《The Aggresive Cheater》


 Chapter 01: Summoning gone wrong

    Suddenly, I''m struck with acute pain, my head feels like it''s splitting. it''s like some sort of torture. As if my body is being torn apart and being repaired again and again.


    Immediately after my consciousness parted from the pain "Who are you?" asked the girl intently. She was examining my face. The sky was a clear blue behind her.


    She seemed to be close to my age. Underneath a black cloak, she wore a gray blouse and a gray pleated skirt. She knelt down and looked, shocked, at my face.


    Her face is very cute, She had looks that would make people say that she was extremely beautiful. She had clear blue eyes, and a slightly small mouth. Her height was around the average height of a woman in her sixteenth.


    She wear a gem necklace around her neck, red eyes, white skin and blonde hair. She looked like a doll and I think she is indeed a doll if she were to sit unmoving.


    ¡®Still, that''s some kind of weird thing she''s wearing, isn¡¯t it a robe where a magician usually wear? Is this some kind of play?¡¯


    I was lying on the ground, facing the blue sky, I was unsure of what happen and how I got here. I moved my head to take a look around my surrounding. Many people in black cloaks were curiously examining me. Parted my vision from those crowd of black cloaked people, I looked to the distance, an endlessly rich grassy plain stretches as my eyes can see, and in the middle of those plain I saw a building like huge castle with stone like walls...It''s just like a midieval ages.


    My headache is killing me, in many sense. Giving my head a shake, I ask, "Who are you people? Where am I?¡±


    Everyone around me had some sort of black stick 30cm long and at the tip of their stick there¡¯s a small crystal like object and they wore the same cloak as that girl''s.


    ¡®Are they filming something? Or did I wander into the past? It seems plausible considering there¡¯s a castle lying around accompanying with weird cloaked people.¡¯


    " Eva, what happen? Did we made some sort of mistake during the Summoning?" someone asked confused.


    It appeared the girl looking into my face was named Eva.


    "I... I don¡¯t know" The girl in front of Lestat said in a refined voice that carried a nice melody in it.


    "What mistake are we talking about? The chant is something our school has passed down from generation to generation and this is the first time something like this to happen."


    ¡°Hmm there¡¯s nothing we can do, headmaster what should we do?¡±


    ¡°Bring him to the guest quarter and let him rest first, I think he need it¡± an old man with white hair down to his shoulder and thick beard said with a deep voice. As the white haired oldman finish his words my consciousness starting to fade and I fainted.


    It was daybreak and the sky in the east had just started to show itself, it has been two days since then.


    ¡° Uhh my head ... what a weird dream¡±


    ¡°Eh...where am I? Don¡¯t tell me it¡¯s not a dream..¡± I said while rubbing my head hoping for my headache to dissapear, and then as I starting to sober up I realize that I can see a small Icon floating on the lower left of my vision and [Menu] written on it.


    Somehow the menu opens when I tap it with my finger. A blue transparent window appears in my vision, It¡¯s divided into tabs for [Status], [Inventory], [Magic], [Skill], [Map] and [Log].


    I check my status, and turn out that my level is 1, and all other attribute are 20 except for my health and mana.


    ¡°Come to think of it, it¡¯s like a game isn¡¯t it¡± I curved my mouth slightly.


    ¡®There''s also Age, 17 years old, Job: -, nothing? I¡¯m jobless?¡¯


    I''m wearing my school uniform, white shirt with a black vest, and black pant.


    ¡®Come to think of it, Last time I remember I was on the roof reading ¡®Don Quixote¡¯ but I lost to the drowsiness in the end, ah what a pity, in the end I did¡¯t finish the book, I wonder what happen to the gentle knight and his servant Sancho Panza..¡¯


    The narrative has been taken without permission. Report any sightings.I turn my attention back to the menu floating on my vision, this time I tap the  [Magic] and [Skill] icon, but they are utterly blank.


    Opening [Map], it¡¯s displays an area and there is ¡®Arachnid Academy¡¯ written atop the map.


    ¡®Academy? Hmm so they are students and teacher of this academy¡¯


    The Map also display my position as a small black point and many point color in green showing that sign as a neutral, red as enemies and blue as allies. Currently there¡¯s only black dots displayed on the map, and it¡¯s only show area of my room, the rest is shown in gray indicated that they are unexplored area.


    ¡°Snow?¡± I muttered as I looked outside the window ¡®It would be great if there is Don Quixote book in this academy library.¡¯


    I straightened myself up and pulled my mind back from my illusions to reality. Actually there was a fundamental mistake here. In the first place this is not even Earth. This is another world.


    ¡°Kana Edena, prepare yourself!¡±


    Two people clad in black cloak floating in the sky. They held a black stick. They''re chanting something and a flame appear from both sides of a girl named Kana and then formed in front of her acting as a shield.


    ¡°Flame Wall!¡± Kana shout.


    Boom!


    There is explosion as Kana¡¯s Flame wall made contact with her enemy magic, and a smile appeared on a girl named Kana.


    ¡°Magic? It¡¯s indeed different world¡± I narrowed my eyes while looking at the battle of magic at the sky through the window in my room.


    In the Arachnid Academy, Kana is a second year student that specialized in fire magic, this academy consist with 30 students in each class. The master who taught her was known as The Flaming Saint . He was the strongest Fire Magic User in this Academy and also one of the teacher.


    Creak


    [Sound of door opening]


    ¡°Come with me to the headmaster office, he¡¯s waiting for your arrival.¡± A man appeared from the door.


    ¡®a teacher? no, I don''t think so..¡¯


    ¡°Who are you?¡±


    ¡°My name is Nicolas, one of the guard of Arachnid Academy¡±


    ''How can it be?! he can''t be a guard, he... he is too ugly for a guard?!'' my mind was conflicted as I saw the ugly guard. ''alright, let''s play it cool''


    ¡°I see, take me to him then¡± I keep my indifferent demeanor to mask my conflicted mind.


    I stare at my map as I make my way through the corridor, It also makes it possible to view detailed information when I tap the green dot in the map that indicated that he really is a guard.


    ¡°I¡¯m sorry I can only stay this far ¡­ you will be able reach headmaster office  in 10 minutes if you walk this way.¡±


    "Will we get to meet each other again in the future?" I ask


    "Hm? my duty is to guard the dueling arena, do you see them from the window in your room earlier? you''ll find me there."


    "I see, that''s good then" I said without looking at the so called guard, hoping I would never to cross path with him ever again. '' now I understand why headmaster only let him go this far.''


    I looked at my map and indeed there¡¯s headmaster office in the end of this corridor, but everything is grey past the door.


    Time is displaying on the menu, it¡¯s 7 am. He opened the door that lead to headmaster office, with Creak sound, the door open and revealing an old man sitting with his elbows propped on his desk, looking unbearably bored as he shook his white beard and hair. Noticing that the young boy in front of him has arrived, he open his eyes and stop shooking his beard.


    ¡°Welcome to my office young man, my name is Joseph De Guignes, headmaster of Arachnid Academy. It¡¯s nice to finally meet you¡± he said with strange light in his eyes, no one know what the oldman think.

 Chapter 02: Outrageous size

    ¡°Welcome to my office young man, my name is Joseph De Guignes, headmaster of Arachnid Academy. It¡¯s nice to finally meet you¡±


    ¡°Lestat Schaeffer, how did I get here?¡±


    ¡°Yesterday we are trying to summon a Dragon but out of nowhere you are the one who came out of the portal¡±


    ¡°Can you open this so called portal again and return me to where I come from?¡±


    ¡°I¡¯m afraid I can¡¯t do that¡±


    ¡°Why?¡± I said a bit agitated.


    ¡°It¡¯s not that I don¡¯t want to do it, but I really can¡¯t do it. The Dragon summoning is like a sacred tradition in our Academy and it require a huge amount of mana and it can only be done every 1000 years once, forgive me.¡±


    ¡°I see¡± I narrowed my eyes observing the old man intently trying to find any sign of lies. I could not help but secretly sigh inside as there¡¯s no way to go back.


    The oldman admire the boy for not panic ¡°do you want want to become a student of Arachnid Academy?¡± He ask.


    ¡°Eh?¡±


    ¡°It¡¯s part of my fault that something like this happen to you, so you don¡¯t have pay any of the school fee, here you stay in dormitories and miss Eva here will tell everything necessary¡±


    As the oldman finish his words, a female appear out of thin air behind me, she¡¯s a female with a doll like appearance that I saw earlier.


    ¡°My name¡¯s Eva Delacroix the third year student of this Academy, it¡¯s nice to meet you Lestat.¡± Eva said looking at my face, a little loneliness appear in her beautiful blue eyes for a moment while she looked at me, I wonder what¡¯s wrong with her.


    In the corridor I walk besides Eva, many glance at us along the way and starting to whisper with each other.''Is she famous? I guess it¡¯s obvious considering her beautiful doll like face and those outrageous pair of boobs.'' I mused to myself.


    ¡®Still the bouncing had some physiological effect on my lower body¡¯ Of course I keep my gentleman face as I having conversation with her about many things concerning school regulation and common sense of this world, while occasionally take a glance at those outrageous pair of boobs that dancing in the air.


    ¡°What do I do next?¡± I ask


    ¡°We get a robe and a cloak for you¡± she said while open the door to the staff room.


    ¡°Go away, can¡¯t you see that I¡¯m busy, don¡¯t disturb- ahh Eva welcome, do you need anything? I¡¯ll gladly comply with any request¡± He was tall, thin, and very old, judging by his hair and beard, which were both long enough to tuck into his pant.


    ¡°Ah yes, Mr. Benjamin this is Lestat a new student on headmaster recommendation, we want to get him robe and a cloak.¡±


    The old man look at me and smile ¡°good god, come here and choose the robe in that red dresser that suit your size¡± he then ignore me, and back trying to annoy Eva.


    I open the gigantic dresser and inside is many robe in red with different size packed in coordinated manner, I choose M size befitting of my body. Red is a sign that you are first-year student, while blue is second-year grey is a third-year and black is forth-year student, As for the cloak is the same for every student except for the teacher. I wear the robe directly ontop my school uniform to make it convenient.


    ¡°Old man, where¡¯s the cloak?¡± I shout at his ear hoping he would get deaf from it, but nothing happen. The dweller of this world sure have a sturdy body.


    He looked at me annoyed as if his sacred duty is being disturbed ¡°This is your¡¯s cloak.¡± Said the old man in a annoyed tone as he pass me a cloak in black.


    ¡°Do you need anything else?¡±


    ¡°Nothing for the moment, well then please excuse us for interupting your busy time Mr. Benjamin.¡± Eva said.


    ¡°Well it¡¯s-anything is fine if it¡¯s for miss Eva¡± old man said with lust in his eyes.


    ¡°Y..yeah¡± she replied while hastily leaving the room pulling me in with her delicate and soft hand. Looked like she¡¯s afraid of that perverted oldman, my hand itch to bury that old geezer alive, the sight of him really piss me off.


    ¡°In this world, I could be described as an alien.What If my true identity is exposed, wouldn¡¯t it cause a heap of trouble?¡± I ask trying to change the foul mood caused by perverted geezer.


    ¡°Ahh... Yes, that¡¯s correct, but there¡¯s no need to worry. In this world, the fact that you are summoned human, no one knows your true identity except for me, headmaster and handful of teachers.¡±


    ¡°What happen if my identity exposed?¡±


    ¡°I don¡¯t know, afterall there¡¯s never an accident where someone summon a human before.¡±Eva shook her head.


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    ¡°I see, no point thinking about that.¡±


    ¡°Don¡¯t worry about it.¡±


    ¡°Oh, that looks tasty.¡± I exposed a mischievous smile while looking at her boobs.


    ¡°W-what are you looking?!¡± she said in flustered voice while trying to cover her chest with her delicate hand, but it only make them appear more bigger than before.


    ¡°Ah sorry, looking at your banana shaped necklace made me remember that I haven¡¯s eat anything since I woke up¡±


    ¡°Wha-¡± Eva become more red as she heard my honest answer combined with innocent looking expression plastered on my face. ¡°It¡¯s not banana! It¡¯s crescent moon! How rude.¡± She retorted back trying to hide her embarasment.


    ¡°haha forgive my rudeness milady, by the way is there a place where I can get something to eat?¡±


    ¡°Eh, um y-yeah, follow me!¡± she quickened her footstep and walk ahead of me leaving me behind.


    ¡®fufu, so cute¡¯ I muttered while looking at her embarassed expression.


    ¡°Well, here we¡¯ll have a breakfast at 6 am, dinner at 8 pm. We have a rule to eat together in the Mess Hall so you can only get food at that time. So for now you¡¯ll have to bear with this simple snack of mine, don¡¯t tell anyone or I¡¯ll get into a trouble.¡± She whisper to me afraid someone might know.


    ¡°Why would you get into a trouble if I tell someone?¡±


    ¡°It¡¯s because-¡°


    ¡°Eva? Is that you? What are you doing here?¡± a man clad in grey robe with black cloak walk toward us with excited expresion.


    ¡°Killian, ah I¡¯m guiding a new student, let me introduce him. He is Lestat, here on headmaster recommendation. Lestat he¡¯s Killian Donnet, a third¨Cyear student, just like me¡± She said a little panicked while looking at me afraid that he findout about the food issue, but when she saw nothing in my hand, she get a little surprised but immeadiately calm herself.


    ¡°What are you talking about, how could I get to compare to you, one of ¡®The Six Enigma¡¯, even your beauty is not comparable to anyone in this world¡± Said Killian while ignoring me as if I¡¯m not even here.


    ¡°I have a class this morning, so if you¡¯ll excuse me. See you later Lestat.¡± She smile at him which seems kinda forced and then dissapearing into a thin air.


    ¡®What kind of magic is that? Teleportation? What a useful magic. With that magic, I don¡¯t have to walk anymore for the rest of  my life¡¯ I said inwardly.


    ¡°So you are recomended by headmaster? I would love to have a duel with such talented individual.¡± He shot me a nasty grin. Killian is very interested in Eva, he love her, but she always ignore his advance and trying to keep him at bay, sometime she immeadiately teleported right away just at the sight of him, That¡¯s why to think she¡¯s having a nice chat with Lestat made him angry beyond belief.


    ¡°Senior sure has many spare time, I would love to do that later when I¡¯m not ... busy, well then.¡± I crack a smile at him and leave the place, I¡¯m sure that will piss him off but who cares.


    As I parted from the nasty senior, I checked my map and notice that a red dot is constantly following behind me.


    ¡®He¡¯s following me? What a nasty fellow.¡¯ I sigh to myself and made my way to the library while glancing at the piece of paper Eva gave me earlier. Considering that it¡¯s a public place, he might not do something that would harm me.


    All students should have a copy of each of the following:<ul>


    <li>A History of Magic by Jappe Drost </li>


    <li>The Standard Book of Spells</li>


    <li>Magical Theory by Adalbert Waffling


    </li></ul>


    I open my [Inventory] and eat the snack I put there earlier as I made my way to the library, I open the huge door with ¡®Library¡¯ written on it.


    Inside is a sight to behold, many bookshelve arranged in elegant manner with spiral stairs leading to the top in the middle of the library, how many floor this library have? I can¡¯t even see the ending of the stairs. there¡¯s full of book anywhere as eyes can see, this sight make me stop trying to find the book on the list myself, thus I walk to the front of the library counter and greet someone there who looked like the library staff. "Excuse me, can I get books from this list?¡±


    A pale young woman in her twenty wearing a black cloak made her way forward from the counter, very nervously. One of her eyes was twitching as she looked at my face.

 Chapter 03: Teleportation

    ¡°Delighted to meet you, Lestat, Axelle¡¯s the name, Axelle Boudon. I will be one of your teachers.¡± grasping my hand. She had a mature aura around her, her glossy hair and her almond-shaped eyes gave her an almost frightening level of beauty.


    "Can''t tell you h-how pleased I am to meet you." She looked so interested in me, a random dude might misunderstanding this situation, a beauty holding your hand is a dream of any man but not for me.


    My abundant experinence in the previous world tell me that this beauty rather than a maiden in love, she looked at me as if I am some kind of disposable lab rat to use as a research that bound to fail and end in tragedy. I terrified at the very thought. She even know my name, why?


    ¡®She must be one of the mages from the summoning¡¯ I thought to myself.


    "What sort of magic do you teach, Professor Axelle?" I ask while tightened my grasp on her hand, as a couple would do. If someone saw this scene, they might trying to kill me on the spot because of jealousy.


    "Light Magic" muttered Professor trying to let go of my hand but end up in failure as I put my whole strength to it. Her expression changed from that of excitement to something else, I don¡¯t know what kind of expression is that, but I know it¡¯s not a good thing.


    "You''ll be getting all your equipment you needed from the town nearby such as wand, I suppose you have yet to own it right? Here let me lend you one, you can return it to me later if you bought your own later. By the way, the research room is in the 7th floor.¡± She said in excited manner.


    I know the moment I take the wand she gave me, something bad bound to happen later in my life, but it¡¯s too late, it¡¯s already in my hand.


    As I trying to refuse, ¡°I''ve g-got to pick up the books on the list then.¡± She flash me a smile, parted our hand and then go to the room behind the counter, I try to refuse and give it back to her but looked like she¡¯s very experienced, pretending to find the books on the list so that I have no others route to choose except one that ended in a ¡®world line¡¯ where I¡¯m fated to go to the research room, mature woman is indeed scary, she¡¯s not even a bit flustered or embarassed while I held her hand unlike those virgin back in the earth.


    ¡®But why a teacher stuck guarding the library? What a weird fellow¡¯


    Looking at the wand I receive, it came to me as surprise ¡°What use is a wand if I can¡¯t even use a magic? It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of my own ignorance.¡± I sigh inwardly and made my way looking for some books containing magic related stuff hoping to increase my knowledge about magic and learn some if possible, it would be troublesome if I don¡¯t have any measure or way to defend my little and puny life.


    This is not like my previous world, here strength is important and what keep you to stay alive, especially someone like me who got no someone backing unlike those son and daughter of noble.


    ¡°hmm, there¡¯s so many interesting books.¡± I stop my sight at a book 10cm thick and placed it in a desk available nearby, looked like there¡¯s not many people in the library, I can even count them with one hand, I wonder if they are not interested or to stupid to understand these books.


    Focusing my thought back to the book on my hand, Teleportation Magic is what written on it, and as I open the book, a blue transparent window come into view.


    Do you want to learn ¡®Teleportation¡¯?


    >Yes


    I tap it just like I used to do on my Apple''s gold-coloured iPhone 5s, but nothing happen, did it fail. I check my [Magic] menu and there¡¯s a teleportation written on it.


    Teleportation - Transfer matter or energy from one point to another without traversing the physical space.


    Activation: 1000 mana


    Cooldown: 10s


    ¡°Seriously?¡± the sudden event made me flabbergasted


    ¡°I don¡¯t think it would be so easy to learn magic.¡± Everyone including the headmaster would vomit a blood when they hear what Lestat said, afterall it¡¯s need a year for a genius like Eva who specialize in teleportation magic to barely grasp the concept of such magic, not to mention master it to perfection because it¡¯s one of the high grade magic.


    ¡°Well, this is undenieable proof that no matter which world, what time, or where I am, God always love me and love to see me happy.¡± I mused to myself while trying to open every books available in the library hoping to learn everything available.


    The author''s narrative has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon.After a long period of time, on my 231th magic I learn.


    ¡°Um, excuse me, can I sit here? A boy said as he stretch a chair next to mine ready to sit on it.


    ¡°Sure¡± I said while glancing at him. He is average guy with blond hair down to the shoulder, some of them tied behind his back.


    He asked while putting a book in his hand¡°I saw you open those book and put them back countless time, is there nothing that caught your interest? ah, I''m Eric Barnier¡±


    ¡°Not at all, in fact all of them caught my interest, that is why Barn.¡±


    ¡°...¡±


    There was silent for a moment and until I broke the silence by leaving the place heading to the counter ignoring the confused guy.


    ¡°You¡¯ve been there for three hours, are you done?¡± ask Axelle as she put down teacup in her hand.


    I looked toward the pile of books in the table ¡°yeah I¡¯am done here, is that my books?¡±


    ¡°Of course it¡¯s not your book, you have to return them at the end of semester.¡±


    ¡°Despite how amazing this place looked like, is the academy actually that poor?¡±


    ¡°Don¡¯t you know the value of this book?!¡±


    ¡°No¡± I said with my usual poker face.


    ¡°Every single of them is precious treasure, the stock is limited as the author only write few of them, ordinarily only nobles could get their hand on books, not to mention the certain book in this library contain many rare books.¡± She replied a bit annoyed and proud when she talk about the rarity of the book in the library.


    I laughed while writing something on a paper left behind by Eva ¡°Then you better show me those rare book later on¡±


    ¡°What are you doing?¡±


    ¡°I¡¯m writing a book.¡± I replied


    ¡°Really?! Are you a writer?¡± her eyes sparkling with excitement at my answer.


    ¡°Yeah, more or less¡±


    ¡°What is the title?¡±


    ¡°Don Quijote¡± I said. This is different world so there¡¯s no one know that such a book is already exist, think how much profit one would rake, how much fame one would obtain?, with infinite amount of knowledge possesed from another world, I would be known as a legendary figure in this world, or so I thought, but reality is not so easy.


    ¡°Is it done? How far have you got?


    ¡°Yeah, I have got the title done.¡±


    ¡°...¡±


    ¡°Now that I¡¯m done here, I will take these books, see you later Axelle¡±


    I take the books in the list from the table and leave the library without waiting for her response, leaving her behind with half closed eyes and weird expression hanging on her beautiful face as if she has just heard the most ridiculous thing in her live. She then move her eyes to the paper with ¡®Don Quijote¡¯ written on it, then some familiar feeling welled up inside her ¡°Don Quijote, where did I heard this name before?¡±


    Outside the library ¡°I can barely remember the content on ¡®Don Quijote¡¯, this can¡¯t be right considering my over the top IQ that surpassed even common sense, something is not right ... It¡¯s a shame but I guess I have no talent as an writer.¡± I sigh to myself.


    Unknown to Lestat that it¡¯s not because he can¡¯t remember the content of ¡®Don Quijote¡¯, but he really did starting to forget it, not just the book content, but also various thing that he done, event that took place back in the earth. Those both trivial and important knowledge keep dissappearing from his mind as if those are forbidden things to remember and thus not allowed to exist by this world.


    ¡°Ah, I forget to return this reed pen to the library, hm whatever, might be useful to write something later in the class.¡± I put the reed like pen to the [Inventory] while humming a cheery tune.


    ¡°Well then, what should I do with the red dot on my map?¡±

 Chapter 04: Pervert

    ¡°Well then, what should I do with the red dot on my map?¡± I ponder with my right hand on my chin.


    I walk to the direction of the male restroom, open the door, then waiting for that stalker to come inside.


    Creak


    [sound of door opening]


    ¡°Where is he? I saw him coming this way earlier¡± he said while looking around for me.


    Hiding behind the door facing his back I cast teleportation magic and teleport him to the female restroom. I was not in hurry to leave, I looked around and find the most comfortable place to take a piss, and then teleport myself to the front of headmaster office. I open the door and let myself inside revealing old man inside.


    ¡°Headmaster, there¡¯s a pervert peeking in the women¡¯s restroom, you better hurry or someone is going to get killed soon¡± I said with indifferent expression leaving the bewildered headmaster alone.


    Meanwhile in the women¡¯s restroom.


    "Eh? something weird, why did this place suddenly kind of different. there''s even a good fragnance come from this way." He open the stall with a loud bang, showing a girl in her underwear which seems like as big as a banner. and her body occupied the entire stall that enough to host 5 other girl''s


    ¡°Kyaa! Pervert!¡± a fat and ugly girl shout with terrified expression as if she has been wronged.


    ¡°What¡¯s wrong? Where¡¯s is the pervert?!¡± other girl in nearby stall.


    ¡°Him, he¡¯s peeking at me!¡± a fat ugly woman with ponytail scream become more louder that seems loud enough to reach the library.


    ¡°What a pervert! You dare!¡±


    ¡°Let¡¯s give him a beating¡±


    ¡°I got no mercy for pervert¡±


    ¡°No! I¡¯m not pervert! I¡¯m here looking for-¡± Killian said in desperate manner, but the ugly girl interjected his words.


    ¡°You are looking for me? Why don¡¯t you say so earlier? If you ask me, I will show my whole to you, why did you have peek?¡± the fat ponytail said while covering her embarassed now red face.


    ¡°No! Who want to peek an ugly and fat woman like you!¡±


    ¡°What?! You! Everyone it¡¯s looked like he¡¯s indeed peeking at us, a pervert!¡± the fat girl roared while casting a magic followed by other girls in the vicinity.


    ¡°What.. no! Wait! Okay I admit it, I here looking for you, and peeking you.¡±


    ¡°Really?!¡±


    ¡°Y-yeah, so .. don¡¯t attack me-¡° before he finish his words, he get attacked by 5 spell of other girls who can¡¯t hold back their fury anymore and he was sent flying creating the hole in the wall into the library and hit the counter where Axelle is located, he¡¯s laying there halfdead.


    The red dot is cease to exist in my map, I made my way to the place called dormitories. Looking at the map, I found a room number 134 and directly made my way there. It came to me when I arrived in the front of the door that I only know my room number is 134 from Eva, but I don¡¯t have the key!


    ¡°Damn that headmaster sure has gone senile of old age to forget giving me the key, I guess I will use it then¡±


    I cast ¡®Ethereal¡¯ spell. A creepy sound rang out as it make me turn and looked like a ghost starting from my feet and slowly spreading with transparent blue color all over my body.


    I looked at my blue somewhat green hands and clasp it together, but it just go through as if touching 3d hologram and it feels somewhat weird. I walk through the closed door as a ghost would normally do. ¡®Ethereal¡¯ This spell make me able to bypass any obstacle as if it¡¯s never exist.


    Of course I made sure no one saw me using this magic or else there might be a commotion. Afterall ¡®Ethereal¡¯ is a high grade magic that more harder to master than teleportation and only me who can cast it because it¡¯s belong to the ¡®Astral Magic¡¯.


    I know all of it the moment I tap the blue screen in the library, all knowledge about ¡®Ethereal¡¯ spell was forced into my head. It¡¯s impossible for a human being to understand such concept. And I¡¯m sure it¡¯s the same with other Astral Magic.


    Inside, my room is quite large if compared to the one I had on earth, with size 11¡¯x11¡¯. That¡¯s about 120 square feet of floor area. This size of room is big enough to accommodate a king size bed.


    ¡°I need to pour in much effort in decorating the bedroom, making it as comfortable as possible.¡± I said while looking around the bland room, it¡¯s only have a king size bed, two door dresser, desk, a chair, and a single bronze mirror.


    I made my way the the front of the mirror to check my ethereal figure,


    ¡°Hm, not bad. My ethereal form would put a bollywood star to shame.¡±


    ¡°Today has been a tiring day, time to hit the bed¡±


    As I get closer to the bed, It¡¯s as if something is invading my head ¡°Ahhh.. my head ... what happen with me?¡±


    ¡°Is it enemy attack?!¡± my head struck with undescribeable pain, then my vision blurred and I lost consciousness.


    4 hours later, 10 pm.


    As I regain my consciousness I faced the ceiling of my room, it¡¯s so dirty with webs and some spider latching on it. ¡°Ugh..my head, why it seems I keep having headache since I arrived in this world..¡± I panting while clutching my head.


    I look at my body, it¡¯s already turn back to normal. ¡°I wonder what happen.. The headache appear after I enter ethereal form, nothing happen while I cast it on myself.¡± I muttered to myself while checking the [Status] menu hoping to find the answer to my headache, afterall it¡¯s quiet common for abnormal effect to be displayed on character screen in game in the earth, I played quite a lot myself back then.


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    ¡°My health is full, my mana.. It¡¯ only 20% left, is mana the reason for my headache? And the last time I remember, my mana is not this ridiculously huge, is it bugged?¡± I muttered to myself, then a [Log] menu on the tabs next to [Map] caught my attention because it¡¯s glowing with golden light, so I tap it.


    In the log menu, message [You learn Teleportation, your MAG increased by 10 point] showed up and when I scroll through the log, the similar massage keep appearing for at least 231 times. Continuing for a while, I finally found a different message log.


    <ul>


    <li>¡§       You cast [Astral Magic: Ethereal]</li>


    <li>¡§       You run out of mana, [Astral Magic: Ethereal] is cancelled.


    </li></ul>


    ¡°I see, I know the source of my headache. My body turn to normal because I ran out of mana and that¡¯s where  my headache start to appear.¡±


    ¡°It¡¯s mana exhaustion, I should avoid to deplete my mana, It would be a problematic if I lost consciousness in the middle of battle, not to mention the headache like torture.¡± I terrified at the thought of mana exhaustion.


    Indeed, mana exhaustion can cause headache for anyone who exhaust their mana, not only Lestat, but the headache on Lestat is way more painful than the other. Why? Only god know. Maybe it¡¯s because he¡¯s a foreign element in this world, and the pain, It¡¯s like having your head being stabbed by countless flaming nail, and then get hammered by a man full of muscle.


    Looking at the time on menu made me more depressed, because it¡¯s already 10 pm. Yes! Dinner is over already. I wonder how many days now that I last eat something, erm, the snack is not included.


    ¡®Now that I think about it, in the log there¡¯s message about my increase in MAG, what is MAG?¡¯ I thought in my head while move my vision back to the log and tap it.


    MAG - The ability to manipulate  magic and determines the amount magic damage one can do when casting a spell. Each point increase 10 mana.


    ¡°Haha, so that¡¯s why my mana capacity is increased, it¡¯s not a bug.¡±


    Burpp


    [Growling noise]


    ¡°So hungry.. Hydro Chloric Acid in my stomach is acting up again. I¡¯ve to secure some food and fast. Is there really no canteen, cafetaria, or something?¡±


    Crip Crip Crip


    [Sound of mice trapped in the spider webs]


    "..."


    ¡°I¡¯m starting to hate this place.¡± I¡¯m grumbling while casting ¡®Fire Storm¡¯ and with a wave of my wand, a flame completely fill the entire room with blazing heat. I compress it to a palm sized flame and completely annihilate the mice along with the spiders and it''s webs.


    I wipe the dust on my cloak and made my way to the mess hall where dinner is located, hoping there will be some leftover left.


    In the Academy main hall I saw many crowd whisper and clattering with each other as they walk heading to the dormitory. Is it always this lively? It¡¯s almost midnight already.


    ¡°Hey did you heard that?¡±


    ¡°Yeah, I heard pervert is caught peeking in the girls bathroom.¡±


    ¡°Who is he? Dare to do such shameless act here?¡±


    ¡°I heard it¡¯s Killian, the third-year student¡±


    ¡°Seriously, that Killian?¡±


    ¡°Indeed, you should believe him, I was there in the library when it¡¯s happen.¡±


    ¡°Ha! That nothing to be brag about, I even know that he was trying to peek on certain someone.¡±


    ¡°It¡¯s my first time to heard it. Where did you hear that?¡±


    ¡°My sister was there when it¡¯s happen.¡±


    ¡°Don¡¯t tell me it¡¯s your sister that get-¡°


    ¡°Of course not, It¡¯s the fat and ugly girl in class B!¡±


    ¡°You.. do you reffering to the fat, most ugly ponytail in the entire academy?¡° the youth is shocked beyond belief when he hear that.


    ¡°Yeah¡±


    ¡°And here I believe in him, to think senior Killian would to something like that.. and to to such girl¡± a girl in cloak said with dissapointed face and disgust mixed in it. She must be one of Killian fans, erm, ex-fans now.


    ¡°May you rest in peace..¡± I clasp my hand together when I heard those unfortunate event ¡°Well, I doubt he will annoy me anytime soon.¡±


    In the front of MessHall.


    ¡°It¡¯s locked...¡± I said with my hand on the door handle. ¡°I can¡¯t go inside with teleportation, I can¡¯t go to somewhere that I never visited before.


    And so I cast ¡®Ethereal¡¯ once again, and go inside and immeadiately cancel the spell afraid to deplete my mana because of it¡¯s huge mana consumption, everything only lasted for 2s and I already lost 5% of my mana, It¡¯s the amount of mana I generate in an hour.


    I then start rummaging the kitchen. There¡¯s only vegetables, fruits, and various kind of raw ingredients here. ¡°Well, it¡¯s better than nothing.¡± I put all of them inside [Inventory] along with the cooking utensils, leaving the kitchen empty without leaving even a single spoon.

 Chapter 05: Norman The Brute

    It was morning and the sun was shining brightly through the window and hit my face, even so it was so cold here, waking me up from my deep slumber.


    ¡°I forget to close the curtain last night.¡± I said covering my eyes with my hand from the sunlight. I open the window, with a deep breath I stretch my body. After patting down my robe and put on my cloak, I left my room.


    ¡°Lowly commoner, you finally made up your mind to come out.¡± My mood was ruined by the voice I heard.


    In this school there are two kind of people. The first one is noble, the majority of the students in this Academy for there are no commoner who can afford to enroll in Magic Academy due to it¡¯s expensive cost, even if they sold their house, daughter and fall into debt. With the exception of commoner with exceptional talent that get recommendation from the Academy.


    ¡°What do you want?.¡± I said while looking at my surrounding. I saw three youth with theirs arms folded, all of them wearing blue robe under their cloak.


    ¡°I heard you get recommended by headmaster, you must be quite remarkable genius, but it¡¯s a pity that you offend someone you should not.¡± The youth in the middle said arrogantly.


    ¡°Hm? What are you talking about? I don¡¯t even know you, maybe you get the wrong person.¡±


    ¡°Eh, did we really get the wrong person?¡± ask Kunz, a boy in the middle to his companion.


    ¡°I think not, he said it¡¯s the room number 134.¡±


    ¡°Yeah don¡¯t let him trick us.¡±


    As a rule, the students of Arachnid Academy were not allowed to fight outside the dueling area or using offensive magic outside the training room. Many students preferred to stay in their room or library, studying magic theory to enrich their knowledge and understanding of magic, or practicing magic in the training area, some even prefer to practice in the dueling area exchanging pointer with fellow mage to increase their battle experience and finding better application of their magic.


    Therefore they didn¡¯t dare to break the Academy rules to attack me outside dueling area.


    ¡°Lestat, I challenge you to duel tommorow, do you dare or not?!¡± Bellow a youth in the middle, he wear blue robe under his black cloak.


    ¡°Kunz, I don¡¯t think he would dare to accept it, just look at his body, he¡¯s so delicate just like a girl, it would break if you touch him.¡± A boy in Kunz right side sneered while looking at me.


    ¡°That¡¯s right, and he even have a girly face heh.¡± Said the most good looking boy in the entire second-year student with ridicule that show a hint of irritated expression on his face seeing that I looked more handsome than him.


    ¡°Did you had been waiting outside this early in the morning just for this? You guys sure are very motivated.¡± I said while rubbing my sleepy face.


    My face was calm but inside I was little excited. It¡¯s my first time experincing magic duel afterall. ¡°I¡¯ll be sure to come tommorow.¡± I said waving my hand at them, showing my back, leaving them behind.


    ¡°Did that stalker sent them? Ah Whatever.¡±


    ¡°I guess I will skip today classes. I have many things I need to buy, time to visit the city.¡±


    According to Eva there is a City 200 km away from Arachnid Academy, maybe I should go there today.


    With a wave of my wand I dissapear from the place where I stood and appeared at the top of the Academy west wing tower like building, it¡¯s walls made of silver stone. Windows can be seen here and there across the walls in a elegant pattern.


    The wind blowing against my face, flutter my black hair in the air revealing my cold expression. Below a fields of grass is covered by snow in most of the fields outside of the Academy. This Academy still stands despite the passage of time and it looks like it will do so for many years to come.


    I open my [Inventory] and take out two apples and eat them at the same time.


    ¡°Not bad, the Inventory keep them fresh.¡± I said with my mouth full. I looked at the direction of Kinghill City, and take out my wand from my cloak after throwing the half eaten apples to the ground, unbeknownst to me, there¡¯s a headmaster below speaking with important guest from the the envoy of royal family.


    I wave my wand teleport myself into the distance countless time, if someone were to see this, they would only saw a blur before it¡¯s dissapearing due to my quick casting. I stop to rest after my 20th teleport because my mana nearly depleted. Everytime I use magic it feels like my stamina is being drained, and my fatigue increased the more I use it. After one hour of resting I regain 5% of my mana.


    ¡°Hah, what a troublesome, it would have been simple if I already visited Kingshill City, I can teleport there instantly from the Academy.¡± I sigh.


    I open the map to check my location with my right hand while I use my left hand to eat more apple, some of the juices dripping from my mouth accompanied by crunching sound. It¡¯s the most edible thing I have right now considering I never make it to the breakfast and dinner. I wonder who create such devilish rule. More importantly, there¡¯s no lunch! Did people here only eat twice?!


    ¡®As I thought, I can¡¯t get used to this world, better pack many foods later in the City¡¯


    ¡°Hm, so Kingshill City is 22 km from here.. eh..¡±


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    ¡°About 4 km from here there¡¯s a merchant attacked by ... Norman The Brute...¡±


    ¡°...¡±


    ¡°Is this some kind of title? Judging from the red color and name, he must be a bandit, there are 6 of them, but only this Norman who has ¡®The Brute¡¯ title in it.¡± I muttered to myself before dissapeared from my resting place.


    Black particle appear followed by the space distortion, revealed a youth in black cloak standing beneath the White Oak like tree that is 40 m tall. The battle is nearing it¡¯s end. 3 people in light armor who looked like the merchant guards is already dead lying on the ground while all of the bandit still alive, meaning they are veteran bandits.


    Only the merchant and 2 guards are left. They looked terriefied while the merchant face ashen. As the bandits launch their weapon to kill the remaining guards, 2 meters wall made of ice appeared out of nowhere and keep them at bays, with a ¡®ding¡¯ sound their weapons hit the ice only leaving a little dent on it.


    After I use ¡®Ice Wall¡¯ preventing them from attacking the merchant and his guards, I cast ¡®Blizzard¡¯ on them, a storm of ice invade their bodies, they were completely stabbed with shattered ice spike that sometimes appear amids the storm of ice that caused many piercing wounds on their bodies.


    Their bodies were sealed in ice up to theirs neck, and unable to move lying on the ground, their expressions were completely confused and afraid, some of them even peed their pants, especially a bandit named Norman The Brute, he was the first one to do so.


    I stop the ¡®Blizzard¡® and then walk in relaxed manner towards the merchant and his guards. The merchant face become more ashen as I get closer to him, but immeadiately calm himself and put his business face.


    ¡°Thank you lad for saving me, if it¡¯s not for you, who knows what will happen to us, they are infamous bandit here, killing many peoples who unlucky enough to cross their path. There is even a bounty posted in Kingshill City for their heads.¡±


    ¡°Who is saving you? Gimme your money¡± I said with my poker face, while the merhant ashen face come back to him.


    ¡°W-what do you mean by that? Are you also-¡° the merchant looked terrified as he heard my words, thinking that I¡¯m also a bandit, more terrifying one at that.


    ¡°Hmm, let¡¯s just say I did save you, now isn¡¯t it more appropriate if you  give me a compensation for saving you from those crazy bandits?¡±


    ¡®You are the crazy bandit here!¡¯ the merchant want to tell the youth that but swallowed his words, afraid that he might share the unfortunate bandit fate sealed in a block of ice.


    ¡°O-of course I will, but isn¡¯t it to much for compensation? How about half of my money?¡± the merchant replied trying to bargain with the youth, afterall it¡¯s his 2 month saving worth of money in his carriage.


    ¡°I see, then I will free the bandits and heal their wounds.¡± I said while making my way to the frozen bandit.


    ¡°Ehh Why?!¡±


    I stop and turn my head to face him ¡°Well, I¡¯m not usually like this. I was a noble mage from Arachnid Academy, look at this Insignia carved on my cloak. I was a good boy, never broke the rule, never before in my life I create a trouble for other people. Everything begin from yesterday, I was bullied by my senior to go on an errand to Kingshill City and buy a wand for him with only one cooper coin he gave me. Can you imagine, what can you do with one cooper coin? It can¡¯t even buy a spoiled apple. I can¡¯t go back before finish my errand, that¡¯s why I need money. On my way to Kingshill City I saw a merchant get attacked by bandits. I was very tired and exhausted, how could I not? I walk from the Academy! my senior didn¡¯t even give me horse to ride!. So I spent my exhausted energy, mana, time, everything I have left to help the merchant, alas he didn¡¯t even thanks me for my efforts, he even-¡±


    ¡°Alright that¡¯s enough, I understand your pain and suffering, you can have my money¡± the merchant said with exhausted expression on his face and hand me a bag full of gold coin, thinking that it¡¯s better now before the youth make another impossible demand.


    I grab the bag and put it in my Inventory which seems to surprise the merchant and his guards to see the bag full of money to vanish into a thin air, but calm themself thinking that probably it¡¯s normal for someone from Magic Academy to do that.


    ¡°What should we do with the bandits?¡± I ask the merchant.


    ¡°We cut their heads and deliver them to the adventure guild in Kingshill City.¡±


    ¡°I see, well then I leave that to you and your guards. It would be bad if the blood stuck on my cloak. After you finish turning their head to the so called adventure guild, you can deliver the bounty rewards later to me.¡±


    ¡°...¡±


    ¡°...¡±


    ¡°...¡±


    The merchant and his guards face become white pale, it¡¯s the first time they meet with such shameless boy in their entire life.


    ¡°Ah! .. I nearly forget about it.¡±


    ¡°W-What ?¡±


    ¡°Loot their bodies, they must have many valuable in their pocket. Give it to me after you done with it.¡±


    ¡°...¡±


    ¡°Don¡¯t take it for yourself, It¡¯s basically my spoil of war. I have my eyes on you.¡± I say while trying to take a nap inside the carriage. ¡°And.. I¡¯ll have to trouble you to take me to Kingshill City.¡±


    ¡°...¡±

 Chapter 06: Kingshill City

    WARNING!


    MATURE  SEXUAL  CONTENT


    Built amidst the field of green grasses, the Kingshill City is is surrounded by forests which have helped shape the city to what it is today. Two story houses and building is what most of this city have. The city''s is also famous for it¡¯s cuisine, many food carts, stall offer a different kind of culinary choices. The population reach 2 million people to this day. A dungeon also exist in the vicinity of the city, and so attacted many adventurer who come to explore it.


    Request is also tremendous in the adventure guild so has attracted a lot of attention from many youth and individual that aspire to be an adventurer.


    The carriage stop in the front of the gate. A  soldier come closer to the carriage. "what business do you have here? We will check inside of your carriage.¡±


    "Good day sir. I¡¯m a merchant from the Capital City of Asviel" the merchant come out of the carriage and show the guard some kind of emblem, and then the guard looked surprised with full of sweat all over their face.


    ¡°Pardon for my rudeness, welcome to Kingshill City, your carriage may pass, sorry to take your time.¡± The soldier said.


    The merchant replied amiably with a vague smile and the heavy gate opened. The carriage I¡¯m in start moving again through the gate, the main road is quiet wide, it can fit four carriage. We stop at the building called ¡®Adventure Guild¡¯, the guard wake me up and 10 minutes later the merchant come out from the guild and toss me 50 gold coin. Thus I part way with him.


    The sun shine brighly atop my head indicated that it¡¯s 12 pm. It¡¯s so lively here and filled with people, most of them wear a leather clothing. I just realize on the way that I¡¯ve got no money, It¡¯s a good thing that I met an easy merchant on my way here. At least I can stop worrying about money, for now.


    After walking for 5 minutes, a series of food stalls entered my vision, It¡¯s smells so good. Fish is being grilled, there is even food similar to taco.


    For me there are three kind of food; not bad, bad, very bad, even so  I¡¯m not a picky eater. It¡¯s just no food can ever satisfied my palate. I stop myself in one of the stall that slightly caught my attention. It¡¯s similar to  Truffle, I buy one of them and put it in my mouth. it has a conical shape with a ganache coated in chocolate, icing sugar and hazelnuts. ¡®not bad¡¯ I thought nodding my head, thus buy a sack of them , put it in my inventory, and continue strolling the main street.


    I set my eyes on a tavern, bricks make up most of the building''s outer structure. You can see through the small glass windows. The music from within can be heard outside. the song sounds good so I come inside.


    As I open the tavern wooden door, I welcomed by a feeling of comfort and warmth from nearby fireplace and cheerful singing of the bard.


    The space is little packed. Some tables are occupied by a groups of adventurer who seems had quite a few drinks. Some people are singing and dancing around the bard while holding a mug of wine in their hand and occasionally sipping on them. I walk through the crowd and sit at the stool where it¡¯s not occupied, I wave my hand to the woman who looked like the bartender. She welcome me with a sweet smile.


    ¡°Bloody mary.¡± I said with half closed eyes.


    ¡°Huh?¡± the girl bartender show a confused face.


    ¡°Ah I mean, gimme your best drink.¡± I clear my throat.


    ¡°Hey hey what we have here, a brat should not be here, where¡¯s your mama? Just drink mama milk boy. Keke.¡± A drunk man on my side laugh when he saw a youth who looked around 17 years old order drink, the stink odor come out from his mouth as he speak.


    But suddenly his head fall to the table with ¡®thud¡¯ sound, unmoving. Finally the bartender come and place a drink in front of me, she only take a glance at the unmoving drunked man then ignore him and attend the other costumer.  This kind of thing here is common in this tavern, sometimes they drunk too much and collapse or so they thought.


    There¡¯s a small trace of gentle, blue electric sparks intertwining around my wand inside my cloak. I think he won¡¯t wake up at least for three days. I finish my mug in one gulp and put one gold coin on the table before leaving the tavern. My mood is ruined.


    According to Eva, In this world 1 gold is 30 silver coin, 1 silver is 50 cooper coin. For one mug of wine it cost only 30 cooper coin, you can imagine the surprised face of the bartender when see saw this scene.


    I looked around the shop lining up in neat manner. There is a store that caught my attention because of ¡®The Talking Door¡¯ sign written on it.


    Inside there are many interesting stuff that caught my interest. As I looked around, suddenly I saw a handsome youth with a slight pale white skin, black eyes, his hair is slightly in disarray, but overall he looked really breathtaking. he make a light smile at me, I look at him for a while, but soon get tired of it, so I put the mirror down, and ask the clerk how much the mirror cost?


    I buy the mirror and a black comb seeing my hair is in disarray. as I try to leave, my sight stop at the wand that had luxurious look to it.


    As if understand my thought, the shop clerk said ¡°This wand is made out of Dragonfly bone and spirit wood. which is perfect for noble like young master, the combination of this strand of spirit wood and Dragonfly bone means the wand will provide the wielder with agility because of it¡¯s light weight. And it even has a rare salamander core.¡±


    ¡°How much?¡±


    ¡°Ah it¡¯s not really expensive, it¡¯s only 50 gold coin, which I¡¯m sure it¡¯s quiet affordable for young master.¡± Th clerk grin. He saw that I was a student of Arachnid Academy from my attire and assume that I was a rich noble son, so he raise the praise as much as he could.


    I narrow my eyes and glare at the clerk which make him shudder, ¡°Here¡± I toss purse of coin with 50 gold in it to the clerk with the money I got from the bounty. It¡¯s was this moment that I realize one of my weakness.. It¡¯s.. that I don¡¯t know how to haggle.


    So I just casually pay him and leave the store. I put Axelle wand to the inventory and the wand that I just bought to my cloak, it¡¯s easier this way to take it out for quick draw.


    It¡¯s finally time to fill my stomach. I go inside the inn, people here said that this place is famous for it¡¯s Venison so I ended up coming here, but it looked like it¡¯s packed inside, there¡¯s no empty place left to sit.


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    Many of the costumers glance to the table in the corner of the inn so I follow their gaze and saw 2 familiar figure in black cloak. My eyes lit up and make my way to them.


    ¡°Can I sit here?¡± I make a light smile.


    ¡°Ah! Lestat!, why did you here?¡± Eva surprised at my presence.


    ¡°I¡¯m hungry, so I come here.¡± I lift my cloak and sit beside her without waiting for Eva permission. My action seems to irritate the other girl sitting in front of Eva though.


    ¡°That¡¯s not what I mean!, I¡¯m sure I saw you in the morning at the Academy, ah let me introduce you, this is Kana Edena, second-year student.¡±


    ¡°It¡¯s nice to meet you Kana, your performance is very magnificent yesterday.¡± I show her my charming smile, usually girl tend to head over heels with me when I do this.


    ¡°Don¡¯t act too familiar with me.¡±She curved her mouth in disdain as she looked at my robe¡¯s color.


    ¡°Ah, forgive me Lestat, her attitude is a bit..¡±


    ¡°It¡¯s fine, she¡¯s charming in her own way.¡± I replied with light smile


    ¡°You¡¯ve not answer my question earlier, how did you get here?¡°


    ¡°I use teleportation.¡± I calmly said while waving my hand calling for the lady inn.


    ¡°Ehh!!¡± Cried the two girls at the same time which make everyone inside the inn looking at us. Feeling their gaze, the two girls finally calm themself, and look at me.


    ¡°You can also use teleportation?¡± Eva said in amazed tone.


    ¡°Yeah, didn¡¯t I tell you before.¡±


    ¡°You are not!¡± Eva slam the table and slightly bow to the other costumer for once again disturbing their meal.


    ¡°Now I tell you, so there¡¯s no problem right.¡±


    All of the sudden Kana put away her spoon and ask me ¡°Did you stay in this Inn?¡±


    ¡°Eh?¡± both of me and Eva seems to be caught off guard at Kana sudden change in attitude and the way she speak.


    I replied with intrigued smile ¡°Yeah, I intend to do so¡± her attitude change drastically when I mention I can use teleportation magic, what a simple girl, in this world strength is indeed what matter the most, and it seems she¡¯s one of those girl who has a weak spot for strong guy.


    The Inn lady come to my side ¡°What is your recommendation?¡± I ask her.


    ¡°Today recommendation is ¡®Fried Garlic Ginger Venison¡¯¡±


    ¡°I¡¯ll have it then, and also a mug of the best wine you have.¡±


    I raised my head and look at the two girls that still chewing their foods and ask ¡°So why did you two come here? Are you skipping classes too?¡±


    ¡°We are here on headmaster errand. I heard you are a new student starting yesterday, and now you are skipping classes...¡± Kana replied shaking her head.


    ¡°Errand?¡±


    ¡°Yeah, you didn¡¯t heard this morning uproar?¡±


    ¡°Someone steal from the academy messhall, it¡¯s completely empty, even the dirty dishes is get stolen.¡± Eva Interject Kana¡¯s words.


    ¡°Fortunately we¡¯ve caught the culprit, he dare to make us run this kind of errand¡± Kana gritted her teeth.


    ¡°Really? Who is the culprit who dare to steal from our academy? I said looking at the meat juices that occasionally spill from Kana¡¯s pink lips. ¡®Ah she wipe it¡¯


    ¡°It¡¯s the second-year student named Eric Barnier.¡±


    ¡°Barnier?¡±


    ¡°Yeah, you know him?¡±


    ¡°We met at the library once.¡±


    ¡°But he keep denying it. he said the ghost did it. He saw a ghost come inside the messhall so he try to peek inside the hall from the window by climbing the wall. Isn¡¯t it ridiculous right?¡± Kana smiled.


    ¡°Indeed, ghost is a being that we create ourself.¡± I took the wine that just arrived and drank from it, and then muttered to myself  ¡®I did creat it though.¡¯


    Finally my venison is ready in my table, I ate it while having a chat with the girls about various topics and finally part from them as they still have errand to do. I put down my spoon and fork crossing each other on my empty plate and pay for one night stay at the inn for 3 silver coin including my meal earlier.


    My room is located in the second floor, I open the door with a silver key I get from the Inn lady. With a ¡®Creak¡¯ sound, the door opened revealing a king sized bed with blue blanket on it. I take off my cloak, and robe, wearing only my school uniform and drop my body on the bed. ¡°It¡¯s so hot here, completely different from the Academy.¡± I sigh while stretching my body.


    I open my [Status] to see if there is any differences but it¡¯s still the same from yesterday, all of my stat is still 20 except for my MAG and Mana.


    ¡°As I thought I still level 1, I should have kill those bandits myself. I guess you only get EXP if you kill something directly.


    ¡°My magic is indeed OP but for my defense.. one hit from veteran adventure could kill me if I¡¯m not careful, better level up soon.¡± my consciousness fade from the the inn ceiling and I fall asleep.


    11 pm.


    Clic Clik .. Creak


    [sound of door lock opening]


    In the darkness, a figure peeked in through the slightly opened wooden door, seeing that I already fall asleep she come inside my room and get closer to the bed where I sleep.


    Hearing a footstep getting closer and closer to me, I open my eyes and saw a red haired girl with with red eyes and skin white as snow, moonlight reflected in her face through the window which made the figure can¡¯t be described by mere word ¡®beautiful¡¯.


    ¡°Kana?¡± I raised my eyebrow looking at the figure in front of me.


    She brought me to her chest ¡°Lestat, you will become mine.¡± She said while tightened her hug.


    My face was buried in the her soft flesh, there¡¯s a sweet scent which made me go hazy. Something boiled up from within my body.


    I then wrapped my arms around her back, returning her hug and said ¡°You can¡¯t have me.¡± She was taken aback by my words and her eyes starting to get moist. She brace herself to do this despite this is her first time, so to think she would get rejected, which is a first experience for her made her feels like crying.


    I then move my head closer to her ear and whisper in gentle voice ¡°But I can have you¡± then I kiss her pink lips that have a trace of tears in it.

 Chapter 07: The Adventure Guild and Storm?

    A woman watching the Snow pilling up outside the window, she frown her almond-shaped eyes ¡°Are you sure we should really do this?¡±


    The headmaster put away his book, lifted his head to look at her ¡°It¡¯s already happen, too late for regret now, we already summon him to this world.¡±


    ¡°Did you forget the Catastrophe that happen 1000 years ago?¡± She resolutely said


    ¡°Of course not, how could I .. we are race different from the others and what left of it. It¡¯s only you and me who survive the Catastrophe 1000 years ago, that¡¯s why .. I¡¯m sure you know what to do right... Axelle?¡±


    <hr />


    I tap the small Icon floating on the lower left of my vision with [Menu] written on it and display the current time. It¡¯s 2 am now.


    ¡°We only do it for 3 hours and now she¡¯s already lost consciousness.¡± I sigh with light smile on my face.


    It was quite dark, only the moonlight that coming in from the window act as lighting. I put the blue blanket that has a red stain along the surface to cover Kana up to her neck.


    I put on my clothes, dress myself and leave the room down the stairs. I stroll through the street, occasionally there are some couple walking together. I look at the two moon in the sky and said ¡°It¡¯s used to be only one moon in the sky, I''ve been looking everywhere since then. Now that there are two moon in the sky, but still I haven''t found happiness.¡±


    ¡°To begin with, what is happiness?¡± I muttered to myself.


    I made my way to the Adventure Guild, I have been here earlier this noon, but because I just wake up from my nap I didn¡¯t see it clearly.


    From the outside it looks impressive, it¡¯s two story building but look tall as if it¡¯s consist of 3 floors with many rounded windows on the brick wall. it¡¯s already past midnight but it¡¯s still open. I think it¡¯s open 24 hours. I open the door handle with my left hand.


    I was surprised when I come inside. It was rather crowded, I can¡¯t imagine what it looked like in daytime. Sturdy guys in leather clothes can bee seen in various tables, chatting among their party.


    Some of them in the counter speaking with the woman behind it. I go to the counter that had a sign ¡°register application¡± written on it.


    I became the center of attention as soon as I arrive at the counter because I was dressed in Arachnid Academy cloak.


    Naturally, there¡¯s no mage that would register to become an adventurer, since they always stuck at the academy most of the time.


    ¡°Can I help you?¡± ask a woman behind the counter with a business face.


    ¡° Can I see the quest list?¡±


    ¡°Are you an adventurer?¡±


    ¡°No¡±


    ¡°Then you have to register first.¡±


    ¡°There¡¯s no need.¡±


    ¡°Excuse me..¡± she looked troubled by my weird answer.


    ¡°I just want to see the quest, why do I have to become an adventurer?¡± I crack a smile.


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    ¡°I-I see, you can head to the bulletin board in the second floor, there are various quest posted on it.¡±


    I walk up to the second floor and stop myself in the front of a big board 2 meters wide. Many scrap of paper stuck there with quest written on it.


    ¡°I just don¡¯t understand these people. Why did I have to become an adventurer? They are basically following people order just like servant. I¡¯ll find a thief hideout related quest, I¡¯m sure there are many valuables inside their hideout while at the same time raising my level.¡± I''m searching the quest, and immeadiately find a jackpot.


    Kill those filthy bandits who dare to disrupt Kingshill City trade by attacking many merchant that come to this city. They seems to have grown in strength lately thanks to some weapons they raid from the nearby villages. Locate their hideout and kill every bandits inside.


    ¡°So in the end I have to search the hideout myself...¡±


    Suddenly the storm raged envelop the Kingshill City. It¡¯s become more ferociously as the night went on, I shivered. The adventurer voices were drowned by the rolls of thunder that started past the midnight. I heard something creak outside. I hoped the roof wasn''t going to fall in, despite how sturdy the adventure guild looks.


    Crunch!


    ¡°What was that funny crunching noise? was the wall crumbling?¡± I ponder...


    Boom !!


    The whole Guild shaking and I take out my wand from my cloak, staring at the door. Someone was outside, I know it.


    Boom !!


    ¡°It¡¯s happen again¡± I grip my wand harder.


    There was a crash ouside the Guild and the adventurer came skidding into the Guild enterance, majority of them is only C rank, one B rank can be seen among them. He was holding a greatsword in his hands.


    "Who''s there?" he shouted. "I warn you, we armed!"


    There was a pause. Then..


    Smash!


    Boom !!


    The door was hit with such force that crash landed flat on the floor. A creature was standing in the now crushed doorway. it has four arms and two legs, with a long, thick tail.  it has three eyes, one of them in the forehead. loud warcry can be heard from the creature and two of them appear behind it.


    I looked towards the one in the middle, and the two behind it then grimly smiled ¡°They appear to be annoyed, but looks can be deceiving.¡±


    "They looks strong, too bad I can¡¯t check other people level."


    They have horns covering their face.  Their skin is covered in black scales. The creatures squeezed their way into the Guild, He/she bent down, picked up the door and throw it to the B rank adventurer, sent him flying along with his greatsword. He let out a howl, and started spurting blood from his mouth.


    ¡°So fast! I can only see a blur. they are high level monster, no doubt about it.¡± my gaze turned cold.


    The noise of the storm outside dropped a little. The creatures turned to look at the remaining adventurer.

 Chapter 08: Chaos and Blood

    The noise of the storm outside dropped a little. The creatures turned to look at the remaining adventurer.


    From my map I can see that this monster name is ¡®Cursed Gnoll¡¯ and the whole City is also filled with red dot.


    The adventurers are terrified when the strongest of them got beaten just like that. Their hand trembling, then one by one they get slaughtered by the creatures, some of them even trying to run amids the chaos.


    ¡°Useless bunch of trash, can¡¯t even hold them for five second.¡± I click my tongue. My wand dancing in the air. I cast ¡®Walking Bomb¡¯ then a light, red stream appear and enveloped the two adventurer that still fighting against the creature, and cast it once more on the adventurer that trying to run from the Cursed Gnoll.


    A pity that the Cursed Gnoll is faster than him, it¡¯s let out a loud battle cry and ruthlessly thrust forward it¡¯s spear.


    The Cursed Gnoll only thrust it¡¯s spear once, but several deep cuts appear on the C rank adventurer body that now lifeless on the ground.


    The Cursed Gnoll trying to find another prey, but something weird happen with the corpse of C rank adventure. It¡¯s glowing with red light, followed by a devastating explosion, creating a crater with a diameter of 1 meter. The sight of the creature and C rank adventure can¡¯t be seen anymore.


    Two similar crater also can be seen in different places. The survivors become more terrified at this spectacle. They looked around for the one who use such sinister magic, their gaze stop and looking at me as if I was a monster.


    ¡°Looked like I¡¯ve done something that I should not, *sigh. Better leave no survivor or it might come and bite me someday¡± my mouth curled into a cold smile.


    Their face ashen as they hear my words. Some of them already running for their lives, but suddenly a group of cursed gnolls bloking their way out. This time it was nine of them.


    From the outside can be seen red light blinking countless time from the window of the Adventure Guild, and the Guild exploded with big bang leaving pieces of what left of it scattered in the wind and fell like rain.


    Inside the forest 4 km away from Kingshill City, there¡¯s a space distortion, revealed a youth in black cloak kneeling, a red liquid dripping from his pale lips. Lying in a puddle of his own blood.


    ¡°Madness!¡± I spat my blood. ¡°to think half of the adventurers would choose to rush towards me. They intend to bring me down with them ... I was careless¡±


    ¡°Is it the end of my life? .. Oh well, let it be. I''m dying now anyway and in pain and to make matters worse something is poking my head. It seems I can''t even die comfortably.¡±


    ¡°Hey did you hear me?¡± a voice resounded behind me, poking my head.


    ¡°Why hasn''t anybody save me yet? where am I?  oh right still here.. alone, I don''t want to die alone. Somebody please save me, anybody. Please, I''m so alone.¡±


    ¡°I¡¯m here, are you listening?!¡± the voice sounds irritated.


    ¡°My vision is going dark, I can barely see the falling star, I wish that someone would come and save me, oh wishing star. I''m so exhausted, and hungry, I just want to close my eyes and sleep. Wait No, if I sleep it means the end. I musn''t sleep. I must stay awake, but so tired, ah so tired. Somebody save me. Save me so I can sleep.  I don''t think I''m going to make it for breakfast.. Ahhh!¡±


    ¡°What are you doing?!¡± I glare at the figure who is kicking my head.


    ¡°That¡¯s because you keep ignoring me!¡± retorted the cloaked figure.


    ¡°Don¡¯t you see that I¡¯m dying?!¡±


    ¡°Dying my ass! you only get a slight graze on your head!¡±


    ¡°What are you talking about? Look at this puddle of blood. I lost too much of blood, I know I¡¯m not going to make it. I don¡¯t even have a healing spell.¡± Half kneeling, I scoop some blood from the ground.


    ¡°It¡¯s not blood.¡±


    ¡°What?¡±


    ¡°It¡¯s not blood! It¡¯s just some puddle of water left from the rain yesterday.¡±


    ¡°But it¡¯s red.¡±


    ¡°Maybe because it¡¯s mixed with your blood. There is no way someone who lost so much blood would be still alive!!¡±


    ¡°My vision is going dark.¡±


    ¡°Of course you are! It¡¯s still night!!¡±


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    ¡°Huh, Kana.. what are you doing here?¡±


    ¡°You just realize that it is me?¡±


    ¡°Y-Yeah, ahem. No, I know it¡¯s you from the start. I was just testing you, see if you can stay composed in front of dying people, well good work.¡± I pat her shoulder cleaning my right palm from trace of blood and dirt.


    ¡°Why did you leave me alone?¡±


    ¡°I get bored.¡±


    ¡°What?!¡±


    ¡°Shh! Something here.¡± I cover her pink lips with my now dirty left palm.


    ¡°Cursed King Gnoll! It¡¯s coming this way, and fast.¡± I look at my map.


    ¡°Let me fight with you.¡±


    ¡°Hah, you¡¯ll just drag me down.¡±


    ¡°What did you say? I get the first place in last year tournament. There is no way that would hap-¡± before could she finish, I teleport her to the Academy library.


    ¡°It would be a bad idea if my EXP get shared among the party... maybe. Right...  just in case.¡±


    I cast ¡®Barrier¡¯ A pure, circle green blaze of energy cover my body.


    I saw a huge shadow getting closer and closer. So big! 25 ft tall Cursed King Gnoll, it has the same appearance with other cursed gnoll except for it¡¯s large body and one additional horn. It let out a loud Battle cry and swing it¡¯s huge hand at me. But it¡¯s blocked by my Barrier, creating a muffled sound and a crack appear on it.


    ¡°Not good.¡± I narrow my eyes.


    I cast Fire Storm in the air as I hurled by the impact. a flame appear out of nowhere and engulf the monster and the forest nearby making it more intense.


    I set my eyes to the ongoing storm of fire that keep getting bigger by each second. I even starting to get hot here. Fire storm is a second grade spell, similar with Fire Wall, but with a slight different purpose. Fire wall can be used to block the incoming spell.


    ¡°Is it too overkill? ... Nah it can¡¯t be¡±


    ¡°????©†?? ??????§ñ?¦Ø ¦Ø????¡ò?¦Å??¦Å? ???¦Ø????¡ò?¦Å??¦Å?????¡ò?¦Å??¦Å?????¡ò? O rage, come and destroy everything before me, Explosion!¡± As I finish my incantation, the flame that engulf the forest and nearby place get pulled toward the burnt King Gnoll, creating a palm sized flame with high density and then.. it¡¯s explode with terrifying might.


    I was underestimated the third grade spell. It should be used from far away, so I get blown and sent flying 10 meters to the sky then crash against a tree. A pure, circle green blaze of energy that cover my body cracked once again and vanished.


    ¡°Ugh.. it¡¯s a good thing that I keep activating my Barrier, otherwise who knows what will happen to me.¡± I wipe the blood from my lips, and tap [Status] with my blood soaked finger.


    ¡°Heh, level 10.. worth the risk.¡± I set my gaze to the Kinghill City. Scream and cry of anguish can be heard even though I was 3 km away. ¡°I forget my school uniform...¡±

 Chapter 09: Potion of Insanity

    "After such a long day, in the end I didn¡¯t had any sleep." I yawn while casting my ice storm to the group of cursed gnoll. now that my level raised to 10, my movement is different from before. it''s become more light.


    I go back to the Academy after killing some more gnoll that night, enough to buy time for the people to escape from the city, not that I care what happen to them.


    But in the end their number keep increasing without any sign of stopping. It¡¯s coming from the deep of the place that people from this world called dungeon.


    At first I was planning to investigate the dungeon. Honestly I was curious what make them to attack the city but my mana prevent me from doing so, it was a pity.


    Their eyes, I know those eyes, it¡¯s as if they are being controlled by someone or something.  just like puppet, devoid of any emotion. Something big is going on here, thats the feeling I got.


    As I get to the academy it''s still morning, the sun yet to show it bare body. and it came to me that it''s still not breakfast time yet. and so I slow down my walking pace. I made my way across the hall and saw many students walking towards the messhall which make the corridor become crowded.


    "So this is the tradition of the academy.." I slip from the gap of the crowd.


    After 10 minutes of walking, I got into line behind a boy with blond hair that look familiar, through a double doors into the Mess Hall. I had never even imagined such a strange and splendid place, it was not my first time here, but now it¡¯s looked completely different place.


    It was lit by 2.222 candles that were floating atop five long tables. Four of them is where many of the students were sitting, and chatting with each other while the last is for the teacher. New golden goblets and plates can be seen laid on the tables.


    Headmaster led the first years up here, so that they came to a halt in a line. The hundreds of faces staring at the headmaster looked like pale lanterns in the flickering candlelight. He¡¯s giving a speech about the new hall and severe punishment they will get if any of them would try and steal from this place again, I only listen halfway though. I looked to someone beside the headmaster, she¡¯s a strange, and weird one.


    She has a pointed hat on her head. This hat was patched and extremely dirty. If I were to become a headmaster, I wouldn''t have let her to step in this place. After the long speech from headmaster we start to find our respective seat.


    When I look at the table, my mouth fell open. The dishes in front of me were now piled with food. I had never seen so many on one table.


    Baked Lobster, sandwich, honey bread, caramel Doughnut, cranberry, waffles, beef, chicken, pork, sausages, and steak. I piled my plate with steak and sandwich, It was quite delicious.


    "That does look good," said the blond with depressed face, watching I chew my steak. Seeing that I gave no response, he try to get closer to me.


    ¡°Great food, isn''t it?" the blond muttered to me.


    "Well, isn¡¯t it Barn, you looks lively." I said while chewing my steak.


    ¡°...¡±


    Even though there were many foods on the table earlier, now there barely some left. I was going to ask Barn if he''d had any of the sandwich, but stop myself from doing so because I feels sleepy, perhaps I had eaten a bit too much.


    "Oh, I''m so full." I swallow the last bite of my sandwich noisily, burped loudly for the entire Messhall to hear, and then wiped my mouth with the back of my hand before teleport myself to my room, leaving Barn alone with everyone in the hall looking at him.


    "No! It''s not me! I swear it!" shout Bern with slight red in his face.


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    In a room consist of only a bed, mirror and a dresser, a youth was in his bed. Next to the bed he was sleeping on, was a cloak hanging on the back of his new chair bought from Kingshill City.


    That night I had a nightmare, the same as usual. I rolled over countless time and fell asleep again, and when I woke next day, I didn''t remember the dream at all.


    I opened my eyes, staring at the ceiling with sweat dripping all over my face. ¡°To not even being able to grieve the lose of the woman you loved¡­ if not a tragedy, what is it...¡± I look into the distance through the window, as if trying to recall something that I can¡¯t even remember no matter how much I try.


    I shifted my gaze to the floor, there is a blue envelope. I stretched out my  hand to take the blue envelope, I pulled out the letter and after finish reading the content, the letter exploded like fireworks.


    I mumbling  ¡°Interesting.¡± looking at my menu, it''s display 1 pm. "After having breakfast in the messhall I only able to sleep for 4 hours.*sigh"


    7th floor, Axelle¡¯s laboratory


    Axelle placed the weird looking thing on the cauldron, then crossed her arms while giving a troubled expression. Despite her being the teacher of Light Magic and Alchemy, due to her own personal interest, she likes to experiment in other weird things.


    "It¡¯s good that you remember your promise to come and visit me here.¡±


    ¡°Of course I remember, you even sent a letter to remind me that explode in my head.¡±


    ¡°fufu, one of my invention.¡±


    ¡°I just want to return your wand.¡±


    ¡°No need to rush, before the break is over, I want you to help me for a moment."


    "You are already that busy with classes, and yet you have time to try an experiment?" while watching the back of Axelle, I sighed.


    The personal laboratory of Axelle was stacked with all sorts of weird and smelly ingredients. Some is very rare, tiny plant and can be found in the rack. with wedge shaped leaves, which are glowing green. It also grows large flowers. These plants is huge in numbers. They have no real use for someone who not dabble in alchemy.


    "It is not an experiment. Experiment may end in failure, but my creation is... fufu, please look forward to it." Without shifting her sight, her hands began stir the cauldron.


    "So Axelle.. What are you trying to make?"


    "Potion of Insanity"


    "Judging by the names of the potion, it looks dangerous.¡±


    "Fufu, you can''t judge a book by its cover. It¡¯s a very useful potion" Axelle covered her mouth and laughed.


    ¡°3 stalks of bitter parsley, 2 stalks of sprinkles talon, one liquid of spoiled slime, black moss, poisoned swamp snake and-¡±


    "Axelle, Did you just say something?"


    "Don''t worry, I have cleared all the poison.¡±


    ¡°Poison?¡±


    ¡°Nothing, they are absolutely safe."


    "That dangerous smile of yours is not convincing."


    "Well, it doesn¡¯t matter since the one to test the potion is you."


    I took a step back in shock  "Me?" then immeadiately teleport myself out of the room without even set my destination. I just hope I don¡¯t endup in the woman restroom.

 Chapter 10: Fame

    (Many Harry P reference in this Ch.)


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    ¡°Look, that¡¯s him!"


    "Where?"


    "Next to the handsome guy with the black hair."


    "Did you see his face?"


    "He¡¯s the one who did it?"


    Clattering and whispers followed me from the moment I left the library with Barn, oh poor Barn. I¡¯m in the same class with Barn and people piled up outside my classroom stood on tiptoe to get a look at him, or doubled back to pass him in the corridors again, staring with disdain in their face, some even mock him directly.


    I¡¯m sitting on my chair inside the classroom with Barn on my side, so It feel like I¡¯m the one that being watched.


    ¡°Why did they have to be so cruel?¡± Said Barn in dejected manner.


    ¡°Yeah, I wished they wouldn''t¡± I said casually while flipping the page of History of Magic.


    ¡°Lestat? You.. I know you are really a good guy despite yours ..attitude.¡± smile creep on Barn face.


    ¡°I was trying to concentrate to read my book.¡±


    ¡°...¡±


    ¡°So, can you change your seat so I can have some peace? Those people and you... distracting me.¡±


    ¡°...¡±


    ¡°In exchange I¡¯ll give you something good.¡±


    ¡°What?¡±


    ¡°A mirror.¡± I take it from my inventory pretending it comes from the cloak.


    ¡°...¡±


    ¡°It¡¯s not an ordinary mirror, mind you.¡±


    ¡°Ohh, what kind of mirror?¡±


    ¡°The talking mirror.¡±


    ¡°It can talk?¡±


    ¡°Yeah, I bought it from ¡®The Talking Door¡±


    (a shop name in Kingshill City from Ch.06)


    ¡°Whoa! Awesome. There¡¯s even a talking door.. Fine I¡¯ll find the other seat.¡±


    7 minutes later


    ¡°How can I make the mirror talk?¡± Barn come back to me from his new seat.


    ¡°You don¡¯t know?¡± I ask seems amazed, not that I know.


    ¡°Y-Yeah.¡± He scratch his back while looking embarrased.


    I close my book and look at his face ¡°You have to soak it in the dragon blood.¡±


    ¡°W-Where can I find a dragon?¡±


    "Kill a dragon."


    ¡°... Kill.. a Dragon?! that''s impossible! do you even know what kind of existence is a dragon?¡±


    ¡°...¡±


    "To subjugate a dragon we need a hundred knights, mages, and priest!! Even it would be lucky if some of them survived to enjoy the fame and glory."


    ¡°Was there someone who succede in subjugate dragon in the past?¡±


    ¡°Of course. there was plenty of them. there were even five SS Rank Adventurer who killed a dragon two years ago."


    "Just five of them?" I ask curiously.


    "Yes, you can imagine how strong they are."


    "Interesting" I mumle to myself. The bell ring and the students go back to their respective seat, the whole class become silent.


    "You are here to learn the art of potion making now, stop anything you do and pay attention to me." Axelle said while strolling into the classroom.


    "I though she teach a light magic?" I ask the random guy sitting next to me who replace Barn.


    "Huh? light magic? what kind of nonsense are you talking about? there''s no such a thing like light magic. you can only learn it at the Church in Capital City" said a random guy with random face.


    ''Damn, she''s messing with me..''


    She spoke in barely more than a whisper, but they caught every word. "As there is little wand waving here, many of you will hardly believe this is magic. I don''t expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses.... I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stop death, if you aren''t as big a bunch of ghost story maker as I usually have to teach." She look at Barn when she said the last sentences. More silence followed her speech.


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    Barn was on the edge of his seat and looked desperate to start proving that he wasn''t a ghost story maker.


    "Lestat!" said Axelle suddenly.


    "What would I get if I added the root of dhoasdel to an infusion of seflytin?"


    ¡®Root of what to an infusion of what?¡¯ I glanced at the other who looked as stumped as I was. Barn hand had shot into the air.


    "I don''t know" I said.


    "Tch.. tch. So much for recommended student" Axelle''s lips curled into a sneer, ignored Barn''s hand.


    "Let''s try again. Lestat, where would you look if I told you to find me a Zigoa?" Barn stretched his hand as high into the air as it would go without his leaving his seat, but I didn''t have the faintest idea what a Zigoa was.


    I tried not to look at Logwee, Berlag, and Pimpim, who were shaking with laughter.


    "I don''t know"


    "Thought you wouldn''t open a book before coming, eh, Lestat?" I forced myself to keep looking straight into those beautiful eyes that seems to say ¡®this is payback for leaving without helping me test my potion¡¯.


    Axelle was still ignoring Barn''s quivering hand. "What is the difference, Lestat, between drakewood and skywood?"


    Barn stood up, his hand stretching toward the class ceiling.


    "I don''t know," I said quietly. "I think Barn does, though, why don''t you try him?" A few people laughed. Axelle, however was not pleased, but at least she stopped her aggresion towards me.


    Axelle class last for 2 hours. As there is no more classes, I intend to explore the Academy.


    "Barn, can you take me around the academy?" I ask him.


    "Eh.. now that I think about it, you are the new student that people talking about. sure, I will show you around."


    "What do you mean?"


    "A new first-year who challenge a second-year on the day he join the academy to a duel." Barn replied with a slight smile on his face.


    "... ah, I nearly forget about that." I say with raised tone while walking through wide staircase.


    "Forget?! I hear it''s today right? are you going to be alright?"


    "Don''t worry I can handle them. More importantly, something weird about this stairs.."


    "Ah, it''s because there were a 962 staircases at Arachnid Academy. Wide, narrow sweeping ones, rickety ones, some that led somewhere different on a monday and thursday."


    "..."


    "I occasionally trying to walk around the academy trying to find many places that I never know or visited before.


    Some with a vanishing step halfway up that you had to remember to jump, and doors that weren''t really doors at all, but solid walls that just pretending to be one."


    ''I see. It was also very hard to remember where anything was, because it all seemed to move around a lot which made my teleportation seems kind of useless except if I went to certain location that stay put, unchanging like dormitories and library.'' I contemplate in my mind.


    "Did the library also the same? I ask


    "Yes, but below 7th floor, it''s stay put and didn''t change.


    "I see, so the library upper floor did change sometimes, that¡¯s why I never seems to reach the upper floor of the library."


    "They say that in the top floor of the library there is a secret room that locked and some even say that the purpose of this secret room is to seal the fairy inside.


    "Personally I prefer some forbidden spell that could destroy the entire continent."


    "Maybe both of them exist or nothing at all." Barn sigh. "No one ever set foot in that place, even for the headmaster, and no matter how I try to reach the top, I can¡¯t seems to reach it."


    "This academy is very large and have a ancient feeling to it. Truly one of the wonder of this world."


    It has been two week since the invasion of monster from the dungeon. It¡¯s fortunate that the capital city sent their elite knight and mage to stop the monster from attacking other village and city, now they are stationed around the vicinity of the dungeon, guarding it to prevent any similar accident to happen.


    I spent most of my time in classes and library below 7th floor because I don¡¯t want to get lost and waste my mana, and trying to learn many spell as I could. Since that day, many others mage apprentice (students) trying to ask me a guidance and sparring after I emerge victorious in the duel with second-year on my second day, thus my fame spreading to the entire academy. Still my fame is nowhere near Barn though.

 Chapter 11: Night Visit

    Between the piles of books, a figure is fast asleep with his body entrusted to the side of bookshelve.


    "Lestat, please wake up, Lestat"


    ¡°Nn.. what is it, Barn? Didn¡¯t I say I¡¯d sleep through the classes today?" Taking off the book that shaded my face, the cloak and robe worn on my body were unrecognizably misshapen.


    ¡°No you didn¡¯t¡±


    ¡°So..?¡±


    "So, it ended."


    "Hmm.. so fast?" While staring up and down at Barn that standing in front of me, I tilted my head. "If progress was as planned, the meeting ended just about now, and they should be asking us to provide mages to help them clear the dungeon.¡±


    ¡°Certainly,  wait.. how did you know? Ah this is terrible. We are still apprentice, dungeon is little too much for us. but the King has given his order to the headmaster so he can¡¯t refuse." Barn said in a frantic tone.


    Hearing that, I casually turned my gaze to the window and the sun already sinking for the day.


    ¡°Well, there¡¯s no use to worry about that now, did the headmaster even gonna send everyone in the academy?¡±


    ¡°I don¡¯t know, I just heard the rumors this afternoon. The headmaster has yet to announce it.


    ¡°I see.¡±


    ¡°Les, you..  did you even read the content..?¡±


    I once again put back the spellbook I just take to the bookshelve without reading it and look toward Barn ¡°Hm? .. I already know these spell.¡±


    ¡°H-Huh, really?.. what?¡± Barn was dazed by my words.


    ¡°It¡¯s just first and second grade spell here, nothing good worth mentioning.¡±


    ¡°...¡±


    ¡°Do you want something good?¡±


    ¡°No, there¡¯s no need. You never give me something good. I don¡¯t need other talking mirror that need to be soaked in blood in order to speak.¡±


    ¡°Don¡¯t worry it¡¯s not talking mirror.¡± I place a conical shaped object to him.


    ¡°It¡¯s Trufle right..¡±


    ¡°Yeah. it¡¯s good.¡±


    ¡°Indeed, it¡¯s something... good.¡±


    ¡°*Yawn*.. So sleepy, time to go back to the dorm, see you later Barn¡±


    It was darkness in the middle of the night, I walked into my room in the dormitory. The darkness was like a prickling electric cloud around me. The dormitory was enormous, so big that you could spent a whole day walking through it and still never reach the end of it, even though the students only occupied some of the dorm space. So what is the rest used for?


    I placed my hand on its small, wooden knob. It was unlocked. My fingers trembled. I laugh faintly. I couldn¡¯t help myself. It¡¯s been this way since two days ago, I don¡¯t know how she did it, but Kana is sleeping in my bed right now as if it was a natural thing to do. If the other know about this, it won¡¯t be good right?


    I closed the door as I come inside my room after make sure no one is in the hallway, and approach a cabinet, It was a liquor cabinet. A big one, there was practically a whole bar in there if you look closely. It won¡¯t be long until I fill my room with more good stuff until it¡¯s packed, but too bad the city get destroyed. I reached the wine bottle that closer to me and sat in a corner.


    I kept the back of my head pressed firmly against the solid wall like it was my last point of connection to a same reality as I put my wine in a slim and elegant glass that glittering in the moonlight, I was lucky to encounter this thing in the city, the mug in the tavern is crude and uncomfortable in my lips.


    Kana lay flat on her back on my bed, twitch her nose as if smelled something that she didn¡¯t want to admit was the faint, bitter odor of wine.


    ¡°Stop drinking that stuff.¡± Kana said, not for the first time.


    ¡°Yeah¡± I said faintly but keep drinking, while breathe slowly and keep still. I stared straight ahead, looking into her scarlet eyes that seem to glow in the darkness. ¡°How long are you planning to stay in my room, get out and sleep in your own room.¡±


    Refusing to respond only focusing her eyes on me. it would be all right for her to stay, but I couldn¡¯t get rid of a feeling of wonder, did she not feel any shame that she went into the man room uninvited? Not that I mind, but she¡¯s different from the other women back in earth.


    Unlike in earth, my previous world, this world is really dangerous, I can lost my life anytime. Even so I can¡¯t suppress my excitement. There are many interesting things here that not exist in my previous world that would make my blood boil which is something I never experince before, but even so I have to find a way back just in case, there are many things in my world that need to be done... not to mention tommorow is the anniversary.. Nayla is.. is.. Nayla..


    ¡®Wait.. anniversary.. what anniversary?.. and nayla..nayla who is Nayla?¡¯ I murmured in a low voice. My mind was in dissaray, I seem to forget something important. But I can¡¯t recall what is it... wait, did I really forget something? Forget.. what...?


    My conflicted mind was diverted by Kana as I watched her stretch, her hands pressed to her lumbar region, tipping her head one way, then the other. Then she walked over in my direction, after stripping her robe and cloak.


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    ¡°Well.. I don¡¯t want to.¡± she announced cheerfully. ¡°Even if you didn¡¯t love me and I¡¯ll never give up. I¡¯ll always stay by your side until you change your heart.¡± She nestled herself to my chest.


    I chucked my black gloves neatly into the floor. ¡°Did you learnt it from your mother?¡±


    ¡°H-how, I mean, what are you talking about?! It has nothing to do with my mother!¡± her cheeks were flushed red made her more attractive.


    I wished she weren¡¯t so attractive. Pretty women were so much harder to deal with, especially her lovely, and a broad ridiculously sexy mouth.


    She¡¯s right in front of me, while looking into her eyes, my sense of taste and touch were focused on the strand of saliva stretched between our lips, the sweetness of truffle, dancing in my mouth.


    I stuck her tight in my embrace with her lips sealing mine in a deep kiss.


    ¡°Forget about it, I will not let go of you.¡± Kana¡¯s sweet voice tickled against my ears.


    ¡°You are indeed interesting¡± I said lightly smiling.


    ¡°Really?¡± she beamed with pleasure.


    ¡°Yeah, just like everyone else.¡±


    ¡°...¡±


    ¡°But you know what..¡± I look into her red eyes said ¡°You will definitely let go of me.¡± I teleport her to my bed.


    She gasp for air and a looked dissapointed, thinking that I teleport her to her own room. But it soon changed to a happy one as she spot me crawl to her.


    In the pitch-black darkness of my room, Kana''s hair and skin had a snow white radiance. The two moon outside the window overhung the horizon and made her more dazzling in my eyes.


    "It''s a beautiful night, don''t you think so?" I looked at Kana with the eyes of a conqueror. My lips showed a bewitching smile.


    "Ah!.. why are you always...... hm!" Kana question was interrupted by a french kiss.


    My lips whispered into Kana''s ear. "I will also eat you well tonight." After letting out a hot breath of air, I nibbled Kana''s earlobe.


    ¡°N-no.. Don''t.." Kana''s body trembled  as the upper half of my body hugged her tightly, I slowly entered her deepest part and moved my hips, despite me coming over and over again she¡¯s able to stay concious unlike last time. I greedily devoured her body.


    Three hours later Kana end up lying on the bed exhausted with sweat and white sticky stuff all over her naked body. Currently sitting by the window with two moons behind me, I lift my head and look at her with expressionless face.


    ¡°Did you heard the rumors?¡± Kana said in a low voice.


    ¡°Yeah I did.¡±


    ¡°I¡¯ll go and help the king to clear the dungeon tommorow.¡±


    ¡°Really? Is it already announced how many mages will the academy sent?¡±


    ¡°Not yet. Well, my father already decided it for me though. He plan to use me in order to raise his position. I¡¯m sure he didn¡¯t care if I die there in the dungeon. It might be my last time I spent with you.¡±


    ¡°Didn¡¯t you just say that you will not let go of me? Change your mind already?¡± smirk can be seen on my face.


    ¡°I.. I have no choice in the matter. What ? Are you starting to like me?¡±


    ¡°I do like you.¡±


    ¡°Really?¡±


    ¡°Yeah, How could I do something like this with someone I don¡¯t like.¡±


    ¡°Then, will you marry me?¡±


    ¡°No way.¡±


    ¡°W-what..you.. why?!¡±


    ¡°Who else is coming to clear the dungeon?¡±


    ¡°I only know that all of The Six Enigma will be coming- wait, don¡¯t try to change the conversation!¡±


    ¡°I only heard about this six enigma, and never met them directly,  I look forward to tommorow. you better get back to your own room.¡± I put on my robe and cloak.


    ¡°Where are you going?¡±


    ¡°I¡¯m going to visit the headmaster.¡±


    ¡°Headmaster?¡±


    ¡°Yeah, I¡¯ll make sure he put me on the list, there is no way I¡¯ll miss a chance to explore a dungeon.¡±


    Looking at my figure that became countless black particles and disappeared in the bright moonlight, Kana sigh faintly and put on her robe and cloak before she left the room.

 Chapter 12: Rival

    ¡°Wh-where am I?¡± I stuttered, unable to fully control my mouth. I would have thought I¡¯d gone all the way through to the headmaster office by now, but what the hell is this place?! Did I made some mistake while chanting the teleportation spell? Looking at this place, I must be teleported to another place instead, what should I do...


    ¡°Oh right, the log!¡± I tap the log menu with my index finger.


    ¡°...Nothing.¡±


    There is no one here, no sign of people and nothing!


    This place... this is...


    ¡°This is a fucking cliffs!¡±


    I was pretty sure that if I stood very still for a few seconds everything would snap back to normal, and sent me back to the headmaster office but nothing!


    I wondered if I was undergoing too much stress. I looked cautiously back over my shoulder. There was no sign of the headmaster office or my room behind me, just a cliffs.


    This is really dangerous, but I couldn''t help but laughing at this strange situation. Somehow it¡¯s excites me, is something wrong with me? Nah it can¡¯t be.


    I proceed to check the map, this place is called [Greenland], contrary to it¡¯s name, this cliffs are mainly sheer with little vegetation and dead plants. it was odd to see that here and there among the dead plants a few green leaf and stem still stretch out, drawing nourishment from who knew where.


    I zoom out my map by using my thumb and index finger, the map shifted accordingly to my fingers smooth motion. Before my entire map only display little part of the Greenland, but now greenland is displayed in 0.2 cm in diameter and the distance between this place and the Academy is quite far.


    I looked back up at the sky, trying to gauge the time and how many hours I had left, now the headmaster is still in the office, should I go back ? I flexed my hands, my body still felt a bit weak because the lack of rest.


    I want to go back to the Academy, but something caught my interest. There is a path along the top of rugged cliffs, I trod lightly, brushing up my black shoes with dull grey laces against the vegetation, trying to make as little contact with the dead plants as possible. It was cold, and my fingers were numb.


    ¡°....!"


    I stopped my advance as enraged female voice echoed from the abyss below getting clearer in my ears. ¡°Turn back or go down?¡± I ponder to myself as I felt a huge flow of mana down there, coupled with a scary voice unbecoming for a woman, something must be going on down there.


    I sat down on a stone in the corner, glancing at the bottom of the cliff where the voice come from.


    ¡°Well,¡± I said aloud to myself, ¡°I can¡¯t leave a damsel in distress.¡± The night sky rolled with thunder in response. The heaven didn¡¯t believe my words? Whatever.


    I slid down the cliffs into the deep and pitch black abyss with baby steps. Not even 2 minutes had passed but my knuckles were white as I gripped the nearby rock, so I wrapped my still weak hands around a weird branch nearby that grow on a rock, careful not to touch the bugs scrambling down one side and then pulled myself down slowly.


    The melody is unbearable, I shifted my weight to gaze the crickets with a horn on it¡¯s forehead that chirped monotonously.


    Crack


    ¡°Oh not good. No, you can do this¡± I thought while staring at the cracked rock that become my foothold. ¡°Bad sign, bad sign.¡± Suddenly, the branch gave away and hurtled me down toward the abyss below.


    I closed my eyes as I  fell from the cliff, but there is no gusts of wind brushing against my back, no impact or sounds of brain and innards splattered on the ground.


    But I immeadiately know the reason why, when  I opened my eyes, a forest could be seen stretch the horizon, and I¡¯m still falling, while the wind keep on invading my eyes. I reached for the wand inside my cloak pocket. ¡°Oh, sweet andraste, maker, god, demon king. please works.¡± I muttered under my breath, then casting [Astral Magic: Ethereal] but the words trailed off. I chanted in silence, overshadowed by the howling wind. The wand made creepy swashing noises, and my body starting to become transparent, then I focus my attention to the sight below.


    This sensation... It¡¯s feels like skydiving, but without using a parachute, which is my first time doing it this way, well this spell will make sure I won¡¯t die from the impact, maybe, but even so this is very exciting, I gave a loud and silly laugh before crashed into a big tree with no sounds of impact, and still alive which is creepy but it feels good nonetheless. now that I think about it, isn¡¯t this too OP? Basically I¡¯d become immortal the moment I used this spell right, if there¡¯s a flaw it would be my sense of touch is nullified so I can¡¯t touch or feel anything.


    ¡°Haha, that was exciting, I should try that again later.¡± I was leaning against a willow tree, musing to myself. Suddenly, a noise broke me from my musings. Startled, I looked up and just in time too. A large brown gigantic worm with many sharp teeth headed straight toward me.


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    ¡°Hell Worm?!... this...¡±


    It was a ¡®Hell Worm¡¯ the gigantic worm with the size bigger than a fucking truck, a creatures that acting as a guardian, guarding an ancient tomb that buried far from civilization. I read it from the book in the library, it say that that it¡¯s very strong creatures, also known as ¡®All Eater¡¯ and here I though that I would be a white knight in shining armor trying to save a damsel in distress. That was the last thing I saw before the worm opened it¡¯s big mouth, then downed me in one swallow.


    Night passed and replaced by a dazzling sun. Crowds of student gathered, the entrance of Arachnid Academy was so packed with students that had come to watch the Arachnid Academy mages that will be chosen to go to the dungeon.


    The 6 people from the Six Enigma had arrived, and the some of them belong to different year. Clamor and cheers of student could be heard even from the distance. This is not because the students were interested in this event, but because of the six enigma, they are cheering for them,  just like fans would normally do.


    All of the students from various year crowded together forming a sea of mages, and among them, only 100 mages will be chosen to help the king¡¯s elite knights in clearing the dungeon.


    Standing atop the platform in the Academy mainhall, the headmaster is giving speech to the crowd of mages that last for 30 minutes before decided that it¡¯s enough as barely 10% of them listening to his speech. ¡°...That is all I have to say, now I will call 100 names of those that will be sent to the dungeon to proceed through this door. It¡¯s a portal directly connected to the fort near the dungeon. There, the king¡¯s elite knight will welcome you.¡± after ended his speech, he mumbled something crowd didn¡¯t catch, and a big black door swayed slightly as it formed out of thin air.


    Headmaster stroke his beard looking at the 100 mages that brimming with anticipation and some with nervous expression, then sigh faintly. ¡°I will start now! Rio third-year, Lyla third-year, Bayne...¡±


    ¡°Have you found Lestat yet?¡± standing among the crowd of mages, Eva whispered in a low voice.


    ¡°No.¡± Replied Kana, her complexsion didn¡¯t look good.


    ¡°We are about to depart soon. He is first-year so it¡¯s not strange for him for not to be chosen to go to the dungeon.¡± Eva said as she looking at the mages that vanished as they step into the black door.


    ¡°I don¡¯t know, maybe.¡± Kana was so anxious that beads of sweat had started forming on her forehead, she then puff her cheek ¡°I didn¡¯t see him anywhere...he should at least come and see me off!¡±


    ¡°My my what we have here? I didn¡¯t expect you would be dating a commoner.¡± A young female chimed in from the crowd.


    Kana grit her teeth ¡°Cassandra, what do you what?¡±


    Cassandra is one of the nobles whose parent is always at each other throat with Kana¡¯s, so this kind of occurence is not the first time, and she always tried to create trouble for Kana whenever there¡¯s a chance.


    Cassandra snorted ¡°it¡¯s not what I want, but what you want. You are a disgrace to all the nobles out there. What your father would say if he heard about this? His daughter is dating a commoner.¡± Cassandra replied in a loud voice, attracting the crowd attention.


    ¡°Hey did you hear that?¡±


    ¡°Kana the disciple of the Flaming Saint is dating him!¡±


    ¡°This is a hot news!¡±


    ¡°Who is this Lestat they are taking about?¡±


    ¡°That Lestat who strip naked the second year student and hang him atop the headmaster statue in the dueling arena?¡±


    Cassandra flip her fan to cover her laughter ¡°Fufufu, he¡¯s a commoner and first year at that, you are dating a trash! I¡¯m sure your father would be angry beyond words. Aha ha ha ha.¡±


    ¡°You! Don¡¯t you dare to insult him!¡± A red cloud of rage swam across Kana''s vision.


    ¡°So what? he¡¯s just a commoner, a trash! And you a noble, had fallen deeply with that trash, very amusing¡±


    ¡°Shut up.¡± Eva standing protectively in front of Kana. her gaze was locked on Cassandra, she spoke in a cold voice ¡°And get lost, before I make you dissapear myself, I¡¯m sure you won¡¯t like it Cassandra.¡±


    ¡°Eva...you are here, fine.¡± Cassandra vanished into the crowd.


    ¡°There¡¯s no need to be angry with her provocation.¡± Eva whispered in Kana ears ¡°..I¡¯m sure Lestat will come soon, just wait here for him.¡±


    ¡°Hmph, whatever. I don¡¯t care about him.¡±


    ¡°It¡¯s very refreshing to see a maiden in love.¡±


    ¡°Wha- s-so what?! are you jealous?¡±


    ¡°Um.... no.¡±


    ¡°... There¡¯s hesitation in your voice.¡±


    ¡°Er, headmaster called my name. See you later.¡±


    ¡°Wait!! ... tch, she get away. Hah, I got myself a new rival, a tough one at that.¡± Kana sigh faintly. Unknown to Eva, now Kana didn''t see her as a friend, she saw her as a rival, a love rival.

 Chapter 13: Tomb Raider

    My heart stopped, sank, and then began pounding furiously. ¡°Shit!¡± I cried, and beat my sticky wand in a furious manner, hoping to sail clear of the disgusting sticky liquid that corroded my cloak. I clutched my chest, breathing deep to calm my nerves, it was dark, hot and hard to breath here.


    A shiny blue crystall poked out the top of the sticky liquid near the disgusting place, it must be the monster core. I curled my mouth, isn¡¯t this what they called a weakness? It¡¯s basically asking me ¡®hit this place please¡¯.


    I hated worms, no matter what form they came in. Nasty little creatures they were, always moving in a creepy way, have no fists or feet, most importantly, they are disgusting, and now I¡¯m inside the stomach of the creatures I hate the most!


    Even so this creature is not your ordinary monster, I saw the monster name and title from the description of red dot in my map, and it¡¯s no joke. No wonder it categorized as a strong creatures. It¡¯s skin is as hard as steel from the outside and the weakness is inside the body, the core.


    With a shake of my head I hurried on. I couldn¡¯t wait to get out of this place. Destroy the core or slice this worm in half from the inside is no big deal, it¡¯s very soft from here, like a tofu. I chuckled at the thought.


    A blue bolt of power flowed down my arm, through my fingers, and out the tip of the wand. It swirled like a snake, looking for a prey. the blue bolt cut through the core and penetrated the thick skin of the worm, a moment later the worm stopped moving.


    I crawl out from the cut I made from the worm ceiling, lifting my head only outside and broke free from the disgusting place. Finally a fresh air.


    ¡°Who are you?¡± a girl in a black armor said, not taking her eyes from me.


    My face frowned, contemplating her question and whether to answer or not. Finally the effort seemed too much for me.


    ¡°Argh,¡± I growled in my mind. I jump from atop the worm corpse that quite tall in height and landed with a soft thump in the dirt.


    I walked to the place far from that disgusting worm, hoping to clear myself from the smell, on the way, I counted four knights bodies. There are many heinous scar and wound on their chests and some have their body parts missing. I stop walking as the female knight stand in front of me, with sword in hand.


    She clenched her fist on the hilt ¡°I can take you on myself, don¡¯t get any funny ideas, answer me right now or I¡¯ll cut you down. Who are you ?¡±


    ¡°...Lestat, from Arachnid Academy.¡±


    ¡°What are you doing here?¡±


    I blinked ¡°Er, it¡¯s not funny really, teleported myself to the wrong place, spell gone wrong and end up here, that kind of stuuf,¡± I straightened the ends of my cloak in an attempt to settle myself.


    ¡°Teleport? And here of all place, do you think I¡¯ll believe your words?¡± Her lips twisted as she looked toward me, eyes glowing with threat of violence.


    ¡°Um, yeah. Well, I don¡¯t care about that, and technically I just saved your lives, you should thanks me, not pointing your sword at me. Beauty with no brains, andraste save us,¡± I said, then grabbing my sticky cloak and tossed it over my shoulders. splattering the remnant of sticky liquid to the ground.


    ¡°Andraste?¡±


    ¡°Hm? Ah, don¡¯t mind it.¡±


    ¡°Thanks for saving me.¡± She mumbled.


    ¡°..What? did you say something?¡± I pressed my hand to the side of my throbbing head.


    ¡°Nothing.¡±


    ¡°You were lucky I was here, should be dead along with your fellow knights and join them in the afterlife.¡±


    "I don¡¯t need your help. in the first place, you are the one who barge to my battle, I can defeat it myself!¡±


    I looked into her unyielding golden eyes ¡°Oh really? Even after all of your soldiers were killed by that same monster?¡±


    ¡°...¡±


    ¡°I saw their corpses inside it¡¯s stomach, and also many more near the rose bushes. Judging by their armor, must be a knights, elite knights.. but what the king¡¯s elite knights doing here? Aren¡¯t you supposed to clear the dungeon?¡±


    ¡°...¡±


    ¡°I don¡¯t think the king has many men to spare just to sent them on a picnic deep in the greenland forest, considering the grim situation the kingdom faced now.¡±


    ¡°...¡±


    ¡°Are you a rebel?¡±


    ¡°Of course not! We are here on a king¡¯s secret mission, so I can¡¯t tell you any of it.¡±


    ¡°Really? Secret mission to raid the ancient tomb?¡±


    ¡°...!¡±


    ¡°Heh, there is no need to be that surprised, afterall Hell Worm is a guardian monster, and it¡¯s guarding something that without doubt, out of ordinary, just like a dungeon, tomb, ancient tomb maybe? so there must be one nearby. I¡¯m guessing your presence here is no accident.¡±


    She raised her silver sword ¡°You know too much. I can¡¯t let you leave this place alive.¡±


    ¡°Well,¡± I said. ¡°How very generous of you.¡±


    ¡°Don¡¯t blame me for this, blame yourself for sticking your nose in a place you don¡¯t belong.¡±


    ¡°A¡¯haha you want to kill me? You need strength to do so. ¡±


    ¡°Tch, don¡¯t underestimate me mage! Majestic Crescent Slash!¡± she rushed to me then deliver powerful attack with her silver sword, the blow tear open the ground with a shockwave.


    ¡°Violent Woman.¡± I sniffed. My form distorted to a semi-corporal existence, her sword hit nothing, it¡¯s just come through my body like I was never there in the first place, there¡¯s no blood to be seen.


    ¡°What?! it can¡¯t be!¡± she screamed under her breath. My ethereal form allow me to bypass any obstacle, nullified any magical or physical attack, of course her attack won¡¯t be able to hurt me, but I can also make it to hit me as long as I willed for it to happen, but I still won¡¯t feel any pain, just like when I crashed into a tree on my fall before get eaten by a worm.


    Facing the dramatic increase in temperature, the female knight realized that something was wrong. Suddenly, beneath her feet flowed lava. A spark so hot it scorched the earth. If she even stay there for just one more second, she would get burned to a crips, however she used her sword to propel herself away from her previous place just before that happen, sacrificing her sword in the process, which now melted slowly into hot liquid.


    ¡°Trult a good reaction, I¡¯m impressed.¡±


    The female knight reached for the hidden blade she kept under her armor then saw my face and changed her mind. I knew my eyes assured people that the inside doesn¡¯t matched the outside, screaming I could killed you thousand times over and you still couldn¡¯t find out how you died and so the female knight put back her weapon.


    ¡°What are you?¡± She asked me, there were no emotions on her voice or face and no fear to betray a hint of what she felt.


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    I shrugged casually ¡°Just your ordinary first-year mage.¡±


    ¡°I¡¯d be a fool to believe you." she narrow her eyes at the youth. Even though she is a knight, she could understand that the spell casted by the youth in front of her is not ordinary one.


    ¡°Er, there¡¯s no need to praise me.¡±


    ¡°I¡¯m not.¡±


    I stopped pacing and smiled at her. ¡°Hm, that¡¯s it. I¡¯ll help you to raid the tomb.¡±


    ¡°...hah?¡±


    ¡°What with that weird face?¡±


    ¡°What are you planning to do?¡±


    I walked toward her, disheveled robe swishing in my wake. ¡°Nothing, I just want to help a beautiful knight in distress.¡±


    ¡°...Your expression doesn¡¯t match with your words.¡±


    ¡°Eh, that¡¯s cruel.¡±


    ¡°What¡¯s the catch?¡±


    I couldn¡¯t quite hide the smile twitching the corner of my full lower lip. ¡°How about a kiss?¡± I said with an exotic inflection that would ignited every cell in women body, it was inviting.


    ¡°Don¡¯t joke around.¡±


    I tsked, it¡¯s not works on her.


    ¡°I see... then, tell me what the king trying to do.¡±


    ¡°...No.¡±


    ¡°Were you hoping for me to tell you by pretending to help me?¡± Then she added dryly ¡°and then kill me afterwards.¡±


    ¡°Why bother?¡± I patted the back of my robe, pointing the wand at her chest. ¡°I could always make you spill everything, if I wish for it to happen.¡±


    ¡°...¡±


    ¡°You won¡¯t be able to survive in the tomb alone, your fellow knights are dead now, you need me.¡± A grin swept across my face.


    ¡°...¡±


    ¡°So, you¡¯ve made your mind? Don¡¯t worry, the truth is I just curious about his tomb.¡± Curious get the better of me, the fact that there¡¯s a tomb is really poke my interest. I wonder what will I find inside, I want to explore it. even so, I can¡¯t seem to find the tomb on my map no matter how hard I tried. This female knight here however, may know the whereabout of the tomb entrance.


    She avoided my eyes as she nodded ¡°Fine, I¡¯ll only take one thing from the tomb, as for the rest.. you can take whatever you want.¡±


    ¡°Heh, looked like you did your research well, I wonder what kind of treasure the king trying ot get his hands on.¡±


    ¡°There¡¯s no need for you to know.¡±


    She turned on her heel and walked toward the north part of the forest, taking a sword along with the scabbard from her fallen comrade.


    I rubbed my bloodshot eyes and sighed. ¡°I didn¡¯t get any sleep at all.¡±


    ¡°So what¡¯s your name lady?¡±


    ¡°Clara¡±


    ¡°Beautiful name, so Clara where is the the tomb entrance?¡±


    Crala ignored my question, and taking out a black stone from her armor then crushed it to pieces, a moment later the oak tree blurred then vanished, revealing a big entrance. this must be the tomb, well hidden by an illusion, it can even fool my map system. no wonder I can¡¯t locate it on my map.


    Carla unsheath her sword and made an absent-minded nod ¡°Follow me.¡± said Carla as she marched inside the tomb, cutting the vines that hanging in front of the entrance, blocking our path. I followed behind her.


    The path is narrow, glistening wet, it becoming more narrow the more we go deeper. We proceeded cautiously. I shook my head and began listening carefully to the noises echoing from the darkness, it¡¯s too quiet, something is not right. In front of us, there is an old stairs.


    We knew where to put ours feet, there is no choice but to go down the stairs. The air smells salty and bitter, like smoke mixed with seawater. When we turn down a corner, there are many remnants of some broken pillars,  short hallway stretched before us decorated by five scluptures on the right and the left holding the unlit torch.


    I paused by the first sclupture, then lit the torch with a flick of my wand, second, third, a moment later all ten torch is lit up, illuminating the dark hallway.


    ¡°We should rest here.¡±


    ¡°Fine, mage is really.. we barely walked ten minutes and you were close to the limit of your endurance." Carla sighed.¡±


    I ignored her complain ¡°So Carla, will you tell me now, the real reason why you are here?¡±


    ¡°Just like I said earlier, we are here on the king¡¯s secret missi-.¡°


    ¡°Oh really? How could a king sent a knight... or should I say the Princess on a dangerous mission?¡±


    ¡°....!¡±


    I couldn''t help but laugh ¡°Your expression is funny, this is the first time I saw it.¡±


    ¡°You knew?!¡±


    ¡°People lied, map system never did.¡± I said in a low voice that barely audible.


    ¡°What?¡±


    ¡°Ah, don¡¯t mind it.¡±


    Carla placed her smooth hand on the hilt ¡°How did you..¡±


    ¡°No need to be wary of me, I don¡¯t care what happen to this country, much less the internal strife within the royal family.¡±


    Carla retracted her gaze from me and stared at the huge door at the end of the hallway, which brought the odor of something similar to what her nostrils recognized. She hurrily said ¡°Stench of blood.¡± She followed this scent leading to the door in the center of hallway.


    Hearing what she said, I open my map, ¡°Be careful, there are six monster behind that door¡±


    ¡°Eh, you can tell?¡±


    ¡°More coming, eight.. no ten of them now.¡± I said dully.


    ¡°I can¡¯t believe a mage beat me, a knight, in sensing the enemy presence.¡±


    ¡°There¡¯s no need to be sad, at least your body is tougher than a mage.¡±


    ¡°... I can¡¯t really imagine a knight with body weaker than a mage.¡±


    ¡°Then you have much to learn, Carla. The world is more vast than you can imagine.¡±


    Suddenly, the door open widely on it¡¯s own with a loud bang, then there I saw flashes of red light, blinding even my eyes.


    Dammit! What the hell is this?!

 Chapter 14: In love with red

    I lifted my heavy eyelids, only to be met with more darkness. My vision returned as I adjusted my eyes to the darkness. My body was still weak from the lack of rest, I was planning to rest my body but this unexpected turn of event spoil my schedule. I groaned as I shifted my gaze to find Carla. It was then that I realized that this place is different.


    ¡°What¡¯s going on?¡± I asked Carla after dusting my cloak.


    ¡°I should be asking that of you,¡± Carla snapped.


    I stared down at the sight below my feet. The sight of magic cirlce lit my eyes. My palms spread flat against the dusty floor, then inspecting the magic circle carved on the floor after dusting it. ¡°Hm.. Interesting, this is teleportation circle.¡±


    ¡°What?¡± Carla gasped ¡°So are you saying we were teleported to other place?¡±


    ¡°That¡¯s seems to be the case.¡±


    Carla crouched down on the floor next to me. Her beautiful face a few inches away from mine. ¡°Can you activated this magic circle again?¡±


    ¡°Previously it¡¯s activated on it¡¯s own, and looks like it¡¯s one way teleportation circle.¡±


    ¡°One way?¡± she tilted her head.


    ¡°It means the two circle on different place have different function. The carving infused with some kind of gems, and 20-foot-diameter circle on the ground inscribed with sigils. it link our previous location to this circle according to sigil sequence, not the opposite.¡±


    I looked at mt map, surprised ¡°We are still inside The Tomb of Emperor Radamesh, but it¡¯s the main chamber of the tomb.¡±


    ¡°.. so we teleported to another part of the tomb, still I didn¡¯t expect you to know much about this place."


    ¡°It''s my ability, and it''s better if no one know about it. hmm.. Emperor Radamesh.. I saw a book about him, it¡¯s er,  The Glory of Radamesh.¡±


    ¡°You read it too?¡±


    ¡°No, not interested. so what about him?¡±


    ¡°He was rumored to be the strongest man under the heaven. Prior to the birth of the Radamesh Empire in the latter part of the first century, there had existed many empires among these were the Xeral, the Violenian, the Frailian, and the Warganian. All of these had great leaders yet, history tells us these great men were all slayed by the Emperor Radamesh.¡±


    ¡°Ho, what kind of person was he?¡±


    ¡°Emperor Radamesh was a tyrant, he would cry conspiracy, seize the property of an unsuspecting nobles, kings and murder him. There would never again have any real authority, only to endorse the wishes of the emperor, the real power was in the hands of the emperor, and to insure his own safety, he relied on his personal bodyguard, The Magi of Order, who, within a few decades, would wield power unforeseen even by the Emperor Radamesh. He also interfered with the religion of the empire. He rebuilt decaying temples, resurrected old religious ceremonies and assumed the title of Eminence of the Millenium. In short, the emperor¡¯s word became law.


    ¡°... impressive story.¡±


    ¡°Where are you doing?¡± Carla asked.


    ¡°To the next room,¡± I replied.¡°I found something interesting.¡± With that, I caught hold of Carla¡¯s hand and pulled her out of the room.


    ¡°How could you be so carefree, what if there are monster here?!¡±


    ¡°Don¡¯t worry there¡¯s no one in this floor.¡±


    ¡°How can you be so sure?¡±


    ¡°This way.¡±


    ¡°Wait, this is wrong, a mage is supposed to be behind the knight. Isn¡¯t our role reversed..?¡±


    ¡°Don¡¯t sweat the small detail. Turn left, then here..¡±


    Using map system as navigation, I locate a staircase, it went down. On the end of the passage was unused looking dining hall.


    ¡°How could there¡¯s a place like this inside the tomb...¡± Carla said, venturing inside the dining hall, amazed.


    ¡°Someone living in this place...¡± I said, tossing the sheet over the box, "You think people live in this place?" she asked tentatively.


    "Maybe, but it doesn¡¯t necessarily need to be human, check that kitchen cabinet.¡±


    Carla gave me a resigned look. "Are you hungry? Is that what you''re saying?"


    I shrugged, looking hopeful. "Aren''t you?" I rolled my eyes and walked to the cabinet near the kitchen table in the corner.


    "Interesting," I muttered, feeling around the tiny space. Not much left-a stale lump of bread, two peanuts and one potato.


    ¡°Someone is indeed here recently.¡±


    ¡°How could that be, who?¡±


    ¡°Who knows? Maybe the emperor still alive.¡± I shrugged and sipped a bottle of wine.


    ¡°Don¡¯t say the impossible, must be thieves or tomb raider. Wait, where did you get that wine?¡±


    ¡°I found it inside the cabinet.¡±


    ¡°Liar, I saw nothing of the sort.¡±


    I snorted. ¡°So what? It¡¯s not good to pry into others secret. Lets take a rest for real this time.¡± Grabbing a chair, I pressed my butt to it. ¡°I''m tired of walking, I will take a nap for a while, so you also should do the same.¡±


    ¡°I¡¯ll stand guard, those thieves might come back here.¡±


    I wolfed the potato, with my mouth still full of them I said ¡°No need, I already cast a barrier around us, this bread for you, take it.¡± It didn¡¯t take long for me to fall asleep as soon as I finish my potato.


    Minutes stretched into hours, ¡°Lestat,¡± she shouted, shaking me. ¡°Wake up¡±


    I jolted upright, the feet of my chair squeaked.


    My body dotted with sweat, I scanned my surroundings. I saw Carla in front of me.


    ¡°What¡¯s wrong?¡±


    ¡°I heard footsteps.¡±


    ¡°Really?... ah indeed, there are twenty of them.¡±


    ¡°I won¡¯t get surprised again...¡±


    True enough, a twenty man in leather armor could be seen coming towards us with sword hanging on their waist. I disabled my barrier. as they saw us here, their face looked excited beyond salvation.


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    ¡°Eh?  boys we have a babe here!¡±


    ¡°¡°Whoa!¡±¡±


    ¡°Hehe, c¡¯mon baby, let your papa teach you how to please a man.¡±


    ¡°Kakaka, let me do it too boss.¡±


    ¡°She¡¯s beauty, her mother must be more stunning, I wonder what her taste will be like.¡±


    ¡°We can find it out after we done with her, with daughter like this, the mother will reach a high price! Kuku.¡±


    When the thieves voice reached Carla¡¯s ears, her faces changed. In an instant, cold glare directed at the thieves was replaced with a furious anger and a very intense amount of killing intent emanated from her eyes as she stared fiercely at them. ¡°I¡¯ll kill all of you.¡±


    The man leading them had a look of lust then he lick his lips. A very intense amount of lust emanated from his eyes as he stared intensely at the beautiful knight with a hourglass body and big breast covered by a layer of black armor, ¡°you have no qualifications to speak such a thing, just be obdient and suck my candy, Kahahaha.¡±


    As the words left his mouth, suddently one of the thieves let out a muffled sound, his eyes full of disbelief, then crumpled to the ground with a hole in his neck. The surrounding become quiet, silence filled the room for a moment.


    ¡°Useless shit. Someone, go and catch her, and I¡¯ll give a chance whoever succeed to taste her after I get bored.¡± As the man barked out an order, the surrounding thieves didn¡¯t hesitate for a moment as each one of them draw their weapons and charged at Carla from every possible angle.


    ¡°Also kill that smiling guy, disfigure his face and cut his head. I hate his face!¡±


    I let out a sigh as my body flickered out of sight, the weapon from my enemies all hit nothing but air, for I have used invisibility and sat in the chair far from them. The thief who tried to attack me filled with confusion as there¡¯s no sign of me anywhere, in the end he change his target to Carla.


    My eyes glued to the scene before me. This is a chance to see the extent of Carla ability. I also interested in seeing a fight between warriors. Well, I¡¯ll make sure nothing bad happen to her,


    but soon I changed my mind. She doesn¡¯t need my help at all.


    Carla rapidly moved back and forth, and everytime she move her sword, blood is spilled, flowing like a waterfall. her movement is very smooth as she lashed out with her sword stabbing the thieves in the throat, her sword moved nimbly, fast enough for them to die without knowing it. Each one of them crumpled to the ground as they were killed.


    ¡°What a fast sword!¡± I spoke out with some surprise.


    Although Carla was against over a twenty men, the difference between the two sides was far too great. In my eyes, it had become a massacre, it was almost as if the thieves weren¡¯t even fighting back since they were incapable of touching even her armor. With the thrust of Carla¡¯s sword, another two men met a tragic death. Just in five minutes, seventeen people died to her sword, the group of twenty thieves fell down to 3 men remaining.


    ¡°Hiii, monster!


    ¡°What are you standing here for! Hurry and kill her!¡±


    ¡°B-but¡±


    ¡°Fuck, just kill her or I¡¯ll kill you myself!¡± the boss kick the two remaining subordinate. Fear filled his mind, to think the beautiful woman that he think only as plaything would be so terrifying.


    The slaughter continued for a little longer as the remaining thieves crumbled to the ground the moment they made a contact with the female knight. it was just for a moment, but I saw her smiling as she kill her enemies dyeing her sword in blood.


    Carla had finally come to a stop after killed the two thief leaving only their leader. At this moment, the entire dining hall was littered with the dead bodies of the thieves. Each one of the bodies had a single wound on their bodies that let blood flow onto the ground, dying it a red like a river of blood.


    The boss of the thieves spoke with a trembling voice, ¡°Oh great and mighty knight, please spare me, I¡¯ll do anything...¡±


    Carla¡¯s cold gaze turned even darker as she stepped toward the thief boss. Each step she took made the man even more nervous before Carla said, ¡°You should have never say anything about my mother.¡± Seeing how the female knight was approaching him, the man took a step back and running with all his might.


    Carla Instantly appearing in behind him, her sword stabbed straight for the man¡¯s head, but surprisingly her sword wedged into a wall made of ice that suddenly formed betwen her and the leader of thieves. She tried to destroy the ice wall but it surprisingly hard and showed no sign of being destroyed.


    She moved her gaze to me, ¡°You, what are you doing?¡± Carla¡¯s eyes pierced coldly straight into my eyes.


    ¡°Letting him escape?¡± I said while munching the leftover peanut, ignoring her towering killing intent.


    ¡°Let me pass, or else..¡±


    ¡°Don¡¯t worry, I just want to find out how he could get into this place.¡±


    ¡°... I don¡¯t believe you, what are you doing earlier? didn¡¯t help me at all. You just stay there..watching us. Maybe you are their comrade..¡±


    Looking at the escaping thief, I sneered ¡°How could that be possible? Don¡¯t you think it¡¯s weird for a weaklings like them to be in this tomb, They are just a pawn, I¡¯ll let you have more fun, more blood you can spill until you drown yourself in it.¡±


    ¡°...¡±


    I look deep into her eyes ¡°You love it don¡¯t you? The red, a pasionate color of blood...¡±