《World filled with Magic》


 Chapter 1.1 Royal Academy

    One could see a line formed by youth standing in front of a stone . None of them dared to say anything , after all this day would decide whether they would be able to leap from a carps pond into a dragons heaven .


    Even though only a single person sat next to the stone , nobody dared to be disrespectful to the person . Since he is the one who decide whether the youths passed or not .


    Accompanied by a group of soldiers to maintain order , the cloaked figure suddenly moved his hands causing a chair to appear . After sitting down a silence filled the place .


    "All youths between 15 and 20 have to come here and test themself ! We will test whether you have a Special ability or the necessary amount of talent to be chosen ." shouted a serious looking soldier while looking at the line of youths .


    Only now the line of youths slowly moved forward .


    "Name , age and family connections ." said the soldier as the first youth arrived in front of the stone .


    "Hans , 19 and my family owns a blacksmith shop in town ." spoke the youth while trying to smile .


    However the soldier only said : "Lay your Hand on the stone ."


    Everyone could see how the cloaked figure drew his wooden sheet while noting something down .


    Nervously the youth layed his hand on the stone , for a while nothing happened .Then a blue Number appeared : 47 .


    This caused the youth to smile , the number is quite high . Will it mean that he will be chosen ?


    Even the surrounding whispered in an exciting matter .


    "Hahah , this Hans is quite handsome and will be a good son in law , how about marrying our Anna to him ?" whispered a woman to her husband .


    Naturally this comment could be heard by everyone and caused a happy mood to appear .


    Just as Hans believed that he would be chosen the soldier suddenly interrupted his daydream : "What else do you want ? If nothing then go away , we still need to check more than thousand people ."


    With a sad face Hans walked back to his parents who already beamed with joy . Patting his son on his shoulder the father of Hans laughed : "Don''t look so sad , after all they only take red ones or people with numbers reaching to 200 . Not only that , as i got chosen i only got a number of 30 ."


    Seemingly cheered up by his father Hans smiled while looking back to the other youths who will be tested soon .


    Most of the youths only could make a number lower than 20 appear . However the cloaked figure still noted every single test down .


    Soon a few weeks passed , the black figure still sat in his chair . Whether it was day or night .


    Naturally , the figure didn''t sat there for nothing , he noted down every single youth who appeared , sometimes he even signaled to the soldiers that the youth will be chosen .


    However the amount was quite lean , only about 47 people got chosen . 12 because a red one appeared , the other 35 because the blue number reached more than 200 .


    Everyone knew that the test would only arrive every 5 years and last for about a month . This test decided the future of the majority .


    On the last day a "special" group arrived to test themself . People pointed at them and whispered . It is no wonder that people pointed at them , after all the group is part of the orphanage of the light church . Though it may sound holy and good at first , however most of them looked horrid . One with only the arm limbs , without any hands . One with only 2 fingers . One with a crippled leg .


    To say it short , they were cripples born in this world . Since they were useless to the familys , most of them got tossed away or feed to the pigs .


    After all the world is cruel and only the strong survives . However the church of light decides to put all of them in , after all someone is needed to clean the altar of the church . So the church gives the children a home , while the children work together .


    However as soon as the children reaches the age of 20 , most of them get kicked out . As the church doesn''t want to pay the cripple an amount of money , instead they take crippled children every year . It may sound a little bit harsh , however the church gets money from the kingdom so that they care about these children .


    Naturally the ones kicked out would normally die . So the children who are able to think knows that especially this day is extrememly important to them .


    One of them is called Mike , 16 year old . He always asked why is this world so unfair ? Why didn''t he looked normal ? If he wouldn''t looked so horrid , perhaps some parents would adopt him . But nobody answered him .


    At first he blamed the world , after all he did nothing wrong . He only got born .


    However he soon reached the conclusion that his only option is it to show great talent . After all there was a cripple who got a blue number of 140 . Since he only had a crippled arm the army welcomed him and now he''s one of the patrolling captains of a city .


    Arriving in front of the plaza with the stone test a few of the people pointed at them Especially on him , which is nothing new for Mike .


    He didn''t has any friends in this group of orphans . Neither in this group or in the orphanage at all .


    The reasons for that are the fact that Mike looked extremly disgusting . A Birthmark streched from his neck to his face , causing him to have no hair . Adding that with a hunchback , the majority avoided him .


    Thinking about his future Mike laughed bitterly , what can he do in the future ?


    "Name , age ." spoke the Soldier to Mike .


    "Mike , 16 ." replied Mike back before walking towards the stone . Realizing that he is the last one of the orphanage , he layed his hand on the stone .


    A Number appeared which Mike could read , after all the church gives a basic course of reading and maths .


    A red 3 appeared .


    With a surprised face the soldiers looked at Mike , however they soon returned to the normal face they had .


    "Mike Chosen ." said one of the soldiers .


    Flabbergasted the group surrounding the testing size looked at Mike with different eyes . Most of them filled with jealous and anger . As if asking why the heck should such a cripple be chosen and not our sons/daughters ?


    However Mike ignored the gazes while following the cloaked figure .


    The one responsible for the Church group gulped , not visible he hoped that the cripple won''t seek for revenge .


    Now the group of 48 people followed by the soldies marched out of town . While the other youths chatted about their future in an excited matter , all of them avoided the disgusting fellow who got chosen .Stolen story; please report.


    However the soldiers walked near Mike tried to talk to him . But one of the soldiers , seemingly the leader walked next to Mike and talked to him .


    "Hey , i hope you ain''t a dumbass . Since talent won''t bring you far ."


    Looking at the Leader for a while Mike suddenly spoke : "What does the red 3 mean ? I never heard anyone producing a red 3 .


    "Red means the amount of special abilitys you will get . Blue means the talent you have . However we take every red one since there may be amazing abilitys like Growing wings or shooting beams out of your eyes . Though there are useless abilitys like extrem fast teet growth . However i heard there exists some kind of mighty abilitys which needs you to have exactly this ability ." explained the leader while patting Mike on his back .


    "Not only that , the lion kingdom will nuture every red one . However the blue people choosen will be filtered . They become knights like us or go to the army , the best will become royal soldiers ."


    Overhearing the talk between Mike and soldier leader , many of the youths turned their heads in search of the people who got a red one in their evaluation .


    Looking at the youths trying to find the people they want to leave a good expression on Mike turned towards the soldier leader who probably wants to leave a good impression on him : "What Paths are there to get stronger . I mean are there only knights ?"


    "To put it simply , there are two paths . Magician and Warriors . Though there are reasons for con and pro , but mostly it is Magician who is stronger . One of the reasons is that warriors are more common than magicians . Second reason is that one can''t chooses the force they want to cultivate . Some cultivate Spirit Force and thus become magicians , the other cultivates Qi and becomes Warriors ." explained the leader-soldier .


    Just as Mike wanted to ask more the leader-soldier suddenly shouted towards the group of youths : "Good , we are good chunk away from the town . Get ready ."


    Suddenly the soldiers put things together . Wondering how they got these pieces Mike observed the soldiers , only to be stunned as they seemingly pulled the pieces out of a ring .


    Not giving enough time for Mike to be stunned the soldiers pushed the youths on the circle which got formed before stepping in as well .


    Bright Light eveloped Mike and the rest .


    Stunned Mike looked at the surrounding , they teleported !


    Calming himself down Mike looked for the cloaked figure who the soldiers accompanied .


    However the cloaked figure disappeared .


    "Good , the next batch is here . Hey , Robin . Shouldn''t there be more ? After all the normal count is 1 out of 1000 . But why are there only 48 even though the province should have about 60-80 thousand youths ?" spoke a man who walked towards the group .


    "Not that i care . Listen up brats : Red ones with me , blue ones with this Robin here ."


    Ignoring the suprised faces of the youths Robin , the leader-soldier , shouted : "Okay , seperate . Don''t dare to cheat , we know whom of you is red and blue ."


    Mike walked towards the man , however he could see the disgust as he received him . Coughing the man turned towards the other red ones while talking : "Congratulation to be a chosen one . Each of you has special abilitys which will reveal themselfs in the ceremony . However we won''t expect you to give your ability to us . After all we are a kingdom ."


    After talking the man lead the group towards a huge plaza , filled with youths .


    Telling them to socialize the man turned and left the group .


    Soon the group walked towards the next best group and started to chat , though Mike didn''t walk with the group . Instead he tried to search cripples like him . Or at least digusting fellows like him .


    Because of his birthmark stretching as well as his hunchback , many of the youths maked way .


    Naturally they couldn''t help themselfs and pointed at him while whispering .


    "Maybe it would make a difference if i had beautiful clothes like them and not my gray pants and gray t-shirt ." thought Mike while walking on the plaza .


    Though the time passed slow for Mike , it finally arrived . A Voice sounded through the entire Plaza : "On the left side the girls and one the right the boys ."


    Not knowing where the right and left mentioned by the voice is Mike followed some youths clothed in expensive clothes .


    Soon the boys stopped and Mike stopped as well . It felt crowded as the boys stood side to side , however around Mike a cirle of emptiness formed . Nobody wanted to be near him .


    "Good , now the ceremony will begin . After that i hope you will form groups of maximum ten people per group . These will be your room mates for your entire school life . So i hope you will choose carefully ." spoke the voice .


    Expecting something to happen Mike prepared himself . The youths around him prepared themself as well .


    Suddenly Mike felt hot inside , a warm feeling spread throughout his entire body . Causing his body to sweat .


    The moment only lasted for a moment , however sweat already appeared on his body .


    [ 3o3 ]


    [ 3 Hearts , 3 Ears , 3 Eyes ]


    [ You will have 3 hearts , +1 Eye on your forehead (sensibility enhanced) and your inner ear]


    [ Magic Core ]


    [ It allows you to have double the amount of Spirit Force ]


    [ Black Totem ]


    [ A Tattoo at your chest , it will nuture your body ]


    As if knowing what happened Mike frowned . He could feel the explanation and change in his body .


    The beating of three hearts and the storage of something in the middle of it . Not only that , on his chest appeared a Tattoo in the form of a black triangle .


    Wiping his sweat with his t-shirt and wondering what effects this change will bring , he looked towards the surrounding . Only to find out that the people already discussed if they want to join group x or group a .


    Slowly the people formed groups of tens and walked out of the plaza .


    In the time where the people formed groups Mike lied down while waiting for the last people .


    Slowly time passed as Mike created cloud imagines in his head .


    Suddenly a voice awakened him from his dream :


    "Young student , i think it wouldn''t be proper to sleep in the plaza . You need to form groups with other people and sleep in your bed ."


    "I am waiting for the last people ." said Mike while searching for the source , only to find a whitebearded old man looking at him .


    Shocked Mike stood up while bowing a little bit : "I am sorry for sleeping ."


    "Hahah , no rush youth . But why don''t you try to socialize with people ?" smiled the old man .


    "I am not confident and .... " brabbeled Mike trying to sound real , however the old man continued to smile while saying : "Well , there are only a few people left on the plaza . How about finding a group with girls in it ? After all you can form groups with girls in it . I think it will make your school time much more fun ."


    Not knowing how to reply Mike could only say : "I think i am not able to find a group like that . After all there are other boys who would like to join such a group as well , right ?"


    Pointing in a certain direction the old man said : "That group , try that group ."


    Not knowing whether he should cry or laugh Mike could only walk towards the group . Since he didn''t want to offend anyone who might be powerful he walked towards the group . Since the old man might be a teacher or a elder Mike could only walk in that direction , without looking back .


    Soon Mike arrived in front of the group , only to realize that the people in the group numbered more than 10 . It couldn''t be called a group , it was more like a mass of people .


    "Helena , how about letting them join our group ?"


    "Helena , i think we have the best group . We are already a well oiled group and if your two little brothers joins it would be perfect ."


    "No , no . I think we need such talented boys in our room . After all we can learn from ."


    "Hmpf , learn from him ? Then how can such talents develop ? We already hunted ice wolfs together . It would be better to let them join us ."


    Realizing that all of these people seemingly want to have Helenas two little brother in their group to curry favor astouned Mike .


    However he ignored it and walked away . He shouldn''t be mengle with groups like that .


    Walking away Mike looked back once . Only once . Maybe to see the bustling scene or to get a look at the Helena who everyone tried to appease , however this moment changed his life forever .


    "Helena , i think it would be better for Pat to join your group . Even though he is already 15 , he is still quite a crybaby ." sounded a young voice , which made the mass fell in silence .


    "No , Hek ! Big sister can''t always .... !"


    "Is it okay Helena ? I know that you have a free place in your room and your roomates will probably tolerate it ." said the voice while ignoring his brother pleading .


    "I can take Pat in my room , but which room do you want to join ?" asked a female voice .


    This caused the entire mass to fell in silence .


    "If one wants to create a room then only 2 people are needed , right Helena ?" asked Hek .


    "I told you to stop calling me by my name , call me big sister . If you want to create a room , then i can arrange your house to be next to mine . However with whom do you want to create a room ?" asked Helena .


    "With him ." said Hek while pointing in a direction . This caused the man who stood in front of him to be delighted , however Hek only looked at him before saying : "Make way ."


    Soon the people in front of Hek moved aside , only leaving a vision path which pointed to Mike .


    Mike looked at the youth . A blond boy with blue eyes , next to him another boy which looked simililar . Behind them a blond haired beauty with curvy hips and a well build chest . True and true a beauty which many mans sought after .


    Seeing the finger pointed at him and the people looking at his direction Mike could only play along while looking behind him .


    An akward silence appeared before Hek said : "The one cr... ..... alone there , i want to make a room with you ."


    Mike looked back to Hek .


    "What the hell does this Hek want from me ?" thought Mike while looking at Hek .


    "Well , a room is only a synonym . Since you are probably not used to his academy stuff , i will explain it to you . If we are in a room , then we are a team . We will do school stuff and be tested together ." said Hek .

 Chapter 2 Element and Branch

    Mike didn''t wanted to draw any attention to him , maybe getting bullied or being ignored is a good thing . At least to Mike . After all he''s already used to being an outsider , so why does a few years more matter ?


    Why only a few years ? Mike may not know what these knights and magic stuff represents , however he got into the royal academy of the Lion Kingdom . Naturally some tales exists in the common folk .


    For example it is told that people gradutatig from the academy will become 100 man generals of the army , some even becomes 1000 man generals . He even heard of a student becoming a noble by gradutating from this school ! That means a piece of land where you can rule , be a king .


    Now that an appearently influent young noble boy called out to him and wanted to make a so called "room" with him shocked him . After all it''s better not to draw any attention .


    However being a cripple he already knew the best choice in this situation . He agreed , not only that he even acted honored being in the same group as the young noble .


    This caused the majority of the mass to glance at him with a disgusting look . However Mike ignored it .


    Thus the situation of the young noble , Hek , leading Mike to his new dorm in which they will live together for the rest of the school life .


    "You don''t have to be so shy , if you want to leave then you can leave the room . You only have to find another lodging ." explained Hek while looking back towards Mike . "Not only that , the school will protects you from every harm you may experience . Tomorrow the general selection will happen . You will take a test which will show your element as well as your brach of it . Since my family is from nobility we have such a test stone in our dorm . You should test it so you don''t have to do it tomorrow ."


    Nodding like a good minion Mike didn''t said anything , experience showed that more important people didn''t liked to be interrupted .


    "Oh , if you tests your element and branch it will show you your study possibilitys . The school will also get notified by it ." added Hek while glancing at Mike .


    Just as Mike wanted to continue his nodding Hek talked in a different tone : "Well , since we are now alone i can state my own wish . Did you see my sister ? Isn''t she hot ?"


    "Certainly ." replied Mike in a humble tone .


    "Naturally she is . A Perky figure combined with a good household . She is everything you can imagine . However all of my brothers have more power than me and other noble houses are interested as well . So i need to create my own force . How about it ? I think you just want to bang some chics so i will give you the money to buy your own slaves okay ?" sneered Hek while asking Mike to be his minion .


    Perplexed Mike looked at Hek . Is this some kind of prejudice ? Just because he looked like the kind of guy who would rape every defensless woman it isn''t certain that he will do that .


    However to buy some time to get the necessary information Mike didn''t replied instantly , instead he put up his "difficult decision face" (It wasn''t so hard) and replied : "I certainly would like ..... however i think i am going to be the loser of this transaction so i would like to get some time to think about it ."


    As if knowing what would come Hek replied : "Hahah , naturally . And i know exactly where you can get the information : At the library . If you made your decision we can sign the blood pact ."


    Smiling like an idiot Mike cursed inwardly : "What the heck is this blood pact ? I need to hope that this guy in front of me is a real idiot and not like one of those people acting like a pig to devour the tiger ."


    After showing Mike the "Dorm" , which consisted of a few mansion for each person , Hek lead Mike to the library as well as the test stone . Afterwards he said goodbye while adding in a few sentence that indicated that if Mike follows his lead he will get a few juice pair of slave legs ."


    Waving like an idiot Mike rushed towards the library as soon as possible , first the school rules !


    Nobody stopped him front entering the huge building , only a sparce amount of people walked in an out . Nobody looked at Mike , everyone is busy reading their own book or walking away from the library .


    Just as Mike wanted to search for the school rules a fairy suddenly appeard in front of him .


    "Ugly ! Ugly ! Ugly good ! Kikiiiiikii ." giggled the fairy while doing some somersaults in the air .


    Ignoring the fairy Mike walked further away , searching the school book in another section of the library .


    However the fairy followed and summoned a few bigger fire sparks , causing Mikes clothes starting to burn .


    Trying to stay silent Mike tried to suffocate the flames . However it was no solution , the flames burn this skin as Mike tried to take down the flames .


    Giving up to take the flames down he search for the fairy and tried to grab it , at least the fairy has to know how to avoid him from burning till death , right ?


    However the fairy giggled while giggling in delight : "Catch me ~ , kikikikki ."


    Suddenly a light appeared , which extinguished the flames on Mikes body .


    "Argaaa , what do you want you stupid stupid stupid thing !" cried the fairy while appearently trying to run away .


    However a hand which appeared out of nothing stopped the fairy from flying away . To put it precisely a stone hand .


    "I am sorry for the inconvience the fairy caused , you can continue with your search student ." apogolized a deep voice before looking at the student .


    Surprised he looked at Mike before asking : "New Student ? Well , to say sorry for the trouble you can check your element and branch in the library . It only gives you a head start of one day ."


    Gathering up his courage Mike began to speak : "No need , a noble invited me into his room . He has one of those testers in the dorm ."


    "Oh ?"


    Watching how the fairy slowly disappeared from his hands caused Mike to gulp . A Threat ?


    "Well , i think you probably joined the noble with a blood pact . Good luck with that , it''s for eternity . Even though the school will protect every single one of the students until they gradutate ."


    "I didn''t wrote a blood pact , the noble gave me time to consider it ." replied Mike , trying not to anger the creature in front of him .


    "Oh ? Good , then i would give an advice to you . Don''t join a room or create a room , it will only push down your ressources if you''re weak . How about joining the library dorm ? You are not in a room , you will get your ressources and you can read every single book in the library ." smiled the creature while looking at Mike .This tale has been unlawfully lifted without the author''s consent. Report any appearances on Amazon.


    Meanwhile sweat poured out of Mike''s body , maybe he made a mistake . Certainly it seemed if he didn''t agree on it then the creature in front of him will smash him into meat pulp .


    So Mike could only nod , changing from a seemingly dumb young noble to a stone creature which could smash him into pulp .


    "Hahaha , good . You will remain here and we will tests your Element and Branch , come with me !" laughed the creature while walking in a direction .


    With a bitter smile Mike could only follow the creature , what surprised him is the fact that even though the giant creature is made out of stone , the steps sounded as if a feather touched the ground .


    After passing a few section , arriving in the inner parts of the library in which the only lights appeared be some kind of crystals hanging on the ceiling , Mike could see a stone wall standing in the middle of the room .


    "Touch it and it will show you your element and the branch . Be grateful , if you didn''t meet me everyone would know whether you have a popular element or a popular branch ." said the creature before letting Mike walking towards the stone wall .


    As Mike touched the stone he couldn''t feel the difference between a normal wall and this wall , however sentences appeared on it as soon as Mike touched the wall .


    [ Dark - Element ]


    [ Suggested Branch : Necromancer ]


    [ Reasons : More Amount of Spirit then usual , exceptional good control , useless body ]


    [ Learn Methods : Self Study (Library)]


    Frowing about the fact that a stone wall called his body useless Mike deemed the stone as quite useless . After all it seemed like one of this special abiltys will nuture his body .


    "I know this gaze kiddo , even if you have a special abilty to enhance your body , it won''t be real . It will be more like it enhances something different and the effect of that is the good body ." grumbled the creature before smiling : "Good , now i will give you your room . In that room you can read every single book of the library . Food will appear in your room every single day ."


    Before Mike could refute or try to suck up on the creature to avoid any bad future for him , the creature nudged him causing him to fall into darkness .


    As Mike opened his eyes he could see one of those light crystals hanging above him .


    After confirming his surrounding he frowned , no door , no windows and the only thing besides the bed is a column with a book on top of it .


    A vast space filled the rest of the room which could be described as a little training hall .


    With nothing to do Mike could only go towards the most interesting thing the room , the book on top of a column .


    As soon as Mike touched it he could see different words popping up , each with different themes .


    Thinking of the fact that the creature brabbled something about book and self study Mike searched for his branch , or anything related to it .


    Soon he found the word "Necromancer" , though he has to flip many sites before he could find it .


    Not knowing how to continue Mike just pressed the word , causing all of the words to disappear . Only to be replaced with three Lines :


    [ Beginner ]


    [ Advanced ]


    [ Adept ]


    After Confirming that besides the 3 Lines and the "Back to table of Content" on the top left corner nothing appeared , Mike pressed Beginner .


    Now book titles filled the pages , causing Mike to feel a surge of excitement in his heart . Mike started with the most basic book "Magic for Beginners" .


    Magicians are the upper fighters in the world , countless variation exists in the world . Even those so called Fighters are in true nothing more than variation of Magicians . The most basic exercise on how to get stronger as a mage is to meditate , just calm down and meditate . You should feel your magic sea after a while , grow it to get more capacity and thus stronger .


    First of all Magicians are ranked by the amount of Spirit Force in their sea , however it doesn''t indicate their strength . In theory a beginner Magician can stab a world-class Magican to death . However it is unlikely since strong Magicians have enough sea-capacity to destroy entire citys within seconds .


    Second of all the element and branch indicates the status in many countries , Light and Holy are extremely valuable to most countries . After all the persons who got these elements are mostlikely to have the necessary charm to influence other people . Not every Light and Holy Magician has the charm . It even can be that one of the Darker Elements got the necessary charm . But since the Darker Elements focuses on Things like abusing souls , controlling corpses or drinking blood it is rather unlikely .


    The rest of the elements haven''t any characteristic trait . There is no explanation for what element and what branch you get . Live with it since every element has its weaknessess and its strength .


    To sum it up : find your weaknessess , grow your sea by meditating and get stronger !


    After reading the Book Mike started to meditate on his bed . Since the books describes it as a state of comfortable thinking he felt that lying on a soft bed will stimulate his brain into the so called meditative state .


    Suspecting that the awakening in the field or the stone-wall-element-indicator did something to him Mike could feel his whole body . To described it in other ways , Mike saw his whole body . The sea is located in the middle of his three hearts .


    However Mike quickly realized that the sea is his so called Magic Core which he got from the awakening .


    Just as Mike wanted to expand the magic core he felt that something else is near the magic core .


    Looking at it Mike frowned the thing isn''t near the core , instead it encircled it . Trying to ignore and expand the magic core Mike could feel realization coming to him . The Magic core isn''t the sea , the Magic core is in the sea !


    After trying to expand the sea Mike frowned , he only could expand the sea step by step .


    But Mike didn''t continued to meditate , instead he opened his eyes and searched for a few spells he can caste . For that he used the book on the column to search for beginner necromancer skills .


    Deciding on a book with the title "4 Basic Spells for Every Dark Magician" Mike started to read :


    There are five Basic spells for Dark Magician :


    - Summon Minion


    - Acid Ball / Poison Ball


    - Stamina Absorption


    - Blood Control


    After finishing the book Mike started to think about his future path . It may not be important to choose the branch which the stone suggested , but it certainly is your strength .


    Thus Mike decided to pick Summon Minion as his first skill , later on Stamina Absorption and maybe Acid or Poison Ball as the last basic skill . Since blood control didn''t sounded so appealing to him he decided to not learn it .


    It is better to have more skills , but he isn''t even sure if its possible for him to master the Summon Minion Spell . As people say : If you do something , do it right .


    Putting away his thought on his future he decided to test the spell .


    Concentrating himself he did like the Book told him , concentrate on your sea , try to gather it and then release it with the proper image .


    If you can''t do it in one go , then take several steps , for example a fireball . Try to imagine it , release your energy in a slow matter and Tada ! A fireball will appear before you . Now you only have to release it .


    Though the Spell Summon Minion for Mike is easier than a fireball . It may sound creepy at first , but somehow Mike is able to imagine a full skeleton without even having seen a corpse .


    Pondering if it has something to do with the fact that he seems to be specialized in Necromancy , Mike summoned his first minion .


    His Spirit force slowly disappeared from his sea , as well as the magic core which is in the sea .


    Naturally Mike release his Spirit force slowly , afterall he wants to get information whether he has enough energy to summon a minion in a single go .


    But as Mike completed a few rips of his minion he felt how his sea neared his limits .


    Wiping his sweat away Mike looked at the uncompleted minion .


    An upper skeleton chest , with finished arms and a few rips greeted him .


    Panting Mike moved back to his bed and meditated to regenerate his Spirit force .


    After repeating the process of using up his Spirit Force to generate his Minion and meditating for 2 times the Minion finally stood in his final might .


    However Mike looked extremely disappointed at the Minion .


    He never believed that the Minion would even be smaller than him . Because of his Henchback his height is only about 1.5 meters . Now that his summoned Minion is even smaller than him , how should he even use this minion ?


    Trying to comfort himself that appearance can fool people he decided to command the minion to push his bed .


    After summoning the Minion Mike could judge that summoning is way harder than controlling . Thus he wondered , why does the book tells Magician to create their own skeletons ? Wouldn''t it be way easier to collect corpses throughout the land and revive the fallen as undying warriors ?


    Putting his Question aside , Mike watched how his minion moved the bed . Sighing Mike canceled the Control . Within the same Moment the skelton disappeared .


    This surprised Mike , how pratical ! But as he thought of the power of a minion he could only smile bitterly . Pitiful , just pitiful .


    Just as Mike wanted to go to sleep he felt that he didn''t even ate anything since he got transported to the academy today . Wondering where the food appeared to be he fell asleep in his soft and comfortable bed .

 Chapter 3 Library

    Awakening he found a loaf of black bread and a canister of water in the corner of one room . Thus Mike decided to name this corner the food corner .


    After eating Mike moved towards the library-book in search for more information .


    Since there are much more questions left open after this first spell . For example is the path of necromancer even considered strong ? Is this normal that the minions has strength compared to a little child ? Or does the problem come from him ?


    Not only that , there are still general questions about magicians left open . Is it possible for him to fight others even if he only has a useless minion ?


    Sighing over the amount of missing Informations Mike started to read . First of all the most important stuff , is the path of a necromancer useless ? After all it is the branch that the "indicator" deemed as his branch , it sounds powers to control corpses of his enemy . But it doesn''t sound so useful in peaceful situations .


    Besides he read a few articles about the strength of other Dark branches and it seems that they have quite the amount of diversity . First of all every other branch is able to heal themself and other people in some kind of way , which surprised Mike . Poison branch could fight poison with poison , blood branch could transfer or absorb blood and stamina absorption is self explanatory .


    Though not only 4 Dark Element branches exists , these four are the most common in the history of Lion Kingdom .


    Opening the book he searched for the most important point to him : Is Necromancer a branch with future ?


    If there are any major weakness like transforming into one of the most famous undead magicians , the Lich , Mike would rather avoid following the occupation and change to another dark branch . Naturally , Mike would also want to change if he discovers that necromancer is the weakest branch .


    Browsing through the books Mike realized something , the book which he used to read the books in the library is in no way controlled by any force or monitored by any person . Instead it is only a tool used for a library . Appearently only the Admins of the library would be able to have one of such tools .


    How did he realized it ? Easy , only a single symbol appeared on the cover of the book and there is not second symbol on the column .


    That means that there is only one connection , not a second controlling connection .


    After using the information he read in a successful way Mike looked excited , privacy , food and the chance of getting stronger ? Everything he hoped !


    Starting to read a memory Diary of a criminal Dark Magicians , Mike felt suspicious , do i truly have privacy ?


    But he quickly threw the suspicion away , who cares anyway ?


    "Two Years after i left the Ivory tower in search for the answer of the necromance branch i got the necessary information . From now on we won''t be labeled as the weird corpse collectors or the people who control Spirit Force puppets , instead we will be labeled as true necromancers . "


    Thinking for a while Mike agreed , the summon minion spell is nothing more than to create your own Spirit Force pupped in the shape of a skeleton and control it .


    "In Peaceful times there is no way for us necromancers to become strong , we need to gather corpses of strong warriors to summon our hate warriors , skeleton knights or even the feared death knights . Compared to other Members of the Dark Element we are like collectors , always in search of a better piece of art . IT''S PATHETIC ! "


    Frowning about that fact that this describes pretty much how Mike viewed the Necromancer branch he flipped the page .


    But what awaited him caused him to fell into rage , the rest of the paged seemed to not make any sense .


    Flip , flip , flip , flip , flip ......


    Searching for the part where the memory seemed to work again he frowned .


    "Two Light Magicians and a group of Paladins appeared . Probably all of them at higher rank than me , a novice magician ! I waited for them in my hall as they dashed in and yelled at me that i will punished for the crime of killing innocent people . But i only laughed , didn''t these fools kill people as well ? Not only that , they only obey a force which they believe is "Justice" . "


    Flip .


    "I summoned an group of Hate Warriors as they looked at me in fear . But i understimated them , its absurd how many kingdom heroe''s corpses i would had to collect . After that the entire group of paladins charged at them without even caring of the wounds inflicted at them . They didn''t even resisted , but soon i got to know why . All of them exploded in a holy radiance and took the death knights with them . Fear eveloped me as the two magicians summoned casted Light Cage to trap me ."


    The Diary ended here , with Mikes disappointment . He wanted to know the most importan piece of information ! Where is the middle part ?


    Realizing that the Diary throwed him into a state of questioning , Mike decided to meditate and grow his Sea for the rest of the day .


    In the blink of an eye a week passed , or better to say Mike slept seven times . Each time after Mike slept a loaf of black bread and a canister of water would appear in the corner . Every second day with a vegetable soup .


    In this week Mike didn''t do nothing and browsed through the library book , causing the fear of Mike to come true , the necromancer is one of the weakest branches of the Dark Element . It is more like making a puppet with a Spirit Force and controlling it . Though a real skeleton is way stronger , one needed corpses of strong warriors to rival those from the same rank . Thus it is easy to become the enemy of a country if the necromancer somehow takes the corpse of a person the country admires .


    Since the necromancer branch seemed to be filled with many negative traits Mike wanted to change his branch and maybe follow the blood path . From what he read it is the strongest with many positve traits and it is not weaker than necromancer in war times .


    But the library shattered his hopes , it is not possible to learn spells beyond the basics from a different branch . It may be possible for similiar or close branches like poison/acid , but blood and necromancy are completely different subjects .


    The closest to necromancer would be puppet magicians which are deemed as grey . Since they can use dark materials as well as holy materials to build up their puppets . Though normally every puppeter only has puppets of one kind .


    Deeming that it will make a huge difference if he choose necromancer which uses free material , spirit force , or uses expensive materials , monster parts . Mike decided to choose necromancer instead .


    The rest of the time Mike meditated to get a bigger sea and trained summon minion in order to get a higher master of the spell . After the Week of training Mike is capable of finishing one child skeleton in one go , without having to make stops between it .


    To test its attack power Mike commanded the skeleton to attack him , only to be met with child punches and child kicks .


    Seeing that he seemingly has no future besides summoning a few skeleton kids who at most would be able to help at farming he frowned . As if met with a sudden enlightment he thought of the fact why he could even join the royal academy .Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website.


    "I have three special powers , first of all the magical core which allows me to store more spirit force , the tattoo which enhances my body in a way i have no idear and the three x three . As i remember i should''ve three eyes and three ears , where the heck are they ? Not only that , what use do three hearts have on my body ?" pondered Mike before doing the dumbest thing to test it out .


    He jumped a few times , causing him to feel surprised . His body felt so light !


    Stopping the act of wasting precious energy Mike pondered the chance of him becoming a warrior . With his hunchback it will be quite hard to block any strike above his head , but if he is able compensate that with speed it won''t be a problem .


    But Mike pushed the act of becoming a warrior to the side . Magicians are way stronger , if his minion would only be a little bit more advanced . For example the strength of a youth , it would be quite useful for Mike .


    Just as he wanted to lie down and sleep , he heard a voice : "Is everything to your liking ?"


    Quickly standing up and bowing a little bit Mike replied : "Naturally , is there any reason for you to visit me ?"


    In front of him the stone creature stood and glared at Mike .


    After hearing the reply the stone creature took a little copper card out of nowhere and said : "Here , this is your student ID . You are now a member of the library force ."


    Nodding like a docile pet Mike watched how the stone creature turned his head and prepared to go . But the creature stopped and said : "In a Month grade one will be participating in an excursion , everyone has to be there . Since you are part of the library faction i will tell you one thing : We are neutral , we don''t meddle in any situations . Okay ?"


    Continue nodding Mike waited for the creature to walk out , but the creature started to talk again : "If you want to leave this room , use this magic circle to go out . Feel free to do it . You can even attend lessons or learn with other students . But i don''t recommend it , currently there is no necromance teacher in the academy and dark element teacher never give free lessons ."


    "Thank you , i will keep it in mind ." replied Mike in a humble tone . Looking on the ground Mike waited till the creature disappeared .


    Wiping his sweat away Mike sat on his bed as he frowned . Why does the creature needs him ?


    Touching the copper card he could only feel the smooth surface of the copper . As well as an engraved Name on the card : Mike .


    After putting the Card in a random pocked Mike moved towards the magic circle the creature called the exit . Using a little bit of his Spirit Force caused a Door to open . On the other side the library awaited him . Book Shelves towering above him caused him to feel tiny . Every single shelve brimmed with book as not even a single void space could fit between two books .


    Walking for a while he arrived at an intersection of different paths , a map indicated the way . Not interested in the rest of the academy he searched for a place to meet other students . It may be a fact that he looks disgusting , but there are many people out there who don''t care about looks .


    Deciding to go to the training field Mike started to walk . Arriving at the training field he could see people running around and doing exercises .


    While Mike slowly walked around a group of people neared .


    "Oh , oh . Who have here ?" grinned a boy who looked at Mike .


    "Yeah , so disgusting . Who would ever touch somebody like you ? Hahahah ." joked another one , causing the majority of the group to laugh .


    "Who are you ? A new student ? Didn''t you know that this training field is specially reserved for Steel Lions ?" asked a female as she stepped out of the group .


    Drilled brown hairs with perky hips and two mountains almost bursting out of her chest maked her an attractive woman capable of seducing countless mans .


    But Mike only glance at her before replying : "What do you want ?"


    As if Mike said something really bad one boy stepped forward and shouted : "Huh ? How do you dare to say anything to Goddness Elizabeth ?"


    More Boys stepped forward while Mike looked at them with a cautious gaze .


    Sneering Elizabeth watched the show while crossing her arms .


    As soon as more than 5 people neared Mike , they began to hit on him . Cursing few senteces like :


    "Hmpf , a thrash daring to come near to Goddness Elizabeth and even daring to answer without her consent ."


    "You are way too ugly , what reason do you have to come here ? Maybe trying to marry the shit of some beautiful woman ? Hahah ."


    "Just piss off , no reason for you to stay alive anymore ."


    After Mike lied on the ground , tattered with dust and dirt , they finally stopped .


    With a kick they confirmed if Mike passed out . Then they slowly left , following Elizabet trying to flatter her as much as possible .


    After the group left Mike suddenly stood up , touching his nose he could feel the sticky blood . Confirming that none of his limbs broke he slowly moved back to the library .


    With the same gaze and walk he walked back to the library , meeting nobody he stepped into his room .


    Eating the rest of his food he started to meditate , trying to ignore the pain on his whole body .


    After meditating for a while he fell asleep , only to awaken in an unknown time .


    Rubbing his eyes Mike slowly stood up while moving back to the book on the column . Only to see a second symbol appearing on the column . That''s the end of his privacy .


    After browsing for a while he realized that a few titles missed , for example the Diary of the Necromancer vanished . Though some Diarys remained .


    Some Food appeared in the corner , however Mike ignored it and walked out . This time he wanted to confirm whether the book has some sort of protection mechanic . After all if mortals would be able to transfer hidden messages , then it wouldn''t be surprised if a magician is able to do that as well .


    Walking towards the necromancer section took more than one hour . While passing the different section he met some other students , but he quickly passed by without greeting them .


    Slowly taking out one book after another Mike started to read . For him , it is a different feeling . The book on the column may be more practical , but holding the real book is something completely different .


    Also he saw the students mostly using those general books for the knowdledge they wanted .


    However Mike wanted to hold the diary which told about the weaknesses of necromancer . After all he needed this information , the spirit force skeleton is too weak to be used in actual combat .


    Time passed as Mike spend his entire time reading , eating and meditating in peace . He didn''t even wasted time as he meditated while pooping .


    While reading Mike found out something interesting , appearently the magician ranking in the lion kingdom only reaches from 1 to 12 . There is not even a single book mentioning the so called "novice" ranking the necromancer should be part of .


    Since searching for a single book is like searching for a specific speck of dust in a mansion filled with dust , Mike not only searched for books . He also searched for some spell books that may teach him other spells . After all the most basic spells practically can be learned by everybody . He even could learn the most basic spell for fire magicians or water magician , but he didn''t wanted to . After all it is weaker if used with his dark-necromancer spirit force .


    Three weeks passed as Mike searched for some beginner spells for necromancer , only to be filled with more and more despair . Most of them are like the basic minion summoning , creating a skelton with weapon and shield , creating a full plated skeleton , etc. .


    So every single thing needed to be created with his own spirit force . How could he even afford that with his meagre amount of spirit force ?


    In the blink of an eye two weeks passed , only two weeks left to the excursion .


    Two weeks before the excursion he found an old tattered tome with the enscription of "Basic Spells of Necromancy" , wondering why this old tome has so many sites Mike started to read .


    The Beginner Spells of Necromancy are as followed :


    - Bone Spear


    - Energy Absorption


    - Rise Corpse


    - Dark Smoke


    - Minion Enforcement


    - Slave Contract


    - Life Contract


    - Shackles of Pain


    .....


    Shocked from the countless Spells which could only be mentioned in this old tome , Mike felt an excitement surging up from him . Why the heck are these the "old" basic spells and not the basic spells mentioned in every necromancy book ?


    Not caring whether these are fakes or not Mike ran back to his room , holding the book in his hands he started to use the book on the column to search for the specific spell books . Who cares about getting watched ? It is too much of an hassle to search every single kind of book .


    Using the general book caused Mike to frown , he couldn''t sort the books . Neither could he choose any category of necromancy spell . Instead he only could select necromancy spells which caused the Minion Creation to appear in all of the pages .


    Filled with rage Mike ran back to the necromancy station , cursing the general book of being useless .


    "The spells has to be somewhere ." mumbled Mike while walking deeper and deeper into the section . Passing by shelves which looked like they hadn''t been cleaned for the last few decades .


    Time passed as Mike finally found one of the spell books which appeared in the old tome .


    "Energy Absorption for Beginners"


    Finding the first one caused the rest to be easily located , since these spell books should be near the spell book of energy absorption .


    Carrying more than 10 books and his tome caused Mike to sweat after the first step .


    Putting the tower of books down and sitting down to rest for a while Mike started to sigh . Resting he could see that the section in which sat looked quite dark . Only a small light orb illuminated a small area , the rest looked gloomy .


    Just as Mike wanted to continue to carry his tower of books he could hear a voice of temptation lulling him into a semi-sleep state . Losing his control over his body caused Mike wanting to shout , but the only thing he could do is to feel how his body slowly moved deeper into the section .

 Chapter 4 Heritage

    After walking through the Sections , Mike finally stopped in front of a dusty Shelve . A Finger-thick layer of dust decorated the surrounding books . Seemingly not touched in the last few hundred years .


    Slowly one of his arms moved , longing for a specific book on the shelve which seemed like every other book in the surrounding . Thick , old and dusty .


    As soon as Mike touched the Book he could only watch helplessly as something moved along his hand into his head .


    Infomation flooded him , as he watched something which seemed mythical . The birth of a boy , his adult ceremony , his first love . His journey of magic in a society with the symbol of a tower , after people discovered his talent in magic . Ending with the situation of getting ridiculed by other people followed by the leaving of society to become a holed up researcher . Almost using up his entire life he finally discovered his life goal : a spell which should change his element for every , using the spell he spreads terror and fear throughout his world . His life ended as few knights of light grouped to destroy him .


    Mike could even see the magician casting a last spell on his memory to seal it away , until another one the same element would touch the book .


    It felt like an eternity as Mike watched the memory passing by , only to slump down catching for breath . Sweat dripped out of his body as he tried to process the life of the magician .


    Because of his action the dust scattered throughout the air , causing some dust to enter his lung .


    Coughing Mike wiped his sweat away before standing up and walking back to section where he left all of his books .


    He thanked the dust for leaving his footprints behind , else he would''ve been lost in this labyrinth of books .


    While walking Mike pondered about the things he just watched . It didn''t felt like it he experienced it , instead it felt like he watched the entire life of a magician .


    Thinking of the many powerful spells and mysterious curses the necromancer could cast in his life astounded Mike . But he also clenched his hands at the fact that the other elements seemingly easily possesed more powerful spells .


    Thinking about the memory which he could feel , he couldn''t help but think that this is a heritage that doesn''t seemed to be so simple . After all the magician used the spell to kill countless strong people .


    As he dragged his chosen spell books back to his room , he passed by two other disciple who looked at him with disgust before walking away in a hurry .


    Since they held their noses it appeared that he smelled , but Mike frowned : Didn''t those people he met at the field also beat him up even though he smelled ?


    Arriving at his room he could see the stone creature standing in front of it , seemingly pissed .


    As Mike arrived with a big stack of books , dusty and tired , the creature replaced his pissed look with a smile as he said : "Student Mike , you should be punished since you didn''t attend the excursion of the first year . However since you passed the time in the library filled with books and lost your sense of time fitted to the library faction you won''t be punished ."


    Quickly bowing to the creature Mike replied : "I am sorry ."


    The creature replied : "Nothing to apogolize for , but in two days the an important field trip will start . It is the main field trip for first years . The Goal is it to survive in the wild for a month . You can keep every part of the monsters you hunt , but remind we don''t help you . You need to hunt for your food , get a base as well as protect yourself from monsters . So be prepared . Since you are part of the library faction you will naturally be part of the library group ."


    Trying to sound as nice as possible Mike asked in a humble gesture : "What are factions ?"


    "They are part of the school system . Each Faction needs to have at least one member of each element . Else they will be called a group . Being a Faction is something of Honor , for example there is the Knight Faction who has the spirit of justice , the Hunting Faction which focuses on hunting monsters etc. . We are the library faction , we care about books and knowdledge ." stopping for a moment to hink about his next words the creature continued :


    "A faction represents honor and strength , so it needs to have a certain grade of strength . You don''t need to worry about the strength of the library faction , instead we have a lots of strong people . What we lack is the amount of people . Thus i recruited you . Besides you have the dark element which was perfect . After all we lacked somebody with the dark element ."


    Naturally Mike couldn''t care whether he joined the group of a snotty nobel who wants to touch his big sister or a faction with a stone creature . But seeing the fact that he''s able to live in the library as well as the fact that the library faction needed him to fill in the slot for the dark element , he decided to stay . After all according the creature the strenght of members is quite high .


    Considering the fact that the snotty nobel hasn''t any background compared to the library faction , Mike decided to cling to the bigger tree .


    "May i ask where the baths are ?" asked Mike as he nodded as the creature blabbered a lot of praises to the library faction .


    Seemingly delighted at the nods the creature spoke : "Normally one would need to go to the official bathing house , but since you are a true hearted library lover i will install a bath in your room ."


    Finishing the creature stepped into his room , thus Mike only wait . After a while the creature stepped out and replied : "I am finished , there is a bath in your room . If you want to get water then use your spirit force to activate the channel ."


    Watching the back of the creature as it walked away , Mike judged the creature to be quite dumb but devoted to the faction .


    "In two days i will pick you up ." said the creature while turning his head towards Mike . After saying that the creature resumed his walking and disappeared behind a few bookshelves .


    Mike frowned at the fact of a field trip . Somehow he was able to avoid the first field trip , but it seemed that this trip ain''t so easy and has something to do with the library factions honor .


    Naturally he doesn''t give a shit about honor , but he needed to be not loathed to survive . Or else people will just search problems with him .


    Throwing the thought of the field trip away he stepped into his room , only to be amazed by the fact the room expanded . An empty pond the size of a small hut decorated the former room edge . A tap appeared on the ceiling of the pond .


    After activating the tap to fill the pond he undressed himself and stepped into the warm water .


    As soon as he stepped into the water , the first layer of his skin seemingly dissolved causing the water to take on a brownish colour .


    After washing himself the water looked like mud . So Mike opened the drainer before filling the pond again . Now he enjoyed the warm water surrounding him .


    Not wanting to waste any more time , Mike grabbed a book of his book tower to read . Because of his hunchback Mike rather layed than sit .


    Bone Spear :


    Use the bones of your Minions or yourself to make a spear out of Bones . It can be harder than metal or even steel . If the mastery is high enough i can even rival magical weapons . Naturally one can also make Bone-shields or any other weapon out of the bones . Though it isn''t as practically as a Spear .


    Compared to other Spells , Bone Spear has the advantage of not needing any cast time . Instead the faster you can manipulate Spirit Force , the quicker your cast time is .


    Focus your Spirit Force on the Bones you want to manipulate , circulate your Spirit Force in a circle to generate the power to form the Bone . Now enforce the Bone , the harder you want to make it , the more you need to invest . If you are good enough at it you can learn to add more gimmicks onto it . Maybe it shall contain a poison cloud or explode into countless sharp fragments ?The tale has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.


    If you want to control your own Bones you just have to do the same , but care which bones you want to move . Maybe you are still in your growing stage , if that is the fact care about mishaps happening to your body . There are many things that can happen , too large rips or maybe shorter arms . But everything can be fixed , just use bone manipulation again and you will be able to enlargen your bones ! (It also can be used to make you grow smaller or taller )


    Reading the last few pages made Mike almost wanting to cry . This single spell is able to fix his hunchback ! Once and for all .


    Tears flowed out of his eyes as he reminisced about his past experiences . The tears felt like a ritual as Mike soon left the reminisced state .


    Grinning he started to circulate his spirit force on his back .


    Pain , nothing but pain filled his eyes as Mike started to circulate his Spirit force .


    However he didn''t stopped . Flesh moved as as well as his internal organs , sweat poured out of his body .


    His lungs and his hearths shifted into an upper position as the bones of his hunch spread throughout his entire body .


    He wanted to scream the pain out , but all he could do was to open his mouth and shout in silence .


    Tears of anguish streamed out of his eyes as his back slowly bend into a straight shape .


    Instead of the Hunch a broad back appeaered , the sound of flash tearing apart could be heard as the bones slowly straightened themself .


    Darkness surrounded Mike as he felt that his body changed .


    As he woke up he could feel that time passed as the warm water turned into cold water .


    Trying to feel up his hunch with his hands astounded him . He could touch his own back without any difficulties .


    His own body astounded him . Eventually he realized that turning his hunch into a normal back in one go was life threathening to him in many ways , he survived .


    However after touching his belly , he frowned . The rips were clearly visible , one could amost see the white of the bones through the skinny skin .


    But the fact that his hunch disappeared made him smile , now he only has to deal with the fact of being "ugly" .


    Being ugly wasn''t that big of a deal , instead intelligent people would realize having such an ugly follower would benefit them . Since people would always say that the person is way too ugly , thus raising the beauty/coolness of persons around the ugly person him .


    Stepping out of the water caused Mike to shiver , it''s way too cold in his room . Especially since his back got stretched , causing his entire fat reserve he stored for the last few years to disappear .


    Turnig his sight to the food corner caused Mike to smile , 2 large portions of vegetable soup and 3 loafs of black bread appeared there . With a high chance he could say that the creature wanted him to be healthy when the field trip started .


    Looking back to the stack of old necromancer skills he pondered for a while . Not wonder none of spells got recorded until now . It may be powerful to alter his body and bones , but it comes with too much pain . .


    Although the main use of it was creating weapons out bones , it still doesn''t seemed to be such a good idear . After all one has to throw the spear or use it as a melee weapon . Both facts in which most magicians are not good at .


    Since Mike already mastered the basics of the Bone Spear spell which had no cast time , he decided to focus on spells with no cast time . They seemed to be easy to learn , while not having to worry about any backleashes or interrupting problems . Though chanting spells are deemed more powerful , so Mike decided to decide on the whim as well as the description of the spell whether he should learn it or not .


    While searching for his next spell book from the stack of books , he ate the bread and slurped the soup .


    Naturally he wanted to master the heritage spell he got from the necromancer , but it seemed like he needed sacrifices for the ritual . Even if it seemed more logical to follow the heritage first , but Mike knew one thing : He has to get stronger in the shortest way possible .


    It may be a fact that the heritage may give the most time/power ratio , but now he wasn''t even stronger than a healthy man .


    Deciding on the most famous skill of the necromancer , Rise Corpse , Mike started to read :


    Making Corpses to walk is one of the most iconic Spells of the Necromancer Branch . You will be able to resurrect mighty warriors to fight for you . Though it is not recommended to use the corpses of people who got the light element . Also never use a magician , they mostly turn into undead magicians which are only able to use dark spells or raise other corpse . Their spirit force turns into dark element as well . It''s entirely different if you find a dark magicians corpse ! Use it ! It will be able to use all of the spells he mastered in his life time !


    There is not a general chant for Rise Corps , thus you need to realize the core of the spell . Since every chant is different it will be different for every people , here are some examples (Note that for some people it may only give the corpse 10% of its former strength , if you are lucky enough you will see a chant which will give you the maximum amount of its former strenght which is 100%) :


    - "Hear my voice lost puppet and rise up from the death to serve me for eternity"


    - "Though who has no ego , stand up and fight for eternal time ."


    - "Oh forgotten body of a soul , listen to my answers and reply to it , swear loyality for me ."


    Reading the book opened Mike a whole new Universe , though he needed to work with corpses of humans or beasts it didn''t mattered much to him . After all he was deemed as cripple and thus marked as an inferior human .


    The new Universe is build out of the fact that he realized that it doesn''t mattered what words he used for the spell . Instead he only needed to understand the core and then build his own chant which will work good for him . For example the Rise Corpse skill consist of two parts , one that the corpse shall rise , the other is loyality to the magician .


    After memorizing some chants of Rise Corpse , Mike moved towards the next book which seemed quite good . Energ Absorption .


    It sounded like Stamina Absorption but Mike expected something better .


    Just as he wanted to start reading , he could hear the voice of the stone creature :


    "Okay , are you ready ? It''s time for the field trip !"


    Mike turned his head to look at the source of the voice , only to discover the stone creature stepping into his room .


    "Oh .... seems like you need other clothes . Well , you get to choose some equipment before the field trip so we don''t have to care about that ." said the creature as it realized that the Hunchback of Mike disappeared , thus making the former clothes (rags) of Mike pretty much too small .


    Since Mike dicovered that the hunchback morphing process took more than one day , he could only follow the creature after it explained about the honor of the faction and the fact that he is able to equip himself with new clothes for free .


    While walking the creature explained the general rule of the field trip . First of all it seemed normal for every student to follow his or her room . If you are part of a faction , like the library faction you would be part of the faction instead of the room .


    "This field trip is quite important for the newbies , they get better experiences in the wild and they get to feel the law of the jungel . Though the length is unknown the longest trip was about 2 years . But don''t worry , the general trip length is about 4 to 6 months . The shortest was about 2 weeks ." explained the creature as it lead Mike to the warehouse where Mike could equip himself freely .


    Arriving at the warehouse Mike could see that it was nothing more than an open plaza with tables filled with weapons , bags and survival goods .


    As Mike arrived some people already walked around in search of their weapons , mostly in small groups .


    Mike could see the group of Iron Lions standing not far away from him , but this time they didn''t dared to bully anyone . Instead they even explained in a grand manner which weapon or which armor is the best .


    Looking around Mike could understand why , middle aged mans and womans stood around while looking at the students .


    Since the creature stood out like a white point on black paper it naturally attracted glances of other people looking at it .


    Just as Mike wanted to use the excuse of searching for equipment to leave the creature , a middle aged man in uniform neared the creature before laughing :


    "Here to arm one of the library members ?"


    "Yeah , this one is new . Besides he didn''t even participated in the first field trip ." said the creature .


    "Ts , ts , ts . So he didn''t even experienced blood yet ?" laughed the middle aged man .


    "Well yeah , but i think your son Dave can help him a little bit . After all he reached the level of a first rank warrior at the age of 19 . Besides since you always wanted a male friend for your son i think this is a good chance to meet your future son''s friend , Georg ." replied the creature before pushing Mike towards Georg .


    Since the middle aged man examined Mike , Mike did the same . Brown hairs , a sturdy build but somehow smaller than Mike , a beard and a friendly facial expression .


    "Mhm , not bad . When will you reach first rank warrior ? Which weapon do you use ? Ahahaah , my bad . After all you are young so i bet you are still trying to find your weapon ." said George after assessing Mike for a while .


    Mike looked at George before replying : "I am not a warrior , i am a dark magician with the branch necromancer ."


    Shocked George looked at Mike for a short time before turning his head towars the creature and asking : "Are your kidding me ? He is at least 1.9 meters and looks way more sturdy than most other warrior students ."


    "He had a growth spur , since he only had one pair of clothes he now needs new pairs ." replied the creature in a blunt tone .


    Sighing George turned towards Mike before saying : "Choose your equipment , you can take everything you want . If the equipment is too small or too big you can ask one of the guards . We have the armors in different sizes ."


    Nodding Mike turned towards the tables in search of new clothes , seemingly deep in thought .


    "Ah , before i forgot it . We will assemble this midday , a bell will ring at that time . The library faction has the number 27 ." said George as Mike turned away .


    Answering with a nod Mike moved towards the table in search for suited weapons .


    First of all he grabbed grey underpants , grey pants and a grey t-shirt . After throwing away his old clothes(rags) he walked around with his comfortable new clothes .


    Since Mike walked around while thinking about his body boost , he choosed things that he deemed necessary to survive . First of all he choosed a sword . Not a long sword , neither a short sword but a sword which lenght was in the middle between both .


    After that a leather armor which enabled him protection as well as no limitations to his movement .


    Just as Mike walked towards the shield section a youth with light brown hairs walked towards him . A group of girls accompanied him , however as soon as they realized that the goal of the youth is Mike they bid goodbye before walking away .

 Chapter 5 Field Trip

    "Hey , you there . What is your name ?" asked the light brown haired youth while smiling .


    Ignoring the youth Mike moved towards another table choosing his shield .


    "Ah , choosing shields ? Good choice . After all shields are good weapons for defense as well as offense . I recommend a triangular shield . You can hurt other people with the sharp point and it is handy as well ." blabbered the youth while following Mike .


    After taking a handy round shield , Mike walked towards another section while the youth followed .


    "Ah , a small-medium round shield . Not very good against arrows , but light and good for small combats . You even choosed one which is enhanced with metal parts . Do you got the necessary arm strength ?" commented the youth while following Mike .


    As Mike neared the table with bags he turned around and asked the youth : "What do you want ?"


    "Someone tasked me with the task to help you ." replied the youth with a smile .


    A moment of silence followed as Mike suddenly replied :


    "I don''t need any help , go away ."


    Seeing Mike who turned around , the youth suddenly spoke : "But we are in the same faction afterall , so why don''t we choose things together ?"


    Mike stopped in his walk as he looked at the youth . Both of them looked at each other .


    "Ah i forgot to introduce myself . I am Dave , Georges Son . My Father talked to me that a second male joined the library faction . So i am here to help him ." smiled the youth .


    "Oh ? Second Male ? What do you mean ? Does it mean the rest are females ?" asked Mike .


    "You don''t know ? Well then why the heck did you joined the library faction ?" asked Dave .


    "Naturally because i am honored to be in there ." replied Mike in a smile . Though the birthmark on his face caused it to look like a malicious grin .


    In the blink of an eye the youth grabbed Mikes shoulder in a frienly manner . Like a friend he hugged Mike before whispering : "Tell me the truth right now or i am gonna beat the shit out of you ."


    Sweat poured out of Mikes body , how did Dave appear next to him without him even realizing ?


    "Because the library faction seemed to be a great power so i joined as a creature offered me the position ." whispered Mike back , naturally in a humble tone .


    Though the creature didn''t offered , more like forced him to join it .


    "Mmm , the Gargoyle ? What are you for a warrior ? Heavy , light , medium or some elemental knight ?" whispered Dave .


    "I am a dark magician ." replied Mike in a low voice .


    As if enlighted Dave smiled before saying to Mike : "Ah , then welcome to the library faction my friend . I will gather my equipment as well , bye ."


    After the encounter Mike continued to choose his equipment : A small bag , fire stones , sharpening stones , ropes , two knifes , a bottle made out of leather and a little pouch filled with healing herbs .


    Naturally he didn''t forget a small-medium iron pot and a few iron sticks .


    The last item he choosed was a camouflage coat which could take on colours of the surrounding , though a middle aged woman reminded another girl that it wasn''t able to take on colours of the city . Thus it is only a useful camouflage item in the wild


    Equipped with sword , iron pot , leather armor , coat and a small bag Mike walked towards the gathering field with the number 27 .


    A few groups already discussed where they wanted to go , some argued about the dungeon they wanted to go to , some about whom shall be the leader and others talked about how this field trip is way different than the field trips before .


    An outdoor kitchen stood in the middle of the field , providing free meals for every student who wanted to fill their belly .


    Since everyone could take as much as they wanted , Mike filled his iron pot with stew and took 2 loafs of white bread as side dishes .


    After taking 2 more loafs of bread and one more pot of stew Mike filled his stomach to the brim .


    Waiting for the bell to ring Dave appeared in front of Mike , armored with a half plate armor and a triangle shield he looked like a majestic knight .


    "So are you ready .... ?" asked Dave while smiling .


    "Mike ." replied Mike .


    "Ah yeah Mike . Since you are new here i will explain how the library faction works . Except of me the rest are all girls . We have one quadruple magician , one light magician , one berserker , one logistic member who can also fight with her hammer and one thief ." said Dave .


    As if waiting for a reaction Dave looked at Mike before saying : "Normally one would be surprised since we are able to fill a whole faction in only a few members ."


    However just as he wanted to say more a girl suddenly arrived in front of the boys . With beautiful golden hair , a perky bust and alluring hips she looked more like a goddess than a human . Her white dress with shiny jewellery only enhanced her look .


    "Are you the dark magician ? Nice to meet you . Appearently my little brother wanted to get you into his room , but it seems like you ended up in the library faction . Though it is quite regretable , i welcome you to the library faction ." said the golden beauty towards Mike before standing next to them.


    "Hi Helena , are you ready to move out ?" smiled Dave .


    "Yeah , i heard this year we don''t have a specific goal ." replied Helena before asking : "I heard that you reached rank 1 warrior , gratulation ."


    "Ahaha , naturally nothing to brag about . But i am quite happy that i reached it . Besides won''t you reach rank 1 light magician soon , at the age of 18 ?"


    Smiling Helana and Dave waited for the rest .


    Just as they waited a voice boomed throughout the entire plaza :


    "Students of the Lion Kingdom , this will be your goal of the field trip : Go out and travel around the lion kingdom . Naturally only in your factions . So whomever isn''t in a faction will be assigned to one or be grouped with other rooms . Because this a great journey for everyone , every single one of you will get a steed as well as a space ring . Not only that , to ensure your safety a hidden guard will accompany your faction throughout the entire year ! You can go into dungeons , hunt field monster or just relax . Good luck on your field trip ."


    As soon as the voice said the last sentence a ring and a steed appeared in front of every student .


    Astouned at the display of power Mike took the ring while inserting his spirit force into it . A Space capable of filling more than 5 horses appeared .


    As Mike played with the space ring a group of people appeared , a beauty with black hair , a female dwarf with two mighty weapons daggling on her chests , a dark brown haired beauty with two round bear ears and a female masked with a fox mask appeared .


    Accompanied by a handsome blond youth who talked happily with the beautys .


    As soon as they appeared before Dave and Helena the blond youth spoke : "Dave , do you already know where you wanted to go ? After all the academy doesn''t forbid travelling together ."


    As soon as the surrounding people heard that a boy suddenly spoke : "Yeah , i am gonna follow Prince Arthur . After all travelling with more people is way better ."


    "Yeah , i will follow Prince Arthur as well ." kyaaed a girl while looking at the handsome youth with a lovestruck gaze .


    Soon more and more people said that they will follow Arthur in this field trip .


    Smiling Arthur replied to the crowd : "Naturally , why don''t we all travel together ? Naturally without any dark magician , they are doing their disgusted experiments ."


    The whole crowd cheered .


    "Yes Arthur , naturally without those dark magicians ."


    The narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident."Kyaa , i am so happy to be able to travel together with Prince Arthur ."


    "Good , since there are enough people travel with you i think we don''t have to travel anymore Arthur ." replied the black haired beauty before jumping onto her steed .


    "Naturally not Lira , i believe you should follow me ." smiled Arthur with his brightest smile possible .


    "After all you are not a full faction so i think the academy won''t say anything , after all .... "


    "Well , Arthur . We recruited a dark magician , thus we are now a full fledged faction . I don''t think we need anymore cooperations after this ." smiled Lira before turning to Dave and saying : "Is the dark magician ready ? If yes we are moving out ."


    Dave bowed before mounting his steed and sayig to Mike : "Its time to move out ."


    Naturally Mike ignored the gaze of Prince Arthur before mounting his steed .


    He never mounted a horse before , but it wasn''t that hard to ride since it wasn''t so different compared to a dunkey .


    "Okay , move out !" shouted Lira before dashing towards the exit , followed by the rest of the library factions Members .


    As they passed the other students , they pointed at them . Especially at Mike .


    Exitig the Academy Mike could see a green ocean . Green grass filled his view from left to the right , from the his point of view till the end of te horizon .


    Occasionally a group of trees could be seen .


    While riding Mike soon dicovered that the rest of the group meditated . Thus Mike meditated as well , at first it felt quite different compared to the meditation with no disturbances .


    However Mike got used quite soon and he started to grow his spirit sea .


    Time passed as the group dashed towards the horizon . Mike could feel how one of the members evoked a spell , causing the grass behind them to cover their tracks .


    As night neared Lira , the black haired beauty , said : "We are camping in the opening , care about monsters such as goblins or hobgobs ."


    Like a well oiled machined each started their duty , Dave pulled tents from a second space ring and started to build up a tent formation , the little dwarf girls started to make a fire and the rest just meditated .


    "Hey Mike , help me ." said Dave .


    Ignoring Dave Mike pulled his steed a distance away from the camp before sitting down to meditate as well .


    The dwarf looked at Mikes Action with a smile before concentrating on her fire . As she judged the fire to be big enough she pulled out a big pot and filled it with water .


    Then she proceeded with throwing vegetables and meat into it .


    As the dwarf girl cooked , Mike stopped his meditation while looking at the direction of the pot .


    Feeling the gaze of Mike the dwarf girl smiled back . She couldn''t but help to grin as she imagined why Mike gazed at her pot .


    But Mike didn''t did thing the dwarf girl expected , he pulled his steed further away from the fire before pulling out a knife to cut down some grass .


    A delicious smell emitted from the pot before the dwarf girl stood up and said : "Time to eat !"


    Slowly the girls stopped from their meditation , they walked towards the pot while chattering .


    Lira , which could be seen as the leader looked into the direction of Mike .


    Even though it was dark , she could see how Mike put the grass he cut into his mouth before chewing on it .


    Not only her could see the action of Mike eating grass . Every single other member looked at Mike with an odd look .


    After eating the group crawled into their tents after deciding whom shall take the watch at which time .


    They didn''t included Mike , since he isolated himself .


    While the others meditated in tents , Mike leaned against his steed , wearing the camouflage coat .


    In the night , Mike opened his eyes as he could feel danger surrounding him . He grabbed his sword as well as his round shield before standing up .


    Though he couldn''t see as well as in the day , he could still see the figures slowly surrounding him .


    As Mike stood up , the creatures stood still before charging in with a loud howl .


    "KHEAAARG !"


    As soon as the first creature used his stick-like weapon , Mike blocked it with his shield . After that he use his sword like a spear , he stabbed the creature .


    "AARGH !" howled the creature before Mike kicked the creature away . It was quite easy , after all each creaturs heigh didn''t reached past 1.4 meter .


    Compared to Mikes new height of 1.9 meter it looked like an adult fighting against children .


    As if the death of one creature caused the other creatures to fall into a state of anger , they charged at Mike as if there was no tomorrow .


    However Mike replied the charge with a loud shout : "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !"


    Shocked from the war cry of Mike , the creatures stood still . Perfect for Mike to reach the second creature , swinging his sword down like an axe .


    The cry from Mike caused his steed to waken up . As soon as it realized that it got surrounded , it used his legs trying to kick the creatures .


    It surprised Mike that the horse didn''t run away . However he accepted the new ally while hacking through the creatures like a wolf in the horde of the sheep .


    The pile of corpses grew as the creature continued to surround him .


    One , two , three , four , five , ... as killed creatures from Mike grew to six and the creatures killed by the horse grew to 3 , a bigger creature stepped out .


    At the height of 1.7 meters it looked much taller than the rest of the creatures . It charged at Mike with a howl , only to be blocked by his shield .


    It tried to overpower Mike , however it wasn''t stronger than the 1.9 meter Mike , so it died as Mike fought with it for a while .


    As soon as the leader died , the rest of the creatures escaped .


    As soon as the creatures disappeared , the steed moved towards Mike , nudging him with its head the horse neighed for a short time .


    After caressing the horse for a while , Mike collected the corpses of the goblin and the hobgoblin he killed . He needed them for his "experiments" , thus he stored them in his space ring .


    A smell of blood surrounded his former sleeping place , thus he lead the horse to another place before leaning against the horse to sleep .


    Meanwhile Dave looked at Lira before saying : "What do you think about the dark magician ?"


    "Magician ? He is more like a normal youth with a stronger body ." replied Lira in a low tone .


    "He didn''t even used any spirit force at all . Perhaps he is trying to hide his spirit force ? After all for some goblins and a hobgoblin there is no need for magic ." pondered Dave .


    "No , there is a high chance that he didn''t learn any magic at all . After all there are many who aren''t gifted ." replied Lira .


    "Gifted ? Are you serious ? Why don''t we just say that everyone is a peasant ?" mocked Dave .


    "You can''t put him into the same league as you or Arthur . Besides i researched and yeah he is a peasant ." replied Lira .


    Silented by the fact of Mike being a peasant Dave bid goodbye with a "Do what you want , i am going meditating ."


    After Mike finished his migration from one grass patch to another , Lira moved back into her tent as well .


    The sun dived the plain into a golden radiance as morning arrived .


    As Mike opened his eyes , he could see the black haired beauty wearing a leather armor standing not far from him .


    Standing up he turned around before asking : "And ? What do you want ?"


    "Wouldn''t it be better for you to join us ?" smiled the black haired beauty .


    "Why ?" replied Mike before putting a hand of grass into his mouth .


    "I think as a newbie it would be better for you to join us ." smiled the black haired beauty while adding : "Besides you won''t be attacked by small goblin groups like yesterday ."


    "If i am with you only bigger groups will attack me . If i am alone big groups may ignore me ." replied Mike before mounting his steed .


    "Mike , you know that if you die then our faction will be punished , right ?" smiled the black haired beauty .


    "Naturally , i won''t leave the group . I will just act alone , if that is okay ." replied Mike in an understanding tone .


    He replied her question with small bow .


    "You can call me Lira , since you are acting alone that is fine too . After all we all need to gather experience . Since you are part of our group i will tell you our goal . Our goal is Nava , surrounded by mountains it is not threathened by any other country . However since it has many dungeons and many monsters it is quite the material factory ." said Lira before stepping back .


    This time Mike didn''t ride along with the rest of the group , instead he meditated on the horse back without even wasting any time .


    "Sigh .... how come we have to meditate all day , i would rather fight every day ." sighed one girl while riding on her horse .


    "Even if you''re a bear man , you have to meditate . Though it is not effective as if you are a human you get stronger as well ." said Lira .


    "I think that one guy doesn''t get bored of meditating , just look behind us . He seems to meditate all day long ." said the female dwarf .


    "Yeah , he even eats grass . Somehow he reminds me of an animal from my home , they eat grass all day long while sleeping the rest of the day ." smiled the female bear .


    "Aruru , it is not nice to talk about others ." said Helena while meditating as well .


    "Maybe it is because Mike doesn''t like the food Poetra cooks ?" suggested Dave .


    Following that he got punched by the female dwarf .


    While they chatted and laughed , the female masked with a fox mask slowly slowed down .


    Only to ride alongside Mike .


    Naturally with a distance between them .


    Night arrived as the group started their tent building . Mike naturally didn''t participated , except this time another one didn''t participated . The fox masked girl lead her horse to a distance near of Mike before sitting down and leaning against her horse as well .


    A silence filled the space between both of them as they leaned against their horses . Nobody of them looked towards each other , instead they looked in two different directions .


    As the moon stood high on the sky , Mike opened his eyes and pulled out a goblin corpse .


    He muttered his spell : "Hear my voice lost puppet and rise up from the death to serve me for eternity"


    After evoking the spell he could feel how spirit force disappeared from his sea flowing towards the goblin corpse .


    Like a puppet the goblin slowly stood up .


    To test the three spell models in the book , Mike casted Rise Corpse two more times :


    "Though who has no ego , stand up and fight for eternal time ."


    "Oh forgotten body of a soul , listen to my answers and reply to it , swear loyality for me ."


    Two goblins slowly stood up , the blood under the moon made it a beautiful , yet cruel scene .


    Standing up Mike held his shield as he commanded the goblins to attack him with a stick .


    Three times the sound of a stick hitting his shield sounded through the air as Mike judged the one with the most power .


    "They are all pretty much the same , not less than half of the former power remains but it''s not the full power ." judged Mike before commanding the three corpses around .


    He analized the limitation from the spell and he could say that there is none . The spell brought many advantages to him . First of all the amount of spirit force needed to control the corpe is practically zero . Second of all it seemed that more than half of the former power remained , thus making it a quite valuable spell .


    After evoking the spell for a fourth time he could feel how his sea emptied , so he meditated to recover it .


    After the night , 9 goblin corpses and 1 hobgoblin corpse were ready for his command . He stored all of them in the space ring , causing it to get filled by half .


    Just as he wanted to lean against his horse he could feel somebody spying on him .


    "Who is there , come out ?" yelled Mike before drawing his sword .


    "Ahahaha , seems like you got me there ." said Lira before appearing behind the high and thick grass .


    Silence filled the air of the night as Mike looked at Lira .


    "How about we take it as if this never happened ?" smiled Lira .


    "Yeah , let''s act as if nothing happened ." replied Mike before walking back to his horse .


    As Mike walked back to his horse , he silently waked up his horse before mounting it .


    The masked girl slowly stood up as well . As if encountering a poisonous cloud , Mike dashed into the dark night .


    The masked girl mounted her horse to chase .


    "Dammit , how the heck did such a mistake happened to the gifted quadruple element magician Lira ?" mocked Dave Lira as they arrived at their campsite .

 Chapter 6 Each their own Journey

    "As if i should even be reserved in front of a small dark magician ." sneered Lira while turning towards Dave .


    "Sigh .... you are quite the beauty but with that attitude of yours , you will never be able to find a man ." sighed Dave before turning back to his tent .


    Lira blushed as she wanted to say something , but stopped in the end .


    Gazing towards the moon Lira pondered for while , a smile lingering on her face as she looked towards the tent of Dave .


    "Why do you wanted to have the dark magician in our group ? Even if he gives us the last puzzle piece for a faction , you clearly know the history of our friend Mira ." mumbled Lira while gazing towards the moon .


    Mike dashed into the deep night , even though he knew it was dangerous . But appearently staying besides the group of humans was a no go . Perhaps it may seem useless for Mike to even attempt to flee , but he knew from experience that people who don''t take the chance at the first glimp will die .


    Risk everything or get nothing . A sentence that describes life very well . If you want to get something , be prepared to suffer for it . And now was the perfect moment to decide : whether to die or suffer for the rest of his life .


    Naturally Mike choosed the former and thus he was able to climb the social ranks in the slum .


    So it wasn''t surprising that Mike once again chose the choice where freedom awaits him .


    Like a madman Mike commanded the horse to go faster .


    But it was no use , as Mike panted and wiped his sweat away a voice caused his whole body to shiver .


    "Why do you run ? Perhaps to avoid the punishment for your miserable existence ? Or perhaps because you feel guilty to be alive ?" sounded a harsh voice .


    Turning around Mike faced his pursuer , a female with a fox mask . She had no armor as the clothes revealed her juicy curves .


    However Mike had no time to drool at her amazing body , instead he quickly summoned all of his goblin minions from his space ring .


    They tumbled as they appeared on the plain .


    Drawing his sword Mike prepared to fight the masked female , however she had no attempt to even postion herself into a battle stance .


    "What do you want ? Huh ?" yelled Mike as if trying to scare away a predator .


    "Hmpf !" sneered the female before flames appeared out of nowhere burning the zombies .


    However Mike didn''t cared , instead he commanded the group to obstruct the female and dashed away .


    Meanwhile the female watched how her flames burned the goblings down , surprisingly the flames only burned the goblins and never spread to the nearby grass field .


    Watching how Mike disappeard on horseback , she only pointed her fingers into the direction before a small fireball shot into the direction .


    BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM


    Mike felt that his whole body got beaten up as he couldn''t move his body without feeling pain .


    It felt like someone striked his head with just the right amount that he didn''t passed out .


    As he opened his eyes he could see a sea of flames in front of him .


    A female with a fox mask slowly walked towards him .


    Arriving in front of him Mike could see how the female moved her lips before pointing a finger in front of him .


    "Please .... i want to live ." mumbled Mike in a desperate voice .


    Not knowing whether he could get pity with is look , Mike just begged .


    "I want to live .... spare me please . I won''t do anything bad .... " Mike just continued to talk .


    Not seeing any reactions from the female Mike continued to beg to be able to live . From reasons of how he will do good things in the world to that he is somebody who is despised by the world because of his looks .


    Mike couldn''t see the facial expressions of the female because of her mask , but if he could see it then he clearly could see a face with remorse .


    "I .. i .. i just wanted to live ... I ... I ... cough .... cough ..................... !" Mikes voice turned into coughs and then into nothing more than a dead silence filling the surrounding .


    The female slowly put her hand down as she looked towards the body of Mike . A bloody wound on his body marked his death . She somehow felt the cold breeze of the night , despite the inferno raging next to her .


    With a swing of her arm the fire disappeared . While mounting her horse she looked back towards the corpse .


    Just as she wanted to ride back a voice interrupted her from her state of silence .


    "Is it really okay for you to kill him Mira ? I know that your family and beloved died , but killing everyone who has .... "


    "Shut up Dave . You know that every dark magician is lured to thing that they call fascinating experiments ." replied Mira in a bland tone .


    "Perhaps they are only lured because the only thing that kept them alive was the fact of being able to gather knowdledge ." suggested Dave .


    "No , every dark magician is fated to be an enemy of the whole world . They are selfish parasites who only drain from the humans and doesn''t give anything . Besides why did you even wanted him to be part of our party ? It doesn''t really matter if we don''t have faction status . After all we can do everything a faction is allowed to have . I doesn''t understand why we have to get the name of being a faction ." stated Mira while riding her horse .


    "Well , perhaps the dark magician would change your ...... ." smiled Dave .


    "Hmpf . Never ! Well thanks to you i was able to dispose another parasite from the world . Did you only come here trying to question my action ?" asked Mira .


    "Hahah , well it was your first kill so i had to witness it . Besides , Lira asked me about the dark magican as well . So it was good that you killed the one ." laughed Dave .


    "Really ? I mean ... you ... , you know i ...... you''re right ... I ..... I ..... " suddenly Mira began to sob .


    "Shhh .... everythings gonna be alright . Just go to Lira , i will try to see if the dark magician is dead . Perhaps he just passed out ." soothed Dave while pushing Mira into the direction of the camp .


    While Mira dashed towards the camp to get a hug from her best friend Lira , Dave looked at her back .


    "Sorry Mira , but the world teached me a different view on the world as you . You seek justice to all people who died at the hand of dark magician . But didn''t you ever think that these dark magician seek justice for the people who died at the hand of nobles ? Indirect or direct it doesn''t matter ." mumbled Dave before turning towards the battleground .


    As he arrived he could see a devasting hole and a bloody meat paste . Near it was a corpse of a human , with about 1.9 meters it looked like a bulky man . Combining it with the fact of a scarred face and no hair it looked like a veteran with a burned injury .


    "Hey , i know you''re not really dead . Stop pretending . As if a guy like you could be killed by an innocent flower . " said Dave towards the corpse .


    Silece filled the air as Dave continued : "You can play dead , however i will stab you a few times if you don''t move now . After all you are a corpse ."


    Nothing happened .


    "Well , or should i say poor hunchback ?." smiled Dave while throwing a small bundle of things towards the corpse .


    Suddenly the corpse started to move .


    "First of all give me something to heal my wound ." groaned the corpse .


    "You will take it for poison , right ?" laughed Dave before throwing another bundle towards the corpse .


    "Every skill book on necromancy i could find is in the first bundle . Included all of books you wanted to read . My servant the gargoyle took it out from the library for me . A communication orb is in there as well , i think you know it''s only for communication and not for tracking . In the second bundle is a space ring and a map ." explained Dave before bowing .This content has been misappropriated from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.


    "I hope you may become strong and the remember the day i helped you , after all i helped you in the worst situation . Compared to the other ones whom i helped , you received the least help . However you have the least restriction . Good luck ." said Dave before mounting his horse and riding away .


    Meanwhile the corpse , or better to say Mike slowly stood up . Groaning he touched his wound only to feel sharp pain .


    Since moonlight wasn''t bright enough Mike could only wait for the next day to arrive .


    Slowly Mike walked into the dark night .


    After Mike walked for a while he fell onto the ground as he soon started to sleep . Perhaps he was one of the lucky ones as the high grass of the plain protected him from normal predators . Combining it with the fact that every creature seemingly wasn''t in the surrounding , Mike was able to recover his mental state .


    As Mike opened his eyes he could feel the warm sun shining upon him . After looking around for potential enemys and confirming that no one appeared to be there , Mike stripped .


    Naturally not for amusement as he checked his wound . Only to find out that the blood already formed a layer of crust , thus indicating the recovery of his body .


    Wondering how Mike soon came into the conclusion of two possibilitys . First of all being a mage somehow changed his body . It made little sense since only warriors trained their body and magicians trained the soul or spirit . However there was a chance it caused his fast healing .


    The second would be one of his three "special" abilitys which caused him to step into the path of a wizard . Especially the tattoo abilitys seemed to be the cause of it . After all it only said that his body would get strenghtened .


    Pushing the question of his recovery to another day , Mike assessed the present of Dave . First of all the books which he tried to learn before this annoying trip . Not a single book was left out and the most important thing : No spy , No tracking and no watch device was hidden between any of the books . Included all other stuff .


    How he knew that nobody was tracking him ? Simple : A magician is able to know whether there is a spy device by simply using his spirit to test it . Besides even if Mike is watched by people whom he can''t even discover , what can he do about it ?


    After putting everything into his space ring , except a pair of new cloths , Mike took out the space ring . Naturally the one he got from Dave . Looking into the storage caused Mike to feel surprised .


    A corpse , a notebook and a single note . Reading the note Mike could see what was Daves goal of giving him the corpse .


    "Mike , since i recently got the information that you are a necromancer , i prepared a corpse from a strong warrior . As he was alive he would probably be around the rank of 7 or 6 . Compare that to the gargoyle of mine which is also the hidden guard assigned to our group so don''t worry about your safety . Since you are probably only able to get out 20 to 30% of the corpse strenght , it should be enough for you . However care about the face of the warrior as he only died recently .


    Second of all the notebook is from an old necromancer . I am not able to see whats in it as the magican put up a restriction for only dark magician able to enter ."


    "Only 20 to 30% ?" Mike pondered for while . "The Undead spell is valid for every stage , so the corpse should have around 70% of its strength . Unless i am too weak to use it for now ?"


    Naturally Mike didn''t want to test his thesis on the corpse he got from Dave , instead he wanted to get some information first and then use the corpse . Though it had a greater risk of dying before using the corpse .


    Taking out the notebook from the so called old necromancer , Mike started to walk with brand new clothes towards an unknown direction . Not towards the school and not towards the goal of Daves Group . Instead the picked the middle and just walked towards it .


    "Dear Fellow Necromancer ,


    even though i wasn''t able to create a true legacy like all other of mine branch , i am not willing to let my experiment results to be lost after my dead . Thus i created this pseudo legacy which will only allow people my kind to enter . My research may be useless , however i was able to answer a lot of questions towards the skill : Rise Corpse . It ain''t much compared to the old monsters , but i hope it will help you .


    Section 1 : Chant


    First of all is the chant , it works different for most of us and many say that a chant may be suited for one , but may not be suited for another one . So here comes the question . Why ? The answer is simple , even though i searched for almost 20 years . It''s the problem of speech . Different people speak different . After all there are the habits , the intonations , the volume , etc. . Thus i discerned the fact that Rise Corpse is similiar that we as necromancer command the soul/corpse to return , naturally we have to be ourselves or else the soul/corpse will find use fake and thus only appear with little to none strength .


    Section 2 : Some people are suite more than others


    It sounds like talent which is despised by most of the magicians , after all they want to believe that hard work is the goal to everything . However some people have a headstart . Compare it to the fact that some people are beautiful and others have to work hard to look beautiful . Same thing in the spell Rise corpse . So to sum it up : You need to be yourself , speak properly and have talent .


    Finishing reading caused Mike to sigh . What for a waste time . This necromancer researched a single spell , the most basic , yet the most dangerous spell for other people . However the conlusions are just .... not useful . It just says be yourself and have the talent for it . Who the heck could use it ? Besides how one even know whether he''s popular at the corpse/soul side ?


    Disappointed Mike continued to walk while trying to use walking mediation . Compared to sitting mediation it was shit , however Mike needed to walk and every single bit counted .


    Two weeks passed as Mike continued to walk , the only food was water and the grass on the plain . It was meager , however Mike didn''t complained . Instead it looked like he was used to it .


    As Mike walked for while he suddenly could see a shadow along the horizon . It looked like it moved towards him , causing him to feel shocked .


    He started to run like a madman , however the shadow came closer and closer , until Mike could see what it was .


    A huge turtle with a city on top of it . Not only that , smaller turtles with houses on top of them surrounded the big turtle .


    It caused Mikes mouth to gape , seeing it for yourself is way more impressive than watching the life of another one .


    "Hey , why are you here ? You are alone in a plain filled with monsters and dangers ." Shouted a middle aged man with brown hairs .


    "I am here because i want to see the world ." shouted Mike back .


    "WHAT ?" shouted the man as more smaller turtles arrived , causing loud stomps .


    "I AM HERE BECAUSE I WANT TO SEE THE WORLD!" yelled Mike .


    "Sigh .... youths today .... well you can .... " said the middle aged man before a voice interrupted him .


    "Do you want to join us ? You will even get your own turtoise house . However you need to follow us and the danger is the fact that you will be on the outside , thus causing attacks to be launched at your first ." asked a bald man with a white beard .


    This caused the other people to mutter something about stranger and stranger are bad people etc. .


    "SHUT UP !" yelled the old man with a voice that caused the stomping of the turtles to look quit .


    Silence filled the air as the man dropped towards the ground before arriving in front of Mike .


    "Your turtle will soon arrive , it will be your house if you want and you can travel with us . You can even leave whenever you want . Second of all you have your privacy and we won''t look into it . However if you have slaves , don''t cause blood or anything else stain the house and secondly if you drown yourself into pleasure , don''t be too loud . I don''t want to hear the moaning of youth , okay ?" said the old man before jumping onboard the turtle .


    Indeed , a turtle arrived pretty soon . But Mike needed to climb the ladder to be able to step onto the turtle . For Mike it was a huge turtle , however the turtle looked tiny compared to the main turtle .


    As soon as he arrived , he began to laugh . How lucky could he be ? He was able to get onto a caravan , not only that , it wasn''t a normal caravan but instead one of which travelled throughout the lands . He could remember that the necromancer from which he got the memorys travelled with such a caravan for a a few decades . It was practical and people really respected privacy in the caravan . Though if shit got serious then the caravan leader wouldn''t have mercy to the enemy .


    Another week passed as Mike didn''t meddled in any social activitys and nourished his body with the food in the house .


    Reading , meditating and thinking was the whole idea of Mikes live .


    However fate seemingly had another twist for him .


    *Knock* *Knock* *Knock*


    "Excuse me ? Is my little brother in here ? If yes i am sorry for the problems he made ." said a female voice outside of the door .


    "No , he isn''t here ." replied Mike before resuming his act of gathering more spirit force to expand his spirit sea .


    Mike continued to mediate , however he still couldn''t see the day where he will break through the rank 1 magician . Appearently the genius called Lira only reached rank 1 , however something was wrong here . Mike could clearly see she hadn''t had much training in combat and neither did she mediated much .


    Besides he clearly could feel how the crystal core in his spirit sea somehow sucked in as much spirit force as his sea , thus causing it to feel double as hard to expand the sea .


    Naturally Mike didn''t only mediated , instead he even re-read the notebook of the necromancer , causing him to feel astonished as he got an enlightment . After all his goblin reached the previous strenght of more than 50% , with both spells . Doesn''t that mean that if he acted like himself and got the 2 major rules in hand , he would be able to raise a corpse with 100% of his former strenght ?


    This thought caused Mike to feel excited , however he also didn''t wanted to lose the corpse . But what caused Mike to feel resolute to test this thing out was the fact that the corpse started to rot . He didn''t knew how Dave stored the corpse before he got it , but he knew one thing : He himself didn''t knew how to do it and fresh corpses are way stronger than rotten corpses .


    Mike prepared his mental state to seek his own self and communicate with the corpse to get a perfect minion . First of all obey and second to rise .


    Breathing in and out .... in and out .... in and .........


    "HEY ! WHERE THE F*CK IS MY SON ? OPEN YOU GODDAMN .......... " a roar sounded as somebody pounded against his door .


    "NOT HERE AND NOW PISS OFF !" yelled Mike , infuriated by the fact that he almost got the perfect state .


    After that Mike tried to continued his meditation , however shortly after a sound echoed throughout the house .


    *WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM*


    The Door broke as a humongous bear walked into the house . 2.2 Meters tall and with big muscles it looked like a bear .


    Though he wasn''t a bear , he was a human . However two bear ears indicated that he at least had some bear blood within his veins . Well , a Demi-Human , otherwise known as Bear-Human .


    "GIVE ME MY SON BACK YOU ............. !" yelled the man , only to get interrupted my Mike : "No you , see for yourself . I don''t have your son . Now repair the door and GET THE F*CK OUT !"


    "SHUT UP AND RETURN HIM !" roared the man before punching towards Mike .


    Naturally Mike tried to block the punch , only to be met with the sound of broking bones .


    "AAAAAAAAA !" yelled Mike while looking towards his arm which bend in a weird direction .


    Pain filled the whole body of Mike as he used his left arm to swing his sword which he took out from the space ring .


    "HMPF ! DARE TO STEAL MY SON AND NOW DARE TO ATTACK ME ? DIE HOODLUM !" roared the bear man while easily blocking the sword before punching Mike into his belly causing more broken bones sound .


    Mike flew through the air , only to crash into the wall . Blood dripped out from his mouth . Still conscious .


    "WHERE IS MY SON ?" yelled the man before grabbing Mikes left leg . Within seconds a crunching sound could be heard as the leg only was able to dangle .


    "NOT WILLING TO TALK ? THEN HOW ABOUT YOUR LEFT ARM HUH ?"