ã€ŠGrey Worldsã€‹


 Chapter 1 : Temporary home

    In a deserted area of a otherwise energetic and sleepless city. Where the darker side of a bright city shows its ugly face. There is a dark and gloomy building that looks like it has been abandoned for decades. The area around the building is filled with half complete buildings, broken down construction equipment and either dying or even dead life.

    Not even weeds seem to want to grow here. Outside of the abandoned building, a small, boney child with azure blue hair, and blood red eyes waits for his sister to finish her underpaid job.

    "How was work, sister?"

    A small weak and almost dead looking girl, who can''t be older than thirteen, exits the haunted looking building. She has short uneven messy blonde hair, which reaches barely to her neck, with bangs falling down into her eyes. "Even tougher than usual, my cute little brother.¡±

    She replies while swiping the strands of her tarnished golden hair out of her hazel eyes. Her eyes are filled with a strong and overflowing happiness despite her surroundings.

    "Well, at least we can finally return home and get to eat like you promised, right?" He begs her wanting more to eat then caring about the dangerous area he is in.

    A radiant smile appears on her face, followed with the joyful words. "Of course, it''s your birthday how could we not celebrate with something special? You''re even ten now. I wonder if the next moment I see you, you will already be taller than me and all grown up!"

    She shows him a bag and shoves it in front of the young boy¡¯s nose, who then opens it and takes in a deep whiff.

    The young boy looks up to the sky and his face changing from bliss to worry. ¡°Sister, what is that bright light?¡± He asks his older sister, motioning towards the sky.

    His sister then looks up at where her brother is pointing and back to him with worry. ¡°I don¡¯t kno¡ª¡±

    That is all the elder sister managed to say before a bright light engulfs both of them. A splat can be heard as the bag off food hits the floor. The only thing left to testify the siblings existence.

    The light suddenly transfers the poor orphan into a pitch black place and the feeling of weightlessness starts to over take his senses. Judging by the lack of any sensation, the only thing he can think of calling this strange place is the void.

    Suddenly, the feeling akin to a roller coaster at lightspeed through a loop de loop, courses through his body as he nearly pukes on the marble white floor which pops into existence underneath him.

    The first thing that appears inside of his mind is wondering about where he has found himself transported to.

    He slowly gets up and starts to look around to see his one and only relative, Jana.

    The place that he¡¯s suddenly now looking at is a huge throne room, one who would only expect to see if they were visiting a king from some distant outdated country that you¡¯d occasionally hear about from the blimps.

    Beneath them is a weird circle that doesn¡¯t seem to fit with the rest of the room, as if it was forced into it and doesn¡¯t belong there.

    In front of them is a giant chair made out of what might be gold with a assortment of gems making it seem like the most dazzling thing in the room.

    Sitting on it is a bulky man wearing a crown with colorful jewels encrusted into it. He is clothed in colorful furs from mysterious creatures. A sword is hung below his waist inside a jeweled sheath. The sheath looks fragile enough to break if he accidently drops it once suggesting it isn''t used for actual combat

    His body is tall and built like an ox. A long scar runs across the left side of his face while his arms seem to be riddled with many more, which must be his trophies from battle.You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story.

    His eyes are a deep brown and his hair is an orange like the setting sun with some portions turning gray. His appearance is that of a terrifying warlord, which instills fear into the hearts of beholders, even in death, or at least in Ghost¡¯s case it does.

    The king-like man doesn''t appear to even notice Ghost. His attention lies with Jana, the gaze is dubious. The brown, almost black, eyes don''t know what they should portray. It is almost like he is spending all of his willpower to hide something hidden deep within.

    ¡°Welcome, Hero!" The man says to Ghost¡¯s sister, emphasizing on the word ¡®hero¡¯ and completely ignoring the much smaller other child.

    ¡±You were brought here to save this poor world from an evil and monstrous group of races, that we call the ¡®Unknown¡¯!¡± The king-like man says with disgust in his voice when mentioning the ¡®Unknown.¡¯

    ¡°Can you stop ignoring me!? I¡¯m here too you know!?¡± Ghost decides to speak out against the imposing king for ignoring him even though it probably isn¡¯t the best thing to do in this situation.

    ¡°Please, your majesty, do forgive my idiot of a brother.¡± His sister immediately drops to one knee and forces me down with her.

    ¡°Rise. What is one small child¡¯s outburst to a king like myself?¡± He says arrogantly while raising his hands as if forcing them to rise.

    ¡°Thank you, benevolent king. What do you mean by we were brought here? Also, where is this place?¡±

    Thanks to years of sucking up to grown up to keep her various jobs Jana manages to say the right things and calm down the king.

    They both stand back up at the same time while Jana lets out a sigh of relief and then secretly starts to lecture her younger brother who doesn¡¯t have any eq.

    ¡°Shut up, Ghost! We have no idea who he is or where we are. You should treat him kindly, idiot. You are lucky! He could of just ordered our heads to be chopped off!¡±

    The king places his hand on his cheek and his elbow on the armrest of the throne, ¡°You are not on the same world you were originally. You are on another planet, my dear, and I am the ruler of this whole world.¡±

    The arrogant king goes from speaking gently to them to sounding as if he was talking about pure evil as he begins talking about these unknown.

    ¡°The unknown wish to take away my world from me! They just appeared out of nowhere and said that this planet wasn''t mine and tried to take it from me.¡±

    He points at Jana says, ¡°you are the hero that has been summoned to this world to save it. After you have saved it, then you may go back if you wish. That is your destiny. But, as for you...¡± He looks at Ghost with eyes filled with disgust.

    ¡°You were probably too close to our future savior and got dragged along. I mean, you look weak, and you¡¯re so small. There is no way you can fight against the creatures of this world, much less the unknown.¡± The king looks at him as if he''s just a pile of trash. ¡°You¡¯re all skin and bones, what can you do?¡±

    ¡°Your sister, on the other hand, looks like she has the potential,¡± He says while praising her for no apparent reason. His sister may work to feed them, but that doesn¡¯t mean that she¡¯s that much healthier than Ghost.

    He would work as well, but she won''t let him and instead says things like that he¡¯s too young and shouldn''t be working.

    He instead ended up doing various odd jobs behind her back because they really do need the food, but nothing that would make it seem obvious that he¡¯s actually still working. If she found out, she would kill him for sure.

    The king then suddenly stands up and appears in ]front of him and starts to unnaturally stare into his eyes. ¡°Now then, weakling, I''m going to bring you to a nice old lady who will take care of you while your sister is off saving our world. There is no need for you to hear the rest of the conversation it won''t be very important to you. Seeing how you probably won''t be leaving my grand city.¡±

    He picks him up by the collar of his shirt and forces him away from the castle towards a small hut that you can''t really called a house.

    The hut is surrounded by tall decrepit menacing trees. The soil around the hut looks as though it was gray and dying. The windows are cracked or shattered, with pieces of wood covering them. The roof was frayed and peeling

    The interior of the hut is a complete mess, littered with old books. The whole floor is literally covered in a carpet of books. The books are everywhere!

    You can almost see the despair on Ghost¡¯s face as he¡¯s brought to his new home. He is probably thinking about how he won''t be able to get a good meal and a nice bed to sleep in in this new home.

    The king then forces him into the shabby hut through the broken down door barely serving its purpose and then points to a old lady who looks like she has been through better years. She has wrinkles where wrinkles shouldn''t be and had grayish-white hair.

    ¡°That¡¯s Liz. She will be taking care of you until your sister is done saving our world. Treat her kindly like you would your own grandma. Got it?¡± He nods his head as It''s all he can do when this terrifying man orders him to do something.

    -So, this is how I start my new life; living in a small hut with a stranger. No! I will prove that stupid king wrong and become stronger than anyone else, including my sister! I will be the hero like those books that I read!- Ghost can''t help but think as his new life slowly starts to begin in this small dainty hut.

 Side chapter: Another perspective

    The life that my brother and I have lived is a harsh one. I don''t think that two children should grow up without their parents, but that''s what ended up happening after I found the blue haired little three year old crying out for help.

    We grew up on the streets at a young age. At first we grew up in a orphanage like every normal orphan, but the orphanage ended up kicking little Ghost out at the age of three. They said something about him being a demon and that they can''t stand taking care of him anymore.

    I left ended up leaving with him even though I wasn''t forced out nor was I unwanted. I thought that no one should be left to die and even though I was only five at the time I thought that I would be able to take care of him.

    Boy was I wrong my life, which I thought was hell at the time, became an actual hell. Going to bed without food, may seem to be the worst, but in reality it''s the next day. If you have to work on a empty stomach, then no matter what you do will seem terrible.

    All I had to keep me going was Ghost! He was such a little angel and still is. I don''t know if I would of lasted out in the cruel world without him. The only problem was he wasn''t as smart as I was when I was his age. At five he seemed a lot slower then I was at five.

    To survive I had to steal food or money from people who probably didn''t deserve to be stolen from. I was tempted to sell myself for his safety, but I just couldn''t do it in the end no matter how hard I tried.

    I couldn''t stand the fact that I''d be separated from him if someone takes a fancy to me. He is the only thing that will keep me going and if you would take him away for a long period of time I don''t think I could live my life anymore.

    I hope we can continue our brother sister relationship forever and ever! When I look at him trying his best to help his older sister I can''t help but smile at him.

    He has told me time after time he wants to work too, but I keep on telling him no with using his young age as a excuse. In reality I''m just scared he will become self efficient and I will never see him again.

    All I know for sure is one thing. I will do anything to keep him safe.

    *********

    There was a blinding bright light and then here I am in front of a throne room. I look to my side and see my brother is still with me

    -Good, he''s still incredibly helpless without me. Wait, did that king like man just call me a hero?-

    "Hey stop ignoring me I''m here too you know!" My idiot of a brother then proceeded to scream at the man who can only be the king of the castle that we found ourselves in.

    "Please forgive my idiot of a brother. You look like a king but what do you mean we were brought here and where?" I quickly try to calm down the powerful man in front of us, while wondering why my brother has to act like this.

    ''Shut up Ghost we have no idea who he is and where we are you should treat him kindly, idiot.'' Then I make sure my idiot little brother doesn''t make the same mistake again or else we might end up losing our poor pitiful lives here.

    -What is this idiot thinking does he have a death wish speaking against such a powerful looking figure.-

    "I not only look like a king, young miss, but I''m actually am a king! You''re not on the same world you were originally you are on another planet, my dear and I am the ruler of this whole world."

    -As I thought he was a powerful figure in this world, but I didn''t expect him to rule this world.-

    "The unknown want to take away my world. They just appeared out of nowhere and said that this planet wasn''t mine and tried to take it from me."

    -I see so he summoned us, because he was scared and needed some help to protect his precious world. I don''t know how we can be helpful to him. I mean he looks strong enough to take on an army by himself. Just how strong are these unknown if he is scared of them?-

    "You are the hero that has been summoned to this world to save it and then you may go back if

    you wish. For that is your destiny."

    -Wait if it''s our destiny is to save this world then why was our life so bad in our previous worlds!-

    The king then goes on about how my brother looks weak and how he isn''t up to the heroic standers so he must of been dragged into the summoning. I didn''t think of him as a hero either and I really don''t want to have him fight against anyone either.

    To be blunt he is a idiot. He never showed any promise for anything that required knowledge that even a kid two years younger than him can already perfectly understand.

    I don''t even think he can read. But he is my adorably pure brother. I don''t care if he is a idiot or if he is secretly a genius and is just hiding it from me, because he''s afraid I would work extra hard to pay for school. I wouldn''t because he''s my precious little brother, but that''s besides the point.

    "Now then little kid I''m going to bring you to a nice old lady who will take care of you while your sister is off saving our world. There is no need for you to hear the conversation I am going to have with your sister."

    -Hey! I get your the king of this world and everything, but that doesn''t mean you can pick my brother up by the scruff and force him out of here just because he looks weak.-

    -"He deserves to understand the situation at least. Even if he might not be able to comprehend it all and if you weren''t a king I wouldn''t let you do that. He is also good emotional support for me.-

    "Sorry about that. I just didn''t like to see that weak little kid in my throne room. I also thought that he didn''t need to know any of what I''m going to tell you, since he probably won''t be leaving the 4th section of this city much less the rest of it."

    "Don''t worry about him. I left him with a person who owes me a favor, but she is nice and will take good care of your brother. So, just focus on getting stronger and then you can protect him along with this world."

    The king seems to finally realize that I care about my brother dearly so makes sure that I know that Ghost will be okay.

    "Now then there are a few things you should know about this world. The most important thing is magic. Magic is a common thing in this world yet uncommon."

    He looks directly in the eyes while probably trying to see my magic talent.

    "What I mean by that is only nobility can use it, or the people who have talent for it become nobles because of it. The unknown don''t have mages. Most of the unknown are melee fighters who will stop at nothing to kill you. They don''t have a speck of mana inside of their bodies so they are hated by us."Unauthorized use of content: if you find this story on Amazon, report the violation.

    He seems to be disgusted by the fact that they can''t use mana and starts to make them seem like the barbarians of my own world.

    "They are a crude bunch and aren''t afraid to rip your eyes out or attack a man''s genitals. That is one spot that no one should attack, no matter how desperate they are."

    "How is it common if only the upper class can use it?" I ask the king while being confused about the fact that he called such a, well, magical ability common. I also can''t help but wonder what types of magic the king has mastered.

    "That''s simple, my dear, we use it for everything. We light up the night with magic crystals, we use magic to make the fire we use it to cook. Even the poor of this world have access to some form of basic magic, even if they can''t use amazing spells everyone in this world has some mana. It''s just the upper class tends to have more mana than the rest and can use the mana to cast spells."

    "The unknown are the only sentient life, that I know of, that can''t use magic. They must be jealous of our magic, so they decided to hide and wait till they have a army!"

    "They hid in the wilderness and built up their numbers in secret."

    "I''m surprised on how big they managed to become without alerting our attention. Now they''ve grown too big for our military to handle. We can kill them, but they just keep coming and coming till we run out of our only source of strength our mana."

    "Once someone runs out of mana they''re useless and makes it harder to defend for some time. Usually once one person runs out of mana the rest fall in suit."

    "We tried to keep people in reserves but the sheer number of them made it impossible to separate into groups to protect our key advantage points."

    -I can''t help but start to imagine a mass of creatures attacking a city in large numbers while the city guards are too exhausted to fight back.-

    "There has been legends about a hero that can be brought to our world who has a extreme mana capacity and no matter how many people go against him/her it will only lead to death till there''s no one in front of him/her!"

    "That is you and we are hoping that like the legends says you can take out a large portion of their forces or at least be able to give our army some breathing room."

    -Well, he''s making it seem like I''m some monster and he is already putting, so much pressure on me to be strong.-

    -If these unknown have so many people, how does he expect one person to change the tides of a war? Your already outnumbered by the people able to fight yet you expect one person to end it all.-

    "What about my brother?"

    "He will be treated like a grandson while he in my friends care. She never had a child, so he must be a gift from the heavens to her. Don''t worry about him, he won''t be forced to train or have any expectations for him to do anything helpful for our cause. He will be safe."

    "As long as he is safe, I don''t care about what I have to do." At that instance I finally understood that he''s already figured out what mattered to me the most in the universe my brother and was bribing me with his safety.

    "That''s the spirit. Now about my fair world. I don''t know how the place was were you lived, but here there isn''t anything that is really worth mentioning. Everything besides the forest and desert are under my control!"

    "There is a forest that is filled with mystical creatures and monsters. Monsters are like regular animals that have been corrupted. Mythical creatures are born as creatures with immense power. Unlike monsters they''re built to kill from birth. Some of them are smarter than even you."

    "The desert is a desolate wasteland. There is nothing there to our knowledge and it''s way too hot for any creature to live in. There isn''t much know about it, because no one wants to explore in an area that will cook you alive."

    The king starts to visibly sweat while he probably remembers the scorching heat of the desert.

    "I don''t know how far the forest and desert stretch, but seeing how the unknown became such a large fighting force I would say that it''s bigger than my land. The desert on the other hand is even more unknown in everything, since no one can last a day in the heat."

    "Is there anything else I should know?"

    "Yes. You are hereby forbidden from meeting your brother till you get strong enough to survive an assassination. We should get to your training and see how strong of a hero we can bring out of you. Come let''s go."

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    "She''s not as strong as I thought she would be." A large man, the size of a bear, tells the king. "It''s been 3 and a half months and she hasn''t made nearly as much progress as I thought she would."

    He stops to access Jana''''s talent for a bit before releasing a deep sigh. "She has the talent to be a good soldier and if she tries hard enough, maybe even an elite but not a hero."

    "I know George, but what can we do about it. Her brother looked like he would die if someone punched him. We can double check if he has a talent for magic, I guess."

    The king seems to recall something important about Ghost''s current living environment. "Liz did have all those books about magic, he might of picked something up from those.

    "Just to be sure, how about letting her try live combat and see if her survival instincts go off."

    "Hmm nothing too dangerous we don''t want to risk the wrath of her younger brother. He may help the unknown instead of us if we got her killed.

    "Jana! Front and center!"

    "Yes s-sir!" She is visibly still the same after the various trials that has happened in her three months while visibly being uncomfortable at calling George sir.

    "I need you to take your sword to the guard barracks and then ask one of them to watch over you as you battle your first monster."

    "My f-first monster, sir?" She seems to be visibly shocked about the fact that she has to kill a monster after only training herself for so long.

    "The king wants to see your full potential and has asked me to give you live training. I am busy, but the king''s orders are immediate so one of the guards should watch over you in my stead. Don''t worry I''m not asking you to slay a dragon just a weak little slime."

    "Ok, sir!"

    ***********

    "You lost, little miss?" A fit man wearing light leather armor with a insignia of a dragon asks me.

    "No sir. My name is Jana, the king asked me to do live combat training with a slime under a guards supervision." I try to reply back with as much confidence as I can muster.

    "Oh really, and why would the king ask such a small girl to do live combat training?"

    "The king told me that I am a hero and a hero should have live combat."

    The guard stares at me in disbelief for a few seconds then just stands there and thinks for a full minute. Finally he decides to just listen to the higher ups like a good toy soldier.

    "Chuck! Take this little girl outside the city walls. Than give her pointers on how to kill a slime. After that I need you to watch over her while she attempts to kill it."

    "Ok." A cheerful guard replies. "Hi! I''m Chuck, so you need to kill a slime. Well it''s going to be easy with me giving you advice. The plan is simple just send some weak magic at it then done."

    "I can''t use magic. All I can use are these daggers." I show him my small daggers. The other swords looked light but I couldn''t learn how to properly swing anything that was longer than these.

    "That won''t do. You see slimes are incredibly weak to magic, but blunt damage is none existent and if you can''t pierce it''s core then simply can''t kill it."

    Obviously my poor body strength and short little daggers wouldn''t be able to pierce into the core of the slime.

    "You would get hit by the slime''s tentacles to many times. The slime doesn''t have any damage besides blunt. It''s tentacles may look like they are acid but in reality these slime are too weak to even burn you."

    "There is another way, but I get called crazy for it."

    "What''s the other way?"

    -I don''t care if the world turns on me because of it. As long as I can protect Ghost.-

    "Well its."

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    In front of me is a green blob of liquid that is called a slime in this world. I try to cut at it with my daggers and to my surprise the dagger manages to cut into it, but the dagger cannot cut deep enough.

    -So the ball in the center is it''s core and if I can destroy it then it should die!-

    I attempt to stab into it''s core yet again but it goes even less distance then the first random stab!

    -It''s too far in I can''t reach it. I guess if this was a game it would be lvl 1 and I can''t even kill it. A mear lvl 1 slime and my only option is to.-

    I open my mouth and start to drink the slime. It tastes similar to chicken, but that just makes it feel even worse. Drinks or jello should not taste like chicken. *Slurp Slurp slurp gulp* all that''s left is the core. I put it in my mouth and swallow it whole. *Burp!*

    "That tasted funny Chuck!"

    "I know right it''s an addicting taste. To bad no one else is willing to try it. If I more people were like you then I would probably not be called crazy Chuck anymore."

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    "How did the live combat go George?" The king asks while fidgeting anxiously.

    "Terrible she has one other talent then what I saw from the beginning. She couldn''t even kill a slime so she ate it instead. Who resorts to eating the beast if they can''t kill it. She''s insane, all we can do is hope that her brother is a genius and can save us from that massive army."

 Chapter 2: Magic and A new friend

    He starts to look at the various titles of the books that are on the floor. Shockingly, he can read most of the titles. He learned from an early age that knowledge can help you survive, in a world where you are unwanted.

    So with the growing abandonment of books for ebooks Ghost could find a couple of the least liked genres of literature. Especially any of the for dummies books since tutorials are everywhere on their modern day internet.

    Books are a great way to learn important things, so he starts to sort the various books into three categories. The first category are books that aren''t that important for his current predicament. Which are books about heroes, politics and other useless things.

    Hero''s may be exciting but it''s often exaggerated and tends to be the same in the end! A boring story where the hero kills the demon king and the end.

    While in reality even if the hero successfully killed a demon king then what happens afterwards is what everyone really starts to wonder about after reading it so many times.

    The second category are how to books. They ranged from how to hold different weapons all the way to how to identify different types of plants.

    The third category are books that he still couldn''t read even with the auto translation. He hopes that they are about powerful magic and that who ever was translating the language for him thought that he should learn how to read it naturally.

    His only hope is that Liz had some knowledge about these books and didn''t just keep them for collectors purposes.

    The history books are easy to determine thanks to the title and most looked like they were not handwritten.

    The how to types of books were not as easy to determine. Some are like the books for dummies, while others look to be handwritten notes from researchers. The special books are the easiest to find because he couldn''t understand them at all.

    The first thing that he does is put all the books from the first category into the empty bookshelves that the tiny hut is filled with. -Might as well read and wait till Liz wakes up-. He thought while he opens up a book about how to treat different wounds.

    -Is she ok the sun is going down yet she is still laying there asleep.-

    He gets up from reading on the floor and heads towards the sleeping Liz. "Miss are you ok?" He asks with no reply so he starts to shake her a little bit being worried about her old age.

    "Hmm, what is all the loud ruckus for?" Liz finally manages to open her old tired sapphire blue eyes. "Lad don''t you know it''s rude to wake up a sleeping lady?"

    "You have been asleep since I got here, so I was worried something was wrong with you."

    "Oh really, how long were you waiting for me then?"

    "I don''t know how time works in this world! All I know is when I came in the sun was still high in the sky, but now it''s getting dark and my stomach is telling me I''ve been here for a while." He immediately starts to complain without thinking like the young child he is.

    "This world?" Liz ponders for a little bit. "Ah, I see you''re the product of that ridiculous magic circle that is in the castle.¡± She seems visibly happy and even claps after figuring out who he is.

    ¡±You know kid I never trusted that magic circle. Now I have proof I was right and that arrogant king was wrong." A grin of pure bliss appears on her old faded lips.

    "Uhh, he was right I just kinda got dragged along with my sister who he calls the hero. He also told me that you would take care of me while my sister is of being a hero and such." He corrects her about his sad predicament while scratching his head.

    "So he is already using the favor from the bet huh."

    "Uh, what bet miss." He asks her while his face screams of young curiosity.

    "Nothing much just a bet if the summon works or is a hoax. You here are living evidence I was wrong and he was right." She dejectedly says.

    "So do you understand what those books over there say?" He points towards the books that he can''t read wondering about their contents and completely changing the subject.

    "Yes and no can I read most of them yes, but I can''t really comprehend completely what everything says. I am also not one hundred percent sure about the more complicated books." She replies with a glint of sorrow in her old eyes.

    "But aren''t you some grand arch mage that the king asked to come here for advice on the summoning circle?" Since he was young he always dreamed of magic and thought it would be his way out of the hell that he''s been living in for what feels like eternity.

    "Nope! I''m just a old lady that finds magic interesting, but sadly has no talent for it. I kept collecting these books because I hoped I had some special magic that appears once every blue moon. But no turns out I have no talent for it zit nata nothing." She shatters the fantasy that every old person in a fantasy world is secretly a powerful person.

    "But you can teach me how to read basic magic right?"

    "Of course I can. Why? You want to learn how to use magic too?" A spark of fire finally starts to appears in her old almost lifeless eyes.

    ¡°Yes the only magic that existed in my world was for party tricks and stealing which no one would ever teach a orphan like me about. The magic of this world is probably a hundred times cooler than the fake sleight of hand from my world.¡±

    "Well fine, I''m stuck with you anyways, just don''t get your hopes up it''s my first time teaching anyone after all." She slowly gets up from lying down on a couch that¡¯s in a random corner of the hut.

    "Thank you miss!" He hugs her out of excitement which knocks her back into the couch.

    "Just call me Liz everyone does anyways."

    "Ok Liz!"

    "Now let''s see where is that book." She pauses for a moment and looks around in confusion. "Wait! Did you pick up all of the books off the floor?"

    "Yes, is something wrong with that granny Liz?" He calls her granny out of instinct thinking that he ended up doing something terribly wrong.

    "No I''m just shocked, because I can finally see the floor it''s been awhile since I could do that." A mischievous grin flashes.on her old face for a second.

    "Also it will probably be harder for me to teach you. Seeing how I have no idea where the correct books corresponding to the magic text are."

    "Wait, what do you mean by that?" He seems to not understand that she¡¯s just playing with him, but that''s to be expected from a little kid no matter what he''s been through.

    "Well, you see I had written down notes in a journal for each of the books that I could understand, but you separated the two of them. It may have looked like a mess in your eyes, but in mine I could probably find anything and everything that you would ever need. Oh well. More work for you I guess."

    She gets up off the couch again and starts to slowly head to another room.

    "Wait! You aren''t helping me with this?!" He seems shocked about how she seems to not care about finding her own journals and is treating it as only his problem.

    "Nope consider it a challenge! You may even learn your precious magic faster this way and if not then you will learn that not everything comes on a silver platter.¡±

    ¡°You have to work hard to get what you want and if you are born with a special magic let me tell you this."

    She stops for a second and looks out the cracked window. Her eyes look like they are looking far into the distance. Almost as if they were looking directly into her past.

    She then snaps out of her daze and continues explaining. "You''re going to have to work twice as much compared to an ordinary mage. From my research if you have a different ability than everyone else you have to find how to use it yourself." She then continues off into the other room.

    He inwardly curses his urges to do something when he¡¯s bored and makes a promise to himself that he won''t clean things without permission. He looks over all the books that he already confirmed were about magic with pain knowing that he had a lot of work ahead of him.

    He decides to ignore the magic books which probably hold vast amounts of knowledge and goes to the history and legends pile. He double checks if any of the books were actually research notes and to his surprise Liz liked naming some of her research notes in vague terms. It might even be encrypted with a hand made code.

    He stares at the weirdly written book with a annoyed expression before going to where Liz is to ask her about them. "Liz are some of your research notes in code?"

    "Hmm? Oh yea the lesser magic books are. I was paranoid at the time, so the first couple books were written in code."

    "You at least remember how to decode it right?" He asks for help while knowing that she probably won''t help him with this at all. She probably doesn¡¯t even remember that she wrote some of these in code and will use it as a excuse for more training.

    "Nope! But I already know the information, so I can figure out the code whenever I want to. Let me tell you what. You figure out the code and I''ll tell you if you choose the right book to go with those notes."

    "Sounds like the best option I have right now." He sighs while cursing the old lady under his breath about all the tests she¡¯s asking him to do.

    He probably wouldn¡¯t be so against it if she was strong, since different people tend to get different treatment no matter how you put things.

    "Well then better get busy if you''re really that curious about magic."

    He immediately goes searching for books that make no sense at all, but can at least read the letters. There are probably hundreds of books here, but there should only be one coded research notes per beginning magic guide. He quickly finds a couple weird books out of the pile and starts making a separate stack.

    He gets faster as he goes on thanks to being familiar with her code and title naming habits. He also started to find which books were hers and which weren''t because of her distinct handwriting.

    After all that work is done he seems to have to sort them from coded to uncoded, because he need the coded to understand the basics. If he learn the basics then he might be able to understand her other notes.

    "Huh? Granny it''s nearly impossible to tell whether it''s coded or not!"

    She comes out of another room. "What do you mean by that?" She asks while she picks up one of the books.

    "I mean I don''t understand the code nor the complex stuff, so how am I supposed to differentiate between the two."

    "Well, that is easy the complex stuff, as you put it, will actually have something to do with magic. The coded will not seem like it has anything to do with magic. Isn''t that why I coded it in the first place?"

    She decides that it would be wise to at least teach him some simple logical things, since she thought he¡¯d already be able to put those two things together.

    "I never thought about it like that. You''re right I''m sorry for not thinking it through." He almost hits his forehead because of his inability to think of something so simple.

    "Oh no dear, you just need to learn to look at the world not only through your eyes, but through others as well."

    He starts to realize that even if this old lady is weak she still has a lot of knowledge to teach him and that he¡¯s been a bit rude for not listening to her.

    And it turns out that she''s right! Now that he starts to look at these notes like she said to it starts to become easier to see which are which. "Done! Liz I''m done sorting out the coded and the complex."

    "Good, but you shouldn''t get too focused with work you were complaining about hunger when I woke up, but now look it''s much later and you still haven''t eaten a thing."

    As she says that he starts to realize that his stomach has been yelling at the world and his nose has been smell something delicious.

    "Good thing while you were sorting I decided to cook up an ancient family recipe. Cooked slime!" She says with the straightest face that Ghost as ever seen in his life.

    "Just kidding, even though I have heard of crazies in the guard trying to eat slime before. Just a rotisserie chicken that I tend to cook to make broth out of later will be enough to fill out empty bellies."

    She takes out a glistering brown chicken with it''s fatty skin still attached. She then takes out a knife and cuts out a generous portion of it for Ghost.

    When the aroma of the chicken hits his nose he finally realises how starved he¡¯s lived his life. It smells heavenly, but then again he¡¯s stomach may have just overruled all of his other senses and might just be playing tricks on him.

    He eats his portion of the meal as fast as he could without thinking of all the stomach problems that may happen from overfilling his starved belly. He finishes his first ever home cooked meal before he can even get a real good taste of it.

    "Wow, you sure were hungry."

    ¡°Yeah! That¡¯s the first home cooked meal I¡¯ve ever had before. Go ahead and eat your portion granny I don''t need any more, because I think I might of overstuffed my stomach.¡± He says while holding his upset tummy and holding in a couple of hiccups.

    The foods put him into the fabled food coma state where he just wants to go to sleep and rest it all off.

    ¡°You can eat more of it I really don''t mind. I don''t need to each much food nowadays thanks to my older age, while you on the other hand look so skinny and pitiful. I was so shocked when I first saw how skinny you were and short for a ten year old. I thought you were only eight!¡±

    Ghost starts to break out crying from the sudden feeling of care and motherly love from this old women that he doesn¡¯t notice some obvious errors in her excuses. ¡°Oh my. Please forgive this old lady I seem to have forgotten to ask you what your name is dear.¡±

    "Sniff. My name is Ghost Shinigami and don''t feel bad granny. You''re the first person to treat me so kindly besides my sister.¡± He visibly tried to hold back his tears like a dam holding back a river.

    ¡°You''re also the first person who cooked a actual meal for me and you didn''t even care that I ate it so quickly."

    He can''t hold in his tears any longer, a dam starts to break in his eyes and the tears won''t stop flowing out down his cheeks soaking the floor with their salty contents.

    "It''s ok." She suddenly gets up and starts to hug him while whispering in his ear. "Hush, I''m here for you know. Now come with me you should get some sleep it''s been a long day." She takes him into his new bedroom where a inviting bed awaits him to sleep on.

    "Yawwn! Good morning world!¡± He wake up in a small room that could barely fit the bed that he¡¯s currently laying on a dresser and a desk.

    He seems to be letting the feelings of waking up in a bed and home settle into his body as he takes his time before he decides to finally get up.

    He eventually gets out of bed and change into a new pair of clothes that was left for him. They don''t fit him that well and are a little too big, but Ghost seems to be back at the same point of almost crying again thanks to her sudden gift of new clothing for him.

    After getting dressed he exits the small bedroom and see his new granny sitting at a desk with eleven books awaiting for him to read on it. "Ahh! You''re already awake. I decided that I was being too overbearing on you, so here.¡±

    She gives him the eleven books."Here these are the first eleven you should learn and here is the corresponding notes. I decided I was asking for the impossible by not at least giving you the basics."

    "Thank you granny Liz! But don''t tell me you stayed up all night to get this ready for me. You shouldn¡¯t spend so much work and waste your sleeping schedule about something so small and unimportant. You could¡¯ve just taught me the basics and I would¡¯ve eventually figured out the code."

    "No, no don''t thank me this is the least I should of done and it was easy to copy over some basic notes that I already read a thousand times.¡±

    ¡°You made me realise that you and your sister are still children even if actually have the power to save this world. I was thinking that thanks to you being summoned you would, probably, have no problems with solving my code." She admits that she was having overly high expectations for a ten year old child.

    Ghost begins to realize that everyone is treating him differently from a ten year old child and seems to have the wrong idea about the summoning circle that randomly appeared in their world.

    He happily takes the eleven books while being careful to not drop them and mix up their order. He then brings them over to warn out desk and put the books into eleven different stacks.

    ¡°Now let''s see here.¡± He opens up the first book and its corresponding notes to see that the actual magic book looks way older than the brand new look notes.

    He probably doesn¡¯t realize that Liz couldn¡¯t remember for the life of her the previous code she used and also wanted to make sure that the books covered everything he¡¯d need to know so she just rewrote all of them.

    ¡°I see, magic seems to exist in three eternal categories.¡± The first being elemental magic which uses the power of fire, water, earth, air, dark, light, space, time life and death. There is also some sub elements of various elements such as ice and lightning but they all are made up of those ten core elements.

    The second category is pure mana control, but the notes just casually mentions it, you need to read book five to learn the basics of this. The third category is again only mentioned a little bit. It''s special magic that is seen as magic yet it actually doesn¡¯t require any mana to use. These aren¡¯t mentioned in depth nor is their any go to book to learn more about them.

    "Miss Liz" He decides it would be a good idea to ask Liz about it, but she''s seems to be ignoring him. He move away from the desk to where Liz is laying down on the couch again and decides to change how he¡¯s calling her. "Granny Liz?"

    "Yes, what do you need?" She replies after he called her Granny.

    "I was wondering why it barely talks about special magic and there isn''t a second book covering it."

    "That''s simple silly, no one with special magic revealed their secrets so there is no book about it. There are speculations, but that''s the best you''re going to get. Also it''s so rare that I doubt you will have any ability to use it.¡±

    ¡°But they all have one thing in common that we have figured out about them. They can¡¯t use any other magic besides their special magic and they all seem to have unique bloodlines."

    "That makes sense, thank you Granny. I''m going to go read the other ten now." He get up to leave, but Liz''s hand stops him.

    "On no you don''t. You need to eat some breakfast, because I don''t know when your going to put those books down again." She sternly yet lovingly starts to lectures him about the importance of having the energy to learn and not just the drive to learn.

    "Fine" He quickly eats his breakfast so he can go back to reading.

    The other ten books primarily talk about the origins of each element and what they do. Such as fire burns, water makes you wet, earth is hard, wind is invisible, darkness hides the light, light reveals what hides in the dark, space is the empty portion of the universe, time is omnipresent and exists everywhere, Life is where everything begins, and death is where everything ends.

    The rest of what they talked about was warnings about elements that the other element shouldn''t fight.

    Fire and water cancel each other, earth stops wind, wind and water are neutral, water softens earth, fire and earth are neutral and fire feeds on wind. Light and dark collide against each other to fight for territory, while life tries to protect organisms from time and death. Space is just there void of everything besides death, time, and itself.

    Wind tends to lack in defense, but it makes up for it with speed and the ability to choose what hits you, while earth tends to lead to heavy defence with slow heavy attacks. Fire has explosive power but they lack the stamina to continue the attacks without something to feed on. Water is the calm that stops everything, but can also explode with rage when needed. Time plays by its own rules and can be in any time flow that it wants to be, while space creates an area that¡¯s hard to fight in.

    Life saves others and tries not to take any lives, but that doesn¡¯t mean it can¡¯t kill when needed. Death wants everyone to die and unlike life can''t really heal anyone of their ails. Light works at a incredibly fast speed, but it''s nowhere near as physical as wind and tends to lack in punch. Darkness is everywhere and can hide itself in a separate dark version of the world. They can teleport from shadow to shadow and is mostly used by assassins.

    There were also minor spells in each of the books with their chants. He decides not to try them until he gains a better understanding of magic as a whole.

    "Granny Liz I finished the ten books, so can you give me the original copy of the notes. I want to crack your code."

    "First let''s eat some lunch. We can''t have you be locked up in this old dusty house all day."

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    Chapter 2 part 2

    "Are we going to go outside?" He asks her in anticipation, while imagining about how the world could be different from his own world. For instance he hasn¡¯t yet seen enough to tell if there are two moons or weird and exoctic beasts.

    "Oh my and here I thought you didn''t have any interest for our world besides magic." She says sarcastically. She probably noticed that whenever he took a short break he would look out the cracked window.

    "It''s not that I have no interest in seeing the outside world. It''s just that I have to be useful in something, so I can travel with sister and protect her. She¡¯s a idiot who doesn¡¯t have the best brain, but she¡¯s really good at doing physical things so it feels weird being without her.¡±

    "You really care for your family. Fine I will not be constantly bugging you, but you gotta eat food and be a little social, ok?"

    "I wanna see the city!"

    ¡°Being the home of a king that ruled ¡®the world¡¯ the city is huge with four different sections based off of class and status.¡± Liz starts to explain about the inner workings of the city while preparing their lunch.

    ¡°While my hut may looks poor and run down that¡¯s only because of my old age and not being able to take care of it.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m actually very comfortable with living in this small hut, but it really needs a new touch up if I¡¯m going to have a permanent guest.The king so graciously gave me the land surrounding this small hut to live in and I could have made anything that I wanted. I just find living in a environment like this as comfy and homey.¡±

    She finishes explaining about the reason for her living conditions, while also finishing packing up their lunch and starts to head outside. She continues her explanation about the district, so Ghost doesn¡¯t get into trouble if he adventures outside.

    ¡°The rest of the houses are more like mansions. Everything here works with magic, since we take great pride in our magic abilities. The street lamps and any other lamp really, works with light magic.¡± Everyone who they passed on the streets looks happy and cheerful wearing bright colorful clothes and furs. A truly rich feeling comes out throughout the capital.

    Sadly seeing people isn¡¯t exactly common since their isn¡¯t that many buildings throughout the area and it feels a lot more open than the normally crowded capitals.

    Liz takes Ghost towards a very lush open field for a picnic. The difference between here and where he lived is huge. There isn¡¯t any science in this world as everything has been replaced by the easily moldable mana.

    As mentioned before it''s hard to imagine a city that has so much empty space between different houses and doesn¡¯t have any tall skyscrapers to block your view.

    ¡°This world is so much prettier than the world I lived in before. The world I was in previously might of never gotten dark at night thanks to various artificial lights, but in reality it always felt so dark and stale. It feels so much more bright and fresh here!¡±

    Ghost can''t help but exclaim while he naively believes there could be such a great world after only seeing bits and pieces of it.

    They eat their lunch in silence as Liz doesn¡¯t want to ruin Ghosts new outlook of his new world and Ghost simply is taking his time to enjoy this meal unlike his other two.

    The time flies by and the food quickly disappears and Liz decides that it''s time to show him a bit more of her world.

    "Now that lunch is done, how about we go meet some old friends of mine?" She says while putting away the silverware into the picnic basket.

    "Sure meeting people will be nice for a change. The only people that I¡¯ve met are you and that arrogant king." He excitedly gets up at the prospects of seeing more of this bright new world.

    "Then let''s go my little hero." After we leave the field Liz takes him to a popular market that is being held by bored nobles.

    Over the many long years she¡¯s lived here most of them are her friends and are the best people to introduce Ghost to.

    She takes him to a tiny stall that looks handmade with the thought of easy to put away in mind instead of being a permanent structure.

    "Hi Alex, how¡¯s your luck with fishing you catch any bites?" Liz asks a lean but muscular man who¡¯s black hair is in a ponytail. Behind the stall owner is a assortment of different still wet and fresh fish.

    "They can''t help but grab onto my new bait! It feels so good when you catch one that¡¯s worth keeping!¡± He takes out a couple different fish and puts them on the counter. ¡°Now who is this young lad I didn''t know you had children much less a grandchild."

    She sighs while thinking about the kings idiotic decision of using the foreign summoning circle to summon a pair of kids.

    "He isn''t my relative the king called in a favor. He was also summoned with the hero. Have you met the other one?"

    Ghosts ears perk up at the thought of hearing information about his sister as she hasn¡¯t even visited him yet.

    "No ma''am the king must of been anxious to start training her. He probably wants these unknowns gone as fast as possible!¡±

    ¡°I haven''t heard a peep about her from anyone. Heck he didn''t even mention that the summoning was a success. You should probably keep your mouth shut about him" He says while pointing at Ghost, but then he realizes who he was advising and shuts up.

    "Well if she ever comes to this district tell her that I am taking good care of her little brother." She starts to leave the fish stall to head towards another stall when a big warlike man comes in the stall to probably buy some fish.

    "Arthur how is your wife and kid doing these days?" Liz asks a big warlike man who suddenly entered the stall.

    "There doing great Liz. May I ask, what the young lads name is?"

    "Ah this is Ghost, the big man over there is Arthur a average sellsword till he met his wife. The man in purple is Alex a noble who has a hobby of fishing and selling his gains from fishing to the locals.¡±

    Each of the men introduce themselves to Ghost as she is speaking, while Arthur seems to be visibly mad at her calling him average. He seems to manage to calm down his inferiority complex when she mentions his wife.

    ¡°Ghost was summoned here with his sister Jana, who¡¯s the hero that the king brought to us. Arthur''s wife is a mage who was brought to this lovely district to examine the summoning circle.¡±

    ¡°Arthur of course followed her and thanks to her contribution to understanding the summoning circle Arthur and his wife successfully managed to become nobles."

    "Now, Liz you don''t have to bring up the boring past what''s more important is right now.

    "Yea, Arthur''s right, for once, don''t bore the poor lad with our life stories he should be living his life not reliving ours."

    "Hey what do you mean for once! I''m right more often than you ever are."

    "As you said let''s not bring up your boring past in front of the kid."

    "Fine but this conversation isn''t over!"

    "Well it''s nice meeting you Alex. I would love to meet your family Arthur. I''m interested in talking to your wife about magic."

    "Oh, Liz you''re teaching the lad about magic even though you refused to teach my wife and daughter."

    "He was under my care to begin with and wanted to learn, so I thought it would be good if he found something to do!¡±

    ¡°He also really needs an ability to protect himself with. It is a harsh world out there and I''m sure he wants to go out and see it."

    "Yeah any real man would want to go out and see the world even if they''re completely useless. If you can help this young man find his calling to lead him forward in life and adventures. Then I won''t mind you teaching him after denying everyone else to.¡±

    ¡°Seriously my wife was fine with it, but my daughter was heartbroken. She thought you thought of her as useless and a untalented mage."

    "Well I''m not the best teacher, Ghost can vouch on that part, and I didn''t think I could do a good enough job teaching your daughter, Arthur. I''m sorry if I caused you or your family trouble over that."

    Granny Liz says with while looking completely embarrassed about the predicament she created for herself.

    Ghost quickly gets his new grandma out of the predicament she created for herself by interrupting the conversation before it gets any worse.

    "I think it''s about time granny Liz and I get back to studying. Bye Alex, I hope these fish turn out to be amazing. Bye Arthur be sure to introduce me to your family some time."

    He waves goodbye to the two men while carrying the bag of fish Alex gave to them as a gift.

    "Bye Ghost get stronger for that sister of yours and your welcome back anytime."

    "Also, come visit my house from time to time my daughter doesn''t get to meet people her age enough.

    "They are nice people aren''t they Ghost?"

    "Yeah, in my world kind people like them are rare. Most just ignore us and live on with their lives. Others wanted to use us for their own personal gain. There are some jobs that only a child can get away with in our world." Liz immediately hugs him after hearing him talk about his sad yet normal life.

    "It''s alright, now you have Alex, Arthur and most importantly me. Arthur''s daughter isn''t that much older than you. Maybe you and her could become friends."

    "Really!" This novel is published on a different platform. Support the original author by finding the official source.

    "Yes my dear she''s around your age and is also very interested in her mother''s profession. She¡¯s already taking lessons from her mom. If I remember correctly she is only eight, so treat her like a older brother would you hear me?"

    Granny Liz starts to lecture him on the proper way to treat the young lady that he has yet to meet and that just because she is a girl doesn''t mean she has any weird germs on her.

    "I know Grandma, I know."

    "Good now let''s get back home, so you can return to your studies. I don''t want you to embarrass me in front of them you hear me! They wanted to take me in as their master and I rejected them for you, so you better show your worth to them. "

    "What about fixing your house?" He asks while still thinking that he would have to help her fix it.

    He still hasn''t realized that she only wanted to fix it up because of her new guest and that it can be easily fixed with a spell or two.

    "I will have Arthur and Alex ask some of the people they know to fix it. Don''t worry there is a really useful magic that can almost instantly fix it.¡± She says while patting his head. She also gives him a stern look that pretty much tells him that he isn¡¯t allowed to watch it happen.

    After they got back home Ghost immediately starts to study various spells and tries to understand the magic code that has to be written to cast magic.He gets so zoned in to studying that Liz has to force him to stop studying to eat and sleep.

    The days continue onwards without him changing his schedule as he slowly studies each different element of magic. Sadly no matter how well he understands the theories on magic he can''t seem to put them to practice.

    "Ghost! Arthur invited you to his house for a visit. You haven''t gone out since you met him and that was a while ago. His daughter can show you live magic, so it''s not a loss on your education either. As your master and caretaker I command you to go out today."

    She looks over at Ghost while wondering if it''s okay to let a kid spend most of his days inside reading.

    She knows that it''s probably best for him to spend his time like this, but it breaks her heart a little to see such a serious look on a child''s face.

    "Granny you didn''t have to force me I want to see magic. It''s one thing learning all these theories but it''s another to see it!" He ignores the worried look on Liz¡¯s¡¯ face and heads outside to see a black horse drawn carriage.

    "Make sure you treat their daughter with the care and respect a young lady deserves!" Ghost hears Liz start to give him last teachings about how to treat their daughter as he enters the carriage.

    "I know! You¡¯ve already told me this lecture like a thousand times by now." He yells back at her while entering the large carriage in front of him.

    "Good morning Arthur. I didn''t expect you to personally come and pick me up." Ghost says while failing to get into the carriage without tripping.

    Arthur smiles and starts to laugh as Ghost barely manages to catch himself on the seat, before he fell face first into the carriage.

    "Well I thought that I should talk to you before you meet with my family." His laughing expression turned serious in an instant.

    Ghost sits down on the opposite section of seats from Arthur and waits for the over protective dad lecture to commence.

    The carriage starts to move as Arthur starts explaining about his family. "My wife may seem a little odd at first, but she means well and would never do any type of experiment that would kill you. As for my daughter.¡°

    He stops for a second wondering about how to explain his daughters problems to Ghost without talking bad about her or Liz.

    ¡°She might be a little bit rude to you at first, considering how Liz didn''t teach her about magic and then decides to teach you, a nobody, about it. But she means well and if you get to know her she will probably lower her grudge."

    Ghost seems to understand that in her eyes he took away her opportunity to learn from someone who even her mom wanted to learn from.

    Even though in reality he did nothing wrong and it was because of Liz¡¯s boredom that she let him borrow her notes.

    "Ok sir, I won''t judge any of them from my first impression, no matter how bad it might be."

    "Good lad, oh looks like we are here."

    Ghost looks out the window to see a medium sized mansion that wasn''t the biggest nor the most luxurious of the mansions he had seen when he was walking about with Liz.

    They head on inside to see a women with electric blue hair going down to her waist and modest sized mounds, wearing a black dress, comes down some stairs in high heels.

    She looked like someone you would see in a movie or a queen married to her king. "Miss, you didn''t have to dress up I''m not anyone really important. I''m just a student of Liz''s that''s all."

    She stares into his blood red eyes with her nearly black eyes and says.

    "Sweetie you are not only the first student that Liz has ever thought about teaching, but also might also be our future savior. I think you deserve me dressing up a little bit, silly.¡±

    She takes a deep breath before starting to talk for some reason. ¡°Now then I have a couple questions I would like to ask you. How did the summoning feel? What is your world like? Does it have magic. If not tell me how your people managed to live without such a convenient thing?¡±

    She stops her firing off questions to take a breath of fresh air And drink some water. ¡°And finally are there any other sentient life forms on it or are there just your people? For instance there are many different races on our world, but I¡¯m curious if that¡¯s the norm or if we¡¯re abnormal."

    She finally stops her rapid fire questions and lets Ghost think about the answers to her various questions. But unfortunately the only thing that happens is Ghost''s eyes start to spin while trying to figure out the answer to all of her various questions.

    "Mom! Don''t you think you''re asking him to many questions? How do you expect to get an answer if you don''t let him talk?"

    A girl who also has electric blue hair like her mother''s, but a childish face with grass green eyes like her father''s attempts to save Ghost from his predicament.

    "And what about you young lady, not even greeting this young man who came here to mostly see you?"

    Ghost is visibly confused by the sudden claim of her mother, but decides that it would be best for him if he just plays along. He is still trying to figure out all the answer to her various questions after all.

    "Oh yeah and why would the great disciple of Liz Magi want to come and see little old me?"

    "Because he was interested in you silly. He hasn''t met anyone his age since coming here and here you are almost completely ignoring him!¡±

    ¡°Now if you were in his situation would you be willing to help a ungrateful little girl with her current problems?" She sternly gets rid of the smaller girls arrogant attitude towards Ghost.

    It seems to work as the little girl is visibly more aware of the problems she ended up causing with her sudden outburst.

    "I''m sorry for ignoring you Ghost my name is Alicia Emantsal.¡± Ghost seems surprised about how quickly she changed her attitude towards him

    He thinks about it for a bit and decides that he¡¯ll forget her previous outburst since it managed to get her mom to stop asking him various questions.

    "Apology accepted. I think that we both got off on the wrong foot because of a misunderstanding. Master isn''t teaching me because she expects great things out of me. It''s more because the king forced me onto her."

    The first thing that he decided to do is clear up the misunderstanding between him and her, since misunderstandings shouldn¡¯t be something that you build a relationship off of.

    "Really she isn''t teaching you because she saw some amazing talent in you?" Alicia asks him with a very confused look in her eyes, while tilting her head to the side for a bit.

    "Nope it''s been the opposite as of lately. I haven''t showed any talent for magic, but the language is fun to learn." He starts to tell her about the various spells that he¡¯s tried to cast and also about how much of the magic code he¡¯s learned.

    Normally someone at his level of knowledge should at least be able to cast the most basic of spells effortlessly without caring for elemental affinity.

    "Really you have no talent for magic?" This time Alicia''s mother chirps in which makes Ghost realize that he still hasn¡¯t answered any of her various questions.

    "Well I can store mana, but it seems to not like the magic spells. All I learned how to do in the six months that I''ve been here is this."

    He opens his mouth and urges the mana to come out, which proceed to turn into a blaze of fire instead of mana after making contact with the air. "I can breathe out more, but I don''t think that that''s a good idea."

    "So all you can do with you mana is breathe fire, as if you¡¯re a dragon?" Alicia''s mother asks him while wondering why he can''t use fire magic if it naturally wants to turn into fire after escaping his body.

    "Yes, that''s the only thing my mana seems to want to do. I can''t even use regular fire magic. It only wants to leave through my mouth. Even though I can''t use any actual magic I still know a lot of theories about mana and magic, so I can still help you Alicia.¡±

    ¡°There is also a reaction from the dark type spells, but sadly I can''t seem to get the mana to escape from my body without breathing it out." A look of disappointment flashes on Alicia¡¯s face, so he tries to comfort her with help from this useless hero.

    "Ok! There is a portion of the backyard made specifically for magic practices, you can teach me in there. Is that ok mom?" She seems to be feeling better after knowing that Ghost can still help solve her current problems and looks towards her mom for her permission to use their training facility.

    "Of course why would there be a problem when I''m also learning from Ghost. What I''m not that old and even if I was can''t you still teach an old wolf new tricks?"

    Ghost doesn¡¯t seem to find the saying abnormal, but maybe they just don''t think of wolves as wild animals where their all from. Ahem let''s continue, she looks excited to learn something new for once.

    "Uhh miss, master said you''re strong enough as is and I shouldn''t tell you anything. Something about your mana already being used to whatever bad habits that I would point out and if you tried to fix them your magic will degrade instead of upgrade.¡±

    ¡°Then why are you allowed to teach my daughter magic of you can''t help her mother?¡± Alicia''s mom seems to be ready to throw a adult hissy after being denied knowledge yet again!

    ¡°Alicia over here¡¯s magic is like a blank canvas to paint on, while your magic is a completed masterpiece trying to fix any errors will just ruin it."

    "I think Ghost is right let the two of them have time together to hang out, like a playdate.¡±

    ¡°Your also already so powerful sweetie. How would a brat who hasn''t been learning magic for very long help you out much."

    "Aren''t they a little too old to have a ''playdate''?" She seems to have calmed down after thinking about nearly acting like a child in front of her daughter.

    Alicia¡¯s mom makes a strong argument to her husband, who doesn¡¯t seem to be worried about his young daughter being together with a older boy.

    "Fine they are strangers learning more about each other to become friends since they have similar situations. Most of the time their parents aren''t involved in this type of manner."

    "Fine, you win, Alicia and Ghost go off and have fun by yourselves." She looks depressed but Arthur has successfully managed to get her permission for them to be alone without any adult supervision.

    She probably didn¡¯t actually care that much about two brats hanging out with each other and instead wanted to learn some new knowledge from Ghost.

    "Let''s go Ghost!" Alicia runs off in the direction of the training hall, while Ghost stares at her blankly while thinking about how he never got to answer her moms questions.

    He eventually decides that he can answer all of questions when they eat dinner, so he ends up far behind the much faster Alicia while yelling, ¡°wait for me!¡±

    So the magic training facility turns out to be a open area with four magic runes on each of the surrounding parts of the mansion''s walls.

    With Ghosts larger than average knowledge of magic runes he figures out that it''s pretty much a barrier magic surrounding the area of earth elemental affinity. "So what do you want to learn about first?"

    "I want to see a fully charged fire breathe!"

    "Fine but you will have to give me some water afterwards. I don''t have it mastered to the point where it won''t hurt my throat."

    He takes a deep breath of oxygen, even though it''s not really needed, and urges his strange mana to come up his throat from an area near his heart.

    As he starts to exhale unneeded air a fireball big enough to be the size of a small child comes out. It dies out three feet in front of him leaving a trail of fire in its path. "There...hap..py now..get me some..water please."

    She completed her chant that she started earlier after Ghost said he''d need some water. A water ball appears over Ghosts head like magic.

    Well actually that was magic my bad. Ghost seems to be able to see a magic circle encoded with various runes while she was chanting.

    "Here drink I can''t keep it like this for long with my mana supply." He starts chugging down the water as his throat cools down.

    Perhaps he is missing something important with the ability he found, since your body should normally already be adapted to a natural ability.

    "So you are a water mage?" Mages usually specialize in one element then, if they have the talent, try to learn the neutral element to the element they already know.

    "Yes and no I''m naturally inclined towards water and fire, so I am a water and fire mage. I¡¯m as good at using fire as I am with water"

    "Great! You''re already learning two elements! Try to gain proficiency in all the elements, even the ones you suck at. It gets harder to learn another element the older you get, so right now is the best time for you to become familiar with the other elements.¡±

    He stops for a second and starts to drink some more water before continuing on teaching.

    ¡°Another thing you should work on, is to stop using excess mana for tasks that could''ve been solved using a much simpler method. You didn''t have to hold the water into a sphere in front of me you could''ve just forced it into my mouth. Also you could¡¯ve put it into my hand which would''ve eased mana consumption.¡±

    She nods her head as if understanding and wanting him to continue explaining. So, he decides to continue onwards, ¡°you also didn''t need the full amount of water that a water ball produces. Of course you were worried and too much water isn''t usually a bad thing. Still you poured in too much mana to keep the balls form. Now you''re mentally exhausted from a simple job.¡±

    He stops while trying to think of a scenario where it would be a good thing to have perfect control over mana usage.

    ¡°What if you are stuck somewhere and you have no idea how to get out? Your mana reserves are the only thing that can help you in this situation. If you run out of mana then you have nothing to use to protect yourself with.¡±

    ¡°If a wild beast attacked you when you had no mana it would be able to kill you in a single blow. On the other hand if you had mana you could use a spell to kill it yourself. That''s why it''s always important to be aware of your limits, ok?"

    She stops and thinks for a second then a look of fear appears on her face. She is probably thinking of the situation and how terrible it would be if she ever found herself in such a situation.

    "Yea Ghost, your right. As expected from Liz''s disciple. I never heard of learning elements at a young age being easier than when you''re older. Also, you can change the mana output of spells? I thought that you couldn¡¯t change the spell you just say the chant, pour in the mana and it, you know, happens."

    She starts to reveal her terrible lack of control over her mana and her ignorance about how various spells actually work. Most magic spells are highly customizable as long as you understand the code that¡¯s used to write the spell.

    As long as you understand the code well enough you can even begin to create your own spells! Sadly it seems that Alicia has no talent in the creation of spells as she hasn¡¯t even tried to modify a basic spell.

    ¡°Well when you are younger your mana is still changing much like your body and as you get older it starts to become more and more permanent. It''s a lot like learning a new language it gets harder the older you get. It''s the same concept with learning a new element. Another element to your mana is a brand new language for it to learn and explore.¡±

    Ghost ignores her lack of mana control while not understanding how much of a major problem it actually is, because his strange mana doesn¡¯t really need any control to move the way he wants it to move.

    ¡°Honestly it''s still possible for people like your mom to learn a earth spell, but she will be heavily limited by her mana.¡± Honestly it doesn¡¯t seem to be a bad thing that mana slowly starts to lose it''s adaptability considering how focusing on one thing is always better than focusing on two things.

    ¡°Take for example my ability to only breathe fire it comes from my mana refusing to do anything but that. It''s a rare case, but some mana can only do one type of element no matter how hard you urge it to do anything else. This of course could be looked at as a minus, but it also can be a very good thing.¡±

    ¡°For instances if your mom could only use water mana then water spells would cost less mana yet have a higher output than yours. It is almost as if that element cherishes its user like its own kin.¡±

    ¡°Teacher said that I might be able to use magic in a different way if only a dragon would be willing to teach me, but going and asking a dragon to teach me is nearly suicide.¡±

    ¡°It also doesn¡¯t help me that they are rare even in this world. Most are only spoken of in legends, so I¡¯ve long since given up on that idea.¡± Alicia has a depressed look on her face, so he changes the subject back to her current problems.

    ¡°But you should be able to learn a little bit of each system and since you''ll start at a younger age than most it will be closer to your fire and water magic.¡±

    ¡°Now the main thing I want to help you learn is the magic code for various elements. This will help you immensely and is something you should memorize even if you don''t want to learn any other element.¡±

    ¡°The magic code is what mages use to write out their spells and is something you¡¯ll use constantly even if you don''t know what it means. Even you summoning that water ball was using code to write a well code for a already premade waterball. These codes were designed by our predecessors and are what eventually turned into modern day magic spells.¡±

    Alicia¡¯s excitement drops dramatically after Ghost starts to mention about the magic code. She seems to have some basic understanding of it, but she doesn¡¯t seem to like learning about it.

    ¡°Ghost mom already tried to teach me about this, but I simply couldn¡¯t understand the gibberish that she was talking about. I really think we should try to learn about something else besides this.¡±

    ¡°You sure that you don''t want to try to learn this? This isn¡¯t something you can casually abandon if you want to be a respected mage like your mom in the future. Every great mage will end up modifying all their spells so they can perfectly suit them.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯ll lose a ton of adaptability and control if you don¡¯t understand how your spells work!¡± Alicia seems to be a bit hesitant after hearing all the pluses to learning the different language.

    Ghost quickly realizes that he almost forgot something very important and starts to speak before Alicia can give her answer. ¡°There is something even more important than just merely increasing your spells strength and control.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s actually even more important than the fact that you can create your own spells as well. To become a S ranker you need to be knowledgeable about the magic code, since they don''t have to chant anymore to use most spells.¡±

    ¡°Speaking of chanting! It is actually something that isn¡¯t needed in our profession. It only exists to make the already hard to learn magician class easier to learn. It is simply translating the magic code into another language, while diluting some of its effects. Since magic has its own language then it naturally should be chanted in that said language instead of any other one.¡±

    ¡°This is why some races are stronger at casting magic as a whole. They have a language that¡¯s more suited to write the magic code. There is a even better step than simply chanting out in the magic language, which is to use the mana to write the code with your will. This is much faster than commanding the mana with words and lets you perfect your different magic circles.¡±

    He stops explaining for a moment because he sees a certain parent peeking in on their class. Teaching someone how to chant using the magic language is still one of the major things that can''t be taught to stronger people.

    ¡°I''m pretty sure if you ask her for them she will give them to you since they have no use to me or her. We pretty much memorized those books already.¡±

    ¡°Sounds like a good idea. Thank you again for helping you even though I wasn¡¯t that nice to you when you arrived.¡± She tries to do a cute princess curtsey bow, but nearly trips over her feet in the process.

    ¡°It''s ok. You just wanted to learn more things about magic, but you got denied by teacher and I didn''t so of course you would be mad. I would be mad to if I got denied, then someone out of nowhere came along and was suddenly being taught.¡±

    ¡°Really?¡±

    ¡°Yea I like knowledge and in my world whenever someone wouldn''t teach me something I ended up stealing a book about it. No one would help us no matter how much we begged, so we stopped begging and started to live on our own. It was just my sister and I in that cruel dull world, but now we¡¯re here and learning about a world where anything could happen. It''s also a lot nicer here then in my world.¡±

    He starts to realize that he hasn¡¯t visited her in months and she hasn¡¯t done the same, so he finally starts to worry for her safety. Instead of thinking something stupid like she doesn¡¯t actually like him and has abandoned him now that she has the opportunity.

    ¡°Well I''m sorry that you had to live such a hard time, but as of now you''re part of our world" She ignorantly and cheerfully tries to make Ghost feel a bit better.

    ¡°Yeah I kinda don¡¯t want to leave this world and go back, but you know I''m probably not meant to stay here forever.¡± Ghost begins to convince himself that his sister will be fine thanks to her being with the king and his guards. She¡¯s their new hero so she should be the safest person in this kingdom right now.

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    Chapter 2 part 3

    ¡°Kids it''s time to eat!¡±

    ¡°Coming mom! Let''s go Ghost!¡±

    ¡°Yeah!¡±

    They hurry to the main dining hall. Alicia and Ghost enter through the big door that lead to the area. On the table are various dishes with each dish being different and unique in its own little way.

    There was a salad for Alicia, a sandwich packed with meats for Arthur, another salad for Alicia''s mom but instead of green leaves their purple, and that''s it looks like they didn¡¯t know what to make for him.

    "Sorry Ghost I didn''t know what you like, so I didn''t prepare a dish for you. If you want something specific you can ask me or Alicia to cook it.¡±

    ¡°She isn''t as great as me but if it''s for you I think it would turn out great." When she mentions Alicia ability to cook Alicia blushes faintly while being confused about why her mom suddenly threw her under the carriage.

    "Mom what do you mean if it''s for him it would turn out great." She speaks in an irritated and embarrassed voice. "He just gave me pointers on magic that''s all that happened."

    "Did I say anything else happened? No I just thought you might think that if you feed him it would be a good way to make up for how you were behaving earlier."

    "Well fine Ghost what do you want to eat I will cook it to the best of my abilities." She says while not being to happy that she has to cook.

    "Uhh, I can cook for myself. I had to for my sister and for some jobs."

    "No we insist you are the guest of this household, so we should be the ones to cook for you not yourself." Alicia¡¯s mom jumps in while squashing her poor daughters only ray of hope.

    "Fine, but I wasn''t planning on eating a lot. It''s only lunch so I was planning on eating a little bit of fruit and maybe some type of meat. So how about this Alicia, you can make whatever you want and I will eat it for you.¡±

    He seems to be able to read into Alicia''s unwillingness to cook food for him, so he asks for something she¡¯d be happy to make.

    She goes into the kitchen without even touching her own food. She was probably feeling so rushed and confused that she forgot that she was hungry! "So why have you been giggling since she left? Oh and I never got your name."

    "How terribly rude of me never mentioning my name to you. My name is Sophia Emantsal. I am sorry if whatever she feeds you turns out to be the worst thing you¡¯ve ever eaten. She hasn''t been learning long." She tries to hide bright smile, while laughing in her hand.

    "Then why did you call her a good cook?"

    "I was teasing her I never thought you would actually accept my proposal. You were the one that caused her to have no choice, but to admit she was a bad cook or actually cook something.¡±

    ¡®I bet she was so nervous she even forgot to eat. The worst case that I thought of was she saying I don''t know, but my mom does. But no you had to go and ask her to make you her favorite thing to cook."

    She can¡¯t hold in her laughter anymore, because of the unexpected situation. "It will be fine! How bad could it possibly be?"

    They wait a little bit for Alicia to cook whatever meal she was cooking. Alicia comes through the door holding a platter with a lid.

    Hiding under the platter is a pasta with ingredients that I have no clue what they are. He takes a bite of the mystery food without asking what it was.

    Trying to not embarrass her for any longer, which seems to backfire since whatever was in the food causes him to faint on the spot.

    "Ugh, why am I on the floor? How long have I been here?" He say while he tries to shake off the groggy feeling of forgetting something important.

    "Just ten minutes, how did it taste?" Sophia is the only one still in the dining room as Arthur is away consoling his depressed daughter.

    "Ten whole minutes! How did what taste! I don''t remember eating anything at all and everything that has happened for a while is just a blur!"

    "I''m sorry Ghost I should of made something easier." Alicia ends up coming into the room from the large door with red eyes and Arthur in toe.

    "Or you could''ve just told me your mom was exaggerating and you can''t cook at all. As punishment you''re going to have to show me every spell you know how to do. Let''s go before I remember what I ate.¡±

    He unconsciously shivers since his mind may have forgotten the taste, but his stomach and body seem to perfectly remember what happened as he doesn¡¯t feel hungry anymore.

    "Ok.¡± She looks a little more cheerful after hearing about showing off to Ghost about something that she¡¯s actually good at doing.

    "Can I go to this time? I mean you already should''ve given her all the advice she should need, right now, and I know even more magic than her." Sophia stops them and then starts to beg, while craving for more knowledge.

    "Fine, but I''ll need to talk to Alicia, alone afterward. I can point out everything you do wrong, so she doesn''t copy your bad habits."

    They go back to the magic training yard and Sophia immediately forms a water ball. Showing that she¡¯s already begun to master writing out the code for the lower level spells.

    She puts Alicia''s attempt at the spell to shame. Her water ball looks just like a ball and didn''t even have any ripples in it like Alicia''s did.

    "Hmm, I take it you are a pure water mage unlike your daughter." He sees that she has nearly perfect water mana coming out of her body instead of it being diluted with any other type of mana.

    It also doesn¡¯t take her long to transform her in born mana into water mana, which usually takes a bit of time if you know any other elemental spells.

    "Yep, I can only use water magic. I decided that if I focused on water magic alone I would be able to walk further down the mage path. I don''t know if I''m the strongest ever, but I''m confident that as of right now no one is stronger than me with water magic."

    "And yet you damage your own daughter''s pride by showing how much better you are at it." He shakes his head in frustration at how she¡¯s still competitive in front of her own flesh and blood.

    "Don''t worry about how well you can control water as of right now. Make it your goal to do better than your mom at both water and fire. Also make it your goal to do just as well as what you just saw with wind and earth."

    "Ha, that''s impossible to do with both fire and water much less two elements she can''t even use."

    "Don''t you know when you''re as young as her you can learn to use the other elements and all of them can grow as high as you want them to?¡°

    He gets angry at her for unknowingly shooting down her own daughters hopes and dreams. He mutters a vow underneath his breath to make this little girl in front of him stronger than her own mother.

    ¡°The reason why I knew you were a pure water mage was, because there wasn¡¯t any other mana in your spell. There is many benefits to learning a different mana at a younger age.¡±

    ¡°Your daughter doesn¡¯t have any problems using both a fire and water spell, because of her young age¡± As he argues with her mom Alicia¡¯s face perks up from being depressed after seeing her mom¡¯s magic.

    ¡°The only people who are limited to one element are people who are so loved by their element that it doesn''t let them use any other element.¡±

    ¡°If you are like that you should be using water magic as if you were breathing, but you aren''t so I guess you could have learned another element if you really wanted to. On the other hand it is wise for you to stick with water magic and just perfect your control.¡°

    He finishes lecturing her, but Sophia doesn¡¯t look like she believes what he said at all. Which is normal seeing how Ghost¡¯s age is many times lower than hers and doesn¡¯t have any experience in using actual magic.

    "So if what you''re saying is true then you should be able to use other spells besides breathing fire, but aren''t you living proof that the theory of yours is just a false hope that you created?"

    She tries to counter Ghost¡¯s argument even though it isn¡¯t his theories but a person who she wanted to take as her masters.

    "Nope my mana isn¡¯t of any element! That''s what master told me and not something that I created to make myself feel better. It''s just not a element but a racial ability! It follows under the category of something that doesn¡¯t need any mana to create. It only requires concentration and mental energy.

    ¡°These types of abilities tend to need something foreign to use and mine needs some mana that doesn¡¯t have a element to breathe fire."

    "Ghost do you really think that I can become better than mom?" Alicia asks with a hopeful glint in her eyes.

    "Of course you can become better at anything if you work hard at it. Take your cooking for example if you work hard at it I''m sure you can cook something not only edible but delicious."

    "But what if I have no talent for it?"

    "Talent is like a booster it helps speed up the process, but in the end if they don''t increase their skills through hard work then someone who works extremely hard can catch up and pass them.¡±

    ¡°The true people who you should worry about are not people with talent, but the people who have the talent but they still work hard."

    "Sophia can you show us your strongest magic or is that too dangerous to use here?"

    "Yeah mom if I''m going to pass you I''ll at least need to know your full capacity for water magic." Alicia¡¯s eyes brighten up at the thought of surpassing her mom and reaching the apex of magic in her country.

    "No my strongest spell is too dangerous to use here. I can however show you my third if you want me to."

    "Sure any magic that you can show us is fine."

    "Ok then let''s do this. I call upon the fabled ocean to give me its mass quantities of water." Before she even begins to chant a magic circle appears in front of her with three magic runes on it with one of the runes representing a portion of the magic code already lit up!

    "I call upon the great lords of water to give me control over it. Lastly, I call upon the god of water to give me his blessing and let my water destroy whatever is in its path. Water cannon!"

    All the runes light up and then the circle transforms into a siege cannon made out of water. Then all three runes grow around the watery cannon.

    You can see the water flowing throughout the cannon and finally the three original runes form into one grand rune.

    "Mow down my enemy''s water cannon, burst!" A rune glows on the cannon then three gallons of water gushes out of the cannon at a velocity that ends up curing the magically reinforced wall..

    "Whoops I might of made that a little too strong."

    "Wow mom that was amazing and it was only your third strongest spell. I''m scared to see what your other two spells can do."

    "Yeah that was impressive for your third strongest spell." Sophia bareilly fools her overtrusting daughter into thinking that wasn¡¯t her strongest spell.

    This room was obviously made for her to practice magic in, so it should be strong enough to handle all of her spells besides maybe her strongest.

    "Question whenever you or someone else uses magic can you see the magic runes on a circle written in the magic code?" He asks a question that''s been bothering all of us for a while!

    "No, do you know how boring that would be if ever mage could eventually known what spell you''re using? Why can you seen them?

    She look at him and then looks like she realized why a non mage was asking about seeing a magic circle.

    "Yea, I can and during that last spell runes lit up as you were activating them, I guess."

    "I don''t know a lot about dragons, but that''s probably from your mana or another weird ability you have."

    "Yeah well, can you leave so I can point out your problems to your daughter? You have a lot of them you know." She leaves while looking depressed.

    "Now Alicia do not show off like she did. Also, she has the same problem about excess mana, so be extra careful about the amount of mana you use

    ¡°Lastly when you use your spells make sure you''re one hundred percent focused, unlike her who was paying more attention to us then the spell she was trying to use.¡±

    "Ok thanks for the advice and for telling me to keep trying."

    "No problem I''m glad I could help you."

    A horse drawn carriage takes him back without Arthur this time. The sun starts to set as Ghost finally gets home and gets to take a good look at the new and improved hut!

    "I''m back granny!" He yells as he opens the freshly repainted and fixed door. You can''t even tell that it would nearly fall off its hinges just half a day before.

    "So did you make a new friend?" She asks me while sipping on some type of tea. There is a refreshing smell coming from it that¡¯s living up the room.

    "I hope I did we actually had a lot in common. She wasn''t that nice at first, but she got a lot nicer as the day went by."

    "That''s good you friends are a very important existence. It''s no good being locked up in your room all day. I understand that you need to get stronger for your sister, but sometimes you should put your needs first."

    "Yes Master. I found out that I could see magic circles while the mage was casting the spell. Misses Emantsal told me it probably just in my nature to see them and it wasn''t a natural thing."

    "Interesting and I told you not to call me master but granny instead. Now go take a bath, but not for long then go to bed. Wait did you eat dinner at Sophia¡¯s house?" Liz was going to force him to go to bed early but then hears his stomach yell at her.

    "No, it wasn¡¯t that late when I left and it still isn¡¯t that late, right?"

    So, she makes a quick simple meal and metaphorically forces it down his throat, then throws him into a bath. After the much needed bath he heads to his new bed early after realizing how tired he actually is.

    Time flies by again as he tries to find something useful about himself to help his sister with. He eventually makes the decision to harm himself even if it goes against some of his naturally instincts to see if he has healing magic!

    Sadly the healing magic attempt doesn¡¯t work at all and he slowly realizes how much of a idiot he was for trying to do this on himself.

    While he was contemplating on how to explain this to Liz he feels like he can control the blood that¡¯s dripping out of his tiny cut.

    He thinks of the blood forming a tiny needle and it compiles as if it was natural for his blood to follow his will.Then the needle of blood shoots out and pierces the wall in front of him.

    There isn¡¯t even any need to use any mana to make it shoot out like that! All it takes is some concentration on his part and some mental energy.

    ¡°Ghost are you ok? You look like you''re out of breath.¡±

    He takes a moment to catch his breath and then ease her of her newfound worries.

    ¡°I¡¯m ok that just took a lot out of me. I feel like it should get easier with more practice. Do you have any bottles or tubes like for alchemy?¡±

    ¡°Yes I have a couple, but you have to tell me what happened before I give them to you.¡±

    ¡°I discovered something special about me.¡± He tries to tell her about his shocking discovery!

    But Liz interrupts him while already guessing what type of magic he found inside of him. ¡°More draconic magic?¡±

    ¡°No, It''s something completely different. It feels weird, but it feels like blood just naturally just follows my commands. It feels like as long as I have a clear image it will turn into it.¡±

    He uses the blood that was dripping from his cut that he completely forgot about and turn it into a very tiny blood rose. ¡°See?¡±

    ¡°That is amazing. Is this why you were summoned? Ghost!¡± She can''t help but wonder if he was the actual hero that was summoned instead of his sister.

    When she was about to tell Ghost that he might be more of a hero than his sister is Ghost starts to fall to the ground to tried from making the rose.

    He eventually wake up on the floor again and can''t help but hope that this won''t become a common occurrence for him ¡°Ghost are you ok?¡±

    ¡°Yeah, I wasn''t in a stable condition when I made a needle then I made a delicate rose it was just me being stupid.¡±

    ¡°You should get some rest and don''t push yourself to this point again, ok?¡± She says while wiping the tears off her wrinkly face.

    A week goes by of Ghost experimenting on what he can and can''t do with his new ability. What he learned is that it gets easier to use the more you use it especially after you hit your limit, but Liz always managed to keep a watchful eye over him and always stops him from going too far.

    Slowly it gets easier and easier to control, but the amount of blood that he has to carry around is a bit abnormal.

    "Ghost are you ready to leave for Alicia''s house? I¡¯m sure Sophia will be excited to see what you can do now. "

    ¡°I''m going now the carriage has arrived. Bye!¡± He enters into the same carriage that he hasn¡¯t entered in while thanks to his new research subject.

    He opens the entrance door and for some strange reason no one¡¯s there. ¡°Anyone home!?¡± He can''t help but yell out loud as his voice starts to echo throughout the empty house!

    A faint voice can be heard replying back. ¡°We are in the magic courtyard.¡± The rest to faint to hear, so he decides to go towards the magic courtyard

    He probably would of went to show them his new power anyways.¡°Why are you all over here?¡±

    ¡°Alicia wanted to try out a original spell, so I had to supervise her and arthur couldn''t help but watch.¡± As Ghost enters the courtyard.Sophia explains why they weren¡¯t waiting for him at the entrance.

    This also shows that Ghost wasn¡¯t the only one advancing in his studies while he was studying.

    One he fully enters the Magic courtyard the first thing he notices is that the damage Miss Emantsal did last time has already been fixed. ¡°So how did the spell turn out?¡±

    He questions Sophia even though he¡¯s pretty sure that it failed judging by the depressed face of his friend.

    ¡°Failed and if I wasn''t here it would probably have killed her. On the brightside it only failed because of her control. If she had enough control she might just be able to cast the spell as it is.,

    ¡°But, the amount of control it should take to actually use it is huge and there''s no telling how long it might take.¡± Sophia excitedly replies.

    ¡°It sounds amazing I wonder if there will be day that I can see it.¡± He carefully look around, but still don''t notice anything that could tell him about the new spell she was trying to use.

    ¡°Who knows there might be a day that you get to see it, but more importantly you said you have something to show us as well?¡± Alicia looks up from the ground a little less depressed with a glint of anticipation.

    He nods and then without saying a word blood starts to surround the yard and dye it crimson red. *I want to test the power of my ability. Do you mind if I accidentally destroy this formation?¡±

    ¡°Sure.¡± Sophia says without thinking because she was too shocked to really understand what Ghost just said and would probably not let him try to destroy their expensive formation.

    The blood starts to slam against the walls, but the magic formation stops it. With each slam the formation gains more and more cracks a few more hits and the whole thing would break, but he stop their seeing that if he could destroy if he wanted to.

    The blood starts to gather around him and enters the various tubes that he hide around his body. *Phew, that takes way more concentration than I thought it would.¡±

    Sophia breaks out of her daze while the others still look starstruck. ¡°Is that what you meant by being loved by a element?¡±

    ¡°I guess it''s sorta the same, but unlike when I breathe fire this feels limitless. I don''t feel any loss when I use it beside the concentration it takes me to use it. I was wondering if you had any idea about this?¡±

    ¡°I have no idea. I never saw anything like this in my life. I¡¯m sorry Ghost none of us can help you with this and I thank you for not destroying this barrier.¡±

    ¡°It''s the first time I¡¯ve seen it this damaged. Even if you send my water cannon against it the whole barrier wouldn''t collapse and is easy to fix..¡±

    ¡°I think I should go back home. I mean after what happened to Alicia and now this, I think everyone deserves a time to rest.¡±

    ¡°I also think you should go.¡± Sophia agrees with him and he decides to leave as he realizes that he ended up making Alicia even more depressed compared to earlier.

    He heads back to the carriage, while Alicia is too depressed to say anything as he leaves and Arthur is to scared to return with him.

    A couple days after he showed Sophia his ability *Knock Knock!* ¡°Who¡¯s there?¡± He walks to the door and open it.

    ¡°I''m the king''s messenger.¡± A small man that you could call a dwarf or a midget in Ghost¡¯s world answers.

    ¡°The king threw both of this houses residents out of his castle, so what would he want to say to either of us.¡±

    Ghost is visibly angry at seeing the kings messenger after thinking about how he hasn¡¯t seen his sister in a very long time.

    ¡°The message is for a man named Ghost does he or does he not live here?¡± The messenger ignores Ghosts angry tone and continues with his job.

    "I¡¯m Ghost, speak what is this message?" He slowly gets curious on what the king wants of some trash he threw out.

    "The message says that he is sorry for not realizing that you are the true hero. Furthermore the unknown tried to assassinate the king yesterday. They failed but Jana''s was sadly burned to ashes by a fire spell. We are dreadfully sorry for your loss, but please end this war as our hero.¡±

 Chapter 3: First blood and a little more

    -Jana is dead? No! She can''t be! What about our promise to always be together forever. *Sniff Sniff* if this is your fault, arrogant king, I swear I kill you!-

    Ghost slams the door into the messengers face out of sheer anger and goes to his room to cry.

    *Knock knock!* A gentle knocking is barely noticeable over his tears and then it stops to be replaced with Liz¡¯s voice. ¡°Are you ok Ghost? What did the king have to say?¡±

    ¡°Jana, she¡¯s dead!¡± That¡¯s all he manages to get out from his ugly snot infested face.

    After telling her the devastating news she seems to have decided to leave him be which isn¡¯t always the best choice in this scenario *Ahem*.

    He then proceeds to cry out all his feelings till his tear ducts dry and he can''t cry anymore. After crying his eyes out he falls asleep in his still wet bed.

    He open his eyes to the rising sun and starts to get up while stretching.

    -No matter what happens the sun will always rise and then set. The world is constantly changing, but what cruel dark world is a world without my sister?-

    ¡°Ghost are you awake?¡± He faintly hears Liz¡¯s voice behind the chirping of the morning birds and the bad sound isolation of the wooden hut.

    ¡°Yes, I just got up. Is there anything you need?¡± He asks while trying to be as happy and calm as possible. Probably trying to not have another mental breakdown when everyone is counting on him.

    ¡°I think we should talk, but sadly the king has summoned you instead of me having time to talk.¡±

    She pauses for a second as if waiting for something. ¡°The king wouldn''t call upon someone he called a failure unless it was his last choice.¡±

    ¡°He is a very arrogant man and barely ever admits to his mistakes. I''m afraid whether you like it or not you¡¯re our last hope¡± Towards the end her tone starts to audibly shake.

    ¡°Why should I save a world that killed my sister?¡± He melodramatically replies back while trying to hold in his obvious anger that¡¯s coursing through his veins like a wildfire.

    ¡°Why should I save a king that didn''t couldn''t even tell who their savior was? Because of his incompetence I lost my sister. If only he chose me she would still be safe.¡±

    ¡°Do you know what I¡¯m thinking right now?¡±

    ¡°No, I don''t know what you think I''m not capable of a convenient thing like mind reading!¡± He instantly retorts without thinking about the implications of her question nor trying to constructively find the answer.

    ¡°Magic can''t be used to solve all your problems. Look at me I don''t have a speck of mana in my body, yet I have lived this long, which might be the oldest ever.¡±

    ¡°You say that it''s the king¡¯s fault your sister died. What do you think he should die because of his mistake? Your sister died protecting him and yet you want her death to be in vain? Instead of helping the person she sacrificed her life for you want to kill him!¡±

    Liz tries to force some sense into the ignorant kid while blatantly lying to him about not having any mana. Why would she be respected by the brat Alicia if she didn''t have mana.

    ¡°I never mentioned anything about killing him! Why did you think I''d want to do that?¡±

    -Who does she think she is! She never met Jana how would she know what MY sister wants. I know MY sister the best the nerve to tell ME what SHE thinks.-

    ¡°Right now you¡¯re probably thinking things like, I don''t know her how would I know what she wants, right?¡±

    ¡°Maybe.¡±

    ¡°Well you¡¯re right in one way I don''t know her, you do. Now you tell me would your sister want you to lock yourself inside your room like this?¡±

    -Would she?-

    ¡°I don''t know! *Sniff drip.* I don''t know what I should do anymore.¡±

    The tears start to fall again dripping into his mouth with their salty taste. ¡°Do you really think that Sis would want me to help the people that used her as a sacrifice?¡±

    ¡°She never visited you after all this time, so I think, like you, she really wanted to help this world. I think she wouldn''t want her killers to go unharmed. So please this is me honestly asking you to help the king and your friends.¡±

    -Wait a second in such a game like world maybe this is part of the questline. Yeah, save the kingdom stop an army all of it is found in cheap rpgs where you start off with the king begging you to save him and kill the demon lord.-

    Thanks to the sudden loss of his sister Ghost mind starts to warp and create a fake reality for him to live in. He slowly starts to convince himself that this is all just a game and his sister is alive and well.

    -So if it''s like this then the demon lord should have a revive crystal. This all just happened to fuel the mc¡¯s rage and wanting to save them.-

    ¡°Fine I¡¯ll talk with him, but I''m not promising you that I will repel the Unknown.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s fine all I''m asking you is to at least try to protect the people like Alex, Arthur, Sophia, and Alicia. You may not want to protect the king but remember he isn''t the only person whose life is on the line.¡±

    He leaves the house and sees the messenger still waiting for him after having the door slammed shut in his face. ¡°Fine take me to your king, I¡¯ll see what I can do for this country.¡±

    ¡°Follow me then.¡± He follow the tiny man to the same castle and then through a couple twists and turns to the grand jewel encrusted door. ¡°Go in. He is waiting for you with a few other guests.¡±

    He enters into the throne room and sees the king in his same old throne and position as if he never moved since they first met.

    "Ghost I am so sorry about your sister''s death. Please forgive me it it''s all my fault. They were after my life, but instead your beloved sister took the magic. Please, I was wrong. How could I have known that the weak little boy in front of me was actually a grand and talented hero?¡±

    He actually gets up from his throne and kneels in front of Ghost to beg for forgiveness.

    ¡°Please, avenge your sister and end the terror that haunts my poor kingdom. We can''t stall for time any longer. The unknown are getting farther and farther into my kingdom."

    -Sigh get on with it I have to go out and get that revive crystal nothing else matters.-

    "Fine! I will help your kingdom, but if I ever find out that she died because of you then you''re dead."

    -Let¡¯s just finish this quest and revive her it should be as simple as that.-

    As the delusions get more and more intense to cope for his lose he almost seems to see the world in a pixel like way.

    "Escort this brave hero to my personal collection, so that he can pick his tools to save our world."

    The king gets up from the ground and orders his guards around, but sadly Ghost seems to have become a bit too broken to realise this is a good chance to increase his pitiable defense.

    "I''m fine the way I am. Just take me out of this maze of a castle."

    -Come on the faster I finish this game the sooner I get to see her again.-

    The crazy fever that took over him seems to have reached its peak and probably won''t disappear till he realises this isn''t a game but is his reality.

    "Fine, take our young hero out of the castle and then show him the way to our victory." The king tries to make a grandiose matter about sending the broken child to a war front and almost seems uncaring about broken look in Ghost¡¯s eyes.

    Sophia enters the room and immediately yells. "Don''t immediately throw him in a war zone! Good king he is the only hope we have. Can you not at least teach him about war or give him some experience in fighting? Do you want us to lose our last hope?"

    "That is a good idea, but what should we have him fight? Monsters and the unknown are to completely separate entities."

    -Ahh, that¡¯s right I haven''t gone through anything like a tutorial yet. This must be when it finally happens.-

    The delusions have sadly taken full force over him and the fantasy world he created became the reality that he sees. The coping has gotten to a complete point where he isn''t even fazed at the thought of killing anyone anymore.

    "Do you have any prisoners?" He suddenly has the urge to question the normally unchangeable tutorial dialogue.

    "Yes, why?" The king asks him curiously.

    "How about we use them as battle practice. I won''t feel as bad if they are bad people like the unknown and will get battle practice. Also you will get to get rid of a unwanted prisoner." He tries to find a way to get to the ¡®tutorial¡¯ faster, so he can ¡®revive¡¯ his sister sooner.

    "Sounds like a brilliant idea. Come let''s go immediately there is no time to waste." The king and Sophia take him through a couple of halls and down some stairs into a cellar hidden in the middle of a hallway behind a hidden switch.

    ¡°This is where I keep the worst of the worst. Everyone here should have a public execution in my opinion, but the nobles think it would be bad for my image to publicly kill them. We decided to leave them here.¡±

    ¡°You killing one is a blessing to this country and to the person himself. Most have gone insane down here so be careful.¡±

    He encounters his first ¡®monster¡¯ a lanky old man who probably ¡®murdered¡¯ people as he pleased.

    -Since this is so game like and he feels so evil it should be simple to kill him.-

    Ghost mindlessly launch a drop of blood through his opponents chest which then pierces his heart. He falls to the ground, but no ¡®exp¡¯ where given probably because this isn¡¯t a game and our pour candidate has gone a bit crazy.

    -Bummer that he didn''t drop anything useful. I wonder why he was so easy to kill. Don''t tell me that I''m already so overleveled from all the studying that this game will be easy for me!-

    Ghost starts to hear the muttering between the two familiar yet unfamiliar ¡®npcs¡¯. Sadly after our candidate went a bit psycho I the bored lurking viewer can''t hide myself that well anymore.

    I¡¯ll be here to point out the disparities between what he views and what is actually happening, which happens to suit my job as the Viewer quite well.

    "See Sophia, he''s fine with killing people."

    "But how do we know he will be able to fight against an army."

    "That is his destiny as our hero. If he can''t fight an army, then what use is he to us?"

    -I can''t stand waiting to save my sister. I need to quickly get these events going, so I can save her even faster it would be rude to keep her waiting.-

    "King show me to the battlefield. I want to quickly end this stupid war and go home."

    -With my sister of course I wonder if this is just some high tech simulator that someone threw us into to use as lab rats. I should tell the creators that it feels so real, but the combat is meh.-

    "Take this child away immediately. If he wants to go to war then let him. He can only blame himself if he dies out there, but if he does die then hopefully my kingdom will manage to survive without him."

    "Yes sir!" A royal guard with an emblem of a golden dragon on his shiny white armor replies. " I won''t let him die. If any unknown get too close to him I swear I will protect him with my life."

    "Thank you. I will be in your protection."

    -First party member get! It''s even a reliable knight perfect for the mage class. I wonder if I went down the warrior class would it be a mage?-

    "Go then, there is no time to waste."

    They quickly head out of the maze like castle and arrive at a waiting carriage. After they enter the carriage the knight starts explaining the current situation.

    "We are going to go to a fort city which is currently being sieged by unknown. The unknown look just like us, so be careful on who you hit with that magic of yours."

    "Ok I got a plan to make out friendly from foe. When we get there I need you to make a command to the soldiers. Can you do that?"

    -Please, I''ll complete this quest in record time so that everyone will be proud of me and take care of my sister and me forever and ever.-

    "Of course, as the captain of the royal guards my word is second only to the king himself in all military environments. If you need me to do something just ask.¡±

    The royal guard proudly brags to the child hero, while the only thing that''s going on in our poor candidate''s mind is what he¡¯ll do after getting his sister back.

    ¡°You may not think that your life is important. But you''re the most important person here!¡° He excitedly proclaims while whispering under his breath, ¡°right now.¡±

    Ghost seems to not be able to hear the comment as he is still in his uncaring and everything is fake state. ¡°If you show our army your strength I''m sure they would listen to you as well."

    ¡°Come we have no time to waste let¡¯s hurry to the carriage the sooner we get there the less people will end up dying. Explain to me about where we are going along the way!¡±

    Ghost tries to speed up the slow plot and be time efficient about everything he has to do to quickly get his sister back.

    Maybe it''s for the best that his mind went into this strange coping mode instead of being responsive to reality.Maybe if this didn''t happen he wouldn¡¯t end up being able to save some of his currently living loved ones.

    The carriage finally leaves The last section of the city walls and starts to head towards the fort city much to Ghosts relief.

    ¡°The city is the last line of defence before the kingdom is at risk of destruction. I call it a city buts it''s more like a giant gate that stops all unwanted visitors.¡±

    ¡±You see the main parts of the kingdom is surrounded by mountains that are famous for having monsters that could threaten a army dwelling inside.¡±

    ¡°I see, so this city could be considered a part of the border?¡± Ghost asks while being curious about why such a city is being overrun by the enemies, but finally ends up going back to his this is all a game delusion and figures it''s poor writing.

    ¡°More or less a border between the inner parts of the kingdom and the outer parts. It is literally the only way to get to the king without wasting a significant amount of men to the beasts.¡±

    ¡°The Unknown probably think it''s better to lose men on us then the monsters since they will have to deal with us eventually.¡±

    ¡°Since it''s the only entrance to the inner section of the kingdom they¡¯re sending everything they have at it. I''m afraid if you don''t intervene it will fall and they will continue on right to the poorly protected capital.¡±

    ¡°So you¡¯re saying that it''s the last line of defence to the capital and must be held at all costs?¡± He asks while not really caring if his thoughts are true, so that the plot can continue forward and maybe the carriage would speed up.

    ¡°It''s actually much worse than that! The fort is in such a easily to defend position that the rest of the inner kingdom is poorly defended and the capital barely can be considered to have protection against a enemy attack. ¡± He shakes his head in disagreement.

    -This game sure is tough throwing you immediately in a I can''t lose this scenario. Sheesh, doesn¡¯t the game developers know that it would make the game feel rushed and short if you have such important scenarios at the start. I don''t even get to play games and I know this!-

    I usually don''t mention their thoughts that much when I show what I view, but these thoughts are the ideal thing to actually show. Let us all hope that the person who I chosen to view doesn¡¯t go crazy!

    They continue to push on for four days via the carriage. The first thing that Ghost notices after inwardly complaining about the realistic journey is that the battle isn''t going to well and if they arrived a day latter the battle would probably would be over.

    But he is after all a kid who can''t understand the gravity of such situations and is currently not right in the head, so his thoughts can''t be completely trusted.

    "Kid you sure you want me to order them to do this?" The royal guard seems to be a bit scared and worried to do what Ghost has asked of him, but the king¡¯s orders are absolute.

    "Yes if you order them as I told you this battle shouldn''t last too long." Ghost while naturally not understanding the consequences of what he is about to do.

    "Fine. Sigh, this is Royal Guard Captain Theodore!" Theodore yells towards them in a magically enhanced voice that echoes throughout the fort and battlefield.

    "Everyone get in the fort and barricade it shut! The hero will take care of everything that isn''t inside of the fort!" Ghosts ¡®brilliant¡¯ plan is revealed in all of its glory!

    They quickly scramble to get inside while Theo is giving out his next order to the insides of the fort.

    "Mages gather all your mana into one big spell were aiming to wipe out as many as possible. The hero will stall while you''re recharging your mana and will need the blood for his own magic!"

    All the mages proceed to q gather around each other into a circle preparing a synchronized chant.

    -Hmmp! Does he think I mean to stall for time. I need to end this battle as soon as possible, the sooner I end it the faster I get to see Jana again.-

    Honestly I don''t know where all this arrogance and power is coming from. It''s as if something has awakened inside of him to accomplish his mission.

    "Charge forward! We''re going to take down this fort then carry on for our lord''s conquest." A Unknown leader commands his troops. "*Cough cough* what was that¡ª" A blood spike pierces out where his heart should be.

    -Just like the prisoner everyone of these monsters are so easy to kill. Maybe the creator wanted to make it lifelike by adding fatal points. I shall abuse this system then.-

    "Blood mist!" He shouts while being proud about how superhero like he sounds. The blood that was leaking from the commander''s dead corpse starts to form a mist of red!

    It surrounded a good hundred of the superior officers than. "Death field!" The blood mist forms into spikes and pierces all over everyone within it, even from inside their lungs!

    No unprotected part of their body is left. It is all shredded meat. Some parts are still left, but you can''t call what''s left alive.

    -The lifelike feeling is this games only good part it will looks like I''m slaughtering enemies and this headache is also so realistic!-

    Ahh, it seems yet another important part of his brain broke under the hidden guilt and all that''s left is the crazy that''s hidden in all of us.

    The army gets driven into chaos and he doesn¡¯t want to give them any breathing room. "Come" the blood from the commander and his subordinates flows towards Ghost as if he is a magnet and the blood is metal.

    "Blood spears!" The blood forms into a hundred spears and then shoots into the chaos. Blood and guts continue to fly everywhere.

    The spears each go through a group of ten soldiers before shattering. Ghost can''t help but laugh as the insanity keeps corrupting his child like mind more and more.

    -Die all of you pointless mobs. I don''t have time to mess with small fry like you hurry up and trigger the boss battle. She¡¯s waiting for me and hates it when I keep her waiting!-

    "Shit I didn''t take out enough there¡¯s still thousands of them. Way too many to count or care about" He lifts up his hands and the blood follows. "Just die!¡±

    He yells annoyed by the puny little mob of creatures while the blood forms into a solid wall above thousands of monsters and then falls smashing everything that is beneath it. The blood then returns back to being a liquid revealing a pulp nothing but flesh and bones.

    "Hey kid you don''t have to kill them all just stall for nine more minutes!" Theodore says while obviously being afraid by the sheer amount of power that an immature kid has.

    He is probably wondering why someone created such a miniature monster who doesn''t care about the lives of others, while not knowing that this is nowhere near the kids actual character.

    -Nine minutes is too long of a wait and all he is doing is standing there ordering me? Why don''t you put in some work as well? This party member is useless.-

    "Shut up! How about you get some archers to shoot at them, so it''s not a one man show over here!"

    Most of the unknown have an expression of pure terror, but they are starting to reform their ranks and are planning on using their only advantage their sheer stupidly huge numbers.

    -Seriously does the creator of this game not understand that there is more to war than sheer numbers! Why don''t they have bows? Why aren''t they charging at me on horses? Is there no cavalry unit? How about magic where¡¯s the person that burned my sister to crisp.-

    "Everyone grab a bow and arrows even if you aren''t experienced. There should be crossbows over there."

    He hears his useless party member finally getting to work and lowering the amount of deaths on his hands."We need to protect the kid if he dies, then not only will this fort fall but our country will fall as well."

    "Yes, sir!" A volley of arrows fly out of the fort. There aren''t that many arrows flying, so there must not be many soldiers left. Most of the arrows hit someone thanks to the stupidly large amount of people attacking this fort.

    -At least now I have time to store up blood and form a large attack. Why is everything in this game so useless it didn''t even let sis play it!-

    "Blood Flood!" The blood, that is painting the battlefield red, suddenly starts to levitate off the ground and form a wave that crashes into the remaining army like a great tsunami.

    -Ha! That will show them who they¡¯re messing with!-

    A wall of earth suddenly spurts out of the ground acting as a barricade to stop the blood.

    -Grr you think a puny dam can stop me! I¡¯ll show you what real magic looks like.-

    "Ha is that all you got mages?" He can''t help but laugh at their weak attempt at stopping him with magic. "Blood dragons!" All the blood in the area forms into three different dragons.

    Two have wings like a traditional western dragon, but the third doesn''t have a pair of wings instead it is the biggest of the three. It is double the size of the dam that the earth mages summoned.

    The two dragons take flight over the wall, while the third just breaks it down. The two dragons fly farther into the back destroying the rest of any hiding commanding officers and hopefully the mages.

    The big one just crushes anything in its way. It uses its overwhelming power to crush anything that''s near it and it''s long tail to sweep away anything that it misses.

    The unknown try to counterattack, but before they can put a crack into the big dragons blood scales it bursts.

    Blood shoots out everywhere as if it was raining it. It gets shot out at a speed that pierces the ¡®monsters¡¯ surrounding it.

    -Half of the army that was terrorising the fort are probably dead.- "Hu-uh Hu-uh Hu-uh Glue! P''tu kha!"

    -Some of the weaker soldiers were probably designed with a puking function encase it gets too gory to make it seem more immersive.-

    He looks over the battlefield and almost want to puke as well, even though he ¡®knows¡¯ that this isn¡¯t real.

    "We''re ready sir.?" The mages finally being ready asks for permission to fire off their group spell.

    ¡°Fire!¡±

    "Lightning storm." The sky goes dark and lightning bolts start to fly out of the sky hitting the terrified enemy soldiers and being conducted through all the blood that is on the floor.

    The only smell that exists in this wretched battlefield the smell of charred flesh.

    -This feels so real but it can''t be real. I mean if this was real then I would have ended up killing thousands of people who had lives and families, right?-

    There¡¯re barely any members of the opposing force left after the magic stopped. Maybe a thousand left. Ghost seems to not be able to hold the dragons together anymore, so all the remaining blood dragons burst outwards.

    "Kid! Are you ok?" He hears his ¡®useless¡¯ party member ask as his head starts to feel like it will explode.

    -Sister this much is nothing as long as I get to see you again.-

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    Chapter 3 part 2

    Everything fades to black and time quickly passes as we wait for him to wake up on the bed that he was dragged into.

    -This has to stop happening to me! What''s with this massive headache, fuck.-

    "Kid you''re finally awake I was getting worried that you might of destroyed your mind. You just use today as a rest day the unknown are too far away to attack again."

    "No, we better get moving again. That last army was huge there is no way that I will have to take out anything larger.¡±

    Ghost seems to currently still not understand what he did and might be subconsciously avoiding the thoughts that this might actually be all real.

    He seems to have some inclinations that this isn¡¯t fake or a game, but in the end he wouldn¡¯t be able to take it if that was true.

    He shakes his head shocking both Ghost and I that there¡®s such a stupid amount of enemies. "What your saying makes sense, but that army was the leading invading force.

    ¡°The main force is much larger than what you just faced and there is another army of maybe a fifth of the size as the main army trailing them from behind.¡±

    ¡°The last army is unknown in strength, but from what the king scouts say it''s a high probability that they are an elite army led by their leader."

    -Fuck fuck fuck! Just how much does the stupid creator like ridiculous army''s? I get that this is a strategic point where they will have to pass through, but still. Hmm at most this area can have maybe double the amount of men as before, but even that should be pushing it.-

    "The army you took out had a job of scouting ahead and destroying anything on the main path. It being smaller was also the faster of the three armies.¡±

    ¡°The middle army destroys anything that''s skipped by the lead army and the last army seems to be their last resort. They are probably the middle army''s backup and a last resort incase of any strong opposition."

    He visibly forces himself off the comfy looking bed and makes a decision that will make everything a bit easier, but it will cause a lot more direct blood to be spilt onto his hands.

    "Than that''s all the more reason for me to get up now. We need to prepare for their attack. I need to set up traps. My plan to just attack them head on is suicide there¡®s no way that my mind can keep up using my ability at that level."

    He stops and tries to remember all the books he stole and the games that nice old shop lady let him play in his childhood trying to look for some plan to make this easier on him.

    "We need to lure them into a location that they can''t out number us. The thinner the area the better. If we can cut the total amount by a tenth then I''m confident that I can take them out, while the army prepares for the next tenth. The only problem is they will definitely try to find a way around our trap."

    He get out of his amazingly well ¡®simulated¡¯ blood soaked clothing and into a new black shirt and pants.

    "So, I need to set up some death traps along their path and make the thin path look the most favorable. We can also do some hit and run attacks on them. A army of that size won''t be able to move as fast as a individual."

    The useless party member shakes his head while telling Ghost. ¡°While that sounds like a great plan it has one major problem! There¡®s no where in the armies path that will suit our needs¡±

    - Of course the AI needs to be told what to do and when to do it. I keep forgetting this is obviously some sort of stimulation. It''s so immersive besides the idiotic war tactics.-

    "Think about it a little bit. We have mages that can form the blockade all we have to do is stall for time."

    "That might work, but I don''t think the mages will make it in time."

    "Then have the regular soldiers build it with the assistance of the mages. I will try to stall for long enough. Didn''t a unknown make a dam twelve feet tall why can''t we do that?"

    "That¡¯s probably because the spell was sealed in a scroll and was supposed to be used as a last resort for protection. If I remember right the main army is usually behind the lead army by twelve days.¡° He stops to think about how to pull off such a feat.

    ¡°I don''t think that we can pull it off in that long. It isn''t as simple as making a wall with a small entrance. You''re asking for two mountains that''s the only way I can see them being forced into going to our trap.¡±

    ¡°Where did you learn all these strategies from?"

    "Books, I got bored of just reading about magic, so I asked for one''s about strategies just incase my magic wasn''t good enough. With traps I might be able to stall for another day maybe three will that be enough?"

    "No that won''t be enough. All of our mages will have to pour their mana into a scroll similar to the one that the unknown used on us for a good nine days per mountain so eighteen total. You need to stall them for seven days not three."

    -Seven extra days without making the second group rush. What''s with this game it already feels late game! Maybe it''s just a beta trying out new technology by experimenting on homeless kids. No one would care if I went missing. Shit does this mean that I might get stuck in here without a way out or die by side effects?-

    While ignoring his completely impossible mental crisis he tries to keeps a straight face and continue on with his mission.

    The only thing that he wants to worry about is making sure his sister is actually alive. If he dies and his sister lives I think he¡¯d be willing accept such a death.

    "Ok. How about three days from traps and four days from guerilla tactics, then the mages will have to use their mana on the first wave.¡±

    ¡°I''m going to be tired from the stalling, so you guys will have to stall for a little bit. I will try to take down as many as possible without risking my life in the process."

    "You sure you can handle this?" He asks Ghost while seeming to be holding back something important.

    Maybe he wants to try to convince him not to go or something mushy and filled with death flags. In their eyes he isn¡¯t some child monster but instead their savior after all.

    "No, but if I don''t then who will?" He keeps trying to convince himself by telling himself it''s just a game and everything will go back to normal after he waves this country.

    "I don''t want you to do this it seems to risky, but it seems like our only option so go before I change my mind."

    "Thank you for seeing eye to eye with me." He leaves the room while wondering how he¡¯s going to pull all of this off.

    ______________________________________________________________________________

    As our young candidates mind has deteriorated to the point that his thoughts are mostly gibberish.

    I made a executive decision and decided to follow the general of the middle army instead of him. Hopefully his mind eventually clears up and I don''t have to abandon another potential show to watch.

    ¡°General Gergal we have news from the leading army.¡± A young soldier speaks to the general in an arrogant tone. So the general hits him on the head with a nearby stick since the forest path is filled with them.

    ¡°About time! Did they already take down the next fort?¡±

    The young soldier looks too terrified to answer his leaders question. ¡°No sir. The lead army has been wiped out. There are a couple of survivors in the camp. Only twenty survived the assault.¡±

    ¡°No way. There''s no way that the lead army failed to take out this key major fort, much less get wiped out.¡±

    ¡°We already perfectly understood the arrangements and planned against any problems. We even let them have a rare scroll just incase the mages managed to use army scaled spells! ¡±

    ¡°I don''t know the details. You should ask the survivors when they recover, sir.¡± The young soldier is shaking violently as he tries to directs the violent general to somewhere else.The narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.

    ¡°When did they arrive?¡±

    ¡°Just a little bit ago. They are still exhausted I think you should wait a day before asking them anything.¡± The arrogant young soldier is then crushed by his mace nonchalantly.

    They''re probably way to many soldiers in this makeship army that he is using violence to control them.

    ¡°Someone get rid of this body and then take me to the refugees.¡± Another soldier comes up and gets rid of the body as if this is something normal.

    Then proceeds to show his violent general the way to the survivors. The general on the other hand seems to not be satisfied with only killing the arrogant young man as he obviously has some killing intent in his eyes ¡°Are these the remnants of the lead army?¡±

    ¡°Yes, sir.¡± In front of him are twenty or so beat up rags of men you can¡¯t call soldiers anymore. It looks like the soldiers had to go to hell and then escape from hell! Most are missing a limb or even two.

    ¡°None of them were properly treated before they got here, sir. I''m afraid we might lose most of them.¡±

    ¡°Make sure one survives I don¡¯t need the rest. All I need to know is how the area of the fort is like and how they all got wiped out. Leader won¡¯t be pleased if I don¡¯t take this fort down like it''s just another village.¡±

    They do as he says and heartlessly focuses on healing the member that has the most survival rate with a precious healing scroll.

    ¡°I am the general of the main army Gergal. If you haven''t guessed you are in the main army¡¯s camp. Good job on making it here. Soldier I don''t care about your name nor rank just tell me what the hell happened out there.¡±

    ¡°A monster, that''s what happened.¡± He is still pale even with the healing scroll healing him.

    ¡°What do you mean a monster? Did they tame a magical beast and send it at you or did one just interrupt your war because it looked fun? Or are you just insane.¡± He starts to wonder about this soldiers sanity.

    ¡°Neither, a kid killed over half of the army. He killed our leader at the start and then our leading commanders putting us into turmoil.¡¯¡¯

    ¡°Then he proceeded to kill thousands after thousands of us. Once he entered, the war only lasted for ten minutes of pure hell.¡± His hands are around his knees and he seems to have soiled himself at the thought of the battle .

    ¡°And how did one kid destroy the lead army?¡±

    ¡°He used some type of blood magic. I don¡¯t know how but everything he did revolved around blood even our blood wasn''t spared. He even made three dragons out of blood that completely destroyed most of our army. Such a small weak looking kid is actually a monster who could''ve possibly guessed that.¡±

    ¡°So, what do you think the age of this kid is?¡±

    ¡°I didn''t get to see him that well since I was in the middle of the army, but from what everyone else was saying, before we got here, he can''t be older than thirteen.¡±

    ¡°So a little kid younger than fourteen wiped out a army. He must be the monster that the elder warned us might come, but wait that can¡¯t be!¡±

    ¡°He told us that if she attacked he¡¯d intervene and even out the situation. We will continue on the same path men. This kid will not stop us from doing our job." He turns around and yells towards everyone in the camp.

    "We will still destroy the two villages up ahead, then we shall attack the monster child and kill him for our leader!¡± Roars of cheering resound throughout the camp.

    ¡°The village is a day away and the one after that is six days from the previous. The fort should be five days away at our pace, so twelve days till we have to fight with the little monster!¡±

    The army continues on their path undisturbed and with a increased momentum.

    ¡°The village is in sight let''s go men! Charge!¡± The small village starts to be ransacked and burned down anyone who didn''t flee before the army got here died a fruitless death, no exception. Most of their deaths on the other hand were instructed to be as quick and clean as the men could make them.

    "That was a bad raid. There are less and less supplies in each village. I think there are also less villagers then last time too. I hope the next village is better."

    "Sir it''s to be expected that there is less and less. The villagers will know of our assault by now and flee the only people that are left are idiots like these. Also, as the villagers leave they will take a lot of the supplies."

    "I know that. Do you think I''m stupid. I''m not a general or this army for no reason."

    The soldier has an expression of pure terror and seems to have realised his errors and how the last advisior of this general died.

    ¡°No sir! I understand that even the scraps of food we find is useful for our army that is facing a famine!¡± He tries to flatter the general and not mention how destroying these villages take more energy than the food they find will fuel them.

    At this point it might of been a better idea to go out and hunt the more dangerous monsters in the forests.

    "Good, you have a good head on your shoulders if you try to be a smartass again then you won''t have one."

    The army continues on forward to the next village. "Gahhh!"

    "What was that?" He asks them about the sudden sound no seeming be very alarmed and instead seems to be a bit annoyed.

    "Sir, we lost three scouts to a random trap. Blood spikes just appeared from the ground and killed them."

    "So the little monster is finally taking action. Men we need to be careful from today onward. We already lost three of our two hundred scouts.¡±

    ¡°You all know that without them we might fall prey to ambushes or stray beasts. From today on no more than twenty scouts will go ahead. Beware of blood and the like."

    The annoying soldiers facial expression changes from worry to the brink of crying and then tries to tell him otherwise.

    "Sir don''t you think twenty is too many. What if he takes them all a lot then we won''t be able to complete the mission. Without those scouts we will be slowed down way too much They are a rare profession for our kind you know that."

    The soldier with a good head on his shoulders proceeds to lose that said head.

    "Anyone else want to question me?"

    "No sir!"

    The army continues on their path noticeably slower than before. If they continue at this pace they¡¯ll arrive a whole day slower.

    ¡°Sir, a mass of dead beasts are in the middle of the road. It looks like a predator killed them all, but just left their bodies there.¡± A new soldier tells him while shaking from fear of this psychotic general.

    ¡°... Maybe it just killed them for fun I know of a couple of beasts that do that. I didn''t think any of them live in this area.¡±

    ¡°Double the amount of scouts and make sure they keep an eye on the forest. I don''t care if we have to spend another day just incase.¡±

    ¡°If it''s one of the monster that I am thinking of than wasting a day out of carefulness will be worth it. Also don''t touch the monster meat either it''s been poisoned or is the property of something we can''t offend.¡±

    The army¡¯s pace slows down to a crawl of what it used to be. Nothing seems to be happening again and everything seems to be a false alarm. ¡°Do we still have the one hundred ninety seven scouts?¡±

    ¡°Yes, sir!¡± The soldier says while saluting him.

    ¡°Did you count?¡±

    ¡°No, sir.¡± The soldier says while looking more and more afraid. ¡°Then count.¡± The soldier then runs over to the scouting barracks then comes back.

    ¡°Finale count is ¡­ one hundred forty.¡±

    ¡°So you said we didn''t lose any of them, but in reality we lost fifty seven. You know I don¡¯t find the need of soldiers that can''t follow my orders.¡±

    ¡°So, can anyone tell me how we lost so many of them without anyone noticing?¡± His voice becomes angrier and angrier showing them that he¡¯s annoyed and will probably kill anyone who answers stupidly.

    ¡°No answer? So nobody has any idea how we lost so many of them. Three groups and they''re all gone without any traces.¡±

    The army continues on even slower than before being extra careful of the forest besides them..

    ¡°We can''t continue at this pace. So we may be risking our lives here, but we are going to have to double our speed.¡±

    ¡°I don''t care about how much noise we make in the process. If we see any beast kill it and move on!¡± There speed increases, but it can never be fast enough to make up for the lost time.

    They finally arrive at the next village which is made of straw instead of wood for reasons unknown to I the visitor.

    ¡°This is the last village we will have to raid till the fort. Let''s go! For the leader!¡± They charge into the village with the stupid tactic of crushing it with their numbers.

    ¡°What¡¯s going on? Everyone get out of the village it smells like a trap.¡± The village could fit a good two thousand soldiers and since the general was in a rush he didn''t notice that the village he was raiding is empty.

    Luckily the general barely managed to escape, so I don''t have to find another random soldier to watch over. The insanity that is Ghost¡¯s mind right now isn¡¯t very pretty, so I decided to hide it by being the ambushed instead of the ambusher.

    The whole village is surrounded by a red sphere. The red sphere starts becoming smaller and smaller until it was just a ball surrounded by nothing. The whole village is gone.

    "Men, today we lost some of the best of us. Pay him back twofold and arrive at the fort to kill that little demon. We are already three days behind schedule that''s a day more than I thought."

    "Sir, I don''t want to go against something that can destroy a whole village."

    "Anyone else terrified of him?"

    "Yes sir!" A large group of men raise their hand, to many to kill apparently by the look on the generals face.

    Ok. So what? He is just one man we are a army of with our entire race fighting for us. How can one person fight against an entire race?"

    Everyone puts their hands down and their faces show a look of new found vigor.

    "Let''s go kill that vile creature for our race. The longer we sit here and complain about him the stronger he will get. If you don''t want to fight him now, then what about in a week or a month. Now is the best time to kill him."

    "Yes, sir!" The army starts to move at their original pace again.

    Blood spikes start flying out from the forest. There isn''t that many so the army doesn''t gain that many more injured men. "What was that compared to last attack this is nothing."

    He yells into the forest and as if replying back the blood sphere suddenly bursts sending a river of blood at the back of the army. Being confused from the sudden attacks most don''t move.

    "We gotta get out of the open before he attacks again we took too many casualties already. Hurry to the forests where we can''t get carried away by that thing."

    He starts to run into the forest hoping that the rest of the army is behind him. Some of the trees have specks of blood on them, but he doesn¡¯t seem to notice this small yet deadly change to the forest. "Did everyone follow?"

    "Yeah I think everyone followed." His new second in command replies. When he looks behind himself instead of a perfectly fine group of young men he sees injuries on all of them.

    "What happened?"

    "The trees suddenly shot out tiny spikes at first it wasn''t much but they just kept on coming. Some of us went the other direction but most of us followed you.¡±

    "We should find the rest of our men and hope the other group will make it. You are my new second in command."

    He tells the survivor that followed him the best. "How many scouts went with me?" He immediately goes to count the scouts then returns.

    "One hundred."

    "With the decrease in men having one hundred should be enough. That just makes me worry more about the other side. How many men do you think got separated in the forest?"

    "By my estimation anywhere from one hundred to a thousand."

    "Good that''s not a lot we should only be stalled for a day thanks to this fiasco. Send the scouts to find the rest I don''t think we will be running into any more attacks."

    The sun starts to fall down as a injured scout comes up to me and says, "Sir, we are done if we search anymore we are risking the scouts to much."

    "And why is that you guys have only been searching for a couple of hours?"

    "Traps, the forest is littered with traps. I recommend resting for the rest of the day and then getting out of here. We lost half of our total scouts while only finding corpses."

    "Damn I never thought he would set up traps in a wide forest such as this. Looks like we are going to be stalled longer than I thought."

    A long time later after the army managed to escape from the deadly trap forest everything seemed to have calmed down, but just as they start to relax once again a childish voice rings out in the distance

    "Help the monster is trying to eat meee! " Ghost starts to run out of the first while screaming for help obviously to us it seems like a trap, but luckily for him all of the survivors including the healed one died.

    "Don''t worry kid, I will destroy these beast with this." A robed scholarly looking Unknown takes out a fire red scroll and gets ready to activate it.

    A giant red fire ball pops out of the scroll and gets sent flying past Ghosts head while causing a massive explosion behind him.

    ¡°Wait don¡¯t waste a scroll you idiot!¡± The general quickly stops his subordinate who seems to be in charge of keeping and using the scrolls.

    ¡°I know you have a soft spot for children, but how could you save a random kid in this type of situation. Don¡¯t you understand what our mission entails!¡±

    The scholarly older man ignores the generals wise warning and instead pays more attention to the blood soaked clothing. "Are you ok kid there is blood on you."

    "Oh this isn''t my blood, but a beast I killed in the forest. I think it might have caused a chain reaction and even more beasts started to attack me."

    Ghost starts to shake the scroll keeper hand while thanking him for being a strong deterrence to the beasts and ¡®accidently¡¯ gets blood all over the elderly mans robes.

    "If you guys didn''t scare off the beasts thanks to your intimidating aura I¡¯d be dead. I can''t express my gratitude enough. I''m sorry, but I have a sister to take care of so I got to run without giving you anything in return."

    Ghost turns around and runs into the trap infested forest while the scholarly scroll keeper yells at him not to. "Wait there traps in that forest!"

    "You''re too late he is already long gone. Come let''s continue moving we have no time to spare."

    As they continue on forward no more weird signs of anything appear in till they reach a more open area near a creek.

    "Let''s camp here you all deserve a break for all that you''ve been through. Also I recommend you getting rid of the blood that''s on you. Our main enemy seems to be able to control blood."

    "Ok, I was kinda thinking of not washing it because the kid seemed so sad that he didn''t have anything to give me." He has a creepy expression on his face while thinking of Ghost.

    "Weird and out of the question." He enters his tent first without washing any of the blood off of him..

    Suddenly he¡¯s sent flying out of his tent and then the tent gets surrounded by the same sphere as yesterday. A message formed out of blood appears in front of the scroll keeper.

    "Your reward for your kindness is your life, I recommend deserting. I will not spare you a second time."

    "Don''t tell me that the kid from before was actually.¡± He stops his train of thought after realizing that how idiotic they were. That they haven''t encountered any beasts, so how did a random kid find a bunch of them.

    ¡°We fell for another one of his traps. He was aiming for our magic scrolls and we just let him destroy them all. If anyone of you wants to leave do it. This war is looking more and more like a game to this child."

    ¡°I shall ask everyone once again who here is afraid and wants to give up?¡± The general asks his men after seeing how demoralized they became thanks to the loss of their precious resources.

    A large amount of hands fly up into the air! The general is visibly angry at the fact that he can''t kill all of the deserters.

    The scroll keeper proceeds to lead the group deserters onto the opposite direction where they will probably starve to death in their journey back to their forest.

    ¡°Men who have remained! I thank you and so does our grand leader, we shall kill the monster that was disguising as a human from before.¡±

    ¡°Even if he can take out hundred or thousands maybe even tens of thousands can he take out our army with to many people to even count!¡±

    He stops to let his remaining soldiers view around them the mass of people still left in the army and let them realise that they are the ones with the advantage.

    ¡°No! Why is he attacking us with traps and trying to stall us instead of just straight up killing us all? It''s because he can¡¯t handle our sheer numbers!¡±

    ¡°He is trying to thin us out before we arrive, so he can have an easier fight. We can still do this if. All we have to do is be more careful than before and keep our numbers. Even a army of ants can kill a elephant much less a army of creatures the same size as the elephant¡±

    Eventually they reach the end of the forest and reach their destination which has been successfully fortified by the mages.

    ¡°My comrades, who stuck with me till the end, tomorrow we shall hunt down the incarnation of evil.¡±

    ¡°We cannot waiver no matter what happens in the next battle. We shall end it here and now. After the devil is dead that ''king'' can do nothing against us.¡±

    He stops for dramatic effect and to boost their morral which actually seems to work as they get more and more worked up.

    ¡°The fort should be just past these couple of trees. We shall rest here and be at our full battle power before we charge it with all our might and then proceed to destroy them.¡°

    ¡°There''s no way that one child can handle our fierce number. Our goal is to have some of our remaining elites surround him and proceed to kill him. Does anyone have a unique fire ability?¡±

    He asks out hoping that there would be a rare Unknown with an innate ability over a element to be in his group instead of the elites.

    ¡°I can use it for a little bit. I can¡¯t guarantee that I can keep it up for the whole war.¡± A girl wearing a full red cloak replies. The cloak prevents anyone from seeing her actual appearance.

    ¡°No, I need you to do the opposite. Stick with the elites when they surround the devil you rain fire on him, so he can¡¯t use his magic.¡±

    ¡±After that then all of you charge at him and pierce him till he''s dead. Don¡¯t stop until you''re one hundred percent sure that he is dead.¡±

    "General Gergal is that you?"

    "Who are you give me your name and rank, this instant!"

    "Gergal don''t try fighting them you will just cough sacrifice cough cough your men." Thud! He goes over to the cold dead body. He exits the forest to look for any survivors but has a grim expression on his face as he looks at corpses.

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    Chapter part 3

    Eventually two smaller mountains come into his view as they stop and delay any route to get to the gates. They also would cause the soldiers to spend some time in monster infested territories of the actual natural barrier.

    "Let''s go men. It''s just as the commander said we have the superior numbers. It doesn''t matter what trap is in front of us all we have to do is destroy it! They can''t stop us!¡±

    ¡°His second in command leads a large portion of the troops to charge in between the narrow path between the two mountains not realizing that they could at most fit five people together at once which severely limits their human wave tactics.

    "You idiot if you can barely fit six people then it''s a five vs the monster who destroyed the previous army. You''re going to get your ass wiped out. If that devil send his blood spears down there you can expect a huge amount of casualties! You got to pull out!"

    His warning seems to have only been heard by death''s ears, as the idiot just kept getting farther and farther inward. All that can be heard after are screams and the iron like smell of blood. It is the wails and smells of massacre. Then it just goes quiet as if the wails were a lie and all that remains is the thick smell of iron.

    The newfound silence is even worse than the constant screaming, while the smell causes the weak stomachs to release their contents.

    "What are we going to do? I don''t think that we can go around this mountain, but if we go down there we are only walking into our deaths." The fire girl who is holding back puking asks the general visibly shaking at the thought of going into the mountain.

    "Don''t be stupid I won''t fall for such an obvious trap. Let''s have a group of people try to scale the mountain. While they''re doing that another group will try to find a way around it. There is no way it can continue for long.¡±

    ¡°We are already on a tight schedule, thanks to all the delays, so if either route doesn''t come back in a day than I''m using a magic scroll, that leader¡¯s master gave me. It is my last resort so I hope I don''t have to use it.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ll be asking for volunteers for both of these missions. I hope everyone who has the best of luck and everyone who stays here don''t expect it to be a relaxing wait. I''m going to be drilling into you the do and do not of siege warfare to try to at least give you guys a bit of military training."

    A group of ten is chosen for each mission. It''s only recon so sending anymore would have the opposite effect.

    The sky starts to darken as he finishes giving last second teaching to the civilian army.

    "Do you understand now? Well it''s not like it matters if you do or not by now. Everyone get some rest I''ll be on first watch. We are attacking the moment the sun starts to rise."

    "Yes leader." He starts the long activating process, which doesn¡¯t take much on the generals part and instead takes a while to absorb mana from the surroundings.

    The sun starts to awake with his soldiers as he didn''t get any sleep since he had to continue the activating process of the scroll.

    ¡°If we survive this battle than I¡¯m going to kill whoever made this long ass magic scroll!¡±

    "Wake up already we got a war to fight. We don''t have the time to be wasting away asleep. The signal to start is after the magic scroll activates. Don''t go charging in right after. Wait a little bit."

    He raises the fully charged scroll and read it''s activation chant. "Oh, lord of fire I beseech you. I ask you to send down one of your children to burn down anything and everything in front of me, so that it may be reborn anew.¡±

    ¡±Come forth fire phoenix burn down everything to ashes. Let the ashes become nutrients to fuel the cycle of life."

    A phoenix bigger than a mountain appears and then goes flying through the mountains destroying half of each.

    The phoenix let''s of such a bright light that it blinds everyone staring at it. When they manage to open their eyes again they can see the light fading away.

    "Everyone charge! We are finally going to avenge our fallen comrades."

    Now that there is a whole mountain worth of room their human wave tactics can work yet again. Although their isn¡¯t as much room as they would¡¯ve liked.

    "The now half mountains are not structurally sound, so no one stand too close to them." He warn the cannon fodder not wanting them to die to early.

    "Sir how are we supposed to make you out if you''re wearing the same armor as the infantry?¡±

    A not so bright soldier asks his commander not understanding that he¡¯s trying to hide from the monsters ambushes.

    "Do you think a infantry would be in the back?" The general''s hand twitches as if he is debating whether or not to just kill the idiot but ends up just lecturing him instead. Seeing how he is also in the back with the general he¡¯s probably has at least some uses.

    "No."

    "Than I will look more like a servant then soldier. Since you know what you are looking for then it should be easy to tell that it''s me."

    "Now that you mention it, but what if you have to fight that armor won''t protect you at all."

    "You''re really testing my patience here. It''s the price I must pay to hide my position. Now let''s get moving.¡±

    They head on forward while ensuring the extreme heat that the phoenix left behind. Eventually the even amount of heat suddenly increases as the phoenix appears to be fighting a water dragon.

    ¡°Is that a dragon made of water fighting the phoenix that I launched?¡±

    ¡°The have been fighting to a standstill, since we got here.¡±

    ¡°That''s bad, it doesn''t have unlimited energy like a real phoenix. That wasn''t summoning magic that I used earlier just a cheap rip off of a scroll absorbing years of magic.¡±

    The phoenix and the dragon both look like they¡¯re running out of energy. Some parts of the phoenix are not regrowing.

    ¡°Tell the men not to worry and our only opponent now is the monster. The mages probably used all their magic to stop my attack.¡±

    ¡°Why don''t you tell them?¡±

    ¡°Didn''t I just explain that a little bit ago?¡±

    ¡°Oh yeah, wait you want me to seem like the leader? Wouldn''t that make him target me?¡± The stupid soldier finally realises his position and his face turned pale white like a ghost.

    ¡°Yes he will probably attack you, it''s either you die now or you have a chance of surviving if he attacks you. You choose.¡±

    The general¡¯s dictator like rule over his soldiers finally pays off as the soldier is more terrified of him.

    The cavalry charge ahead on their horses aiming to cause chaos in the enemy''s ranks. They don''t get far, because a wall of arrows hit them.

    Horses are rare in the forest to begin with and people that can ride them are even rarer. The amount of men in the cavalry unit is only a pitiful two hundred. Mainly because of how many people died before even reaching the fort.

    After the arrows stop flying the fort gate opens and Ghost is the only person who exits. The man the general made as his proxy coughs up some blood and then falls to the ground dead.

    One has to wonder why Ghost would leave the fort considering how he has no melee capabilities, but I don''t think he¡¯s in the right mind to think of that.

    The army remains unfazed by his death and continues on following the hidden generals orders, who is using yet another person as his proxy.

    Blood spears start to fly into the mass of men who either die by the spears or get trampled to death by their allies.

    Ghost seems to haven''t figured out how to do anything besides controlling blood after his mind went off the rails a bit. The spears stopped spinning and turned into liquid.

    The soldiers just stares at the blood that¡¯s floating in front of them not knowing what to do about it. Then the blood changed into marble sized spheres and fly through vital spots of their victims. Some don''t do a fatal blow, but the men still fall to the ground dead.

    The blood that has been pouring out of its victims suddenly shoots into the air and forms a cannon. The cannon shoots blood cannonballs into the men.

    The impact alone sends shock waves staggering them. Which makes one wonder why waste the energy to turn some of the blood into useless cannons.

    The gates of the fort releasing soldiers into the disgruntled and confused line of the Unknown soldiers.

    This causes them to be surprised since it seemed that the only strong person in the fort was Ghost and the currently manaless mages.

    The cannons transform into a group of guillotines which fall from the sky cutting even the ground beneath them. Soldiers bodies get cut in half revealing the internal structure of an unknown.

    Others get lucky and just lose an arm. Blood sprays everywhere, too much blood for even my peace of mind hopefully this is going to be one of the rare few wars that I view.

    I had another thing that I¡¯d nitpick about Ghost¡¯s creations, but I don''t think that''s what everyone has came here to view my thoughts on a crazy kids creations.

    The soldiers retreat back in their fort to rest and hide from the onslaught that Ghost was preparing to unleash. The whole are turns into a giant kill zone.

    The screams are probably agonizing enough to send shivers down a dragon''s back. The only thing that stops the screams is the sweet quiet embrace of death.

    Ghost suddenly falls to the ground in the middle of his blood armageddon. The royal guard come out and brings him back quickly even though everyone was to scared to approach the little blood devil.

    There is barely anyone left they are just a shell of what they used to be. There¡®s barely anyone left standing with even fewer not having any injuries. The fire girl is nowhere to be seen and was completely useless during the entire fight.

    "Let''s go men! The monster''s unconscious and the probably are mages are still out of juice. If we are going to take this fort it is now!"

    The mighty general leads his remaining men into a charge for the fort that is a few feet ahead of tem. Then arrows fly out of the fort and into the sky. "Shields up! These arrows won''t stop us!"

    The arrows bounce off the shields being to weak to pierce their defence. The gates open again and soldiers charge out to confront the Unknown.

    Swords clash but nothing can stop them from victory. The general confront the royal guard in front of him, whose wearing white armor that is reflecting sun and over his heart is a gold dragon.

    "You''re the real leader aren''t you. You can fool an inexperienced kid but not me."

    The general make a couple hand gestures behind his back and his five most loyal men appear out of the shadows and pierce into the guard.

    "Sigh I feel bad for killing him underhanded, but I don''t have the time to fight him."

    Five heads roll to the ground then the generals world turns dark as his head also goes flying not knowing that an airfield stalled his loyal assassins and that he wasn''t fighting against just any royal guard but the captain.

    "Let''s go! We need to finish this before they get organized." The royal guard and the strong capable men he found remaining in the fort finished off the rest of the stragglers. The stragglers didn¡¯t stand a chance after having been completely devastated by Ghost.

    "Let''s go check on our little hero. He definitely saved us yet again and have a good talk with him about over exerting himself like that. He¡¯s our only hope for survival after all."

    They head back to the fort, where people are celebrating and grieving in their own groups.

    "Hey, can''t you all celebrate latter. Right now you should be respecting the people who lost their loved ones, or get to work preparing for the last army. Don''t tell me you think our hero will just handle it again?"

    "The last army isn''t even that big there should be no problem with fighting them off. Stop being such a workaholic. We deserve this celebration." A man who wasn''t even in the main fighting force talks back.

    "Oh really and what did you do to deserve it?"

    "I was on the front lines with you. Don''t you remember? Maybe you get hit in the head to hard during your fight with their general?"

    Theodore starts to name off various names. WIth each name called many of the grieving people seem to become a bit happier. "So did I say his name?" He asks the people around him because he doesn''t trust this little liar.

    "No, you didn''t."

    "I named every single soul that was willing to sacrifice his or her life for you to be able to celebrate. You say you were with me yet I didn''t name you. I expect to name you next time and to see you working on improving our defence. Understand?"

    He tries to apologize but Theodore doesn¡¯t stops him. "Don''t want to hear it. I want to see it. Now go!" He bolts out of there as fast as he can.

    "Now any of you still think that you should be celebrating a victory while we are still at war. We have no clue how far behind the last army is. The hero stalled for seven days. That''s seven days closer that the other army is to us.¡±

    The celebrating people become dead quiet after realizing that the other army is much closer than they have realized and that they are all still not out of the deep danger. The people who were originally grieving separate and start to get back to work carrying on their loved ones sacrifice.

    ¡°We don''t know how long it will take for him to wake up, so we need to prepare for a fight without him. The enemy''s strength is unknown and their numbers aren''t completely known either.¡±

    ¡°I don''t want to hear don''t worry they are only so many of them. Wasn''t this very fort having trouble with just the front army before we got here! The army that¡¯s going to come isn¡¯t the weakest, but is actually probably the strongest!¡±

    Time flies by as our candidate is still quietly asleep all the silent preparations have finished. It seems the sleeping savior has awoken before he was killed in his sleep.

    "Ugg what time is it?" Ghost gets out of bed while wondering if this is what it''s like to have a hangover. "Where is everyone?"

    He leaves the white medical room and heads towards the top of the fort''s wall and see two armies clashing with the attacking side winning the war and the defending side barely being able to hold onto their control of the gates.

    "Everyone fall back we can think of a solution at this rate we will be wiped out!" Ghost tries to make them stop fighting the current losing war but his tiny child voice doesn¡¯t seem to be able to reach their adult ears.

    Ghost on the other hand seems to have regained some clarity from recent sleep or perhaps it''s because he¡¯s mind is still waking up that he actually has some care for the people around him. He sends out a blood firework into the sky to order the army to retreat from the losing fight.

    "Ghost is awake we can win this war men!" Theodore''s voice resounded throughout the battlefield. The fighting increases in vigor instead of slowing down like would have actually wanted.

    Ghost pours mana into his mouth as if he¡¯s preparing to breathe fire, but fire isn¡¯t the only thing that comes out of his mouth as a much louder shout comes with it.

    "Stop! At this rate both sides will take heavy casualties. One of the men is just sitting calmly in the back. Haven''t you noticed their leader hasn''t even taken any action yet?"

    "He''s right everyone fall ba¡ª"

    "Hero! I challenge you to a duel whoever wins will win this war. If you shall let my meager army go if you win I shall do the same for yours."

    The masked man''s young voice resound throughout the battlefield. He isn''t even wearing any armor just everyday clothing!

    Now that I look at it most of the soldiers from the Unknown side haven''t been wearing armor only the more important people seem to be able to own some. Looking a bit deeper into the army there are even older men and women in their ranks.

    "Deal, if this fight continues it will only end in heavy casualties for both of us."

    "Agreed." He moves to quickly for Ghost¡¯s eyes to register him and then proceeds to throw Ghost off the top of the fort.

    "Come on am I to fast for ya!" His voice can be heard from Ghost¡¯s original spot. As soon as Ghost hits the ground the masked man appears right above him and attempts to crush him with the momentum of the fall.

    "Blood dome." A dome of blood appears around Ghost, which then shatters under the force of the crushing kick.

    Thanks to the delay from the dome Ghost manages to roll over and dodge the attack. ¡°So it''s not teleportation but just you being extremely fast huh.¡±

    Ghost tries to attack him with some half assed blood drops but the masked man moves way to fast for the blood to ever touch him much less hurt him. "If you''re fast enough what''s the difference between the two?"

    Ghost urges the blood to become spiked armor, but before it can solidify his opponent punches it a couple times causing it to disperse. "Blood corridor." The blood forms into two walls. "If you''re so confident in your speed then come at me."

    "And why would I walk into my death? Nope not going in there." He rhetorically asks Ghost behind his mask which has the design of a black dragon on the right side and a white phoenix fighting on the left.

    "You sure? Then I guess I can make that armor you seemed to not want me to wear."Ghost seems to be happy that he finally managed to one up his annoying foe.

    ¡°Blood arm¡ª¡± He then proceeds to kicks Ghost right in the middle of the spine.

    ¡°I can still go around it. I think you should''ve put a wall behind you, if you can follow my speed that is.¡±

    The walls collapse and try to drown him, but he escapes the area with his insane speed. ¡°Seriously, you never give up do you? I think that it would be easier on the both of us if you just died.¡±

    ¡°You know what would make this really easy for you? Why don¡¯t you use a sword?¡±

    ¡°Cause I hate sharp things.¡±

    ¡°...¡± He then appears in front of Ghost and starts to aim for more vital area¡¯s of the body.

    Bam! Crunch! His hands start to accumulate Ghost¡¯s blood from the various wounds that are bleeding a bit to realistically for the semi sane Ghost not to realize something not so important.

    Not giving Ghost any time to ponder over his realization the masked man shakes off the blood that got on him and stares at the mangled and broken body of Ghost.

    This short pause gives Ghost enough time to actually wake up from his mad ramblings and start to actually think about a real way to survive this fight.

    ¡°Just go down already. I would''ve broken your neck, but you''re so persistent that I''m afraid that I would die with you.¡±

    ¡°Cough! Gasp! This would of been so cough much easier if you used a weapon. You do know that cough not all of them are sharp, right?¡±

    Ghost keeps edging him on to force him into hitting him somewhere that the blood can splatter towards a more vital area.

    It seems to have worked thanks to his opponent currently hitting towards the face a bit more than during the previous beating.

    Ghost is surely lucky that his opponent seems to be paying too much attention to his speed and not enough for his physical strength as none of the wounds he has are actually dangerous for him

    ¡°Question if you could choose cough your death what would you want it to be like, because I certainly don¡¯t want to be beaten to death?¡±

    ¡°Never thought about it. As long as it''s painless and doesn''t involve anything sharp. Oh, also in a fight. Die with honor you know?¡±

    ¡°Well here I hope this death shall satisfy you!¡± He anticlimactically falls to the ground dead. Sadly thanks to the unique physique of the Unknown Ghosts limits on controlling blood is loosened.

    With a bit of time and tinkering the leaders heart and brain were both ripped to shreds by his own blood. ¡°I beat your leader if anyone else wants to fight then come out. As I promised, I shall not harm anyone who doesn''t want to fight back.¡±

    ¡°How will you kill all of us? You look like you are about to faint any second now.¡±

    ¡°Shut up idiot there is no use fighting without leader. Our small army could only function with his tactics. I bet we can''t even handle the previous army we were fighting. Leader knew that. That''s why he made that promise to him.¡±

    ¡°You did it Ghost! I was worried that you would of died in during that fight.¡± Royal guard captain Theodore runs up to Ghost and gives him a heavy bear hug. Which causes our already severely injured candidate.

    He slowly wakes up surrounded by even more unfamiliar walls. He spends a tiny amount of his time contemplating about everything that he ended up doing and about the fact that his sister won''t be coming back at the end of this journey.

    Sadly while he was going through deep emotional troubles a high pitch voice wakes him up from his train of thought by saying. ¡°Ghost are you awake? A familiar female voice asks him turning from surprised to happy and finally to sounding like she¡¯s about to cry.

    ¡°Who¡¯s there? Show yourself!¡± Ghost in his half lucid state mistakes the voice of the young girl as his dead sisters, but we all know that isn¡¯t the actual case.

    ¡°Come on Ghost it''s me. Don''t tell me you already forgot about me? The female voice teases him, which help him realize who¡¯s there to his disappointment.

    He finally abandons his hope that this is all a game and gives in to the depressing thoughts that this might just all be real.

    ¡°.. Alicia it''s you isn''t it.¡±

    -Yeah, she is dead I¡¯ll never hear her voice again or even get to see her corpse. Alicia¡¯s voice doesn''t even sound the same how did I mistake it?-

    As we can see by his direct thoughts he has indeed completely given up on all hope, but it still hasn¡¯t dawn upon him that he killed so many people while throwing his fit.

    ¡°I wasn¡¯t completely here when I heard your voice. How long was I out?¡±

    ¡°Sir Theodore said you were out for a good week, you were healed by on sight medics and then brought back to the capital where my mother personally healed you of all your injuries.¡±

    ¡°Luckily water magic is the second best magic for healing purposes and the best at treating long term injuries. It''s good that one of the requirements to join the royal guard is to be proficient in on actual medicine to stall for a healer.¡±

    ¡°Speaking of magic, how has your studies been after I left? I''m sure you have already met my your goals by now right?¡±

    ¡°Come on Ghost it''s only been a couple of months since you left.¡±

    ¡°Well in that time period I managed to save your world didn¡¯t I? I accomplished my goal for being here so fast. I thought I would get to see you beat your mother by the time I was able to leave this world. Everything feels so rushed.¡±

    He lets out a deep sigh while unconsciously blocking all the bad memories of the war and death he ¡®accomplished¡¯.

    ¡°Well you can still see me beat my mother if you stay here! You don¡¯t have to leave, please! Be the hero of my little world and protect it from any troubles it shall find.¡±

    ¡°No.¡± Ghost weakly shakes his head while realizing that it would be for the best that he leaves even sooner than he originally planned.

    This crazy little girl might just manage to convince him to stay here much longer than he really should. She¡¯s the only person besides his sister that he¡¯s close to after all and peer pressure is a dangerous thing.

    She grabs his hand and asks, ¡°and why not?¡±

    ¡°They¡¯re too many bad memories in this world. I think I should move on and live my life the way I used to and forget about what has happened here.¡±

    ¡°What bad memories? You may have lost someone close and dear to you, but wouldn''t your world remind you of her more then here?¡±

    She pushes onwards seeing how Ghost is still being tempted to stay not wanting to lose her only friend. To lose the only person that really gets her and also the only person who¡¯s around her age.

    ¡°It''s not just her! Do you think she¡¯d want me to leave a place where I could be fed and have shelter?! No! She¡¯d want me to stay here for as long as you guys permit and be happy instead of being sad and gloomy at my old world. The main problem is I caused the death of so many people who just wanted to survive!¡±

    He starts to break out into tears his mental block tears apart thanks to the persistent temptations by his friend.

    She sadly doesn¡¯t understand what he is going through since in her eyes are clouded by the eyes of the victim. She can only see her people as the victim while not being able to see that the other side also had their own needs and problems.

    "They were probably people like you and me. It took me till the very last fight to realize that I¡¯ve been clouding my mind and pretending that everything here is fake to push onwards towards a destination that doesn¡¯t even exist. Just me being a hero will remind me of all the blood I shed then used to shed more blood.¡±

    ¡°If you put it that way then I can see how this world might trouble you. At least take me with you!¡± She still being young and not realizing the major importance of the word called family begs to go with to a destination that might have no return!

    ¡°No, I cannot take you away from your family. They love you and would want to see you grow up before you leave them.¡±

    Thanks to Ghost not having any family besides his sister and losing even that he is a bit more mature about this subject and guides her away from a decision she¡¯d probably regret her entire life.

    ¡°Fine!¡± She screams at Ghost and almost storms out of the room, but then stops to think for a little bit and instead of storming off she tries to find a way to get what she wants.

    ¡°Then let''s make a bet! If I can recreate your return spell and come to your world, then you shall take care of me and give me three things of my choosing as a reward.¡±

    She childishly shows him three fingers while grinning like a cheshire cat. Her face just screams that she won and there''s nothing you can do to change it.

    Ghost seems to be interested in this sudden proposition and decides to edge her on instead of pouring cold water onto the fire in her eyes.

    ¡°That sound interesting and it will give you yet another nearly impossible goal to accomplish. Take them.¡± He throws two crimson red vials towards her, which she barely catches while looking at him with almost cat like confused expression. Her head barely tilts towards the right, but sadly nothing weird or strange happens to her eyes.

    ¡°They are vials of my blood. If you can recreate the return spell you need something to bind the two worlds together. My blood should be a good enough catalyst to forge a bridge in between my world and yours.¡±

    ¡°Also it should make you appear right in front of me. I don¡¯t think it would be a wise idea to wander around my world. Now I think it''s time I speak to the king about returning to my world.¡±

    She looks at him surprised then shocked. ¡°You will not even stay and celebrate your victory?¡±

    ¡°My victory that caused so much bloodshed? The sooner I get out of here the better. You would probably want to come with me to see the spell in action, so come on. Also, do you have any idea where the throne room is? This castle really isn¡¯t easy to navigate inside.¡±

    ¡°Uh yeah, it''s this way I think.¡± She leads Ghost in the opposite direction that they should of headed towards and seeing how their both directionally challenged I decided that I¡¯d have better things to do then watch them be lost. Skip ahead a couple hours and they finally reach the throne room.

    As they enter the throne room the king¡¯s about to leave with Sophia, but as he sees them he decides to just sit back down in his nearly empty throne room.

    ¡°Come on Alicia. It took us forever to get here!¡±

    ¡°Oh, so it''s my fault we took the wrong turn at the very beginning!!¡±

    ¡°Of course it is. I asked you if you knew the way and you said yes!!!¡±

    "I said I think so you didn¡¯t seem to know anything about the layout of the castle. I wasn''t one hundred percent sure, but you surely had zero idea about where to go and wouldn¡¯t have made it here before they left!!!!¡±

    ¡°Ahem!¡±

    ¡°Sorry for intruding my lord. This idiot wants to be sent home immediately.¡±

    ¡°I''m sick of this place. I saved your world now send me home. I don¡¯t want to spend another second here. This whole adventure is probably going to haunt my dreams for years to come, thanks a lot.¡±

    ¡°As Sophia and I were discussing the return spell looks to be even simpler than the summoning. Your summoning made a bridge in between our worlds and you returning via that bridge should in theory close it."

    Ghost proceeds to walk to the middle of the circle and light immediately starts to surrounds him, while Sophia is still explaining about the magic mumbo jumbo involved.

    She stops talking as she is probably to shocked that the portal activated automatically without anything to use as fuel in the vicinity. The light takes Ghost¡¯s body back down the unforgettable rollercoaster of a ride back to his home world leaving this bad part of his life behind him and going forward to, hopefully, a much brighter future.

 Chapter 4: The real world

    "Let''s talk about the lost kingdoms. Thanks to their young adults returning their technology is evolving at an incredible pace. We cannot secretly watch over them for our entertainment anymore."

    A female anchor talks on a show being broadcasted throughout the city. "They aren''t trapped in the past and are being catapulted into our level of society.¡±

    ¡°I am sure you all know that the lost kingdoms were found a little over fifty years ago. Also that they were deemed worthless to improve and would suit better to be secretly watched for our entertainment. The societies that we found via drones through uncharted areas was still in the middle ages.¡±

    ¡°The real question isn''t if they are going to find out about us, but how they will react with their new found power. We will have to be looking into this issue for years to come, but as of right now they seem to preoccupied with conquering each other."

    "In other news one of the first returnees Hiro reveals his future plans for him and his fellow returnees in a exclusive interview from yours truly."

    -Sounds interesting, but I gotta head to my next job. If what he said is correct if I cut behind this alleyway I should save a couple minutes.-

    The familiar blue haired red eyed kid runs into an empty alleyway but then his body is surrounded by a familiar yet hated light. Right after that the feeling of nearly puking after your wildest roller coaster ride overwhelms him.

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    In a barely lit room a normal looking old man and a young lady wearing a crimson red robe with the hood down revealing her fiery red hair. She is probably not even 16 yet.

    "Did it work?" A young lady with fire like red hair eagerly asks the elderly old man.

    "I don''t know, but don''t you have somewhere to be?" The old man asks wearily to the energetic girl.

    "But elder, I want to be one of the first people to see our new hero." She complains to the elder in her annoyingly child like voice.

    "No buts! Now go child." After she leaves Ghost is immediately summoned the very same room that they were arguing in.

    -Huh, I thought that it was impossible to be summoned again and this doesn''t look like the same place as last time.-

    "Old man are you ok? Old man! I''m sorry did I shock you suddenly appearing?" An older man suddenly falls to the ground after seeing who he summoned in the end.

    The old man slowly awakens. "It''s ok youngster don''t worry about me. You just reminded me of a demon that just recently destroyed most of my disciple¡¯s race."

    "Umm, did that demon use blood magic?" Ghost askes noticing familiar yet much longer ears like the unknown.

    "Yes, how''d you know?"

    "Did that race have shorter ears than you but longer than a average human?"

    "... You are the demon aren''t you. Great I copied the monsters magic circle and get the exact same results.¡±

    ¡°I don''t know what I was expecting. This was a exact replica of the original that was used to summon you. Kill me now and finish your job I guess, devil."

    "Wait! Why would I kill a harmless old man. I killed the unknown because they were attacking the kingdom that I was summoned to."

    "Attacking! Ha, they didn''t want to attack but the ''king of the world'' said that all we had was his property. If my disciple didn''t fight back they would''ve been wiped out!¡±

    ¡°He started the war, he shed the first blood, and when things got bad for him he summoned you to turn the war around."

    Ghost seems to skeptical at best at the thought of him being summoned to clean up a mess the king made.

    "No way that king may have been arrogant, but I don''t see him, the ruler of such a prosperous kingdom, purposely starting a war that he wasn''t sure that he could win."

    "Prosperous! My boy did you even look at any of the cities or villages?"

    "Just the capital and one other village that was about to be attacked why?"

    "Then you might of misunderstood something about this world during your short visit. Here take this."

    He hands him the same mask that the leader of the unknown was wearing. "You''re going to be my new disciple and fix the wrong that you caused."

    "Wait, how do I know you are telling the truth. For all I know you could be the one that is lying!"

    "How about this. You take that mask with you and go find who is really telling the truth.¡±

    ¡°I get the whole find out what the truth is myself, but why do I have to wear a mask that will put a target on my back?¡±

    ¡°Also, here wear this.¡± He gives him a pitch black cloak.

    ¡°Your features are famous. A young blue haired red eye kid. Anyone would recognize you as their hero and would of course treat you differently. You want to see the real world, so you will have to hide your identity of course.¡±

    ¡°Fine, I will wear these, but only until I''m sure that this world is how I thought it was.¡±

    ¡°The cloak has a rare enchantment to increase its weight till the user can barely move. As you wear it you will have some of your basic training down for being my disciple, as you are right now you''re far too weak to learn from me.¡±

    ¡°It will be good all around training, but I don''t recommend wearing that twenty four seven. While, you have to wear it in public to hide your identity try not to anger anyone.¡±

    ¡°If you get attacked while wearing it you''re pretty much doomed even if you manage to take it off, because you will be exhausted. If you run into a problem then you can turn off the effect for a short time.¡±

    ¡°Thank you for this precious gift. Question you copied the kings summoning circle?¡±

    ¡°We have spies in his capital who gave me a miniature copy of it and I recreated it full size. It''s a nasty circle.¡±

    ¡°What do you mean by that?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ll tell you more after your my true disciple can''t give away all my secrets to someone who can turn any second can I?¡±

    ¡°True, I''m surprised that you even mentioned that you have a spy in the capital capable of copying a magic circle.¡±

    ¡°That was a slip of the tongue, but there isn''t really anything that I think we should hide from you.¡±

    ¡°The only reason why I decided to hide things from you is because my fellow clansmen will be mad at me for telling you everything by myself."

    "Are you sure that it''s ok for me to just leave without even seeing anyone. I am the one that you summoned, so I guess I''m a hero in their eyes."

    "It''s fine. It will make them think that you are undergoing secret training just for them."

    "Well I guess I''ll be off."

    -He sure is a nice old man. Kind of reminds me of Liz, but please be trying to trick me. I don''t know how I am going to handle it if I really was killing innocents instead of invaders.-

    He puts on the cloak to see how heavy it really is and nearly falls over due to the weight.

    -He wasn''t kidding about the weight!-

    He immediately take it off, because he can''t even move with it on.

    - I should probably have asked for a map before leaving or at least directions to the nearest city.Oh well, thankfully we aren''t in the middle of a forest.-

    Just open plains not a tree in sight. All there is is grass.

    ¡°Ah, the air here feels great back on earth it''s starting to feel too polluted. I heard that people were not only brought to magic kingdom''s like this but highly advanced civilisations as well.¡±

    ¡°I wonder why they had they had the need to take someone from a less advance world and bring them to a more advanced world.¡±

    The ground starts to shake violently. -Earthquake?- A hill shoots up into the sky. Instant mountains?

    Then the hill starts to shake revealing a hill sized snail. With a earthen shell.

    -Where is some salt when you need it.-

    ¡°Wow it''s so big. Be a good giant snail and please don''t attack me. I don¡¯t want to hurt you.¡± The snail¡¯s right eye come crashing down at Ghost.

    Blood starts shooting out from the inside of Ghost¡¯s cloak turning into a blood barrier. The blood barrier blocks the eye three inches away from his head.

    Then he send some blood below it and transform it into a spike. ¡°There we go that should of pierced its heart. Or not.¡±

    The other eye comes crashing down and collides with his blood barrier shattering it. The eye looks like it''s hardened with earth magic.

    ¡°Why didn''t that spike kill it. I could''ve sworn I was aiming for its heart. Lets try this again. Oh so that''s why.¡±

    He creates a blood bullet and then shoots it at the snail¡¯s left lung. But, it can''t pierce the snails slippery skin. ¡°Strange, let''s try this again.¡±

    He fires off another but this time making it spin as fast as it can go. ¡°Bingo.¡± It pierces and then explodes in the snails lung killing it.

    ¡°The snails is leaking acid just like I thought. He got rid of all the blood that was below him before I could use it to pierce him. I think it''s a he. I hope this plain isn¡¯t filled with these.¡±

    He continues walking eventually seeing a town with spiked wood walls surrounding it.

    ¡°You over there. Yes you.¡± A guard on top of a wooden barricade yells at him. ¡°How are you alive?¡±

    -Does he think that I''m the leader from before, or could he have somehow recognized that I''m the hero because I¡¯m not wearing my cloak.-

    ¡°What do you mean by that good sir? Is it not normal for one to be alive?¡±

    ¡°The place you just left from is known as the plains of agony. It might not be as big as the infinite desert or the forest, but the odds of you surviving in there is less than one percent.¡±

    ¡°It tricks the travelers into thinking that it is a peaceful place, but in reality under the surface of the tranquil plain is filled with monsters that bury themselves.¡±

    The guards face turn pale, while he is thinking about the terrors of the plain. ¡±The most frightening of them has a shell on its back and two long eyes that slams down on you.¡±

    ¡°There has been rumors of another beast equal to it but only our king has lived in the plains long enough to even see the first beast. Not even he will use it as a shortcut. So I shall repeat myself how are you alive?¡±

    ¡°Even with that new information, I still don¡¯t know the answer to your question. I simply walked through the plains. No monsters decided to attack me and here I am. I thought that there was no monsters and it was a peaceful place.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re lying there once anyone sets a foot the monsters territory they immediately attack. No matter who you are.¡±

    ¡°Well I guess I got lucky. Can I enter this village. Also what is it''s name as you probably guessed I got lost and don¡¯t know where I am.¡±

    ¡°Well, dwarf this city¡¯s name is Derhum. I don¡¯t know how one of you kind has gotten so far away from home, but you may enter as long as you don¡¯t cause any trouble ok?¡±

    ¡°Yes sir, I wasn¡¯t planning on causing any trouble just seeing around and learning about your culture. I am on a journey to find myself and I think seeing other people''s way of life will help me find it. I guess me getting lost was a guide to this village.¡±

    The guards face looks confused then gives up and returns to normal. ¡°Weird but whatever you say. You look a little weird for a dwarf, but I guess that''s why you are finding yourself.¡±

    ¡°There isn¡¯t much to see here anymore. Everything changed after the hunters found better places to train in the forest then here.¡±

    ¡°This used to be a big gathering place for nobles wanting to train their guards and children in magic against monsters.¡±

    ¡°You never knew when one might decide to attack back then. Now with the new alert technology it is less of a problem.¡±

    ¡°I see that''s good. Well I will be off it was nice talking to you.¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t make me have to drag you into our special jail.¡±

    ¡°I promise you I don¡¯t want to see that part of the town.¡±

    -Maybe I should keep pretending to be a dwarf throughout the rest of my travels. A eleven year old kid traveling alone will look suspicious no matter wherever you are. Luckily my voice seems to be the only thing that has became more adult like.-

    The inside of the town is poor. The houses, if you can call them that, are made out of straw. They look even worse than Liz¡¯s.

    The streets are littered with various trash, maybe even feces. The stench that is coming out of the village would make anyone with a weak stomach hurl.

    -God what is this stench. It is almost as bad as the smell from the first battle. How could a city look this bad. It is called a city, so villages have to be worse right? The village that I went to a little better than this.-

    ¡°Excuse me ma¡¯am.¡± Ghost decides to ask a older lady, since he has always been better around the older folk.

    ¡°Yes young lad?¡±

    ¡°Has this town always been this bad?¡±

    ¡°Oh no. Believe it or not, this town was actually a lot nicer. Back when the nobles still came to hunt and practice it was a wonderful place.¡±

    ¡°There was regulations on just about everything and even many different types of stores.¡± She seems to be reminiscing about the wonderful past and why she ended up retiring here.

    ¡°After they left it was still ok, but a year ago the king suddenly stopped caring about the world. He has never left his castle ever since.¡±

    ¡°Without the king giving us a little bit of leeway with the nobles the taxes shot up and no one could do anything about it. We lost the little money and items we owned. I lost most of my retirement money and had to get a job again.¡±

    ¡°The only good thing that came out of it was using the unknown to figure out if a monster will attack or not. That''s how they survived in the forest. They can tell if a monster is going to attack them or not if they stay in a place for a long enough time. It''s a weird ability really.¡±

    ¡°Thank you. I think that you have given me more information than I was hoping for. I hope that this town can return to its former glory. So, the remnants of the unknown that the hero decided not to harm became slaves?¡±

    ¡°What are you talking about? The hero killed every unknown that he fought against. He wasn''t a benevolent hero. I don¡¯t know what the dwarves know about him, but he cold heartedly killed every single unknown that went against him.¡±

    ¡°The forts that was attacked and defended three times by him had its name changed to the blood fort, because of how much blood was spilled trying to take it. The hero used also blood magic, so the people who stayed in the fort thought it was a good tribute to the nameless hero.¡±

    I can feel Ghosts rage at the fact that the common folk view him as such a vicious figure. Of the commoners view him like this then it''s hard to imagine how the unknown feel.

    ¡°What I heard was that the hero was on a revenge quest, because the unknown took someone precious from him.¡±

    He tries his best to change the people''s view on him even though nothing will change and he''ll probably go down in history as a devil.

    ¡°I also heard that he was a kind hero that protected the people near the fort and helped them reach it before the unknown army came down on them.¡±

    ¡°He personally fought against the enemy leader instead using the forts army to save lives.¡±

    ¡°Well this city isn¡¯t exactly the best place to find information, so you may be right. But, what I said I think everyone here in Derhum will say if you ask about the hero.¡±

    ¡°He wasn¡¯t a kind hero that would protect the weak. I also never heard of another person being brought here besides him.¡±

    Ghost seems to have given up on changing their outlook of him after she mentioned that his sister didn''t exist.

    The only one that can change how the commonwealth view him is the king.

    ¡°Well my information also doesn¡¯t have a way to be one hundred percent true. The only person who knows exactly what really happened is the hero and only him. What we know for sure is he saved the blood fort and the rest of the kingdom.¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t know maybe he shouldn¡¯t have saved us. We don¡¯t know what the unknown would of done to us, but the nobles in the capital have been the only ones that are living happily.¡±

    ¡°They get to live without worry and have hobbies. They don''t really have to work they can have anything they want.¡±

    ¡°Well it is not like they were always like that, right?¡±

    Ghosts hidden rage almost exploded out after she mentioned that what he did might of been useless. The unknown still ended up massacring the various villages they came across!

    ¡°Well with the enslavement of the unknown they had to do even less work. Back when we didn''t know if a monster would attack a town the guards were mandated to have one mage with them. A mage of course is automatically a wealthy individual, so they did have a job to do.¡±

    As shown by Sophia barely becoming a noble it doesn''t automatically make you a noble of you can cast some spells. The people of this town probably think a mage is automatically a noble because of how expensive it is.

    ¡°But, now that the unknown have taken away the need to have watches for monsters the nobles don¡¯t have a real job in any of the villages.¡±

    ¡°So, they don¡¯t live in any of the villages anymore and only live in places that they deemed worthy of their presence.¡±

    ¡°Since they aren''t living in any of the villages they don''t care about how bad it is here anymore and raised taxes."

    She smiles weakly and then continues. "The king was once a great man who stood up for the poor, because he wasn¡¯t born as the crown prince.¡±

    It is strange that a society with such strong power has a hereditary royalty instead of a strong rule over the weak.

    ¡°He worked his way to the top. We all respected him for that, but now he seems like any other noble. I can¡¯t believe that one day he suddenly stopped caring about anything.¡±

    You can''t help but wonder about what happened to the actual crown prince if he didn''t become king. Well it was probably a normal struggle for the throne that happens.

    ¡°It almost makes me believe that he found something during the hero¡¯s visit." She takes a deep breath in and out obviously not used to talking so much.

    "I think this old woman man has talked long enough. I thank you for listening to my words. It usually isn¡¯t a good idea to speak out about the king like I did. Even though he has suddenly locked himself away people still look up to him. Some even say that the nobles captured him and locked him up.¡±

    ¡°No need to thank me you gave me information that I would never have hoped to find in a small village such as this. It really explained a lot to me about my standing in this big place. It is not as wonderful as I thought it would be. Sigh! Maybe, I should just return home and find a place there.¡±

    Ghost looks towards the sky thinking about how his brand new job actually offered him free room and board. -Wonder if they thought I ran away.-

    ¡°I think that would be a great idea. If you can find your way back that is.¡±

    ¡°I think I know the way back now, but just in case where is the next nearest human settlement. I want to see another village to compare the two. If they are similar enough then that explains that what I see here is the norm and then I should really just head to my nice and cleaner home.¡±

    -But I won''t not till I fix the wrong that I have done.-

    ¡°If you continue on the path just outside the gate and follow it to wherever it leads you should find a village in a couple of weeks maybe a month depending on your speed.¡±

    ¡°I recommend waiting for the supply caravan to leave for the next city. There are bandits out there and you seem to be the sort of person that they would target. The next village is called Belin. Which was named after the king.¡±

    ¡°It used to be a great town that was showered with care and affection by the king Belin, but not even it was spared from the onslaught of the nobles. The king didn''t even pay any attention to it.¡±

    Ghost has a internal debate about whether or not it would be a good idea to join a random group of people, but ends up deciding that he could do some good for once if he joined them.

    ¡°I would rather go alone, but if there really is a high chance of bandit attack I think waiting for a caravan would be better for me. Do you know when they usually come and go?¡±

    ¡°It is one of my jobs as a village elder to know such things so yes. I can probably convince them to take along one more person. You¡¯re a dwarf which is rare around these parts and you look a little different than the normal dwarf.¡±

    She stops to take a breath and then stares at him up and down. Probably wondering if if he was a runaway child instead of a dwarf.

    Honestly he is probably pushing it pretending to be a dwarf, but it''s probably the best excuse he can have for him traveling.

    ¡°You may be taller than most of your kind, but that would just make you look like a item to be picked up and kept by some nobles. Don¡¯t worry the caravan is filled with nice people who even took in a unknown. Not as a slave, but as a family member.¡±

    ¡°They sound like good people and I once again thank you for all that you have done for me.Thanks to you everything feels a little bit clearer. I hope that life in this village returns back even better than what it once was.¡± Ghost half bows to her showing his thanks and gratitude.

    ¡°The caravan will leave in a couple of minutes, so you better hurry. They rarely come here, so I thought I should mention them to you. Once you meet them tell them that one of the elders asked them to take you to the next village!¡±

    Ghost hears her say as he bolts away towards the town exit.

    -I never learned her name. Maybe someone in the caravan knows it.-

    Coming into his narrow vision are wagons being pulled by horses. "Wait! Don''t leave the elder told me that I should join you!"

    He shouts towards the large caravan. The mask obstructs his breath as he runs since he doesn''t know to use it.

    He thanks the divine that he already figured out how to turn off the cloaks weight effects. Luckily it may not have eye holes on the outside, but there isn''t anything blocking his vision on the inside.

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    Chapter 4 part 2

    The caravan luckily hears him and stops for him or else he would probably have kept chasing them.

    "Who''s making all that noise." A smaller than Ghost, well built man with a minor beard comes out of the first wagon.

    He has brown hair and his short beard that went down to his chin showing hints of gray. "We have strict leaving times to keep on time it is not our fault if you miss us. Hurry up kid I won''t give you another chance."

    "Thank you sir" He increases his speed not wanting to cause the caravan to wait any longer.

    "I am sorry for troubling you. A female elder said you probably won''t be back for a while and I just don''t have the time to wait for another means of travel." He says then full on bows to him showing how seriously sorry he is to him.

    "There was no need to bow, but your apology has been accepted. Now tell me why a kid your age is hiding every part of your body and face. Also why you need to get to the next city so badly." He questions me while obviously trying to size me up.

    "Everyone else thought that I was a dwarf I guess there is no use trying to fool the real thing. As for why I''m trying to hide my identity. Isn''t knowing that I''m pretending to be a dwarf enough?" Ghost is utterly flabbergasted that he figured it out so quickly.

    "Of course it is enough as long you won''t harm my dear daughter that is. Humans and dwarves rarely meet each other so your act may work on them, but your too tall to be a dwarf.

    ¡°Even while wearing that cloak I can tell you''re too weak. Dwarfs may be small but we''re proud of our muscles and our alcohol.¡±

    He emphasises on the muscles by flexing his arm and as he looks around the wagon he sees various steel barrel laying around.

    So it''s the stereotypical dwarf race in this world. I wonder if there is a world out there with the opposite version of dwarfs.

    "I see. Well I promise you I shall do no harm to your daughter. I shall also promise you that if anything should happen I will do my best to protect your goods."

    "I don''t think a little kid like you will be able to understand your own limits, sojust watch over my daughter if we get attacked no more no less. Understand?"

    "Completely, I won''t try to do anything that I can''t do. By the way you keep mentioning your daughter yet you have introduced her or yourself to me. I would, but sadly I can''t. Also what''s the elders name I never had the opportunity to ask."

    His face shows signs of anger and then replies. "The elder is called elder. The king said to make it easier on him that all the leaders of the village should be both old and called elder."

    "My real name is in dwarven tongue, but everyone just calls me Cat, since my wife does.¡±

    ¡°My daughter isn''t really related to me since my wife and I can''t have a child. She''s a unknown and if you insult her in anyway I''ll skin you alive. Daniela I found someone your age that wants to meet you."

    He yells into the back of the wagon.

    -For a man even shorter than me he sure can yell.-

    "Coming daddy!" A cute yell returns the previous rough yell at a much less ear hurting volume.

    A small girl comes into the room with slightly longer and pointed ears. They are barely visible and wouldn''t be noticed if one wasn''t looking carefully for them.

    She also has short blond hair ear length that looked like it would barely be able to hide her special ears. But her hair is tucked behind them instead.

    "This is here my pride and joy. Daniela this young lad may be trying to hide it but he is around your age. I want him to hang out with you while we travel so both of you can meet someone your age."

    The dwarf named cat boastfully shows off his adopted daughter while the young girl blushes out of embarrassment.

    "You can call me Ghost it''s nice to meet you. I haven''t met someone younger than me in a while. It probably would be nice to act like a kid again."

    Ghost says while still using his usual mature tone, that he uses to get jobs a bit to old for his age.

    She tilts her head then says "you say old words. Aren''t you always a kid. I mean you''re not an adult so."

    "Yeah, I guess you''re right Daniela."  Ghost openly admits that he probably shouldn¡¯t be using such a tone to speak to someone of similar age to him.

    "Just call me Dani dad is the only one who uses that princess like name." The cute energetic girl keeps bossing him around as he tries to remain a good guest and not get kicked out.Unauthorized usage: this narrative is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings.

    "As you wish." He says while trying to remain like a caretaker instead of a friend, because he doesn''t want to make the seemingly short tempered dwarf get mad.

    "You speak weirdly sometimes you know that? I think people shouldn''t change nor hate others." She suddenly goes off talking about any random thing that comes to her mind not really thinking before she says anything.

    "That is random and impossible you and I both know that." Ghost bluntly shoots down her go happy attitude in disgust.

    "But, I want that! If I want that then others may want that. If others want that then." She tries to make a coherent argument but of course with her nonchalant attitude nothing good comes from it.

    "Then what? Not everyone will think the same way as you. For what you say to become true everyone in the world has to think like that." Ghost stops her from trying to fry her brain over a issue that is impossible to solve.

    "Well what if everyone does think that way and it''s all a giant misunderstanding!" She says completely showing off how pure she still is even after what happened to her race.

    "That''s a long word coming from you and I don''t think that the world would be better if everyone loved each other so there." Ghost gets more and more annoyed at how nonchalant she is about something so dreadful and serious.

    About something that he was constantly pondering over solutions ever since he returned to Earth. All though considering his current attitude he probably still hasn''t understood completely what he did.

    "It''s just a dream you don''t have to squash it meanie." She sticks her tongue at him then storms off.

    "Oi brat you didn''t have to be so mean to her. I get you have matured a little bit too fast, but she is just your everyday bright young girl.¡±

    ¡°Can''t she dream of a peaceful world. Hearing that from a girl who is mistreated because of race warms my heart. How could you just go and destroy her like that."

    "You''re right I was wrong in both ways. I acted like a kid arguing with her then like an adult. Should I go in now and talk to her or wait till she comes to me?"

    Him asking the elderly dwarf shoes his lack of interactions with humans and his inability to understand how they feel.

    "I''m not your all knowing guide you decide kid. That''s part of life making your own decisions. I thought you would have learned that by now. Maybe you are more of a kid then I thought."

    "Ok, I''m going to go talk to her than. She wasn''t completely wrong in what she said."

    "Fine, go straight inside and keep going till you see a pink door. Don''t barge in knock and if she let''s you in the good luck. If she doesn''t then don''t force yourself in. If I find you causing trouble to her I''m banning you from all of the carriages got that."

    "Yes, sir. Thank you for your advice I will always try to remember it in the future." Ghost enters inside and follows Cat''s instructions. He eventually finds the link door and knocks on it.

    "Go away I don''t care who you are. Even if it is mom I still won''t let you in." A sad and lonely voice can be heard through the door. It hurts his heart a little that he actually caused her to become like this

    "Well it is not your mom nor your dad, but I just wanted to say a couple words before I go to one of the other wagons.¡±

    ¡°I acted wrong earlier and I am sorry. Your dream is possible, but having no one hate anyone isn''t likely. Instead you should change it to racial equality. So no one ever mistreats you or your parents." He says through the door hoping that this truth would cheer her up enough to have a stable conversation.

    "Sniff is that really possible?" Her voice slowly changes from it''s heartbroken to a little bit more upbeat.

    "Of course it is. This caravan is evidence of that. No one minds you and the leader of it is a dwarf. Here I shall do everything that is in my power to make sure it can happen in this country. I know that may not sound like much but it is something."

    She opens the door and hugs him then says back in her cheerful voice. "I believe in you Ghost!"

    "Whoa, I don''t know what I did to warrant a hug, but I''m glad your feeling ok now. So you are not mad at me anymore."

    He just awkwardly stands their without hugging her back and tries to understand why she hugged him. This again shows how lacking he is in social interaction.

    "You think just a couple of words and a promise will make me feel better? I am holding you to that promise to make this world equal."

    "I can''t wipe out racism, but there might be a way to make it less common. I don''t know how you''re expecting me to do this. We just met and you have no idea about anything about me."

    "You''re the one that said you would do it." She looks like she is about to start crying again, while Ghost is stumbling around not used to being near anyone his age, much less a female.

    -Ugh she is right. Why did I have to say something so stupid. Well I guess it''s not impossible.-

    "Sigh! You''re right I did say that." He resigns himself to his fate of not being able to argue back to her and just tries to make her happy.

    "So, what you want to play?" She once again has a 180 degrees in her mood shift and asks about normal kid things.

    "I don''t know I never got to play with someone before. You''re the first person who I met that treats me like a kid.¡± Ghost goes back to talking in his trying to be old tone and slowly makes the mood more depressed again.

    "Same everyone shuns me because of my race. How about we tell each other who our favorite heroes are? Mines the most recent one whose name was never revealed."

    "Why he wiped out your race and put you in this situation! Shouldn''t he be your most hated hero?"

    Ghost is visibly happy about how someone actually doesn''t think bad of him but pretends to not like the ¡®''mysterious¡¯ hero.

    "Don''t let the story''s you here fool you. Sure he killed hundreds of thousands unknown, but in the last battle he spared everyone and single handedly fought the leader. My uncle said that if they kept fighting the hero would have a bigger advantage."

    "Was your uncle one of the people he spared?"

    "Yeah, my uncle was all that I had before the war. Sadly he was killed by the people that the hero protected.¡±

    Naturally if none of the people survived the incident than they would get rid of her uncle. The king probably wanted to rule over the unknown and his own people with Ghost¡¯s fearsome reputation.

    ¡°You know sometimes I think that the hero didn''t even know the whole story and if he did he would of helped us."

    "You may be right, but it doesn''t change the fact that he didn''t help. Wanna play tag?" Ghost tries to change the topic by being random and completely changing the topic from his sad past.

    "Yeah."

    He chases her around the tiny wagon, while trying to cheer her up and stop these terrible conversation choices.He never actually manages to catch up to her and after ten minutes he has to sit for a second and catch his breath.

    "Wow Ghost you''re tired already. Why did you ask to play tag if you were going to get tired so fast?"

    "I asked to play tag, because I thought it would be fun. Also no other games came to mind."

    "Hahaha, you couldn''t think of a game so you went with one you can''t do. Why didn''t you just ask me for a idea?"

    "Because I am a idiot."

    "Honey mommy is home!" A soothing female voice is heard from the front of the wagon.

    "Mom! Come on Ghost let me introduce you to my wonderful mother."

    Ghost opens the door and sees Dani''s elven mom. Her ears are longer than Dani''s and have a sharper point.

    With waist length silver hair and eyes as blue as the vast ocean. Also, a modest sized chest with long legs.

    "Ghost this is my lovely wife Siena. Siena this is a guest that is staying with us till the next village. He is hiding his identity and he probably has his reasons so please don''t bug him about it.¡±

    ¡°You see if I''m this caravans merchant then she is my hired guard. She is also a amazing hunter which is great for saving money on food."

    "Honey?"

    "Yes dear?"

    "Can you be quiet and let me talk to our guest?"

    "Yes ma''am, I''m sorry." She drags cat away and starts to whisper with him getting quieter and quieter. Tge last portion of the conversation is barely audible.

    "Now Ghost I want you to promise me that you won''t mistreat anyone by race while you are on this trip. I understand that you are trying to hide your identity and are probably a noble of some sorts." She shows him one finger.

    Than she shows a second finger. "Second is that I won''t make any promises to protect a noble, so if your life''s in danger don''t look to me."

    "Honey isn''t that a little much?"

    "I accept I can protect myself, probably." He interrupts the conversation before it drags on for the rest of this viewing.

    "Ok then welcome aboard. I hope that you have a nice trip."

    "Shouldn''t you have ran in there screaming mommy? You shouldn''t pretend to be something you''re not." Dani blushes a bright red then runs into the next room.

    -And that''s the difference between you and me Dani. Sister why did you have to leave me.-

    The wagon continues along its straight path as days pass by along with it. Not even an interesting animal appears just plains. Trees slowly start to show up again and animals can finally be seen.

    "I''m going to have to go out and hunt again. The food we brought wasn''t fresh enough. Most of it will be spoiled before we get to the next village and I don''t think you want risk using the kingdoms supply ports."

    "We can''t if we do that we can pretty much kiss each other goodbye. Be careful this territory has had rumors of bandits."

    "I know so always stay on watch and at least the magic beasts aren''t as many."

    "Wait if there are bandits in that forest then wouldn''t they attack us after our guardian leaves?"

    "Yes, but Ghost we really need the food and this is the best spot. It may have risks but if you don''t take risks you won''t get far in life."

    "You sure you will be ok?" Ghost asks the motherly figure that he never really had.

    "Of course I''m stronger than you think." She then leaves into the forest.

    "Ghost why hasn''t mom came back yet it''s been hours."

    "Come on out and give us all your supplies or we will kill you all starting with your youngest!"

    "Bandits!" Someone screamed in the distance then a wagon is set ablaze.

    "I thought I told you not to destroy the wagons." A tall buff man yells at a lanky skinny man.

    "Sorry boss but they were acting suspicious." The lanky man replies obviously scared and shaking about why he got promoted to his new job..

    "Ghost don''t leave the carriage let me talk to them. Protect Dani while I try to negotiate for our lives.¡±

    ¡°Good sir, if what you need is supplies then I can give it to you just don''t harm anyone anymore then you have."

    "Little dwarf are you the leader?" He says while pointing at cat.

    "Yes I would like to call myself the leader." Cat replies in a polite tone.

    "Hand over someone to us and then start giving us all your supplies." He orders Cat who¡¯s flabbergasted about the sudden order.

    ''Why do I need to hand someone over?" Cat''s voice turns from confident into a very shaky and confused at the sudden change.

    "Because you have to have some guards. I need to use someone as a hostage to make them surrender." He replies back as if it was obvious.

    "Cat let me go." Ghost goes out and asks to be the bait to get closer to the bandits

    "Ghost?"

    "It''s ok I have a plan. Mister I''ll be your hostage please don''t harm anyone." Ghost tries to talk in the more innocent voice he can. Kinda like how Dani naturally talks, but a bit more forced.

    "What a nice little lad or are you take off the mask."

    -Dang it if I take of the mask they might figure me out. Well this is in the middle of nowhere what''s the worst that could happen.-

    He takes off his mask slowly but surely. The bandit leader doesn''t seem to care much about how Ghost looks.

    "Plz don''t harm me or my friends mister." He asks him still trying to sound like how Dani usually talks like.

    "Hmm red eyes and blue hair. Do you wear that mask because you look like the hero? I would hide myself too if I looked like that monster. You can put it back on."

    Ghost quickly puts it back on being scared that someone would realize who he was and be hated for his mistakes.

    He slowly starts to walk up towards the bandits. "Please don''t hurt me."

    -Let''s see there are only 10 of them I should be able to do it.-

    "Don''t worry I won''t but I need another hostage. This one gave himself up too easily. I don''t recognize him so that means he''s new to the group. Dwarf give me your daughter the pride and joy of this group."

    The bandit asks while seeming that he knows this caravan a bit to well and is actually targeting this group on purpose.

    "Please no." Cat tries to stop them from taking his precious daughter but Dani stops him trusting Ghost.

    "It¡¯s ok dad" Dani goes up to the bandit leader courageously.

    "It''s ok Dani There is nothing to be afraid of." Ghost tells her as he can see that she''s shaking from fear.

    "I promise you that as long as I can see you will be safe." Suddenly 10 bandits fall to the floor. "Phew that wasn''t fun."

    "What happened?" Cat asks staring at Ghost in shock at what the little kid just managed to do.

    "Your wife called me a noble didn''t she? What happened was magic. Enough said." Ghost still doesn¡¯t want them to know that he is a mass murderer.

    "Well we promised that we wouldn''t ask about you, so than I you for saving us." Cat starts to talk respectfully to Ghost, but slowly stops after realizing that it would probably not be what he would want.

    "Cough! you monster."

    "Oh you''re still alive. I have a question why did you target the young girl and this group''s supplies. If you lie you won''t die but it will surely hurt." Ghost gives him a half assed threat, while trying to bluff his way into some convenient information.

    "Spit! and how would you know if I''m lying."

    "Touche."

    "What?" He looks at Ghost confused as does everyone else, because of the lack of a good translation to some of his words.

    "Nothing, fine if I think you''re lying it will hurt a lot. Now let''s see how does having a heart attack feel?" He tries to ignore the embarrassment of the translation not working that well for his joke.

    "Ok, cough I was hired to take their supplies and kill the girl."

    "By whom." Ghost starts to mess a bit with his blood

    "I don''t know he sent a representative to the meeting. Please I don''t have an idea."

    "Well thank you for your patronage." His eyes go lifeless. "Well seems someone is targeting you and before you ask no this sadly wasn''t my first time killing."

    "What happened to mommy?"

    "Judging by how the men were acting she''s fine. They were probably too afraid to attack us while she was here. They needed you for when she came back."

    "You sure?"

    "Positively."

    "Thank you Ghost."

    "So now we should just wait?"

    "Probably." He continues talking even though it isn¡¯t in his power to decide where the caravan ends up doing.

    A female come out of the forest dragging an elk bigger then probably two of her. "Hey guys I caught a gigantic elk it''s big enough to feed is for the rest of our trip. What happened?"

    "We got attacked and Ghost saved us mommy. I was so scared." Dani says while running into her mother''s bloody arms. She starts to cry out and pushes her face into her mother''s chest.

    "It''s ok honey I''m here for you. Thank you for protecting my family." She pats her daughters head and starts to be very respectful to Ghost after realising how mean she was.

    "Your welcome, as you said we should have enough food for the rest of the trip. So we don''t have to go through something like this again."

    The sky gets to it''s peak of noon when they arrive at the next village and everyone decides that it''s best that they stop here for now to let everyone rest and relax.

    They all agree that after the bandit fiasco some of the members of their caravan might want to just sell their goods instead of waiting any longer.

    Dani takes Ghost outside where the horses pull the wagon and then points out at the wooden city in the distance.

    There are walls like the first city, but this time they were not made out of wood. Instead they are made out of a much more solid material maybe even concrete, but Ghost doubts that they have the technology for it.

    "Ghost look it is the next city. The proud city of Gervis. Which is, of course, named after our grand king. Who is the only one who can protect us from the nobles."

    "You admire the king?"

    "Of course who wouldn''t. He started out as the ring of his family but now look at him. He was also very kind from what daddy told me."

    "So, you like the king and his story yet you don''t even remember that his name is Belin and not Gervis? Anyways, I''ve been wondering why does your mom call him cat?"

    "Uhh, was that the name of this city oops. Some people probably got mad at me for saying that instead, but I doubt everyone will mind my little error teehee. I don''t know. Mommy why you call daddy cat?"

    "Because dearly, he is just so small and adorable. Also, he is so docile the only thing that can fit him is cat." She goes off remembering when they missed each other and starts to go off into her own little world.

    "Docile when we first met he threatened to kill me." Ghost wakes her up from her sweet sweet memories and laughs at what Ghost just said as if it''s the funniest thing she has ever heard.

    "He wouldn''t have done it dear. He has a temper, but he can''t really harm you. I got a brilliant idea! How about you take Dani out to visit the town. She doesn''t really get to go out often since we are constantly doing work and I feel bad."

    She says while staring at Cat completely lovey dovey and hints at Ghost to leave them for a bit.

    "Ok, I promise I''ll protect her."

    "You better." She starts to actually threaten him seriously unlike Cat who probably said it half heartedly. There¡®s even a little bit of killing intent in the air.

    "Shouldn''t we ask dad first?" Dani asks while being confused at why her mom is suddenly pushing her away.

    "It''s ok dear go and have fun I''ll talk with your father when he gets back."

    "Thanks mom. Let''s go Ghost."

    -----------------------------

    Chapter 4 part 3

    They go out into the town which has large wooden buildings and a few buildings made out of straw.The amount of homeless has severely dropped between the two cities. "Where do you want to go?"

    "I don''t know dad says it''s a bad idea to go outside when we visit a town. People won''t treat me right he says."

    He puts his hands on her shoulders and seriously replies back. "Well if anyone treats you bad I will protect you."

    "Thanks but you don''t need to constantly protect me. I can protect myself."

    She pretends to act strong but isn''t fooling anyone. Unknown rely on their physical strength so how strong could a little girl possible be?

    "You sure. You don''t look very strong to me."

    "Don''t underestimate me. There is more to me than you think."

    "Oh really now."

    "Yes, now let''s go get some real food I''m tired of eating the same thing every day."

    "I agree but what are we going to do about money."

    Her stomach makes a cute sound while it''s crying out for food. ¡°I don''t know dad didn''t give me money saying that I should always be near him."

    "Wait I might have some money on me." He pulls out a gold coin that was given to him by Liz that he didn''t have the heart to pawn. He still has a couple more, but he¡¯s slowly running out of them. "Will this do?"

    "You really are a rich noble aren''t you?"

    "What you mean by that?"

    "That gold coin is usually only found in the capital." She says while sharing at the shiny pure gold coin. "I don''t know if you can get change for that here."

    "Hmm it''s strange to meet a fellow noble so far away from the other two villages, but we are also here so it''s not unreasonable. Young one I can give you change for that gold coin." A man wearing purple robes with golden patterns over it comes up to them.

    "Really?!"

    "Of course who would I be if I didn''t have money of the lower currency. It may be useless, but you never know what might happen. Remember young one don''t always carry our noble currency. Some towns aren''t even worth one silver much less one gold. So here."

    He gives me a pouch filled with silver coins. "We nobles need to help each other, because we''re the only ones capable enough to do so."

    "Thank you, sir! I best be going I have limited time here and things that need to be done. Come let''s go Dani."

    "Let''s meet back up in the capital young one. Your interesting and if you don''t know people the capital can be a hard place to live in."

    He shouts to Ghost as they quickly leave Ghost also hears him say "That brat didn''t even ask me for my name. Interesting I will definitely find out who you are."

    "That''s nice now we can eat Ghost. Why didn''t you stay with him he seemed pretty nice."

    "Didn''t you notice the look in his eyes when he saw your ears?"

    "No." She says dejectedly while having a depressed look on her face. She also seems to be muttering random noises that no one can understand.

    "It wasn''t a look of someone who let you anywhere near his servant much less him. He probably thought you were my slave or something along those lines." The look in Dani''s eyes changed from pure happiness to shock and then into a look of worry.

    "Ghost you don''t think he will do anything to us?" She asks worrying for her safety in a foreign environment.

    "If he found out that you aren''t my slave then I don''t know. We need to keep our guard up. I don''t know what might happen to us if we aren''t careful."

    "Ok." She looks sad and worried about what trouble she might cause her new friend.

    "That doesn''t mean we can''t have fun. He probably won''t follow us. I mean I''m just one noble of the many. No reason to pay special attention to me." He encourages her while not being to sure about the truth.

    "You sure?"

    "Positive."

    "Ok, if they do try to do anything you will protect me right?" She looks at Ghost with bright eyes of expectation while thinking back to how he easily killed off ten men.

    "Of course, but weren''t you the person acting tough saying you don''t need my help?" He jokes with her while trying to lighten up the tense mood and it works as she giggles for a bit.

    She also blushes while saying, "He''s a noble he can use magic what am I in front of magic. You should know that."

    "Yea, I know full well how scary magic can be. Didn''t your favorite hero kill thousands with that said magic?" He half jokes half regretfully says while having a bit of him wanting to get praised by his only fan.

    "Stop making him seem like a bad guy.¡± She starts to get mad and tries to be a diehard fan and argue for anything that her idol has ever done.

    Ghost secretly being happy about her reaction tries to keep a straight face as he be the bad guy in this argument

    ¡°You don''t even know him. He probably took joy out of killing all of those people." He tries to make a decent argument for one of the reasons he could of did what he did.

    In the end his imagination starts to run wild and imagine what would happen if one of the summoned was actually like that. Then he wonders about how his world will be different when he returns.

    "You don''t know him either so you also can''t tell me what he wanted either." She sticks her tongue out at him and giggles figuring out that Ghost isn¡¯t really that mad at him.

    "I guess you''re right what do I know." A mouth watering smell enters through both of their nose and makes their mouths start to water. They both look at each other and smile while they start to talk instead of just heading in the smells direction

    "Do you smell that?" She asks me as if she is imagining the unbelievable smells taste and texture.

    "Yea the smell is making my mouth water." Ghost says as drool drips down his mouth.

    "Let''s go then. Come on Ghost." She drags him along while trying to pinpoint the smell that is enticing her very being, calling out to every fiber in her body. The smell lead them to a small shop barely noticeable, since it''s almost hidden in between two larger buildings.

    "You sure this is it?"

    "My nose never lies." She looks proud as she says that and puff her chest out.

    "Well than ladies first."

    "Why thank you."

    They enter the small shop and start to take a deep breath of the smell of the food, if possible it smells even better without all the other objects obstructing it

    "Welcome valuable customer please take a seat wherever you want. I am sorry but the owner is stingy and says that whatever he wants to cook is the menu."

    -That explains why the shop can have good food yet no one ever comes.-

    "I don''t mind whatever he¡¯s cooking smells divine!" Dani says before Ghost can even think about if he wanted to trust the chef.

    He hesitates for a second before making his decision. "I agree the food smells so good and I¡¯m also not a picky eater so why not."

    ¡°We got customers!" The girl who looks like she is in her mid teens yells towards the kitchen.

    "Ok!" A deep male voice says from the kitchen.

    "What''s he cooking."

    "No clue."

    "So it''s a mystery until it comes out."

    "That''s how it usually works."

    "Ghost you sure we''re safe eating here?" Dani asks with a worried voice.

    "Of course unless you are allergic to any foods, are you?"

    "No but what if he feeds us poison?"

    "Why would he?"

    "How about food that I don''t like?"

    "Then happily decline and run if he asks you to pay for it." Ghost replies as if it''s the best way to solve the problem obvious solution, which it isn¡¯t..

    "Fine, you win."

    "People usually leave after I tell them that there''s no menu. People aren''t courageous enough, dad says. I call him crazy.¡±

    ¡°Who would want to eat at a place that they don''t even know what''s coming to them. We barely ever get any customers even though he is an amazing cook."

    "Would you eat here?"

    "If I didn''t know the cook, no I wouldn''t."

    "Oh I see, then we are fine. If you wouldn''t eat here then I''d be worried. Since you would that means we''re fine." She answers with her weird and naive logic.

    "Foods ready." A man comes out of the kitchen with a plate of food in his hands. It has a cover it.

    "Being a mystery till the ever end, huh." Ghost says while being extremely annoyed at how much the cook wants his food to be mysterious.

    "It''s more interesting that way, isn''t it?" While on the other side of the spectrum Dani is just rolling with the theme seeming to not care at all about what she might be eating.

    "I agree, but your friend doesn''t seem to be that willing so I hope you both aren''t bad kids and decide to run after seeing what I made for you."

    "You think I would want to pay for something that I don''t want to eat!? Why would anyone give you free money like that."

    "True, how about this kid if you don''t like it then I''ll cook you whatever you want.¡±

    The cooks seems to turn a bit gentle after seeing how his two customers are kids and gives them a bit of leeway. In all honesty selling mystery food would normally be a bad idea because of allergies.

    "Deal."

    He opened up the lid and what appeared underneath it was a type of soup. There was spherical noodles with a hole in the center.

    Their is also a boiled egg in the middle with some type of meat floating on top. Finally there is a bit of square green objects with thick round vegetables.

    ¡°Whats this?¡± Dani looks at Ghost curiously while he proceeds to stare towards the server.Who also does not seem to know because she looks towards the chef who also turns to look at the ceiling.

    ¡°Dad!¡± The server can''t help but yell at her dad and the open father daughter relationship that they share. The dad stops staring at the ceiling and looks at his daughter while trying to hold back a laugh.

    Dani stops staring at Ghost and takes a deep breath of the fresh and delicious smelling food. ¡°What? You guys never heard of this?¡±

    He points at the weird soup and stares at everyone in shock. He eventually sighs and starts to explain everything about his creation.

    ¡°This is called ramen it''s starting to grow popular in the other countries, because of a different hero who appeared in a isolated country and protected them from a invasion.

    Ghost stares at him in shock while remembering what the tv station was saying, before he was summoned. Then he starts to think about how that Hiro guy and his team ended up building a academy.

    One can''t help but wonder how his world has changed with the introduction of mama into its environment.

    The chef breaks our train of thought as he continues describing their meal. ¡°Well to start the broth is made from the marrow of a bird called a chicken and the egg is from the same beast that the bones came from. The noodles are from a weird type of bread called rice from the east and the meat on top is from the closes representative to a pig beast that the hero described.¡±

    ¡°The way eat this is to use these two sticks to pick up the noodles and then use this spoon to pour the broth into your mouth.¡±

    He takes out a pair of wooden utensils and puts it into the bowl. He then picks up the slippery noodle and slurps it up while moving the spoon into the bowl.

    Ghost sees how hesitant that Dani is being with the weird foreign food and utensils, so he decides to go all in and mimics what the chef did.

    Alast he didn''t realise how slippery fresh noodles can be and they drop right back into the bowl. He tries again with a better grip over the new utensils and manages to barely get the noodles into his mouth. He then slurps them up, while taking a spoonful of broth to swallow.

    ¡°Dani, come on quickly eat yours. I can''t describe how good this tastes.¡±

    Dani hesitates but manages to get the courage to use the new utensils and tries to eat the new food in front of her. She, unlike Ghost, actually succeeds at taking a bite out of it on her first go.

    The chef comes back and shows them that the egg in the soup isn¡¯t hard boiled but soft boiled so that the yoke comes out after cutting it. He then proceeds to stir the freshly spilt yolk into the broth, while talking to them.

    ¡°Well that''s about everything I have left to teach you about this strange new meal. I hope you enjoy it and spread around this fine cuisine.

    After he leaves they enjoy their meal in peace and quiet while they slowly savor the flavors that they are tasting. The shop is empty besides the two shopkeepers, so they just enjoy their meal and current life.

    Eventually their meal grows empty and the sun in the sky starts to go down leaving a few hours of daylight left. They decide it''s for the best that they finish up their meal and pay for it to leave.

    The sky grows dark and it''s almost night. ¡°That was such a fun day. That soup you made me eat was absolutely amazing and the look on his face when you gave him a gold coin for it was priceless.¡±

    ¡°Hey that wasn¡¯t the only great thing about it, was it?¡±

    ¡°No the other things we did was fun, but that was definitely the highlight of this trip.¡±

    Suddenly a sharp pain is felt on his neck and my viewing screen temporarily goes dark. You see as of right now I''m only a parasite that attached myself to a host to view their lives. I can''t view without the help of them for now.

    -Arg am I wearing a blindfold? Is that blurry figure Dani? Why can''t I use my magic!-

    "Dani is that you?"

    "Ghost?" A faint scared voice can barely be heard in the already quiet room. There isn¡¯t any other sound inside besides Dani¡¯s scared hyperventilating.

    Ghost muttering random chants off of his memory. Finally he decides that he definitely can''t use any magic and that he should help Dani calm down.

    "Its me Dani don''t worry. Everything is going to be ok. I¡¯m also here with you! You aren''t alone I repeat you aren''t alone.¡±

    Ghost tries his best to calm her down and reassure her as well. Even though he also isn¡¯t thinking straight and can''t figure out how to solve this problem.

    ¡°Ha! Ok he says.¡± A familiar voice bellows.¡±News flash little kid. Nothing is going to be ok. You''re the shame to us nobles. I thought at first that you had a cute slave, but no she isn¡¯t a slave.¡±

    ¡°That bitch is your friend and you to were on a date. I almost immediately wanted to kidnap you right then and there, to take you off the wrong path and put you back on the right path.¡±

    He continues on his insane ramble while making sure everyone is tied up nice and tight. He also starts to drag various things into the room making loud sounds.

    ¡°I continued to watch over you. I followed you ever since I gave you that pouch of coins free of charge. What did you do? You went to a restaurant that is owned by that crazy chef!¡±

    ¡°You actually ate the weird food their and then you had the audacity to continue and actually went shopping for this thing! With my loose change as well! Just making me think of it is causing my skin to crawl and my hand to itch.¡±

    ¡°I at first thought you were using some weird form of torture on her when you took her into his place, but after you bought new clothes for her I knew, I knew. You aren¡¯t acting like a proper noble and instead are acting like a commoner. As your elder I took it as my job to do this. This is all for you remember that.¡±

    He stops for a second while Ghost¡¯s mind is running as fast as it can to try to get Dani out of this situation. He never expected that some of the nobles could be this crazy to their common wealth.

    ¡°Don¡¯t hate me at the end of this. This isn''t for me but for you. I want you to learn your standing in this world compared to this trash.¡± A high pitch scream assaults Ghost ears.

    ¡°You hear that sweet scream of your ¡®friend¡¯? Do you!? What should I do to her next.¡± Then the blurry figure kicks the kneeling figure and another groan rebounds against the walls of the room and echos out making Ghost shutter from the thought of the pain.

    ¡°This isn¡¯t enough to make you learn your place bitch. Even if I killed you right here and know you wouldn¡¯t know. No, you don¡¯t deserve a quick death for deriving an innocent young lad of his purity. I''m going to make you regret ever being born.¡±

    His somewhat gentle voice turns into being of pure anger whenever he talks towards Dani. It seems that Ghost has truly underestimated the people of this world.

    ¡°Please don¡¯t harm her. She has done nothing wrong.¡± Ghost tries to plead out for the poor innocent girls safety, while also trying to figure out a way to get her out of this danger.

    ¡°SHUT UP! I¡¯m the one letting you speak right now and yet you want to argue against my teachings and rebel against me!¡± A faint chant is heard and Ghosts face turns completely stiff. He can''t speak nor can be even blink.

    ¡°Now you don¡¯t even have the privilege to speak. You can¡¯t even blink, so watch as I destroy ¡®your loved one¡¯. Now I''m not that bad of a guy, so you won¡¯t have to watch it all and clearly see it¡¯s face in agony. I at least blindfolded you, didn¡¯t I?¡±

    He then proceeds to hit Dani over and over again. Crying and the sounds of the beating stop the silence of the night. Then a heartbreaking snap is heard and an even louder scream echos the empty room.

    ¡°Wow that was the loudest scream of the night. Let''s see if you can top that.¡± The more he tortures her the more pleasure can be heard from his voice.

    The louder the scream will always follow a even louder laugh. He has almost forgotten why he originally did this as he slowly just enjoy the feeling of breaking bones.

    ¡°Plz, no more.¡± She says with a bit of a lisp because her mouth is bruised and cut. While she has lost most of her teeth as well as having a cut on her tongue.

    Ghost tries his hardest to break out of the rope tying him, but sadly all of his ability is in his blood magic and none in the body.

    ¡°But, I¡¯m just getting started, honey.¡± Another snap is heard and a scream similar to earlier is heard. ¡°No, no, no and NO you''re supposed to scream louder. Make this whole town sleepless. I want everyone to know what''s going on. It¡¯s not like they can do anything to stop me anyways. Hey kid what you think I should do next?¡±

    He waits a little bit before going aha. ¡°Sorry, I forgot I stopped you from talking. Here you can have one sentence. Got to make sure treatment is working.¡± He says as he finally remembers that this was supposed to be a treatment season for treating Ghost of his ¡®problem.

    ¡°You''re a madman, stop torturing her. I¡¯ll do whatever you want.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re probably right. I probably am a madman, but I became a madman to help people like you. You still said stop torturing her. There are two problems with that sentence, you know what they are? First problem torture! What I am doing isn¡¯t torturing, but setting her free! It should be happy that I¡¯m eventually letting it leave this world. Second, is you called it a her. That doesn''t have a gender but is a tool to for our survival.¡±

    Another two snaps are heard and a scream even louder than the last one resounds the town. ¡°There we go. Everyone must of heard that one.¡±

    ¡°Kill me, plz.¡± Dani who has long since given up on continue living her pathetic life begs for a mercy killing. The madman of course doesn¡¯t bother with such begs and continues to make her suffer.

    ¡°Come on I haven''t even done much to you, yet you want to die. *Sigh* Why do people have to be so weak. What should I do next?" He stops talking and just stands there thinking about what he can do to her next. He really wants her to scream till her throat can''t release any more noise.

    "Should I heal your injuries just to do it again. Nah that¡¯s plain and boring. How about instead of breaking I start cutting things.¡±

    The sound of a sword being drawn is heard while the blurry figure swings down and cuts. A wet liquid splatters onto Ghost¡¯s face while he is to in shock to realise that it''s blood.

    All this time he''s been trying to zone out everything, because he feels terrible for what has happened to her. Another deafening scream is then heard throughout the town.

    ¡°Wow that was the best one. I don¡¯t think I can get a better one out of you. But, how about we try to get an even better one even if you probably can¡¯t! Come on prove me wrong. Don''t you like rebelling against my teachings?¡±

    Ghost then licks the wet liquid that hit his face and realizes that it''s blood. Spit! He spits it out and the blurry figure in front of the kneeling figure falls. But as he falls something that looks like a sword strikes the kneeling figure.

    ¡°Dani!¡± He makes the blood open up his restraints and then takes off the blindfold and see the disfigured body that was once called Dani.

    ¡°Ghost," she pauses for a second then says "kill me.¡±

    ¡°But we can still save you. Magic can heal your wounds don¡¯t worry it''s possible. Please don¡¯t leave me. Not you too.¡± He starts to beg not realizing that this is all his fault and there was a plethora of ways to get her out of this situation. Dani just has a dull smile on her face as she seems to realize something

    ¡°Ghost, no one will heal me thanks to my race. I¡¯m surprised he didn''t cut off my ears or something along those lines. He cut off my right leg and arm even with magic I don''t think I can have those back so please Ghost kill me.¡± She says while crying out empty tears since her tear ducts have long since gone dry.

    ¡°I am so sorry, but what am I going to tell your parents?¡± Ghost asks while not realizing that they never came over to stop the noble during this entire fiasco. He only now starts to wonder where they currently are, but Dani interrupts his train of thought.

    ¡°Tell them I¡¯m sorry that I can''t be their daughter anymore.¡± She has a begging look on her disfigured face and he looks over her wounds yet again figuring out that if they aren''t treated soon she will die anyways.

    ¡°Ok.¡± He closes her eyes and sends out a needle into her brain, she¡¯s dead. He tried to give her as quick of a death as possible.

    -Why does this world keep taking things from me. First my sister now her.-

    Tears don''t stop following even while he leaves to find her parents. Outside a dwarf lies with his head chopped off and laying right next to his bodiless head.

    -He must of went to look for us when we didn''t return. I don¡¯t see Siena at least, but who knows what has happened to her.-

    ¡°I finally found you.¡± An old voice is heard in the background.

 Chapter 5: Training and Atonement

    ¡°Who is there?¡± Ghost yells out into the pitch black darkness that he has awaken into.

    ¡°Come on don¡¯t you remember the person who brought you into this world, my disciple.¡± A old and tired voice replied calmly.

    ¡°... I''m sorry but I just realized how rude I was when we first met. I didn¡¯t even ask you your name.¡± Ghost realizes how rude he was in the past and slowly recalls a girl who he never even introduced himself to and yet he thought of her as rude.

    ¡°Names are a useless thing. Just call me what I am, master.¡± He sighs while thinking of his previous disciple who was so sharp yet so weak.

    ¡°Yes, master. What you said was the truth this world is corrupt and I killed a bunch of innocents. The nobles are no good and the king is trapped in his castle.¡± He clenches his first while telling him the truth that he figured out after a long and tortuous journey.

    He slaps Ghost immediately and says. ¡°You are correct yet still wrong. My disciple stop looking at the worlds through an monochrom lens! The world isn¡¯t black and white.¡±

    ¡°Also the king isn¡¯t trapped. I know that for sure. He choose to stay in his castle for whatever reason that he found while you were here. Not all the nobles are bad. You already met some good nobles from your last stay here. Not everyone was trying to fool you.¡±

    ¡°I am a hopeless fool, master.¡± He says while rubbing the cheek that was just hit.

    ¡°Yes you are and it''s my job to make you less of a fool. Come let¡¯s go back to your new home.¡± He sighs while wondering why god gave such a gullible person such fearsome power and wondering what type of life this poor kid is going to have to live.

    ¡°How are you planning on taking me there. It took me a over a month of travel to get here.¡±

    ¡°Stop pretending to be tough and be quiet.¡±

    ¡°I''m not acting like anything.¡±

    ¡°Yes you are. I can see the tears in your eyes. Someone close to you just died and yet you have barely reacted. Show your true emotions for once.¡± He orders the distraught and confused Ghost.

    ¡°I''m fine master. I''m not holding in anything.¡± He argues back.

    ¡°If you say so.¡± After saying that he vanishes and a sharp chop hits back of Ghost¡¯s neck. As he¡¯s losing conscious he hears. ¡° Brat doesn''t even know when he acting and when he is not.¡±

    ¡°Wake up. We¡¯re here.¡± Ghost wakes up in the same underground cave. On the floor near the crystal clear lake and a water mill.

    ¡°Did you knock me out?¡± He asks confused and afraid at how he didn''t even see how his master moved.

    ¡°Makes it easier to carry you. Know I noticed you weren''t wearing your cloak. How often have you not had that on?¡± He orders Ghost with a disappointed look in his eyes.

    ¡°It''s heavy and cumbersome. How do you expect me to go anywhere if I wear something that I can barely move in.¡± He complains not knowing what he did wrong.

    ¡°Good point. I may have made the weight limit a little too heavy for you. Fine.¡± He takes the cloak and shakes it a bit. ¡°Their now you should be able to move with it on. Heck you should be able to run with it on!¡±

    ¡°How did you make it go from not being able to move to being able to run with it on?¡± Ghosts asks confused at the giant change.

    ¡°Were going to start training now and to begin training your going to have to run.¡± He ignores the question and carry on.

    ¡°How are we going to train, master?¡± He asks while he finally decide to get up off the floor.

    ¡°You fought against my disciple, so you probably noticed that his strength wasn¡¯t that amazing but his speed was probably on a whole new level, correct. Well he probably was still slower than me!¡±

    ¡°Yea, he was to fast for me to follow. If he actually used a sword I would definitely be dead right now.¡±

    ¡°He didn''t want to use a weapon and that was his downfall. If you can¡¯t get hit then what''s the use of defence?¡±

    ¡°If you can hit your opponent a hundred times and he can''t even hit you once what''s the use of strength?¡±

    ¡°Of course, I won''t completely ignore strength training. It just won¡¯t be the huge part of your training. It also is as simple as dealing a fatal blow to your opponent.¡±

    ¡°For instance what would be better cutting a person in half or slitting his throat? Of course it''s the one that takes the less energy.¡±

    ¡°Yes, master.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re going to chase me and either catch me or keep chasing me till I say stop. We will keep doing this till I think your body is strong enough for sword training. If you stop chasing me I¡¯ll tie you on that water mill over there. You understand?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± He starts chasing after his new master, but his master is always barely outside of his reach close yet so far away from him.

    ¡°Come on move faster is this the most you can do from a month of training.¡± He doesn''t seem to be increasing his speed yet he is getting farther and farther away.

    ¡°I''m going as fast as I can, master." Ghosts says while panting.

    ¡°Ha, you get training that no one else gets to and you''re complaining about it. Not even my previous disciple got to drink my sacred water whenever he collapsed we just called it done for the day."

    He says while Ghosts drink from the bottle he just gave him. Tasting the plain water that seems to energize all of his muscles.

    ¡°Pant! Can''t I begin sword training soon?¡±

    ¡°No, your body isn''t ready and you''re nowhere near fast enough. Follow me or I will tie you to that water mill again.¡± He follows his master through the same course yet again.

    The cycle continues of him chasing and painting and than tied back to the watermill. Eventually Ghost seems to get faster and pant a bit less after each long and tortuous cycle.

    He then finally says. "You''re ready, probably." He brings Ghost into another room. ¡°These swords are not as important as your mask, but that doesn''t mean you can mistreat them ok?¡± He pulls out two short daggers..

    ¡°I¡¯m supposed to use these tiny blades?¡± He ask confused. They don''t even look like they''re long enough to pierce a slime''s core.

    ¡°There is more to these blades then you think. This is the third treasure that my ancestors left me. The first is your mask, the second is your cloak and the last are these swords." He says while pointing at each.

    "Your mask isn''t just a mask. I won¡¯t tell you what else it can do, so figure it out.¡± He throws him the two daggers. ¡°Swing those around till you have a good feeling for them.¡±

    ¡°Wait you''re not going to teach me any style of fighting?¡±

    ¡°The best style is a style forged from combat. Only you can know the way you feel comfortable fighting. I won¡¯t force a style onto you. I let my first disciple fight only using his hands didn¡¯t I? If the swords don''t fit you then we can look for another weapon.¡±

    "So you want me to just swing around these daggers?¡±

    ¡°No, I want you to get used to the feel of them. You and those swords should be one in the same. Well at least eventually it should be like that. Right now I just want you to get used to holding them. Be prepared because what''s coming up next is live combat, hehe.¡±

    ¡°I take it you will find some way to punish me again for no reason?¡± He asks worriedly.

    ¡°Hey being strapped to that water mill will help you in so many ways and so did the swimming laps I made you do after you went around it a hundred times.¡±

    Some more time goes by! How long Ghost doesn¡¯t know and I can''t be bothered to count the days.

    Everyday being forced to fight against a different person, sometimes two people at once. Days go by wondering why he is even doing this to help him or to torture him.

    ¡°My disciple I think you¡¯re ready to learn about what has happened since you left. The nobles went on a tax rampage against the commoners simply because they can''t use magic." Ghost nods and his master continues on.

    "The king who normally would stop this rampage, but instead he locked himself in his castle like a little kid. Our spies have said he hasn¡¯t left for a whole year. I don''t know what happened to him, but it''s safe to say that he is also up to no good.¡±

    ¡°Do you know of anyone that can get us any information about what goes on in the castle?¡± He asks Ghost who then stops to think about all the people that he knew when he was first summoned.

    ¡°Yea, I think there is someone who will know what he is up to. When I was first summoned here I was taken in by a old lady who used to be a good friend to the king.¡±

    ¡°She should know what happened to him. I also know a noble family that helped me a lot when I was first summoned. Even if they were trying to use me I feel like their daughter was truly trying to be my friend. They¡¯re both probably good people. If you can get me into the capital then it''s a safe bet.¡±

    ¡°I see are you sure that they weren¡¯t corrupt?"

    "You can bet my life on it. She treated me like her own grandchild. The other group I can''t be completely sure but I think I''m positive that there¡®s one good person in that family."

    "After we get some more information on what is really happening I think it''s time we create a plan that can finally get rid of the corruption in this kingdom. Giving your senior brother¡¯s race a chance to grow and prosper.¡±

    He pauses as if he was debating something then after making his decision he tells Ghost. ¡°You and another disciple shall enter the capital. My spy should be able to get you in. What you do after words is your choice. If you decide to just charge straight into the castle then so be it.¡±

    ¡°She was there during your biggest battle. So you probably shouldn''t let her know your identity. Also don''t mention her being a part of the battle it still haunts her.¡±

    ¡°Master is this the summoned one?¡± A girl with red hair comes in while asking master.

    ¡°Yes my dear he may not look like much, but I assure you that he can help us.¡±

    ¡°So, what''s your name?¡±

    ¡°Ghost Shinigami.¡±

    ¡°... This may seem rude, but who ever named you has a terrible naming sense.¡±

    Ghosts voice gets colder and angrier at the insult, while he was thinking of his now dead older sister who took care of him since he was young.

    ¡°... My sister gave me my name first and last. What''s yours then if you think you can insult other people''s names.¡±

    ¡°Sorry, probably shouldn''t have said that and it''s Phora. I sometimes don''t think before I speak, so i''m sorry¡± She seems extremely apologetic and sorry about what she said.

    ¡°Well, Phora I hope that you aren''t scared of entering the capital."

    "Why would I be it''s just a city?" She seems surprisingly unaware of the future consequences about what would happen if they were caught.

    ¡°It¡¯s a city that if you get caught inside we will probably be executed on site. Is it just a city now?¡±

    Ghost thinks about exaggerating the danger a bit, but realizes that it¡¯s actually dangerous enough without him exaggerating about it.

    All the guards are probably working for the king not the people so it is true that she probably would be killed on the spot if they were caught.

    ¡°No.¡±

    ¡°Let''s go it''s probably going to take us forever just to get to the city, sigh.¡±

    ¡°Ah, I can help you with that disciples.¡±

    ¡°You can?¡±

    ¡°Yes, the spy created a magic circle just for this. I told my idiot of a disciple that he can easily sneak into the capital and just kill the king, but no he wanted to do it flashy and show him the strength of the unknown. By straight up attacking each and every village in his way.¡±

    ¡°... So, why haven''t you told me about that before? I wouldn¡¯t have had to go out and see the other villages. I''m pretty sure that the capital isn''t perfect. I bet if I just went outside into the 1st district. There would be poor people everywhere."

    ¡°It''s not that bad. At least not in the capital. Everyone is filthy rich besides the servants and slaves. They have ridiculously huge houses that''s the reason why there are 4 districts.¡±

    ¡°You had to see the actual villages and towns to get a real look at how the world is right now. Now go.¡± A circle glows beneath their feet and they¡¯re sent out to the capitol.

    ¡°Why does any transportation magic have to give such a heavy headache?¡± Hu-uh Hu-uh Hu-uh Gluah! P''tu khan! ¡° Ha you couldn¡¯t hold it in Phora?¡±

    ¡°Not everyone gets teleported. Barely anyone gets the chance to experience teleportation."

    "That may be true, but you know what''s worse than teleportation?"

    "What?"

    "Summonings they hurt a lot more than this. You know I didn''t puke when I was brought here. But here you are a minor teleportation and chunking out all your lunch." She looks down staring at the ground. Her fire red hair covering her eyes.

    "Don''t worry about it when I was summoned I had nothing to puke out in the first place. Tell me about yourself while we wait for masters spy to show up."

    "Well there isn''t much to tell, but after insulting your sister I guess I can tell you something embarrassing.¡±

    ¡°I could be called special if you compare me to any other unknown, yet I am hated for the same reason. It''s more of a curse than a blessing." She says while becoming even more depressed.

    "What''s your curse?" He curiously ask her.

    "Unlike the rest of the unknown I have a unique ability. It can''t really be called magic, since I have no mana, but I can control fire.¡±

    ¡°When I say I can control fire in reality it''s a pitiful ability. More like a party trick than a weapon." Tears start to appear in her eyes.

    Hmm maybe she took the magic circle to the capital and killed Jana with her fire magic? I just can''t help but try to figure out how his sister died if they didn''t want to assasinate the king.

    "When I was told to kill the demon that the nobles call a hero with my cheap party trick I was shocked. You see I always gloated saying that I can control even more I just don''t want to harm anyone." A tear trickled down her cheek.

    Maybe a rogue group used a magic scroll to try and kill him to lower losses? I mean not everyone should be a idiot like their previous leader and want to attack them straight up.Unauthorized use of content: if you find this story on Amazon, report the violation.

    "So they told me to use my ability to make the ''hero''s'' blood magic vanish. I ran right after the fighting began.¡±

    ¡°The people that were supposed to protect me were probably shocked, but I kept on running. That day everyone who tried to go against that demon died." More tears start to fall.

    "It was all my fault if I didn''t lie to them and give them false hope they probably wouldn''t have charged into their deaths like that or if I was stronger than I would''ve been able to do the things I said I would.¡±

    ¡°The cruelest thing of all is that my ability is actually improving to the point where I might of been able to do something." She breaks out crying.

    "Well, that''s a lot to take in you didn''t really spare me the details. When I asked you to tell me about yourself I ment hobbies, things you like, and other stuff like that. Not your deepest darkest regrets, but that works too. I guess."

    Honestly she probably just really needed someone to confess all her problems to and Ghost was the only person near her in the end.

    "You can''t change the past so look ahead to the future. If you continue to be in the past all you feel is emptiness. I should know I already lost two people who were close to me. Aren''t we trying to fix your mistake right now?"

    -I tell her this yet I may not be over it. Am I truly just ignoring my feelings?-

    "Yea, you''re right we may not be able to kill the ''hero'', but we can at least fix the mess he caused."

    "That''s the spirit. Now you hiding in the shadows come on out. I take it you are masters spy since I just noticed you."

    "Greetings." A man hidden in dark clothing appears.

    "What section are we in right now?" Ghost immediately asks him.

    "The fourth, young master."

    "Ok good I know some people that live here. One of them I''ll have to meet alone, but the other should be ok meeting you once I talk to her." They move out of a secret underground tunnel onto a familiar street.

    The sun has already fallen and the normally busy market is as quiet as death itself. "Follow me."

    They keep on moving forward till a familiar little hut appears in their vision. "Let me talk to the owner first and then you should be able to stay here for a night."

    "But how do you know a noble? You have only been here for a little while, right?"

    He half smiles and replies, "Everyone deserves their own secrets. I wouldn''t of bugged you if you said that you didn''t want to talk about your past, so don''t bug me about mine."

    He enters the familiar home and yells out to the owner. "Liz! You still living here?"

    "Who goes there?" A familiar old voice calls out.

    "It''s me, Liz" Ghost replies while taking off his mask. Tears are trickling down his face.

    "Ghost it can''t be, you already left back to your home world." She denies his very existence.

    "I came back, because someone copied the summoning circle. I found out how bad this world is and what I was really protecting. I need your help."

    "My help with what?" She asks still not understanding what is going on.

    "What has king been up to? Why has he vanished for a year?" He asks her the question that has been bugging him every since he heard about it, plus the unknown not being able to use magic making him wonder what really happened to his sister.

    Finally he starts to wonder about the same thing as I am! He might be a bit slow on the uptake but at least he realized the problem.

    "I''m not sure. All I know is he is staying there willingly."

    "That is all I need to know. Now if I may ask for your assistance in planning the overthrowing of the king and many of the nobles? I need your help, because that castle is like a maze and you should know its lay out."

    He begs her while on his hands and knees. Once again the familiar small house is cluttered with books.

    "Well I can help you with that then I guess. I used to be the king''s head mage, until he called me crazy and kicked me out and I got old, but that happened later."

    "Ok good, now the people outside are helping me fix what I did wrong. They don''t know that I am the one who caused all of this and I would like to keep it a secret if possible."

    "Ok, but what if they ask me how I know you?"

    "Tell them that if I don''t want to tell them then you don''t have the right to tell them."

    "Fine." She doesn''t look like she want to lie.

    "You guys can come in now." He puts the mask back on while they are coming back in. "She agreed to help us with our plans."

    "Really?"

    "Yeah."

    "Good because I''m tired master made me stay up so late just to teleport here at night. He didn''t even let me take a nap and instead said ''that if I have time to sleep why don''t you train'' sheesh?"

    She hops on the couch and falls asleep being the same oblivious and tormented little kid. Her body starts to shake a bit clearly having a nightmare. Maybe she was always tormented by nightmares leading to a lack of sleep.

    "Liz, I need to go talk to Alicia as well."

    "That sounds like a good idea. Her family is newer to the disease we call nobility, so they should know nobles that aren''t that bad to the poor. Not all of them are bad Ghost."

    "I know, master already taught me that.

    -Ah, it feels like it''s been so long since I walked down this road!-

    The nostalgic house appears and he knocks on the same old door.

    "Who is it? Do you know what time it is?" A familiar blue haired woman answers the door.

    "Hi, Sophia it has been a while hasn''t it?"

    "Ghost, how are you back? What did you do? Why are you hear? Do you think it''s possible to return back?¡±

    ¡°Alicia kept on pestering me about a way to recreate a summoning to go to your world." She starts rapid firing off questions just like she did back when they first met.

    "Slow down, slow down, go get the others I need a favor from you guys. Also, don''t tell Alicia that I''m back. I want it to be a surprise." She rushes upstairs to wake up the rest of the household.

    ¡°Mom, do you know what time it is why did you wake us up?¡± A younger voice complains.

    ¡°I didn¡¯t someone important came if you want to blame anyone blame him.¡±

    She points at Ghost while looking at her daughter who jumps off the stairs and heads straight towards Ghost like a meteor.

    He proceeds to get tackled and sent on a back to the head collision with the hardwood floor.

    ¡°Well, I didn¡¯t expect to get tackled.¡± He says still shocked at the cute reaction by his only friend.

    She blushes and then gets up and stutters, ¡°G-ghost, w-why are you h-here? Is this a dre-eam?¡±

    He breaks out laughing and then help her get up and come back to reality. ¡°Yea I''m back. I caused something that can never be forgiven no matter what I do, but I want to at least make it a little bit easier on everyone. To that I need your help.¡±

    ¡°What do you need? You know that we will do the best in our power to help you.¡± Sophia asks as he is getting up off the floor.

    ¡°I need a list of all the nobles that are the cause for all of the poverty. We are going to go through an extermination. I¡¯ll explain the rest of the plan on a latter day. If everything works out this world will be a better place.¡±

    ¡°Where do you want us to meet you?¡± Alicia inquires.

    ¡°At Liz¡¯s place. We all need to work together if we want this plan to work. How long do you think it will take for you to get a list of every noble that is abusing their power?¡±

    ¡°That might take a while, I don¡¯t know.¡± Sophia says unsure.

    ¡°Thats ok you can take as much time as you need. Alicia here take this." He secretly hands her another viral of blood incase her mom confiscated the previous one.

    Than he goes and whispers in her ear closely. "I am positive if you want to recreate a summoning circle that you will need it."

    ¡°Why can¡¯t I just come with you?¡±

    ¡°Because, then you wouldn¡¯t win our bet. Don¡¯t you want your three wishes answered?¡±

    ¡°...¡± She blushes at the thought of her extremely bold bet with him.

    ¡°Exactly, now look on the brightside you get to see the summoning circle again and there is a person who copied it so he should be able to help you if everything turns out well. Your situation has got even better hasn¡¯t it?¡±

    ¡°I guess.¡±

    ¡°That''s the spirit. Now how long do you think it will take to get the list?¡± He loudly asks Sophia who was getting extremely curious about what her daughter was whispering to with a boy her age.

    She holds her ears out of suprise by the loud voice that suddenly came out of the room while she was trying to hear something a lot quieter. ¡°Anywhere from a day to a month why?¡±

    ¡°Because, I still have things that I want to teach Alicia. I also want to check on her progress.¡±

    ¡°Ghost, you don''t have to teach me anything anymore I¡¯ve probably surpassed you in magical knowledge.¡±

    ¡°Can you see magic formations?¡±

    ¡°No.¡± She tries to argue but he interrupts her.

    ¡°Can you read the formation to tell which magic is which?¡±

    ¡°No.¡±

    ¡°Then I will always have more knowledge than you.¡¯

    ¡°That ability isn¡¯t fair.¡±

    ¡°It is not like I decided to be able to see them. To be fair I was born this way there is no way to change that!¡±

    ¡°You have to use every card that you were born with and try to increase them. It is no good to ignore something you have. Even if I didn¡¯t want it I can''t just make it disappear.¡±

    ¡°But, do you understand how annoying that is. No matter what spell I come at you with you can prepare in advance. Before I can even release it. For the larger spells that take forever to chant it''s like bluntly telling you what my plan is.¡± She seems annoyed.

    ¡°You know that I have to learn what the spell formation means right? It''s not like the name of the spell is right in front of my eyes.¡±

    ¡°Just to use this ability effectively I have to learn spell formations that I will never be able to use. Also shorten the chant or something similar to that. Since I can see the spell I know you don''t really need the chant.¡±

    ¡°Fine, I guess it is not as easy as it seems, but other than that I know how to use magic. You can''t use it, so all you can teach me is theories right?¡±

    ¡°You''re right I can''t use the magic that you can use, but I have my own type of magic that is much more powerful than any spell or chant that you can use. Also I bet you never thought you could use a spell without a chant.¡±

    ¡°You mean that pitiful breathing fire that you did a year ago? Have you even improved on that since last time we met?¡±

    ¡°Of course, I haven''t. The only way I am going to improve on it is if I find a dragon to teach me. It is not in any of the books I have read, so I am in the dark here.¡±

    ¡°You call it draconic magic, but all you can do is breathe fire are you sure it is draconic magic? Maybe you just have the ability to breathe fire like your blood control.¡±

    ¡°Blood doesn''t make me feel tired if I use it to much. Hurts my brain sure, but I don''t feel mana disappearing from inside of me.¡±

    ¡°When I breathe fire I have to channel my mana into my mouth. I¡¯ve also created a yell amplified by it, so it''s not just turning into fire.¡±

    ¡°Fine What did you figure out while you were away?¡±

    ¡°Beware of things that lack mana. Mana less objects obstruct mana. I¡¯ve seen mana vanish when it hit something that didn''t have mana in it.¡±

    ¡°While I was here somehow a noble took away my mana for a short period of time. I don¡¯t know how but I think it had something to do with a mana less substance entering my body.¡±

    ¡°Well the potion is made from unknown blood. I can tell you that. The whole magic not liking things that don''t have mana isn¡¯t widely known, because in this world everything has mana inside of it besides the unknown. It is usually just too weak for anyone to use it.¡±

    ¡°So they are even used as magic ingredients. I will definitely fix this mess that I created.¡±

    Time goes by as Alicia and Ghost experiment in different ways to chant less to use magic. They are getting closer and closer to discover how to do get rid of a couple of words when Sophia comes in with pieces of paper in her hands.

    ¡°Sorry it took so long Ghost but here is the list you wanted.¡± She hands him a list on plain old paper.

    ¡°Long? This only took two week to get. How exact is it? I don''t want to persecute good people and ignore bad people here, Sophia.¡±

    He asks as he reads through the list of names. One of them is familiar, Alex. No last name just Alex, the fishing noble.

    ¡°I can guarantee that this is everything you need, now tell me what your plan is?¡±

    ¡°My plan is to make this whole world hate me.¡±

    He leaves the cozy family and heads through the castle till he gets near the throne room. Only then does he start to debate about whether he is doing a good thing this time around.

    He finally reaches outside the throne room where everything started and a new beginning shall happen!.

    -Let¡¯s starting fixing all my mistakes.-

    ¡°So, Mr. King we meet again. You think you can fool me and get away with it? Today is the day you die and this world becomes better for a bit. Do you have any last words?¡±

    Ghost say while kicking open throne room. The king''s face turns from disbelief to the same arrogant looking one.

    ¡°You can''t kill me, no one can. This world is mine and no one else''s you can''t take it from me. Nobles, *spit*, they are just puppets. There isn''t anything higher than me.¡±

    ¡°Even you aren''t higher than I am. You''re not a hero the citizens call me a hero as well and yet you think of me as a villain. My spies told me everything. You think I wouldn''t watch over the cities?¡±

    ¡°I also knew about that unknown and her ''family''. I was surprised when the ''bandits'' failed to kill them." He says while getting of his throne.

    "The main reason why you can''t kill me is I have something you want.¡± He has a smile on his face like he knows a secret that no one else knows.

    Ghost almost instantly makes a blood collar and send it around his neck. ¡°You have nothing that I want stop trying to confuse me. Tell me what you are still hiding or I''ll kill you right now.¡±

    Not even flinching when the collar goes around his neck and arrogantly replies. ¡°But I do. Use your brain. If you know both sides of the story then you know the truth. The unknown can¡¯t use magic.¡±

    ¡°Yea and?¡±

    ¡°Who killed your sister?¡±

    ¡°An unknown using a fire spell.¡±

    He claps his hand and makes a aha sound. ¡°That in itself is a contradiction unknown can''t use magic. Sure they have those annoying scrolls but most aren''t that powerful. Your sister is still alive. You left her with me. All this time.¡±

    ¡°What did you do to her.¡±

    ¡°Nothing much, I couldn¡¯t do anything to her when you were here out of fear of you noticing, but once you left I debated on raping her right there and then.¡±

    "I decided you won¡¯t be coming back ever again, so why not make her my loyal slave and force her to love me. Your lucky, kid. She is still pure or is she? But sadly, you will never find her and.¡±

    ¡°Shut up! I know how to find her and if I can''t then I will just force it out of your mouth.¡±

    -Where is she. She should have the same blood as me, so it should be simple.-

    ¡°HA, I know she isn¡¯t even in this castle.¡±

    ¡°Have you done your research. I¡¯ve never left this castle she is in here.¡± He looks worried for a split second then he smiles a bright smile.

    ¡°Your lying I can easily sense my blood and she should have the same blood as me flowing through her veins. I don¡¯t sense her so that means she isn''t here.¡±

    ¡°This is priceless.¡± A maniacal laughter resounds the hall. ¡°It seems your precious sister isn¡¯t even blood related to you. I can guarantee that your sister is in this building.¡±

    ¡°Well that makes this simple.¡± He walk up to him and put his hand on the kings head.

    ¡°You can''t move thanks to this collar controlling your blood flow. Now I wonder how it feels to make your blood flow backwards?

    All of the king¡¯s blood starts to reverse then goes back to normal over and over again. ¡°Now tell me where she is.¡±

    ¡°Cough, Neverr.¡± Snap! ¡°How about now?¡± ¡°No.¡± Slice! ¡°You know you''re doing a great job at holding in the pain.¡±

    ¡°Curse you.¡±

    ¡°You shouldn''t have messed with me or my family now should you have?¡±

    ¡°I''m, sorry, but if I tell you where she is you will still kill me at least right now I have a chance at living.¡± Slice, slice!

    ¡°You think you have a chance at living? I can just kill you and search this castle I know she is here. It is just easier for me to do this than search for her. You know what? I think I have a great idea on how to find her you¡¯re not needed anymore.¡± The king''s body gets split in half.

    -By using his blood I can spread it throughout the castle every nook and cranny and find her. Lets see there are humans over here.-

    The blood destroys a hole in the wall at the right side of the throne. ¡°I am coming Jana.¡±

    He goes down a dark empty stairway into a damp prison. There are two cells and inside one of them is what used to be called Jana.

    She is just sitting there drooling not even reacting to seeing her dear brother. Completely broken. In the other cell is three to four girls probably around Jana''s age.

    Ghost leaves the castle without Jana not wanting to put her into any danger. ¡°Everyone come on out." His magically enhanced voice bellows throughout hopefully all of the capital.

    ¡°What do you want?¡± A male voice asks.

    ¡°Do you know what time it is?¡± Another female asks.

    ¡°I have something to tell you all.¡± He takes of his mask and cloak. ¡°I am the hero who was summoned a year ago for your war. I pretended to save you all."

    "In reality the war had no reason. Some lazy nobles wanted to stop guarding the towns, so they instigated a war with a weak race that can do their jobs for them.¡±

    ¡°Things went south fast, so they convinced the king to bring me in this world and promised me riches if I saved it and pretend to leave. I even was asked to pretend to be a kid."

    "In reality I never left and was living a good life here in the capital while holding your king a prisoner in his own home. But, I got bored so I killed him and now I shall be the ruler of this world. No one can stop me even all of you come at me at once. So give up!¡±

    ¡°Like hell we would give up.¡± Alicia¡¯s voice is heard in the background. ¡°Are we going to let him rule over us? No! Let''s stand up to him and all the people that support him.¡±

    ¡°I thought something was fishy, so I researched a list of the people that support him.¡° Sophia¡¯s voice chimes in.

    ¡°Let¡¯s get rid of the people who mistreat everyone and make something more are we just puppets made to listen to the few who are willing to control us? Should we treat others like they have treated us?¡±

    ¡°I say No!¡± Arthur''s voice is also heard. ¡°Should anyone be treated like such idiots?¡±

    ¡°You people still can''t stop me, so stop trying.¡± A blood wall appears over the castle then falls on it crushing the wall behind into dust. ¡°Can you stop that?¡±

    ¡°Don''t worry we may not be able to kill this demon but at least we can make him disappear for good.¡± A magic circle appears below me and starts to glow and then teleports me back into Liz¡¯s house.

    ¡°You sure you¡¯re ok with this?¡± She asks him concerned having also moved his sister back to him. Moaning can be heard throughout the small hut

    ¡°Positive, it was the only way that I could hold true to a promise. Well I''m going to go now.¡±

    ¡°Aren¡¯t you going to wait for them to come back and at least give them a proper goodbye?¡±

    ¡°No, they are the heros and I''m the villain I got to leave before anyone catches wind of me still being here. It''s for the best if I just take Jana and leave.¡±

    Another teleport circle activates sending Jana and him back to his master. ¡°Master I greet you for the last time. I am sorry that I shamed you by being the villain of this world, but it had to be done.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re not a villain.¡±

    ¡°It''s for the best that you remember me as the villain and the king as the hero that is how I told Sophia to make our tale known.¡±

    He has a faint smile on his face and the return home circle activates.

    -I wonder what kind of face I am showing him right now.-

    ¡°Jana were finally home.¡±

    -I wonder what is going to happen to us now. Maybe someone has the magic to fix her.-

    And so the story of Ghost and his sister''s adventures in another world comes to a end. He isn''t the best candidate out their for my viewing, but I''m still curious about the side effects of the summoning that happened around the world.

    Maybe I''ll go back to viewing him after the summoning stops but as of right now I have another candidate in mind to watch.

 Chapter 6 Temporary new job?

    In the end I have returned to watch over the once little kid who has grown up. There is so much to view out their but it''s so hard to find one that''s good.

    I found another candidate to state out uncontrollable urge to view someone''s adventures, but things have been going slow with him right now.

    Enough about what I''ve been up to let''s go and look at the current Ghost and wonder about what happened to him after we left!

    "Sister don''t worry! Your little brother won''t disappear again, I promise. I''ll take care of you and make you as good as new. If only you could see me now, I¡¯ve changed so much I wonder if you would even recognize me."

    Ghost talks with his corpse like sister, who still hasn¡¯t recovered after all these years. Her body on the other hand is still ageing even in her current state. Most of her muscles are probably extremely regressed, but she still has a healthy pink glow on her cheeks.

    "I''m sorry but I have grown taller than you. I know how you were always complaining about you being short and how I will eventually outgrow you. Well you grew a little I think." She twitches a little or it could just be the light playing tricks on everyone.

    "Look I even made this cabin here. In the middle of these beautiful woods and in front of a lake, with a waterfall just like you always wanted.¡±

    Ghost waves his hand and the sound of rushing water starts to enter the room drowning out his fresh tears.

    -I will find a way to make you, you again! I swear it on my very soul!-

    He exits her room to enter an almost empty living room and then leaves the small cabin to go out and find some food.

    -I tell her the same thing everyday yet no response happens. I really should find a healer or at least a expert in some medical field, but who can I trust in this familiar yet foreign world.-

    He starts to leave the area knowing that no beasts would dare come here, because his aura and killing intent has been permanently marked in the area.

    Ghost continues onward to look for some animal tracks to maybe catch a deer or some other game. A loud roar comes from the direction of the cabin.

    Ghost starts to sprint towards the cabin, he moves so fast he that he seems to vanish and appears in front of the cabin instantly.

    "Who goes there?"

    A grey grizzly is hitting the cabins side, but luckily it''s being reinforced by a magic formation that Ghost learned from another world years ago.

    "Stop!" He yells fearing for his poor sister''s life. Blood comes out of one of his pockets where some containers are hidden, while others are strapped to his body or under his cloak. He Immediately sends it at the bear to distract it.

    The bear turns revealing its bloodshot eyes that doesn''t look to have any intelligence. The blood immediately scatters before it can even touch the bear.

    It slashes out towards Ghost who barely manages to dodge based off of instinct away from it. The trees that was behind him explode into splinters.

    "What was that?!" Ghost can''t help but yell out being shocked that the insane bear can use magic! He would of been sliced into pieces if he didn''t instinctively dodge away from it.

    Seeing how the bear''s surprise attack failed it charges right at him. Not knowing what almost killed him he send a half thought out attacks at it to test the waters.

    After the second poorly made spear shatters before touching it he pulls himself together and pull out his old but trusted weapons.

    When his master first gave them to him he didn''t exactly like the feeling of using them, but over time he learned some the unique qualities of them. Most of the flaws he also learned how to fix with blood. Is the feeling I get from his body and mind.

    Even so they aren''t the same weapons that his master gave him all those years ago. Over the years he had to modify them bit by bit battle after battle. There are many different changes to the dagger, but I have no way of knowing what they do.

    He launch one last attack of blood at the bear. This time he concentrates most of the blood onto one point so it ends up clashing with a invisible barrier and almost pierces it.

    -I see so it can control wind much like how I can control blood.-

    He then starts to urge all the blood that has splattered the floor red, from all of his failed attempts, to form a wall in between him and the bear.

    The bear then lets out a ferocious roar that can probably be heard throughout the forest and then slams straight against his wall with its wind barrier, but his wall barely wins until it slams its body into it completely destroying the blood wall.

    It slashes at Ghost and another wind blade comes out at him. This time Ghost uses his blade to stop it instead of dodging. He also uses the force from it to push himself backwards away from the beast.

    Ghost charges at the bear and stabs out towards its eye, but the bear manages to dodge it without being hurt.

    Suddenly the second blade comes lower towards it''s neck chopping in a upwards position. The blade is covered in blood that vibrates like a chainsaw and once it hits the bears neck it cuts right rough like a hot knife through butter. The head goes flying and the strange bear is finally dead.

    "Pant! I wonder if this is edible. Also that completely took me by surprise. If I knew it could do that i would of just instantly killed it. My training is still lacking almost dying to a beast that couldn''t think."

    Ghost stares at the beast wondering if the grey fur means that it can control wind.

    -The wind attacks were shocking but were not as strong as they could of been. I guess that¡¯s what happens when you give a power to a animal. If other animals also have these types of powers it will be bothersome if they all became hostile or gained human intelligence.-

    ¡°Sis are you ok?¡± Ghost yells towards the cabin forgetting that even if she was ok, she wouldn''t be able to reply to him. He rushes into the cabin hoping for the best ¡°Sister don''t scare me like that. I thought that somehow the bear might have hurt you.¡±

    ¡°Knock, knock!¡±

    ¡°Who¡¯s there?¡± He asks while moving towards the window to see who is knocking on his door in the middle of nowhere.

    Outside is a man wearing a suit and tie. He looks strangely formal. He looks very feminine and is of asian descent. He also has glasses which his long black hair almost covers.

    ¡°Come on out. You don''t have to be scared I will not hurt you. I just want to ask you a few questions and then possibly recruit you to a school for people like you.¡± His high pitched voice answers.

    ¡°People like me? I don''t understand what you are saying so leave. If you don''t leave don''t blame me for what I might do to you.¡± Ghost replys back worrying for Jana''s safety.

    ¡°Now, now you don''t have to suddenly become hostile. If you are that worried about your safety it would really be for the best that you join my academy. It''s really the safest place for people like you. You might of heard about it before the hero academy?¡±

    The feminine man tries to seem as harmless as possible. ¡°You may of heard me before my name is Hiro. I was one of the first people to come back, so you can trust me. I''m like you.¡±

    ¡°I told you to leave.¡± Ghost opens the door and slashes out with his trusted weapons and then he suddenly falls towards the ground before they get close to Hiro.

    ¡°Feisty one.¡± Ghost hears before sleep forces itself onto him.

    -Ugg, where am I?- He opens his eyes and looks around to only see white. Even the chair Ghost is tied to is a white chair.

    He immediately tries to break whatever is preventing him from leaving the chair but it doesn¡¯t budge at all, obviously brute strength still isn''t his strong suit.

    He then tries to sense for the blood that he usually keep on him, but he can''t find any trace of it anywhere. He then tries to breathe out fire but finally realizes that his mouth is gagged with a anti magic lock.

    Seconds or minutes pass by as time seems to halt while Ghost just sits there waiting. He thought about trying to count the seconds that went by, but the stillness and emptiness of the room keeps his mind from focusing on one thing.

    The white door that reminds everyone of the purity of a baby¡¯s soul opens up and a man walks in. Long black hair, feminine face that almost screams women.

    Skinny upper and lower body. If he tried to pretend to be a female he probably would look cute. The only thing that tells you his gender is that his shirt is unbuttoned. Displaying his flat weak looking male chest.

    "Welcome to my favorite room. I just call it the white room. I''ve seen people go crazy for staying in here too long."

    He stops talking for a second and then continues on ramblings while pacing back and forth.

    "Your gagged as of right now because I have things to say and I can''t be troubled by you interrupting me. Also some people can kill others with just a word or do other annoying stuff like mages chanting spells that could destroy my school."

    He leaves for a second, maybe for a minute, then comes back with a black chair and a table! He puts both in front of Ghost with the back of the chair facing him. Then he sits down in it backwards and continues,

    "So I brought you here, because people like us are dangerous to the old world. Luckily, we are useful to the new one, but to sort through all of the people that have came back is a pain. My job is to bring everyone to this... let''s call it a academy."

    He then takes out the gag and then Ghost starts to rapid fire off questions. "Where is my sister? Why couldn''t you just let me live my life in peace? Haven''t I done enough for other people?"

    He puts his fingers to Ghosts lips and then says, "Shh, I''ll answer your questions but one at a time. Your sister is fine, well nothing has changed with her. You have a gift that''s best be used to help people not hide in some handmade house."

    "You said that this was a academy?" Ghost questions him about his whereabouts and the reason he is here.

    "Yes, it''s a academy to teach you how to survive in the new world. We can teach you the basics of what the old world wanted but we limited on education on reading and writing with some basic math on the side.¡±

    ¡°Our main focus is letting protection agencies find talented people to help protect the few places that humanity can still call home.¡±

    ¡°The more people who come back the safer the cities can become. If there is enough we can even create more cities for the future as well."

    He then puts his hands on Ghost¡¯s shoulders stares straight into his eyes and says, "All of this doesn''t mean much to you. I want to hire you, since you killed the wind bear.¡±

    ¡°Your pay will be free room and food, but mainly I''ll ask everyone that knows healing arts to try to fix your sister."

    "And what will I have to do during this job?" He asks seeing a ray of hope in the pitch black darkness that is his current life.

    "You will have to pretend to be the worst student ever to enroll into this academy, while secretly being its guardian!¡±

    ¡°Pretty much I don''t want you to get recruited while you do most of the dirty work to keep this place running."

    "Wouldn''t the agencies want to protect the school." He asks him a very obvious question while wondering why the teachers don''t protect the school as well..

    "They created an excuse saying that the teachers and I should be enough incase of any emergency. Also they couldn''t find a neutral agency that won''t poach members from the school early.¡±

    ¡°They are even against us having our students go hunt the beasts that are right next door to the school. They say that we can''t risk hurting their future comrades. It really makes zero sense to me." He complains and complains.

    ¡°Wait if students aren''t even allowed to hunt then how are they supposed to protect people from monsters?¡±This narrative has been purloined without the author''s approval. Report any appearances on Amazon.

    ¡°The agencies cover that. They probably each have their own way to show the newbies the ropes. And well you all fought for a good portion of your life. I mean you were summoned to be heroes.¡±

    ¡°The only reason why this school exists is to gather up all of you and show the lower students who were summoned to lower worlds how to actually fight.¡±

    ¡°Some students show remarkable growth just by showing them all the knowledge they could of learned if they were just summoned to a better world.¡±

    "So, how am I supposed to pretend to be a terrible student?"

    "Well there as four types of students knights, magicians, rogues, and archers.¡±

    ¡°Knights are mostly close combat and thick defence with their armor and even worse there very skin. Some knights'' skin are even stronger than their armor.¡±

    ¡°Thanks to their thick defence and usually slow movement, but strong offence and strangely quick attacks. Their symbol is the black turtle snake Genbu."

    He takes out a white medal and puts it on the table in front of Ghost. The medal has a black turtle on it with a snake as its tail.

    "Magicians are pretty much people who rely on magic. Their magic defence is top of the line, but their regular defence isn''t even half as good as even a rogue.¡±

    ¡°Their spells vastly outweigh their weak physical defence. Since their magical defence is so strong their spells have to be just as fierce.¡±

    If you let a mage chant magic for long enough then a vast amount of lives will be lost. Also healers belong to the mage class so high amounts of damage and the power to save lives. Their symbol is of the vermilion bird Suzaku."

    He places another metal on the table this time it has a blue background and a red bird that looks like a phoenix.

    "Which brings me to the rogue. They tend to act more along the lines of assassins. They are fast and hit hard, but they usually can''t take a hit.¡±

    ¡°Light armor and most of their magic is put into making them go faster and hit harder. They usually completely ignore defence.¡±

    ¡°It''s not that their defence is bad per say some of them are harder to kill then a knight. their defence is of a different category dodging.¡±

    ¡°So area of effect mages are pretty dangerous to them. Their symbol is the white tiger Byakko." He puts a third medal on the table with a black background and a white tiger that almost seems alive.

    "The last is the archer who uses a bow and arrow to kill. Long range like magic, but not nearly as strong. Their defence is lacking and agility is slower than a rogue but still the second fastest.¡±

    ¡°The arrows don''t do much unless the archer is skilled. Personally only the talented are of any use the rest you can''t really call a hero. Their symbol is the azure dragon Seiry¨±.¡±

    ¡°I guess the creator wanted to keep with the theme of the four guardians when they choose this as their symbol.¡±

    ¡°I just blatantly copied it from the world I was in and the world accepted it as their system and here names so. *Shrug* " He puts a medal with a crimson red background and a azure blue wingless dragon.

    "Choose which one you think you can act being a sub par hero. It can''t be something that you can''t do, but at least choose something you can be decent at."

    Ghost immediately pick up the azure dragon medallion which is the only one he is truly bad at.

    "Archery I shouldn''t be too bad at it. If I had to choose which I would be rogue I guess. I''ll take you up on your offer."

    "Fantastic! Know there are a few more thing that you have to go through before you can be admitted as a student."

    ¡°Such as?"

    ¡°Nothing much you have up to 4 years to graduate. Graduating is finding a group that will take you in by the way. The students are ranked from F to S in reality there are zero people that are ranked F and zero of the S rank as students.¡±

    ¡°You are the first F ranker to ever appear in the academy congrats. I put a loop hole saying you have to be at least a D rank to get a group and you can''t leave till you are a D rank.¡± He pauses for a second and takes out a golden pocket watch. Then looks at the time.

    "There is more that you will have to learn but most of that can be taught by your homeroom teacher. So, I''ll just let the normal teacher tell you about it. Follow me." He then takes out of the white room, to Ghost¡¯s relief, and he follows him down a long hallway till the last room.

    ¡°Is that my classroom?¡±

    ¡°Yep.¡±

    ¡°Shouldn¡¯t you give me back the items you took from me first?¡±

    ¡°Oh right! I forgot sorry. Here you go your two small blades, one black cloak and one strange mask. Wait you can hide those blades well right? I mean a archer would carry those but they look more like a rouges.¡±

    ¡°Can you leave the cloak at my room and as for these you wouldn''t have found them if they weren''t in my hand when you knocked me unconscious.¡± He says as he puts on his mask then his body starts to magically shine bright white.

    After the blinding light disappears and Ghost looks at a glass window to check his new appearance. It changed into a normal colored, brown eyes and blonde shoulder length hair. HIs face also looks completely different in structure to his real face. The perfect disguise.

    ¡°Nifty mask you have there. To bad your aura doesn¡¯t change. Anyone that knows your aura signature might be able to recognize you. If a monster was attacking I''m sure no one would be calm enough to recognize your signature.¡±

    ¡°Yeah that was the plan. What about the blood you took from me?¡±

    ¡°We are studying it to see if they can be used for magic formations. After we finish than I¡¯ll give it back to you. So, I entered the white room just after class had started.¡±

    ¡°I think thirty minutes to an hour has gone by congrats it''s your first day yet you already tardy." After he says that he opens the door and pushes Ghost while loudly saying, in a annoyed tone, "get in there you punk."

    Inside the room is a normal classroom that Ghost sometimes peeked into when he was younger all those years ago.

    With a blackboard and, "ahem!" An elegant yet stern voice rushes through the classroom and Ghost¡¯s ears and interrupting his train of thoughts. "So, you finally decided to arrive Mr. Shinigami."

    A younger girl who has to stand on a step to be above her podium who appears to be his teacher.

    "Sorry for being late miss I really didn''t mean it." Ghost tries to convince the female teacher whose chest area looks like the only thing that''s really matured.

    She looks deep into his eyes with her emerald green eyes and then sternly says, "Don''t lie to me I know a troublemaker when I see one. Even having the guts to lie to me, I''m your teacher and no matter how ''weak'' I look I won''t hesitate to punish you!¡±

    A flash of joy can be barely seen when she says punish. She then cracks her small knuckles.

    - This teacher is insane. What''s with the people working at this school? First a principal that wants his student to do his work for him and now a teacher that enjoys bullying students.-

    She slams her hands on the podium. Her two brown pigtails shake from the impact and rhetorically says, "now that we have a new student do you all know what that means?"

    Almost all of the students groan and complain in protest. "Ghost go find a seat it doesn''t really matter where you sit in this class. Oh and you got a badge when you came in right? Put that on and it will be your uniform while you are here."

    Ghost takes out the azure dragon crested badge and put it in front of his shirt. It then magically embeds itself through the shirt and directly onto his very skin.

    He then starts to scream in burning pain as a strange magic forces the badge onto his body, while the teacher can barely hold back her sadistic grin.

    "Now that badge is part of you, no matter what you wear it will be shown through it. It''s your identifier as a hero."

    She explains while carefully hiding the sadistic grin back away from her childish jade white face.

    "Also if you so happen to die it shall serve as your identifier. The most important function is your rank will be embedded into its aura."

    So he goes to sit where there aren''t many other archers are to avoid making any more trouble. ¡°Now I shall explain to all of you yet again what happened around 10 years ago.¡±

    More groans can be heard. With a smile she continues talking, ¡°after children suddenly started to vanish strange things started to occur. Magical beasts started to emerge.¡±

    ¡°Some of the average animals started to be able to do strange things. Like a wolf that could breathe fire. Some of the simple day to day animals suddenly became creatures that you wouldn¡¯t want to provoke.¡±

    ¡°As more and more time went by animals got increasingly stronger. A pigden with a flap of its could destroy a building. Of course cases like this were rare. Even stranger things started appearing that weren¡¯t normal monsters.¡±

    She stops for a second to throw a piece of chalk at a sleeping student sitting near a couple other students away from Ghost.

    ¡°I know you have probably heard this before already, but don¡¯t you know my rules about sleeping in class?¡±

    ¡°Yes ma¡¯am we aren''t aloud to sleep unless we are knocked unconscious.¡± The sleeping student hastily replies.

    ¡°So, do you want to be knocked unconscious or?¡± She shows him a devious smile.

    ¡°No ma¡¯am I¡¯ll stay awake.¡± He already looks wide awake.

    ¡°Good, as I was saying creatures out of fairy tales started to appear such as slimes and someone even claimed to see a dragon. Around this time the children started to reappear.¡±

    ¡°Even our proud founder was one of the first. They started to feel safer once they found out how much stronger we had gotten.¡±

    ¡°Some feared us, while others thought it would be a good opportunity to protect themselves.¡± She writes on the chalkboard monsters appeared and the saviours came back.

    ¡°The worst thing is that The monsters hated us and started to hunt our parents while we were gone. This causes most of the cities to collapse and the birth records to disappear.¡±

    ¡°To this day we don¡¯t know why they suddenly started to hate humanity. The hero¡¯s took a stand to protect the select few major cities that they returned to.¡±

    ¡°Skyscrapers started to become a common sight because of the lack of space for us to live. Humanity''s population took a hit thanks to that day.¡±

    ¡°It was as if it was planned by the monsters because they targeted the most important places for humanity.¡±

    ¡°We have made attempts to establish more cities, but no one wants to live in a city that might be destroyed.¡± She then writes on the board massive amounts of deaths and humanity''s territories shrinks.

    ¡°The savage lands that we didn''t really pay any attention to started to grow more and more advanced. The savages couldn¡¯t really be called savages anymore thanks to their children coming back with new knowledge.¡±

    ¡°As of right now the nine tribes are at war with each other to find the one true tribe, but after that we don''t know what they will do.¡±

    ¡°They haven''t expanded enough to really notice us yet, but some scholars say that after the one true tribe appears they will target us and another war will happen.¡±

    ¡°The strangest thing is that the beasts never targeted them. Maybe it''s only our continents monsters that are targeting humans.¡± Lastly she writes on the board threats to humanity savages and monsters.

    ¡°Now most monsters are just animals that can use magic. The lowest can use weak magic while the stronger can use magic that could probably destroy this entire school.¡±

    ¡°What magic they can use usually depends on the area you are in. You probably won''t see a scorpion that can use ice magic in the middle of a desert.¡±

    ¡°It doesn¡¯t matter the size of your opponent never underestimate them. As I said before even a pigeon can be strong enough to kill you. There is no way to know the exact strength of any monster. Trust your own instinct.¡±

    ¡°Class Is dismissed you can go train or find your other party members I don''t care!¡±

    ¡°New kid what rank are you?¡± A female archer with silver like hair and hazel eyes asks Ghost.

    ¡°F.¡± Ghost says with a wry grin.

    ¡°Very funny, now seriously what rank are you.¡± The flat female archer asks again.

    ¡°I wasn¡¯t joking my rank is F.¡± He seriously replies to her.

    ¡°Uhh, you sure you didn¡¯t hear wrong? I mean I know F rank exists but that was just rumors. lowest is always D! Only a normal person would get a F rank after training for a long time.¡±

    ¡°How about this I will show you to the range and you show me your archery skills.¡± She grabs him by the hand and then pulls him away to another building.

    Inside are human targets, regular archery targets and even various shaped animal targets.

    "This is the archery range. It was built inside because of the agencies requesting it to be. Seeing how you don''t have your bow on you, here the school has some for students to use." She hands Ghost a bow and a quiver.

    "This is where most of the archery students spend their class time. The only ones that don''t come here are the A rankers.¡±

    ¡°The S rankers on the other hand are too important to even be near this school. If your tested as a S ranker after you come back you are immediately put to work."

    As he looks around most of the archers are staring at the female archer and him. Well it''s really only her. Ghost thinks she might have above average looks, but doesn''t get why she is so stare worthy.

    "You see that target over there?" She asks him. He nods his head. Ghost isn''t sure of the exact distance but it is barely visible with his eyesight.

    "Shoot at it." He puts the arm guard on and then nock the arrow. Pull back the string, closes his right eye and secretly cut the string with a drop of his blood that he prepared during the lecture.

    "Are the schools bows really that bad? I only put that much force onto it and the string snaps?" He arrogantly exclaims.

    "Sorry it was my fault for picking a bad bow here use mine." The female archer says and then hands him her bow.

    He sighs then knowing that he couldn''t possibly hit that target or break her bow string. He angles the bow at a point where he¡¯s confident it will realistically hit the ceiling and shoots the arrow. Bang! The arrow hits the ceiling like planned.

    The group of archers laugh at his incompetence. Everyone besides the female archer.

    -She hopefully doesn¡¯t expect anything out of me anymore.-

    "That shot would of hit if there wasn''t the ceiling." She mutters to herself.

    "Sorry I couldn''t really hear you. Can you repeat what you said?"

    "It''s not really important looks like you really do belong to the F rank I''m sorry for bothering you. My bow please." He gives her back her bow and she then leaves while still muttering incomprehensible things.

    After she leaves he arrogantly say, "will you all stop laughing that arrow would of hit if I was outside. Archery isn''t just about pointing your bow and aiming straight."

    "Yeah sure it would of hit. You''re just spouting bullshit to hide your incompetence." A masculine voice replies.

    Ghost immediately leaves the range fulfilling his goal of looking like an incompetent ass. He then goes to his specially prepared dorm to see if Jana is all right.

    ¡°I¡¯m going to find you!¡± An angry girl can be heard behind Ghost. So he turns and looks behind himself and sees a bunch of girls rampaging like a herd of angry bulls. So he hides in a nearby storage room to not get trampled.

    "Kyahaha." A feminine laugh is heard inside the room. "I must of flashed for a second. I didn''t expect them to become so violent tho."

    He looks for the source of the voice and see a nearly transparent girl. Her entire body is almost see through. Shoulder length black hair, pale skin, brown eyes, flat chest, and a petite waist.

    "Who are you?" He questions this strange woman.

    "Thou shouldst state thy name first." She replies suddenly changing her accent to a olden one, instead of the more normal fairy like voice she previously had.

    -Great that accent will start hurting my head if it''s constant.-

    "My name is Ghost Shinigami and you?"

    "Mine name is Rainte. ''Tis mine pleasure to meet thou. Anon, can thou prithee not bewray mine hiding place? Those girls art vicious." She says with her accent.

    "Wait those girls are after you?"

    "Ay." She says with a straight face.

    "Well I''m sorry, but I''m going to have to tell them." Mainly because your accent is hurting everyone''s head.

    If her accent is to hard to read then I can translate it for you like I normally do with their language!

    "Prithee doth not so that. They cannot doth ought to me."

    "If they can''t do anything to you then why are you begging me to not tell on you?"

    "If thou betoken than it shall be harder to peek again. They shall cautel a plan to stop me. If thou attempts to betoken on me I shall stop thou!" She threatens me.

    He then proceed to tie her up with some rope made of blood that he summoned as she was hurting his head.

    She then lets out a blissful moan. He tighten it and she moans louder. Her pale face actually started to have a blush on it.

 Chapter 7: The never ending hauntings of his past

    Ahh! Stopeth! Prithee it feeleth to good. I promiseth thou I shall not peek again. As longeth as thou will doth this to I ev''ryday!¡±

    She releases an erotic moan and then speaks again in her head aching accent.

    ¡°Oi! I don''t want to be known as someone who enjoys tying girls up you know?¡±

    Ghost immediately destroys the bondage and she looks disappointed about it!

    ¡°What about mine requesteth?¡±

    ¡°There is no way that I will do this to you everyday!¡±

    ¡°Fine then I''ll spread a rumor that it was you who peeked.¡± She threatens him while smiling evilly.

    ¡°Hmm? I don''t want to be known as the schools pervert or anything like that. If everyone pays special attention to me things could get difficult.¡±

    ¡°Seeth, so thou will controleth mine urges aye?¡° She gets on her knees and slowly crawls to Ghost while begging him to satisfy her.

    Ghost on the other hand tries to find anything in the storage to distract him, but sadly there is nothing in there besides cleaning supplies.

    ¡°Or I could just get rid of you. I mean if I can hurt you, I probably can destroy you. How about that instead?¡±

    Rainte¡¯s face suddenly turns into a expression of pure bliss and starts to shiver uncontrollably. While Ghost suddenly realises that there is no hope for this ghost girl.

    Rainte suddenly starts to move even closer to him while panting. Eventually she moves so close she fazes right through him.

    ¡°I wouldst loveth that, but i feeleth that th''re wouldst be m''re to gain if thou took it stepeth by stepeth.¡±

    ¡°And do you think I¡¯m giving you a choice?¡± Ghost crushes a mop to release some of his anger.

    ¡°To bad this isn''t mine real soul. This is just a projection of it.¡± She flickers as if she is just a hologram.

    ¡°Wait that last sentence didn''t have any accent to it!¡± Ghost starts to wonder if her whole ¡®accent¡¯ is just to force people to want to hit her.

    ¡°Oops. Err, i cullionly this accent cometh naturally.¡±

    ¡°Oh really? Anyways I thought you didn''t want your existence known?¡±

    ¡°Knowing that this academy is filled with ¡®heroes¡¯ I''m pretty sure they will drive you out thinking your a monster. So how were you planning on spreading that rumor?¡±

    She is really testing my patience in keeping her accent as it is. But this is truly showing how annoying it is so.

    ¡°I didn''t thinketh that far mast''r!¡±

    ¡°Don''t call me master!¡±

    ¡°I will calleth thou wanteth I wanteth!¡±

    ¡°I can''t decide what you call me, but I can see you less. If you want to call me master whenever you rarely see me then fine.¡±

    ¡°And wherefore not?¡±

    ¡°What do you mean why not! I don''t even need to be in this area!¡±

    ¡°Well, since mast''r is mast''r then I will followeth thou. So thou shall seeth me oft.¡±

    ¡°What do you mean often you! I don''t want to have anything to do with you. So just leave me alone please.¡±

    Ghost starts to get on his hands and knees to beg but then he looks into her eyes.

    ¡°Nope.¡± She doesn''t even let him completely get on his hands and knees before denying him.

    The look on her face shows that she means what she says and that it would be her final answer. Ghost has seen in countless time from a old friend in the past.

    ¡°Sigh~ Fine!¡± Ghost resigns to his fate of attracting weird people.

    -I could just tie her up but she would love that it''s best just to ignore these types sigh~ I could kill her but then I would be no better than the old me all those years ago.-

    He quickly escaped from the strange girl and attempts to hide where he now lives. While probably failing to escape from her in the end.

    ¡°So I¡¯ll be the trash of society again. What''s so good about being the hero anyways? If you become a hero than you will never have any free time?¡±

    Ghost can''t help but mutters as he thinks about his situation, while laying on top of his bed and he starts to fall asleep.

    ¡°Why didn''t you save me?¡± The scenery instantly changes back to all those years ago. A small girl with pointed ears and blonde hair appears in front of him.

    ¡°What¡¯s the matter you look like you¡¯ve seen a ghost?¡± She asks confused and lost.

    Ghost tries to move but it''s as if invisible chains shackle him in front of the poor girl.

    The girl suddenly seems to have clarity, while Ghost attempts to break free. ¡°Oh you want to move and do what run? Or do you want to kill me again?¡±

    Ghost tries to talk but nothing manages to escape his mouth.

    ¡°You won''t get to talk Mr.Hero, slayer of the unknown. Hear me out for a bit. When I was being tortured I thought you couldn''t do anything about it at first.¡±

    ¡°While you may be inexperienced I still coughed up a good amount of blood you could of used. My problem isn¡¯t that. You can breath fire, no?¡±

    She tells him the cold hard truth at haunts him to this day.

    -I could of saved her back then. I wasn''t completely helpless like I am right now. Why didn''t I do that to free myself.-

    -Why couldn''t I think I could''ve saved her. She isn''t the only one that I failed to save when I was able to save them.-

    ¡°Yeah that¡¯s right you could still breathe and you killed him with magic in the end no matter how attuned you are with controlling blood. Why didn¡¯t you save me?¡± After she says her sermon more and more people start to appear in front of Ghost.

    ¡°Why didn''t you save us!¡± A assortment of voices assault echoes throughout his empty mind. ¡°Why did you kill us?¡±

    More and more people start to appear and join in. ¡°You didn''t have to kill us did you?¡± All of the voices join into one distinct voice of Jana and then he wake up crying.

    Rainte appears in front of him and start saying words that he don''t seem to understand. He slowly starts to seem to be able to hear and be part of the world again.

    ¡°Are you okay Ghost?  You don''t look so good. Did you have a nightmare?¡± She looks worried and scared as her emerald green eyes almost pierces straight through his body and into his very soul.

    ¡°I''m fine, it''s just, I don''t know why I¡¯m crying. You don''t have to worry sometimes I wake up like this. Why are speaking without that annoying accent?¡± His mind suddenly registers that she isn''t talking abnormally anymore.

    ¡°I doth not knoweth what thou cullionly. thou might not but of learn''d to naturally translateth what I sayeth to n''rmal.¡±

    Ghost holds his head and cries out in pain. ¡°Oww can you please just speak normally it¡¯s annoying to people.¡±

    ¡°So?¡±

    ¡°Sigh, can you go somewhere else I need to. Just leave for a bit please.¡± She vanishes and he slowly gets out of bed revealing underneath that the sheets are soaked in sweat and so is his shirtless body.

    -That dream, it''s always the same. When will the past stop haunting me? I know that I''ve killed too many people, but I''ve been trying to change.-

    -I won''t kill someone without knowing both sides of the story and hopefully a third side. Well if they try to kill me then they die.-

    He slowly stretches his body to wake up and then goes to the bathroom to start a nice hot shower. But, he changes his mind and enters it without waiting for it to heat up.

    As the ice cold water pours on top of his head, his mind starts to wander. ¡°Of the three worlds that I was suddenly transferred to the first still leaves me the deepest regret.¡±

    He starts to think out loud about the times that are already in the past. From the living to the dead. Faces of friends and foes.

    ¡°I wonder how many of my mistakes were solvable at the time. How many people have died that could of lived.¡±

    The warming water washes away his thoughts and his regrets. As the now warm water hits his head he can¡¯t help but forget about everything.

    In the end nothing matters. The past will always be the past and the future will always be ever changing and unknown.

    The only thing that can be changed is the present.

    The sound of a crow cries out and wakes Ghost of his empty trance. He look outside through the glass, that separates him from the cruel merciless world, and see a crow wanting to be let in. He notices that there  is a note attached to its leg, so he immediately let it in.

    He take it off the crow and reads it out loud. ¡°Dear Ghost, is there anything that I can do for you? Oh, who am I fooling! The monsters in the forest seem to be escaping from the forest more often than usual.¡±

    ¡°I''m afraid something might have moved into our lovely forest. This is a early warning so you can start preparing to investigate. I don''t need you to act now it would be better if it gets a little worse.¡±

    ¡°From your benefactor Hiiro.¡±

    The crow flies away before he can even get out a pen and paper.

    -What is he planning. It would be easier if he just orders me to kill this and that. Complicating things just makes everything tedious.-

    Ghost ponders about what to do while he does nothing but dries himself and gets dressed. ¡°Ahh, I know what I can do to alleviate my boredom!¡±

    He leaves the bathroom and then goes through a couple doors till he reaches the living room. Then he pulls out the bear rug. Revealing a door leading towards the underground portion of his abode.

    The underground is lit by glowing plants, which release multi colors of light making the room feel a bit to rainbow like.

    From the stalagmites on the ceiling being covered in glowing green moss to the blue mushrooms seen on the floor.

    The plants make it easy to see the wonderful underground lake to the east portion of it, which also has glowing red algae on top of it.

    The different color lights makes the water shine in various colors, but mainly crimson thanks to the algae on top.

    To the western side are targets in different distances. Bows and quivers are also laid out in a neat and orderly fashion.

    ¡°Well, I should actually learn to be an adequate archer. At least at F rank. It would be weird if I couldn''t do at least this.¡±

    So, he starts to shoot one arrow at a time. *Whoosh* ¡°Another miss. Maybe. Hmm.¡±

    He keeps aiming at the closest target shot after shot, but all of them come up short until, *whoosh thud!*

    ¡°Hmm, it hit yet it didn¡¯t pierce this is harder than it looks. What defines a F rank archer anyways?¡± He suddenly stops practicing and has a look of confusion on his face.

    ¡°I should learn what makes a F rank archer before I do anything else. It would be bad if I don''t have a clear definition of F rank.¡±

    So he proceeds to leave his dorm by following a secret tunnel to the headmaster¡¯s office. After a short time he leaves the mine shaft like tunnel and appears in front of Hiiro.

    ¡°Knock before entering next time what if a student was in here with me?¡±This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.

    ¡°Wouldn''t knocking coming from the floor be just as bad?¡± He tries to come up with a excuse, because he knows. That he''s in the wrong.

    ¡°At least I can create a excuse for the noise. Creating a excuse for a student appearing out of the floor is much harder. It would be possible if you aren''t supposed to be a terrible student.¡±

    ¡°Hmm, you¡¯re right. How do you define a F rank archer? I saw how you had practice targets and arrows in my basement?¡±

    ¡°So that''s why you''re here. I thought you were here about the letter. A F Rank archer should at least be able to hit a couple of targets. I would say above the level of archery in your previous world?¡±

    ¡°That would be fine and dandy if the world I went to was filled with weaklings, but sadly most of the D rank archers would die as they are now.¡±

    Ghost start reminisce about the last world he ended up on and thought about some of his previous party members ability to shoot arrows.

    Some warriors where better than the archery students he saw showing off.

    ¡°Well each world is different. I wonder what your actual rank is?¡±

    ¡°That doesn''t matter you¡¯ve already hired me, so you will naturally know of my strength later.¡±

    ¡°True, but a F rank is hard to define since it shouldn''t exist yet in the first place. Just watch the D rank archers and be worse than them.¡±

    ¡°Hmm, that would work. What if they see me watching them?¡±

    ¡°That won¡¯t matter much. If you stand out too much, then people would pay more attention to you. So, it would actually be better if you go to class now and again. Of course being too familiar with them would be a problem as well. Think of it as a balancing act.¡±

    *Knock knock!* ¡°Headmaster can I have a word with you?¡± A female voice asks behind the door.

    ¡°Why does that voice sound familiar?¡±

    ¡°Because she''s your teacher you idiot!¡¯ He angrily whispers.

    Ghost immediately drops down the trap door into the tunnel. ¡°What do you need?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ve come to talk about a student of mine. He doesn¡¯t seem to be coming school at all. He doesn¡¯t even join the other students to practice.¡±

    ¡°So, it''s not like we are a school that can get rid of students. He won¡¯t be the first to not find a organization after graduation.¡±

    ¡°If that was the case, than I wouldn''t have came to talk to you. You see this student has a special position in the school as of right now.¡±

    ¡°He is the F ranked member, the one you just brought in. If he wants to he could stay here forever as of right now.¡±

    ¡°So you want him to at least gain a rank?¡± The headmaster voice is starting to sound angrier and angrier

    ¡°The people that I hate the most are neets. You understand what I¡¯m saying?¡±

    ¡°Oh then it''s simple you just want him to show worth. If he stays here indefinitely but has a purpose you won''t mind him then?¡±

    The headmasters voice starts to vibrate with killing intent and gets quieter almost to the point that Ghost can''t hear him.

    ¡°I don''t understand?¡± The voice of the homeroom teacher starts to sound more and more squeamish and scared.

    ¡°Simple he has a purpose for being here, so just ignore him please. By the way this is a order.¡±

    The killing intent starts pouring through the dirt and the tunnel goes down a couple degrees. You can imagine how cold the room feels upstairs right now.

    ¡°Yes, please forgive me for being.¡±

    ¡°Shhh, you¡¯ve already said enough go back and think this over kay?¡±

    A door opening and closing can be heard in the dead quiet tunnel.

    Then Ghost comes out the trap door with a surprised expression on his fake face. ¡°Wow, didn''t think you would show killing intent to your underlings.¡±

    ¡°What do you want? You should''ve already left while I was talking to her.¡±

    ¡°Couldn''t help it. Would you walk away when someone is talking about you?¡±

    ¡°Yes because curiosity can be a deadly thing.¡± The killing intent pours back into the surroundings.

    ¡°Hahaha, here it is again your so called killing intent. I¡¯m not like you''re weak willed teachers you know? I¡¯m only here till sis gets cured you get that?¡±

    The room grows colder and colder. A knife starts to form behind Ghosts back made out of the killing intent, but it''s still illusionary.

    ¡°What makes you so confident in yourself? I already caught you once! Your life was in my hands and I was nice enough to give you a job.¡±

    With each sentence the room gets colder and colder. The killing intent continues to pour out and surround Ghosts body like a thin mist.

    ¡°Well I won''t create any excuses. If this was a battle I would''ve already been dead. You¡¯re right. But since I''m still alive than that last battle doesn¡¯t mean much. We are partners right now so don''t worry.¡±

    ¡°You didn''t release a tiger back into his mountain. If my sister doesn¡¯t get your full attention then. Well we will see.¡±

    He walk out of the room ignoring the killing intent as if he can''t feel any of it''s pressure. He leaves and starts heading towards the direction of his archery classroom.

    Knock knock! ¡°Teacher are you in there?¡± He calls out even though he knows that she is in there.

    ¡°Yes, you can come in.¡± Her annoyingly high pitched voice sounds out. A couple seconds later she opens the door for him. ¡°Oh, it''s you.¡± Her voice has clean disdain in her tone.

    ¡°Indeed it''s me were you expecting anyone else?¡±

    ¡°No, I was just surprised that a student who is becoming notorious for ditching appearing outside my classroom.¡±

    The disdain in her voice grows with each passing word. She is even starting to look at him in disdain as well.

    ¡°Well I wouldn''t be here if I didn''t have anything important to do.¡±

    ¡°And why have you decided to show up now?¡± She asks me while briefly looking towards her desk.

    ¡°Hmm is that where you hide your weapon? You would think that in a hero academy the teachers would be constantly holding their weapons. I mean it¡¯s our life line isn¡¯t it?¡±

    ¡°Well for a archer I don''t see a bow on you. At least mine is close by.¡± Her disdain turns to contempt and arrogance.

    ¡°Well why should I carry around a weapon aren''t you here to protect us? We¡¯re forbidden from hunting, so why should I bother carrying it around?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s also heavy and hard to sleep with. Well if the teachers can''t protect their students than I will happily carry around my bow.¡±

    ¡°Of course we can protect you, but student duels aren''t forbidden. You do know that dueling someone of a higher rank is the fastest way to increase your rank. Also what does sleeping have anything to do with carrying your bow?¡± She asks him curiously.

    ¡°Yes, I do know that and I even know that you have to battle against people from the same class!¡±

    ¡°I need to duel a D rank archer. But why would anyone ask to duel against me? I''m the lowest rank, so I have the right to deny everyone.¡±

    ¡°If you don''t increase your rank and stay here forever you will not make any companions you know? Anyways why are you here?¡±

    ¡°I was wondering if we had a school uniform or anything like that? I mean do we only need this crest?¡±

    ¡°If you went to class more often you would notice if there was a uniform or not.¡± She directly reprimands him while inspecting his clothing. ¡°Do you wear anything besides that?¡±

    ¡°I don''t have any other ¡®clothing¡¯ I mean I have armor that I usually wear over this, but that''s about it.¡± He looks over his combat effective clothing.

    ¡°Is there anything wrong with me only wearing a black shirt and black sweats? They don''t get in the way of movement like other clothing.¡±

    ¡°Oh so you care about mobility more than a weapon?¡±

    ¡°Movement is what keeps people alive. A weapon is what makes people be able to murder. I rather stay alive instead of killing one then dying to another.¡±

    ¡°I guess it doesn''t matter much. What can you do in a dangerous situation anyways? A slacker like you will probably just find somewhere to hide while your fellow students are fighting to protect you.¡±

    ¡°Sounds about right, now then my question?¡±

    ¡°No there''s no uniform all you need is that badge. Is that the only reason why you came to bother me? Couldn''t you just look around at your fellow students?¡±

    ¡°Oh, wait no one would want to talk to a weakling like you. So, you probably don''t have any friends!¡± She starts to feel the atmosphere chilling down a bit, so she does the first thing she can think of.

    ¡°Of course it''s not the only reason. I also came to say this.¡± The room starts to get colder and colder as Ghost slowly increases the pressure. ¡°I know the headmaster may scare you, but he isn¡¯t that terrifying right?¡±

    Her sweat starts to pour off her head and it slowly falls to the floor. Drip drip. ¡°Why are you doing this?¡±

    ¡°Firstly you know that I''m not here as a student yet you still felt like messing with me. I came here with a simple question after hours with no one around yet you still mocked me!¡±

    ¡°What type of teacher kicks her own students and you also know full well I have my reasons for being a F rank!¡±

    ¡°Doing this during school hours is fine but after hours you should treat me as a superior. Secondly I don''t trust your headmaster so of course I would want to create a chain around you.¡± The room slowly returns back to the normal temperature.

    ¡°I¡¯m sorry I didn¡¯t mean to offend you please forgive this junior for not realizing her errors.¡± Ghost says nothing and turns around to leave the classroom.

    While he¡¯s leaving the room a faint sigh of relief could be heard and Ghost sports a big grin.

    -Hiiro used his own pressure to hold his men in place so why can''t I just override it with a stronger intent.-

    -He seems like a dictator and the teachers are his subjects, so where are his trusted men?-

    -No dictatorship is just a one man show their is always a loyal group that actually wants to help him run his country.-

    Ghost slowly walks through the empty halls and makes his way towards the archery range. The school feels like a ghost town, since everyone is either training or at the dorm.

    Twangs and swooshes can be heard with a occasional thud as he gets closer to the target range. He carefully looks through a window.

    -Their archery is decent, comparable to C rank adventures from my previous world. So, if a C rank is a D rank in this world that means a S rank would be a SS rank in my previous world.-

    Hmm, I wonder if these thoughts are true. The S ranks are as strong as gods so they should be universal.

    ¡°What are you looking at?¡± A voice suddenly says behind him. Ghost jump forward, nearly hitting a window, as he turns around he sees the archery girl from the first day standing behind him.

    ¡°You know you really shouldn¡¯t let your guard down. What if I was a enemy you would''ve probably been dead.¡±

    ¡°How can I compare to you I¡¯m only a F rank and you are A?¡± Ghost tries his hardest not to laugh at her pathetic attempt to sneak up on him.

    Obviously the jumping forward was an act or else he probably would of went through the window.

    ¡°While you say your a F rank that arrow you shot earlier would''ve hit the target like you said. Your rank is probably higher than people would think. Or so I thought but seeing how you didn''t notice me sneak up behind you I¡¯m doubtful now.¡±

    ¡°My rank is A yet you didn¡¯t notice my aura coming behind you which is strange. Most other students I talk to get scared just by being near me.¡± She looks very confused and conflicted about him.

    She has a decent aura around her, which might even be stronger than that useless homeroom teacher.

    ¡°I guess I¡¯m too weak to even feel any danger from you. Now why are you bothering me?¡±

    ¡°That''s strange the only people that don''t notice are students with the same ranking as me, or the teachers.¡±

    ¡°If you want to practice then why not go in? But, I haven''t met any civilians before or a F rank so maybe you really can''t feel me, weird.¡±

    It seems that the world does indeed have other F rankers it''s just that the summoned are at the D rank minimum.

    ¡°Why would I want to practice? It''s all pointless even if I grow strong enough to be a D rank what group would want me?¡±

    ¡°Odds are I¡¯ll graduate just to die alone in some monsters belly. I¡¯d rather keep my rank and stay here where it''s safe.¡±

    This is true in a different way in many other worlds as well. You graduate and find something that will swallow most of your life. Barely surviving the day by day till you get a vacation.

    ¡°The world outside isn¡¯t any safer than my previous world. If you want to risk your life for strangers than go ahead.¡±

    ¡°So what if a couple cities get destroyed? Humans and animals have always fought for survival even though we are animals ourself.¡±

    Humans have also hunted various other animals to extinction so it''s only right that they can do the same to us.

    ¡°It''s always been the law of the jungle even before this has happened. The only thing that''s changed is the animals are making up for their lack of intelligence, while we are making up for our lack of strength.¡±

    She glares at him and starts to angrily rebuke him. ¡°If you don''t think any group would take you in then you''re wrong even a D rank is important to a city.¡±

    ¡°We were all heroes in our previous worlds, so how can the weakest hero be weak? Compared to all the normal citizens we are the elites. We were chosen remember that.¡±

    The elitists and self entitled mentality is real in this one. I never thought I''d say it but I kinda like taints more then this chick.

    ¡°There is a reason why you were chosen to be summoned like the rest of us. Everyone of us is needed. If you become a D rank I can guarantee that you will be able to at least join whatever group I join.¡±

    I wonder what the other ranks below F rank is and how strong these so called heroes really are.

    ¡°Why do you care about a small fry like me? With your rank you should be able to join any organization that you want.¡±

    ¡°There''s no reason for you to care about what happens with my life. If you want to feel good about helping someone go help someone else.¡± He leave the noisy girl and start to walk away back towards his dorm.

    ¡°Wait! I have one more thing I wanted to tell you. I started out as a D rank when I came into this academy. You don''t have to start out great.¡±

    ¡°The strength we have when we come to this academy depends on only one factor. Where we were summoned. It doesn¡¯t depend on our talent nor our worth.¡±

    It makes you wonder why they were summoned to different worlds in strength if they have the potential to grow even more compared to the world they lived in.

    ¡°We all have the potential to grow stronger and stronger. Talent doesn¡¯t decide anything it''s just an added bonus what decides our final strength is our own hard work. Don''t give up just because you''re weak now.¡±

    -Too bad I¡¯m not actually a weakling or else that might have made me work harder. If only I wasn¡¯t doomed to stay in this academy till my sister can get healed. I kinda want to see how this world has changed.-

    Ghost returns back to his empty home and enters Jana''s room to only find her staring at the ceiling with a empty look.

    ¡°I''m home! How are you feeling? Good that''s great.¡± He says as if she could actually reply while tears start rolling down his cheek.

    ¡°Why hasn¡¯t he sent anyone to try to heal you? Is he waiting for me to prove my worth before he helps you?¡±

    He leaves her alone knowing there''s nothing he can do to help her right now and return to my residence. A note is attached to my door from the headmaster that says my office now.

    -Did he find out that I threatened the teacher? No matter I wanted to have a word with him as well.-

    Half an hour later Ghost appears in front of the feminine headmaster again.

    ¡°Did you forget something? Is old age finally getting to you? It seems like you''re forgetting things lately. Why hasn¡¯t my sister been given any treatment?¡±

    ¡°Do you think my help is free? I will only start showing her to priests once you do your job. Which is the reason why I called you.¡±

    ¡°I should¡¯ve told you to go and kill it earlier. I didn''t expect it to escalate this quickly. Whatever moved into the forest made one of my teachers go missing and harmed a student.¡±

    ¡°Why was a teacher even near the forest?¡±

    ¡°So, no student sneaks off into it for practice. It¡¯s a forbidden zone if you''re caught in it you will be under house arrest for a month. The student was found outside the forest and brought to the nurse.¡± He looks off towards the forest, but there is no visible changes to it.

    ¡°The problem is she had a house arrest spell on her. This means a teacher found her in the forest. Yet the teacher was never found. He or she might still be alive, but I don''t want to risk sending anyone in the forest.¡±

    ¡°Since, there was no visible signs of struggle near the unconscious girl. That''s where you come in.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not asking you to kill what ever harmed the student just figure out if the teacher is still alive or not.¡±

    ¡°It''s only been thirty minutes since we¡¯ve found the girl, so go quickly if the teacher is saved I can guarantee my full help with your sister.¡±

    -Damn I¡¯d have more time to search if I had ran instead of walking. I thought he found out about me, not the school actually having a problem.-

    -I mean who would want to mess with the only school in the world filled with former hero¡¯s and the headmaster who is also a tough nut to crack.-

 Chapter 8 A dragon?

    Ghost immediately leaves the headmaster''s office and appears on top of the archery classes roof. His face turns from the blonde prince to a pitch black blank mask. The mask only has an area to show his eyes, there isn''t even a hole to breathe. His hair turns blue and eyes glow menacing red through the mask.

    Ghost also slowly shrinks a couple inches. Sleek black leather armor appears over his body instantly with the daggers attached to his waist.

    ¡°Sigh that teacher is such an idiot, why would I go around without my weapons or armor? In this world nowhere is safe or else I wouldn''t be needed *sigh* I wonder how she even got a job here sometimes. No matter what you should always have a weapon within hands reach.¡±

    ¡°There isn¡¯t birds flocking out of the forest so they shouldn''t feel any danger. It''s probably not a monster capable flight then. There also isn''t a mass exodus of monsters trying to escape the forest so it doesn''t have a dominating aura. It could have already dominated all the monsters in the forest tho so I can''t be sure if the forest itself is a trap.¡±

    ¡°What are you looking at Ghost?¡± Rainte appears right next to ghost and whispers in his right ear. He quickly jumps away and stares at the ghost girl in shock.

    ¡°How do you know it''s me and WHY ARE YOU HERE!¡± Ghost can''t help but scream at the end of the question.

    ¡°If I concentrate I can speak ¡®normally¡¯, master.¡±

    ¡°That''s not what I asked you and you know it!¡±

    ¡°Master I don''t look at peoples outer appearance. I¡¯m just a soul now, so that''s what I look at your soul! You can''t change how that looks so most disguises are ineffective in front of me.¡±

    She looks at him with a mixture of wanting to be patted and punched at the same time. Well, I guess being punched might be the same as being patted to her.

    *Sigh* ¡°Don¡¯t go around telling people that my appearance is fake, okay? I¡¯ll let you keep calling me master if you don¡¯t. Anyways don''t follow me I have to go somewhere that''s dangerous and it''s already proven that things can hurt you.¡±

    ¡°But, I want to help thee!¡± She starts to sound flustered and more olden towards the end.

    ¡°No, if you want to call me master you''re going to have to listen to my orders!¡± As Ghost actually believes this weird creature would listen to his orders. There is only one way to get her to listen to him is to fulfill her urges.

    ¡°Nay thee can''t stand ho me from following thee.¡±

    ¡°Oh, but I can stop you!¡± A vial of blood appears in ghosts hand and immediately breaks. The blood spills out and turns into ropes tying Rantie like a raw Thanksgiving turkey. ¡°Now you''re going to stay here while I¡¯m off doing my job.¡±

    -At least she will probably be enjoying this and she can''t be touched by some even stranger man. She can also turn invisible still, right? Oh well, she is on an isolated roof so everything should be fine.-

    Ghost moves so fast that he vanishes from the area almost instantly reaching the forest.

    He reaches the area where the student was found to see if there are any battle scars to learn from. ¡°Hmm, it doesn''t look like there was a struggle over here strange. Did the teacher knock out the student and launch her out of the forest to protect her?¡±

    ¡°If that was the case there would be broken branches over here but it isn¡¯t strange. Oh well, it''s not my job to figure out what happened here, it''s my job to save the teacher and to kill the troublesome creature.¡±

    He enters a dead quiet forest while ignoring all the strange things about this case. The forest has a completely different vibe from just a couple days earlier.

    ¡°Why is it so empty? Where are all the birds nesting in the trees and all the insects on the ground? Maybe there is actually an animal that¡¯s controlling the others.¡±

    ¡°I wonder why it attacked humans usually the stronger ones avoid us because we live in groups and by killing just one you might have to deal with hundreds afterward. This is even more so because the monster should be able to tell that it¡¯s our territory.¡±

    It is curious about why a beast would hunt humans near a stronger group of humans, but then again Hiro did want to hire Ghost for protection.

    ¡°It could be a beast that has gone berserk and can''t think straight, but if that was the case the other animals wouldn''t be so calm. Unless the reason why I don''t see or hear any of them is that the creature scared them into hiding hmm.¡±

    ¡°There is only one way to find out and that is to see the said beast!¡± Ghost quietly yet quickly traverses the forest. As he continues further into the forest nothing changes still quiet and empty. The forest feels like a ghost town as if he was the only existence here.

    Suddenly a ram rams at Ghost, which he barely manages to side with a gash on his side. The blood that drips from the fresh wound turns into a dagger and stabs the ram.

    It vanishes and turns into an eagle whose feathers shootout at Ghost. He easily dodges most of the feathers but purposefully takes a couple cuts which drip a couple drops of blood. The blood turns into a cage and surrounds the tiny eagle.

    ¡°So, it''s a shapeshifter that''s causing problems. What did you think kidnapping a student and using their form to spy on the school was a good idea. But you were caught in the act by a teacher and you got greedy for someone in a higher position? So, who sent you one of the rumored beast kings?¡±

    Kaww! The eagle charges at Ghost beak first it''s beak breaking the blood cage, but the fragmented cage turns into daggers impaling the eagle''s body.

    ¡°I would capture you but know every time you change you can mini teleport so it''s better to just destroy this body of yours. Now please tell me you have better bodies than these! Any respected shapeshifter would have at least one body that has magic abilities. These bodies are at most C grade with a couple B grade traits.¡±

    A black indistinct figure appears in front of Ghost flickering in and out of existence. ¡°Don''t get cocky human if I wasn''t afraid of more of you showing up I would never have used such pathetic bodies!¡±

    ¡°But, since I was caught there is no use hiding anymore and I should just kill you and try again when things settle down.¡± The shapeshifter starts to turn more indistinct. It slowly went from a humanoid figure to more animalistic.

    Roars started to resound throughout the forest as if they were afraid of what was about to appear. A massive pressure starts to flood out of the animastic figure. A claw slowly appears than a second.

    ¡°Don''t tell me it''s the strongest form is of a dragon! The pressure that is releasing is a close one.¡± As Ghost was making his guess a third claw appears and then the fourth. It''s tail and legs slowly start to appear next. The legs are obviously more mammal-like covered in fur instead of a dragons scaly legs.

    ¡°Even if it isn''t a dragon with this pressure it isn''t any weaker than one. There aren''t many animals that are as strong as a dragon of this scale.¡±

    The body and head slowly start to appear while the tail and legs finish appearing. The fur is white in color while the face slowly starts to appear more and more feline.

    ¡°It''s a white tiger, this is bad the wind magic of is too strong for me to go against! I don''t know what''s worse a dragons thick scales that are almost impossible for me to cut or the wind magic slowly me down while speeding it up.¡±

    I can''t put my finger on it but something seems to be missing from this white tiger. It might be because I¡¯m not that familiar with this universe, but there really is something missing.

    The complete body appears in all of its glory, but something feels off about it as if it was still incomplete. There was no wind surrounding it nor was there any pressure from the surrounding air. ¡°Feel the wrath of a divine beast you mortal!¡± The tiger roars out, but Ghost can''t help but laugh.

    ¡°To think you would be so cocky about borrowed power. I know about you shapeshifters and how you get your forms. You have to kill the creature and take its soul, but if someone else gives you it''s soul you can still use it but not completely.¡±

    Ah, so that¡¯s it the tiger didn¡¯t have any mana! Almost everything in this universe has mana so that''s why it felt like it was missing something important.

    ¡°The body your using isn¡¯t complete your missing the most important part of the white tiger it''s the overlord of wind yet you can''t control any of the air elements. If it''s only the physical body of the white tiger then you don''t scare me nearly as much.¡±

    The tiger vanishes and slams into Ghost making him go flying backward through tens of trees. Ghost proceeds to coughs out a bit of blood.

    ¡°I stand corrected with if you can continue at that speed and strength than you deserve to be so proud.¡±

    The tiger still looks full of energy but is moving at a slower more manageable speed. The blood Ghost coughs up turns into mini needles and flies at the tiger.

    -If I knew this would have been such a tough and empty fight I wouldn''t have waisted those vials on rainte.-

    The needles don''t manage to penetrate the Tigers'' skin. The reorganize and combine into a shackle around the Tigers right back leg.

    ¡°Hey, buddy you don''t know how to use that body that well do you? Did you get it recently or have you never fought someone strong like me? You missed a prime opportunity to hurt me, you know?¡±

    Ghost moves at around the same speed of the tiger and stabs towards it. The daggers barely cut skin deep into the tiger. Ghost quickly back steps away from a swipe of the tigers claw.

    Shockingly he moves at the same speed backward as he does forwards. ¡°Come on big guy you gotta try harder than that.¡± Ghost taunts the tiger while cursing under his breath that it''s still a shapeshifter, which does not have any blood in its body.

    ¡°Hmph! At Least I can hurt you. You, on the other hand, couldn¡¯t even harm me with a full powered strike.¡± The tiger immediately pounces towards Ghost, but it hits nothing but air. Ghost tries to cut off the tiger''s tail but yet again it doesn¡¯t go that well.

    ¡°Why is your skin so thick you big cat! I can''t believe I have to do this for a pay to win shapeshifter.¡± Ghost pulls out a syringe and stabs it into his arm easily piercing his vein stopping perfectly.

    The tiger charges at him and tries to swipe at him yet again but it''s too late the blood is already filled into the syringe. Ghost ducks under the claw swipe and releases the blood.

    The blood shoots out of the syringe and turns into hollow daggers with the actual blade being inside of them. It starts to vibrate at a speed invisible to the naked eye like a chainsaw.

    He stabs straight at the underbelly of the tiger trying to gut it. The daggers pierce past the skin and into the muscles but get stuck in the harder muscle.

    The tiger swings it''s paw at Ghost while the dagger is stuck in its bloodless abs. The paw hits Ghost and once again sends him flying through trees and hitting against a cliff. The dagger was successfully pulled out when he was hit but he dropped it thanks to the sheer force of the strike.

    ¡°This little toy of yours actually can harm me, but in the end, I''m not a tiger and these wounds don''t even matter. But this weapon of yours should matter a lot for your total fighting force.¡±

    It crushes the dagger underneath its paw and a sharp schink sound is heard throughout the quiet forest. The blood that was on the dagger turns into chains and a shackle. The chains connect the two shackles together. The new shackle goes around the tigers back left leg.

    ¡°Haha, sacrificing my weapon for slowing you down is worth it I¡¯d say. As for these wounds, the blood is still useful to me so don''t worry about it.¡± The other dagger appears in his hand also covered in a bloody chainsaw.

    With Ghosts back against a cliff he has nowhere to run away, so he puts his foot against it and launches forward. He appears in front of the tiger almost instantly and slashes at one of its eyes. The tiger moves it''s head away but the dagger slices off a bit of its cheek.

    The tiger roars at Ghost and the air pressure shockingly pushes him away from it. ¡°Dumb kitty can''t use magic so your white tiger''s roar can only push me backward. Heck, I¡¯ve heard that the white tiger and any other monster that¡¯s at S or higher can turn into a human. You can''t even manage that how sad.¡±

    The tiger gets so angry it tries to bite at Ghost. He takes the free chance to cut at its neck, but the tiger uses is thick skull to block the stab.

    The tiger then proceeds to push Ghost farther and farther backward till he hits a tree. Then it pushes at full force breaking the tree while shaking Ghosts internal organs.

    Ghost spits out blood at its eye blinding it then turns it into needle destroying the eye. ¡°Haha, trying to kill me via shockwaves isn¡¯t turning out to well for you is it?¡¯ It instinctively hits Ghost away through a couple more trees, but Ghost doesn¡¯t let go of his dagger this time around.

    The tiger''s eye proceeds to regenerate as if nothing happened and then it rushes at Ghost at max speed. It arrives in front of him before he can react and slashes at him with its claw cutting right through a thick old oak behind him. The tree gives Ghost just enough time to duck under the sharp momentum increased blow.

    ¡°Jeez, you can still move at that speed with those leg chains? Well, might as well increase them then.¡±

    The fight that was moving all around the forest finally returned to the original point and the blood that was used to kill the first couple of formes comes up underneath the tiger and attaches itself making the leg chains complete.

    I thought that I felt this before during his fight with the wind bear, but Ghost¡¯s blood magic seems to be severely weaker than when we first watched him. I wonder if this is a current problem of his or if it happened naturally over time?

    ¡°There you shouldn''t be able to move at that speed anymore.¡± As Ghost keeps taunting the tiger for another bite the tiger starts to paint clearly the charges take to much energy.

    ¡°Oh, does the poor little kitty move to fast for its body? I wonder how many times you can move at that speed even if I didn''t tie you like this?¡±

    The tiger charges at Ghost at max speed out of pure rage, but the seemingly useless chains turn into a blood spike shooting it up off the ground stopping it in its tracks.

    Ghost takes the opportunity to charge at it and takes a deep cut out of its side. He then retreats and takes the opportunity to try to behead the beast. But the tiger releases another roar and stops Ghost in tracks.

    If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it.It lets the spike pierce into it and quickly uses the opportunity to break it off of its body and eject it out of the body. Ghost, on the other hand, stares at it in shock for a bit then starts to smile like he had a brilliant idea.

    ¡°Hey, kitty weren¡¯t you proud of your defense at the beginning now look at you. Your hurt all over and your speed and strength have exhausted your tiny amount of stamina. You don¡¯t know the basic of stamina management, so look at you a great shapeshifter actually panting.¡±

    The tiger gets angry yet again and charges at Ghost one more time not listing to him at all. Ghost stabs at the tiger''s forehead to stop its momentum, but the tiger bites at the dagger instead of Ghost!

    The Tiger''s sharp teeth bite into it and destroy the other dagger. ¡°Now without a weapon how are you planning on hurting me? There is also no way you can control that blood after it goes into my body right?¡±

    ¡°I already know a lot about you Ghost. Which is why I was trying to use shockwaves to kill you instead of cutting you and giving you more blood to work with! I¡¯ll let you know this before killing you the person who gave me this tigers soul asked me to kill you in exchange for it.¡±

    I thought there was something suspicious with the way the tiger was fighting, but I didn¡¯t want to ruin the surprise to everyone else if I was right.

    ¡°So who is that wants me dead I¡¯ve made quite a few enemies in my time adventuring. But, most of them shouldn¡¯t be able to come to this planet. Maybe it''s one of those flying lizards or how about the god of one of the worlds I was summoned to hmm.¡±

    Ghost starts to think about the various enemies he made in his previous adventures, but he forgets one key point. Most of those existences wouldn¡¯t be able to come to his own world much less send a shapeshifter with an S rank soul after him.

    ¡°It doesn''t matter because you''re dead! You think I told you that information to let you have a peaceful death? I told you it to make you have an unsatisfying death!¡± The tiger tries to finish off the unarmed Ghost but suddenly stops moving and looks at Ghost in shock.

    ¡°Your information isn¡¯t exact enough I can actually control the blood inside of you. Since you told me some nice information I¡¯ll be nice and tell you some as well! I can control the blood inside of you since you don''t have any inside of you!¡±

    ¡°There¡®s a barrier in a flesh and blood creature made by their soul that prevents me from controlling their blood. But for you, there isn¡¯t since your soul doesn¡¯t find blood important.¡± The tiger vanishes and turns back in the black indistinct figure. Which tries to run away, but a blood jail appears around it.

    ¡°Now tell me who told you to kill me and I¡¯ll make your death less painful.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ll tell you! There is no need to torture me the one that wants to kill you is-¡± The shadow implodes inside of the blood prison.

    ¡°Did it self destruct? No, it was too much of a wimp to destroy its own soul. Then what could have happened? I don¡¯t know enough about various S rankers much less the gods ruling each planet.¡±

    ¡°I wonder if there is an expert in this type of field. I also need some better weapons those daggers were nice and all but I think I¡¯ve outgrown them.¡±

    Ghost first moves all the blood into new vials while it''s still liquid and moveable. Then he takes a couple minutes to recollect everything that happened during his fight something he learned to do while adventuring around.

    ¡°That white tiger wasn¡¯t as strong as it should¡¯ve been its strength was probably an S, it''s speed was also an S but it''s stamina and defense were at most A.¡±

    While it''s physical stats were partly in the S without the ability to use mana or internal energy it became severely weaker and easier to predict.

    ¡°So it couldn''t move at S class speed constantly yet it was an idiot and couldn''t hurt me without using its speed. Looks like I¡¯m right to keep my speed and stamina equal to each other. But my strength is too weak and it won''t go up anymore.¡±

    ¡°If I could use mana to build up my current physical body maybe I could breakthrough to S or somehow change the mana I have to internal energy. My speed is stuck at A same with stamina and defense. My strength is the only that doesn''t want to go up to A.¡±

    ¡°Sigh that fight would of been much easier if my blood ability wasn¡¯t constantly weakening. I wonder why this is the case and if it involves all water type magic.¡±

    He starts to look around for anything that could explain what happened to the shapeshifter. But the forest is empty of anything unusual it''s as if the shapeshifter vaporized into nothingness.

    ¡°Great there isn''t even anything here I can use as proof of subjugation, nor is there any clues of where the teacher is. Did the shapeshifter already kill him? But then why didn''t it turn into the teacher, before I arrived and got close to me to kill me, weird.¡±

    Ghost once again ignores the weird things about his very first case. Maybe he realized that there was something happening in the background, but only really cared about getting his little sister cured.

    The forest starts to come back alive. Sounds of various beasts can be heard once again, birds start to be seen flying around above the trees. Ghost realizes that without his weapons the forest isn¡¯t as safe anymore. So he immediately leaves the forest at the fastest speed he can move without hitting a tree.

    He appears on top of the roof that he tied Rainte to and as his luck would have it she was still there. The problem was she was constantly moaning semi-erotic and was also constantly trying to make the rope go tighter and tighter.

    ¡°Should I ask what you''re doing or should I just leave you here till someone hears you moaning and finds you. How about this you don''t have to follow me around and I¡¯ll just leave you tied up like this then we will both be happy?¡±

    ¡°NOOO, master this might feel amazing but eventually the feeling will slowly go away. It''s much better if I followed you and you used many different amazing ways to torture me! You¡¯re the only one that can tie me up and use these various and interesting ways of torture. Even if someone could hurt me I doubt that they could capture me as you can!¡±

    ¡°Sigh, so I''m going to be stuck with you unless I have the heart to mercilessly kill you. But I can''t just kill you because of your annoying me. If I did that then I would be the same as I was a couple of years ago.¡±

    Various memories flash by as he starts to recall all the errors that he did in the past. They all still haunt him to this day.

    ¡°Fine! But, when you''re around me you can''t talk with that fake accent. Maybe when you''re around others you can still pretend to be an older spirit. This shall be my first order as your master and also a test if you don''t follow it then you can''t call me master.¡±

    ¡°So, if I talk like I did when I met you then you won''t hurt me but instead just leave?¡± She looks at Ghost shocked and confused as if all her life was a lie. ¡°I thought using that voice would make me look older and special, so they would be more willing for me to follow them.¡±

    ¡°Don''t lie to me I know you were using that voice to annoy people into beating you!¡±

    ¡°But master your the only one that can hurt me what''s the use of annoying people that can''t hurt me?¡±

    ¡°Oh yeah?¡± Ghost instantly punches at her and causes her form to disperse. A faint moan could be heard from Rainte as she tries to hide her joy from him, but thanks to Ghosts sharp hearing she fails.

    ¡°So just having your form being disrupted is still a form of lesser pleasure for you? Now it looks like you annoying people will gain you a reward!¡±

    She stares at him in shock for a bit her face slowly turning more and more red. Eventually, she gives up and screams, ¡°OK! I admit to my mistake for lying to master. I¡¯ll confess that I was using that voice to make people mad and disperse me. Then I¡¯ll become invisible and go away from them as if they slew me or if they were hallucinating.¡±

    ¡°Now that we have that out of our system do you know any way to make someone die if he reveals any specific information?¡±

    She pauses for a bit and makes a face that tells she is thinking very deeply about the problem Ghost asked her. Eventually, she stops making the face and looks really confused.

    ¡°There might be a way to do that, but I don''t know how it could be possible to make it happen based off of spilling secrets. What happened was probably someone put a seal on its soul as for anything else and what type of existence could do so I don''t know. Maybe if you find someone who knows more about souls they could help you and maybe even help me as well.¡±

    Ghost thinks about it for a bit and decides it''s best if he just asked the headmaster about anyone who is well versed in souls. ¡°Good girl now let¡¯s go find the headmaster and ask him some questions and tell him the beast has been slain.¡±

    Ghost and Rainte head back to his dorm room to go down the secret tunnel. Rainte being a ghost and not limited by air resistance can actually move faster than him, but sadly she is also incapable of touching anything much less harming something.

    ¡°As your master can you do anything useful in combat? I know you can''t touch anything so don''t tell me  about that what I want to know is if you can use any magic?¡±

    ¡°Nope can''t use that it''s way too confusing and since nothing seems to be able to hurt me I haven''t thought or cared about combat. Since I can turn invisible and move faster than you I guess I could be a scout.¡±

    ¡°That''s not enough even if you haven''t met a person who can harm you that doesn''t mean no one can. You need to learn how to protect yourself so that I can trust you to look ahead for me.¡±

    ¡°Well, I actually haven''t been a ghost for that long so I don''t know if there is a way for me to harm the living. Maybe if you find a necromancer he would know more about what type of undead I am? Oh yeah, necromancers are magic that uses death magic and can control the dead.¡±

    ¡°I know what necromancers are! I¡¯m not an idiot I¡¯ve been adventuring for nearly half of my life now. I don''t know where we can find a necromancer in this world, however.¡±

    ¡°Well we are almost at the headmaster so that''s just another question to ask isn¡¯t it?¡± While she was saying that they appear outside of the headmaster office¡¯s secret entrance. Ghost takes the time this time to actually knock on it two times.

    ¡°Come in there is no one here.¡±

    ¡°Yo, mission accomplished. There was a shapeshifter who had a tiger soul trying to infiltrate the forest. He was about as strong as an A* adventurer. I tried to interrogate it but when it was revealing why it suddenly exploded.¡±

    Hiro looks shocked when Ghost mention it exploding, but then quickly the shock fades away. ¡°I never thought someone would be secretly teaming up with monsters to destroy my academy. Nor that their spy would be so trusting to self destruct for their cause!¡±

    ¡°Here''s the thing it didn''t have the courage to self destruct it actually confessed quickly but then it seemed forced to self destruct.¡±

    ¡°You sure that''s the case and it wasn''t just stalling for time to self destruct? From my point of view, there''s nothing that could possibly cause someone to unwillingly destroy their body and soul.¡±

    Ghost tries to keep a straight face, but secretly he is doubting the headmaster. ¡°Now that we have settled that affair I have two more things to ask you about. During the fight my weapons get destroyed do you know a good blacksmith to make me a new pair?¡±

    ¡°Blacksmith? We were summoned to be, not smiths so naturally there is no one summoned to be a smith. Some took up the occupation for fun, but again that wasn''t their true calling.¡±

    ¡°On the other hand do you know that not everyone was summoned to a world of magic? There were a couple other worlds that ¡®teleported¡¯ them to a science world. Maybe there''s someone on that side of the academy that can help you.¡±

    I get why the fantasy worlds needed heroes but why did the science worlds need people? Odds are most of those people were experimented on instead of being returned.

    ¡°I actually didn¡¯t know that thank you for the information. I''ll look into it to see if there''s someone who can help me. The other thing is do you know anyone that specializes in souls? There is a spirit that keeps haunting me and I need their help to get rid of it.¡±

    The headmaster takes a bit to ponder about some unknown thing before his delicate face seems to realize something. ¡°Are the rumors of the female ghost true? Multiple people came to me saying that the school was haunted by a weird old ghost. Has it taken a fancy to you?¡±

    ¡°Yeah, it has and I can''t get rid of it. It''s immune to ALL my attacks!¡± Ghost heavy emphasis on the word all while secretly chuckling on the inside.

    ¡°Well, that makes sense only S class attacks and higher can harm ethereal beings. If you were an S class I wouldn''t have dared to pull you into being the school''s guardian they are way too important to our world.¡±

    ¡°As for people that specialize in ghosts as I said earlier an S class would be able to harm it, but I doubt they would able to destroy it since ethereal beings move way too fast. Sadly necromancers tend to be an evil path so all of them are in the traitor school that teaches people the opposite as mine. The villain school that aims to destroy the strongholds and have the world be a dog eat dog world.¡±

    ¡°Thank you for the information. If you ever hear about any necromancer please tell me first. I''m sure I can force some kinda deal out of him or her.¡± Ghost then proceeds to leave and head towards the science area of the academy.

    ¡°Hey, you! Yes, you! Do you know anyone who specializes in making cold weapons?¡± Ghost asks a random student that was just passing by.

    ¡°Hmph a magic student trying to find someone from our science division to help them? Keep on dreaming we will never help you unscientific brats!¡±

    Another student comes by and hits the arrogant student across the back of his head. ¡°Sorry, about him he¡¯s a bit extreme about his views, but he is right. No one will help you they will all probably find some way to turn you down.¡±

    ¡°There¡®s one person who might help you, but I don''t know if he can make anything strong. In the middle point between the two academies, there is a person who believes science and magic can be fused into one. He might be able to help. We call him the mad scientist but you probably shouldn¡¯t he might get mad.¡±

    ¡°Thank you for your help I¡¯m sorry for causing you and your friend any trouble.¡± Ghost and the hidden Rainte leave towards the mad scientist''s laboratory. After a long and calming walk, they start to hear loud bangs.

    ¡°Ghost are you sure we should ask him for help? There are probably some people outside who are good at forging or how else would people get weapons after the break them.¡±

    ¡°Your right but why not check this person out. I was just curious about weapons made with science that''s all. Maybe this guy might surprise us.¡±