《The King Of Tricks And Magic》 Prologue At the dark night where every creature should be sleeping. A battle is in the middle of occurring. A great battle that determines the ending of the war of humans and demons. An epic battle that couldn''t be perceived by normal people. All kinds of traces of the terrifying battle like the scattering ground or traces of explosions could be found in all sides of the battlefield. The heroes are battling against the Demon King. "HAHHAHAHAHAH! You humans will never defeat me! I''ve made a contract with the evil god of war, Hachiman! No one could stop me now!" The laughter of the Demon King is echoing to every corner of the battlefield. With that sentence, everyone could know that the heroes are losing. They gritted their teeth because of their lack of power but their eyes still shone with some hope! they haven''t lost their hope yet! All of the heroes thought the same thing! The strongest of us haven''t even come! And if he comes, even if there is 100 of you all of them will still not enough to defeat him! As the Demon King''s laughter getting bigger and bigger and he''s about to utilize his strongest spell to finish the heroes. A voice cut in. "Antimagic field. antimagic card activate." a voice said. Suddenly the ground shook and a blue light shone and the battlefield changed into a gigantic shining card shape. And the Demon King''s spell is canceled due to the effects of the antimagic field. "HOW DARE YOU!" The Demon King shouted and dashes to the figure in an instant. "Gravity magic card activates, 100 folds increase." the figure said. And the Demon King immediately fell to the ground after it, and he vomits a mouthful of blood. The figure descends slowly and gracefully and his appearance starts to show. He dressed like how an assassin would but he used a black hat above his hood that makes him rather weird. His eyes are hidden and the only thing that could be seen is his nose and his mouth. His cape fluttered in the air as he descends. "who the hell are you." the Demon King asked with his hoarse voice, he is nervous and surprised by the figure that not only canceled his powerful spell but he managed to injure him to this extent too. The figure smirked and said cooly. "I am . . . . a Magician." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In the era of Modernization where inventions had skyrocketed. The night has fallen, the lights of a party shone to every direction, sounds of chatter, laughter, and a party is starting, And a huge stage is waiting for the Greatest Magician in the world to perform. Its a party placed by the president of Indonesia to invite all Great figures from presidents of all countries, prime ministers, great scholars, to all people that well known for their power of thinking to have fun at watching and solving the tricks of this legendary magician. The current date is 11th March 2056, where all technologies have developed because of the countless educated people and numerous geniuses have born and producing a lot of new technologies and countless modern inventions making a world of technologies. The legendary magician called himself Oz, he is the greatest magicians whose tricks never had used and never used others tricks, he uses tricks that could deceive people''s mind and deceive people''s perception from their eyes to their thoughts, and because of all these impossible tricks he performed, he made people thought as if he creates magic itself.This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report. He had a characteristic of giving people hints by throwing his cards with an image as a hint of his trick, but since he popped out from the unknown at 2046, until now, for 10 years! no one has ever solved his tricks! He performed not only at shows but also at crucial events in the world. At 2046, He introduces himself to the world by showing his magic tricks at a street show, at the show he asks the spectators to move behind and to not get near the stage. When the spectator step backs the stage suddenly burns and the stage together with Oz got swallowed by the fire. All of the spectator panics and even calls the ambulance. When the fire dies out the only thing left is the ashes. Suddenly, a card slowly descends from the sky and fell to one of the spectator''s head. He looks at the card and he saw that it''s a joker card, he wanders his eyes and wonders where does this card come from. And suddenly, he shocked! all of the ashes turn to a card explosion and the stage together with Oz showed up again. All the spectator was surprised, astounded, and speechless. They can''t describe what just happen, the sound of applause and cheers sounded and that''s the very first trick of the magician. At 2048, New York is under the attack of terrorists, they called themselves liberalist that object the rule of the current government. They shout their thought about people being oppressed by the government and stuff but the main point is they only want to take over the government. When new york had become the terrorist''s hostage, the police and the soldiers are confused about what to do. Suddenly, the big screen of the big screen plaza buzzed and the magician face shown. And he said "To the honored police officers and his peers, I humbly asked you all to prepare yourself to arrest the terrorist, Cause when the sky darkened, and the strange things fell to ground, the oppression would be stopped, and the sinners would be judged, farewell and my utmost sympathy for the oppressor". The police officers didn''t have the time to think of what he had said, suddenly, the sky darkened and everyone looks up to the sky, it''s raining. It''s raining but the thing that falls is not water, but cards, the police officers didn''t know where does the cards came from but the only thing they knew is the muzzle of the guns at the terrorist hand had been all clogged up by a card. The police officers immediately arrest all of the terrorists and the terrorist couldn''t resist as their weapons suddenly got clogged up and became unusable. And the video of that event shared throughout the world and being discussed in all of the media, and none of the people could explain what happened, and the public starts to believe the thing, called magic. He continues performed all sorts of tricks that seemed to be impossible for the eyes and cant be definitely explained by the rule of physics, as if he doesn''t apply to the rule of the world, all sorts of people from the great scholars to the great inventors to great geniuses to even a master of fraud cant solve his tricks. He is the very man who really does deserve the title of "true magician", as no one could explain his tricks, no one is brave enough to do things to him, with his snap of fingers he could make people''s wealth to cards, he could steal anything he wanted as he could pop out anywhere and disappear anywhere, because of this mystery of his, he became the symbol of the unknown. And tonight this very legendary magician is going to perform in front of all great figures in the world, he announced that he is going to use the greatest trick he ever made, a trick that closes to the realm of magic itself, a trick that could really defy the rule of physic and change the impossible to be possible. All of the worldly figures are curious about this legendary figure, he is the one that doesn''t want to be called a hero that saved a city but a magician. And he is the one that showed up with full of mysteries and disappeared with some more mysteries is attracting everyone''s attention. Everyone throughout the world gathered because of his statement that he will show his greatest tricks, all of the great figures are curious about this magician and all of them wanted to befriend him, but one way to do that is by solving his tricks, so they gathered and they''re ready to observe everything from the beginning to the very end of the show. Bwoosh! In the middle of a very grandeur national palace of Indonesia, he appeared in the middle of the grand stage with an explosion that made not from a fire, but from cards, countless of cards flying, popped from nothingness as if they waited for the magician and flew when he arrived. Hundreds, thousands of people clapped their hands for the unexpected and magnificent arrival of the legendary magician, all of the great minds shocked as they cant foreseen the legendary magician''s arrival and all of the martial artists shocked as they cant feel his presence as he suddenly popped together with an explosion of cards, as what they could expect from the one holding the title of "true magician". The legendary magician gave the spectators a very elegant bow, it''s a common custom for magicians to greet their spectators with a bow before they start their show, but the one in front of them is the legendary magician, they can''t let their guard off even if he''s doing a very common and normal bow, they need to give their utmost observation to this magician as he always did something unbelievable and unpredictable to them, its a pride of a great figure, to not forfeit, and continue to pursue the truth of the legendary magician''s tricks. Suddenly when he stood from his bow his face and all of his characteristics, become completely stiff just like a doll, a motionless doll, the doll only stood and stop doing anything as if its string had cut off, suddenly, the spotlight move to the back of the place where the spectators sit, all of the spectators turn their backs to see what exactly appear at their backs, there they saw, a figure is flying, the legendary magicians are flying with 2 snow white colored birds as his wings, and when they focused their attention at the flying legendary magician, an explosion of cards occurred once again at the stage, and the second cards explosion occurred to the flying legendary magician, poof! both of the figures are gone, they vanished as if they''re not there from the beginning, people start to assume and make conclusions of what they had seen, but every thought that they made always arrived at the same destination. "where exactly the legendary magician disappeared to this time and what kind of tricks is he playing right now?" One thing they didn''t know is, they''re not the only one who is wondering where the magician is, in the middle of a forest, a figure wakes up and wander his eyes left and right, confused. "Where the hell am I?" Chapter 1: The Beginning 13th day of cow month in the year 1246, the Ablux continent. The night at the great magical forest of Everdeen is indeed beautiful, with the stars shining above, filling up the entire sky. The cool and refreshing wind slowly breeze past, it is a one peaceful and serene night. In the middle of the peaceful night in the great magical forest of Everdeen, a carriage is running fast as if they''re getting chased by something, Brukk! something fell from the carriage as the carriage is moving so fast that everything inside became unstable, as the thing fell the carriage keeps on going as they''re in a very much hurry as what could be seen by their speed. As the carriage began to disappear from view, the thing that fell from the carriage moved, and it turns out the thing that fell from the carriage is actually a person that fell because of the impact by the carriage when it turned course, the person seemed to be fainted because of the falling impact. Suddenly, a light shone in the middle of the night right to the body of the person who fainted, and the person woke up from his deep slumber. As he''s still half conscious about the situation he''s in, he raises his body to a sitting position as he starts to collect all of his conscious. "Where in the world am I?" all he could remember is he''s going to show the world figures his greatest trick of magic with the use of teleportation wristband he had made, he who excels at all types of knowledge to make all kinds of tricks that could deceive people''s mind, he is the legendary magician Oz. As he remembered, he invented the technology of teleportation when he is wondering about the myth of the magic array of the old era, as he dives the world of myth, he found that the position of the magic array has a system that quite similar to the programming of computers, so with his knowledge he tries to formulate a program consists of the knowledge of the magic arrays and the modern programming, and he succeed! With the invention he made, he''s planning to use it as his new tricks at his magic shows, he''s gonna prove to the world that Oz the legendary magician has risen to the realm of real magic! in the magic show as he appeared with teleportation or the first time in the stage, and he substitutes himself with the doll with the second time, he''s about to teleport himself to the stage but something strange occurred when he about to teleport, the wristband starts to buzz and sending painful electric statics to his hand, and when the pain''s gone he awakes in a place he doesn''t recognize. (This place feels weird) A voice of neither man''s or women''s could be heard Unauthorized use of content: if you find this story on Amazon, report the violation. !!!!????? (..........) (Don''t tell me, this is not earth? okay calm down let''s think this through, let''s try summoning the so-called magic card first.) Oz imagines a deck of card to appear at his hand and suddenly, *poof* a deck of gold card with a magical like feeling appeared on his hand. (Holy crap, It seems that I seriously got teleported to another world) The magic card that appeared at oz''s hand does look magical and mystical, the magic card had a rich golden color and a complicated magic rune-like drawings imprinted on every back of the card. Different from the usual card decks, the magic card had only 57 cards that consist from As to King, and Joker but there is 1 card that had a blue gold color design. When oz about to flip the card to see what it is, a screen suddenly popped out from the card right when oz flipped it. [Magic card [Unique skill] Description: A unique skill to make a sealed skill/ an item/ something one possesses to a card Types (host''s possession): -Normal Magic Cards: Description: Cards consist of the normal deck cards; A, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J, Q, K, Joker. Throw the cards to give damage to the target according to the cards. A Cards gave 10 damage to the target and 10 cards gave 100 damage to the target. J cards gave 200 damage of the spiritual attack to the target, Q cards gave you the power of illusions, K cards gave you the power of the ruler (you got 1% of the power of each subject you rule). And lastly joker, it''s the cards that could twist the very result of a battle, the effects it gave is random but powerful. -Special Magic Card Deck: Description: Cards consist of Sealed skills, Killed creature power, And Host enforcement cards, that could be equipped to increase the host strength from the sealed power or sealed skill. Like an Appraisal skill card. -Items Magic Card Deck Description: Items that sealed by a magic card user into a card] (Just like a game huh, so what types of cards do I currently have I wonder) As he wandered his cards he looks at the last card, the card with the blue-gold color design, as he flips it another small screen came out from the side of the card [Card of appraisal [special] Description: A card consists of the appraisal skill, the user could check people''s status by equipping the skill and using it, but people of a high level or people who conceal their status will have their status blurred unless they touch the appraisal skill card. Equip Yes/No] (Sweet, a skill to check status, let''s click yes and check my status first) [Name: Ren Arken Age: 14 Strength: 30 Agility: 80 Vitality: 200 Mana: ~~~ Spiritual: ~~~ Intellect: 1000 Skills: -magic cards: Normal cards, Appraisal card [special]] (Age 14!!?? I thought my body was weakened because of the teleportation, but it seems that I got younger instead, it''s a shame but like what the elderly said, if I was younger I could make myself greater thousands of folds from before) (And what the hell is going on with my mana and spiritual power, does it mean that I have infinite mana?) (Ok, let''s save the thinking for later, for the time being, let''s try to survive in this dangerous looking forest first) Chapter 2: Survival As Oz summoned into this world of magic in a magical forest, he needs to try his best to survive in this magical forest, the forest is full of danger, you can''t let your guard down even for a minute cause he didn''t know whether the beast here is the same as the beasts at earth. Even when he is sleeping oz keeps his guards up and wakes up every single suspicious sound heard. But a lack of sleep is not a stranger for oz, as he does research, training, and strategize his tricks in a whole day, he only sleeps for 1 hour a day. The only problem he''s currently struggling is, he''s in a magical forest that full of danger with his body weakened. (It seems the appraisal knew even my real name, makes me remember that I use Oz for my alias after getting inspiration from the movie Oz the great and powerful) (But the thing that shocked me the most is whose body is this? As I remember, my skin is rather tanned but this color is very pale) (And the most important part is, this body needs to be trained, it''s way too weak! in order to survive in this magical forest, I need to build it up steadily until it went back like how my body was. I don''t know what kind of danger is waiting for me.) To utilize his former skills, he needs a strong body that compatible with his moves, so he needs to train his body as soon as possible. For the rest of the day, Oz search for a way to get out from the magical forest. As the night came, Oz climbs a tree and eat the fruits from a dragon fruit-like fruit tree that seems like edible. Sitting at one of the branches and eating the sweet fruit, Oz wander his thoughts about everything he encounters since he got summoned to this world, first he thought about the magic cards, The appraisal said that by using the normal cards he could give some damage to the enemy, but does the number of the health point of the enemy is the same as the damage the card gave? He checked and try to use a normal card number 10 to attack a tree with a health point of 1000. *Swish* The tree got chopped immediately by 1 strike from Oz.This book is hosted on another platform. Read the official version and support the author''s work. (If the card number 10 is supposed to give 100 damage to the tree, then the tree should not be chopped in one strike from the card, it meant that the damage from the cards is utilized according to the one who used it huh.) "Interesting..." Oz silently muttered. After testing some other things about the cards he starts to understand the using of the cards, and he starts to imagine in case he would get into a battle using the cards. After thinking for some time, he starts to sleep. ----_-------_-------_-----_-------_-------_------_-------_------_----_-----_-------_------_--------_----_-----_----_- The sun has risen high to the sky, Oz wakes up because of the dazzling light from the sun. He smiled. "Thank God, I thought there won''t be any sun in this world, thankfully there is a sun and a moon existed," he said relieved. When he about to jump down from the tree, he remembered that he had an appraisal card, can''t he use it on the fruit? He imagines using the skill and a status board shows up. [Kraken fruit [Legend] A fruit made from a tree that planted by planting a Kraken core to a dense mana soil, a fruit with very dense ice and water element, highly helps people cultivation of ice and water element.] When Oz looks at the appraisal he can''t help but be shocked, the thing he ate yesterday is actually a very rare fruit, he didn''t know how rare a legendary item is but with the name we could expect that the fruit is quite rare. (Helps the cultivation of ice and water element? Maybe it''s one of the reasons why I don''t feel cold last night despite having a weak body like this.) The fruit is good for the cultivation of this world, but even if oz ate all of the fruits, he won''t get any benefit from it, because in his former world there is no such thing as cultivating power or mana. There is only about building up your body and utilize the body to break the bounds of normal body limits and surpass ordinary humans, with cultivating internal energy of qi that exists in the muscles, people could have superhuman strength, that''s how Oz could change his position as if he teleports back then. After checking all the fruits Oz tried to change the fruits he collects into cards, *poof* all the fruits change into cards [Kraken Fruit cards [Items] ] "Success!" He celebrated. After Oz finished collecting all of the fruits, he starts to wander in the forest again to train his body and searching an exit from the magical forest. About 1 hour after collecting the fruits, oz is walking slowly in the forest. Suddenly, he senses a living being qi coming from his left, since coming to this magical forest he hasn''t encountered any animals or monsters, but from how the presence it felt, it seems that it is not a human. Growl! A growl could be heard and Oz increases his guards, the footsteps are getting closer and closer. Oz gulped. one thing for sure, the qi of the presence that getting to close to him is something that he never encounters, in the one hand he is nervous because of the lack of information, but in the other hand, he is curious about what he will encounter. He smirked. (I Hope I could survive this thing) Chapter 3: Magical Beast Sound of bushes frictions could be heard, following the sounds, a pair of the frightening red eye could be seen. "Appraisal card!" Oz shouted [Type: Goblin [Duke] level: 272 Strength: 296.000 Agility: 10.000 Vitality: 2.000.000 Mana: 500.000 Spiritual: 30.000 Skills: -strengthen -club dash -Leap -superhuman strength -ruler''s aura -evil gaze] (What the hell with its stats!? It''s way too overpowered!!!! Does my appraisal card broke!?) A gigantic figure with a human-like body, with a dark green and very robust body, slowly appeared. Just like its name, the way it walked is elegant like a noble, the only thing that ruins its image is it''s using a club as his weapon just like a rogue. A goblin Duke, it meant that this goblin is way stronger than common goblins. It''s normal for Oz to meet powerful monsters here as this is the deeper part of the magical forest. The enormous fighting aura its emitted from his body! its tempered muscles and physique made it seems like it''s born to fight! *Roar* The goblin duke dash to oz''s front in an instant, with its robust body it looks like a moving pillar, as it swings its club aiming for oz''s head. If it was a normal human, they would have already pissed they''re self and ran as fast as they could. But the goblin duke opponent is not an ordinary human, its Oz! The legendary trickster that tricks even deceives the mightiest martial artist! And Oz knows that the goblin duke is lacking in his agility! *swoosh* The goblin duke swings his club. When the goblin duke swings his club he didn''t felt anything, he had just hit the air. Oz had already on the goblin duke''s back, as he tried to kick the goblin duke''s leg to make it fell. *sound of kicking a wall* (Damn, its leg is as hard as an iron! it''s too hard for my current strength!) (Ah! I forgot I got the magical cards! time to use my skills of cards) Oz dodged another attack from the goblin duke''s club and retreated about 10 meters from the goblin duke, as Oz prepares his cards. "You''re quite agile for a human" (Goblin Duke)This story has been taken without authorization. Report any sightings. !!!!!?????? A majestic voice that only a ruler would have could be heard by Oz. "For me who is a ruler of the goblins, to couldn''t land even a strike on you is praiseworthy" (Goblin Duke) "State your name, young warrior! I''ll stake my life in this battle, don''t you dare run from me!!" the goblin duke''s state with its majestic voice Oz''s Shocked! this monster could speak! maybe as a monster reached a certain level it will be able to speak normally like a human. Oz smirked, with his evil smile that showed his confident and craftiness. "My name. Is Oz. You could call me Oz or whatever you want to call me, but I prefer to be called, a magician." Oz said with his usual style. "I accept your challenge, I''ll show you the abilities of the legendary magician from the earth that will defeat you even with all of this handicap," He said coolly. "heh, pretty confidence you have there for a human, our strength gap is too wide human." The goblin duke snorted. Yes, the handicap Oz facing is way too big, the gap of their status is way too far like earth and heaven. but status still only is a status, it''s only capable of analyzing the numbers that matched with the body. From what Oz had tested, the status meant to be a limit of the capabilities a body could do, but with the qi he learned at his previous world, the limit is just a name. Oz''s body may be weakened, but it''s only limited to its body, not his skills and wisdom, he knows how to run at a speed that surpasses the limit of the body, he knows how to accumulate a strength that won''t be possible to emit by the body. Why? Because he is Oz! The Legendary Magician who makes even martial artists surrender! Seeing Oz''s confidence, the goblin duke hesitated, it increases its wariness and starts to take the initiative to attack once again. (this human, our strength gap could be seen by comparing our body alone, The result should be obvious, but where does that confidence come from?) As the goblin duke rushes to Oz, Oz''s smirk doesn''t disappear, he stands still there while looking at the goblin duke rushing in an instant. *whoosh* The goblin duke once again hit the thin air. *slash* Suddenly the goblin duke''s body got scratched all over its body, and there is a thing slowly falling to the ground from the thin air he hit. A golden card! A number could be seen imprinted on it, number 3! The goblin duke saw a slight red on the corner left of the golden card, it''s proof that the human has hurt him using this card. (does this card is the weapon that the human use to attack me with? this human is dangerous! I need to finish him quickly!) Oz saw the scars that he made on the goblin duke''s body, he narrowed his eyes and he starts to analyze. (The power seems to be effective) !!!!!!!!!!!! (9 more extra decks, so this nasty power don''t really neglect me after all) As his agility increased by 1920 it meant that his agility is 2000 now, Oz could fill the enormous power from the boost of stats. he smirked, and Oz starts to take the initiatives to attack. Oz starts to throw some cards to deal some damage, he threw some cards, dodges, and do the same strike as before. The bouts repeat for 10 times and both parties stopped for a while. "Human, what a strange skill you have there. Where do you come from?" asked the goblin duke. Oz laughed. "I came from a very far place that you could never ever imagine," Oz said. "What a cheeky human" The goblin duke snorted Oz only smiled while predicting what the goblin duke will do. Since the battle started, from what Oz had observed, the goblin duke hasn''t used his skills at all. All he does is dashes and strikes with his brute power. (it seems that he''s underestimating me.) (well, let''s show him some tricks.) Oz smirked. Chapter 4: Transformation [Name: Ren Arken Age: 14 Race: Human Strength: 30 Agility: 2000 Vitality: 200 Mana: ~~~ Spiritual: ~~~ Intellect: 1000 Unique Skills: -magic cards: Normal cards, Appraisal card [special]] ----_------_-------_----------_-----_------_--------_---------_---------_---- The battle continued. The goblin duke keeps on striking and Oz keeps on evading. As time goes on the goblin duke starts to feel something is wrong, as the battle continues Oz keeps on dodging but it could be felt that his speed keeps on growing on every strike that he dodges. And every time he dodges, one card would be left flying and the goblin duke''s body would be full of scars again, if not for the steady trait of goblins duke and the fact that he is at the duke rank he would not be standing here anymore. From all the strikes and strategy the goblin duke use to hit Oz, he couldn''t get any hit, but one thing for sure he finally knew. (this human is strong!) (every time I strike he would dodge and counter attacks that even my eyes couldn''t keep up!) (who the hell is this human!) The more the goblin duke strikes. The more Oz''s eyes fill with confidence suddenly... "It seems that it''s time for the trick to begin! please prepare yourself goblin, I hope you won''t disappoint me!" with his evil smile, he smirked. "Don''t get full of yourself HUMAN!!!!!!!" the goblin duke is furious! When the goblin duke shout, it eyes gave frightening gaze as if it would devour all of the things in his sight and his body grows, his muscles extends and looks like it became denser and thicker than before (So that is Strengthen fused with Superhuman strength and Evil Gaze) (Oz) The goblin duke could really be described as monstrous right now, his size has become 1,5 times bigger than before, and the murderous aura his eyes were emitting is terrifying. Oz focuses his qi to solidify his defense without decreasing the speed he''s using. (Interesting!) (Oz) The goblin duke rush to Oz with frightening speed and full of rage. But when he strikes his club horizontally from Oz''s Head to the ground *Booooom* He can''t feel anything, but the feeling this time is somehow different, as the dust cleared he finally realized what is the thing is surrounding him.This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road. If you spot it on Amazon, please report it. All of his surroundings is cards. Golden cards. The goblin duke felt a cold sweat on his back. *sound of a thing being slashed million times* Blood sprayed out of the goblin duke from every inch of his body. *Vomits* The goblin duke vomit a mouthful of blood and all of his body is full of various scars. The goblin duke is enraged. ROAR! The goblin duke roared and starts to attack randomly, he rampaged without using his mind to attack like before. "You lost and you refused to admit it huh" Oz sneered. Oz dashes to the goblin duke''s back and, *Slash* the goblin duke head got slashed by Oz with his card, and the goblin duke''s head rolled down to the ground and its body fell. ------_-----_---------_---------_--------_-----------_-------------_------ After the announcement prompt heard on Oz''s ears, the goblin duke''s body changed into blue light particles and gather together into 1 point. The more the particles gather the stronger the light became and it developed to a rich blue color. *swoosh* After all of the particles finished gathered to one point, the lights start to cool down and a thing could be seen slowly descending from the air. A blue card! it means its another special card! Oz is thrilled! As Oz took the card and flip it to see what card it is. [Goblin duke card [Special] [Develops] level: 272 Strength: 296.000 Agility: 10.000 Vitality: 2.000.000 Mana: 500.000 Spiritual: 30.000 Skills: -strengthen -club dash -Leap -superhuman strength -ruler''s aura -evil gaze Description: The card consist of the power of a Goblin duke, the host could use its maximum power by fully equipping it and transforms to a Goblin duke, but the host could also half equip it and got to use 20% of its original status. Equip Yes/Half/No] !!!!!!!!!!!!! (So it means that if I want to utilize the full strength of the card, all I need to do is to transform to a goblin?) The condition piqued Oz''s Interest, he quickly chooses to equip using his thought and the blue card changed to particles and envelop Oz''s body. ------_------_---------_-----------_------------_----------_------------_--- "This..." Oz could feel that his height had grown drastically and his power had skyrocketed. He could feel that his body is full of muscles and it''s very strong right now, he doesn''t need to use tricks to fight like before and could rush right away as he has this strong body. In the first counterattack at the previous battle, he used all 10 of the queen cards to decrease the goblin duke''s awareness and weakened its perception, and then he threw all of the cards that could inflict damages to the goblin duke like As to Jack. Only by using all of that damages the goblin duke had already got a considerable damage, by utilizing all of that he exploits the last 2 jacks in his hands and use one to be thrown to the goblin duke''s head and the last one to severe it''s head after it strengthens skill had weakened by the jack card that is thrown to the head. And he managed to kill the goblin duke, and he did all of that only in a few moments! That is only possible for him, as he is the legendary magician! The legendary trickster! It seems that the damages that the cards could inflict which was written on the card description are not really the same to the hp value, it seems that damages that the description meant is the firepower it could inflict by the one who uses the cards, the stronger the card user uses the cards the higher the damage would be inflicted by the cards. As Oz transform to a goblin duke, he thought that maybe using this figure is easier than using his weak human figure, so he decided that he will use this body to survive in this forest. Chapter 5: Strong Foe [Name: Ren Arken Age: 14 Race: Human Strength: 30 Agility: 2000 Vitality: 200 Mana: ~~~ Spiritual: ~~~ Intellect: 1000 Unique Skills: -magic cards: Normal cards, Appraisal card [special], Goblin Duke card [special]] -----_------_------_----__--------_-------_--------_--------_---- With the Goblin Duke death, Oz could relax his tension a little. After resting for a while, Oz pondered and tests the effects of the fully equip and the half equip. When Oz transformed into the Goblin duke form, he felt a tremendous power filled within his body, all of his stats were heightened drastically, his current stats is way stronger than his former stats. After testing and checking the power of the transformation, Oz tried the half equip system and changed back to his usual human form. It seems that the half equip does only gave Oz 25% of the goblin duke''s power, and he can''t use the goblin duke''s skill when he half equipped the card. Now he knows the differences of the fully equip and half equip, he pondered about whether he should use the goblin duke form or only take some stats of the goblin duke. finally, he chooses to transform to the goblin duke form to ensure his survival rate on this dangerous magical forest. As he about to left using the goblin duke form, he saw something strange at the goblin duke''s corpse. There is something floating above the corpse. A floating status board [Goblin [duke] corpse {lootable}] !!!?? The word lootable meant that he could get some loots from the corpse, so he touched the Goblin duke''s corpse and suddenly. The corpse changed into blue particles and only 3 falling cards remain. [Card of Strengthen [special] Description: A card containing the skill of strengthening, increases the host''s strength for 4 folds for 2 minutes. Equip Yes/no] [Card of leap [special] Description: A card containing the skill of leap, leap to your enemy with 10 folds of your agility. Equip Yes/no] The card of strengthening and leap has the usual deep blue color and golden design, but the goblin corpse card is jet black with golden designs. (Finally, I possess an item card huh) After checking and preparing all of his possessions, Oz starts his adventure again, and he was hoping to find a place with civilization as soon as possible. By transforming to a Goblin Duke, Oz strolls around leisurely as his prowess is reassuring so he could calm down a little, but with a terrific boost on his stats, he doesn''t let his guard down a tiny bit. Oz walks through a lot kinds of trees and he collects all types of the fruits that he hasn''t seen, thinking that fruits from here maybe could be a fortune for him when he arrived at a town. Every fruit he encounters looked kinda strange and mystical before, and the longer he uses his goblin duke form he starts to saw all kinds of auras from things. A fruit containing fire attribute mana will have a red aura enveloping it, and fruits containing a water attribute will have a blue aura enveloping it. As Oz observe the fruits he encounters, The bigger the mana that envelope the fruits, the stronger the mana attribute contained in the fruits. He collects all the fruits he saw have a lot of manas as he strolls the forest. Since he came to this world and summoned to this forest, he walks to only one direction, that is south, he doesn''t know why but he felt that south is the right way for him. In the middle of the journey, Oz met an Ectra python, it''s a huge python as big as an anaconda, it has a deep green color and terrifying teeth. It shoots poisons and attacks with his teeth and strangles with his long and powerful big body.Stolen content warning: this tale belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences elsewhere. But, however big and strong the Anaconda is, its prowess is still at the [viscount] class, the stronger the nobility class of the magic beast the stronger the magic beast is, it''s one of many things that Oz learn from this forest. After killing the Ectra Python, the transformation card reward for killing the species for the first time is gifted, and Oz loots the Python. The loot that Oz got from the python is only the corpse card and a white skill card. So there are 4 types of Special cards, Blue (S), Red (A), White(B), and Brown ?. And each type has different qualities too, the blue card is more elegant and artistic, and the white card is a little plain. [Evil Gaze [Special B-] [could be upgraded] Description: A card containing the skill of evil gaze, Stuns your enemy with a terrifying gaze for a moment or kill your enemies who have a low mental defense with deathly fear. equip yes/no ] (Looks like a white card meant that it could be upgraded until it maxed out.) After testing the power of the Ectra python, Oz tried to half equip at while in the goblin duke form, and it turns out that it is impossible, but when Oz half equipped the goblin duke form, he could half equip all other transforming cards too and it gave him a great boost to his human form strength. (it means that if I collect all other species cards, I would be invincible!) While checking the power of his human body while half equipping all other cards, his perception sensed something dangerous coming to his way. The dangerous thing getting near Oz at a terrifying speed, in a split second some creature suddenly dashes to Oz''s. *Sound of explosions* The impact is far bigger than the goblin duke. Oz crashed to a tree because of the impact. "Ugh.." Oz Groaned. As the clouds of dust fade, the ferocious creature reveals its magnifying figure. *Roar!!* It''s a huge Lion! A jet black lion with a jet black and majestic mane! "Appraisal!" Oz shouted [Type: Darkness Lion [Duke] level: 266 Strength: 400.000 Agility: 100.000 Vitality: 4.000.000 Mana: 800.000 Spiritual: 200.000 Skills: -strengthen -Dark magic -Wind magic -Leap -superhuman strength -ruler''s aura -evil gaze -Leadership -Shadow magic -Deathly Roar] (Such strength!) (It''s way stronger than the goblin duke! Even though it had the same class?!!) The darkness lion roared and starts to wreaking havoc once again, all animals like insects, birds, and small animals run as fast as they can to avoid the disaster of the darkness lion. Oz stood up, "Goblin duke card transformation!" he shouted, and he transforms to the goblin duke form. With his goblin duke form, he had more hp, so he thought could survive another attack without getting a severe injury. He starts to analyze the situation, a little while back before the darkness lion dashes to his place he utilizes his Qi to protect his body, with his strong qi and the powerful body of goblin duke, he thought he could withstand the attack of the darkness lion. But, the reality is cruel, the darkness lion strikes once more and arrived at Oz position in an instant. Oz crashed to a tree again because of the terrifying impact. Following the stats, Oz should be able to avoid crashing but he still got crashed to the tree and couldn''t withstand the impact. "Shit!" he shouted and spit some blood. (It seems this world is not simple as I thought, from the stats it showed, my Qi together with the goblin duke stats supposed to be able to withstand it!) (The darkness lion seems to have another power besides his strength!) Oz is smart, he could analyze the situation and size his own self without exaggerating his capabilities. From what just happened, in only 2 strikes from the darkness lion, Oz had got 2 deep scars at his shoulder and his back. If he continues this battle, he will end up dead. After some hesitation, Oz chooses to run from this terrifying beast. He took a stance and runs as fast as he could by using both the speed from his stats and his Qi, right at his 3rd step he got blown away by a terrifying wind, he fell but he stood up quickly and flee once more, the beast is desperate so it uses wind bullets to make Oz blown, it never thought that Oz survive that strike and continue to flee. After running about 2 hours, he felt that the darkness lion had stopped chasing him, Oz checks his own body, he got some serious injury because of the wind bullet, his torn clothes have soaked with his blood. His eyes become hazy and his conscious starts to fade away, Oz struggles to stay conscious, but it seems that it''s futile. His wounds are too deep, and he doesn''t have any medical tools to treat his wounds, he could only hope that the goblin duke form self-regeneration could save his life, Oz fell and faint at the middle of the dangerous magical forest. at dusk, a shadow is walking around the forest, he brings a sword and a bow it seems he came here to hunt. The huge human-like figure is very similar to humans if you see him by his appearance, the only difference is his dark green skin that states that he is not a human. !? He saw a figure lying in the ground soaked with blood. it''s his brethren! (A goblin? A duke! What is a distinguished figure doing at this corner of the forest? as I remember the only goblin duke in this forest is me!) (But, this goblin seems to be hurt, it''s obvious, the deeper side of the forest is way too dangerous for our species, let''s save him for now maybe he''ll benefit our tribe) The goblin picked Oz up and brought him back to his village. ------_---------_----------_---------_-----------_-----------_-------------_------_------- What will Oz encounter at the village of goblins? Will he survive? Or will he die? What will the legendary magician do to face the coming problems? Chapter 6: The Goblin Tribe Leader [Name: Ren Arken Age: 14 Race: Human Strength: 30 Agility: 2000 Vitality: 200 Mana: ~~~ Spiritual: ~~~ Intellect: 1000 Skills: -magic cards: Normal cards, Appraisal card [special], Goblin Duke card [special], Strengthen card [special] Evil Gaze [special B-] Ectra Python [special]] -----_------_------_----__--------_-------_--------_--------_---- --- A goblin duke POV--- My name is Aegir. I was born in a tribe called Gobblestone about 20 years old. I was born from one of a goblin leader way before our tribe were found. Back then there are no such things as goblin tribes or villages, we all live as groups in a cave or a place we could hide and get away from the sights of strong beasts. Every goblin is born poor, weak, and cowardly. We strive and struggle to live facing the strong with mere numbers. Every strong goblin that manage to evolve to a goblin rare will be the leader of a group. so basically, the tribe leader is the strongest person in the tribe. So there is my father, he is a goblin rare, he is quite a good leader as a goblin, he is strong but also smart, and he had a good charisma to lead the pack. When I was little, he taught me all the things he knew, he taught me fighting, leading, communicating, and how to use your wits. Back then, there are only a few goblins that could use the human''s language, including my father, from 120 goblins, there are only 26 goblins that could speak fluently. From my father, I got taught the ways of things to be done, and he builds me and showed me the way how to be a good leader, and that''s who I am now. I am the tribe leader and its founder. After my father died 10 years ago, I proceeded to be the next leader of the group. Usually, goblins died in only 10 years because of unhealthy ways of life, their diet and sexual life shorten their lives. But my father''s group is different, they only mate twice a week and have a proper diet, as we could hunt more expertly than others, and our group overall strength is quite higher than other groups. My father died because of an attack from the direwolves pack. He died when he goes hunting with 10 members of his peers, he got surrounded and go outnumbered by the numbers of the direwolves. There are only 11 members in my father''s party, and there are 50 direwolves surrounding him. With the direwolves leader had also evolved to a rare dire wolf that quite stronger than a rare goblin, the party got wiped out after struggling and killing about 24 direwolves and injuring the leader. Learning from that battle, I got the idea of making a goblin tribe and recruiting and inviting other goblin groups nearby to form a tribe with us and joining us to make a stronger pack. I talked about my idea to all the tribe members, and most them accepted my proposal, some members don''t agree because they''re afraid their position would be taken if we merge with other groups, so I ensure them that even if we form the tribe, their position will remain. But every idea had its own challenges, not every group leader I invite wants to be under my rule. First, I thought it''s okay for them to be the leader, but I''m afraid that they would make abuse of the power, so I decide to continue my father wishes to rule justly and be the leader. Because of the training and hunting I faced, I evolve to a goblin rare 5 years after I was born, and the opponents I faced at the tribe leader challenges is rather inexperienced at one vs one fight so I won all of the fights quite easily as there are only a few goblins rares. Being the tribe leader, I united 6 groups together, some small and some big ones, and we became a huge family with 500 members. There, we made the first tribe ever. I married 1 of the goblin from another group called Gina, she is the goblin leader of a small goblin group. We fight, we fall in love and we became together.The narrative has been illicitly obtained; should you discover it on Amazon, report the violation. 3 years after founding the tribe, we had become larger than before. We had 1200 members and a lot more of warriors from stray groups joining us and from the high fertility of goblins, there are a lot more mouths to feed but there are also more warriors to hunt. Following my father rules and ways of life and teaching it to all the members of the tribe, we have a healthy diet and sexual life, and all of the teachings became a tradition in the tribe and became a strict rule of life. Our lives are peaceful on that days, we hunt, we adventure the forest, and the kids grow safely because we made the village quite at the corner of the forest where there are only a few strong beasts we can''t handle. The peaceful life continues until one day, the direwolves pack attacks our village with 90 wolves because of hunger and we lost 20 goblin soldiers and 4 kids that caught off guarded. We intercepted the attack rather late because it''s at night and the direwolves coordinate the raid perfectly by the rule of the dire wolf rare, seeing the dead kids I went to a rampage and kills 40 wolves. The other soldiers start to attacks the wolves too and guard the defenseless goblins, because of the lack of danger we had a face, the soldiers are hesitant to attack the direwolves, and that piles up the casualties. The result of the battle is, we manage to kill 80 wolves and capture the 10 direwolves, the rare dire wolf is killed by a wooden spear I threw. For the captured direwolves, I''m thinking of taming them and making them our pet, disregarding my personal grudge to the direwolves leader, I thought that taming them could maybe benefit our village. After the direwolves incident, 6 months passed, now we already have 100 direwolves as our comrades. Back then, because of the grudges, I called them pets. But before I knew, I start to become attached to my partner Agira. He is the son of the direwolves leader; I knew it because he was born as a rare dire wolf, I took him in as mine because he is so cute back then. But now, in only 6 months he already as big as me. The peaceful year passed and another year of the problem started, a foe more dangerous than direwolves and more wicked than goblins came, the humans. They chopped trees and hunt some beasts at the end of the forest, they''ll kill every beast they met and they''re always well equipped, so basically, the goblins are no match to them. Our village is placed near the end of the forest so humans could find our village rather easily. One day, a party of humans assaulted our village, at that time our tribe had become bigger than before with 1500 goblin members and 200 direwolves. They assaulted us with 80 members,they equipped with heavy armors and called themselves knights of Grandaria. Just like the direwolves, their assault starts in the middle of the night. They burn some houses and kill the goblins before they could take their weapons. Seeing our members killed again, I start to shout the commands and rush to the members that are attacked. I startle the knights with my sudden strikes and I manage to save some goblins, after reforming the positions and giving some commands, the goblins start to fend off our attackers. This time, we kill all of them with no mercy. We wiped them out, but they killed 120 goblins and 20 direwolves, it''s the biggest loss for our tribe. But together with that lost, we got some useful loots. we got 80 full body armor, 40 iron swords and 40 bows from the human corpses. After cleaning the aftermath of the assault, some goblins came to me and said that they captured a human. When I came to the human, they captured there is an unnecessarily fancy looking moving house-like thing that tied and pulled by a horse, and there are a lot of books inside. The human my peers manage to captured is maybe a tribe leader in a human place but he is so weak and noisy so I killed him and toss his corpse to Agira for his snack. I''m quite interested in the books inside of the walking house so I asked the goblins to put all the books to my house, my house as a tribe leader is far bigger than anybody houses, when I came home, Gina is already waiting and she found that the books are also interesting so we tried to read it together. My father could read so he taught me how to read too back then, and now I taught Gina too how to read and she begins to learn how to read, Gina is smart so she manages to learn and memorize the characters quickly. From the books, I learned about walls, mana, weapons, ores, and magic. and a lot of other things. I learn things from the books and applied it at the tribe, now, another 6 years passed, our goblins live longer than before with our healthy lives, I''m already 20 years old and still as vigorous as I was before, now I had already evolved to goblin duke together with some of my peers that evolve to goblin count and marquis. Benefitting from the knowledge of the book, including me, some members in the tribe could also use magic, and now there are even walls and watchtowers that make out defense more fortified than before, and every member had some useful fighting skills like strengthening and etc. Oh yeah, I remember about having a weird dream some time ago. One day, I got a dream that I was kneeling together with other races leaders to a certain someone, the memory, and the image is too vague and blurred. But one thing I could still feel is the lingering feeling of longing for that person to face me and show me his smile. I know nothing about that person but I could feel our connection, and I hope that I would meet him one day. Today, Using my favorite sword and bow from the loot we got from the humans, I strolled the forest a little more than before because of my rank is already at Duke, as there is no one that could match me at the territory surrounding the tribe, I started to find some opponents at the deeper side of the forest. After hunting, I killed some ectra vipers and some killer bears and went back after exhausted. In the middle of the road, I found a figure, lying at the ground and soaked with blood. He is a goblin duke like I am as its skin is the same dark green as mine, as the darker the green color at a goblin skin the higher its rank is. (Where the hell does this guy came from?) (I wonder where he came from but I guess it''s not that important right now, I should bring him to the tribe as soon as possible.) (I hope he''s not dead yet) Chapter 7: Goblin Tribe [Name: Ren Arken Age: 14 Race: Human Strength: 30 Agility: 2000 Vitality: 200 Mana: ~~~ Spiritual: ~~~ Intellect: 1000 Unique Skills: -magic cards -appraisal -evil gaze -strengthen] ----_-----_----------_------------_--------_------------_--------_---------_------_------ "Let''s go, my lord, "A majestic dark green figure said to Oz. Hearing that sound Oz opens his eyes, and he browses at the surrounding. He could see a grandeur throne room with magnificent designs and decorations. Golds, diamonds, and all kinds of jewels are decorating the whole room. The walls are embedded with gold, and the pillars are made with a magnificent white jewel. "My Lord?" The figure once again said. "Ah, yeah, what are you saying just now?" Asked Oz "Oh Come on Ren, what are you doing spacing out like that?" A human man with an expensive-looking armor said. "Yea Ren, what are you doing? Do you lose your mind?" A sweet voice said. When Oz focuses his eyes on the figures near him, there are 20 backs with a lot of species variation. He focuses his eyes to the lady who called his name, but no matter how hard he tried to focus his eyes, he still couldn''t see the lady''s face. "Hey y-" As Oz about to call the lady, he felt great pain at his stomach. He looks down to his stomach and a red sword stabbed to his stomach could be seen. "ARGHH!" Oz groaned. The scenery changed; it''s not the beautiful palace anymore; it''s a gruesome battlefield. A scene of humans being massacred by the demons. Humans screams and demons laughter could be heard everywhere. A demon with a majestic air walked to Oz position, slowly and gracefully. "Human" The demon calls. "Do you wish to live?" He asked. Oz tried to say something, but his lips seemed to be sealed. Suddenly, he feels like he is losing his ability to control his body. He stumbled and fell to the position where the demon is. !!?? But a strange thing occurred, he got through the demon''s body as if the demon''s body is thin air. He gets up, and he saw, not his old body, but his current 14 years old body with a red sword stabbed to his stomach is glaring at the demon eye. The demon laughed. "So have you made your decision yet dear strong-willed one?" He asked. "I won''t fell, to the despicable demon lies," the boy barely said. "HAHAHHAAHAHA! You''re near your death already but you could still say such overbearing words." The demon sneered. "To respect your strong will, you who is an orphan and the one who have the same kind of eyes with the heroes, I grant you a chance to live longer and grow stronger, grow, and keep growing dear young hero, make yourself as strong as you could, and help me the demon king face my boresome!" The demon king pulled his sword and called his underling. "Sell this kid to a slave trader. Don''t heal him. It depends on this kid luck whether or not he will survive this wound. If he dies, then so be it, but if he survives, he will be my next hero toy. (The hell? this is the memories of the real owner of this body?) When Oz is processing his thought, suddenly, the demon king turns his body and walks away. But after taking three steps, he stopped, and he turned his head to Oz direction and their eyes met. Oz sweat his back, and he gulped, the terrifying eyes of the demon king seemed like he is trying to devour Oz and every bit of his existence. Suddenly, his eyes shone with bloody red lights and Oz head is overwhelmed by a terrifying pain.Enjoying this book? Seek out the original to ensure the author gets credit. -----__-----__-----_-----_---_----------_------------_---------_----------_------------__--------- *Sound of heavy panting* Oz wakes up from his slumber and he heavily gasps. He held his head, and he tries to calm himself down. (That gaze is deadly! just by looking to his eyes I feel like my head will burst!) Oz calm down and he examines his memories related to his dream, as he scanned he remembers things that are not his, he remembers about he living in slums of a town and got picked by a wandering knight, and he remembers, he and the wandering knight got assaulted by demons when they''re having a night at a remote village. He remembers, he dies when he fell from the slave trader carriage. (So that''s the story, rest in peace kid, leave all of your grudges to me, I''ll pay all of them who do all of those things to you, as we share our memories now, not even the demon king I''ll spare!) Finished thinking about the memories, Oz realized, he''s on a place he doesn''t recognize, he''s in a house. (A house! Whose house is this? Wait a minute, as I remember, I fainted at that creepy forest after meeting that fearsome lion, but where am I now?) (Lucky me! seems like someone met me and helped me all the way here, at least the wound has some benefits, huh, finally I arrive at a civilization huh.) When Oz tried to raise his body and get up from the bed. "Aargh! hell, it hurts!" He held his stomach and saw his wounds had been bandaged, the wound is bandaged skillfully and neatly as if a professional doctor had treated him. When he tries to touch the bandage, Oz saw his hands. !!!?? "THIS IS MY GOBLIN FORM!" He shouted. (Don''t tell me-) "Hey!" A sweet voice called. "Are you awake?" the sweet voice asked. The footsteps getting near and Oz got nervous because of his current body. The room door opened and a beautiful figure came in. "Hey! you''re finally awake!" She cheerfully said. The girl who appeared is beautiful and sweet at the same time, her hair is pink and she had a smart girl kind of feeling around her. The only thing that makes her kinda strange is her green skin. "Hello? are you okay?" She carefully asked "Ah, yes I''m okay" Oz answered. "Good then, come follow me. My brother-in-law is waiting for your stories." She kindly said. "yes.." Oz answered quietly. (She looks exactly like a normal girl, but her skin is green! Is she a goblin? I guess I only need to check it myself huh.) "Appraisal Card skill activate!" Oz silently muttered. [Name: Geeta Age: 13 Race: Goblin [Baron] Strength: 400 Agility: 500 Vitality: 300 Mana: 900 Spiritual: 550 Intellect: 800 Skills: -Fire Magic -Swordskills -strengthen] (As I expected) Oz followed Geeta outside the room, Geeta led him to the living room to meet with his brother-in-law. At the living room, he could see a man sitting and drinking on a wooden chair. The man is muscular and has a good-looking face; his face shows a great charisma; he is the goblin tribe leader, Aegir. "Brother in law, our patient has finally waked up" Geeta cheerfully said. "Ooh, so you finally awake! Come sit in front of me, let''s hear your story." a bass voice said. "Oh yea, my name is Aegir, I''m the leader of this tribe, nice to meet you." The man kindly said. "Y-yes, nice to meet you too, my name is... my name is Ren," Oz said. He wants to say Oz as his name, but his guts asked him to introduce himself as ren. "You know? I found you lying at the deep side of the magical forest soaked with blood so I brought you here." "It''s weird to found a goblin inside a very dangerous place. So ren, what''s your story, what happened to you and where do you come from" Asked Aegir with a smile. (This is difficult, I''ll just make up something I guess) "I dont know... I.. think I lost some of my memories, I can''t remember where I came from and I seem to be unable to remember anything else except for my name and the moments before I faint." Oz lied. "Hmm, so you lost your memory, one of our tribe lost his memories to when he fell from a tree on his head. Well then, what happened before you fainted?'' Questioned Aegir. "I got attacked by a darkness lion" Oz said. "A DARKNESS LION!?" Shouted Aegir. "You got attacked by a darkness lion and you''re survived?" "It''s impossible" Geeta interjected. "um.. when I met it, the darkness lion is fighting with a creature, I don''t know what creature it''s fighting because I immediately run after seeing the darkness lion, but in the middle of my retreat, the darkness lion battle got near me and a stray wind bullet magic crashes me." Oz said "That''s make sense, I saw some holes and there is some trace of wind mana on your back when I treated you, he is not lying brother." Geeta answered. "That''s unlucky for you, but from the fact you meet a darkness lion is already an awesome unluckiness itself but let''s not talk about this anymore, so Ren, stay here for however long you want, either until you regained your memories or until you fully healed. Geeta I''ll left him to you." Aegir said, and he gets out from the house. "So what you gonna do right now? do you wanna tour our tribe?" Geeta asked cheerfully. "Yes, I''m in your care". Oz answered. Oz followed Geeta outside the house and he surprised. The scenery of the goblin tribe is too unbelievable that you won''t believe the one who lives here is goblins. Not only the buildings here are similar to human town, but all the goblins here have a similar appearance with human. Oz shocked, seeing Oz face, Geeta giggled. "Welcome to Gobblestone tribe!" She said with a full smile. Chapter 8: An Obstacle [Name: Ren Arken Age: 14 Race: Human Strength: 30 Agility: 2000 Vitality: 200 Mana: ~~~ Spiritual: ~~~ Intellect: 1000 Unique Skills: -magic cards] -----_--------_-------_--------_--------_-------_---------_------_----------_------------_---------_--------- Oz followed Geeta to explore the city. He is very shocked! Because the goblin tribe differs totally from the goblin tribe in his head. Along the tour, he saw goblins with an appearance that very similar to that of humans are doing farming, cooking, training, and stuff. The common knowledge of the stories about goblins is they are small, cowardly, weak, and dumb. The only thing that goblins usually have is a crazy amount of number. They fill the gap of their race and another stronger race with their power of number. But what the goblins here have is not only a great number, but they also have the knowledge, they have the skills; they have the rules at their tribe, and some of them even use real magic. (Magic! real magic! I must obtain this knowledge before I go to the human town.) (But still this place is outstanding. I doubt there is a human town could have a great harmony like this.) "Here we are, this is the place where the tribe got the most food from. The cobblestone river" Said the cheerful Geeta. "Oh, so do you do fishing here? or you just collect some small animals or hunt the humans who drink here?" asked Oz. "So you have some knowledge, after all. Yes, we do fishing here but we only use traps so we could hunt the animals who drink here too. But sometimes there is a dangerous beast who''ll come here to hunt and my brother will come to defeat the strong beasts that will danger our members." Geeta said dramatically while showing off a little. She silently steals some glances to Oz, hesitating to say something. "You seem to adore your brother-in-law so much, well he''s a great man. Just ask me if you want to ask something, don''t hesitate." Oz said coolly. Geeta startled. "A-ah yes, um, I only want to ask you one thing. judging from your size and skin, you''re a goblin duke right?" Asked Geeta carefully while glancing at Oz. "My brother said, you are a goblin duke but you have no mana aura leaking from you." She explained. "So you''re a wizard." Asked Oz. Only a wizard would talk about seeing mana as Oz sees mana after he starts to transform to a goblin duke. She nodded. (So my guess is right, from all of the goblins I met, only Aegir, the goblin magicians, and Geeta that sees me with a weird look. All the goblins who use magic have an aura enveloping them, including Aegir and Geeta. I thought I will have a strong mana aura enveloping me as I have the infinite mana and I could see the auras. But it seems that mana principles are not the same with qi.) "Um, my circumstances are rather difficult. From what I remember, I learn how to fight on my own, so I still don''t understand how to use mana and stuff. But yes, I''m a goblin duke." Oz explained. "Seriously? then how do you utilize your skills and how the heck does you even fight!?" Geeta asked. "Ooh, so you the type who uses raw strength, huh. No wonder you got that wound and manage to survives. Relax, I''ll teach you how to use mana when we get back home" Geeta sweetly said. "My pleasure, I would be glad if you''ll te-" When Oz about to ask Geeta to teach him magic too, they heard a scream coming from the downstream. *KYAAAAAAAAAA* The voice is high pitched so they immediately know that it''s a woman. The scream is different from the screams that women do when they''re surprised or when they got tripped. This is the scream of terror. Oz and Geeta rush to the downstream. When they got near the downstream a growl from a beast could be heard. They increased their sprint hoping there will be no casualties. *Growl* When they arrived at the downstream, 5 guys are in the middle of the battle with a beast with the head, talons, and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion. "IT''S A GRIFFIN!" shouted Geeta, surprised. No wonder the woman''s voice is full of terror. The one who appeared is a fearsome beast! (Hell could I even manage a hit by that beast?) The griffin flapped its wings and only by the one swing of his wings and all the goblins got thrown to the air. "All the goblins under the rank of rare fallback! now! Go get my brother-in-law!" Geeta shouted to give commands.This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road. If you spot it on Amazon, please report it. All the goblins retreated and Geeta hastens her incantations. "I''ll buy you some time," Oz said cooly. Oz rushes to the Griffin side and tries to give a punch using strengthen. !!!??? The Griffin doesn''t even move a flinch. The griffin flapped his wings again and tried to bite Oz. Oz ducks the bite but he got thrown by the wind emitted from the griffin''s wings. but the thing that shocked Oz the most is not the fact that he can''t injure the griffin. (My Qi can''t came out! Why don''t I realize this earlier! Shit!) Oz tried to concentrate his focus to his meridians, and after he tries that, he spits out a mouthful of blood. "Ren!" Geeta shouted. Geeta thought that Ren is injured by the impact and he is still under recovery from his wound so it worries her that Ren will be got more injured by the impact that he got just now. (Ugh. It seems that my meridians are injured. Shit. It took a lot of time to recover an injured meridian. And the worst is I need to cultivate from the start!) When Oz is grumbling about his injured meridians. The spell that Geeta chant had just finished. "Ice Shards!" She put her hand forth and shouted. And a dozen of arm-sized icicles came out from the magic circles in front of her hand. The Griffin felt that its power is superior to the icicles momentum so it just flapped its wings thinking that it will be enough to face the icicles. The wind crashed with the icicles but the icicles pay no heed to the winds from the griffin wings and pierce through it easily. The Griffin is shocked but there''s not enough time for it to dodge so all the icicles strikes its body directly. "Yes!" Geeta rejoice. *Roar* The Griffin roared enraged. The icicles manage to injure it but not severely. The Griffin is enraged because of the icicle attack. The Griffin flies to the sky, and the sky darkens, the clouds changed to black colored and they could hear the sounds of thunders. It will use Thunderbolt! Oz understands that it will use a terrifying skill to retaliate Geeta''s ice shards. he couldn''t analyze the Griffin''s skill damage accurately. But he trusts his guts, and his guts said that the Geeta will not survive that attack. The sounds of thunders are getting bigger and bigger, Oz rushes and jumped to Geeta. And- *Sound of a terrifying thunder* The thunder struck at Oz with terrifying speed and momentum. Oz gritted his teeth bearing all the pain while protecting Geeta from the terrifying thunder. The most terrifying thing is, there are 10 thunderbolts that struck Oz at once. "Ren!!!" Geeta shouted worriedly. "Why do you do that? Maybe I wouldn''t survive it, but you''re injured too." Geeta said while in the verge of crying. "My pride as a man couldn''t stand the fact that I will only stand still looking a beautiful girl getting attacked in front of my eyes," Oz said coolly. Geeta blushed. They''re having the conversations but the Griffin is not standing still, seeing the mage that injured it had survived its attack, the Griffin is once again enraged. The Griffin dashes to where Oz and Geeta are. But before it could land its attack on them- "Horizontal strike!" A voice sounded. The figure who own the voice dashes right at the second when the Griffin''s strike almost hit Oz and Geeta. *Booom* "Brother-in-law! Finally, you came!" Geeta said relieved. "Yes. How is Ren''s condition" asked Aegir solemnly. "I''m okay. I just need a minute to regain my balance." Said Oz coolly. "That''s good then, Hey you, give Geeta her equipment," Aegir nodded and said, and a goblin brought a helmet, gauntlets, shield, and a sword. "Use your equipment quickly Geeta, this beast won''t give us that much time." Ordered Aegir. "Okay, brother-in-law," Said Geeta with a serious face. As Geeta uses her equipment, Aegir takes the attention from the Griffin. He uses strengthen while use speed enhancements too. He dashes to the Griffin who starts to get up and swing his sword hard. *Clank!* The sword and Griffin''s claw collided. Aegir raw strength together with the enhancement magic still can''t match with the griffin''s metal hard claw. *Whoosh* Aegir got thrown backward because of the impact. Aegir got thrown but the Griffin easily recover its balance and dashes to the flying Aegir. "Geeta!" Aegir shouted. "Yes! Wall of Frost!" Geeta shouted. A wall of ice appeared between Aegir and the Griffin, The Griffin crashed to the wall and got bounced backward. It seems to get some damage from the impact. After the Griffin got bounced back from the wall, Geeta immediately dashes to the Griffin with her shield and her great sword. She swung her sword and shouted. "Sword of Frost!". The sword slashed the Griffin and some icicles could be seen to be corroding the Griffin. *ROAAAAR!* The Griffin roared louder than before because of the damage it got. It got more enraged and it about to strike Geeta with its claws but Aegir appeared behind the Griffin and strikes its back. Geeta make use of the momentum Aegir made and took that chance to retreat. After giving the Griffin a strike, Aegir retreated too. The Griffin got all wounds all around its body because of this magnificent pair of two. (They''re strong!, They have such great teamwork and they use strategy as efficient as possible! but the most surprising thing is, for Geeta to be not only a magician but also a magic knight.) Oz''s shocked by the power of the two (But..) "Appraisal card!" [Type: Griffin [Count] level: 237 Strength: 250.000 Agility: 100.000 Vitality: 1.100.000 / 1.500.000 Mana: 700.000 Spiritual: 100.000 Skills: -strengthen -dash -Leap -superhuman strength -ruler''s aura -Eagle Eye -Wind magic -Claw strike -King''s Roar] [Type: Goblin [Duke] Name: Aegir level: 262 Strength: 250.000 Agility: 8.000 Vitality: 1.800.000 Mana: 200.000 Spiritual: 20.000 Skills: -strengthen -club dash -Leap -superhuman strength -ruler''s aura -Swordskills ] [Name: Geeta Age: 13 Race: Goblin [Baron] Strength: 4.000 Agility: 5.000 Vitality: 3.000 Mana: 9.000 Spiritual: 5500 Intellect: 8000 Skills: -Fire Magic -Swordskills -strengthen -Ice Magic -Mind Magic -Shield skills] (Mind magic, huh? No wonder she could deceive my appraisal card. Next time whenever I checked someone using the appraisal card I need to make him/her touch the card I guess. But, to think that the damn beast only got 400.000 damage after all of that strikes.) Seeing the successful attack they had made. Aegir and Geeta are about to attack them together again. (So they used mana to reinforce and strengthen themselves. Different from my Qi, they use their mana by borrowing the external power of the body, so they use the mana from the aura they emitted. My Qi is back to level 1 because of the damn black kitty. Well level 1 Qi will only double the status but it is enough.) "This will be a hard damn fight. But it''s interesting." Oz smirked. Chapter 9: Great Battle [Name: Ren Arken Age: 14 Race: Human Strength: 30 Agility: 2000 Vitality: 200 Mana: ~~~ Spiritual: ~~~ Intellect: 1000 Unique Skills: -magic cards -appraisal -evil gaze -strengthen] -----------_-------------_------------_-----------_----------_------------_-----------_-----------_-------_------------_--------- ---Geeta PoV--- Ren is a weird guy. Since he wakes up at brother-in-law''s house I already know that he is an oddball. He woke up with his memories about himself is gone but he still holds a great amount of knowledge. He understands about building, farming, and fishing that is quite rare for a goblin who doesn''t think at all. Well, our tribe does that too, though. He seems to take a great interest in mana, magic, and skills. But the weirdest thing is he is a goblin duke but his mana there is no mana leaking out from his body. But when I treated his wound, but I could feel a strange power inside of him. What a strange person. One thing that piqued my interest too is how stoic he is. I and my sister are considered a great beauty at the tribe, usually, if a new goblin met me they will propose me and ask me to be their mate in an instant. But this guy doesn''t even show the tiniest bit of interest to me. It kinda frustrating but I need to admit that he''s kinda cool. he''s tall, muscular, and I could see his confidence and calmness at his face. "Geeta! Ice Wall!" My brother-in-law shouted. "Yes! Wall of Frost!" I shouted, and the griffin attacks once again blocked by my magic. If my sister is here, we could support brother-in-law more easily though. My sister is a dual-elemental mage of fire and wind. But she is pregnant, so it''s crazy if brother-in-law brought her here. Okay, let''s focus on bringing this fearsome beast down first. We gave it considerable damage, but it doesn''t even slow this stubborn beast. In this rate, my mana will run out first before we could defeat it. "Geeta! Once again!" My brother-in-law ordered me. "Yes!" I chant the ice shards spell getting ready to strike the griffin using it. "Dear spirits of ice, heed my call show your coldness and form an icicle in my call Ice Shards!" After I finished chanting, a dozen of icicles appeared in front of my hand and dashes to the Griffin.Unauthorized reproduction: this story has been taken without approval. Report sightings. The Griffin tries to fend all of it using its claws but it couldn''t repel all of it. So some icicles manage to damage the Griffin. Using the momentum of the ice shards spell of mine, my brother-in-law dashes to its back and about to strike its back again. But suddenly, the Griffin dashes not to protect itself from my brother-in-law''s strike. But it dashes to the place I''m standing. It all happened in a split second. And now, I''m on the verge of falling to a state, called death. I was so shocked that I couldn''t move my feet. "Geeta! Dodge!" My brother-in-law said, but my feet can''t move. The Griffin is about to hit me, so I hold my shield steady and get ready for the outcome. ........ I waited for the feeling of intense pain and intense power but the feeling won''t come. Confused, I opened my eyes, and I saw a figure, is facing the griffin with his bare arms. There is the weird energy I sensed before enveloping him. "Ren!" I called his name happily. "Urrgghhh. Roaaaaar" Ren shouted and he manages to threw the Griffin back. *Sound of water drops* That is? I wandered my eyes for where the source of the voice is, and I saw. the front cloth that Oz borrowed from my brother-in-law, is soaked with blood. But even with all of those wounds, his smirk never fades. "Geeta, lend me your great sword." He said to me coolly. I threw my great sword to him and he caught it with one hand. "Let''s settle this once and for all crazy beast." He said just like a battle maniac. He dashes to the Griffin and strikes it head on, With no strategies, and with no tricks, he faces it head-on. Using his brute strength, his sword vs Griffin''s jaw seems like a draw. Ren retreated while saying "Damn it strong." "Well, it''s obvious. it''s a Griffin," I said. "Geeta, could you chant the wall of frost once more before I make a contact with the Griffin, and chant ice shards After I land the strike at the Griffin?" Asked him. "I still have some mana left, I think it''s enough to use those two spells," I answered. "Great, then tell your brother-in-law to strike the Griffin right after I strike it first." He said and he walks to the Griffin to face it once again. Where does his confidence come from? Well, let''s just see what he got. I told my brother what Ren''s strategy is, and he agrees. "You''re a damn strong beast," Oz said. He dashes to the Griffin once more and I chant the spell Wall of Frost, when each of their strikes almost collides with each other, My Wall of Frost appeared in the middle of them. I just now noticed. That if I summon a Wall of Frost. There will be a cold fog surrounding it. And now I understand what Ren''s plan is. Ren appeared below of the Griffin and strikes its chest, it shocks the Griffin as it couldn''t sense the attack coming from Ren. "Now!" Oz shouted. I immediately use the spell Ice Shards and brother-in-law immediately dashes to the Griffin. I finished my chant and brother-in-law arrived at the back of the Griffin at the same time. I worried that the Griffin will run and change its place and ruin his plans but the Griffin looks like it was bearing pain or something. My Icicles and brother-in-law''s slash strikes the Griffin at the same time. But this time, our strikes penetrate the Griffin rather easily. With the strike from us, Griffin''s blood spurted out of its body and it dies, and something slowly falls from the air. A card with an image of the queen of the humans, but it immediately disappears after i saw it. I want to ask what it is to Ren, but he suddenly fell and fainted. "Ren!" I and my brother-in-law shouted. it seems like he loses too much blood, so we brought him to my brother-in-law house so I could treat him again. Today is a tiring day. But I manage to see Ren''s coolness so I guess that''s enough for me hehe. *sound of humming* Chapter 10: Mana [Name: Ren Arken Age: 14 Race: Human Strength: 30 Agility: 2000 Vitality: 200 Mana: ~~~ Spiritual: ~~~ Intellect: 1000 Unique Skills: -magic cards -appraisal -evil gaze -strengthen] ------_--------_-------_-------_-------------_-------_----------_-----------_------_-------_------------_------- The Griffin crumbled and Oz fainted at the same moment. "Serves you right you damn beast." Oz barely said. Suddenly, Oz heard a prompt before he fainted. <272 ---> 280> !!!??? ----_---------_----------_--------_-------------_---------------_-------------_---------_-----------_--------------- Oz wakes up. He observed his surroundings and he could see the same place where he woke up after the fight with the darkness lion. (I fainted at this world because of blood loss for twice already, huh? To think someone like me would experience these things, life does unexpected. The prompt I heard before I fainted, does it meant that the goblin form leveled up?) Oz imagines his hand holding the goblin duke card and the goblin card got summoned to his hands. [Goblin duke card [Special] [Develops] level: 280 Strength: 380.000 Agility: 80.000 Vitality: 2.800.000 Mana: 1.000.000 Spiritual: 300.000 Skills: -strengthen -club dash -Leap -superhuman strength -ruler''s aura -evil gaze Description: The card comprises the power of a Goblin duke, the host could use its maximum power by fully equipping it and transforms to a Goblin duke, but the host could also half equip it and got to use 20% of its original status. Equip Yes/Half/No] !!!!??? (It levels up!) Oz is shocked by the fact that it could level the goblin duke card up. It meant that he could get stronger by leveling his goblin duke card too! (Oh yeah, I need to recover my Qi cultivation, too.) There is 10 realm of Qi cultivation 1. Body Reinforcement Realm 2. Spirit Reinforcement Realm 3. Core Condensation Realm 4. Core Spirit Realm 5. Core Transformation Realm 6. Void Spirit Realm 7. Spirit King Realm 8. Saint King Realm 9. God King Realm 10. Earth Monarch Realm And every stage has 3 cultivation stage. Currently, Oz is in the realm of Body Reinforcement Realm, the first realm of Qi cultivation. Back then, Oz had already reached the Saint King Realm and being the top 10 martial cultivators of the world. But his cultivation level goes back to zero due his meridians got severely injured. Oz straightens his back and cultivates his Qi. He could feel the pulse from his meridians by concentrating for 2-3 minutes. His meridians emit some hot energies and he could feel the power of the body reinforcement realm that in the verge of entering the realm of spirit reinforcement. 5 minutes. 10 minutes. 20 minutes. His Qi starts to enter the spirit reinforcement realm and he could feel that his Qi had increased for 10 folds. When he about to continue his cultivation feeling that he could remember the feeling of breaking through the first 3 realms. The door of the room got opened. "Have you woken up yet Ren?" The cheerful Geeta came in and asked. "yes, I''ve woke up," Oz answered. "Good, how you''re feeling now?" Asked her again. "Well at least better than Yesterday," said oz kindly. "It''s not yesterday though, you''ve slept for 3 whole days," explained Geeta.This book was originally published on Royal Road. Check it out there for the real experience. "3 whole days!?" Oz shocked. "yes, 3 whole days. It''s normal because you lost more blood than last time." Explained Geeta. (No wonder I''m so hungry right now) "Come on, let us eat first. I bet you''re so hungry right now," Guessed Geeta while smiling cheekily. Oz smiled. Seeing Oz smiling, Geeta''s heart felt happy. She smiled tenderly and led Oz to the dining room. Arriving at the dining room, Oz saw Aegir sitting together with a female goblin that looks very similar to Geeta, well, moreover her pink hair is the same as Geeta''s. "Hey, Ren! Come sit here! You must hungry," Said Aegir with his face full of smiles. The female goblin beside of Aegir only smiled and sees Oz while he sits in front of Aegir. She moved her eyes to Geeta, and she gave a surprised look for a moment, and then she gives her a smile with a full meaning. Oz sees the foods at the table, there is a steak he doesn''t know what meat it is, there are some vegetables, and the drink is fresh looking water. Even if the foods and drinks are rather plain, but Oz felt that the foods he is seeing is very delicious, and he felt he got very hungry looking at the food. Maybe it''s because of the fact that he hasn''t eaten for 3 whole days or it''s because of the delicious smell of the food. "Don''t just look, your eyes won''t satisfy your hunger." The woman beside of Aegir said. Aegir laughed. "Yes, don''t hesitate to eat it Oz, You''re considered a part of the family already, without you, we won''t be eating here together.". "Oh yeah, I haven''t introduced you two. This is my wife, Gina." Introduce Aegir. "Nice to meet you" Oz smiled and said politely. "Nice to meet you too, thanks for saving my sister''s and my husband''s life," Said Gina. "It''s nothing. They''re the ones who saved me, I do nothing big," Said Oz humbly. Aegir smirked. "Don''t be too humble Oz, You''re too kind, I never saw a goblin who would sacrifice for others. You have my respect. Okay, let''s stop talking and eat, the food will get cold." Said Aegir. Oz took a small piece of meat and putting it inside his mouth. The taste is quite plain, but the meat is of high quality! The meat is juicy, and it had a rich unique flavor of itself, and the one who cooked this meat had cooked it masterfully. Oz thought, using some seasoning this meat will be a masterpiece that all people will sell their body for eating one piece of this meat. "What meat is this?" Oz asked. "It''s Ectra Python''s meat. What, doesn''t it delicious? well, of course, my Gina cooked it!" Said Aegir bragging about his wife. "Wow, your wife is a great cook" Praised Oz. Aegir is very satisfied with Oz praise to his wife, and Gina is also happy by the praise. They eat the food to every bit of the meat and Oz found that the vegetables are also delicious, they''re very happy seeing Oz eat the foods full of vigor. "Phew, thanks for the food," Oz said, satisfied. "You''re really a glutton Ren," Said Geeta surprised. After they finished eating, they talked and told stories of each other. Aegir shared his story about his father, his adventure, and his meeting with Gina. Gina shared her story about her life and about her old group, and Geeta shared her story about how she trained as a magic knight. "Ah I forgot, I promised to teach you how to use mana haven''t I Ren?" Asked Geeta. "Yes, you did" Confirmed Oz. "Then go for it you two. Geeta, go led Ren to the backyard to train," Ordered Gina to Geeta. Geeta led Oz to the backyard to teach Oz how to use mana. Arriving at the backyard, Oz saw a lot types of plants, from the one, looks like a medical one to some looks that are planted for its wood. "Okay, lets us get started. First, you need to feel the mana first. Try to stabilize your breath." Explained Geeta. Oz concentrates his focus to his breath to stabilize it. "Now, after you finished stabilizing your breath. Try to take out all the energies you could feel inside of your body," Said Oz. Oz scans his body and searches for foreign energy he never felt. Thinking that he needs to stabilize his breath first, he focuses on his breath and he found some foreign energy inside of his body. No wonder he never felt the power, it''s outside the channels of the meridians so he never felt it. Oz tries to extract the energy outside his body. !!!??? Geeta saw a huge amount of mana aura gushing out from Oz''s body, she''s surprised because she never saw this amount of aura that even her brother-in-law never have. "Y-You''re a genius, Ren!" Praised Geeta Oz had already lost himself because of the feeling from the mana, he couldn''t hear the praise Geeta said to him. He continues to Gush out his mana out of his body and tries to uses it the same way he uses his Qi. *Whoosh* A black mana aura envelops both of Oz fist. And Oz opened his eyes. (Success!) !!??? "Wow! I only praising you because you could feel your mana in your first try but, You really are a genius for being able to control your mana in less than a day! I''m about to teach you how to control your mana easily but, well, congratulation, You''ve controlled your mana," Geeta said, surprised. Oz just smiled hearing the praise. "I still have a long way, I''m still unable to use magic but you could already use magic," Said Oz, signaling Geeta to teach him how to use spells too. "Ah, About using magic, you need to learn it from reading books. I can''t explain it to you, it''s too complicated," explained Geeta. "If that''s the case, can I borrow the book," asked Oz, "Yes, you can borrow it. I''ll go to my brother and ask for it, wait for me here okay?" Said Geeta with smiles. "Okay then. I''ll wait here, take your time." Said Oz. Geeta went into the house to ask Aegir for the magic book Oz asked. Seeing Geeta went back into the house, Oz tries to extract his mana power to his fist for the second time. *Whooosh* His fist is enveloped by a black mana aura, after enveloping his fist with mana, Oz tests to combine the mana and his Qi. Oz closes his eyes, and he concentrates his meridians to emit his Qi to his fist. The mana and the Qi clash with each other. Oz tries to forcefully combine both of the power and- *Whooosh* The aura-like mana that envelops his fist before, changed its appearance to a liquid shape. The combination of the Qi and the mana looks like a black liquid that''s enveloping Oz''s hands. Oz could feel the enormous power this new energy contains. Oz about to try punching his fist but- "Ren! Here it is!" Geeta came bringing about 7 thick books. She puts the books at the ground and said cheerfully "Read these books and you''ll be able to use magic right away! well, the reading takes time though," Oz is secretly delighted seeing the books. he can''t wait for learning the book and using magic. (Finally! I will learn Real Magic!)