallen in love with him?" She asked directly.


    "No, I didn''t!" Elizabeth yelled. She didn''t want to admit it to Eleonora. She already knew that she fell in love with Jax, but only she knows that he isn''t a child. From other people''s perspectives, she is a pedophile.


    "We both know, it''s not true. Jax knows it too. Listen, I want you to be happy. And for that, you need to be honest. With yourself and him." Eleonora advised her daughter.


    "How can I say something like that to him? He is just a kid." Elizabeth asked.


    "Just say it. Also, Jax loves you. Did you see how he looks at you? How he is with you every time you have breakdowns?" Eleonora only shook her. "Think about it, but now we must prepare you." She clapped her hands and maids came into the room.


    ....


    "Jax, we must prepare you, for your birthday," Abigail said, and clapped her hands. Maids came into the room. A few hours later, Jax was sure about one thing. ''Fuck me, I prefer fighting the entire Frozen Mountains region, than to being here a minute later.'' Jax didn''t need to learn any etiquette, or other skills, because he already mastered them. But he needed to take part in trials of the entire thing. He was also forced to pick a suit and help his mother pick a dress and accessories. Jax didn''t like it, but he understood how important it was for his family, so he just went with the flow.


    ...


    "Happy birthday, darling." Abigail hugged Jax, and he hugged her back.


    "Thanks, mom," he said.


    "So, son, you are now nine years old. I am curious how, you will handle your popularity after today." Haytham smiled at Jax, who knew it would be annoying. Today, he will become the second most important person in the country, which will cause everyone to want to know his face.


    "There is nothing I can do, also it can help me." Jax shook his head, and he went with his parents to the main hall. The entire main hall was busy, staff was walking around preparing tables, chairs and everything. The entire hall could probably hold 100 or more people. At the opposite end of the main doors, there was a platform, where five chairs were placed. Each of them was made from high-quality wood and decorated with gold. ''We need to show our status.'' Jax thought. Haytham sat in the middle chair, and Abigail sat to his right. Jax sat at Haytham''s left. On the Jax left side, two remaining seats were placed. Some time later, the first guests appeared. They walked up to the platform.


    "It''s nice to see you clan head and you, madam. We congratulate you on having a new child." One guest greeted Abigail and Haytham


    "Thank you very much. We appreciate your kind words" Haytham answered politely. They turned towards Jax.


    "Young master, happy birthday. We brought a small gift for you." Guest gave Jax a box, that contained gold. Jax bowed to the guest.


    "Thank you. I hope you will have fun on my birthday." Jax said. After that, more and more people came to Jax and his family. Some even made subtle remarks about how their daughters admired Jax, and even showed their portraits or brought them in person. ''Just a little longer, and I will be free from having to deal with them.''


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    A few hours later, most of the guests appeared.


    "Do you like it, son?" Haytham already knew the answer.


    "It isn''t a bad thing, but I prefer doing what I want, when I want." Jax replied, he wanted to add something, but he heard that the main doors had opened. The view took his breath away.


    "Her majesty." Someone whispered, and everyone bowed. Elizabeth walked into the hall with her mother. She was wearing a red dress that was tight around her waist, emphasizing her curves. Her hair was loose on her back and was reaching her elbows. She had light makeup on her face. Haytham looked, at Jax, who looked as if he saw the goddess. He smiled at this. ''Ahh, the youth. I was the same, when I saw your mother for the first time. It didn''t change, though, she is still the most beautiful woman I know.'' While thinking, Haytham looked at Abigail and smiled. Abigail understood, her husband''s thoughts, and blushed.


    "You don''t need to bow down." At Eleonora''s words, everyone straightened their backs. She smiled and continued." It''s a pleasure for me to be here, as we all know how much Jax did for this country, and in my consideration, I decided I will give him the most important fragment of my life." ''No, no, it can''t be.'' everyone thought.


    "I, the late Queen Eleonora, am announcing the engagement between my daughter, Queen Elizabeth, and Jax from the Zephir Clan." She said that and walked with Elizabeth to the seats on the platform.


    "Could I take your seat, son-in-law? I need to speak with your parents." Jax stood up and gave her his seat.


    "Of course, mother-in-law." He said that and went to sit on another one, and Elizabeth sat on his left. The entire hall was whispering about what happened.


    "The late queen is giving her majesty to the young master? I don''t believe it," whispered a man.


    "Yeah, I know that. Ahh, hopes to get my daughter with him are over." whispered another one.


    ....


    Jax held out his hand, and took Elizabeth''s hand, and held it. Elizabeth wanted to shake his hand, but he didn''t let her go.


    "Idiot, people will see us. Wait a minute. Elizabeth felt something was off, and focused her senses, and looked at Jax, who only smiled." You already created an illusion around us?!" Jax held her hand tighter.


    "Well, it isn''t some complicated illusion, but for people here, it is enough. And people who can see through this, are people who know well enough. I''m someone beyond normal mental age." He smiled and brought her closer. Elizabeth was embarrassed, but she put her head on his shoulder. Jax was extremely tall for his age. He was 160cm tall. He contributed it to the divine orc lineage. Jax estimated he will be at least 2m tall at the age of 16, but he knew how to stop it, so he will end up at 1.9m. For him, more would be troublesome.


    "You know, you didn''t say anything about my looks." she said.


    "Did I tell you, that I met goddess in the past?" He asked.


    "No, you are lying. Wait, you are telling the truth. Oh, my Gods, you really did!" Elizabeth was shocked, because it was extremely rare for people to see gods. They only hear the voices.


    "Yeah, I did. She was extremely beautiful to the point that I acquired [Charm Resistance]" Jax smiled at this memory. It was an extremely important day for him. Thanks to it, he got companions for his entire life.


    "Well, I''m not a goddess, I am only a mortal." She rolled her eyes. Jax felt some jealousy from her, but his next words wiped that feeling away.


    "But for me, today, you are more beautiful than the goddess that day." His words caused Elizabeth''s heart to skip a bit, and her face became completely red.


    "You idiot, you shouldn''t say something like that. What if the goddess hears you?!" She said. ''Are you angry, Shiro?'' Jax asked in his mind with a laugh. He got laughter in reply. ''Of course not. I don''t care about it.'' she said. She was happy about Jax relationship.


    "Why should I fear the goddess when I have one by my side?" He replied, while grabbing Elizabeth''s waist. She didn''t say anything, but Jax felt her heartbeat increasing. On the right side of Jax, Eleonora looked at them. ''He created an illusion, immediately after we sat down. Really, if he didn''t have such a young body, I would already have a few grandchildren.'' Eleonora was able to see completely through the illusion, although she couldn''t hear what they said.


    "So when do you think we should organise a wedding?" Eleonora asked Abigail.


    "Normally when he finishes 16 years old. But knowing my son, he will do something to mature in a few years. So let''s wait until his body matures." Eleonora nodded.


    "Can I have any decision in that?" Haytham asked.


    "No" Eleonora and Abigail replied at the same time.

 Adventure Guild

    "The adventure gild is preparing an expedition, it will probably start half a year from now. They discovered some old ruins, you will be interested." Elizabeth handed documents to Jax. He read them for a few minutes.


    "They found runes of the Old Empire. It doesn''t look good." Jax handed back the files. Elizabeth was nervous after Jax''s reply.


    "What do you mean, ''it doesn''t look good''?"


    If that was something really dangerous, she must do something.


    "Well, the runs they drew in the files mean things like: danger, containment, seal, etc. As you know, the Old Empire was way less advanced compared to today, but their experiments were extremely more advanced and dangerous compared to ours. They didn''t care about who they threw into the experiment."


    Jax wasn''t against human experiments, without them, he would never achieve as much as he did, but the Old Empire was completely insane. They destroyed most of the world''s mana veins, polluted entire lakes, and eliminated a lot of living creatures. If Jax were to compare it, his experiments were playing with fire in a house with a fire extinguisher in hand, Ainz experiments were similar, but without a fire extinguisher. The Old Empire set fire in a forest that hadn''t seen rain in decades, and left it be.


    "So, what do you propose?" She didn''t want to send Jax there.


    "Well, if Adventure Guild found it and made it public. The danger is at the level of a grandmaster knight or mage, which is in my safe range. If the Old Empire sealed there something at the supreme level, we would only know when it''s too late." Jax''s reply didn''t make Elizabeth calm.


    "You shouldn''t go there. I will send some people there." She said. Jax walked to her and hugged her.


    "I know you worry about me, but I know how to take care of myself. Just believe in your husband." He softly reassured her.


    "Just be careful. I don''t want to lose you." Elizabeth didn''t want to let Jax go. She didn''t want to lose another man she loved. Jax convinced her for a few more minutes, before she let him go. Elizabeth made him vow that he would come back safe. He did that without hesitation.


    ...


    "Hey, Miss Liz, are there any new commissions?" A big, burly man asked a woman behind a desk. The woman shook her head.


    "There aren''t any at your level, only some basic ones like picking herbs or goblin bounty. But there are some, at a higher level, that you could team up with someone to complete." Said woman, called Liz. She was a young woman with curly blond hair, and green eyes. When the man went to look for some quests on the board, doors opened. People inside briefly looked in that direction, but went back to their business. The man walked inside.


    "I want to register as an adventurer." The man''s voice was rough and deep, but also quite young. The man looked like he was in his mid-twenties. He was 170cm tall and had brown hair and brown eyes. His face was average.


    "Sure, but I need your name. You will start from the copper rank, or if you have money, you can call for a special exam." The man took a big sack of money and put it on the counter.


    "My name is Max, and I want a special exam." Max''s announcement caused him to be covered in gazes. Liz was shocked, but she quickly got a grip on herself and went upstairs with the money. In a few minutes, she appeared again, with a man. Man looked towards Max.


    "Are you Max?" He asked, and Max nodded." Follow me," he ordered.


    ...


    The man led Max into the round, closed arena, that was in the adventure guild building.


    "So Max, I''m Jerome, and I am a silver-rank adventurer. The rules are simple, you need to fight me. Depending on how well you do. I can give you a rank. If you defeat me, you can try someone better, this will be free, but you will wait a few days. So start when you are ready." Jerome said. Max took a stand, and pulled out the sword from his waist belt. It was a normal long sword. Jerome observed how Max took a stand. ''He has experience, he is standing confidently and ready for attack or defense. It will be interesting''. Max disappeared, and Jerome raised his right arm. The sound of clashing metal spread through the arena.


    The narrative has been illicitly obtained; should you discover it on Amazon, report the violation."Nice move, if I didn''t have [Steel Skin] I would lose my life." Jerome smiled and punched Max with his other hand. However, Max crouched down and hit, Jerome in the stomach. Jerome was shocked, by the strength of the punch, and he was forced to take a few steps back. Max used this chance to stab his sword towards Jerome''s heart. Jerome smiled.


    "That should be enough, kid. You passed." Jerome was holding a sword in his hand, millimeters from his body. Max sheathed his sword back.


    "So what rank did I get?" Max asked.


    "You got the same as me. I can''t give you more, because it''s rank beyond me." Jerome said it apologetically. Max just shook his head.


    "That''s enough for me, I need some experience, and getting a higher rank would just make people doubt the adventure guild." Max replied. Jerome was satisfied. ''He understands rules and how they work. Why other people can''t understand it, especially those noble brats'' Young people very often try to be heroes, or get high rank, just to be killed by some goblin''.


    "Well, come here tomorrow. Normally, it takes a few hours to get a copper plate, but after an exam. Additional procedures must be done." Jerome replied.


    "I understand." Max replied.


    ...


    "I need a room for a few days." Max put a few coins on the table in the inn. A middle-aged man looked at them, and checked to see if they were real. He then turned around, and took the key from the wall.


    "Go upstairs and go right. Your room is at the end of the hallway. If you want food delivered to your room, you need to pay extra." Man explained. Max just shook his head.


    "Thanks, but I don''t need it." He took the key and went upstairs to his room. When he entered. Max saw that this room consisted of some straw bed, old chair and small table with the oil lamp.


    "Well, it isn''t some high-quality room, but it is enough for me." He lay down on the bed.


    ...


    "What did you just say?!" The man kneeling on the ground was sweating. ''I need to be careful!''. He took a long breath.


    "I didn''t mean to offend you, your majesty. My Lord is just deeply concerned about your future." The man didn''t dare to lift his head. His face paled when he heard laughter and the sound of steps.


    "So you dare to come to my palace, shaming my fianc¨¦. Who are you to say that? Who are you to decide who I should marry?" The man heard the steps clearer.


    "I didn''t mean to. My lord is concerned, because he is just a child, also he wa" he didn''t finish because a hand grabbed his face, and forced him to look up. He saw the furious face of the queen.


    "I am engaged to him, because I agreed to it. You say he is a mere child. But try to compare what your lord did in his life, compared to what he, a mere child, did. You for sure see it."


    "I, I" Man stuttered. He tried to calm himself down, but he felt a burning feeling. He saw that his body was set ablaze.


    "I''m tired of it. Guards throw this trash to the pigs." Elizabeth went to her room. When she arrived, she sat down, and sighed.


    "It''s funny, you have been gone for a few days, and they already want to slander you." She looked out the window. "Please come back soon, Jax." She said.

 First Mission

    "I''m here for my plate." Max walked to the counter. Liz put a silver plate on the table.


    "I congratulate you on becoming a silver rank adventurer. Pick whatever job you want from the board. You can''t take jobs that are two ranks above you. Your limit is gold." Liz explained while pointing at the board. The quest board was just a wooden square on the wall. That had pinned papers on it. Max walked toward it, and looked through quests.


    "Hunt wolves in the forest, reward 5 silvers. Bring purple snake eggs, 1 silver per egg..." Max read through, all the quests for his rank and gold rank. Finally, he took one of it, and put it in front of the Liz. She looked through it, and looked deeply into Max eyes.


    "Are you sure? Even for gold rank quests, it''s extremely difficult." Liz asked.


    "I''m sure." Liz sighed.


    "You know that we aren''t responsible if you die during that quest?" Liz tried to convince Max.


    "I understand that, and I want this quest." Max didn''t change his mind. Liz just took the paper and registered it on Max name.


    "If you fail the quest, you need to pay 5 gold coins." Max nodded and exited the adventure guild. He headed towards the forest.


    ....


    "Stone bears, should be somewhere around here." Max hid on the tree. Quest he took is to kill and bring, hearts of stone bears. They were powerful opponents, for people who aren''t knights or mages. Max could fight them head on, but it would be stupid, when he can just create traps. First, he started to dig a big hole in the ground. It took him some time, but he was able to dig the hole with diameter of 1m and deep for 3m. He started to plant into the ground, spikes made from metal, that he bought using money. Max also took a bottle and poured its contents on the spikes.


    After that, Max created cover using branches that were laying on the ground.


    "It is enough to support small animals, the stone bear will fall through it in a few seconds." Max then searched for the stone bear. It took him a few minutes to find one. The bear had dark brown fur, and stone covering its body, like an armour. Stone bear isn''t much stronger compared to average bear, but its durability is a problem. Max throw the stone at it to draw it attention. It started to growl, but didn''t run towards Max.


    "Just the stone will not be enough to make bear chasing me." Max said, and throw a dagger towards bear eye. Eyes, paws and other places weren''t covered, by the stone. They are most exploited weaknesses against stone bear. Another weakness, is how slow the stone bear is.


    "Growl!" The bear started to growl in pain, when the dagger stabbed his eye. The dagger felt down, but the eye was permanently damaged. Bear looked at Max with an eye full of hate, and started to run towards him. Max led the bear towards the pit. Max run through the cover, because he didn''t want to alarm bear. He then stood still, and acted as if he was out of breath.


    "Growl!" Bear was excited, that its prey was already out of breath, and walked towards Max, but then it felt into the pit. The spikes penetrated it paws, and joints. Max waited. A few minutes later, the bear stopped moving.


    "Poison took some time." Max jumped into the pit, and cut open the bear chest, and took out a stone bear heart. "One gone, I need two more" He jumped from the pit, and prepared the trap again, in a different place.


    ....


    "Oh, look who''s there? Aura? A person who can''t create a magic circle or aura ring? How pathetic. She is a disgrace of her family." Young girl, mocked Aura. Aura, on another hand, just quietly endured it. The girl wasn''t happy that aura didn''t react. And tried once again.


    "What, you lost your hearing? It''s the best for you to just drop out, or go to civilian path, but I don''t think they would even want someone like you." Aura didn''t respond, and the girl went to her another victim. After the lessons ended, Aura went to her room in the academy dormitory. She started to meditate, but very soon she started to caught a blood, after that she started to cry.


    "Why can''t I, create circle or ring. I am disgrace. She is right, I can''t do anything." Aura looked in a mirror she had in her room. Her short blonde hair were in a mess, and her red eyes were wet from tears. She took a chair in her room, and throw it at the mirror, which upon the hit shattered. She took a piece of glass.


    "I''m sorry father, mother. Your daughter is a disgrace, I will leave that world to not bring any more shame." When she touched her skin with a glass shard, she found everything around her became black.


    "Do you want to become stronger?" She heard a voice. She looked around, but couldn''t find anything.


    "You will not find me, I will ask you again. Do you want to become stronger?" She couldn''t tell the gender of the voice, but the voice calmed her down. She clenched her hands, and looked deep into the abyss.


    You might be reading a stolen copy. Visit Royal Road for the authentic version."I want to become stronger. I will do anything you want." When Aura replied, she felt that some energy surrounded her body.


    "Good. I will give you opportunity to become much stronger, but remember everything have a price. I will engrave a spell on your soul, it''s your last chance to refuse, after that there is no coming back." Voice warned Aura.


    "I understand. I, Aura from the clan of magic and sword, pledge my loyalty to you." After that, she felt some powerful energy entering her body, and when it finished, she found herself back in her room. She stood up. Aura didn''t feel any change.


    "How stupid of me. How could someone give me an opportunity." She mocked herself, but then she felt that something is strange about her heart. She started to meditate, and moments later she felt that some strange informations are entering her mind. Few moments later she opened her eyes.


    "No, it can''t be! It''s impossible?! How?!"


    ...


    "Young master, you can''t go there alone. If you fall, your bones will break." The maid pleaded with her young master.


    "Fine, I will not go." He agreed. The maid bowed and exited the room. When he was alone, he threw a pen towards the wall.


    "Why I was born with such weak body." He lamented. His mother forbid him from going outside without protection. ''Benjamin, your body is fragile. I''m worried about you.''


    "If only father didn''t die." Benjamin father died, when his mother was pregnant, and news caused her to give birth to him prematurely. Which caused him to be very weak.


    "I can heal your body, and even allow you to get one that is beyond the limits of humans." Benjamin heard a voice, when he turned around he saw a translucent figure.


    "Who are you?" Benjamin asked.


    "You aren''t afraid of me?" Curious voice asked. Benjamin nodded.


    "I fear you, but I can''t do anything to you with my body." He said. Although the figure didn''t have a face, Benjamin felt it smiled.


    "Interesting. So what is your answer?" Figure asked.


    "Why should I trust you?" He didn''t trust some figure that appeared from thin air, and is proposing some powers. A translucent figure started to walk around the room.


    "I can swear on true name, or create divine contract." Figure said.


    "I want contract." Benjamin knew the contract was better, because he could control the details. Figure snapped it fingers and gold contract appeared. Then figure pushed the contract through air towards Benjamin. Benjamin started to create rules. He then pushed it towards figure, which took contract into its hand and started reading.


    "So I can''t force you to do anything against your conscience, or influence you. I can''t go against your country, and I can''t harm your relatives." Benjamin nodded. Figure started to write it rules, and handed it back to Benjamin.


    "What do you mean engraving spells on my soul? Are you thinking I''m an idiot? You will have control over me." Benjamin knew that spells, engraved on the soul, are extremely hard to erase.


    "And? My spells will not influence you, in any way. They have different tasks. I don''t need to explain it. Let''s sign the contract, and you will see my spells can''t influence you." Figure shrugged. Benjamin nodded and then they signed the contract.


    "So what''s now?" After Benjamin asked it, he felt his entire body is falling apart. "What did you do to me?!" He shrieked in pain.


    "It''s the part of transformation. You need to endure it. After its finish, you will be reborn." The figure disappeared, leaving Benjamin alone.


    ....


    The explosion ravaged the room, which caused Herman to be hurt. His old body hurt him a lot.


    "Failed once again, at this rate I will die from old age." Herman was an old mage, his body was slowly dying, and he feared death, and that he will not accomplish something big.


    "Someone as talented as you can''t die. You should reign supreme over other mages." Herman shoot lighting towards the voice, but he saw something that shocked him. He saw a small cat that had its paw in the air near the ball that contained the lighting he cast.


    "To cast this spell so quickly, you really need to be talented. I want to help you become powerful, so powerful, the entire royal academy will bow their heads to you." Cat said with human voice. Herman was filled with greed.


    ''If that is a mage, that means he or she knows


    polymorphy, that person is at least archmage.'' Herman kowtowed in front of the cat.


    "I will do anything, oh great being."


    "Your problem, is limitation of human soul and human mind. I will give you a chance to break those shackles." Cat said. Herman was joyful.


    "Thank you, great being."

 Trip

    "How are you, mother-in-law? Is everything alright?" Elizabeth asked Abigail, while Angelica was with Haytham.


    "Thanks for the care. I''m fine. Jax left me a lot of different potions, and instructed me on how to use them, if some emergency occurred. Also, thanks to regeneration, I don''t need to care about injuries." She smiled and took a sip of tea. Abigail saw that Elizabeth was nervous.


    "I know what you want to ask. I don''t have information from Jax. I think he tells you more than me. Does he love his wife more than his own mother?" Abigail acted as if she was deeply hurt, but deep inside she was happy. ''So his trust in her is so deep. Well, at least she knows she is loved from the beginning. Compared to his father, he is doing that from the start.''


    "I didn''t visit you only for that mother-in-law, I." Elizabeth wanted to explain, but Abigail stopped her.


    "Elizabeth, you are a queen. You rule our kingdom, and I understand that you don''t have time to visit us often. Jax is your priority. I can''t tell you anything because I don''t know what he is doing. I know for sure that he is doing something that will benefit you. Also, did you think, I don''t have knowledge how many times, he sneaked during the night to go to the palace?" Elizabeth turned red. Jax visited her very often to keep her company, and was helping her with paper work. Abigail was having fun teasing Elizabeth.


    "I didn''t want to trouble you, mother-in-law." Elizabeth tried to explain herself.


    "Ahh, yeah, you didn''t like his company? It''s not like, both of you sleep in the same room whenever you sleep here?" Elizabeth couldn''t look Abigail in the eyes. Abigail shook her head, and ordered her butler to get the letter and the box. When he brought it, she gave it to Elizabeth. "He left you something. He said that after a month, I needed to give you this. Jax said only you can open the letter and the box." Elizabeth wanted to come back to the palace immediately.


    "Mother in law, I need." Abigail stopped her once again.


    "Yeah, yeah, I know. Go open the letter and box from your love in privacy." Abigail waved her head. Elizabeth nodded, and run embarrassed to the carriage. A few minutes later, Haytham came back with Angelica in his arms, and gave her to Abigail.


    "She already left?" Asked surprised Haytham. Abigail nodded.


    "Jax already wrapped her around his finger. When I gave her, the letter from him and the box. She wanted to immediately run away, to open it." Abigail explained.


    "Do you think Jax and her did something already?" Haytham asked. Abigail shook her head.


    "Nah, the only thing they did is holding hands or hugging. I think for them, Jax body is a big problem. I don''t want to imagine what Elizabeth feel when she wants to kiss him, but he has the body of a child." Abigail felt sorry for them, because they can''t express all emotions.


    ...


    "Items are checked, everything is correct. Here is your reward, 5 gold coins." Liz put 5 gold coins on the counter. Max put them into his bag.


    "When I can try for diamond rank?" Max during one month went from silver to gold. It wasn''t that hard, he only needed to do 10 gold quests solo or with a team, and then fight diamond adventurer to gain it. Liz shook her head.


    "It will be hard, for that you not only need 10 diamond quests, but also recommendation letter from guild master of this branch. And after that you need to fight orichalcum rank adventurer. The first and last thing, aren''t that hard, but getting a recommendation letter is, but." Liz leaned towards Max, and with a flirtatious face added." I can try to ask him about it, if you buy me a dinner." She proposed. Max however took a step back.


    "I don''t need that, I will do everything myself." He shook his head, and took another diamond quest." I want this quest" Liz sat back with a disappointed face, but she registered the quest under Max name. Max searched for a caravan, because that quest would take him a week to arrive by horse, so it would be easier and safer to go with a caravan. He walked to the area where inns were placed.


    "We search for people that want to come to fire city" one man yelled.


    "We search for guards during travel towards earth city." Other man yelled. Max found the caravan a few minutes later.


    "You are going to stone city?" Max asked to verify. The old man looked at him and nodded.


    Help support creative writers by finding and reading their stories on the original site."Yeah, we are. If you want to come with us, pay 1 gold." Max show the man his gold plate." Ohh gold rank adventurer, in that case you don''t need to pay, anything. We are delighted to have you on board. We will start our journey, in three days." Max nodded. Paying was a thing that only normal people must do, because they are essentially a burden for caravan, but adventurer are people who can help in protecting or setting camps etc. Max went towards the blacksmith shop. When he entered he felt the warm of the fire, and smell of metal. A few moments later, a dwarf appeared. His skin was tanned from the fire, and he had bulging muscles.


    "So, what do you want?" Dwarf asked without any pleasantries.


    "I need a war hammer. Medium size. It should be enough to handle a high grade monster. The enchantment of lightweight will be welcomed. Do you have something like that?" Max asked. Dwarf stroked his beard. And disappeared in the shop. Few minutes he returned with a 2m long war hammer. It had the head of the hammer on both sides. It didn''t have any patterns on it. The weapon was a plain war hammer, but Max was able to tell it was high quality.


    "5 gold." Max took the war hammer in his hand, and waved it a few times.


    "It doesn''t have lightweight enchantment."


    "No it doesn''t" dwarf shook his head.


    "How much for adding it in three days?" Max asked.


    "It''s impossible to do that in three days" Dwarf answered.


    "10 gold" Max said.


    "It''s impossible." Dwarf shook his head again.


    "15 gold"


    "Impossible."


    "20 gold."


    "Fine, I will do that."


    "Can you also add explosive enchantment on both sides in three days." The veins on the dwarf forehead popped out.


    "Are you a fucking idiot?! It''s impossible to do that in three days. I would need to create pathways, and ensure everything is stable." Dwarf yelled at Max.


    "30 gold."


    "Pay it now." Dwarf said. Max took a pouch with money and handed it to the dwarf. The dwarf then took the war hammer back into the forge, while cursing.


    "Fucking human. Fuck him, and his family. Fuck this." Max just shook his head. And went to the inn.


    ....


    "So how are you, Elizabeth? Sorry I can''t be here, but the contents of the box should help you." Elizabeth was unhappy, that he didn''t write anything else, but she was also curious how the box could help her. She opened it, and saw that inside the wooden doll is placed.


    "How can a doll, make not seeing my husband better?" She asked herself, but then she doll started to move. It didn''t have any features, but soon enough it started to change, and few moments later it became small copy of Jax.


    "Oh hello Elizabeth, long time no see. You are for sure surprised, but ask any question." Doll moved it mouth and spoke with the voice of Jax.


    "So what are you? Are you really a Jax? Or you are just some machine." She asked. She wasn''t shocked. Elizabeth spend too much time with Jax to be shocked with his creations. Doll climbed the box, and sat on the table.


    "Technically I am, and also I''m not. Jax used the soul of someone, and changed it. My soul is an exact copy of Jax''s. Although I don''t have Jax''s powers or skills, also, he programmed me to protect you until my death. I will help you with paper work, talk with you etc. Also, everything that I see, and hear is transmitted to Jax." Doll explained. Elizabeth wasn''t quite happy that this doll wasn''t her Jax, but she was a little happy to have at least this Jax.


    "Can you communicate with him?" Elizabeth placed the doll on her hand. The doll shook his head.


    "I can''t. It''s only a one way communication. There a lot more limitation, put on me. Jax intend was other than to keep you company and help you. Is to teach you about his original world." Doll answered.


    ...


    Three days later, Max went to blacksmith. A few minutes later a dwarf appeared, he had bags under his eyes, and was pissed off when he saw Max.


    "What about my weapon?" Max asked. The dwarf went into his workshop, and brought it. He then handed it to the Max.


    "Here''s your damned weapon. Don''t come here again." Dwarf threw Max from the shop.


    Max went to the carriage owner.


    "We are finishing preparation. It should take an hour before we go." Owner replied. Max nodded, took a sit inside the caravan, and waited.

 Stone City

    "Mister, it''s your turn to take watch." One of the guards knocked on the door to the carriage was max in. Max opened the carriage, he then walked out, and sat around the campfire. They were already halfway through. Fortunately the travel wasn''t that bad. There were some goblins and wolves, but it was typical danger, but there were too many of them.


    "Maybe some monster tried to attack ruler of that region, and monster are running away. Or they are looking for better breeding place, because there are too many of them. Either way I need to report this, after trip ends." Max said to himself.


    ...


    The sword flew in the air, and instructor started to clap.


    "Amazing Aura. You are a genius." He said.


    "It''s nothing teacher. I''m still powerless." Aura shook her head.


    "It''s good to be humble, but you should understand your capabilities. You defeated a lot of people, and even now you were able to hold your ground against me." Instructor praised Aura once again. Aura nodded.


    "Thank you" She bowed her head. Instructor smiled.


    "So who''s next? We don''t have an entire day." Instructor said." And you Aura, you can go to your room. You finished today training." Aura nodded and went to her room. When she entered, she laid on her bed and was looking blankly on her ceiling.


    "That power is amazing. I don''t need to worry about anything. I don''t have battle experience, but my power alone is worth a lot. I can do anything I want." Greed and hatred appeared on Aura''s face. "These bitches and all people who bullied me will see, what I can do." Aura started to laugh maniacally.


    ....


    "We arrived at the Stone City" Max woke up from the sleep. He opened the door of the carriage, and looked outside. He saw city made from stone. Everything from roads to buildings, and roofs were made from polished stone. This city lives from their mines, where they mine building or decorative stone, and other resources. Max needed to found person, who issued the quest. He found the owner of the caravan.


    "Do you know where the Luke''s Mines are located?" He asked. The owner nodded, and pointed towards east gate.


    "It''s near the east gate, it''s easy to find it, because there is a huge sign."


    "Thank you." Max nodded, owner extended his hand.


    "It was a pleasure to meet you." Owner smiled, and Max shook hands with him.


    ....


    "Wait a minute. Repeat what you just say." Elizabeth stopped the doll from talking.


    "Well men on Earth, give their lover a ring as a sign of love, and as symbol of engagement. They mostly use a diamond, for it." Doll repeated. Elizabeth was in middle of learning about Earth. ''Why didn''t he give me a ring then? I know he loves me and all, but I want that.''


    ....


    Jax was sitting in dark place, and right now he received, a memory from the doll. He smiled at this.


    "I knew this will happen, don''t worry you will get it. Well now I need to finish my project." In front of Jax hologram panel appeared. The hologram panel displayed enormous amount of data. Jax started to read all of it, and make changes or adding something.


    "I hope Beast Federation, will agree to my terms. Otherwise, they will become my guinea pigs."


    .....


    Max found Luke''s Mines headquarters. Headquarters were made from high quality stone, like marble. Max went inside, and walked towards receptionist.


    "I''m here for the commission." Max showed his golden plate. The receptionist saw it, and nodded. He then yelled, at worker to inform higher ups.


    "Wait there. It will take some time." Receptionist said, and pointed towards the door inside. Max nodded and went there. The room was very decorated. There was a table made from high quality wood, and sofa made from monster skin.


    "They want to show their power, by showing how rich they are. Easy way and effective one." Max said. He waited few minutes, and there he heard that someone is opening the doors.


    "Chairman invite you, to meet him." Worker bowed to Max.


    "I understand" Max stood up, and worker gestured for him to follow him. They walked upstairs. ''More and more riches. Paintings, probably, everything enchanted.'' Worker stopped in front of the door.


    Love this story? Find the genuine version on the author''s preferred platform and support their work!"Please enter this room." Max opened the door and went in. He saw a middle age man sitting at the desk. He was wearing black suit. Man smiled at Max and gestured him to sit down.


    "It''s a pleasure to meet you. I''m grateful you offered your help. I''m Luke. What is your name?" Luke asked.


    "I''m Max. Can you tell me about the situation?" Luke sighed.


    "During excavation, my people found some empty space. They checked it, until they were attacked by golem. Unfortunately few died, but others were fine."


    "Did they described it?" Luke shook his head.


    "They only said that a big pile of rocks and stone, attacked them. We weren''t able to know if it''s artificial or natural one." Luke answered with apologetic tone. Golems can form naturally, or can be created. The easiest way to tell, if one is artificial or natural is how they look like. Natural golem''s body is imperfect. It has a lot of cracks, some places are too massive etc. Artificial one is made using handcrafted pieces that fit perfectly. Max shook his head.


    "You don''t need to apologise. Your people live is more important. But I need to you do something for me." Luke snapped his fingers, and few moments later a woman walked into the room. ''Sand elf'' Max thought. The woman was young. She had dark skin and hair in colour of sand. Her eyes were dark brown. She also had sceptre made from stone in her hands.


    "You need earth mage right?" Luke smiled and Max nodded." I knew it, and I made preparations. Could you introduce yourself?" Luke looked at the woman.


    "I''m Sela" Sela''s voice was devoid from any emotions.


    "Don''t mind her. Sela doesn''t show her emotions. Do you need anything else?" Luke asked.


    "Guide, and all information you gathered from survivors." Luke nodded.


    ....


    "We are near the entrance to the empty space. Sir, are you sure about it? Can you really beat it?" The guide asked. He was one of the survivors. Although his fear was great, his hatred towards golem who killed his friends was bigger.


    "Normally yes, I''m sure I can. But if there is some accident, I am not sure." Fooling himself into believing that everything will be fine is stupid.


    "I understand. If you can please kill that bastard." Max nodded. Some time later they arrived at the entrance.


    "Go back. I remember the path back." Max said to the guide.


    "Good luck." Man said and went back. Max turned around to look at Sela.


    "First help me check if it''s artificial or natural. If it''s natural your duty is to monitor status of the cave. And in case of artificial you should also monitor status of the cave, and help me when I say." Sela nodded. Max and Sela went into the entrance. It was quite narrow at the beginning, but few minutes later they found themselves in big open space.


    "It''s unnatural." Max stated, because the space was bright. Normally caves in Stone City, were practically dark. In some places special stones could light up the surroundings, but here there are none of them. ''It should increase the chances of the artificial one.'' Max wanted the golem to be artificial, because they can''t use magic. The natural golems can use earth magic, but artificial aren''t able to do that. Also, the big advantage in fighting against artificial one, is that the core is most cases located in the chest. Natural one can have it, in any place, in rare cases core could be split into two.


    They explored the space, and they found the bodies of the deceased. Max kneeled and examined them.


    "They don''t look like killed by magic, only brute force." He then turned towards Sela." Can you feel any magic from that corpses?" Sela closed her eyes. Minute later she opened them.


    "None. You are right, only brute force." Sela said. They went deeper, but they couldn''t find anything. They wanted to walk in different direction, but then they felt that something big is approaching.


    "Prepare yourself." Max said to Sela.

 Fight

    Max jumped away from the punch. The giant golem punched the ground. Its punch cracked the ground, and made dust float in the air. The golem was a 10m tall giant made from polished stones. ''Fortunately, it''s artificial'' Max thought while dodging the next punch. Max used his war hammer to hit golem''s arm, but the hit didn''t do much.


    ''Although, fighting artificial one is easier. They are a lot more durable compared to natural'' It was one of disadvantage of fighting artificial one, they didn''t have ability of natural, but their durability was at extreme levels, because they were handmade.


    "Sela, restrict its movement!" Max yelled. Sela started to channel her mana, and a few moments later the ground under golem disappeared. When the golem''s legs disappeared in the hole, it started to shrink until the legs of golem, were under earth. Max ran towards the golem. Golem tried to pull his legs from the ground, but Max 10m from it. Golem tried to smash him, but Max jumped on the golem hand, and ran towards its torso. Golem used it''s other hand to squash him, but Sela created a wall between the hand that tried to attack Max, and the one he was on. Max stood at the top golem. He swung his hammer, and activated explosive enchantment on it. War hammer gained extreme speed, and when it collided with golem''s torso, the torso cracked, revealing shiny core. Max then hit it again, and created spider web of cracks on the core. Max jumped away, because the core could create wave of mana, after destruction. He observed, how more and more cracks appeared on the surface of the core, but then something unexpected happen.


    "Why the core is collapsing on itself?" Sela asked. Max felt danger and jumped towards Sela.


    "Get down!" He yelled and jumped on her, making her fall over. The core exploded, and the entire place started to shake. A few minutes later, the shaking stopped. And Max collapsed on Sela''s body. When Sela raised her head, she saw that Max had multiple wounds on his back. Sela didn''t think about what happened, and immediately she took Max on her back and dragged him to the exit.


    "Don''t die on me. I need to thank you." For the first time in a while, Sela''s voice contained some emotion.


    ....


    "Hello Elizabeth. So we both got the letter from the Jax." Malcolm asked.


    "Yeah, my husband disappeared, but it feels like we are playing on the palm of his hand." Elizabeth replied. Both of them got a letter from Jax to go to Burning Desert, at a specific date and time, and location. They were in the middle of the desert. They found this location thanks to talismans Jax attached to the letters. When the time arrived, their talismans started to glow, and after that ground started to open. After that, they saw stairs leading down.


    "Do you know what this is?" Malcolm asked disbelief. Elizabeth shrugged her shoulders.


    "My husband doesn''t say, everything to me. He is quite mysterious." She replied.


    "So he did make you fall for him, because he is mysterious?" Elizabeth lowered her head and looked at her feet.


    "It''s not the only reason." She blushed a little. Malcolm only rolled his eyes.


    "Let''s go. We don''t know how long it will be open." When their heads were in the tunnel. The ground closed up, and light came on. They walked a few minutes, until they found big metallic gate. Soon after eye appeared from the ceiling.


    "Identification." They heard an emotionless male voice.


    "What I am supposed to do?" Malcolm asked Elizabeth.


    "Say your name, and who you are." She replied.'' Fortunately, I learned about it from the doll.''


    "Malcolm, King of Dragon Kingdom." The eye emitted wide green light, that went from head to his toes.


    "Identification completed. Identity confirmed." The eye turned to look at Elizabeth.


    "Elizabeth. Queen of Phoenix Kingdom." She said, but a minute later nothing happened. Then she heard the voice.


    "Insufficient data" it said.


    "Wait?! What?! So what am I supposed to say." She thought for a moment and then facepalmed. ''You are such an idiot''. She took deep breath, and replied again.


    "Elizabeth. Queen of Phoenix Kingdom. And your wife and love." She said, and this time the green light appeared. After it went from her head to toes. The gate opened.


    "Why did he add this?" Malcolm was curious.


    "Well, one day he just stopped responding when I use his name. I need to call him husband or my love, for him to answer. He also stopped using my name at some point." Elizabeth replied embarrassed. Malcolm didn''t respond, but deep down he was hurt. ''He already has a lover. Why I''m alone'' He lamented in his heart. They entered the giant open space. It was dark, but a few seconds later the lights lit up. Elizabeth and Malcolm felt chills, at what they saw.


    This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report."How did he make so much of them in such sort period of time?" No one of them knew the answer. They saw countless cannons, miniature cannons. Malcolm also saw countless boxes on wheels that had medium-sized cannons on them. At some point, Jax appeared in front of them.


    "Nice to see you, my wife and you, Malcolm." Jax said. Elizabeth run to hug him, but when she did, she felt nothing. Elizabeth realised the truth.


    "You are a hologram." Elizabeth sadly said. Hologram smiled.


    "Yeah that''s true. I''m hologram that have personality of Jax." Hologram replied.


    "What is a hologram? What this all means?" Malcolm asked. He didn''t like the feeling he doesn''t know anything. The hologram shook its head.


    "You don''t need to understand how it works. Also, Jax invited you here, to give you a task."


    "What task?" Elizabeth asked.


    "To make Beast Federation, sign deal with us. Using all methods." The hologram voice became completely serious, without any empathy or joy. " I will explain how to use everything that is placed here."


    ....


    "Young master, your mother asked when you will finish your training." Maid asked. Benjamin practised fighting with the sword.


    "I will finish in a few minutes." Benjamin said.


    "I understand, young master." The maid bowed and went back. Benjamin sat on the ground. He was training outside. He picked rock and clenched his fist. The rock shattered.


    "That power. Why did it give me that? What it wants from me? What are limits of that power? So many questions, and I can''t answer even one of them." Benjamin bitterly shook his head, and went to his mother.


    ....


    Elizabeth face was pale. Malcolm wasn''t in better condition.


    "Are you sure? Isn''t it too much? How many victims there will be? These weapons can destroy an entire country." Elizabeth asked terrified. Hologram didn''t change it face.


    "No. There isn''t another way. You don''t need to use the strongest weapons. The smaller ones are enough. If they surrender, spare them. Don''t kill civilians, the leaders are to blame." The hologram emotionless voice caused them to tremble in fear. Malcolm looked straight into hologram eyes.


    "If I tried to attack Phoenix Kingdom. Would you send these weapons against me?" Malcolm waited patiently for the answer.


    "Yes. Jax would go after you. Let me add Jax gave you a lot of permission, but you don''t know how many weapons he prepared. If he wanted, he would make the entire world dead."


    "Why he is so nice then?" Malcolm asked. To his surprise hologram smiled. Hologram pointed at Elizabeth.


    "He got a love of his life. Someone who will be with him until the end of times." Hologram pointed then at Malcolm." He gained a friend. Who will help him, and protect his close ones. Jax found so many people he cares about, that his goals aren''t to dominate the world, but to protect it. You see these weapons as terrifying inventions, but for Jax they are shield. If someone attack his loved ones, he will use it to protect them. World will hate him, but if he can protect you all. He is ready to pay the price. That''s why he is nice."


    Malcolm heard a sound of water dropping on the floor. He saw that Elizabeth is crying.


    "Elizabeth we need" He couldn''t finish, because he saw that Elizabeth wiped her tears.


    "I will do anything to help him. If the world hates him, I will be hated by it, by his side." Elizabeth understood, that Jax is trying to prevent any war, from breaking up. Malcolm smiled and nodded.


    "So do I."


    ....


    "Are you sure, Jax? A lot of people will hate you. Some will call you a tyrant. Others will attack you. If you do that there is no coming back." Shiro appeared next to Jax. Jax only smiled sadly.


    "Shiro, we both know that it''s necessary. In next decades our world will be in danger. If I leave everything as it is now. We will die." Jax continued to make adjustments to the data.


    "Remember Jax. We will always help you in that" Shiro comforted Jax, and then she disappeared. Jax smiled.


    "I know, and thank you."

 Deal

    "Where am I?" Max woke up, and looked around. He was in bed, when he tried to move. Max felt pain running through his entire body. He waited for anyone to enter the room. ''The last thing I remember is the explosion of the golem''s core'' Some time later, the servant walked into the room he was in. When the servant saw he was awake, he ran away. Then a few minutes later, Luke walked into the room.


    "How are you feeling? Can you tell what happened?" He sat down on the chair that was next to the bed.


    "Well, it hurts like hell. And Sela probably told you everything, but to summarise¡­"


    ....


    "It will be troublesome. Do you think it was a special case?" Max nodded.


    "Yeah, I didn''t hear about core exploding, but I have an idea for you." Luke had a curious look on his face.


    "What idea?"


    "Send letters to priests of the God of Wisdom, and to priests of the Goddess of Creation." Luke shook Max hand.


    "Of course. If they get information about some new type of golem, and maybe new knowledge, they will help in exploration. And because they don''t care about riches, all of that will be mine." Luke laughed." Okay, you are my guest. I will provide you with medical care. Your injuries weren''t that severe, but it will take a while for them to heal"


    ....


    "What is the reason that you Queen of Phoenix Kingdom, and you King of Dragon Kingdom, came to visit the council." The lion beast man asked. He was head of the council. Elizabeth took cube, and throw it on the ground. It changed to flat disk. A moment later, the disk started to glow.


    "What is that?" When lion beast man asked this question, a hologram appeared, of a young man sitting on the chair.


    "It''s a pleasure to meet you all. I''m Jax. Fianc¨¦ of the Queen of Phoenix Kingdom, so de facto, also the king of Phoenix Kingdom." Jax hologram waited, a few moments, for the council to quiet down. When hologram saw that everyone was quiet, it continued." We came here to propose a deal."


    "What kind of deal?" Lion beast man asked.


    "In exchange for allowing me to use resources of your country. I" Members of the council started to yell.


    "Shameless human. Who do you think you are?" Yelled one. He was a member of the harpy race.


    "Do you think we will give you our resources?" Asked the member of medusa race.


    "Quiet everyone!" The head of the council yelled. When everyone calmed down, he gestured for Jax''s hologram to continue.


    "Thank you. As I was saying, in exchange for using your resources, pact of help between our countries and non-aggression, and getting slaves from your species. I will give you access to my technology. My farming tools, automatic miners. I will also take care of the orphans and many more things." The council was in uproar. ''For your own sake, accept that deal.'' Malcolm hoped they will agree. A few minutes later, the head of the council spoke.


    "As you see, members disagreed with you. What do you want to add?" Hologram smiled.


    "I want the entire council to agree, but if you disagree, that''s your choice. If someone wants to make a deal with me, raise your hand." The council was made similar to parliament in most countries. Elizabeth and Malcolm were able to see that, 30 hands were raised. ''Each of them are small, and poor countries.'' Elizabeth noticed. Hologram nodded with satisfaction. ''The old, powerful members of the council have too much pride in them. They don''t see the bigger picture, and only their pride and status is important. The poor countries understand, that we can help them.''


    "Alright, we will visit, each country that raised their hands, in next days. We will go from the nearest to the furthest. Is that okay with you?" Members, who agreed, nodded. ''He said that to make them feel, he will visit them, because of the geographical reasons, than because what he thinks about them. This will cause them to think, he respects all of them'' Malcolm nodded.


    "That was all I wanted to say to the council." Hologram said, and after that disk became the box again, which Elizabeth picked. They bid farewell, and exited the council. They entered the carriage. Elizabeth took the box and placed it, on her wrist. After that, the boxed covered her entire forearm. In the middle of it, a glass panel appeared. Elizabeth started to touch, and change the view of things.


    This story originates from a different website. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there."How are you able to use it, so efficiently?" They have that box only for a week. Malcolm only knows how to make a hologram. Which is to just place it on the floor.


    "I have my ways. I think he made it, so I can have easy access to every function. You probably would need to touch it several times. I need to just think what I want." Elizabeth replied.


    "It''s must be nice to have Jax as your husband." Malcolm said. He as a descendant of the dragon was greedy, and wanted something like this, but he knew, that Jax will only give something like that, when he wants. A few minutes later, a 3D hologram of the terrain appeared. She then touched it twice, and a glowing, moving dot appeared on the screen.


    "What is that glowing dot?" Malcolm asked. Elizabeth smiled proudly.


    "It''s us. That dot is showing our current location in real time." After that, Elizabeth saw red coloured dots are approaching. She snorted, at this. Malcolm face, become serious.


    "Enemies?" Elizabeth nodded.


    "Several km behind us, but are approaching. Well, thanks to that, we have an excuse to attack them." Malcolm nodded.


    "We must do it quickly. Otherwise, we will be forced to use ''that''" Elizabeth paled.


    "You are right, if ''that'' thing will be used, the damage will be enormous. The good news are that, they are faster than us, so we don''t need to pretend that our horses are getting weak." Elizabeth put a hand into her chest, and pulled out a staff. It was made from red coloured crystal, that pulsed with red light, as if it was a blood. It had an inscription of phoenixes inscribed on it surface, that looked as if they were living. On one end, there was a flower bud, that was made from translucent crystal and inside was a flame. It was phoenix staff, that is passed from queen to queen. Only woman with royal blood inside their veins, that is acknowledged by the previous queen and the staff, can wield it. Malcolm also put his hand into his chest, and pulled out a longsword. The blade of the sword, was made from the highest quality metal, and had countless inscription in the middle. The handle looked like a dragon. The pommel was the back of the dragon, and the guard was in the shape of a dragon head. The sword looked that the blade was coming from the dragon mouth. This was dragon edge. This sword was also passed down in the royal family. The same as with the phoenix staff. Person must be accepted by it.


    "Remember, we don''t kill them. Jax left us soul capturing boxes." Malcolm nodded.


    ...


    "What is the plan, boss?" The camouflaged beast man asked.


    "We steal that box they have. We can''t defeat them, but we will be able to steal it. That thing is something, that can lead us to that guy. If he can create that box, imagine what will happen if we capture him." Boss replied. Although powerful members didn''t want to have accepted Jax''s deal, they still lusted for Jax''s inventions. The group numbered 20 members. Each of them were at the level of grandmaster knight or archmage. They travelled on foot, but thanks to being a beastman they can easily rival Elizabeth and Malcolm in carriage horses. They were few minutes away from the carriage.


    ....


    "Did you take the blood that Jax left for you?" Elizabeth asked.


    "Yeah. My strength increased by a lot." Malcolm replied. Compared to non-visible changes in appearance when Elizabeth took phoenix blood. Malcolm''s eyes became shiner, and his hair darker, after he took dragon blood. Elizabeth smiled, but her smile was that of the demon.


    "They are close. Should we show them, why we are one of the strongest people in the entire world?" She asked innocently. Malcolm felt shivers. When Elizabeth was on the battlefield, his country army was burned alive, not even ash remained. He was a young man then, but sometimes the screams of people begging for mercy, while being burned by inextinguishable phoenix fire still hunt him. Fortunately, the war between countries were because of their fathers. Elizabeth didn''t hold a grudge against him, or vice versa. Malcolm wanted to say something, but then they heard footsteps. They nodded at each other, and jumped from the carriage.

 Unexpected Event

    "Please, I beg you, please leave me be." The man kneeled in front of the Herman. He was a test subject of the Herman. This man was a captured mage that stole resources from the magic tower. Herman didn''t care, and continued his experiment. Mana around them started to move, and then it flowed into man, who struggled to fight against mana invading his body, but few moments later his body went limp. Dark mana escaped from his mouth, and floated towards Herman''s body. Herman took that energy inside. He grabbed his head, but few moments later he started to laugh.


    "HAHAHA. I''m beyond humans. I can absorb memories and skills of the living. " He then kneeled on the ground, and bashed his head against the ground multiple times." Oh, thank you, great one. I will be your loyal servant until the end of my life." Herman went for more test subjects.


    ....


    "BOOM" Beast man was sent flying, his body was burned, and half of it was missing. The boss of the group looked fearfully at what was happening. Queen of Phoenix Kingdom, burned people alive, but didn''t kill them. And the King of Dragon Kingdom cut off limbs of his people with his sword. Elizabeth was flying around, while shooting fireballs at enemies. She created cages of fire around them.


    "Burn motherfuckers. Burn, you little shit." She lowered herself to the ground, and hit one beast man with her staff in the arm, that became ashes." That''s for when I couldn''t say anything against Jax." She kicked another beast man in the nuts." That''s for having my marriage arranged against my will." Elizabeth started to list her grievances, while hitting more and more men. When the victims of Malcolm saw that, they were happy, that at least he, didn''t torture his victims that much. Few minutes later everything ended. All beastmen were still alive, barely but alive.


    "Did you let out all your anger?" Malcolm asked. Elizabeth let out the breath.


    "No, but still it feels, a lot better. Jax is not at this level yet, if he was, I would beat him up a long time ago." She shook his head. Elizabeth used her magic to paralyse every soldier. She then gestured to Malcolm to begin. Malcolm took out the box. It was smaller than the one that created the hologram in front of the council. He walked towards one of the beastman. Half of beastman was burned away, Malcolm was able to see his skull. He put the box on the chest of the beastman. The edges of the box pull away from the box and became tiny pincers. The box walked towards where the heart of the soldier was located. It pierced the skin of beastman, and a moment later, he was dead. The pincers hid away.


    "Did it work?" Malcolm nodded.


    "Yeah it did. I can''t see souls, but I felt how something moved from the body of that beastman into, the box." Then he walked towards other soldiers. Normally they would commit suicide, by beating some hidden poison, or destroying their hearts using aura or mana, but Elizabeth prevented all of it. ''You thought you can just kill yourself? You should be grateful, I just burned you. He would probably use something that you wouldn''t use even on your nemesis.''


    ....


    "It''s nice to see my wife getting some anger off her chest. Also, it''s good I wasn''t around."


    Jax smiled. He checked the progress of his experiments. And he frowned.


    "Too slow. It''s not like I can''t force them, to act. I don''t like doing that, but I don''t have that much time. The more danger they face, the faster my research will go."


    ....


    Somewhere deep in the woods, the beast opened its eyes.


    ...


    "What should we do with the bodies?" Malcolm asked. Elizabeth wanted to reply, but something else gave the answer. Portal appeared next to them. And from it two beings appeared. They looked like humans, but their bodies were completely pale, and their faces devoid of all life. They couldn''t tell if these creatures were male or female. Malcolm and Elizabeth discovered they don''t have any life signature.


    "What are they?" Malcolm asked.


    "I don''t know. They don''t look have any life in them, it''s like they are just empty husk." Elizabeth saw that these two creatures turned towards them, and bowed.


    "My lady, we are here to take the bodies of deceased, by the older of our master and your husband." The voice was unnatural it didn''t belong to man or woman, nor the child or the old. It was like an echo. They took the bodies through the portal, and when they took the last body the portal disappeared.


    "How many secrets he has?" The creatures bothered Malcolm''s mind. ''They aren''t living, but also they aren''t undead. They don''t have any presence.''


    "I don''t know, and maybe it''s better for us to just don''t ask." Malcolm nodded in agreement.


    "They will not announce that these people are missing. If they did, and said we killed them, they would confirm we were attacked. For now the best course of action is just to help countries that wants to make a deal."


    "I agree. To be honest, I want to test, machines made by Jax." Elizabeth smiled. ''These are cars. I want to feel the air and everything, while driving at hundreds of km per hour.'' The more knowledge Elizabeth gained about Earth, the more she wanted to experience all of it. And then out of nowhere, a portal appeared above her, and a rectangular shaped item fell out of it. Elizabeth took it and opened it. Malcolm was starting to become numb to this. ''I don''t care any more. If he were to cut the world in half, I wouldn''t be surprised.'' Elizabeth''s eyes went wide, when she opened it. ''Laptop! It looks like a laptop from Earth, and it even has QWERTY.'' She then saw a note that was attached inside.


    "Internet!" Elizabeth yelled. She clicked the start, and then saw an icon of the web browser. She didn''t know much of English. But she knew few words, she searched the word love. She was happy when she saw it worked. She jumped from joy.


    "Ekhem. We have a lot of tasks." Malcolm interrupted Elizabeth joy. Elizabeth was embarrassed.


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    ...


    "That should make her happy." Jax doesn''t give people things for free, unless it''s someone close to him. And Elizabeth is one of the closest people to him. He also had an additional reason. "In my free time, I will have someone to play games with. So it''s win-win."


    .....


    Elizabeth was using her laptop at the palace.


    "Hey. Can you put knowledge into my head?" Elizabeth asked the doll. When doll heard the question, it raised it head.


    "Yeah it is possible, but I don''t recommend it." It replied, and shook it head.


    "I want it. Give me Jax knowledge about languages on earth." She demanded.


    "Are you really sure?" Doll asked. Elizabeth nodded her head.


    "I''m sure!" Doll jumped from the table, and climbed her bed. It then touched her forehead.


    "It will be one of the worst feelings you can imagine." Doll said, after Elizabeth felt that something is entering her head. Doll created bucket in front of Elizabeth, and she started to vomit into it. Few moments later she passed out. Doll only shook it head.


    "I told you. It will take while until she wakes up." Doll covered Elizabeth with the blanket.


    ....


    Few weeks later, Elizabeth and Malcolm. Visited most of the countries, that wanted to make deal. Fortunately, kings and queens of these countries understood, that this deal was a small price. Always, when they sighed a deal with the country, a portal appeared and machines walked from it. Some of them were the same as those that dragged bodies. Some were in shape of giant spiders and more. Elizabeth said only one thing to Queens and kings.


    "Ask these machines to do anything you want." First countries were uncertain, but when they asked machines to do something, they did that better than any of slave or worker. Although Jax created some limitation on them. He didn''t want to cause entire country to run only on his machines, so every machine could only do simple tasks, and needed to be ordered. Thanks to that only the most dangerous or repetitive jobs were replaced by machines. It caused people to be happy, and allowed them to accept machines. When news spread, no one objected terms of contract. Until they arrived at Hydra Kingdom.


    "They didn''t rise their hands." Malcolm said.


    "Yes, but if we want to take over Beast Federation, we need the leader to be on our side." Elizabeth said. Some time later they arrived at the palace of Enna. When they entered, they saw that Enna was sleeping on her throne. Elizabeth shook her head. ''How someone can be a leader like this?''


    "Hey Enna!" Elizabeth yelled. Enna jumped from her sit, but when she saw that it was just Elizabeth and Malcolm she calmed down.


    "Oh hey there. What''s up?" She asked. Elizabeth shook her head.


    "We want to make a deal with you."


    "I don''t want to." She said. Elizabeth wanted to say something, but she felt a sting on her forearm. She heard a voice in her head. ''Give it to Malcolm''. She transformed the device, back to its cube form, and gave it to Malcolm.


    "Why do you give me that?"


    "Don''t ask, and just place it on your forearm." Elizabeth ordered. Malcolm placed it on his forearm, and then he held his head. Elizabeth saw he was shaking his head, as if he was talking to someone. ''What a weirdo'' Enna thought. A few minutes later, Malcolm spoked.


    "Alla dulo emha imbris" If Elizabeth didn''t know Malcolm is a supreme swordsman, she would think he has a stroke, but what surprised her was the look on Enna face. She stopped playing, and her face turned serious.


    "Are you sure about what you just say?" She asked, while the air became filled with threatening intent. Malcolm didn''t flinch and nodded.


    "Yes I am." He replied. Enna disappeared and appeared in before Malcolm. She punched him, but he redirected her punch. Elizabeth wanted to help, but Malcolm stopped her. "Don''t intervene. It''s my fight." He yelled. He attacked Enna using his sword, but she just punched his sword, which caused both of them flying away. Elizabeth covered herself in a protective shield. A few minutes later, Enna''s body was covered in cuts, while Malcolm had internal bleeding and broken bones. Elizabeth wanted to ask what happened, but then she saw that box was back on her forearm. She sent her mana into it, and a minute later she received a message. Which caused her to laugh.


    "Hahaha. Oh, my Gods. He will kill you, Hahaha. Oh my stomach, it hurts so much, but I can''t stop laughing. Haha!" Elizabeth leaned against her barrier while laughing without being able to stop. Malcolm and Enna didn''t see this, because they were focused on the fight. Enna transformed into her beast form. Enna was a hydra. In legends hydras could grow up to nine heads, but no one was able to do that, Enna was able to grow five heads, which was something extraordinary. Each of her heads had different power, and she could regenerate her heads with ease. Malcolm blocked or parried the attack of her fists, or legs. And now was protecting himself from the elemental breaths of her heads. ''Fuck, when you come back, you will make me a full pledged dragon.'' Malcolm thought.


    ....


    Hours later, Enna was laying on the remains of the palace, while breathing heavily in her human form. Two tattoos were gone, which means two heads were cut off. Malcolm was full of injuries, and even greater regeneration had problems with healing.


    "So I won?" Malcolm struggled to stand, let alone talk. Fortunately, Malcolm''s dragon blood and regeneration allowed him to not receive any permanent damage. Enna smiled and pounced on Malcolm. He wanted to protect himself, but he was too weak.


    "My husband. I finally met you. I accept your proposal." She started hugging Malcolm. Malcolm was confused, but a moment later something clicked in his head. He was furious.


    "JAX! YOU MOTHERFUCKER! I WILL RIP YOU TO SHREDS! DO YOU HEAR ME?! I PROMISE!" Malcolm yelled

 Explanation

    "Elizabeth, make a hologram of that fucker." Malcolm barely held his anger in check. Elizabeth placed the box on the ground. A few moments later, a hologram appeared.


    "Explain what did he do?" Malcolm asked while trying to push away Enna.


    "Well, you know that what you said was challenging her." Hologram asked.


    "Yeah, that''s what information I got."


    "Well, the literal translation is along the lines if I defeat you, I will conquer you. It''s ancient proposal of hydra race. So right now you are engaged to her" Malcolm sliced hologram in half, but it immediately repaired itself.


    "Can I do something?"


    "Well, hydras have only one partner for life. So no, you can''t do anything. But hey, you finally got a wife. Isn''t that amazing" Hologram was cut again. Malcolm wanted to say something, but then he looked deep into Enna eyes, that were full of affection, also he didn''t dislike her appearance. He stopped resisting Enna''s hugging.


    "I want a lot of children, husband. Let''s go make them now." Enna said. Malcolm became red.


    "No. We must wait until marriage." He said. But then he saw the puppy eyes of Enna. " You know I''m human with dragon blood, and you are hydra, we don''t know if having children will be easy." Malcolm tried to escape it, but hologram had different plan.


    "Well, I already studied some of the hydra blood, and yours. They bound easily, and if the creature was injected with both, they easily merged together. Also, hydras and dragons have the same ancestor. Having children is not the question of if, but when you will be able to have them." Malcolm brows twitched. ''You fucker, so you already planned it?! I hope your regeneration will fix you up when I finish with you.''


    "Enna. I need to tell you something." Enna looked at him with her violet eyes.


    "Yes my husband." Enna didn''t have any suspicion towards Malcolm. Which caused him to feel bad. ''It feels like, I''m using her.'' Elizabeth smirked at that. ''So he is already falling under Enna charm. Well, it''s probably the same with me and Jax''


    "So few weeks ago..." Malcolm told her about the attack of beastmen on them. When he finished, Enna started to exclude killing intent.


    "How dare they hear my husband. Don''t worry, I will help you with everything, husband." Enna replied with the cold tone. Hydras are extremely protective of their partners, which causes them to kill everything that threatens their significant other.


    "Well, we will leave you now. Enna you have probably a lot to talk about with your husband. Elizabeth has a lot of work to do." Hologram said. Elizabeth understood the meaning and nodded.


    "Yeah, I need to do a lot of things. I will take my leave. I congratulate you, Enna for getting a husband." Elizabeth smiled, and entered the car they used to get here. It was an armoured car, that could protect them from most things in this world. Malcolm wanted to say something, but he felt that something hit his head. He picked up a short metallic stick. It had something written on it.


    "When you want to teleport to your palace, crush it." Malcolm turned around to stop Elizabeth, but she was already far away. Enna grabbed the opportunity, and tried to lead Malcolm to the bedroom.


    .....


    "How long did he planned it?" Elizabeth asked. The car was controlled, by hologram. So she could relax and enjoy the feeling of speed.


    "From the moment of the test of the gun at desert. Enna is a beast, and they don''t care about human etiquette, and are straightforward. Malcolm would stay without a wife, for a very long time, because he doesn''t try anything. Also, we will gain another reason to battle Beast Federation. Malcolm is just trying to protect his wife position, and he found treason amongst council members."


    Hologram answered, while avoiding obstacles.


    "But he will not, go for her for a very long time." Elizabeth said. The hologram shook its head.


    "Jax tested dragon blood. Everyone that has it are a lot more prone, for lust and dominance. Sure Malcolm is keeping well, but because of him getting more and more of dragon blood inside, and Enna being from similar lineage, will cause him to eventually disregard, his antics, and etiquette." Hologram replied.


    "I''m curious why Jax didn''t want her for himself?" Elizabeth wanted to know this. Enna was pretty, and it wouldn''t be hard for Jax to defeat her in the near future.


    "He has you, that''s a first reason. Second would be because he doesn''t feel any attraction to her. Yeah, he thinks she is pretty, but you also think the same way about her. Only with you, he feels a spark." Elizabeth nodded calmly, but her heart was beating faster.


    ....


    "Aura, you are sent to the dark forest." Teacher announced. Aura looked surprised.


    "Why me?" She asked curious.


    "Because, that''s the academy decision" Teacher replied with the tone that didn''t accept any question. He couldn''t tell her it''s because academy wants to, send her away for her to calm down, and learn something. Aura, from awakening her talent, started hunting her bullies. She couldn''t kill them, but those she could challenge, she did and broke most bones in their bodies. Those that couldn''t be challenged, mysteriously, were found unconscious with also broken bones. They couldn''t find evidence about these accidents, but they knew it was her. They wanted her to found some peace. Aura nodded.


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    "Tomorrow." Teacher replied. She then went to her room to start backing her stuff.


    ....


    "Benjamin, you got a letter." Benjamin mother handed him a letter. He opened and when he finished, he was confused. ''Why are they sending me there?'' His mother saw that he is surprised.


    "What happened? What is in that letter?"


    "They send me to dark forest. Because some strange things are happening there." Benjamin asked. His mother nodded.


    "It''s because it''s near the borders of our land, but it''s possible someone pulled strings to send you there, because of your poor health." Benjamin nodded.


    "That could be it. I need to go there just in case." He said.


    ....


    Herman saw burning letters on the wall. They made four words: Go to Dark Forest. Herman kneeled in front of these words.


    "Yes great being. I will go there as you wish"


    .....


    Beast federation council was in uproar. They received an official declaration of war. It wasn''t directed to all members, but if someone helped these members, they will be involved as well.


    "What did you do?!" Lion beastmen roared at the members who are involved in this war. One of them stood up. It was leader of wolf clan.


    "We didn''t do anything wrong." He tried to defend himself and others. The head of council was mad. ''These idiots attacked them for sure, probably to steal the technology they showed us. I understand it, but trying to that against queen of Phoenix Kingdom, and king of Dragon Kingdom is just stupidity.''


    "We need to call a leader." Everyone nodded, after that they send messenger. A few hours later, Enna arrived at the council. Everyone felt that she was furious. ''Our leader will not allow, some humans to declare war on us'' but their dreams disappeared, at the moment Enna opened her mouth.


    "I support Dragon Kingdom." She said.


    "You traitor!" One member yelled


    "You are a leader! How dare you side with humans?" Another yelled. Lion beastman tried to calm everything down.


    "Quiet!" Enna yell, caused everyone to hold their ears, some people ears even bleed. "You dared to attack my husband! I will not protect someone who did that. If you have a problem, go after me, and defeat me. But we all know, you aren''t able to do that. I will not kill you here, because I promised my husband I will not do that. So feel lucky, but next time I will kill you." Enna then snapped the stick in her hand and a portal appeared under her legs. After she left, the entire council was silent. ''We are doomed'' thought a lot of members. However, members who agreed to the deal, were extremely happy. They gained access to amazing technology, and they will not be attacked, unless they side with the enemy. Also, the Phoenix Kingdom and Dragon Kingdom will aid them, if necessary.


    .....


    "Your majesty, you should consider a war with Beast Federation. It will cost a lot of lives from our side." Malcolm advisor said. Malcolm was sitting on his throne, and shook his head.


    "Our soldiers will be safe, someone provided us with the weapons that will destroy everything on our path." Malcolm said, and gestured to advisor to leave him alone. Few moments later from the dark woman appeared by his side.


    "Are you sure about it? I can''t revive people." Maya asked.


    "I know but yo" he didn''t finish because a portal appeared above him and woman fell from it, and landed on his knees. The woman immediately put her hands behind Malcolm head, and laid her head on his chest.


    "Husband, I did, as you asked. I didn''t kill them, so I want a reward." Enna demanded.


    "Who is she? Why she is calling you a husband? Why I don''t know anything?" Maya bombarded him with questions.


    "Who are you? He is my man. I will not give him to you." Enna said to Maya. Malcolm felt headache already.


    "Enna, this is my sister Maya. Maya this is Enna, well she is my wife. It''s complicated, I will explain it later." Maya nodded, but she wanted to get answers now. He then turned towards Enna. "What reward you want?" She smiled.


    "I want a kiss." Malcolm shook his head. But then she grabbed his face, and brought her face closer to his. "Or should I do that myself?" She asked with seductive manner. Malcolm blushed at this.


    ....


    "Haha oh Malcolm. You are really pure guy. Well it''s not like I''m better, in my past life I didn''t have a girlfriend, but at least in this life my relationship with Elizabeth is great." Jax was genuinely happy, about Malcolm situation right now.


    "You should do it, in better way" Shiro said. Jax rolled his eyes.


    "You are a terrible liar. I know you laughed the hardest, after I created my plan, and after he did that." Jax smiled at her. Shiro just shrugged.


    "You got me." Jax laughed a bit.


    "Well now, all pieces are in one place. I hope the attractions I made will satisfy them."

 Glossary of the world

    I''m sorry everyone, my work is probably full of inconsistents stuff so I will try to explain and just make head and tails from everything. Also this chapter will be updated in the future, so I want readers to say what should I explain, or correct.


    Explanation:


    Two classes that exist in this world are knights and mages. Mages cast spells, enchant items, create formations etc. Knights are people who use aura. They are stronger, faster and more resistant compared to normal people.


    Differences:


    Main one is that knights use aura,which is power drawn from their body, and mages use mana which is the power of the world. Aura enchants knights bodies. For example if average person need to drink 4 beers to be drunk, knights would need 8 or more to be drunk. Everything depends on the level of knights. The stronger knight the more resistant he/she is. Mana allows to manipulate the world or to create new things. For example mage could cause tsunami or earthquake, but they can also create water to wash themselves. Other than that, is that knights live longer than mages, because mana itself doesn''t enchant body as much as aura.


    Cultivation of knights:


    To become a knight. Person needs to be able to pull out his/her aura from themselves. If person is able to do that they become apprentice knight. They train their mana by using it, just like muscles. This causes their amount and stability of aura to increase. When someone hit maximum amount of aura they can accumulate they are creating ring around their hearts using their aura. Rings from 1-6 just need training and some talent.


    1-3 rings are called junior knights. They gain ability to enchant their bodies with aura.


    4-6 rings are called senior knights. They gain ability to cover their weapons with aura.


    7 rings are called master knight. They are able to generate weapons made from their aura. To achieve it. Swordsman must understand the weapon. They need to use their understanding of the weapon to create 7th ring.


    8 rings are called grandmaster knight. To create 8th ring, they need to understand principles of the weapon. For example for the sword would be it''s versatility etc. When they fused it during creating, and succeed. Grandmaster gains ability to use their bodies as a weapon. For example grandmaster knight that is a swordsman, can perform a slicing movement and that cause for things to be sliced. They can do that with everything from hands to feet.


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    9 rings are called supreme knights. To create 9th ring, they need to become one with the weapon. Grandmasters can use their bodies like weapons, but supreme knights are people who became the weapon. If they want their voice can cut people.


    Cultivation of mages:


    First someone needs to sense mana and after that they need to absorb it to their body. When they achieve that, they are apprentice mage. To increase their mana they need to meditate, and absorb mana from surrounding. When they achieve maximum amount of mana, apprentice creates a circle on their heart. Circles allows them better control over mana and spells, also increase their mentall capabilities for example thought process, memory etc. just like knights mages circles from 1 to 6 requires hard work and some talent.


    1-3 are called junior mages. They are able to cast simple spells, that involves one element for example fireball.


    3-6 are called senior mages. They can cast more advanced magic, or have better control over it. For example junior mage can cast fireball, but after sending it flying, he/she can''t do anything.


    7 circles are called high mage. To achieve that they need to connect to mana and use it as extension of the body. High mage can control very complicated spells that needs several elements, or different forces acting at the same time.


    8 circles are called archmage. To achieve that mage needs to connect with mana and create connection. They gain ability to use complex magic, for example teleportation.


    9 circles are called supreme mages. They need to create connection with the world itself. Which grants them ability to manipulate the world to some extent. They can use mana in the world to cause tsunami or even earthquake.


    Consequences of creating ring or circle:


    When someone takes the path of the knight, they lose access to mana. They can still use it, but only to just lit the candle, or make cup of water. The same goes for mages, they lose mostly access to aura. It''s possible for them to use aura to increase digestion, or speed up healing process to small extent for example small cut will stop bleeding few minutes earlier than normally.

 Dark Forest

    "Okay, it should be nearby." Benjamin looked at the letter, he got. There were instructions how to find a gathering spot. Some time later he found it. The gathering spot was a cluster of tents, there were also some primitive fortifications placed. The soldier appeared in front of him, and was ready to attack.


    "Who are you? You shouldn''t be here." Benjamin showed the letter to the soldier.


    "I was called here, this letter is my proof" Benjamin did get closer to the soldier. When the soldier finished reading, he put down the weapon.


    "Come in" Benjamin walked to the middle of the camp. It was crowded with the soldiers. He saw one that was taller and older than the rest. That soldier had a scar on his face from his left eye to the right chin. The man turned and looked at Benjamin.


    "I''m captain Rex. You are Benjamin, right? You look better than in description." In the letter Rex got, Benjamin was a frail boy, but the boy standing in front of him, had quite a lot of muscles, and steady posture. ''Probably outdated information''


    "I was weaker in the past, but probably I was just a late bloomer." Rex nodded. It was very possible in his opinion.


    "For now we need to wait for the rest of the people. Just sit around the campfire" Benjamin nodded and sat down. ''If they wanted me, someone who, by their data, is practically a defenceless boy, others cannot exceed, senior knight/mage level. Which means the situation isn''t that dangerous. I can exclude people who visited me in past weeks, as people who send me here. Otherwise, the data would be accurate.'' Benjamin was deep in thoughts.


    ...


    "Why there are so many beasts." Aura spat on the ground. She was on the way towards gathering point, but she was attacked one time after another. She was already tired, but if she loses focus, some beast can attack her.


    Aura used aura to clean herself from the beast blood.


    "Although I cleaned the blood, the smell is still on my clothes. It will only buy me some time. The faster I get there, the quicker I will clean myself." Aura heard movement in the forest. She quickly ran towards the gathering point.


    ....


    "I''m close to the gathering point. Soon the will of the lord will be fulfilled." Herman said with zealous tone. He was running through the forest with high speed, thanks to magic. He was also using invisible magic, to not alarm predators. Although it was consuming large amounts of mana, there was not any other option. "If only I had a knight by my side. Well it''s not, I can''t make an undead puppet in the future." Thanks to Herman being able to absorb memories from the living, he amassed a lot of knowledge and spells. He even had some forbidden spells in his sleeve.


    ....


    A few hours later, both Aura and Herman arrived at the gathering point. Rex nodded, and make everyone gather. He then started to explain the situation.


    "We got reports that the activity of the monsters in this area, became chaotic. We didn''t find any traces, of battle between rules, or migration caused by mating season. So the most likely scenario is that something unnatural is happening deep in the forest. You, three, will be sent into the forest to find the cause. My men will keep beats here in check. Do you have any question?" Rex looked around.


    "Did mages find some black magic?" Benjamin asked. Black magic is a term used to describe magic that is connected to death or destruction, like cursed or necromancy. Black magic isn''t forbidden, but most of the problems caused by failed experiments are caused by black magic. Rex shook his head.


    "They didn''t find anything, but it could be caused by some concealment magic." Aura then asked her question.


    "What is the level of the threat?"


    "Mages estimated it on middle of senior stage." Rex replied. Herman didn''t ask a question. If mages of the kingdom didn''t find anything, he also wouldn''t at least not past him. He was confident he will find something that they couldn''t.


    Unauthorized usage: this narrative is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings."Did kingdom send some supplies for us?" Benjamin asked. Rex nodded, and ordered his men to bring them. A few minutes later, his men brought sealed boxes with the Phoenix Kingdom emblem. When the soldiers opened one of the boxes, three of them opened their eyes in surprise. Rex smiled when he saw how greed appeared in their eyes.


    "That''s right. You got prototype weapons, made by his majesty Jax." Rex said. He himself wanted these weapons, but he knew it would cause his death. The box contained three weapons. The first one was a sword made entirely from the aura crystal. It would give them ability to compete against with master knight. The second one was also a sword, but this one was made from completely unknown metal. It could cut the strongest metal with ease, and was light like a feather. The third one was a magic staff, that had a glowing crystal inserted at the top of it.


    "So this is explanation of each weapon. Mister Herman will take the staff, that is obvious, but who will take which sword." Rex said.


    "I want the metal one." Aura said, Benjamin was satisfied and nodded. He was extremely interested in aura crystal sword, so this was very good for him.


    "I would recommend you to still have, your old weapon by your side. His majesty give instructions, that these weapons are still a prototype, so they could break at any moment." Rex said, and handed each of them a letter that explained how each weapon worked. "You will be sent to investigate in a few days. We need to create proper fortification, and you will help us. Until you are needed, you are allowed to train with your new weapons, and do whatever you want." Rex then went to his soldiers.


    ....


    "How people reacted to our contract with human kingdoms?" Asked a woman with bunny ears, and bunny tail. A man with similar body features like her smiled brightly.


    "At the beginning, they were scared and disliked it, but over time when they didn''t need to go to mines or do other dangerous jobs, they got a lot happier. Also, the technology and techniques of making new types of alcohol and food, cemented this expression." The woman smiled.


    "What with the slaves trade?" She asked. Her kingdom sent 100 hundred bunny beastmen, but she was afraid it was too little.


    "The creatures, said that this is sufficient, and that this amount is good enough. Also, the creatures passed information, that if our people suffer from deadly diseases they should go with the creatures, and there is a chance to make a cure." Man replied. The queen of bunny kingdom was extremely satisfied with the results. ''These old stupid countries lost the opportunity to receive such powerful aid, and workers. I will never betray human kingdoms''


    .....


    Similar situation occurred in other countries that accepted the deal. Powerful countries instead were furious, and wanted to destroy rapidly growing, small countries, but they were afraid of getting attacked by human kingdoms.


    ....


    "Jax, I, will, break, your, bones." Malcolm was talking in his sleep. He dreamed of breaking Jax bones, for throwing him into marriage. But then in his dream he felt that something is stopping him. He tried to move it, but he felt that it was soft. And then he heard a small laugh. Malcolm woke up to see glowing eyes in front of him.


    "So you finally touched my body, husband" he heard Enna''s voice. He tried to move her away, but she held his hands against the bed.


    "Wait, we can''t do that!" Malcolm said.


    "You already touched my body, a moment before. It''s not like you didn''t enjoy it. Also, it''s not like I can''t tell that ''someone'' is honest here" Enna smiled.

 Exploration of Dark Forest

    "Maybe we will start with introduction?" Asked Benjamin. Aura and Herman nodded.


    "I''m Aura. I''m peak junior knight. I was sent here by academy." Benjamin looked at her. ''She looks nice, but she is quite scary''. Aura was dressed in leather armour, and kept her in the ponytail. He himself also had some basic armour.


    "I''m Herman, I volunteered to go here. I''m peak senior mage." ''Old man, and he looks crazy''. Herman was dressed in the mage robes.


    "I''m Benjamin, I get letter to come here. I''m middle junior knight." Everyone nodded. "So we should choose the leader. Do you want to be leader?" Herman and Aura shook their heads. Benjamin nodded.


    "We should tell each other what these prototypes in our hands can do." Benjamin, and Aura, agreed with Herman suggestion.


    "My aura sword, can change its shapes. Also, it also amplifies my aura" Benjamin infused his aura into the sword, and it changed into saber, after that he changed it back into sword. "It can repair itself over time, and if I want I can cause it to explode, for example after I stab a monster and leave the blade inside." The rest nodded. Aura took her new sword, and swung it. A moment later the tree fell down, and they were able to see that the cut was clean. She then sheathed it back.


    "It''s extremely light, durable and sharp. It has great aura conductivity. Normally to wrap a sword using my aura, I need few times more of it, compared to this sword. Other than that, this sword doesn''t have any abilities." After that, Herman cast fireball, it was however few times larger than normal fireball.


    "This staff allows me to cast spells quicker than normally. It also reduces the amount of mana I need to use, and increases the power of the spell. If necessary, staff have option to become one time single target spell. His majesty wrote that, it will rival the power of the spell cast by archmage." Aura and Benjamin nodded. There are already rumours about what Jax created, so something like this isn''t shocking.


    "We should train with each other to learn our abilities." Benjamin recommended.


    "Sure, going to battle without knowing our abilities will cost our lives" Aura said


    "I agree. I don''t want to die here." Herman said.


    ....


    "I heard there are things called video games. How they work?" Elizabeth asked.


    "Well. How to describe it to the person from this world?" Doll thought, few seconds later it snapped its fingers. "When you put a box on your hand, you have something called interface. Games are similar, but instead of having GPS or other things. They have some story, you can do a lot of things there etc." It was hard to explain it. Elizabeth gained knowledge about Earth languages, and their definition, but knowing definition and understanding are completely different things. Doll then tapped a few things into the laptop.


    "What are you doing?" Doll finished typing into the web browser, and clicked enter.


    "I am searching for the most simple games, for you." Doll said. Elizabeth looked at the results.


    "Why some people recommended game called Dark Souls? Is it good for beginners?" Doll shook its head.


    "Nope. It''s a bad idea. You shouldn''t touch this." Doll replied, but Elizabeth wanted to try.


    "I want to play this game." She ordered.


    .....


    "Her pride will cause her some pain." Jax created popcorn and coke on the table next to him. "It''s not like I will not enjoy it." Fortunately, Jax saw this possibility, and made the laptop, practically indestructible.


    ....


    A few days later, trio was sent to explore Dark Forest. Rex gave them supplies, and show suspected direction, where the anomaly started.


    They met several beats, but all of them were low rank, so they didn''t have too much problem. Aura and Benjamin decided that unless necessary, Herman shouldn''t use his spells, but instead he should focus on detecting changes in the mana. They explored until the sun started to set. Benjamin found a cave, he only needed to kill a bear that was there. A few hours later, they were roasting bear meat.


    This narrative has been purloined without the author''s approval. Report any appearances on Amazon."Herman, did you found anything?" Herman took the leg of the bear, and shook his head.


    "There are some changes, but they are so small that they could be caused, by beasts." He took a bite from the leg. Aura had idea.


    "What if the entrance, or location, is protected by something not magical?" It was a possibility, some people in ancient times hide their laboratory using non-magical ways.


    "If that''s true, we are dealing with very ancient magic." Herman said between eating the leg. Benjamin was thinking of the ways how to find something like this.'' Wait, if it''s ancient, that means it should stick out like a sore thumb.''


    "Is it possible for you to detect mana that doesn''t match the surroundings?" Herman''s eyes glowed.


    "You want to find the entrance by searching for stuff that doesn''t belong here. Yeah, it''s possible, but we need to look for things that have the same mana signature. Over time, they will match the surroundings. If you are right, the location is at least few hundred years old. It''s enough time for small things to match mana signature."


    "Aura you should report all things that doesn''t match Dark Forest, and are old." Aura nodded. She had the best senses from all of them, because of her rank. Then Herman made a barrier around the entrance of the cave.


    ....


    "We are halfway through the path towards Old City. Did you prepare everything?" Max asked, to which Sela nodded. After he rested in Stone City, Sela joined him. He didn''t know the reason, but one night a messenger came with the letter. This letter explained the Sela''s life. She was an orphan. Her parents were friends with Luke, and during one of the adventures, Luke got an arrow in the knee, and Sela''s parents were killed. He took her in, raised her. Sela from her parents death, didn''t show many emotions. But when she brought him in, Luke saw she was concerned. And this caused him to leave her in his care. ''Well, she is a nice companion.'' Max couldn''t complain. Sela didn''t rush into battle without thinking, and she listened to his orders. When they returned to adventure guild, Sela gained gold plate. They took a quest for hunting wolves packs in Old City. The Old City, gained its name, because it was just very old. The surroundings were covered in countless ruins. Each year people find something new. But now the wolves started to hunt people, who wanted to dig to find a treasure. ''Why I feel that in near future something big will happen?'' Max just shook his head, these thoughts will not help him at all.


    .....


    "I hate this game! I tried to kill that fucking bastard 30 times, and he is still killing me! I did everything, I could think of!" Elizabeth started to hit the floor with the laptop, a few minutes later she calmed down. "Last fucking attempt, you will die this time. I swear on my name that I will kill you." Elizabeth died 10 more times, and destroyed half of her room.


    .....


    "I found something." Aura said under her nose. They didn''t raise their voices in the forest, but thanks to being a knight, Benjamin could hear it. Benjamin saw some strange stone. ''It doesn''t look like any that we saw in this forest, also it looks like, this stone has erosion caused by seawater'' He then turned towards Herman.


    "Could you use telekinesis to move it from the distance?" Herman nodded, and they hide behind some tree. Herman moved the stone, but nothing happened.


    "Maybe it needs someone alive to move it." Herman suggested. They found some goblin, and Herman cast a spell on him. After that, the goblin started to move towards the stone, and it picked it, but once again nothing happened.


    "Maybe we need to use blood to activate it or some sacrifice" Aura suggested. Herman then used telekinesis to move the dagger towards the goblin. Dagger cut the throat of the monster. Nothing happened, at least at first glance.


    "The stone is absorbing the goblin''s blood" Aura said, after that Benjamin focused his senses on the stone, and Herman enchanted his sight with magic. They discovered it was the truth.


    "We need to report this."

 Opening

    Flesh goblin''s body fell on the rock, and its blood was absorbed, by the rock. Rex nodded at this with approval.


    "Even if this isn''t connected to the anomaly, it''s still a very good discovery." Rex praised the trio. He then turned towards Herman." Do you know what can because of this?" Herman pondered, for a few minutes.


    "Well, I don''t feel, that this is magical, but it could be caused by combination of magic and machinery." Herman replied.


    "Can you explain it?" Rex asked.


    "For example, if formation made a wind, that causes something to move, and it would cause another thing to also move and so on. You wouldn''t be able to feel magic from it. The source of movement is because of the wind caused by magic, but the rest would be just nature." Herman explained.


    "So the rock could be connected to something that is run by magic?" Herman nodded.


    "Yeah, that is a possibility." Rex deep in the thoughts.


    "We already killed a lot of goblins, and there is no reaction, which could mean three things. First we need more blood, second there are more rocks like this, or third we need different blood for this. I hope it''s not more rocks. There were cases that pieces needed to be activated in order." Rex sighed and gave the order to search for any suspicious looking stone or rock, and other strange things.


    "Should we test the human blood?" Aura asked. Rex nodded.


    "We have few prisoners, that we captured not long ago. They are bandits, so killing them this way will be a mercy for them. But we should wait until we get a report from my men." Everyone agreed with that.


    ....


    Jax was gathering data, and create scenarios of experiment and simulated them. At some point he felt that someone appeared. This being wasn''t a man or a woman. When Jax looked at it, in one second he saw a silhouette of a young woman, and in another silhouette of a dragon. That being was at the same time everything and nothing.


    "What brings you here?" Jax asked. He didn''t care too much about the presence of this being, and continued his experiments.


    "We want to make a deal with you." The being said with the voice of countless species of both genders at the same time.


    "Sure, what do you want?" Jax replied.


    .....


    "My men didn''t discover anything. So we can exclude more rocks. So now we can try with the human blood." Rex ordered for prisoners to be brought out. They looked like typical bandits. With vile look at their faces, their looked at female soldiers and Aura. Some of them had scars on their faces or arms. Aura emitted killing intent towards them, but they didn''t care. Rex then nodded at Herman. Herman cast a spell and bandit started to walk towards the rock. After that, he slit his throat. When the bandit blood touched the rock, it started to glow. After that the earth started to shook, and the ground opened revealing stairs.


    "That was quick" Rex said. He then turned towards trio." If you rest enough, and have supplies, you should go immediately."


    "I can go now, what about you two?" Benjamin asked. Aura and Herman nodded. Benjamin turned towards Rex." We will go now." Rex nodded.


    "I hope Gods will help you." Then they went down.


    ....


    Benjamin took out a flashlight. It was an expensive tool, but one of the best things people can get. It will not cause fire, and operating is far easier and more reliable than a torch. He light up surroundings using it, they moved slowly. It was caused by them watching every step to not activate some kind of trap. It caused Benjamin to be in the front, and Herman in the back while checking for magical traps. Benjamin found a few steps that looked suspicious and walked away from them. A few minutes later, they found themselves in a big room, that was filled with books and glass capsules filled with a strange liquid. When they walked towards these capsules, they saw, that floating in that liquid were human corpses.


    This story has been taken without authorization. Report any sightings."Herman, do you have any idea what is the point of these capsules?" Herman nodded at Benjamin question. Benjamin wasn''t disgusted by it. These corpses weren''t discomposed, and by the looking at them, he could see that death was painless.


    "They are for keeping them fresh, in some cases there are other properties, but without checking it, I can''t say anything." They didn''t touch anything, and went deeper into the room. Few minutes late they found a door. They didn''t try to open it manually. Benjamin skinned at Herman, who used telekinesis against the door. The door opened and a series of darts shot from the corridor. The room was light up by artificial light, so Benjamin took out a small mirror and handed it to the Aura. She nodded and strapped the mirror at the end of her sword, and held it towards the door. She saw in reflection that there is nothing behind the door. Benjamin wasn''t convinced, so he took out a rock he had, and throw it into the corridor, when he didn''t hear anything happening for a few minutes he went inside. The corridor was very long, and quite wide, both him and aura could walk side by side, although they didn''t do that in case of getting in the range of each other swords.


    They found some protruding stone slaps on the ground. ''It would be dangerous, for people without a mage, and with just a torch.'' Although the light was still there, it became quite dim.


    "For now this being an ancient location is correct, although the capsules and lights are strange." Benjamin whispered.


    "There are some ruins, that have them. It''s nothing surprising." Herman replied, and then both of them felt that Aura held them.


    "Something is coming." She whispered. Both of them took prepared themselves. A few minutes later, a human appeared in front of them.


    "It isn''t human any more." Benjamin said. In dim light the creature looked like a human, but when it came closer they saw, that it was a walking corpse that was covered in crystals. Its arms and legs were covered in crystal like armour, and from it chest a big chunk of crystal was protruding. Aura jumped towards the monster to decapitate it. She spinned in the air and cut the head of the monster. Aura jumped immediately.


    "Fuck me" She cursed. The monster didn''t fell, it picked up its head and placed it back on the neck, a moment later the wound was covered in crystals that stuck the head with the neck. After that the monster started to screech, it raised it hand, and started shooting crystal shards towards them. Benjamin saw that after placing the head back on the neck, the crystal on the chest glowed.


    "Attack the crystal on its chest!" Benjamin yelled, while evading shards. Aura looked at Herman, who nodded. Benjamin saw it and tried to focus monster attention on him. He changed his sword into a shield and walked towards the monster. The monster started to shoot all the shards towards Benjamin, and it didn''t notice shadow appearing behind it. Herman cast a spell that erased the presence of the person, and Aura used it as an opportunity to sneak behind it. She then covered her blade with aura and cut the monster diagonally from the back through the crystal on its chest.

 Exploration

    "What the hell is that thing?" Aura said, while the trio looked at the corpse of the monster. As always, Benjamin turned towards Herman, who shook his head.


    "I don''t have any clue. It''s something that shouldn''t be possible, fusing a person and the magic crystal was something that people tried in the past, and all of them failed. We found something that is beyond our present knowledge." Herman calmly said. He was excited about this monster, but he understood that everything here could be beyond unknown to him, and be a grave danger. They rested for a moment to regenerate their strength. After that they went further and found three doors, one on the left, one on the right and one in the middle.


    "Do you feel anything behind each door?"


    "The left and right one are a lot weaker compared to the one in middle. We should explore the left and right one first, just in case if something important is there." Benjamin nodded, they choose to go through the right door. They did the same as indoor before.


    "Nothing happened. I think it''s suspicious. Be careful" Benjamin said. They walked slowly into the room. After that, they checked for traps, but found nothing. The room was average in size, and was well lit. They saw that it was probably someone room. It had a bed in the middle and few doors that led to bathroom and wardrobe. The room was practically empty.


    "So the person who made this place lived in this room? It doesn''t have any dust on furniture, and the air is fresh. I don''t know much about magic, but if someone made this place in ancient times, the formation keeping all of this should collapse. Don''t you think, Herman?" Aura said.


    "Yeah, that''s true, also the power supply of this formation, which means someone was able to connect to mana vein. We are lucky that monster you killed was so weak. In the best case scenario, the monster on the end of this place is weakened significantly after so much time, or it mutated into something that can''t do anything. We also need to find theme of this place." Aura raised her brow.


    "A theme?" Herman nodded.


    "Most people use this places for one purpose. In one, you could find experiments with undead. In other chimeras, and in next one illusions. These places are very hard to maintain, let alone to keep experiments, so making several things at one place is costly and dangerous." Aura nodded slightly, as a thanks for explaining.


    "It would help us, to take books and try to understand them, but we don''t know if there is any kind of hidden mechanism, that will activate if the weight of the bookshelf changes. For now, the best decision is to check another room and then explore further."


    ....


    Kurkhak was wondering factory until he felt something. He turned around his metallic head, and smiled.


    "It''s nice to see you master, although not completely personally." Jax nodded with a smile. He was there in the form of a spirit. It was a projection of his mind, that he could create in places he was in the past.


    "How is your body doing? Are there any problems?" Kurkhak shook his head.


    "It''s perfect, I can even taste things." Jax made Kurkhak a robotic body, that was similar to what he looked like in the past. Kurkhak''s body was 2m tall it had pointy ears, and was quite wide. The body was made from special alloy that Jax created. He had a handsome face, and fangs that protruded from his lower jaw. Jax planned to give him a living body, but Kurkhak wanted something better.


    "I''m glad. How expansion of the factory is going?" Kurkhak metallic face smiled.


    "Everything is going according to plan. But how did you acquire something like space magical stone or time, there are even more of abstract ones here?"


    "I made a deal. You don''t need to worry about it. And how It is reacting now? Is it able to understand things now?" Jax asked.


    Stolen from its original source, this story is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings."Everything is going excellent." Both of them walked towards a new room in the factory. When they arrived, a voice greeted them.


    "Hello sir Kurkhak. It''s nice to see you creator, is everything going according to plan?" Voice asked with concern.


    "Yeah, Adam, it does. I just visited to check if you feel alright." Jax was looking at an enormous glass ball that was filled with white substance. The glass ball glowed.


    "Yes! Thanks to you connecting me to the internet and your knowledge, I was able to learn so much! Although I don''t understand certain topics such as why people feel so much greed. Isn''t it illogical to take away from people, when if treated right they can give you more in the long term?" Jax smiled bitterly.


    "It is Adam, it is. Don''t you want to see the world around you?" Jax asked. Adam was a project he created. He extracted thousands of souls, and purified them from their memories. He then fused them together to create Adam, although the core of Adam comes from a different place. When he created a connection with Earth to allow internet to come to this world, a soul shard appeared. Jax inspected this shard. He saw it belonged to a blonde man with blue eyes. This man''s body was perfect, and the only clothe he wore was a leaf behind his legs. His name was Adam, after he saw all memories in that shard, Jax started to unconsciously cry. Jax felt extreme sadness, at the sight of this fragment.


    ''So you really existed. You did your best, I will use your shard the best I can. You will help humanity in different way'' Jax said that to himself after that. He then used this as a core of this being.


    "I would gladly do that, but am I allowed to do this?" Adam asked. Jax smiled and nodded.


    "You are, but you need to choose what body you want. Although it will take some time to create a living body and controlling it will take some time. And it has limitation." Jax could grant him a living body anyway, but he wanted to say everything important before.


    "I understand creator, but I want to feel the world the same way as you do. Non offence, sir Kurkhak, I don''t think your mechanical body is worse." Adam glowed dimmer. Kurkhak smiled.


    "Don''t worry, Adam, I understand wanting to have a living body." Kurkhak choose this body, to help Jax and serve by his side forever.


    "Okay, but before that I need to ask someone about opinion, don''t worry it will not affect you getting a body." After that, Jax disappeared.


    ....


    "I finally defeated this boss! It took me days, but I did this!" Elizabeth yelled, with excitement. Then she felt something and turned her head to see a person about which she thought about all the time.


    "It''s been a while" Jax smiled. Elizabeth rushed towards him, but she passed through him.


    "Projection?" Jax nodded.


    "I know it''s hard for you, but it will only take a few months. I have an important question for you." Elizabeth was sad, but she nodded.


    "Go ahead."


    "Well, so the situation goes like this..." Jax explained the situation with Adam and creating him a living body.


    "So you want to give him a body that is a combination of me and you? I mean, it''s a very difficult decision." Jax nodded with understanding.


    "That''s why I didn''t do anything, and immediately went to ask you."


    "I have two conditions."


    "Sure, go ahead." Jax understood she needs to accept it, on her own.


    "I want him to look like a combination of us, and him to be young." She looked with expectation. ''So that''s her idea''


    "If he agrees, that''s fine." Elizabeth nodded at this. After that, Jax disappeared.


    ........


    If someone read this far, I want to ask you what do you think about story so far, it would help me a lot.

 The Beast

    "Adam, what body you want? Do you want to be the same age as me, younger or older? Also do you have preference for your looks?..." Jax asked multiple questions ranged from the height to even small details like if he wants fingerprints. When Jax finished Adam glowed.


    "I want to start from beginning, and understand how it feels to be human or living being. I know I am not a real person, but I want to try. I will leave my body choice to you." Jax nodded.


    "Sure when your body is ready I will transfer you to it." Jax then disappeared.


    "So you want me to help your wife creator? I agree with that." Jax was unaware that Adam knew about his plan from the beginning. He wanted to help Elizabeth that wanted to be a mother. Adam didn''t understand why he felt it was something he needed to do, but one thought was coming from his core. ''Protect humans''


    .....


    "So we went from bedroom to kitchen. So living room is the only one left" Aura said. They were in second room, that was a kitchen.


    "Well at least there aren''t any monster that can come from this or other room and attack us from behind. Right now we can slowly move ahead." Benjamin said.


    ....


    "Creating a living body is quite fun." Jax was in his spirit form in front of machinery. It was a glass capsule that was 2m tall, and filled with light green liquid, and in front of this was a panel with two holes. Jax took out from his subspace two glass containers, that at first glance were just filled with the same liquid as the glass capsule. He put each container in one hole and then put his hands on them.


    "Well to override entire DNA of sperm and egg cell to match our DNA, is quite hard task. Well I could extract them from our bodies, but doing that requires entire procedure, and it''s just easier to do that to slaves." Jax then started to override the DNA. It took him few hours, but after that DNA of sperm and egg cell matched both of them. Although it wasn''t a pure DNA, because Jax changed a lot to eliminate a lot of damages and faulty genes, and added others. He was satisfied and contents of containers went into capsule, and Jax using his abilities was able to control sperm cell to impregnate the egg cell. When it was done he controlled machinery to sustain impregnated egg cell. Jax took out container with piece of Adam soul and injected it into cell. He needed to make body compatible with Adam.


    "It will take, few weeks for it to grow into infant. Well I have a lot of time, and this will help me." Jax then turned to see a ball of light that circled around the capsule.


    "So this will be my body? It''s fascinating how something so small, can grow into a human or other species. How Gods made this? Why does it work like this? There are so many questions, but so little answers." Adam said. Jax nodded.


    Unauthorized tale usage: if you spot this story on Amazon, report the violation."That is our purpose to discover and understand this world and others. Do you have a goal?" Jax asked with smile.


    "A goal? Well it''s hard to say creator, the goal of my life, the meaning of my life. You created me from thousands of souls, shouldn''t it be your decision what goal I should have?" Adam replied. Jax shook his head.


    "When you gained your own will, you stopped being a tool, and instead you are a person. Your memories and experience will shape you. Took the path you want. Your path doesn''t need to be a one that follows me, you could even be a villain in my life. Do what you want. I can''t sign you a role. You should think about what you want to do. After your body finished you will be a part of the world." Adam started to wander around and Jax smiled at this.


    .....


    "We should be careful, beyond this gate I detect very high amount of mana. I will cast a shield on all of us just in case." Herman said, and after that all of them felt a mana that was covering their entire body. The gate before them was 10m tall and 5 wide. It was made from wood, and had metal elements. Benjamin and Aura pushed it, but discovered it moved so easily that even child could open them. ''Enchanted'' Benjamin thought. When they opened them, the view made them shiver. ''It''s a fucking dragon!'' Trio thought at the same time. In the middle of empty space they saw a dragon that was filled with crystals protruding from its body, it didn''t have much energy inside, but it was still a dragon. They wanted to retreat, but then the dragon opened its eyes.


    "Roar!" It ran towards trio. Benjamin looked at the dragon, and inspected its whole body, he saw multiple big chunks of crystals on its body.


    "Aura, try to sneak attack, I will distract it and hurt it! Herman, try to restrain it!." Benjamin changed his sword into a shield, and ran towards the dragon. The dragon raised its claw to slice Benjamin, but Benjamin raised his shield and made the claw slide off the shield, which threw the dragon off the balance. All his bones cracked when he did that. He then tried to slice the dragon, but when he created a wound, crystals grew from it, and sealed the wound. Aura sneaked on the back of the dragon, and cut the wing that had a big crystal chunk, when she did that, everyone felt that dragon became weaker. It tried to shake off the aura, but Benjamin used this chance to cut the leg off that had the crystal cluster. He met a resistance, and dragon pull his head towards Benjamin, but Herman shoot a lightning bolt towards dragon face and made it stop. Benjamin then swung once more and cut off the entire leg. Dragon fell on the side, and after that, everyone Aura started to slice all crystal chunks. And an hour later the dragon was dead.


    ...


    If someone read this far, I want to ask you what do you think about story so far, it would help me a lot.

 Hiatus

    I don''t know what to do with this series. I think I will just rework the entire story from the beginning. So I''m sorry for anyone that liked my work so far. I''m not sure how long it will take for me to think about how to restart it or to continue. In my opinion, starting from the beginning is a good thing because I wrote it without thinking about the plot. I hope I will found some inspiration to start from the scratches and make better plot and characters. I really liked to write it and see that people read it, and I''m thankful for it.


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