I Just Want A Peaceful Life

by Stayrr

( avg 45k ) What if the strongest person reincarnated to another world. Will he keep pursuing his dream to have a peaceful life? “Ding.. The Idle system is fully integrated.” “Wait… Why am I keep getting stronger!” Or will he conquer this new world? Seek and stay tune Angus's adventure in another world.

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"Vergil, I think you need to explain something" said the person behind Vergil.

"Errr… E-Evening, Aunt Hersha." replied Vergil nervously.

"Oh... so you know what time is now. Tell me my dear nephew, Why did you come back this late?!!" said Aunt Hersha chillingly.

"Hiii… I am sorry, Aunt Hersha. B-But… It's Angus's fault that he is…" as Vergil tried to explain.

*Bang* Before he could explain, he was already getting knocked out by his aunt's fist and flying seeing the star.

"Now, where is my baby boy Angus? Yuhu.. Come over here to your lovely aunt." as Aunt Hersha tries to catch up with Angus.

During the time her aunt got preoccupied with Vergil, Agnus took some food from the dining table and sneaked around to the basement of the townhouse.

The basement area is the same area where he sparred with his father before. This room is heavily enchanted so Angus decides to hide in this place for the time being. Even his aunt will hardly perceive him inside this room.

Eating his dinner at the training area alone, Angus feels now is the time to open the mysterious box. As he is alone and nothing to do for the time being.

Then, he took out the mysterious box from his wristwatch storage. Looking at it, he takes out his swirl patterned bracelet from his left hand. Agnus put it near it. Soon, he feels that the mana aura around the box fluctuates a little bit.

Still, it didn't change anything even after Angus tried to put them together. After a series of tries, he couldn't get any reaction from the box.

Leaving with no choice, he decided to forcefully open the box. Taking a deep breath and calming his mind, Angus pulls out his mana restricting bracelet and takes out his weighted clothes.

Judging by the hardness of the unknown material it's made, Angus feels he needs to use all his strength to open this box. Controlling his mana and his breathing rhythm, he focuses all his mana on his fist [Iron Fist].

Making a strong martial art stance, Angus punched the box at once [Dynamic Punch]. *Bam* *Bam* *Bam* He may seem to launch one punch but the moment it almost touches the box it turns into many fists and hits various locations on the box.

After a while, he found that all his punches leave no harm to the mysterious box, not even a scratch. The box is still like before unscathed.

However, under Angus's [Mana Eye] he found that the box absorbed all his mana that concentrated in his fist. Intriguing by this discovery, he tried to send mana towards the box.

On the contrary to his expectation, the box didn't absorb and respond to the mana he sent. Testing more about the box, he found that only by using a highly concentrated mana skill that the box absorbs it. Otherwise, it will stay still.

Then, Angus keeps hitting the box continuously using many high mana consumption skills. But, the box keeps absorbing it like a bottomless hole. Besides absorbing his mana, it didn't have any change.

"Haaa… Ha… what a mysterious box." said Angus as he recovered his mana.

Suddenly, Angus felt a presence behind him.

"Catch you. My baby boy." said Aunt Hersha while hugging Angus's body.

After almost dying from the strong grip and hug by his aunt, Angus finally could take a breath and back to talk with a huge struggle.

"Aunt Hersha, let me go." said Angus with struggle.

"Ohh… it seems my baby boy is stronger now. But there is nothing that could separate you from my love." said Aunt Hersha while hugging Angus at her big 'mountain'.

'Stupid cow woman, you are going kill me.' curses Angus inwardly while keeping struggle from her aunt's grip.

On the other hand, Aunt Hersha keeps her grip strong and makes Angus feel like a plushy toy. After a while, her aunt reluctantly releases her strong grip but still makes Angus sit on her lap while hugging him.

"Ha… Ha… You almost killed me!!" grumbled Angus while finally breathing normally again.

"B-But, that's your fault. You are touring with Vergil and leave me behind to do your father's paperwork." said Aunt Hersha while hugging Angus.

Finally, Aunt Hersha noticed the strange box that emits mana aura in front of them. "Angus, what is this box?" asked her Aunt seriously.

"Ah.. this box is the one I bought from the auction this afternoon." replied Angus.

"Ohh… So, this is that box. Did you need my help to open it?" asked the woman.

"Yeah, I already tried…" as Angus explained all he had done to it.

Angus didn't bother to hide his strength since her aunt must know his real strength from hugging him to almost death before. In those desperate times, Angus unconsciously fights back with all his strength.

But, Aunt Hersha herself is kind of a monster with six grade strength and could restrain Angus easily. Looking at his aunt's nonchalant attitude towards his strength, he knows that his aunt must also know about his real strength from his father a long time ago.

After explaining about the box and what he found about it. His Aunt is also interested in the mysterious box.

Inspecting the box for a moment, "Hmm… Interesting. Now, why don't you show me how you punched the box before."

"Okay." replied Angus shortly before taking a position to punch the box.

Gathering mana in his hand, [Dynamic Punch] *Bam* *Bam* *Bam* series of hitting sound heard after Angus first reached the box.

*Clap* *Clap* *Clap* "That's such a strong skill and power. I bet no ordinary first-grade combatant could survive that attack. Huhuhu… To think my baby boy will grow up this fast" as Aunt Hersha faking her sadness.

Ignoring her aunt's sadness, "So, what did you find out?" replied Angus coldly.

"Ehh… did my baby boy angry? Fufufu… Anyway, you are right about before. It seems it absorbs high concentration mana attacks like bottomless holes. Now, let your aunt try something." as her Aunt took her great axe from her space storage.

Without wasting any moment, Aunt Hersha cleaves the box [Axe Art - Splitting Blast]. *Boom* A huge shockwave from the clash between the box and the great axe.

After a moment the box still left unscathed. This surprised both Angus and his aunt.

"Hee… I believe I put an attack that is enough to kill any grade five people. This box may be a real deal and contain some sort of treasure. You said it also reacts to a bracelet?" asked Aunt Hersha seriously.

"Yes, its aura seems to flicker a little bit the moment it senses the bracelet." said Angus while showing the bracelet.

Then, his aunt immediately took the bracelet away. After inspecting for a while, "Interesting…" said Aunt Hersha before trying to cleave the bracelet in the air with her great axe. *Boom*

Angus didn't expect sudden movement and was surprised by it. But, the bracelet also left unscathed despite getting hit by the great axe.

Looking at this, "H-How??" surprised Angus.

"As I guess, both of them absorb high concentration mana but at a different rate. The bracelet seems to also absorb high concentration mana but at a smaller scale than the box. It's like comparing a big hole and a small hole."

"Also from what I perceive, it seems the bracelet transfers the mana to the box after absorbing it. Besides that, I don't know the use or how to open the box since even my attack left it unscathed."

"Probably only the seven grade people could open it. But I am also not too sure about it." explain Aunt Hersha to Angus while giving back his bracelet.

Angus put back on the bracelet on his left wrist. Suddenly, he felt his mana absorbed at a minuscule rate. If not because of his high perception and absolute control over his mana, he may not discover this.

Since he didn't feel this way before, then it means the bracelet changed after interacting with the box or it because of his aunt's attack.

Whatever it is, he feels that it is connected to the mysterious box. After thinking for a while, Angus decides to let it be since the consumption rate is not bothering him at all. His breathing technique could regenerate mana more than what it consumes.

After Angus got dressed, both of them went back to the manor upstairs while Angus kept getting harassed by his aunt. Arriving at the manor, Angus could see the mummy version of Vergil.

It seems he got some punishment from his aunt. Fortunately, his aunt is spoiling Angus a lot and didn't give any punishment to him.

There are also still a few days before it's time to go back to the academy. Otherwise, Vergil will miss the start of the new term like Angus did during the last break.

For a person like Vergil who is in the first ranking in his year, it is important to become a role model for the other student. Unlike Angus who always does what he wants, Vergil needs to pay attention to his behaviour as the first rank and high noble.

After chatting for a while, Angus went back to his room while preventing his aunt from sleeping with him. He didn't hate his aunt, especially a beautiful woman like Aunt Hersha thought her age is questionable.

However, he also didn't want to die early while being suffocated by two huge mountains.

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Two years have passed since Angus bought the mysterious box from the Golden Trade's auction. He also understands a few things about the mysterious box and the bracelet.

He found that the strange bracelet could also absorb any excessive mana he releases during the use of a skill. Normally, any mana based skill always produces excessive mana consumption towards the surrounding.

The higher the mana consumption, the higher its excessive mana. This thing is natural and could be prevented at all. Of course, an expert like Angus has a little excessive mana when using skill since he still retains his mastery over skill from his past life.

After absorbing the excessive mana, it will transfer it to the box no matter how far it is through some unknown means. What Angus knows is that all the excessive mana contained inside the box become part of it.

Angus also found that it could absorb any excessive mana produced inside the manual battle system. This makes him certain that the manual battle system is real and could get him killed for real.

Fortunately, he always plays safe during all his battles inside the manual battle. Although it is playing safe, it didn't mean he will take an easy route and make his progress slow. Rather Angus became harsher in his training.

During these two years, Angus has a lot of progress. All of this could be looked at from his stats.

Host: Angus Victory

Age: 10 Years Old

MP: 100/100

Heritage chi: ???

Strength: 20

Dexterity: 20

Intelligence: 30

Vitality: 32

Soul Point: 199

As the point gets higher, the conversion rate for each point is higher. Passing the 20 marks, it needs 40 soul points. Passing the 25 mark it needs 80 soul points. To pass the 30 marks it needs ridiculously 160 soul points.

Even though Angus only increases his stat once a month to control his advance, he feels that his soul points never enough. Now, he just barely has enough soul points for an emergency case.

He also found that his vitality could be increasing by one every month due to his body growth. However, his strength and dexterity are stuck at the twenty marks.

No matter what he did, he still couldn't make it to this bottleneck. From what he knows, the old dwarf Balrug says that he finally reached the limit of his physical strength as a kid.

After that, the old dwarf didn't say anything and told him to wait until his puberty ended. In Firuman, there are a lot of different kinds of races from orc, elf, dwarf, halfling, giant, demon, etc. All of these races have different ages of maturity according to their race.

So, commonly people could be considered as adults if they reach puberty. Be it 10 years human or 50 years old elf they will be considered as an adult as it is their puberty age.

Puberty is not only a symbol of adulthood but also a sign that one's body finally fully developed. As Angus's body finally almost developed, he now could learn secret techniques from the old dwarf Balrug.

From what he inquired, the technique is very dangerous that could kill its user if they couldn't do it. The technique is called Gate of life.

After a person reaches their physical limit, they need to break through their limit to increase further. This limit could also be called the Gate of life.

By opening the gate of life, they could increase their limit further until they reach another limit. No one knows how many gates could be opened. On the ancient record of the dwarves race, the highest gate someone successfully opened was five.

However, that same person died after trying to open the sixth gate of life. Some speculated that it is like mana core grade that could be upgraded until seven. But, to open the gate of life is many times more difficult and dangerous than upgrading mana core.

This is because increasing physical strength is hard when it reaches a certain point. The first requirement for opening the Gate of Life is to reach their limit. If Angus didn't have his system, he also feels he will reach his current physical strength like now.

Moreover, failing using the technique means dead unlike upgrading mana core which only dealt few backlashes except for upgrading grade six above.

Because of the danger of the technique, Angus needs to wait for his body and mind to be fully developed and ready before using it.

Now, Angus is having an afternoon nap inside the Spring Dorm's garden after attending all his courses during the day.

Not far from him, two teenagers are facing each other and ready to fight. These two teenagers are Ian and Princess Jayna.

During these two years, the princess managed to learn [Heart of Perseverance, which made her have absolute control over her emotion. This way she will hardly get into the [Possession] state and create destruction nearby.

The [Possession] state is a kind of blessing and curse. It could increase the user combat capability by a huge amount but also kind of dangerous if not fully controlled.

This is the reason why many people from the Heart Kingdom enemy try to assassinate her many times. She may not be a threat as she could not control it for now, but at a later date, she could even have combat power as strong as a seventh-grade combatant.

After learning [Heart of Perseverance, Princess Jayna could control her moody feeling more. Combined with the technique Angus taught her before, she has now become more refined as a lady.

However, her passion for being number one is still there. During all these years, no one could truly match her except for Angus.

After all this year the princess still could never land a hit on this lazy boy. Even using sneak and underhanded attack also failed her.

There is one time, when the princess, infuriated by Angus's nonchalant behaviour and decides to ambush him at a small location. But, like always, he could avoid and dodge all her traps and attack flawlessly like the god of fortune protecting him.

What the princess didn't know is Angus already anticipated all the traps and attacks before planning his movement to dodge it which makes it look like an accident or luck.

As for Ian, despite not being matched with princess Jayna's strength and talent, he never gives up and challenges her occasionally for the first rank.

A glance at the two kids that are ready to battle each other, 'Hmm… Too careless.. so many openings, If I were their opponent, they would be done in the blink of an eye.'

'Well, none of that matters to me. Besides, they are still kids. It will be bullying if I fight them.' Thought Angus before going back to sleep.

Although Angus is very strong, he didn't like to abuse his power. He also thought that fighting his peers was a waste of time and bullying them. So, all these years he kept his peaceful life while avoiding any conflict or battle.

On the other hand, the two kids are ready to battle. At this moment, Princess Jayna notices that Angus is around the area through a side glance. Noticing that Angus keeps sleeping ignoring her, makes her kind of infuriated.

After the accident in the tea party two years ago, she knows from her head butler Darius that Angus is strong, probably stronger than herself. Then, she tried to challenge him many times which he always dodges by forfeiting.

She feels like that battling her is a waste of time. Because of that she even tried to ambush him many times but all of them always failed.

Left with no choice she hoped that by flaunting her power she could somewhat get recognition from Angus. She wants to show Angus that she is a girl that could not be ignored. This is also the reason she is always infuriated by his attitude.

'Huff… Calm down, Jayna. You just need to beat this commoner like usual.' as Jayna calms her mind while silently using [Heart of Perseverance].

Meanwhile, Ian also notices Jayna's behaviour. Looking like he is being ignored before the fight makes him more infuriated.

"This time I will beat you! And take the first rank title!" said Ian.

"In your dream, commoner. You there start the fight immediately I don't have time all day." said Princess Jayna proudly.

At this time, Axel, who is one of the residents inside the Spring Dorm didn't have any choice and dragged into being the referee.

After looking both of them ready, "Begin!!" [Axel]

Both of them immediately clash with each other in close combat. Punching, dodging, parrying as they keep exchanging blow one with each other.

Still, the princess constitution and physical power are stronger than Ian. [Possession] also somehow enhances the capabilities of her body and makes her stronger.

Ian notices that he is losing in close combat as more bruises appear on his body while the princess could dodge and parry his attack easily. He flipped back away to make a distance between both of them.

Not letting her 'sandbag' getaway, she pursues Ian. At this moment, Ian managed to quick cast a spell [1st Circle - Spark].

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[1st Circle - Spark]. A small electric current shot towards Princess Jayna at fast speed. She feels like being tased and makes her body a little bit numb.

Using this opportunity, Ian launches a barrage of attacks at Jayna. Still feeling numb all over her body from the previous attack, Jayna could only parry all his attack.

After a series of clashes, Jayna flares up her mana and easing the numbness in her body. Then, she launches a counter-attack [Fire punch].

Looking at the familiar incoming skill, Ian could only dodge it as he already experienced the power of Jayna's [Fire punch] many times before.

Still, Ian dodging skill is like child play compared to Angus. Jayna already used to try catching up with Angus. So, she could easily predict Ian's next movement. After the first dodge, Ian gets punched in his gut and flown away.

Because she is not holding back, Ian immediately got a knockout after landing on the ground far away.

After defeating Ian, "Hmph.. commoner like you should know your place." said Princess Jayna proudly

Then, she immediately leaves while feeling a little bit frustrated at the battle. Although she won, she also almost lost at the battle. She didn't expect Ian to learn lightning elemental spells and got caught out of the guard by it.

She knows that Ian has an affinity with water since he often used water spells before. Now, he could also use lightning spells and cast them rapidly during the battle. This means Ian has a dual elemental affinity. This shows the greatness of Ian talent.

Meanwhile, She feels like her strength is stagnated after all the training she has done. She feels that Ian could catch up with her anytime.

Lightning elemental is one of the elementals that could cause high destructive damage. But, it is also hard to control and have high mana usage. Still, it is quite destructive and effective in combat than other elemental.

Frustrated by this, she could only walk silently back inside the dorm. She could only meditate and try forming her mana core to increase her strength further.

'*Sigh* I need to calm my mind first.' thought Jayna.

Looking at Angus ignoring her battle just now, she begins to feel more frustrated and hurried her foot to go inside the dorm. Otherwise, she will lose her mind.

Meanwhile, Angus is still sleeping peacefully but he is also looking at the battle silently. He is also surprised that Ian has dual affinity since it is quite rare.

Even he only has one elemental affinity. If it is not because of his superb mana control and high intelligence, he will have a hard time using other elemental spells.

As a body control freak, Angus always prioritizes control over anything. This way he could easily change the mana nature to any kind of element like having a high affinity with it.

With enough control, he could manipulate his mana into anything he wanted as long as he knows about it. This is also one of the reasons he always prioritizes control.

Unfortunately, the majority of the people in the Heart kingdom only has an affinity with fire elements. So, he rarely meets another elemental combatant besides having fire affinity.

'Looks like I will start to 'beat' Ian from now to get a book skill from him.'

After all these years, Angus found that book skills not only contain information about the respective skill/spell but also the person's understanding of elements.

Each different person has a different understanding of element and their skill/spell. At first, he hardly perceived this as his brain could not process all this small information.

After his intelligence passed 20 marks, not only he could perceive this but also he felt like practising the spell as the book owner did. Although it is still kind of blurry, he feels he will need more intelligence to grasp this.

Fortunately, he still does not get a book skill other than from a student at this academy. Otherwise, his brain will be fried from experiencing all this stuff. The book skill could also drop from the same system as the opponent improves in real life.

Angus feels like stealing their technique but he knows that this may come in handy in this chaotic world.

This is also the reason why he is always increasing his intelligence every month, despite now he almost has a photographic memory skill.

At the 15 marks intelligence, he could ace all his academic courses easily. Now his intelligence is at 30 which is double than before. It almost makes him have something like photographic memory, a faster-thinking process, and precise multitasking skill.

If it is an academy in his past life, he will get the first rank easily. However, in Royal Academy, they ranked the student heavily based on combat capability.

During these two years, Angus just showed his power to be barely enough to pass the test exam. Fortunately, the examination is easy like one must show skill or spells to the examiner. Then, the examiner will score them based on the student's performance.

For Angus who has almost absolute control over his body and mana, he could easily manipulate his performance to look ordinary or somehow below average in academy standard.

After enjoying the sunset and chatting with Millie who is coming to tend the garden for a while, he goes back to the dorm.

Meanwhile, Angus having his peaceful life at the academy, at the Dark Forest, there is a series of constant explosions from the inner area. *BOOM* *BOOM*

"We finally found it! Begin the chanting!!" Shout an elf that runs towards a group of people..

Then, another elf began chanting while writing a strange symbol on the ground. Not long after that, heard a loud roaring sound. *ROARR*

Like responding with the roar, the thick miasma fog is gathered at one place before moving towards the surrounding like a hurricane that destroys anything.

"Everyone, give it your all. We must hold back! It's a do or die!!" command one of the elves in a haggard appearance.

Without wasting any moment all the gathered people using their respective spell, [3rd Circle - Rock Wall] [3rd Circle - Wall of Thorn] [Enchanting - Endurance]

A huge rock wall appears from the ground along with a series of Thorny plantations. Then, a bluish aura encased the wall and strengthened it. The rock wall withstands the powerful miasma attack. Before they could relieve, A bunch of monsters from all sides attacked them.

"Give me some time." said Duke Jacob as he chanted his spells.

"Hold them back!! Don't let them pass you!!" Command Sylvan while he charged towards the monster wave.

[Axe Art - Whirlwind]

[Sword Art - Wheeling Slash]

[Bow Art - Scatter Shot]

[Martial Art - Chain Combo]

[3rd Circle - Freezing Blast]

[3rd Circle - Solar Pulse]

*BOMM* *BOMM* A variety of skills and spells launch to the incoming monster and create destruction towards the surrounding. But, monsters keep coming like an endless tide.

"Tch.. I don't have enough mana." said the black person with a horn.

"Hold on a little bit.. Just a little bit of Manatium then Voila." said the small halfling before throwing the bottle on the ground. [Alchemist - Mana Zone Potion]

Abrupt mana immediately gathers into the surrounding people and repels the miasma fog. The people nearby feel that their mana is instantly filled.

"Good Job!!" Said one of the orcs before increasing his killings rate.

"Now is our time to shine." *Clang* *Clang* *Clang* The gremlins assemble something quickly that resembles a magical cannon. [Mechanical Engineering - Plasma Machine Gun]

Then, one of the gremlins uses it to start shooting at the monster wave. "RARARARARARA…" *BAM* *BAM* *BAM* as the machine keep killing all the nearby monster

At this moment, a strange sound was heard from various sides. *GRRT* *ROAR* *FIAAKK*

"Fifth Grade monster.. INCOMING!!" warned of the elf.

A series of root tendril appears on the ground and attacks the people nearby. Another variety of miasma based attack launched at the people and killed some of them. The situation is very chaotic like a warzone.

"Damn.. How much longer?!" said one of the beastkin after looking at his comrade dying.

"Not long.. Few more minutes." said Sylvan after looking at the nearby friend who kept chanting non-stop.

At this moment, "Everyone falls back!!" said Duke Jacob after finishing his long chant.

Then, he raises his arm to the sky and creates a gigantic size magic circle. After everyone gathered and fell back, without wasting any moment he activated the spells. [6th Circle Spell - Rain of Fire]

From the gigantic magic circle in the sky appear countless huge fireballs raining down towards the approaching monster. After a while, it leaves a devastating area but the scorched area immediately filled with monsters again.

Looking at the endless tide of monsters, everyone feels desperation. After casting this spell the duke also falls exhausted.

"My turn!!" said another black-skinned man with a horn. The man makes the same gesture as duke Jacob and makes a gigantic magic circle in the sky [6th Circle Spell - Thunder Zone]

*ZZZTTZZ* *ZZZTT* *ZZTZZ* The gigantic magic circle produces lightning towards all the monsters in the perimeter and kills all of them leaving the only wasteland nearby. But, once again all the monsters keep coming like an endless tide.

During this moment, the rock walls crumble from behind it appear a gigantic size miasma fog giant.

"Damn.. That is the Monster Overlord."

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"Damn.. That is the Monster Overlord." Everyone immediately noticed the pressure of its release.

Looking at the appearance of Monster Overlord, some combatants immediately release their all-out attack.

[Axe Art - Frenzy Chop]

[Spear Art - Piercing Hawk]

[Sword Art - Final Slash]

[Martial Art - One Point Strike]

All of their devastating strikes only make the gigantic miasma fog dissipate for a while before it forms back as nothing happened.

"That is not its real body!!" said one of the mages inside the group.

After forming back, it gathered the miasma around its mouth and ready to shoot towards the group.

"Incoming!! Don't let it fire its attack!!" said one of the elf.

"Take this… [5th Circle - Circle of Winterland]." as one of the people finished casting her spell.

A chilling frost aura encased the group and freezing all the monsters that tried to approach it. The gigantic miasma also got frozen and stopped gathering the miasma around.

Although it is only a 5th Circle spell, the high circle ice elemental spell is much more destructive being used in areas such as this. Because it could create a chilling frost aura that rendered other monsters into frozen statues.

But, it only gives them a break for a while before the ice statue cracks and the monsters tide back to charge at them.

During this precarious moment, "Hurry, gather over here!! I can't hold it for too long." said the elf that held blue thick mana that connected towards the symbol on the ground.

Hearing this, the group immediately gather together towards the elf. At this moment, the giant miasma breaks the ice and fires the accumulated miasma [Miasma Blast].

Fortunately, everyone quickly gathered around. Before the [Miasma Blast] touched them, they were engulfed in thick blue mana and gone from that place [6th Circle Spell - Mass Teleportation].

In the middle of Roundel City, a huge mana fluctuation came out from the air. From it appeared a crack in the space and huge mana surged up. A few moments later, a group of people from various kinds of race appear out of nowhere.

All of them immediately feel motion sickness from the teleportation and try to hold back to not puking around. Looking at the allied investigation team, the surrounding guard lowered their weapon.

"Fuhhh… We finally made it." said one of the halflings.

"I will never go back to that dreadful place ever again." said one of the humans.

Everyone felt relieved that they finally made it back. After two full years of investigating inside the inner Dark Forest, they finally made it back to the Civilization Society alive.

During these two years, they are constantly on the alert and fighting almost every day. Some of them even died because of many unforeseen dangers or surrounded by monsters. But, all of it is worth it as they finally gather some information on the new Monster Overlord.

Looking that they are back at the Roundel City, some of them immediately close their eyes and rest on the spot. The investigation team may consist of strong combatants but there is a lot of danger inside the inner area of Dark Forest.

Meanwhile, inside the inner area of Dark Forest, the monster overlord realizes that its intruders managed to getaway. *ROOARR*

After the roaring sound could be heard all over the Dark Forest, the low-grade monsters inside the Dark Forest begin to move to attack the nearby city relentlessly.

Outskirt of the Black Forest near the boundary of Heart Kingdom, Black Fortress, the first defensive line against monsters from the Dark Forest.

Inside of the quarter, General Borkin's doing some paperwork suddenly heard a roaring sound from the Black Forest.

'What's that sound?! I have a bad premonition about this.' as the dwarf goes out to the fortress's wall.

At the fortress's wall, he found a blue-haired person looking at the forest. He seems like could see everything in the forest.

"General… Prepare to fight. the monsters are coming." said the Duke before he went back to his room.

"Y-Yes, my lord." replied the general dwarf shortly.

"You hear that, lad. Sound the alarm!! Hurry, move your ass and get into the position!! We have monsters to slay!" command general Borkin toward the other soldiers.

Hearing this, the soldier sounds the alarm and announces the news all over the fortress. Not long after that, countless monsters of various kinds appear in the outskirts of the forest.

Looking at the huge Black Fortress, they begin to charge into it like a mindless beast. Then, the sound of magical cannon, projectile, and artillery is released towards the approaching monsters. *BOM* *SHHTS* *BOM*

The dwarf general along with the duke and soldier already standby on the wall waiting for the survive monster to climbing the huge black-coloured wall.

Soon, the fight between monsters and Civilian Society happens once again. Not only in the Black Fortress but all cities and civilian settlements near the Dark forest are attacked by countless monsters at the same time.

The Dark Forest become a sort of forbidden place for the time being as the monster becomes more active than usual.

While the monsters from the dark forest create chaos towards the surrounding, the leaders of the Civilian Society once again have the emergency meeting inside the Roundel City.

Inside the meeting palace, the elf leaders sit on their chairs. But, only a few leaders of the Civilian Society come and sit at their respective chairs while most of them are empty.

Because of the urgency, not all of the leaders could come to the Roundel City at the moment of notice.

To anticipate this problem, the elf race gives a long-distance communication device to all the leaders. After waiting for a while, a projection of the leaders appears in their respective seats.

Looking that all the projection of leaders appear, "Alright, let's begin the meeting." said Vandor Windspear as one of the elf leader.

"Sylvan, please show us what you got." said Vandor.

Then, Sylvan brings a memory crystal and projects it in the middle of the table. He begins to narrate his story about his journey during these two years inside the Dark Forest.

After hearing the story, "So, you are saying that this monster overlord is not only capable of leading the other monster but also intelligent enough to counter our technology device." said one of the leaders.

"Yes, they seem to have some experience with our mana technology and even Jammed our communication device many times." replied Sylvan

Hearing Sylvan reply, all the leaders begin to consider this new Monster Overlord again. All this time, the monster could easily be suppressed because of the advancement of technology on the Civilian Society side.

If somehow the technology is rendered useless in the fight against monsters, that means it is one of the advantages on the Civilian Society side is gone.

This may be simple but it could create a lot of trouble during the war. This trouble will lead to more casualties during the war. From the leaders perspective, during the war casualty may not be avoided.

But if they receive too many casualties during their war between monsters, their military strength will also drop significantly. In the worse case, their kingdom or country may collapse because of the instability.

After processing Sylvan explanation, "From your story you said you could not get into the near it because it could immediately detect you. Then, could you explain why almost half of the investigation team die?" said one of the leaders furiously.

"Yeah.. Is this not some kind of scheme from the elf kingdom to cut our force more?" provoked the other leaders.

Then, more people try to berate Sylvan. Before one of the elf leaders said, "Do you think we need a scheme to destroy all of you?"

Hearing this, the other leader began to silent, "Don't mistake our race for kindness with weakness. If not because our elf soldier as the team leader acts as the team leader this time, none of your delegations will survive on this mission." said the elf leader.

Before anyone could reply, "If we want, we could just leave this new monster overlord to destroy and trample all your so-called kingdom into nothingness Before we kill it at our front door."

"Few races and tribes already push us to make this choice in the past. What makes you think we will not make the same choice like that again."

So, tell me, leaders, did you want us to leave this monster overlord for you to fight your own or you want us to fight with you?" said one of the elf leaders.

"Master Luke, please calm down." Vandor holds the angry elf leaders.

"As all of you know almost half of the investigation team is dead. Few of them are also from our race and one of them is Master Luke's son. So, please mind your own words carefully."

"Also we elf race is very serious about this matter. Every single elf in our community is precious and we just lost a few of them. Before this, we already met on our own to let the new monster overlord or not."

"Now, leaders, should we participate in this war or leave you be? Also if you want us to participate? What could you offer us? "

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"What could you offer us?" said Vandor

After that, none of the leaders dares to scheme against the elf leader again. At first, some of the leaders thought that they could push the elf race to handle the monster overlord alone by using the investigation team situation.

Some of the greedy ones even want to take advantage of the elf race. However, they truly didn't understand the nature of this long-lived race.

The elf race may seem uninterested in worldly stuff and peace-loving. But, their true nature is like a sleeping dragon. The moment someone touches their reversed scale, they will only create destruction towards the surrounding.

Moreover, their long lifespan made them wisest among the others. In front of them, all the plot and scheme is like child's play. That's why the elf race is never afraid of the other race.

The only race that has a chance to truly threaten the elf race in Firuman is only the demon race. However, they are too divided into many tribes and always in a state of civil war.

Then, the meeting continued without any conclusion. The major reason is that the apathetic behaviour of the elf leader and none of the leaders want to sacrifice their people to fight against the dangerous monster overlord.

Judging by the strength the monster overlord shows by Silvan, it's one of the strong overlords that could annihilate a group of grade five teams easily.

Because of this, most of the leaders don't want to spend high military strength without any significant rewards. Soon, they could only hope that the monster overlord is targeted towards their nation during the attack in the next three years.

While the leaders are still indecisive with their next move, most cities nearby the Dark Forest are destroyed or evacuated. It has become a front line warzone between the monsters and the respective nation army.

Likewise, this is also an opportunity for few people to reap some profit like a lone mercenary, adventurer guild, war merchant and many others.

Meanwhile, the chaotic warzone happens at the border of various countries, Angus still living his life undisturbed inside the academy.

'Huff… It seems my father is okay.' Thought Angus inwardly after reading the letter from his home.

The noble's have their information network which usually brings faster and more accurate news. Few days after recuperation inside the Roundel City, Duke Jacob finally could go home and immediately send a letter to his family about his current condition.

After reading the letter, Angus summoned his status panel.

Host: Angus Victory

Age: 10 Years Old

MP: 100/100

Heritage chi: ???

Strength: 20

Dexterity: 20

Intelligence: 30

Vitality: 32

Soul Point: 241

'Hm.. besides the intelligence the other stat is grey out. It seems I will increase my intelligence again.' as Angus increases his intelligence stat by consuming 160 soul points for one point.

Suddenly, Angus feels a little bit dizzy before his mind and body feels weird. He feels his body could not catch up with his thoughts a little bit.

'Urgg… I never get used to this feeling. It seems I need a month to fully synchronize my mind and body this time.' thought Angus while doing a little bit of light stretching.

A month passed by peacefully, Now Angus is entering the manual battle system to fight against Ian in black humanoid version. Angus wants to try to master his mana transformation into a lightning element.

Although he could do it on his own, Ian's insight about the lightning element will also help him train it.

Unfortunately, the manual battle system could not multiply his opponent. So, Angus could not fight dozens of 'Ian' at once. The book skill drop rate is also very low. This makes Angus not get it even after killing 'Ian' for one full month time.

After a few hours of grinding against 'Ian', "Damn… Why does it still not drop the book? Is it because Ian's insight is too low? or maybe there is another prerequisite?"

Thought for a while, Angus decides to leave it for now. Although he likes to improve and strengthen himself, he likes to take it easy and not rush things.

Even though he did not get any book skill, he still didn't worry too much about it. Then, he puts on his heavy enchanted uniform and goes towards the class tournament area.

Today is the class tournament time and it is time for his class. The class tournament happens every three months. It also signifies the half-term time or the final exam time.

Since Princess Jayna could control her emotion through the [Heart of Perseverance, his class always won the class tournament despite Angus didn't do anything.

Now, the class tournament theme is sort of castle defence. Each class will have a flag in their base position. Students need to defend the flags from being taken out.

Each flag is worth a point, the base flag is worth 50 points. If you lose it means you will get minus 50 points. Your opponent flag is worth 25 points. There are also some flags worth 10 points across the area.

The class with the most points will be the winner. This time the class tournament area is the private hills inside the academy.

This is also the same arena for Angus when he joined the class tournament for the first time. Arriving at the arena, everyone was already waiting for him to start the briefing.

"You are late." said Princess Jayna.

"Really?? Well, I just found a black cat on my way and need to find another route…" as Angus gives some excuse to Jayna.

Hearing Angus's unbelievable excuse, "Grr… fine-fine… Let's hurry and get this over."

"Alright, then." replied Angus nonchalantly.

Then, Teacher Elis begins to remind them about the rules. After that, she leaves her class to make their own strategy. Rather than making a strategy, it's more like telling Angus about the strategy.

They already have their strategy meeting before. But, Angus as an apathetic person always never comes or pays attention to it. So, now they need to tell Angus what to do.

"Alright, Can I just slee.. I mean defend the flag?" asked Angus before the other told their strategy.

'Did you just say sleep?!!' Thought Everyone.

"Rejected!!" said Jayna.

"Eh.. Why??" replied Angus.

"Because you will just sleep away and not defend the flag properly. Your job is to gather the flag around the arena while the others defend the base flag." replied Angus.

'Haaa… I guess I will find a secluded spot and sleep there.' Thought Angus.

"Also don't you dare try to sleep in the middle of searching the flag!!" remind Jayna.

"Err.. Haha.. There is no way I will do that. Trust me.." said Angus but everyone already gave him a doubting face.

"Oh yeah.. If everyone is defending the flag who is going to take the other flag team? Don't tell me we play defensively this time?" asked Angus curiously

"Of course not. I am alone enough to take the others' flag. The others also agree about this, right?" said Jayna proudly

Angus could only look at his reluctant classmate. Class tournaments are a show of one strength. As kids, all of them want to show and play aggressive.

But, because of Jayna's dictacto.. *Cough* leadership, everyone put their ego and follow her like the righteous king.

'Whatever, I just hope this could end peacefully.' thought Angus inwardly.

Finally, the time came and Teacher Elis brought them to their base flag before leaving them alone. After waiting a while, a booming sound was heard in the air as the sign of the tournament began. *BOOM*

"Angus, go collect the flag and don't you dare to sleep this time." said Jayna before she went searching for another team base flag.

After walking from the others for a while, Angus used [Mana Echolocation] to find the other's position. He found a few people gathering together with familiar mana signatures gathering. He speculates that this is where the other class flag base.

Most of them leave three or more people to defend their base flag. It seems they already anticipated that Jayna will rush alone in this tournament.

During this moment, he also feels a few unfamiliar mana signatures at the edge of the arena along with one familiar mana signature.

"This signature, if I am not wrong it is Teacher Oswalt. Tch… I guess I need to keep my world with that old butler."

"Haa.. I just want a peaceful life. Well, I guess this tournament will be a little bit interesting." as Angus walking towards the unfamiliar group location.

Meanwhile, Jayna finally found the first group after searching for a while. The defensive group consists of three students. The student group immediately begins alert as Jayna approaches alone.

"It's Princess Jayna. She seems alone." said one of the defensive students.

"Tch.. Don't underestimate us [1st Circle - Firebolt]." as one of the defensive students starting to attack towards the approaching Jayna.

But, Jayna could easily dodge the [Firebolt] spell and keep approaching them at fast speed. Looking at this, they immediately launch their respective spell [1st Circle - Firebolt] [1st Circle – Flame Shot].

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[1st Circle - Firebolt] [1st Circle – Flame Shot]

A ball of fire and a few small size balls of fire launch at Jayna. Looking at the approaching balls of fire at her, Jayna coated her fist with mana [Fire Punch].

She dodges some of the attacks and counters them with her [Fire Punch] while keeping approaching the other student group.

Soon, Jayna arrives at them and begins to fight in close combat. Using her enhanced strength with mana, she beat all of them with [Fire Punch] easily.

Fortunately, the other student has a barrier from their academy emblem to protect them. Otherwise, they will hurt badly from Jayna's attack.

However, the barrier also indicates that they are eliminated from the class tournament. After that, she immediately took the flag and stored it in her space storage. Then, she went back to looking at the other group.

While Jayna is hunting for another group's flag, Angus already arrives near the unknown group wearing cloaks. Hiding within nature and vegetation, Angus managed to spy at the group silently.

The cloaked group seems to talk about something before they are separate from each other. Looking at this, Angus smiles happily.

He may not have a chance to defeat all of them at once. But, he is confident to take care of them one by one, especially inside this lush forest.

'I need to get them before they create more trouble later.' thought Angus while also moving.

From Angus observation, the other group is consist of grade two or three combatant that may specialize at assassination or espionage work.

Grade three above combatant is quite rare and precious for any kind of nation. No matter what kind of grudge or dispute they have against Heart Kingdom, they will not send them for this kind of suicide mission especially during this time.

Although in the frontal battle Angus has a low chance to defeat them without creating a commotion, he still has some chance to subdue them using preemptive attack.

Approaching one of the cloaked people, Angus moves at a fast speed towards the cloaked man [Beast Walk]. He hit the cloaked man's neck before he could react using [Iron Fist].

The cloaked man immediately knocks out silently. Then, Angus bound the cloaked man and restrained them using a mana restriction bracelet.

'Fiuhh.. Fortunately, I have few spare mana restriction bracelets in my space storage.' thought Angus while approaching the other cloaked men.

While Angus tried to apprehend all the cloaked men one by one, Jayna already managed to take another flag base. After searching for a while, Jayna finally found another student group. In this group, there is Ian with two other students.

"As I thought, Jayna is attacking the flag base alone." said Ian.

"Hmph.. did you think gathering two students would give you a chance? you should just call the others to beat all of you!!" said Jayna proudly.

"How arrogant! Let's see if you handle this!" replied Ian while he cast some [Aqua Ball] toward her.

Since [Aqua ball] is slower than [Firebolt, she didn't even need an effort to dodge all of them. But during this time, she notices that two of Ian's classmates start chanting.

Although she didn't know what kind of spell they cast, it may be a dangerous spell. Before she could disturb their chanting, Ian kept firing the [Aqua Ball] around.

Leaving with no choice, she covers her body with mana and defends against the [Aqua Ball] while approaching the other party. However, at this moment the student managed to finish their chanting and cast their spell.

Two bright yellowish balls the size of a soccer ball made of fire approaching Jayna rapidly [2nd Circle - Fireball]. Still, Jayna once again manages to dodge it skillfully.

'I guess trying to cope up with Angus has some benefit.' Thought Jayna as she dodged the approaching [Fireballs].

As she feels relieved to dodge the two [Fireballs, they touch the ground and make a small explosion. *BOMM* *BOMM*

The explosion may be small, but its effect is like a small hand grenade from Earth. Although she didn't get attacked directly, the shockwave from it is strong enough to damage her and make some disorientation.

Fortunately, she has already covered her body with mana before. Otherwise, the defensive mechanism from her school emblem will activate and disqualify her.

Feeling disoriented, Jayna finally stops at her spot to try to regain his bearing. As for Ian's classmate, they already slump on the ground after casting the [Fireball] spell.

Using this opportunity, Ian put all his mana on his next spell. A small magic circle appears in front of him and creates an arc of electricity towards Jayna [1st Circle - Overcharge Spark].

The arc of lightning immediately touched her body before she could react. Because her body is still wet from the [Aqua Ball] before, It doubled the power of the electricity despite her mana around her and electrocuted her.

"AARRGGGHH…" roaring Jayna in pain

The pain suddenly went away but her school emblem was also active and created a protective barrier around her body.

At this moment, she knows that she is already disqualified. Soon, a teacher comes out of nowhere to announce that she is disqualified.

"I guess you already know it. Jayna Heart you are disqualified. Please follow me to get out of the arena" said the teacher.

"Tch… Damn it!!" grumble Jayna.

But she didn't do anything to Ian who is laying on his ground after using all his mana in the previous attack. *BOOM* After that, an explosion sound was heard from far away.

"You guys alright?" asked the teacher to make sure the student is alright.

After getting a nod from the student, "Follow me and let's get out of here first." said the teacher.

Meanwhile a few minutes before the explosion sound heard, Angus managed to apprehend most of them before they created a commotion without any trouble. Now, he is approaching the last guy who seems like the strongest also the leader carefully.

His instinct tells him that the other person is strong and already notice the disappearance of some of his teammates.

'Hmm… Although I want to fight him, it will create a commotion and expose my strength. I also didn't think I could apprehend this guy without going all out. Tch.. it seems the fun is over now.' thought Angus silently.

Then, Angus takes a distance from the cloaked man leader, "Earth Fire that blazing…" as Angus begins chanting.

After a moment, "Burn my enemy.. [2nd Circle - Overcharge Flame Bomb]. A huge fireball appeared in front of Angus before it launched in the air. It moves parabola in the air towards the leader of the cloaked man.

Looking at a huge fireball approaching him from the air, "What the…" As he immediately moved away from the fireball trajectory.

*BOMM* The moment it touched the ground it exploded and created a shockwave towards the surrounding. The explosion sound immediately created some commotion towards the nearby stationed teacher.

All the teachers in the nearby area began to move towards the explosion that could be heard from all over the forest.

'Shit.. This will attract all the teacher's attention!! I need to get out of here!!' Thought the cloaked man.

Before he could escape, a teacher approached him. "Who are you? What are you doing here?" asked one of the teachers towards the cloaked man.

Without answering, the cloaked man threw some throwing knives towards the teacher. But, the teacher could easily dodge this attack.

Before channelling his voice with mana, "INTRUDER!!" while the teacher dodges the cloaked man's attack.

Hearing the warning from the teacher, the other teacher immediately moved their way towards the warning sound.

'Shit.. where are the others? Did they already run away?' Thought the cloaked man without knowing that his team already apprehended by Angus.

Looking at this, the cloaked man immediately tries to escape his way before a root entangles his body from the ground [2nd Circle – Entroot].

"Now-Now... Why are you in a hurry?" said an old man while flying in the air.

"Tch.. Antonio, the headmaster." said the cloaked man while struggling for the root.

Getting trapped by the root, the cloaked man flares up his mana and makes a fire all around his body [Flame Armor].

"Impressive.. If I am not wrong that is [Flame Armor] a famous skill among the beastkin. To think a human-like you could learn that." said Antonio calmly.

Meanwhile, the other teachers already arrive and cast their spell to apprehend the cloaked man [2nd Circle – Binding Chain] [2nd Circle - Water Lash]. A binding chain and water rope approach the cloaked man.

The cloaked man dodges all of them skilfully before a teacher intercepts him and punch him with a fiery fist [Fire Punch]. The force of the punch makes her launch back and get surrounded by the other teacher.

Before the cloaked man could recover from the [Fire Punch, a magic circle appeared below him and a surge of water appeared from it [2nd Circle - Water Torrent].

The water surge made the cloaked man thrown in the air and deactivated his [Flame Armor]. Using this opportunity, the other teacher immediately apprehends the cloaked man easily.

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"So, you are saying there are more intruders and they are already being knocked out by someone?" asked Antonio.

"Exactly, headmaster." replied one of the teachers.

"Hmph.. How dare they?! Do they think Royal Academy is their playing ground? I want a full search around the academy." Command the old headmaster.

"Right away, sir." replied the teacher in front of him.

Royal Academy is not only famous for being the number one academy among the human race but it is also a place where various kinds of strong people gather and become their employees.

Normally, this place is also a kind of powerhouse that nobody dares to mess with. After getting infiltrated for a second time, the headmaster truly angered.

As the headmaster of the royal academy, he feels insulted by this accident and will make the preparator pay. Fortunately, this time they successfully caught all the cloaked men.

They could gather some information about their origin and the way they could enter the academy unnoticed.

Although the headmaster already guessed there is a traitor among his employees, it will be difficult to search the other party as there are hundreds of employees working at this royal academy.

Besides if he pushed the other employee too much, some employees with high prestige like Balrug could feel dissatisfied and get out of the academy. If this happens, it will be the loss of the Royal Academy.

The Royal Academy is not only a place for students to study but also a place where some masters do their research and get funded. Some of this research may be personal and often not for public purpose.

For the headmaster, it will be like poking the bee nest if he somehow disturbs these masters. The headmaster is like to maintain some freedom policy.

As long as the employee is not doing something unethical and does something detrimental to Royal Academy, the headmaster will leave them alone with their research.

This is also one of the selling points for many famous and influential masters to work at the Royal Academy.

They could do their research without any distribution as long as they fulfil their obligation. Sometimes, they could also have a chance to get funded by the academy itself.

In terms of power, the Royal Academy is not less powerful than the royal palace if they didn't count the king himself. Of course that if all the employees are united together.

While the headmaster gathers intelligence from the cloaked man, the class tournament is stopped for the time being until further notice.

All the teacher is busy keeping and maintaining the safety of students in case there are more intruders.

Because of this, all the students are instructed to go inside their dorm. Since the students are from the same year, most of them are going together towards their dorm.

"Tch… All these intruders should just surrender themself and die." said Jayna haughty

"Yeah, especially we are on the winning side, isn't that right LOSER?" taunting Ian.

"What do you say to the commoner?" asked Jayna angrily

"I said that we could win the tournament since you are D-I-S-Q-U-A-L-I-F-I-E-D." mocked Ian towards Jayna.

"Get over here!!" as Jayna ready to [Fire Punch] Ian away.

Looking at the two kids' behaviour, "*Sigh* You two lovebirds should just find a spot?" said Angus casually.

"Lovebird? What did you mean by that?!" said Jayna and Ian.

"Isn't that right, Millie?" replied Angus

"E-Eh.. I-I am not sure." replied Millie as she was surprised by suddenly being called away.

"Angus, how many times I said don't casually talk to Millie!!" replied Mia as she tried to help her friend.

"Ehh.. But I just talk. Besides, Millie herself never complained about it. Right, Millie?" said Angus.

"Eh.. Eh.. Yeah, I think it's okay." replied Millie.

"Millie!! *Sigh* You are too kind. I already said many times before, Angus is a bad influence for you." said Mia.

"M-Mia.. That's rude. Although Angus is a kinda lazy bum, you should not say that in front of him directly." rebuked Millie.

'Err.. You just say that I am a lazy bum yourself.' thought Angus while feeling being stabbed in his heart.

While Angus is chatting by himself, Jayna and Ian feel being ignored. But, before long they once again had an argument one with the others. Meanwhile, Axel could only stay silent in the background as he is feeling being ignored by everyone.

'Why nobody talks to me? Did I also join the talk with them? But, what should I talk about? Even Angus, that lazy bum could easily talk with our Angel, Millie.' thought Axel while he is getting more depressed.

Over the past two years, everyone in the dorm already realized the character of their dorm mate. First is Ian, a muscle head that likes to challenge everyone including some upperclassmen. He is ranked second among the third year of Royal Academy.

Then, Jayna is the fourth princess of the Heart kingdom. She is a spoiled princess with a bad temperament. Even after learning [Heart of Perseverance, she is still somewhat moody and will beat anyone that in her way except for Angus.

Next is Millie who is hailed as Angel among the other students in Angus's year. She has a kind and caring temperament. Combined with her cute appearance, she is a perfect model of good girlfriend material. Some of the upperclassmen are even attracted by her.

Fortunately, they still have a sane mind to not disturb the Spring Dorm as Jayna stays in there.

Mia is Millie's childhood friend that is always together with her. She is the last defence of Millie from the evil mind of some lustful boys in puberty. She also likes to act like the mother of Millie, since Millie herself is kind of an airhead.

Next is Axel, a wealthy son of a famous merchant. He is quite smart and stronger than other normal students but compared to other people in his dorm. His achievement is somewhat lacking.

Finally Angus Victory, the famous lazy student throughout the Royal Academy. If it is not because he is the son of Duke Victory, he is already getting bullied by a lot of students.

However, despite his lazy nature, no one could expect that he is also one of the busiest students that fill all his schedule with many courses. He is also famous for being weak since his practical test always scored below average almost not getting passed.

Only a few people know about his true strength. Not even his brother Vergil knows his full capabilities.

After chatting for a while, they finally arrive at the Spring Dorm safely. Even though they are walking casually towards the Spring Dorm, there are few teachers hidden in the surrounding area protecting them.

None of the students notices this except for Angus. But, he also didn't care about it since he didn't feel any ill intent from the surrounding teacher.

Since the one class tournament that is being targeted is Jayna. The headmaster speculated that their target is Jayna again after the previous assault from two years ago failed.

After entering the dorm safely, everyone immediately rests in their room. It's because they already reach the age to form their mana core.

For untrained people, the ideal age to form a mana core naturally is 13 to 15. For trained people like students in the Royal Academy, it could start early when they reach the age of 10.

Forming mana core is an arduous task yet also easy according to one talent. Some could easily form, but some need years to form it. Either way, there is no difference be it forming it naturally or not except the time they form it.

At the age of ten, trained children could try to form their mana core by meditation and controlling their mana inside the body into one point.

Normally, people could not control mana precisely unless they have mana control. The only reason Angus has superb control over his mana is that he usually controls chi who is more volatile and aggressive than mana.

For Angus controlling mana using his years of experience is like riding a normal car despite having the capability to drive an F1 car.

There are various ways to form mana but most of them are kept secret since it is kind of important. Some of these techniques could form mana core faster than others.

The Royal Academy also teaches a standard way to form mana to each of their students. But, most of the students already have their special technique to forming their mana core.

As for Angus, he wants to form his mana core since his mana is stagnant from two years ago but he is also intrigued by the technique of forming mana core that his father will teach him.

A few weeks ago, his father was already back from Roundel city. Because of the long and dangerous mission, the duke got a few weeks of time off. He told Angus to be ready to be taught by his father during the next break.

Entering his room, Angus immediately flares up his mana to the maximum [Great Mana Echolocation].

"Hmm… Time to catch a rat."

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Royal Academy of the Heart kingdom, hailed as one of the best academies in the human race. Many people want to have a chance to study there as most of the graduated people often become famous people at their respective work.

Not only that, but the Royal Academy is also a huge gathering place for many experts in various kinds of fields. From a crafter to a chef, they even have archaeological experts in various kinds of ancient culture and fields.

Now, the royal academy is on high alert since their academy is hailed as the best, getting infiltrated by a group of cloaked men.

Because of this, the headmaster Antonio immediately tightened up the security. No one could get in or get out for the time being. Since the intruder could come in undetected insight the academy means that there is someone from the inside that helps them.

Fortunately, this time the group cloaked man could be captured successfully. So, the headmaster could easily 'ask' them about the traitor that sold his academy.

While the headmaster interrogated the cloaked man, teacher Oswalt immediately tried to get out from the academy after knowing that the intruder was getting caught.

'Damn.. How could they get caught so easily?! At least killing yourself without getting caught. I need to get out of here fast.' Thought Oswalt while walking in a certain direction.

Unfortunately for him, all the exit of surrounding the academy is already blocked. Moreover, every single perimeter of the academy is guarded by academy guards. It will be difficult even for a rat to pass by.

While he is walking, "Oswalt?? Where are you going? The headmaster told us to gather at the meeting room." asked Teacher Elis curiously.

"Ahh.. I suddenly got a stomach ache. You go there first. I will catch up later." answered Oswalt

"Alright, Don't take it too long." replied teacher Elis while frowning a little bit.

'Huff.. Luckily, I already prepared my escape route before.' Thought Oswalt while entering one of the certain big abandoned warehouses.

The royal academy is very vast and has many buildings and facilities. Some of them are being abandoned and used as warehouses. One of them is this building which is located in a remote location inside the academy ground.

Entering the abandoned warehouse, Oswalt immediately put a few boxes aside from a certain spot and pushed the hidden mechanism. Then, a trap door that led to the underground appeared.

Opening the trapdoor using his special key, he finally found a staircase leading to the underground. Under the dim light of his mana at his finger, he entered the trapdoor.

After walking the stairs for a while, he found himself in a small underground room. Then, he tapped one of the walls of the room and revealed another hidden door.

Before he could enter the door, "I never know that there is a hidden door here. Care to explain where it leads, Oswalt?" said another voice inside the small underground room.

"Who's there?" asked Oswalt vigilantly.

Then, teacher Elis deactivated her concealment. "You travel quite far for having a stomachache, Oswalt." said Teacher Elis while taking out her battle staff.

"Tch.. You should mind your own business Elis." replied Oswalt while suddenly shooting a few[Firebolt] towards her.

Looking at the approaching [Firebolts, Elis skillfully uses her battle staff to disperse any of them before instacast her spell [1st Circle - Entangle].

A root sprouted from the ground and tried to bind Oswalt. However, he could dodge it easily while countering with his own [Firebolt].

The fight between two people of the same grade, especially high grade one, often called a battle of attrition.

In this battle, the ability to multitask between casting spells, defence, offence, etc. is very important. Just the wrong step could end their doom. Soon, they reach a stalemate state after exchanging many of 1sr Circle spells.

As sometimes passed by, "Tch… You leave me no choice. Take this [2nd Circle - Fireball]." a series of yellowish fireballs immediately launch at Elis.

Looking at the yellowish fireball, "You crazy!!" rebuked teacher Elis

Elis immediately put her guard and dodge them. But, all of them immediately explode after touching something. Using a spell-like [Fireball] in this enclosed space is the same as suicide since the shockwave also could damage the caster.

[Fireballs] may be a handy spell since it could create a small explosion. But, in an enclosed space like the underground room, this could injure everyone inside the room.

At the last moment, Elis managed to create a wall made of vine root from the ground [2nd Circle - Nature Wall] to protect herself. Still, she is affected by the shock each [Fireballs] produces and burns her [Nature Wall] to ash.

As for Oswalt, he already made a barrier made of mana in front of him to mitigate the shock towards him [2nd circle - Mana Barrier].

After the dust settles, Elis comes out from it with a little burn and immediately launches a barrage of attack using her battle staff [Staff Art - Barrage Motion]. A series of chain attacks keep hitting Oswalt's [Mana Barrier] rapidly without stopping.

[Mana Barrier] may be a strong barrier spell, but it also consumes the user mana to maintain the barrier. Feeling his mana is dropping at a fast rate, Oswalt begins to get irritated.

"Don't get cocky woman!! [2nd circle - Fire Breath]" as Oswalt released a breath of fire towards her.

Because of the point-blank range attack, Elis could not dodge it perfectly and was pushed back by the [Fire Breath] to the nearby wall.

"Urgh.." groaned Elis

"Haaa.. Haa.. What annoying woman!! You should never mess with me!" said Oswalt while preparing a [Fireball] to finish her off.

At this time a huge magic circle appears on the ground, "And you should never underestimate me! [3rd Circle - Nature Growth]" said Elis while giving all her mana to the magic circle.

"How?! you didn't cast it... " before Oswalt could respond a huge sprout of vegetation rose from the ground and destroyed the ceiling.

The vegetation keeps growing and destroys everything in the room. By chance, the collapsed ceiling also closes the hidden door along with its tunnel.

After a while, "*Cough* *Cough* Crazy bitch!! She wants to bury me alive!!" said Oswalt while looking at unconscious Elis who is protected by the big tree.

"Damn it!! The guard will feel this commotion and check this place. My escape route is also buried!! It's all your fault, bitch!" curse Oswalt but he could not do anything to her as the big tree was still protecting her.

He is also on the low mana from the battle and needs to dig his escape route faster. While digging the rumble frantically, Oswalt suddenly feels a danger behind him.

*Ting* A translucent barrier engulfs Oswalt's body. Then, he sees that a throwing dagger falls on the ground behind him.

"Hoo.. You have a barrier enchanted item. Interesting…" said Angus while walking towards Oswalt calmly.

'A kid?? No, if I am not wrong he should be the famous scholar Angus. Why is he here? Moreover, was he the one that threw that dagger?' thought Oswalt.

"Kid, you should get some help. The building suddenly collapsed and few people were under the ground." said Oswalt as he tried to buy some time.

"Really??" replied Angus as he released a little bit of his killing intent.

At this moment, Oswalt felt like a bloodthirsty predator. All his body and instinct is telling him to run. Angus's killing intent is monstrous as he keeps killing his virtual opponent inside the battle manual system.

It could be said his killing intent is on par with a mighty general that slays thousands of people in his hand.

Suddenly, the chilling aura is gone and Angus disappears at once [Beast Walk]. Angus appears behind the Oswalt and attacks him [Spear Hand]. *Bang*

On the contrary to his expectation, a barrier engulfs Oswalt once again and his body is thrown away by Angus's force attack towards the nearby debris.

"Tch.. Annoying barrier. Let's see if it has a limit" [Angus]

Angus once again approaches Oswalt using [Beast Walk]. Then, he launched many kinds of attacks towards Oswalt. [Iron Fist] [Dynamic Torrent] [Dynamic Punch]

*Bam* *Bam* *Bam* After a series of attacks, Oswalt's barrier item stopped working. He pushed to use his own [Mana Barrier] to protect himself and his mana is consumed much faster than when he is fighting Elis.

"Get out of me, Monster!! [2nd circle - Fire Breath]" as Oswalt spouted a fire from his mouth.

Angus seems like already predicting this, dodge to the side and shoot a water ball towards Oswalt's mouth from his hand [1st Circle – Aqua Ball] at point-blank range.

[Aqua Ball] managed to hit Oswalt's face directly. He feels like being forced to drink a lot of water at once and makes him unable to breathe properly.

Using this opportunity, Angus gathers his man in his fist and punches it towards Oswald's body [Dynamic Punch].

The punch hit various kinds of Oswalt's body at once and broke all his ribs. Oswalt's body is flown away embedded in the nearby debris.

Angus strength is already four times normal human, combined with his enhanced strength, his much is very lethal to the unprotected normal human body.

Looking at his work, "I guess I am going overboard again."

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"I guess I am going overboard again." commented Angus after looking at the Oswalt condition.

'Haa… I guess my bad habit still could not get away.' Thought Angus as he tied Oswalt and restricted his mana.

During the fight, Angus didn't expect that Oswalt's body was weak after getting few punches from him. Since all this time his training partner is the old dwarf Balrug who has ridiculous resilience, he couldn't adjust his strength properly when fighting Oswalt.

Moreover, it's very hard to hold back in a life and death battle like before. Fortunately, Oswalt is still a full-fledged grade 4 combatant. Although his orientation is towards magic, his body is still stronger than an ordinary person.

Otherwise, he will die from receiving Angus's monstrous attack. Still, this didn't mean Angus could combat grade four combatant in frontal battle.

The major reason he could win is that Oswalt's mana already drained from the battle against Elis. Oswalt is also a magician that specialized in barriers rather than battle like Duke Jacob.

After tying Oswalt and erasing his trace from the surrounding, he used [Mana Echolocation] to avoid being found by the academy guard that was already coming to inspect the area.

Fortunately, only the academy guard came to inspect. If it is the headmaster or other five grade people, they could easily find Angus within their perception.

Angus also didn't have to worry that they could trace the residual mana in the battle spot since his swirl bracelet always absorbed all his excessive mana. It will only leave minuscule mana in the air that can hardly be traced.

Unless they have very advanced technology to capture them and match them with Angus mana signature, they would never have found that it is Angus.

However, such a technology is very advanced and hard to procure along with the expert that can use it. Angus thought it would be a waste of resources to use it just to trace it back to him.

'*Sigh* the worst case I just need to reveal my strength.' thought Angus as he finally went back to his dorm.

Few days after that, a meeting consisting of teachers and a few employees happened inside one of the big meeting rooms in the Royal Academy.

"Alright, now let's begin the meeting about the intruder that happened a few days ago. Ellen, please enlighten us." said the Headmaster Antonio

"Thank you, Antonio. As everyone knows, a few days ago, a group of unknown people intruded on our class tournament. After a series of interrogation using [Truth Potion, we found that they are from the Nergal Empire."

"We also found the preparator that smuggles them is Oswalt Fanari, one of our teachers that specialize in barriers. Fortunately, we managed to catch him before he managed to escape." explain the vice-headmaster Ellen.

After everyone digested the information, "Now, let's decide how we should proceed with Oswalt and increase our security further. So, this kind of incident may not happen again in the future." said the headmaster while looking at the other teacher.

The headmaster could punish Oswalt and deal with him easily. However, he also needs to make sure that none of the teachers working in the academy will do the same thing in the future.

But, he also could not push too much towards these people since it may leave some dissatisfied towards them. So, the best solution is by letting all his employees decide how they should punish the traitor by themself.

After a long discussion, they finally agreed to make a contract for all the people working in the academy. The contract is variable but one of its clauses is as long as they work here, they must not get in the way of the academy interest or something similar to it.

Contract in this world is different from a contract on Earth, where there are many kinds of contracts. But most of them always have a serious repercussion for the breach of the contract. Some people even say that it is better to die than breach a contract.

This way all the employees in the academy will be bound and forced to not betray the academy as long as they work here.

After the meeting almost came to end, "Pardon me, Headmaster. But, I hear the one that apprehends Oswalt and few other intruders is still unknown. We also couldn't ask Oswalt since he is still in a coma from his injury. What we need to do with him/her?" asked one of the muscular teachers.

"Don't worry about it teacher Genus. As long as this mysterious helper is not doing anything bad towards the Royal Academy we will leave him be. Any other question?" asked the headmaster.

After none of the teachers gives another question, "Then, let's end this meeting and immediately implement our new policy." said the headmaster.

Meanwhile, the headmaster and teacher are busy tightening their security around the academy, most of the students are on holiday.

After much consideration, they decide it will be safer for the student to go home for the time being. They also believe that the mysterious person is likely a high-grade combatant which is not the student that study here.

Most of the students here are ungraded with dozens of them being first-grade people. It is impossible for them to win against Oswalt and injure him badly.

Like every break before, Angus is staying at his townhouse manor. Fortunately, his father is already back. So, he didn't need to escape from his clingy aunt. Who knows how many times he almost died under those huge mountains.

Now, Angus is having breakfast with his two brothers. As usual, the atmosphere is cold as his older brother Jason regards Angus as thin air. He still thinks that Angus is a weak and useless brother.

As for his second brother Vergil, he just doesn't know how to mediate Jason with Angus since both of them always ignore one another. During this usual tense breakfast, a humming sound heard from the teleportation device in the garden.

Feeling the gentle and familiar aura from it, the three brothers immediately go towards the teleportation device.

"Father" said the three brothers.

As the blonde hair duke walked towards them, "Long time no see, everyone." replied Duke Jacob.

After that, they continue their greeting while having breakfast. After catching up with their father, they know that his father will be in this manner for a few days before he needs to be back to the Black Fortress to defend it against the monster.

Unlike other small countries and nations that are overthrown by the horde of lower grade monsters, the Black Fortress managed to push back the lower grade monster and stood still in their place.

This shows the power of the Heart kingdom, just a horde of lower grade monsters will not bypass the heavily armed Black Fortress easily. Still, the monster is relentless.

Although they are not attacking continuously, they still launch an attack once every few days. The Duke needs to always standby in this Fortress in case something unexpected happens.

Fortunately, the last attack happened and ended a few hours ago. So, the duke has a few days to meet with his sons after a long time. After they finished their breakfast, Duke Jacob called Angus to the basement training room.

Entering the training room, a [Firebolt] is launched at Angus. But, Angus could easily avoid it without changing his facial expression.

"So, are you going to teach me how to form mana core or not?" asked Angus with a lazy expression.

"Hahaha… As I thought, you are getting stronger after all these two years. It seems you managed to train your body secretly." said Jacob.

Hearing his father respond, "Are you going to teach me or not?" asked Angus once again.

"Easy, Angus. It's been two years since we met. How about a little bit of spar?" replied Jacob.

Looking at his father's smile, "I can't say no. Can't I?" asked Angus.

But, his father only gives him a kind smile towards Angus while releasing his fighting intent slowly.

"Haa… You are similar to that old dwarf. a battle junkie. Well, not that I could complain about it." said Angus while approaching his father.

"Old Dwarf, you mean Balrug Goldstein? So, it's true you are becoming his student." said Jacob.

"Hee… How do you know.. Nope, let me guess you hear it from Vergil. I should not let him meet with that crazy dwarf." replied Angus

"Hahaha… Judging from your grumble, I believe he is not only teaching you the art of smithing. Now, I am getting excited by our spar." said Jacob.

"Tch… Fine, let's do it." as Angus stops a few meters from Jacob.

After staring at each other for a while, "Please, give me some leniency?" asked Angus calmly.

"Don't worry I will…" before his father finished replying, Angus already approached his father instantly.

[Beast walk] [Dynamic Punch] *Bam* *Bam* *Bam*

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[Beast walk] [Dynamic Punch] *Bam* *Bam* *Bam*

A series of punches landed on Jacob's [Fire Barrier]. As soon as Jacob feels Angus approaching, he flicks his finger and cast his [Fire Barrier] to protect himself

Angus keeps his barrage of attack without stopping. He knows that spell-like [Fire Barrier] may be a strong defensive spell but it also consumes mana constantly to maintain it especially after receiving this barrage of attack.

Looking at the barrage of attacks, "Impressive, your combat capability is as strong as the first-grade combatant probably almost reached the second grade. Let's take this to the next level." said Jacob calmly

Then, the duke begins to flick his finger to create a spark of fire. Then, the spark changed into a burst of flame towards Angus [2nd Circle - Flame Wave]. A surge wall of fire moving towards Angus.

Using his superb reaction speed, Angus managed to dodge this large scale attack even at close range [Beast Walk]. He already moved away the moment his father flicks his finger and cast the spell.

"Now, I look at it a few times. That's sophisticated footwork and movement skill. It is somehow like a combination of beast moves." analyst Jacob at Angus's [Beast Walk]

"So, what? it's not like you could copy it or find a weakness to it." replied Angus while he once again launched a barrage of attacks toward his father's [Fire Barrier]. *Bam* *Bam*

Once again his father created [Flame Wave] toward him and made Angus back away.

"Come one, It's all you got? I hear you could even resist and escape your aunt 'hug'." Taunting his father.

"Tch.. have you no shame. You are an adult and a six-grade combatant. This is bullying." said Angus while dodging his father's [Flame wave].

*Whosh* *Whosh* Jacob keeps creating and throwing flame waves towards Angus. he could dodge all of these flawlessly using his [Beast Walk]. Still, some of his clothes are somehow burning a little bit from the heat.

"Yet, you still could dodge it flawlessly. I believe not even a second-grade combatant could escape these attacks easily. Come one, Angus. If you don't attack back, you will be roasted soon." said Jacob while calmly create more [Flame Wave]

"Tch.. you cheat. This is child abuse. I demand my right as a child for child protection." said Angus before moving far away from his father.

"Huhh.. What do you mean by that? Also, did you think you could get away?" asked Jacob confusedly.

Jacob flicked his finger a few times [Fire Manipulation - Fire Cast] [3rd Circle - Fire Wyrm]. The duke manipulates the accumulated fire element in the room and creates a wyrm made of fire. Then, it began to pursue Angus.

At this time, Angus took out all his weighted clothes on his body and stored them in his wristwatch space storage.

Looking at the approaching Wyrm, "Woahh… you could even create something like this?" said Angus in a surprising tone.

"But, it is too slow to catch up with me [Beast Walk]." as Angus dodge the approaching Wyrm easily with his newfound speed.

'He is becoming faster!!' thought Jacob while Angus approaching him.

Still, the [Fire Barrier] once again protects Jacob from Angus's attack. Jacob also not just stays idle and counters with [Flame Wave].

Dodging the flame waves at the last moment, Angus shot a few unexpectedly [Aqua Ball] towards his father at point-blank range. However, the heat from the [Fire barrier] could easily evaporite the [Aqua Ball] into a mist.

Using this distraction, Angus mutters something silently at fast speed. After the mist is gone, Angus creates a big magic circle in front of him while keeping his chanting.

Looking at the big circle in front of Angus, Jacob immediately shot [Flame Wave] to stop Angus. Unexpectedly, Angus manages to dodge it using [Beast Walk] while keeping his chanting.

Less than a second later, "Take this [2nd Circle - Flame Bomb]." as a big fireball launched at Jacob. *BOOM*

In the last moment before Angus's [Flame Bomb] reaches Jacob, he supplies tremendous mana to strengthen his [Fire Barrier] and safe from the explosion. Still, he is being pushed back from his spot.

'Tch.. as expected it didn't have enough power to break through his [Fire Barrier]. Well, at least I managed to move him from his spot.' Thought Angus while trying to calm his breath.

The last attack drains a lot of his mana and exhausts himself. Although what Angus did is simple, not many people could do the same thing with him.

"H-How did you do that?" said Jacob after looking at Angus's feat.

In the last moment, Angus managed to dodge the [Flame Wave] while chanting a spell. Not many people could do this as chanting a spell requires a lot of concentration or it could create a backlash towards the user.

For a magician, their most vulnerable state is when they are chanting a spell. Because they need to fully concentrate on their spell. However, Angus not only kept chanting but also used [Beast Walk] to avoid the [Flame Waves].

This multitasking act could only be possible after his intelligence passed the 30 marks. His mind processing speed makes him do two different things at the same time.

Of course, it is not without repercussion. He will feel mentally exhausted after doing this. Combine with his mana and stamina drained from the fight, it is already a miracle he is not passed out.

"Err.. I don't know myself. I just felt like I could do it." replied Angus ambiguously as he also didn't expect to do such a thing as multitasking.

Hearing Angus reply, "*Sigh* Forget it, now I know what is your current level. If compared to other humans, you have the strength of around second to third-grade combatants."

"The only weakness you have now is your current mana capacity. Though, I think your mana capacity is compared to second-grade humans combatant." said Jacob after analyst Angus's strength from the previous combat.

Looking at Angus exhausted condition, "Let's take a break first while I explain how to form a mana core. Before that, I need to ask you how you managed to instacast [Aqua Ball]? If I am not wrong, you have fire element affinity."

"Err.. About that, I just control my mana and change it into water properties. Though it is not as fast as my mana changes into the fire." said Angus while creating a drop of water using his mana at the tip of his finger.

Looking at this, "T-This… You are my son, right? No wait.. Are you still human?" as Jacob doubted his son's identity.

"Ehh.. Of course, I am human. I just could control my mana better than others. as for your son or not you should ask mom not me. Hmph… Maybe I should ask mom myself?" rebuked Angus

"W-Wait… Of course, you are my son. Hahaha... I just never met a human race with this superb control of mana. The only race that I know is the elf race or demon race." explained Jacob before he spells his doom.

Jacob also begins to recount his experience when he fought with these two superior races during the two years inside the Dark Forest. During this time, it opened his eyes to how insignificant his power compared to them.

After making sure Angus didn't ask some unnecessary stuff with his wife, Jacob immediately brought the topic about the forming mana core.

Forming mana core is a more serious matter than Angus previously expected. Fortunately, he holds back to forming his mana core as soon as possible.

Mana core could be said as the second heart, once it is created there is no way to change it. As the second heart, it also dictates his future way of fighting.

In Firuman, there are many ways of fighting. The majority of them are classified into three. The First is the Warrior path who is proficient at skills, second is the Magician path who is proficient at using spells, the last one is the Hybrid path who is proficient at skill and spells.

All of them have their advantages and disadvantages. Most people thought that the Hybrid path is the strongest but it is also the most difficult to master.

It is because they need to learn skills and spells. To master both skills and spells takes a long time that most of them will never master in their lifetime.

Skill needs a lot of practice to become proficient while spells also need a lot of time to study each magic circle along with some calculation. Because of this, the Hybrid path also could be called Jack of all trade, master of none.

Each of these paths will require a different mana core. For example, The Warrior paths need to be skilled at instantaneous mana movement which needs a mana core that could control mana rapidly.

The Magician paths need a lot of calculation and delicate mana control which need a mana core that could have superb control over speed.

As for the Hybrid path, its mana core is the most ordinary since it needs to be balanced between speed and delicate control.

Because of this, there are a lot of specialized mana cores for the way of fighting. Some people usually choose hybrids since they don't know what the future way of fighting they will use.

But, this kind of thinking will also make them lose the opportunity to increase their combat prowess further.

"So, what do you think? Which path will you choose?

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"So, what do you think? Which path will you choose?

At first, Duke Jacob thought that Angus is more to the Warrior path as his superb use of skill. But looking at his last outstanding move during the spar, He feels that the Hybrid path is the true way of fighting for Angus.

After silent for a moment, "I think the Hybrid path is the best for me." said Angus after considering it.

"Good, I also agree. Now, these are our family collection of the ways to form a mana core that is best for Hybrid Path." as Jacob takes out a few stacks of books.

Looking at the series of books, "That's more than I thought." commented Angus

"Well, let's just say this is the benefit of being a duke of the strongest kingdom in the human race." Replied Jacob proudly.

While Angus looked through a few books, "Some of these books are collected from the ancient ruin. So, you may find them hard to decipher as they are still not fully translated."

"The only reason they categorize into hybrid path mana core is ancient civilization never differentiate between warrior path and magician. Their technique of forming mana core is unique and hard to practice but always gives better results."

"Asked Pavlon if you need to procure anything for resources. After you are done choosing the technique just give the rest to Pavlon. Ah.. One more thing, although I am choosing my mana core for a magician path, I could give you some advice if you need anything.

"Just don't rush your way to forming mana core. As it is your foundation to your future, but I guess you don't need this kind of reminder." explain Jacob while leaving Angus behind along with the book.

After a while, 'He is right. It's not a good thing to rush. I better study all of them carefully first. Who knows if one of the techniques is suitable for my need.' thought Angus while storing the books into his wristwatch.

Few days passed by, Duke Jacob was already back to the Black Fortress. As for Angus, he is staying inside his room all this time reading about the technique to form his mana.

After reading some of them, he found that the ancient civilization may have a better way of forming mana. But their requirement for the technique is hard to do.

Some need to consume rare resources, some need a specific time to practice it, there are even techniques that need to be done for ten years or so just to form the first-grade mana core.

Still, Angus didn't make a hasty choice and kept researching the technique. Usually, he could just order someone to do this and choose a suitable technique from it.

However, he found that each of these techniques is special. After reading almost half of them during these past few days, he finally found why each of the forming mana techniques is always different from one with each other.

It turns out each of them is tailored to a specific race, body, or even a person. Although there are some similarities between all these techniques, they seem to be made for a specific person.

As a prodigy and expert in body art, this kind of thing intrigued him. A sudden idea came out, If they could make their technique for forming mana core, why can't I? However, he also realized that creating this kind of technique is not easy.

'*Sigh* Well, if it doesn't work after a few years, I will just choose one of these techniques.' thought Angus before he began researching more of these techniques.

Fortunately, Angus intelligence is already high enough to comprehend all these techniques except for a few untranslated ones. He also has a side course in Ancient Language and could easily get some reference documents to translate the technique.

Another year passed by since Angus started researching the technique to forming mana core. After a year he found few criteria for his mana core.

First, it needs to have delicate control over mana, next is to increase the flow of his mana around his body, then it must regenerate mana constantly, and many others benefit.

But, the most important thing is to camouflage his mana core grade. This way other people will hardly perceive his grade even after he reaches high grade.

Still, because of his greediness for his mana core criteria, he got an almost impossible mana core to be formed. Even after the combined a few possible methods from the ancient civilization technique, he still didn't find the right way to do it.

Creating the technique is much more complicated than he thought despite his enhanced mind. After a year his intelligence reached 40 point marks. It is already difficult to increase further as the point it needs to increase one is 640 soul points.

Now, he could determine and create simulation inside his mind to make sure if his new technique is working or not. The most troublesome is about the power or energy to create his mana core.

The ancient civilization used rare resources as a supplement to help them create mana core as their body is insufficient to form on their own. Angus could not replicate this feat as he needed a lot of time to research the correct resources for his body.

He could slightly change his technique to consume less energy but it will increase the time to forming his mana core. He needs about twenty years of constant practice for it to be done.

It is with the premise he does it non-stop. If he stops or pauses it for his daily necessity, he will need around forty years to form it.

'Haaa… I guess I will modify my technique to lower my criteria. If only I have unexhausted energy inside my body. Wait… I have it, the heritage chi!!' thought Angus as he finally got an idea.

After slightly modifying his technique inside his mind and run a few simulations, 'This is possible to do. It could be done.' Thought Angus inwardly before suddenly standing up on his desk.

"Angus, is there a problem?" asked Teacher Elis.

"Errr.. yeah I have a stomach ache. I need to go to the toilet now!!" said Angus while storing his books on the desk.

Then, he went out of the class without hearing Teacher Elis reply. Looking at this, teacher Elis knows that Angus just ditches her history class. As Angus was already gone, she couldn't do anything further to him.

"Alright, everyone. It seems my lecture is too boring. Then, write an essay about the history of the Heart kingdom. I want it to be done by next week."

"Eehhh…" replied the other student.

Unlike his usual calm demeanour, Angus body strength and mana already stagnated for a year. He could hardly increase his combat capability any further. He believes that forming a mana core is the best way to improve further.

Because of this, he wants to try forming his mana core right away to increase his stagnated strength. Especially after learning the danger in this world. Right now, his life may be in peace inside the academy.

But, the more he learns about this world, the more he finds that this world is like the hard mode of his previous life. Anything could happen in this world.

Perhaps today the other kingdom will declare war with the Heart Kingdom or there is a chance another monster overlord will be born and strike the Heart kingdom right away.

Whatever it is, he needs to increase his strength as fast as he can to fight all this danger. Only by having absolute power, he could protect his family and himself.

After getting out of the class, Angus immediately goes to his dorm and enters his room. Locked in his room, he takes meditation to calm his excited mind.

The technique he creates is very delicate and needs his entire focus from the start until it finishes. After calming his excited mind, he opened his status panel.

Host: Angus Victory

Age: 11 Years Old

MP: 100/100

Heritage chi: ???

Strength: 20

Dexterity: 20

Intelligence: 40

Vitality: 36

Soul Point: 84

'I hope my 36 point vitality is enough for me to do this technique. Hopefully, the heritage chi is as reliable as I hope so. Otherwise, I will be doomed.' thought Angus.

Then, Angus closed his eyes and circulated his mana around his body from the head to his toe. After circulating it for a while, he focuses all his mana on one point in his heart.

Few hours passed by and he feels his mana in his body reduce significantly. Then, by using his multitasking skill he refined his heritage chi into mana to supply his technique.

One hour.. two hours… five hours.. Angus already lost count of how many hours passed by but he was still persistent in forming his mana. The groundwork is already done, so he could not stop or he will get a major backlash.

After feeling like an eternity, Angus is already sweating like having a long-distance marathon. His body and mind are already exhausted to the extreme. He feels he could collapse anytime if he loses focus just a little bit.

During this time, the heritage chi misty ball suddenly reacted wildly and gave a burst of energy towards Angus. He feels almost going into a berserk state, but using his tenacity he converts all this excessive energy and sends them towards his mana core.

*Buss* Angus feels like hearing a bushing sound and an ethereal blue-coloured crystal form in his heart.

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Mana core, a crystal made of concentration pure mana. Although it is called a crystal it doesn't have any form. It is located in the heart in an intangible shape. It is real yet also not real.

In Firuman, mana core is a very important source of power for the survival of civilian society against the monsters. Yet not everyone could awaken mana core. In the human race, everyone has a chance to form the mana core as long as they have enough talent in perceiving mana.

For the trained children such as nobles, they could even form their mana core early starting from the age of ten. The untrained child needs to have a great talent to form it naturally which usually happens at the age of 13-15.

This range of age is also the age where a human teenager could easily form their mana core manually as their body is more attuned with the mana.

Angus managed to form the mana core at the age of 11 which is already an incredible feat. Only a genius or prodigy could form mana core below the age of 13.

Forming mana core is not easy, it is a tedious and delicate work that needs a full concentration for every step according to each technique instruction.

Each technique is different and like Angus research before, each technique is tailored to a person, race, or someone with a unique body. This also increases the difficulty for other people using the existing technique as it is not compatible with their body.

Angus creates his technique that is suitable for his own body. This technique led him to form his mana core from the get-go without the need to stop.

Furthermore, he has heritage chi that acts as the source power for him to create his mana core. Using all of this, he finally creates an ultimate mana core according to his criteria that is complement his body.

However, this feat is not without repercussion. After Angus formed his mana core, he needed to take an absence for a few days to let his mind and body rest.

Although the new mana core is already working to alleviate his body fatigue, he still feels like taking a rest for his body to completely adapt to the new mana core.

'Haa… This is bliss. Not doing anything for a while and sleeping in my comfy bed.' Thought Angus inwardly before looking at his status panel.

Host: Angus Victory

Age: 11 Years Old

MP: 138/138

Heritage chi: ???

Strength: 20

Dexterity: 20

Intelligence: 40

Vitality: 36

Soul Point: 88

After forming his mana core, his mana immediately increases a lot like a burst of the dam. Normally, this kind of increase will make him harder to control his mana. However, his new mana core could easily solve this problem.

Angus feels like the mana core is a new organ that is always working without the need for him to control it. If before Angus needed to be conscious to manually control his mana in the body, now he feels like there is a machine or tools that help him control it.

The difference is like sky and earth, if before he felt like running on foot, now he feels like riding a bike or motorcycle. He speculated when his mana core grade becomes higher it may feel like riding a car or supercar.

Besides the increase in his mana limit, his strength and dexterity is not grey out and could be increased again. Without wasting any moment, he increases both of them by one and consumes 80 Soul Points in total.

He immediately feels discomfort in his body muscle. His body feels like being pricked by a small needle but it is painless only leaving him a sense of discomfort.

It is more like having a small cramp all over his body. Angus also feels his body is moving or reacting faster than usual as the side effect of increasing his dexterity.

'*Sigh* I will never get used to this. It seems the side effect is becoming worse as the status is higher. Well, it will be another rough month.' thought Angus inwardly.

Then, he looked at the manual battle selection and looked at his opponent list. Angus found that finally the previous opponent below the 60% winning chance improved by one or two percent.

The harder the opponent inside the manual battle will give him more soul points to improve his stat further. Still, he didn't rush and try to fight them, he will wait until it at least reaches the 70% winning chance mark before challenging them.

Although he feels this is only a small improvement, it is still better than before when he didn't improve at all. Satisfied with his improvement, Angus decides to enjoy his comfy bed and sleep. Before he could sleep, *Knock* *Knock* someone knocking on his door.

'Haa.. Just when I want a nice sleep. Whatever, I will ignore it. Besides, no one ever bothered me before. So, probably someone going to the wrong room.' Thought Angus while pulling his comfy blanket.

However, the knocking continued and turned into the sound of the door being hit. If not the door is made of special wood and enchanted, it will be destroyed already.

"ANGUS.. I know you are in there. Open the door!!" shouted a girl with an angry tone.

'Haa… That's Jayna. Just what the hell she wants.' Thought Angus while reluctantly getting out of the bed.

"Angus, Open the doo.." before Jayna finished his sentence Angus opened the door suddenly.

But, Jayna didn't expect this and lost her balance while trying to banging the door. Unfortunately, her hand hit Angus face at the right moment.

Normally, Angus could easily avoid this using his superb body control but his body still fatigued from forming the mana core combined with the increase of his strength and dexterity.

After getting hit Angus immediately fell on the floor, looking at what she did and Jayna panicked. She also didn't expect this as this is the first time Angus gets hit by her.

"A-Angus… A-Are you okay?" asked Jayna worriedly.

Looking at the sleepwear Angus is wearing, she immediately thinks that Angus is truly sick and not pretending like he is usually done.

While Angus is feeling hurt in his face after getting hit by the violent princess, Jayna herself didn't know what to do as she never encountered such a situation. She feels wrong but she also never tends people to injury despite often injuring them.

"Urgh… That hurt. Why did you suddenly hit me?" said Angus with a droopy tone as his body was still limping.

"E-Err… I-I just want to give you the copy note of today and yesterday's lesson. I-I am sorry." replied Jayna, shuttering and giving the paper note.

"Haa… Don't worry about it. it's just a small bump on my face. Okay, thank you for your note." While Angus moved wobbly to get out of the room.

'Damn.. my body feels weak right now.' thought Angus while trying to move his body.

"E-Eh… Angus where are you going?" asked Jayna in a concerned tone.

"Ahh.. I just want to get some ointment for my bum. Don't worry about it." replied Angus

"No.. you stay here. You are sick. You are not supposed to move. Here, I have the ointment." said Jayna while she was given the ointment from her space storage device.

Then, without waiting for Angus to reply she went away from the spot as she didn't feel comfortable in this situation. She also feels guilty for hitting Angus face.

'What a weird girl? Does she on that time of period. None of it matters. Still, I didn't expect my body to be weakened by this much. I guess I need some rest before challenging the manual battle again.' Thought Angus while going inside his room again.

His Idle system only estimates the winning chance from Angus's overall capabilities in top form.

So, if Angus entering while in exhausted form and fight an opponent with a 70% winning chance it is more like suicide. After applying the ointment that Jayna gives, Angus goes back to sleep in his comfy bed.

Few days passed without any trouble. Now, Angus's body is fully healed and he went to the smithing area to meet with the old dwarf Balrug.

Since his body physical limit is increased by his mana core, he will continue his training to increase his training again. At first, he is reluctant to show that he is already forming his mana core to old dwarf Balrug, but he feels the old dwarf will find it sooner or later.

Beside the old dwarf is one of the few people who know his true power. So, for Angus, it doesn't matter whether he knows about it now or later.

Arriving at the empty smithing facility, "Crazy old man, Are you there?" shouted Angus.

After a while, Angus feels weird as there is no response from the Balrug like usual. Then, he decided to enter the smithing facility into the deeper area.

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Entering the smithing facility, Angus found the inner smithing facility is empty. Since it is the weekend. no student or employee is working at this time. Looking that the old man Balrug quarter is empty, Angus begins to check the basement training area.

On the way to the basement, Angus occasionally hears a hammering sound. *Ting* *Ting* Besides the hammering sound, he also heard Balrug's voice instruct someone.

Entering the basement, Angus sees Balrug and Bail is on a big complex smithing station working on something.

"Increase the heat more!!" command Balrug while he hammering something.

As for Bail, he used all his concentration and strength to control the furnace machine. After hearing the sound, the furnace became hotter and even affected the surrounding.

Angus even needs to coat his body and clothes to not get burned. However, the two dwarfs look fine in this kind of environment. They only slightly sweating despite being very close to the furnace.

Looking at this, 'So, this is the racial trait of a dwarf. Even in this kind of burning environment, they still look fine.' thought Angus silently while observing the two dwarfs.

In Firuman, there are a lot of races besides the human race. Some of these races have unique traits such as the elf long lifespan, the demon race bizarre-looking, dwarf fire-resistant body and many others.

Some of these races are quite useful like the fire-resistant body the dwarf has. It helps them resist the heat during their smithing process from the furnace.

Unlike in modern earth smithing, in this world the smithing process is more complicated sometimes they also use a custom furnace to produce a higher temperature.

It is not that the furnace couldn't contain the heat from the inside but it is because the temperature is too high that it cannot be contained.

Looking at the high temperature, Angus feels that if it is not inside this heavy enchanted room, the entire facility will be burning down. This is just from the heat of the furnace radiance.

He subconsciously couldn't imagine how high the temperature inside that customized furnace would seem to explode anytime.

After a while, "Hurry, cooldown the temperature!!" command Balrug.

"Yes, Boss." replied Bail while controlling the furnace.

Suddenly, the furnace began cooling down to a frightening degree. It could even freeze the floor and ceiling. Then, a sizzling sound could be heard and create a lot of smoke. *SSSTTSS*

"Increase the temperature again!!" command Balrug.

As Balrug increases the temperature of the furnace, the room becomes hot again. All of this kind of changing temperature happens a few times.

Seeing that the old man Balrug is too focused on the smithing, Angus gets out of the room as he couldn't stand the changing temperature at a fast speed like this.

Even coating his body with mana, he still couldn't stand the changing temperature rapidly like this. Withstanding high temperature or low temperature is one thing but withstand the changing temperature rapidly is a different matter.

After waiting for hours, Angus thought of going out as he couldn't see the old dwarf. As he wants to go away suddenly the hammering sound is stopped and huge mana feels from the basement. *BOOM*

A moment later, a booming sound heard. Angus immediately went towards the basement area. He was afraid that the furnace couldn't hold and explode. There are already many cases where the customized furnace blows up because it cannot withstand the pressure.

Most of the small furnaces that blow up are small and harmless. But, looking at the furnace that Balrug uses Angus thought that it could explode with the same potential as the C4 explosion on earth.

Entering the basement once again, He found Balrug holding some kind of spear in his hand while Bail rested on the floor exhausted. Looking that it is not the furnace explosion, Angus feels relieved.

After waving the bizarre-looking small looking spear in his hand, "Good… This will be one of my masterpieces." said Balrug proudly.

Finally, after a while, Balrug begins to notice Angus presence. "Brat, you are coming at the right time. Here is your new weapon that I promised one year ago. It took a lot of effort but it's quite a masterpiece." said Balrug proudly.

Looking at the weapon in Balrug's hand, "Y-You.. I-It's that the weapon that.. I…" as Angus couldn't put a word looking at the familiar shape weapon.

"Yeah, this weapon. I believe you called it Sky Thorn from your sketches." replied Balrug happily as he saw Angus' reaction.

"Hilarious… You create that weapon." as Angus immediately approach Balrug.

Then, he looks and tries to touch the bizarre-looking weapon in Balrug's hand like trying to touch a newborn baby. One year ago, Angus requested to use the Manatium Balrug bought for his new weapon.

However, Balrug is not an ordinary crafter and weapon maker. Unless it is something ordinary, he will not make it. So, Angus creates various kinds of weapon sketches for Balrug. Some of them accepted but there also some that are impossible to be built.

Sky Thorn was supposed to be impossible to be built as it is an impractical weapon that is difficult to be used. A weapon that could not be used is the same as junk.

However, at that time the old dwarf only commented that it is an interesting weapon before looking at the other sketches. So, Angus thought that it is impossible to be made.

The weapon looks like a spear with the body made of metal in an entangled vine shape. On both ends, there are long curved shaped blades. There are also some thorns decorated with the blade's sides. It is a bizarre-looking weapon from hell or something similar place.

Looking at the Angus frozen expression, "Oh yeah… it also could do what you told me before." said Balrug

"Really?!!" replied Angus excitedly.

"Yeah, although because of that I need months to create it. But, the function should be similar." explain Balrug.

"Hurry.. Show me.. Show it to me." Angus's mature demeanour immediately change like a kid.

"Okay...Okay.. Just step back a little bit. It might be a little bit dangerous." said Balrug

After Angus steps back a little bit, Balrug positioned the weapon horizontally and sent his mana towards Sky Thorn. Suddenly, the cursed blade in one end shot at incredible speed and hit the nearby wall. *BAM* *CRACK*

Along the curved blade that shoots out, there is a chain attached to it connected to the body. Unexpectedly, Balrug staggered a little bit from the recoil and almost fell.

"I didn't expect that. It's much stronger than I thought to even create a crack on this heavy enchanted wall." said Balrug.

"Awesome!! How did you make it? The chain seems longer than the weapon itself?" asked Angus excitedly after looking at the weapon show.

"Well, I will not bore you with technical stuff. Let's just say I combine spatial products with this and connect them through the chain. The chain could be stretched as long as 200 meters. But, I think I will reduce its firepower since the recoil is too much." explain Balrug.

"200 meters?!! Cool!! That's exactly like I want. I think it is better to not decrease it. Maybe you should increase it. Otherwise, other people could dodge it or parry it." said Angus.

"Hm.. that's true. But, the recoil is very serious. Why don't you try yourself?" replied Balrug while retracting the blades that embedded in the wall.

"Can I?" asked Angus

"By all means.. It's yours from the start anyway." answered Balrug while giving the weapon to Angus.

As Angus holds the weapon, he feels the heaviness of the weapon and checks its stability. After swinging the weapon a few times, "The weapon is perfectly balanced as all things should be. Old man, this is a great weapon."

"Hahaha… Why don't try to shoot it?" said Balrug.

For a crafter like him, he was also satisfied and happy if his client found their weapon compatible and perfectly made for them.

Then, Angus lays it horizontally and sends mana towards one of its ends like Balrug done before. Once again the weapon shoots its curved blade with a chain attached to it towards the wall. *BOOM* *CRACK*

On the contrary, Angus fell on the floor and broke his wrist from the recoil while holding down the weapon.

"Ouch… That's some crazy firepower." said Angus.

"See.. I told you so. Wait for a second, this feeling… Grade one mana core, you are already forming it." commented Balrug.

Hearing Balrug comment, "Well, I just get lucky and forming it earlier." replied Angus.

Angus didn't hide his mana core to Balrug before, so Balrug could easily detect his mana core despite it having the feature to hide its aura.

"You little bastard.. Lucky my ass. I hear the human race usually forming their mana core at the 13-15 years old. To think at the age of 11 you are already forming it. I cannot say anything to your talent, brat." said Balrug.

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After testing the Sky Thorn for a while, Angus tends his broken wrist using his healing art. His healing speed has increased more than before since he formed his mana core.

Not only has his healing art proficiency increased, but his natural healing has also increased. Although the difference is not much since he has quite high vitality.

But, this is also something to take note of for him since it means the higher the grade people have, they also have higher endurance and vitality.

Done healing with the wrist, "Old man, I need to train my body." said Angus casually.

"Ahh.. Yes. since you already formed your mana core, your body physical limit will also increase a little bit. Well, you are already a monster to reach your physical limit despite not reaching the age of puberty."

"Others take years, probably their entire life but you just made it in a few years." grumbled the old dwarf.

"Yeah-Yeah.. You already said that many times before." replied Angus while changing to exercise clothes.

Angus speed growth could only be achieved by using his system. Otherwise, it will take years as Balrug said. But, Angus would never share this secret with anyone as it will create more trouble later. The Idle System is his biggest secret that he will never share with anyone.

"Shut up brat, that means you are the abnormal one!!" rebuked Balrug

Before Angus put the mana restriction mana, "Oh yeah, you should not wear those things for a while." said Balrug.

"Ehh.. what do you mean?" asked Angus confusedly.

"I presume you just formed your mana core, right? This means your mana core is still in a growth period. You should not restrict your mana for a while as it will inhibit its growth. If it is just a moment, it will not be a problem."

"But, if it is for a long period it will inhibit your mana core growth and potential. Since you are from a high noble, I believe your mana core is not an ordinary one. So, you should take care of it carefully." explained Balrug.

"I see… then, how do we process the training?" asked Angus.

"Hahaha… Simple, just exhaust your mana from sparring and get beaten like usual." said Balrug as he took his hammer.

Then, without any hesitation he hit Angus. *Bang*

"Damn, Old man. You are a high-grade combatant. How could you sneak attack on me?" said Angus while defending himself.

He managed to put up his guard using Sky Thorn before parrying the hammer. Still, this attack managed to make him fly back for a few meters.

"Ohh… As expected of my masterpiece, it could withstand this kind of attack. Brat, let's see if you could use Sky Thorn properly?" as Balrug once again attacks Angus.

Because of the difference in strength and speed, Angus could only passively take a beating while coating both his body and Sky Thorn with mana.

Although Angus thrust in Sky Thorn durability, he still preferred to enhance it further using his mana especially while receiving the ridiculous attack from Balrug.

*Bang* *Bang* *Bang* after clashing for a few dozen times, "Hahaha… this reminds me of the first time we clashed with each other. Your control over mana and weapon is still superb no matter how many times I see it." commented Balrug while hitting harder.

Angus was already precarious and full of concentration to parrying Balrug's attack. Balrug way of fighting is different from his father as he is more leaning towards the warrior path. Unlike magicians who could be called glass cannons, Warrior path is strong at close combat.

Because of this, Angus couldn't escape despite already using [Beast Walk] a few times. Every time he ran away, Balrug could catch up with him immediately.

The harsh beating continued until Angus exhausted his mana. Then, Balrug began to beat Angus again with less power to temper his body.

By the time they did through this torture session, Angus already in black and blue haggard condition.

'Damn.. It is just me or the old man becomes harsher when he beats me.' as Angus lay on the ground exhausted.

"Crazy old man, hold back a little bit. You almost kill me in the last clash." said Angus.

"Hahaha… Don't be a pussy. You still survive anyway." reply Balrug while checking the Sky Thorn condition after their previous bout.

"It seems it is still in good condition despite receiving my attacks. Alright, get up brat. Here's your weapon. You sure don't want to tone down its firepower?" asked Balrug while handing Sky Thorn.

"Nope.. I will manage it somehow later. I even want you to increase its firepower." replied Angus while struggling to get up.

After taking a few hours break and healing his wound, Angus went back to his dorm to rest. Even though he could heal his internal wound and has high stamina, he still needs to rest his mental fatigue after using all his all during the spar.

In a high-speed battle like this, every movement must be precise otherwise Angus will get knocked out a long time ago. The reason he could follow up Balrug beating for hours is because of his mental strength and tenacity.

Although he still didn't fully control his body since it was still adapting, if he put his mind into it, he could control his body and keep up with Balrug. The only downside is that it is more exhausting for him mentally.

Returning to his dorm, Angus immediately takes a bath before laying on his comfy bed to sleep. He didn't have time for dinner or doing his manual battle since he was truly exhausted.

All this year, Angus didn't grind his soul points through manual battle like a maniac. Sometimes when he is truly exhausted like right now or in a lazy mood, he will not even do it.

The next morning Angus wakes early like usual. After doing his morning routine, he goes to his class waiting for the others to come.

After waiting for a while, the other student finally coming. At this moment, Jayna keeps looking at him. She seems to want to talk about something but struggles to talk first to Angus.

As for Angus himself, he lay on his desk pretending to sleep like usual. A moment later, Teacher Elis finally arrive.

"Alright everyone, today we have practical combat training like usual. Before that, I will give you a form for your combat path selection. Starting from the next term, your class will be rearranged according to your combat path."

"I already explained each of the combat paths a few weeks ago. But, if you still have some questions, you could ask me during the class or when I have free time. Now, hurry up, change to exercise clothes and meet me at the training ground."

After they get changed and come to the training ground, "Today, we will have a sparring one with each other. Also, Angus, I hear from the headmaster you could back join in the practical exercise.

"I don't know what reason you have before but you could not give me an excuse like a stomach ache or something similar." said Teacher Elis in a chilling tone.

'Urgg… Damn it, why father didn't tell me that before.' thought Angus while he kept nodding with his teacher.

After sparring with Angus and inquiring about the berserk state Angus has, Duke Jacob feels that Angus is in complete control over this state.

Although there is some uncertainty but hearing that Angus could handle it, Jacob didn't have any choice but trust his son.

Since there are five students, they will make one of the students sparring twice. Unfortunately for Angus, Jayna as the strongest in the class is chosen to be this student to fight twice. Furthermore, Angus as the weakest will fight her in the first battle.

At this time, Angus found that Jayna is not as lively as usual. Looking at the worried expression towards him, Angus could guess the reason. Jayna is still feeling sorry and afraid to hurt Angus when he is just recovering from his sickness.

"Alright, Jayna and Angus come forward. Like usual…" teacher Elis begin to explain some rules.

During this time, Jayna is still in trouble about what to do.

'Calm down, Jayna. This is only sparring. But, what if I hurt Angus more after he recovered from his sickness.' thought Angus while feeling more confused at what to do.

During this time, "Teacher, Don't you think this match is unnecessary. Everyone knows that Jayna is violent *Ehem* I mean strong. this will be not a sparring but a bully." said Angus lazily.

"Angus, I don't care about any of your excuses. Besides, you could learn.. Bla.. Bla.. Bla.." lectured teacher Elis.

Hearing Angus comment, 'V-Violent??! Did he just say I am violent?!! Angus, you are dead! You are so dead!!' Cursed Jayna inwardly while glaring at Angus.

Looking at Jayna glaring, Angus could only smirk a little bit.

'What an easy gullible girl.' thought Angus

"Alright, then let's not waste any more time. Both of you ready?" asked Teacher Elis.

Receiving the nod from both students, "Start!"

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"Start!"

Jayna immediately produces a few small fireballs and shoots at Angus rapidly [1st Circle – Flame Shot]. But like usual Angus dodges all the [Flame Shot] while giving expression panic made it looks like he dodges all of them by a fluke.

Already predicting this, Jayna approaches Angus at fast speed and launches a barrage of [Fire Punch] towards him. Looking at this Angus immediately runs around and always looks like barely dodging the incoming [Fire Punch].

"Wuaa… Help.. I surrender… Surrender." said Angus loudly while keep running around.

"Stop, run around and stay still!!" said Jayna angrily.

In the meantime, teacher Elis only looked at the two kids that seemed like playing the game of cat and mouse silently without any intention to stop the fight.

'Every Jayna attack could be dodged easily. It's not normal. But, it looks like he dodged it by a fluke. Haa… I better stop this before it's going to be more escalated.' thought teacher Elis as she feels Jayna's mana fluctuated.

Before teacher Elis could stop the spar, "Take this ." said Jayna.

A burst of fire is coming out from her body towards all directions [Immolate]. Looking at the advanced skill Jayna uses, teacher Elis immediately stops the spar.

"Stop, Jayna. That's enough." shouted teacher Elis as she ready to tend Angus.

She thought Angus would be somehow injured from that huge range of attack. But, after the view clearing, Angus only slumps on the ground unscathed.

"Owwiee… That's quite hot." said Angus.

Meanwhile, Jayna is also slumping on the ground as she uses all her mana in the last attack. Now, she didn't have any strength left to catch up and attack Angus.

Looking at the unscathed Angus, Jayna has a conflicted feeling. Part of her wanting Angus being burned alive, but she also relieved that Angus is not hurt at all like usual. Because of this conflicted feeling, Jayna could only grumble on the spot.

"Angus, are you alright?" asked teacher Elis

"Yep, I am fine. Thought I almost died being roasted by someone." said Angus calmly.

Hearing this, Jayna turn into a bad mood but still couldn't do anything as she is also exhausted.

Before she could rebuke Angus's comment, "Jayna, how many times have I told you to not use big moves or dangerous moves in spar like that." Teacher Elis reprimands Jayna.

"B-But…" Jayna is trying to defend herself.

"No, but! how many times I told you during the fight you need to control your emotion and not let it control you. You need to stay calm.. Bla.. Bla.. Bla.." as Teacher Elis began to lecture Jayna while she could only nod to her.

After that, the practical lesson continued for the other students to spar with each other. There is no notable student in his class besides Jayna and Wylda that uses water elemental spells.

During all these years, her mastery over the water element spell is huge. She could cast [Aqua Ball] faster and more precise.

Water element affinity is quite rare for people that reside in the Heart Kingdom, but that doesn't mean there are no other people having water element affinity.

In Angus's peer, there are only two people having water elemental affinity which Ian and Wylda while the rest having fire elemental affinity. This shows how rare other elemental affinity is besides fire in the Heart Kingdom.

Although Wylda is not as strong as Ian in a fight, her water elemental affinity insight is higher than Ian. Ian is focused more on fighting and spells while Wylda is training her water elemental to be better than learning new spells.

Angus knows all of this from the skill book that they drop during the manual battle. By using the manual battle against humanoid Wylda and Ian, he could have some chance to get a skill book.

The skill book not only contains the skill or spells about the target person but also their insight.

Soon, the practical combat began to end. Like usual, Angus immediately went towards the canteen to have lunch before attending his side course in the afternoon.

While having lunch like usual, he remembers the form about the fighting path he needs to choose. The Royal Academy will rearrange the student according to their kind of specialization.

This is kind of a dilemma for Angus, although he told his father to choose a Hybrid path in this academy he may choose a different path with the least of trouble such as sparing.

The only path with the least trouble is the magician path, according to what he knows. The magician path class is often delved into research of spells rather than practical exercise like combat.

This class is the best way to hide his true strength and enjoy his academic life. However, there is a rumour that they still need to at least be capable of casting spells during the combat calmly.

The final examination is also quite different from the others. Angus couldn't ask his brothers since Vergil is on the Hybrid path class while Jason is on the Warrior path class.

So, Angus didn't know about the Magician path examination test. He is also not a very social person that will ask the upperclassmen. Having a connection with most of the upperclassmen are quite a handful because of their family background.

After that, Angus decides to choose the Magician Path class as he feels that it will become less trouble for him later. Besides as someone from Earth without magic, He is very interested in magic and spells.

The Magician path class in the Royal Academy allows their students to learn any spell inside the Royal Academy library. Usually, the royal academy will restrict students to learn spells unless they pay it with points.

However, the Magician Path has the policy to encourage students to learn spells as much as possible. Because of this, the student of Magician Path could gain access to all the spells available in the academy.

Even some of the teachers didn't have this kind of privilege when learning the spell from the academy. This shows the greatness of the Royal Academy of Heart Kingdom.

In the afternoon, Angus has the side course of Magical Engineering. Since he is already in the third year of attending this course with a good report, he finally gets a special privilege to work on some practical things.

It is nothing complicated to build some small machine as the final assessment. Today, his class is having a kind of workshop attended by various kinds of teachers and employees.

Apparently, in this world, there is also a robot or artificial intelligence. The pinnacle product of Magical Engineering itself is these kinds of artificial intelligence.

There are some classes in these kinds of artificial intelligence. The higher their class, the better their capability. Up until today the one that could be known is Droid, Golem, Colossus, and Titan class.

Some of the legends said that there is another artificial intelligence class that is much better than ordinary living beings in the ancient civilization. It is called Homunculus, the legendary creation of Magical Engineering.

Today, inside the Magical Engineering course they will show the student about a second handed golem. Although it is a second-handed artificial intelligence machine the price of it is almost the same as an artefact.

Because the production of golem takes a lot of time and resources. It is also difficult and needs experts to assemble them. Any kind of golem is priceless.

Entering the class that was already full of students, Angus chose to sit in the back as it is the only seat left. On the podium, there is a human-size box that is covered with a blanket.

After all the students gather, they begin the workshop. Soon, they explained some part of the golem and its simple creation method.

During the interval of the workshop, one of the teachers pulls out the blanket and shows a humanoid size thing that is covered in some rock. Like the other classes, the golem also has many kinds of type.

'Judging from the looks of the golem. It should be battle type stone golem.' thought Angus

"62637788 Battle Type Stone Golem active." said one of the teachers.

The sleep golem immediately created a humming sound and a bluish light shone from all its joints. Then, it starts to wake up and sit down.

"Stone Golem activated." said the golem emotionlessly.

"WAAA…" said the audience.

Every student in the room was immediately surprised and had a star in their eyes looking at the stone golem especially the boys. Some of them even like meeting their long life idol and having short seizures.

"Calm down, students. The show is not yet done." said the teacher to calm the audience.

Then, two muscular people bring a huge rock towards the podium. From the looks of the two muscular people's expressions, the rock is very heavy. Another muscular person came in.

"Everyone, this is teacher Fernand a grade four combatant that specializes in teaching students in Warrior path. Teacher Fernand please." said the other teacher on the podium.

Then, teacher Fernand takes a gigantic hammer nearby and enhances it using his mana before slamming it towards the huge rock in the podium. *Boom*

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*Boom* The podium is receiving quite a quake and shockwave from Teacher Fernand strength. Fortunately, the podium is heavily enhanced for this kind of show. Otherwise, it will be destroyed from the teacher's strength.

All the people's attention is looking at the rock that is left unscathed without any crack. The students are in awe looking at this show. They could feel the power of Teacher Fernand release before is many times stronger than their all-out attack.

Then, the Magical Engineering teacher thanks teacher Fernand for the power show. Before continuing the workshop.

"This rock is a special rock called Palpat. This is one of the hardest materials in the Firuman. Usually, it is one of the ingredients to create a fortress or strong shelter."

"I will not bore you with the details as this is not an alchemy course. Now, let's see how the golem deals with Palpat." Said the teacher.

After that, the teacher commands the Stone Golem to destroy the Palpat. The silent golem began to move and stand on the podium. Each step creates a loud sound that shows its heaviness.

"Target identified. Battle mode commencing." said the golem expressionlessly.

Then, the golem raises its stony arm and imbues them with a high concentration of mana before slamming it down towards the rock. *BAM*

Another strong shock wave produced towards the surroundings. Unlike before, the Palpat rock has a crack but is still not destroyed. Less than a second later, the stone golem slammed both hands continuously towards the rock. *BAM* *BAM* *BAM*

The rock soon turned into debris. All the students were surprised looking at the stone golem performance.

The strength of the stone golem is a little bit higher than Teacher Fernan. But the most amazing thing is that it could launch the same attack dozens of times without the need to charge each attack.

"Target Eliminated." said the stone golem before it back towards its spot.

Then, the teacher began to explain a few more things about the stone golem and how they work. While everyone takes notes and focuses their attention back on the teacher, Angus looking at the debris.

He found that there are few strands of the grey ball in the rock position before. At first glance, he thought it was dust but the grey ball seems like hovering around the Palpat stone before being attracted to him.

During this time, none of the students or teacher seems to realize the grey ball that is flying over in the air towards Angus. Without stopping the grey ball from entering Angus body. He thought to dodge the grey ball but it will create commotion towards the surrounding.

Suddenly, a prompt from his system panel appeared. "A huge amount of soul is detected nearby. Begin absorbing."

Reading the system prompt made him absent-minded for a moment and let the grey ball enter his body. But, Angus didn't feel anything before got another prompt from his system.

"Acquired 500 Soul Points." said the system.

'Ehh.. what just actually happened.' thought Angus before looking at his status panel.

Host: Angus Victory

Age: 11 Years Old

MP: 140/140

Heritage chi: ???

Strength: 21

Dexterity: 21

Intelligence: 40

Vitality: 36

Soul Point: 534

Angus immediately surprised looking at his Soul Points increase by 500 Points. Confusion and shock engulf his mind.

Fortunately, despite his surprise, he didn't show it on the outside. Moreover, he also sits in the back and does not gather any other student attention even if his expression of shock.

After calming down his mind, 'I need to research this Palpat material. Unfortunately, such a precious material is hard to get. I hope I can find this information in the library later.' thought Angus calmly.

Soon, the workshop comes to an end and Angus immediately goes towards the library. Fortunately, the library is open until night so he still has some time to look around.

After looking around, Angus immediately found some book about Palpat stone. The material is known as one of the hardest materials in Firuman. Its rarity is almost the same as Manatium, a material with high mana conductivity.

For Royal Academy to procure this just to show the golem strength is a kind of waste. But, after some research, he found that Palpat stone is very hard with only a few ways to crack it.

Angus speculates they use the golem strength to make it into pieces before the owner sells it. As one of the hardest materials, this kind of big chunk rock is quite useless for crafters or others since it is more expensive to crack or cut them.

Still, Angus couldn't find any information about the grey misty ball inside the Palpat stone. After wanting to do his research, he found a unique story about Palpat stone.

Rather than a story, it is a myth. In ancient times, Palpat stone is often found in the cemetery because it served as a tombstone for its people. However, this kind of practice is already forgotten since it is a waste to use this kind of material for a tombstone.

'Tombstone.. Soul point… Don't tell me!! The palpat stone could entrap someone's soul. After it was destroyed by the golem, the entrapped soul was released and absorbed by me.' conclude Angus while also surprised at this revelation.

'If it is true then my system could also absorb other deceased souls. Damn, that kind of sinister.' Thought Angus

Although Angus is indifferent towards life and death because of his previous life experience, he still has some morality and will not overstep some unethical things.

But what about the soul of the assassin I killed last time? Perhaps, his soul is too low for the system to notice. Since the system only shows rounded numbers. Huft.. too many unanswered questions.' Thought Angus inwardly.

By the time Angus researched with his little browsing, it was already late in the evening. Angus couldn't help but look at the starry night.

"It seems that this system is more mysterious than I thought. Well, Let's see what fate brings me in the future." as Angus walk along with the chilly wind.

While Angus tries to understand his mysterious Idle System, the world falls into chaos. All of this because the time for Monster Overlord to begin its attack is nearing.

Even as the time is nearing, none of the leaders is receiving a consensus about how to deal with the Monster Overlord. All the national leaders are doing a wait and see policy.

As for the kingdom that borders the Dark Forest could only hope their kingdom is not targeted by Monster Overlord.

All they want is to get some profit while fighting the Monster Overlord. The leaders wait for the Monster Overlord to attack one of them and make its targeted nation pay some price towards them by giving an aiding force.

Fortunately, in the last few months, the lower grade monster attack has stopped. But, the people know that this time is calm before the storm.

All the kingdom and nation that bordered the Dark Forest immediately fortified their defence to hold the storm that is coming next year.

During this precarious time, inside the Heart kingdom Grand Palace. King Leon is sitting on his throne while a group of people in white attire and heavy armour are standing in front of them.

"So, you are saying that my kingdom will be in chaos soon." said King Leon expressionlessly.

"Yes, King Leon. From my vision, I saw war, treachery, death of many people that will plunge this nation. The only way is by asking help toward…" said the woman in white attire.

"Hahahaha… Vision. Tell me, young lady, did you also see your death in that vision?" said King Leon when he suddenly disappeared and choked the woman.

All the heavy armoured people immediately tried to protect the woman. Before they could move, all of them were stopped by a weapon near their throat from the surrounding guard.

"Don't move unless you want to die." said one of the head guards.

"I thought the church of Orion is different from the others but you come to my palace and give me bad news about my kingdom which is a very funny joke. So, tell me why I should believe in your so-called vision?" asked King Leon while releasing his grip.

"*Cough* Only by... becoming the follower… *Cough* of God Orion.. Your Kingdom… *Cough* Will be saved." said the woman in rough breath after being choked.

"I see... interesting. So, tell me did you see your death in your so-called vision?" asked King Leon again.

"Yes… I see it." replied the woman

"How about others? All your people?" King Leon said while looking at the others.

"T-They… " before she could answer King Leon.

The king himself disappears in the blink of an eye and all the people in the group beside the woman are butchered into meat paste instantly. Before he appears in front of the woman without a speck of blood.

"Sorry, missy. You are not very convincing. Since they try to harm me in the palace, then they should die. Also, Miss Oracle, there are worse things than the so-called dead. If you can't see your demise that means you are lying to me.

"Guard, send her to Master Valeron." command king Leon.

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"Guard, send her to Master Valeron." command king Leon.

"N-No.. This should not happen." said the woman hysterically.

As the guard picks the woman that is in a panic state, a commotion heard from the outside. Before long a person in full metal armour comes in.

"Selin, Are you alright?" said the man.

Looking at the butchered meat paste along with the Orion symbol, the man immediately looks at King Leon who is smiling.

"King Leon!!" roared the man.

"Who are you? How dare you…" before the head guard said anything further, King Leon raised his hand and made him stop talking.

At this time, the man in full metal armour flared up his mana and managed to suppress the other guard while King Leon looked at him with slight interest.

"Stop, Barnes. Get out from…" said the woman in white attire named Selin.

Before she could finish her sentence, King Leon disappeared from the spot and a crashing sound heard. *Boom*

"Hoo… You managed to react to my attack." said King Leon casually.

Meanwhile, Barnes in full metal armour is crashing into the wall. His full metal armour is broken into pieces revealing a man in mid twenty years old.

"Ehh.. unexpectedly you are still young. Let me guess you are the one that is called the champion of God." comment King Leon.

Suddenly, Barnes releases huge mana towards the surrounding and shows he is a grade six combatant. Feeling this the guard couldn't help but stagnant on their spot.

"Impossible… How could he already grade six combatant at that age." said one of the guards.

Everyone knows that grade six is very rare and the main powerhouse in this world. The youngest human race grade six is Duke Victory who reached this level a few years ago at the age of forty. But, now a younger person reaches this grade in the middle of his twenty.

"It seems my guess is right. You are the champion of God. Come, let's see if the champion of God worthy of its title." taunting King Leon.

Then, Barnes takes his sword, "DIE!!" both of them immediately clash at fast speed. *Bang* *Bang* *Bang* Every clash produces a shockwave towards the surrounding.

Fortunately, the grand palace is heavily enchanted that could even withstand a punch from King Leon. They may have clashed a lot but for the people who could see their movement, it is King Leon that is toying with Barnes.

Each shockwave is produced by King Leon fist while Barnes could only parry the attack without a chance to counter-attack. Even if he tries to dodge, the King will almost catch up in a moment later.

Finally, King Leon punched Barnes's gut and threw him away towards the nearby wall. Barnes could only accept his fate and embedded it into the nearby wall.

"*Cough* *Cough* I-Impossible. What kind of power is that?" said Barnes while coughing some blood.

"Tch.. Done already. As usual, the champion of God is weakling. You are even weaker than all my Dukes." commented King Leon without answering Barnes.

"*Cough* I-I was supposed the champion of God. *Cough* The will of God Orion. *Cough* *Cough* Haa.. There is no way Ha... I will be defeated by a blasphemer such as you." Said Barnes while he channelled all his mana towards his necklace.

"Die you, Heretic!!" Roared Barnes.

Suddenly, Barnes couldn't feel his hand holding his necklace. Few meters away from him, King Leon stood still while holding a hand that was grabbing a necklace.

"Ehh… an artifact. Interesting... what does it do?" as King Leon took out the jewellery necklace from Barnes's hand.

Feeling the ache of losing his hand, "ARRRGGHH" shout Barnes painfully.

King Leon looked at the artifact carefully before walking away, ignoring Barnes and Selin.

Looking at their king already ignoring both of them, "My king, what should we do towards them?"

"Huh.. of course, dispose of them. Also, clean up this mess." said the king while looking back at the artifact.

Before the head guard went, "Oh yeah. Kill that woman too and send an Exterminator squad to hunt all these Orion believers. Also bring all of their documents, records, or artifacts here." command King Leon.

"Yes, my Lord." said the head guard respectfully before sending some men.

A few moments later, the old butler Darius comes in along with a few other butlers and a maid. Then, they begin cleaning the throne room from the meat paste and blood like it is a normal occurrence.

Looking at the mess inside the throne room, "This will take a while." said the old butler Darius while supervising the other employee.

"Darius." call the King from the throne.

"Yes, my liege." replied Darius respectfully.

Then, King Leon throws the necklace towards Darius. Darius catches the necklace while waiting for further instruction.

"Huft… these religious organizations are getting bolder lately. Make sure none of them could influence my child. Also, send that artifact to master Valeron for research along with the record from the Orion organization." commanded King Leon.

"As you wish, my lord." replied Darius.

"Oh yeah, How about Ulvic's condition?" asked King Leon.

"The third prince, he is still frustrated over the artifact." replied Darius.

"*Sigh* he should just give up that artifact. Even I could not do anything about that spear. Alright, you can go now." said King Leon.

"Yes, my lord." replied Darius politely.

As Darius backs away, a guard comes in.

"My lord, this is a letter from the Black Fortress." said the guard while giving the letter to King Leon.

"Alright, you can go." said King Leon while dismissing the guard.

Then, he opened the letter seal before reading it carefully. A few moments later, King Leon burned the letter before going back silent as nothing happened.

'I hope this is enough.' thought King Leon silently.

Later on that day, the Orion religion is declared as a rebel organization that tries to assassinate King Leon. All of its believers are killed on the spot and their resources are confiscated by the Extermination Squad.

Extermination Squad is a special squad that deals with search and destroy jobs. They also often hunt hidden organizations that endanger the kingdom. They always get their job done to the root or source of the organization.

There is a saying you could do any crime but never being targeted by the Extermination Squad. Almost no one ever got away from the Extermination Squad.

Whenever they targeted something, it is like they know everything about the target from their hiding place to whatever they hide.

Meanwhile, in the Black Fortress, a huge construction is built. If the wall surrounding the Black Fortress is about 5 meters tall, now it becomes ten meters tall and all of it is heavily enchanted.

To anticipate the Monster Overlord attack around a year from now, the Heart Kingdom didn't spare any resources and made the new wall Fortress completely with Palpat stone.

As one of the hardest materials in Firuman that is as rare as Manatium, the Heart Kingdom is paying an enormous price to gather all these materials along with the construction and engineering expert.

It could be said that the Heart Kingdom is using all their resources to fortify the Black Fortress. This shows how serious Heart Kingdom's response towards the attack of Monster Overlord is.

Although there are many other kingdoms besides the Heart kingdom that are near the Dark Forest there is still a chance for them to be targeted and attacked by Monster Overlord.

Not only this, there is even a rumour that King Leon asked for a few high grades in his allied kingdom and hired a high-grade mercenary to defend the Dark Fortress.

Based on Duke Victory's report and what he knows about the new Monster Overlord behaviour, he finds that the new Monster Overlord is too intelligent and much more dangerous than other Monster Overlords.

Moreover, there is still no concrete knowledge about the new Monster Overlord since all its body is enclosed with dark thick miasma.

Besides the Heart kingdom, the other kingdoms in the Dark Forest also begin fortifying their defence to prepare for war against the new Monster Overlord.

Now, every high-grade mercenary, be it from an adventure guild or not is getting an offer to increase the security of kingdoms and nations.

While all the nations increase their fortification and prepare for war, inside the inner area of Dark Forest a thick miasma is covering everything like usual.

A whisper chanting sound in an unknown language could be heard from the inside of this thick miasma.

"ROOf.. As… Gull... VARDA" as the chanting ends.

Few distortions in the space appeared in the surrounding, after a while a thick black miasma that produced the chanting sound released a roaring sound. *ROAR

"GGRTTTFFTT….[Why do you disturb my sleep? O newborn Overlord.]" a sound heard from one of the distortion spaces.

"HUUMMHMMM…. [Yes, I am in the middle of a sweet dream before you disturb me, young one.] a humming sound heard from one of the distortion spaces.

"ROOAARRR… [You better have good reason to disturb my bath time.] a roaring sound heard from one the distortion space.

"KYAAK AKKA… [At ease, everyone. I believe you have your reason to call all of us Monster Overlord here.]

"RAA… BVAA… ALGULL… [It's time for civilization to become a sacrifice]" replied the thick miasma.

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"RAA… BVAA… ALGULL… [It's time for civilization to become a sacrifice]" replied the thick miasma.

"HMMHUUUMMM…. [O Young One, you are too impatient. It is not the right time for us to move.]" replied one of the distortion space.

"RUFF... TRAA… FURS… [The Civilization Society is divided unlike before. Help me and I will fulfil our task] said the thick miasma.

"KYAA KYYAAA… [Even if they are divided, one does not simply destroy the Civilization Society. Many have already tried yet they fail. What makes you so different from others?]." Commented one of the Monster Overlords.

"FAR…. STUMM... [I have this]." said the thick miasma while showing a black orb towards the other.

"GRRTTRRTT…. [Artifact? No, it is made of pure miasma.]" replied one of the Monster Overlords.

"FUR… STUMM.. AMUM.. YOL.. VADA… [This is no ordinary artifact. With this, we will have an endless army. The fallen one will rise.]" said the thick miasma while showing a glimpse of vision towards other monster overlords.

"ROOARR…GRR… ROAARR [Such a dreadful item. It should be not without repercussion. None of it matters to me, I will lend you my army. Don't bother me again before you prove us that you are different from others.]" said one of the monster overlords before its distortion space engulfed in fire and gone.

"HUUMMHH… HUMMMHH…. [As usual, such a temper. But, he is right. We will only lend you our army like the others. Proof us that you could lead us by leading this army. Don't disappoint us, young one.]" said one of the monsters overlord before its distortion space disappeared.

After that the other distortion spaces are also gone, leaving the thick dark miasma alone with the dark orb.

"RUFR.. FAR… RUFR.. FAG… AVIN… [I will… I will show all of you that I am different from all of you. I will lead all of you to fulfil our great task.]" roar the thick miasma towards the surrounding like declaring his will towards the world.

Unbeknown to civilian society, they will face a monster overlord's attack that they have never experienced before.

Half a year has passed by since then. During this time, there is no sign of huge activity or movement from the Dark Forest. But, all the kingdom nearby knows that it is calm before the storm.

Still, no one is daring enough to venture inside the Dark Forest. Although there is no sign of activity, the outer area of the Dark Forest is still occupied by hordes of various kinds of monsters.

Sometimes people wonder where all of this monster comes from. Considering that not long ago they already launched countless waves of monster attacks, but still have countless monsters.

However, this is quite logical since the Dark Forest itself is half the size of all Civilian Society combined.

Just by this fact alone and combined with the fast reproduction of monsters it is not wrong that millions of monsters reside in the Dark Forest.

Under normal conditions, monster reproduction ability is the same as a normal beast or animal. However, inside the thick miasma place like Dark Forest, the monster reproduction ability is faster by a few times.

Some monsters could even birth dozens of younglings at once. Moreover, their growth also enhanced. If it is not because of their nature to fight one with each other, the monster will already overpopulate the Firuman.

However, under the command and leadership of Monster Overlord, this infighting is stopped. Like a law, every monster below grade six will always obey the Monster Overlord. It is something that is already ingrained in their nature.

While the world falls into a tense situation where war could erupt every moment, Angus inside the Royal academy is having a Magician Class examination.

After the fourth year inside the Royal Academy, students are qualified to go into a specialized class where they will be divided into the Warrior Class, Magician Class, and Hybrid Class.

Before they enter their chosen specialized class, they will be tested. If the student fails their chosen class, they will be tested for another class. If they fail all of them, they need to repeat the year for having a test next year.

However, all the students in the Royal Academy are either talented or have a huge background. They will choose to drop out to change to another academy rather than repeating another year.

it could be said that if students fail all three class tests, they will be dropped out to change into another academy. Because of this, many students are very nervous about this specialization test.

The test consists of two parts, the academic test and the practical test. For the Magician Class, the academic class could be said to be the hardest. The student needs to be proficient in science physic, arithmancy, magical runes, and world language at an advanced level.

Many students fail hard because they couldn't score enough in these subjects. In academic courses, all these subjects could be said as the hardest subject among the others.

Fortunately, Angus intelligence is already high enough to even give him sort of short term strong memory. Using his enhanced intelligence, he could easily pass the test with flying colour.

Still, like usual, he made some mistakes in his answer during the test to not get a perfect score and attract some commotion. So, he will get a good score but not a perfect score.

Despite that, he still got the score second only to Jayna. Although Jayna chose Hybrid Class, she also needs to be tested in academic subjects. In a Hybrid class test, they need to be proficient in all subjects at the beginner level.

If it is not because Angus is famous for being weak, he may already rank in the top ten or more based on his academic score. Still, because of his score on the test, Angus also has not ranked last anymore since a few years ago.

Now, Angus is waiting for his turn to be tested in the practical exam of Magician Class. From the rumour he picks up among the students, the practical exam is different from one student to another.

Be it Warrior Class, Magician Class, or Hybrid Class all of them have different tests according to the student. As Royal Academy is famous for producing quality over quantity, they always conduct their practical exam this way to ensure their student quality.

If the student is not lucky enough, they will need to fight against the teacher. Of course, the teacher will only defend themself while using a low powered attack to disturb the student. Then, the student will be scored based on their performance.

Now, Angus is quite nervous not because of the examination but because he is afraid to fight against the teacher. Despite his perfect control over his body, he is still afraid that his cover is blown.

After waiting for a while, Angus got called inside the examination room. As he enters the examination that is similar to Balrug's basement room, he sees a teacher inside the room.

"Good day, Angus Victory, right?" asked the teacher while holding some document in his hand.

"Yes, sir." replied Angus shortly.

"Don't be too nervous. This is just a small exam. Hmm… It seems you have a good score on the academic course." said the teacher while read at his document

"Y-Yes, sir." Angus started to have a bad feeling about this.

Looking at Angus's expression, "Hahaha… Don't worry too much about it. Your test just has to hit some dummy target." said the teacher to ease Angus worry.

Hearing this Angus immediately feeling relief. As long as it is not fighting against the teacher any kind of test is fine.

"Judging by your relief expression, you must be afraid of the test is fighting against me. Well, that rumour is baseless, but only special students will need to fight against teachers." explain to the teacher while he set up the dummy with different distances.

Then, the teacher explained that Angus needed to hit all the dummy to pass the test using any kind of spell. Before Angus could start casting a spell, a person came into the examination room.

"Pardon my intrusion. I have not disturbed the test, right?" said the headmaster Antonio.

"Headmaster, No we have not started yet. What brought you here?" asked the teacher respectfully.

"Oh, Gustav you got an emergency call from one of your clients." said the headmaster.

"Client? Which one?" asked teacher Gustav curiously.

"I don't know the details but he said he is from Fusca city without giving his name." explain the headmaster.

"Fusca city?! Err…." as teacher Gustav looked at Angus.

"It seems something important is coming up. How about this, you could leave the examination to me while you tend your business." as the headmaster gave his suggestion.

"Really… Then, thank you very much, Headmaster. I will repay you later." replied teacher Gustav while going out of the examination room.

"Sorry for this, young man. I hope this will not trouble you" said the headmaster to Angus.

"N-No problem, headmaster." replied Angus

'Damn it. Why does it suddenly change into the headmaster?' Curse Angus inwardly.

"Don't be nervous, young man. Just pretend I am a normal examiner. Now, let's see here. Dummies targets. Alright, young man, you can start anytime you want." said the headmaster.

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"You can start anytime you want." said the headmaster.

'Fuhh.. Calm down just doing as 'normal' as possible.' thought Angus as he took a deep breath to calm his mind.

Then, Angus concentrated and looked at the three dummy in front of him. Angus begins to calculate in his mind and create a magic circle in front of his hand.

Less than a second later, he shot a ball of fire towards the first dummy target [1st Circle - Firebolt]. [Firebolt] hit exactly at the dummy.

He kept using [Firebolt] and shot at the second dummy target with a dozen second intervals. But, as he shot towards the last dummy target it suddenly moved away dodge Angus's [Firebolt].

Fortunately, for each dummy Angus get a chance twice to hit it using any kind of spell. Angus stays expressionless and tries to create [Firebolt] again.

'As expected, it is not as simple as this. Otherwise, it is too easy for examination.' thought Angus inwardly while pretending to give his all to create [Firebolt].

For someone at his age, it is normal to could only cast [Firebolt] a few times. Normally, students at his age with high proficiency at controlling mana could only cast the first circle spell up to eight times.

So, struggling after shooting [Firebolt] three times is quite normal. With his mana capacity, he actually could cast the first circle spell such as [Firebolt] dozens of times without getting tired at all.

However, Angus wanted to pretend to be weak in front of the headmaster and could not help but act. Using his full control in his body, he could even make his heartbeat increase, facial expression paler, and sweating more than usual.

'Fortunately, I didn't increase any of my stat yet this month.' thought Angus while he controlled his mana at a superb level to create the [Firebolt] in his hand flicker a little bit.

A few seconds later, Angus shot [Fireball] to the idle dummy. But at the last second, it managed to dodge it again. As for Angus, he already slumped on the ground with 'rough breathing'.

Angus made his expression look sad that he failed the test as he couldn't hit all the dummy. At this moment, the headmaster approaches Angus.

Looking at the saddening Angus expression, "Don't worry, young man. Sometimes failure is part of the success." encourage the headmaster.

"But… I still fail the test." replied Angus sadly.

"Who said that you failed? You show me a remarkable focus and concentration that not every student at your age could do it. Besides, the condition to hit all the dummy is actually to make you give everything you got." explained the headmaster.

'Yep, as I expected. Besides, who is the right mind gives a test of hitting moving objects to an eleven years old kid? Heck.. even some of the adults even struggle at this test.' Thought Angus inwardly while listening to the headmaster explanation.

"T-Then…" as Angus pretends to be happy.

"Yes, Angus Victory, you are passed and qualified to enter the Magician Class." declared the headmaster.

"Yeah!! Thank you headmaster." replied Angus happily while expressing his gratitude.

"Alright, then if you excuse me." said Angus while wanting to go out from the examination room.

"Hold on, Angus. Why don't we have another test? This test will not affect your previous result. But, if you show me a good performance in this test, you will get another plus point in your report." entice the headmaster.

'What the.. Why would you give me another test? *Sigh* Troublesome.' thought Angus

"Err.." as Angus pretends to be confused at his choice.

"Don't worry about it. The test is simple. I hear you are good at dodging. You only need to dodge my attack for one minute. Of course, I will only use the first circle spell." explain the headmaster.

'Huft.. If I never try to spar against my father. I may be enticed to take this test. But, why the trouble to expose myself.' thought Angus silently.

"I am sorry headmaster, but I refuse. Now, I am quite exhausted after casting all those [Firebolt]" as Angus refuses the headmaster offer politely.

"I see.. It's a shame. You have a great talent, Angus." said the headmaster.

Hearing this, Angus's expression changes for a second before immediately back to calm. Then, Angus excuses himself to go out of the examination room.

'Such a shame.. he has a good body for his age. Perhaps Hybrid Class is more suitable for him than Magician class with his talent. But, it's his own choice.' thought the old headmaster inwardly.

Meanwhile, Angus immediately finds a secluded spot before releasing a sigh.

'Talent huh… That's just a curse.' thought Angus while remembering a memory of his past.

'Angus, you have great talent. Don't waste it.' as Angus remembers his old master last word.

"Huff.. I am sorry, master. That's already my past. Now, I just want a peaceful life." declare Angus to himself.

After the examination period, the Royal Academy gives the student a break like usual. Now, Angus is entering the carriage alone without Vergil.

Vergil is already in the 8th year this year and his examination is a little bit special that needs him to go outside the academy. So, right now Angus is riding his carriage alone.

Arriving at his townhouse, Angus changes his clothes before going outside his manor towards the commercial section.

After walking for a while, he arrived at the Golden Trade merchant guild. In Firuman, there are many kinds of guilds. Adventurer guild is the most famous as they usually accept any kind of job request.

However, there are other specialized guilds like merchant guilds. Like its name, the Merchant guild is dealt with trading and money. Sometimes, famous merchant guilds could also become sort of banks.

Golden Trade merchant guild is one of the famous merchant guilds in the Heart Kingdom. They have a lot of branches throughout the Firuman, especially in the human kingdom.

One of them is the Golden Trade Auction Hall which auctions many kinds of rare items. Furthermore, because of their huge prestige they never openly cheat their customers.

Although they have quite a huge fee for each transaction, they are more trustworthy when dealing with a lot of money or purchasing in bulk than ordinary merchants.

This is also one of the Angus reasons to come to the Golden Trade merchant guild. Angus wants to sell monster parts.

His manual battle system not only drops skill books but it also drops some monster part when he is fighting against the monster. Sometimes it even could drop monster cores that are always high in demand in the market.

During all this year, Angus also tries to fight various kinds of monsters inside his manual system. Because of this, his system inventory is full of various parts monster body.

Still, the monsters he could fight are limited only to the one he observes inside the monster house. Although the monster is too aggressive during this period, it didn't hinder students in the Monster Physiology course to observe and learn about monsters.

Besides during this time, students could also find many unusual behaviours that are not recorded in the book. Because Angus's monster system is based on the academy's monster house it only contains ungraded and few grade one monsters.

Despite this, his monster part is slowly accumulated inside his system inventory. So once in a while during the break, Angus will sneak out of the townhouse manor to sell his monster part in bulk.

After inquiring with a few merchants, he found that the Golden Trade merchant guild is the best to sell his bulk monster part. Although some of the parts are quite useful for his alchemy experiment he still could obtain many more later.

If it is not because his system inventory space seems infinite, it may already be full during the few months he fought against the monster. Entering the Golden Trade, Angus goes towards one of the counters.

"Welcome, how may I help you?" said one of the staff behind the counter.

"Could you please call manager Ernest?" said Angus while showing the staff a gold card with a Golden Trade emblem.

Looking at the golden card, "A-Alright, Sir. May I know from whom I speak with?" asked the staff politely.

"Just tell him, it is from Angus." replied Angus.

"Yes, sir. Please wait a minute." said the staff before going to the communication device nearby.

Few minutes of waiting the staff back to Angus, "Sir Angus, please follow me to one of our VIP rooms."

"Alright, lead the way." replied Angus.

Then, the Agnus is being let into one of the enclosed rooms. Although the room looks normal and ordinary, he could feel many runes enchanted all over the room. He feels like being isolated from the outside.

Few moments of waiting inside the room, a young man in his twenties with neat clothes entered the room.

"Angus, my dear friend. I am sorry to make you wait. There are a lot of documents that I need to take care" said the young man while giving Angus a handshake.

"No problem, Ernest. I am not waiting that long." replied Angus.

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"I am not waiting that long." said Angus.

"So, like the usual?" asked Ernest

"Yes, like usual" as Angus gives Ernest a space storage pouch he already prepared before.

"As straightforward as always. Alright wait here for a bit while I checked the item." said Ernest while taking the monster part from the pouch storage.

Angus didn't give him his wristwatch storage as it is more expensive and rare than he previously thought. According to Ernest, the space storage model wristwatch is very limited and rare. It is something that almost cannot be bought with money.

It is not because of its great function, but because of the rareness. In this world, only a few people could produce such items. This made Angus surprised at Balrug's reputation as he could procure this kind of item easily using his connection.

Because of this, he learns from his mistake and becomes more prudent at revealing his wristwatch space storage. Unfortunately, the space storage item couldn't be stored inside another space storage item.

So, Angus needs to bring his other space storage pouch carefully when he walks outside. Luckily, Angus gets a more huge storage space storage pouch from Ernest as a bonus from their first deal.

With the space storage pouch, Angus didn't have to keep coming back to the merchant guild to sell his monster part so often. While Ernest checks the monster part, Angus only waits silently beside him.

Although Angus trusts Ernest, he still has some caution to not get cheated. As for Ernest himself, he didn't mind it and did his job. Besides, he will not dare to cheat the money of the Duke's sons.

After a dozen minutes later, Ernest brings a list of papers of Angus material. Then, they begin to negotiate for the price. Angus may not lack money and could always ask his parents for more money if he needs something. But, he still needs money for various kinds of occasions.

As someone that has lived on earth, Angus knows exactly how powerful money is. So it is not a sin to have a little bit of money.

"Alright, then it will be fifteen thousand gold coins. It's truly wonderful when your monster part is in pristine condition compared to others. Some of our clients even asked specially for these kinds of monster parts." said Ernest.

"Unfortunately, you could only bring an ungraded monster and a few grade one monsters. Is there no way to increase the span of the monster species and grade?" asked Ernest

"Unfortunately, it is not possible for now. The supplier could only procure these monster parts for the time being. However, it is possible to increase the variety of monsters at the later date. Still, it will take time." replied Angus while not telling him the entire truth.

"Alright, I will be waiting for that time to come. Anything else could I help with?" asked Ernest.

"Yes, apparently I am doing some kind of alchemy experiment. This is the list of items that I required." said Angus while giving Ernest a piece of paper.

"Let's see here. I think we have all of them in stock here since they are kind of popular items. Alright let me get my staff to bring the item along with your payment." said Ernest as he called one of his staff outside.

Then, they talk about various kinds of topics while waiting for the employee to bring Angus's stuff.

"I didn't know you also dabble in alchemy?" asked Ernest

"I am still a beginner. It will take a lot of time before I can produce some notable potion." replied Angus truthfully.

"Then, don't forget to contact me at that time." said Ernest jokingly.

"Don't worry about it. If there is nothing wrong I will contact you to sell my product." replied Angus.

Angus may seem young but for experienced merchants like Ernest, he could discern a sort of uniqueness on him. From Ernest's experience, this kind of uniqueness usually exists in experts and some master.

This is the reason Ernest is very polite and wants to invest his time in Angus. He wants to build a connection with Angus.

Of course, Angus also noticed this kind of thought but it didn't matter much to him. As long as Ernest didn't cross his path, Angus will leave him alone.

"Oh yeah, I hear the monster overlord will attack half a year from now." said Ernest as he changed the topic.

"Yes, because of this. My father has become very busy lately." replied Angus truthfully.

"Then, As your friend, I will give you some advice. Don't stay in the capital city." said Ernest seriously.

"Is there something wrong with the capital city?" asked Angus curiously.

"I hope I am wrong. But, from our reliable source, we found that someone is amassing a lot of weapons and arms. There may be some chaos inside the capital city at the later date." explain Ernest.

"You sure about that? Didn't it quite normal for people to gather weapons and arms during this time." replied Angus.

"At first I also thought that but for safety reasons, the higher up of Golden Trade decided to evacuate to another city during the Monster attack. Although we still don't know their true intention, it is better to be safe than sorry later." said Ernest.

"Hmm.. I see.. I will relay this information to my father. I hope that nothing bad is going to happen." said Angus

"We also hoped for that especially in this precarious time." said Ernest.

A few moments later, the staff knocked on the door and brought Angus's item along with his gold coin in space storage.

"Alright let me check the item first." said Angus while putting out the item from the space storage.

After checking the item along with his deducted gold coins, Angus says goodbye to Ernest and leaves the Golden Trade Merchant Guild building.

'Thirteen thousand gold coins along with some rare alchemy ingredient. No wonder many people are interested in becoming adventurers and hunting monsters. It's a lucrative job.' thought Angus.

'Alright, now the business is done. Time to get some food and drink.' thought Angus while walking towards the commoner section.

Since Angus's last adventure in the capital city, Angus is quite fond of trying many different kinds of food and drink, especially Fizzy Beer. The product itself is one of a kind item.

Angus will always pay a visit and have a few glasses of drink whenever he sneaks out from his townhouse manor during the break.

Along the way towards the tavern bar that sells Fizzy Beer, he notices a few unwanted people stalking him persistently.

Usually, this kind of person that stalks him will immediately give up for a while after Angus blends with the crowd to disappear.

Somehow, these people are quite persistent and keep trying to stalk Angus despite him blending with the crowd many times.

This shows that the people are targeting Angus personally, not just ordinary thieves that are searching for prey. Especially Angus clothes are not too attractive and quite common in this part of the city.

'Tch.. What a hassle. Let's just lose from this person.' thought Angus while increasing his walk speed and 'disappear' in the middle of the crowd.

After blending with the crowd and erasing his presence, a few of his stalkers appeared in the crowd.

"Where is he? Where does the boy go?" said one of the stalkers.

"I don't know, Boss. He just walked here and disappear" replied the other stalker.

"Yeah.. I saw him walk here before." replied another stalker.

"Tch.. Useless!! Find him!" said the man that seems the leader.

'Hmm… What do they want with me? Tch.. Troublesome.' thought Angus as he also hears the conversation

Then, the other people immediately scatter around to search for Angus. After that, the leader himself walked towards one of the back alleys towards the slum direction.

Suddenly, his head got wrapped by a sack from behind. Then, he got punched a few times in the stomach and head by the preparator.

"Arrghh… Stop.. Stop…" pleaded the man after getting continuously beaten in some hurt part.

"Speak!! why do you follow the boy?" said Angus while changing his voice into a deeper voice using mana.

Before the man replied, Angus once again hit the man in the part where it is hurt the most.

"Stop.. Stop.. It hurt.. It was a direct order from the big boss." said the man.

'Big boss??' thought Angus for a second.

"Who is this big boss? Why did he target the boy?" Asked Angus before continuing his beating again.

"Arrghhh… Stop I will talk. It's not only the boy that is being targeted. Every customer of Golden Trade is also being targeted." explained the man further as he knows he could not fight back in this situation.

"Why are they being targeted?" asked Angus while didn't give the man a chance and put him on his knee.

"I-I.. " looking at the man's hesitation.

Angus began beating the man again, "Stop.. Stop.. I don't know. I swear I don't know. The big boss only ordered us to amass a lot of money, especially from the Golden Trade Guild. Please stop.. Sob.. I already told you all I know… Sob.." Pleaded the man while also crying.

"Who is your big boss? and what is your group name?" said Angus.

"Sob.. It's Vincent.. Sob… The name is Vincent.. Our group name is Lefty Coin." replied the name.

Hearing the name, Angus immediately left the man who was still on his knee alone and blended with the crowd again.

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Leaving the back alleyway, Angus goes back to the Golden Trade guild while keeping his presence hidden. He didn't want any thug from the Lefty Coin to notice him.

Fortunately, there are no graded combatants among his stalkers otherwise it will be harder for Angus to escape them. According to the books, only around thirty percent of the human race could form mana core and become combatant.

Because of this, it is quite rare to find combatants working as normal robbers. Especially joining and working in the adventurer guild is more profitable than becoming a mere thief.

'Tch.. what a hassle to get into this mess. But, their behavior is kind of weird unless this Lefty Coin is forced by someone. Let's just leave this for the Golden Trade guild to take care of.' thought Angus inwardly.

Soon, he arrived at the Golden Trade guild. Fortunately, Ernest is doing something at the front desk. So, Angus didn't need to call for him again.

Looking that Angus is back again, "Angus, back so soon. Is there something wrong?" asked Ernest.

Along the time Ernest knows Angus, he is the type that does not like to idle around and beat around the bush. So, he suspects that something is wrong for him to back again.

"Yeah, do you have a paper?" replied Angus

"Paper?" asked Ernest confusedly but still gave Angus a piece of paper.

Then, Angus writes something in the paper before giving it back to Ernest.

Reading Angus's writing, "You sure about this?"

"Yup, I just got the info from one of them. Besides, why do I waste my time dealing with them?" replied Angus.

"I see. Then, on behalf of Golden Trade, I apologize for this inconvenience. Now, please excuse me as I need to deal with this matter immediately." said Ernest.

Then, Angus went outside the Golden Trade guild but after a moment. He disappears into the crowd and escapes from some Lefty Coin's henchmen view.

During the time Angus approached the Guild, he saw people standby looking at the people that coming in and out from the Golden Trade guild.

He also guesses that there are also some people inside the guild that are spying on people around to determine their target. Angus going into the VIP room and coming out without any guard accompanying him looks like fat prey for these people.

Soon, there is chaos around the Golden Trade perimeter as the guards apprehend all these spies and Lefty Coin's men.

Meanwhile, all of this happens, Angus already sitting inside one of the taverns in the commoner section, drinking Fizzy Beer.

'Ahh.. I never get bored of this taste. It is a magical drink.' thought Angus before ordering one more glass of Fizzy Beer.

While Angus is enjoying his drink, inside the slum area there is a dilapidated building that is the same as the nearby building. But, below it there is a big underground room full of thugs.

"Some of our men already got caught? Not even one day, you already got caught! Useless!! All of you are useless!!" Roared the man that seems the leader of the thugs.

"They suddenly notice our spy inside the guild and begin to capture our men that standby near the guild. They even pursue us until the slum area." explained one of the thugs.

"Tch.. This is bound to happen soon. But, I didn't think it would happen so quickly. Lay low for a while trying to target small people from the common area. I want you all to bring me as much money as possible." command the leader.

"Yes, Big Boss." said the other thug.

Suddenly, a man came in from the upstairs, "Boss, the city guard is now looking for you."

"Tch.. they must get my name from the men that were captured. I will go hiding for a while, you two will be responsible to maintain here for a while. I want you to gather as much as you can by the end of this month." command the leader towards the two muscular thugs.

"Alright, Boss." replied the two thugs.

Then, the leader enters his room and takes out a communication device.

Activating the communication device, "Vincent, why did you contact me so soon?" heard a deep voice from the device.

"I am sorry, master. It seems I need more time to gather enough money according to the plan."

"Hmm.. Is there a problem?"

"The Golden Trade guild reacts faster than our prediction. They even know my name."

"Hmm.. what a problem.. Contact the other group in the slum give them an offer they could not refuse. Make sure they fulfill the target before the attack." said the people on the other side.

"What about the Golden Trade?" asked the leader of the thug.

"Leave them be for now. When the time comes, no one could oppose us anymore. They will regret declining our offer." said the people in the communication device.

"As you wish, master." said the leader of the thug respectfully before turning off the communication device.

Unbeknown to everyone, there is a group that is planning something hidden in the dark inside the capital city of Heart Kingdom.

After touring around the capital city while trying a lot of kinds of food and drink, Angus sneaks back to his room in the townhouse manor.

Entering the room, Angus immediately changes his clothes to fancy ones before going to the basement. Inside the basement training room, there is a small compartment that looks like a small laboratory.

After telling his father about his interest in alchemy and smithing, the duke agrees to make a small laboratory for Angus.

At first, Angus just asked for a place to practice his alchemy, somehow his father created a small personal lab for Angus. Although it could not compare to the lab in the academy, it is more advanced than the ordinary one.

In return, Angus needs to treat some of his father's friends that have miasma wounds. Unfortunately, his technique could only work with a fresh wound and not a years old wound.

Otherwise, Angus will not have time to tend himself and will be forced to treat patients continuously. Since there is still no way to treat miasma-based wounds, there are millions of people that having this kind of wound.

Although Angus wanted a nice peaceful life that was far from war and chaos, he also didn't want to work himself to death.

Besides healing people is not his true forte. Based on his past life experience, he knows that he is a bloodthirsty person and battle maniac. However, he still pursues a slow and peaceful life despite this nature.

As a bloodthirsty person, he prefers to take life rather than saving a life. It's something that is already ingrained in his soul.

No matter what kind of denial he said to himself, he will always be a bloodthirsty person that already killed countless people. This fact alone makes Angus hesitate to work in the medical field especially as a doctor.

To achieve this, Angus also needs to accept the part of his bloodthirsty nature. Otherwise, he will not achieve inner peace in himself. Accepting is one of the steps to gain a peaceful life while denial only creates a contradiction and imbalance.

Unless it is an emergency case, Angus will reluctantly use his healing art for others. As it will soon leave a contradiction in his heart.

After that, Angus began to concentrate on his experiment to create many kinds of potions according to its formula. He only gets out of the lab to sleep and eat.

Angus tries to create a simple mana potion and a few enchantment potions. Although it is a basic and simple potion the process is very complicated and takes time.

He wants to get used to the procedure of concocting a potion before making his potion. His current goal is a potion to alleviate the miasma-based wound.

Besides that, he also has not forgotten his original goal of learning alchemy. He tries to formulate many kinds of different strong poison. He still has not advanced to practical experiment but only doing some of the theory and calculation.

Poison formula is banned in the public and very rare. Usually, it could only be sold on the black market. Angus wants to visit this black market, but because of today's incident, he prefers to avoid more conflict.

Besides black market is some kind of illegal store and will be hard to search through. He was enticed to procure this from Ernest. But, he was still reluctant as it could also lead to some trouble. Angus also didn't know Ernest for long and couldn't trust this matter to him.

However judging by what happened today, he may have a chance to ask for some poison formula in the future using the favor he did today.

Creating new poison takes time and needs a lot of experimentation. First, the calculation of its right component will take a lot of time and revision. Then, it needs to be tested on the living being for its effectiveness.

Fortunately, Angus has a manual battle system for the testing subject, be it some animal and humanoid creature. He didn't know if the humanoid creature inside his manual battle system has the same constitution as normal people.

From his experience when fighting them, Angus knows that they have the same weakness as normal people. Still, their black-skinned figure and red eyes make him thought that they are different creatures.

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A week passed by and the academy break ended. During this break, Angus focuses on practicing his alchemy skill to create potions.

Alchemy is more complicated and difficult than Angus previously thought. Knowing it through books and practicing it in real life is a different matter.

Now he could create an ungraded mana potion with a success chance of 30%. Although the chance is small, considering Angus practiced his alchemy skill for the first time without anyone supervising, It is quite a good result.

If it is not because of his enhanced mind and perfect body control his success chance may be lower. Still for eleven years old to create an ungraded mana potion with this chance of success is quite excellent.

Among the alchemists, the halfling race is known as the race that masters this art to the highest level. Rumor said that even their five years old kid could even create a potion with a high chance of success.

Compared to Angus, his achievement may not be comparable but it is quite good among the human race.

Now, Angus is back at Royal Academy along with Vergil. Few days after the start of the break, Vergil also returned to the capital city. If the fourth year is the examination for the specialization path, the eighth year is the examination of your combat capability.

Each of the examinations may be different for each student but it is always involved with the same thing. It is involved with a dungeon. In Firuman, there are strange and unique places called dungeons.

According to some books, Dungeon could spawn monsters endlessly every certain period. The dungeon also has many floors, each of these floors contains habitat for monsters. The higher the floor number the stronger monsters reside along with high grade.

The monster spawn in the dungeon will keep accumulated and increasing. After a certain time, it will cause a dungeon outbreak. It is a phenomenon where monsters from the lower floor move to another floor and lead monsters to come out of the dungeon.

Fortunately the higher the monster grade, the more time it respawns. Moreover, up to this day, no dungeon has been spawn monster overlord grade. Otherwise, it will create a disaster every time the dungeon respawns it.

Even if there are, the people nearby will immediately destroy its dungeon core. The dungeon without the dungeon core will malfunction and soon be destroyed.

The only reason that the dungeon core is left alone is that this place could become an inexhaustible resource for the people nearby.

Furthermore, the dungeon core itself is usually protected by strong monsters. It is also not easy for people to approach and destroy the dungeon core.

According to Vergil's story, his case is the student of his generation would be randomly divided into teams. Then, they were tasked to hunt a few ungraded and grade one monster to pass the test during a few days inside the dungeon.

Not only will they be judged on their combat ability performance but they will also be judged based on their survivability.

Fortunately, Vergil got a reliable team and passed the test. Still for he who is used to luxury and rich noble life find it difficult to adapt to frugal life during the test.

He even told Angus that it is one of the worst experiences he ever had during his life. While Vergil tells his story during his experience in the dungeon for the fifth time, Angus could only nod while listening to his poor brother rambling.

Still, he is quite interested in the dungeon itself. From some books he read, the dungeon is an unnatural phenomenon that suddenly appears out of nowhere. Its entrance could be inside the forest, mountain, city, or even sewer.

'Well, there is still some time before I experience the dungeon by myself.' thought Angus.

Now, Angus is going to his Magician class. The Magician Class is not very big since there are only a few students that choose this specialization class.

Like his previous class, each class consisted of only four to five students. Fortunately, Angus found an acquaintance among his classmates. So, he didn't feel strange in class.

First, there is Wylda from his previous class and there is Millie the Angel among Angus's generation.

After sitting beside Millie, "Morning, Millie. I didn't know you would also enter the Magician class." said Angus.

"Morning, Angus. Yeah, I also didn't know if you would choose this class." replied Millie.

"Well, I just want to have a nice and peaceful lesson while learning about spells." said Angus.

"Really?? I thought you just don't want any physical work and sleep around." replied Millie innocently.

"Ehh.. No way. But, that is also one of the good points. Hahaha" said Angus.

'Lazybones' thought the other student who heard Angus's reply.

The Royal Academy is a prestigious academy. So, the student with lazy behavior is disdained by others as they often fail the test. However, Angus not only passed the test but also scored second only to Jayna who is ranking first.

A few moments later, a male teacher came into the class. The student immediately recognizes the teacher right away. He is the same teacher that tested them during the examination.

"Morning, everyone. My name is Gustav Marvolo. You could call me teacher Gustav. I will be your homeroom teacher and your teacher at the combat training subject.

The magician class course is the same as his previous one but in the combat training course, they will be learning more about spells and practicing spells rather than having a combat spar.

They will still do a combat spar occasionally but focus more on learning and casting spells properly.

From the teacher Gustav explanation, each main course will be taught by a different teacher. The magician class final examination is also quite laxer than other classes. They only need to successfully learn and cast a few spells properly.

Though for some students this kind of test may be harder. Furthermore, their academic course is much harder than other classes. Magician Class is a more theoretical class with a little practice.

The class tournament is also different than before. Starting from the fifth year, rather than a class tournament, it should be called a ranking tournament.

The student will be randomly divided into teams with various kinds of compositions. Be it Warrior class, Magician class, or Hybrid class they will be randomly divided. Then, they will be forced to work together and accomplish a certain objective.

This will train student adaptability under many different situations. As in the real world sometimes people need to be forced to work together under unforeseen situations especially against monsters.

The Royal Academy will produce not only good quality combatant but also a survivalist under a lot of condition. This is also the reason for their strange teaching method. They need to force their students under a lot of different conditions.

For survivalists, the most important thing is not strength but experience and their adaptability under various kinds of environments. Through the record and history, it is proved that the one that could adapt will survive while the others will perish.

One of the good examples is the elf race, not only because of their lifespan and strength that they could survive until now. But they could easily adapt to different kinds of situations as they often adapt to the change of nature.

Another example is the demon race, despite their stronger ability and strength not falling behind the elf race, they are still stuck with chaos and divided.

One of the main reasons is because they could never easily adapt to a new environment and have an aggressive nature. Although their aggressive nature is not as aggressive as beast races.

Unlike his previous class, in Magician class, Angus needs to be proactive if he wants to learn something new. Unless they need something, the student will be left alone to study on their own.

For some students, this will be hard. But, for Angus, this is the best learning method. Moreover, one of the huge privileges of entering Magician Class is that you can learn any spells that the academy provided.

Unlike other paths, the magician path could only shine when they have a huge repertoire of spells. Though during the fight, they usually use their most familiar spells to increase their casting speed.

As for Angus who has an enhanced mind and superb control of mana, this is not a problem for him. Although his casting speed of other elemental spells is not as fast as his fire spells, it is still much faster than ordinary people.

He also learns that he could increase the casting speed, possibly instacast it by only remembering the feeling of the mana changed into the spell. Then, all he needs to do is replicate this feat by controlling the mana the same way it changed into the spell.

However, this technique requires good mana control and more mana to cast the spell. This is also the reason why people of higher grades could instantly cast low circle spells easily.

Using their superior mana core grade, they could manipulate their mana easily and also have enough mana reserved to instacast it.

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Angus's life in Magician Class is quite pleasant. No one disturbs him, he could also learn many kinds of spells without any restriction.

Still, some people will think him a bit of weirdo as he borrows a lot of spell formulas at once. Normally, the student will only borrow one or two spells at once or at least no more than five at once.

However, Angus borrowed the spell formula at least ten or more at once. Fortunately, he always returns them a few days later. Otherwise, his small points will get deducted or get some warning from the teacher.

Since he always returns them a few days later, everyone thought he was just trying to increase his spell's knowledge. On the contrary, Angus managed to remember every single detail about the spells formulas.

However, learning all of them is a different matter. Learning spells by himself is harder than learning from the system skill books. Spells need a lot of complicated calculations to create a magic circle.

The magic circle will convert the mana into elements of the corresponding spells. Then, they will work according to the intention of the spell.

As for non-elemental spells, the magic circle will immediately work according to the intention of the spell without converting mana into elements. This way the non-elemental spell uses less mana than elemental spells.

However, elemental spells are stronger than non-elemental spells and have many different benefits. It may not show for the lower circle spells but at the high circle spells the difference will be apparent.

Angus also found that his affinity affected the spell's casting. Using the elemental spell that is the same as the user's affinity will decrease time and mana consumption. The magic circle will consume less mana and time to convert mana into elements.

So, people often use their elemental affinity spells more than others spells or non-elemental spells. For Angus, the harder part is to create a magic circle using his mana. It needs a delicate process especially for other elemental spells besides his fire spells.

To anticipate this, people usually use chanting to help them create the magic circle. Chanting is a strange phenomenon that could help create a magic circle.

Chanting is different than only talking some gibberish words. Each word needs to be imbued by mana and intent. Rumour said that different languages could also have different effects.

Some myths even told that there is even a language that is so powerful to even cast a high-level circle by saying a word of it.

However, Angus didn't like chanting. First, it will leave him vulnerable for a certain period. Although he could multitask and dodge some attacks, it will exhaust his mind for a long battle.

He also couldn't do the same thing when casting high circle spells. Then, it also takes a lot of time to do casting. The spells may have great power but no enemy will wait for Angus to finish with his casting. This is the reason Magicians are famous for being glass cannons.

Usually, Magicians are positioned in the back while Warrior or Hybrid combatants in the front. In the magician class, the student is encouraged to increase their casting speed with some technique.

There are many techniques to increase casting speed such as the [Firecast] technique that Angus found from his father's note. After telling his father that he is choosing Magician Class, his father gives a series of his notes and experiences about being a magician.

He also gave his secret technique [Firecast] to Angus. [Firecast] is an expert technique that requires him to control the fire elemental in the surroundings to help him cast fire spells.

By using [Firecast, Angus could cast many high circle fire spells with a little bit of mana and less time. If his control over the fire elemental is reaching an advanced level, he could even instacast them some of the spells.

He still remembers how his father summoned [Fire Wyrm] easily by using [Firecast]. This is really a useful technique in the long battle.

However, controlling the elemental in the surrounding is very difficult. It is like trying to pull something heavy with just a fragile string or hair.

Now, Angus is sitting in the Spring Dorm garden in a meditative position. After a while, he opened his eyes and left a sigh.

'Fuck.. Damn it..' curse Angus inwardly.

Since Angus read his father's note, he is in some kind of dilemma. Angus knows a technique from his past life to easily control the surrounding using mana. This is the highest pinnacle technique in his past life.

However, before he could do this technique, he needed to be in control of his body and mind. Though it may seem simple, it is very hard, especially the mental part.

To gain absolute control of his mind, he needs to be true to himself. Deep inside Angus didn't want to practice this technique as it brought back his past life experience. Part of him is afraid that he will be betrayed because of being too strong.

But another side of him wants to gain as much power as possible. This contradiction inside his mind leads him to disrupt his inner peace and break his control.

As a body control freak, this makes him frustrated. Especially now his inner peace is disrupted and makes him more emotional.

'Fuck.. Why can't I do it? It was so easy when I learned it before.' thought Angus.

Although Angus knew the real problem and its cause, he still couldn't do anything about it. After a few moments of trying Agnus gives up learning this technique.

'It seems this conflict will haunt me for a long time.' sighed Angus while he is back in his room.

On the way to his room, "Angus, going back already?" asked Millie

"Ahh yeah.. watering the garden again?" replied Angus

"Yeah, Hmm... Weird. You usually always stay in the garden until sunset. Is everything okay?" asked Millie.

"Err.. Yeah.. I just got a little bit tired today." replied Angus

"Really?? Well, then have a nice rest. It's bad if you get sick." said Millie

"Alright, see you later, Millie." said Angus

Before entering the dorm, Angus feels a battle nearby. Using his [Mana Echolocation, he could perceive Jayna and Ian dueling once again.

'Why the hell those two always fight like a cat and dog. Can they not just be peaceful?' thought Angus as he entered the dorm.

Arriving at his room, Angus immediately took out his Sky Thorn and entered the manual battle system. He needs to express his uncomfortable feeling about something or he will go berserk.

Few months passed by since Angus entered the Magician Class. During all this time, Angus still couldn't solve his inner problem and only increase his frustration.

Inside the basement below the smithing, Angus and Balrug sparring once with each other. *Bam* *Bam* Occasionally, a loud booming sound heard from there despite the room is heavily enchanted.

Unlike before where Angus could only receive a beating, he sometimes also launched counterattacks. However, this will only get him more beaten up by Balrug. *BAM* as Angus was launched a few meters back.

"Let's stop it for now," said Balrug.

"No.. I can still fight." said Angus while trying to stand up.

"*Sigh* Boy, tell me what's wrong?" asked Balrug.

"It's nothing, just continue the spar." replied Angus.

"Did you hear yourself, boy? Where is your calmness that you always have? Now, your way of fighting is like a crazy maniac that wants to be beaten. Tell me, boy, what's that disrupting you?" asked Balrug with a tender tone.

Looking at the way Angus fights, even an idiot could feel that Angus is not in the sane mind. Balrug also noticed this from the start and left it alone as he didn't want to interfere with Angus's privacy.

However, during the last few spars, Angus keeps getting reckless. Sometimes he even trades blow for blow and doesn't care about his own body. From Balrug experience, he knows that Angus has some kind of problem in his mind.

For an expert warrior like Balrug, he knows the importance of body and mind. These two things cannot be separate and interconnected, one with the others.

"Haa… You are right. I.. I just have some conflict in my mind." replied Angus as he tries to calm his chaotic mind.

"Care to tell me the story?" asked Balrug.

"It's about my dream. I want to have a peaceful life. Yet, I also keep pursuing strength. I'm just afraid that when my strength is revealed, only trouble will come." explained Angus

Hearing Angus's explanation, "Hmm.. is that all? I don't know what makes you so troubled with it. But, I can sense anxiety, fear, anger, and many more negative feelings from you."

"As an old man I could only advise that you should not focus too much on something far away, otherwise you will lose everything near you." said the old man.

"Haaa.. Alright. Maybe you are right, old man." replied Angus.

"Just take it, easy kid. You still have a long way, you will exhaust yourself soon if you are too serious." said Balrug.

"Right, I have been too tense lately. Thanks for the advice old man." said Angus.

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Another few months passed by since Angus became frustrated over his feelings. Now, Angus lay on his usual spot inside the Spring Dorm's garden.

'I guess that crazy old man is right. I overly focus on something that yet happens. I still could not move on from my past life. I need to take it slowly and leave everything to fate.' thought Angus while he felt calmer and enjoyed the scenery.

Suddenly, Angus could feel a fluctuation of mana in the air along with a scream. "Aaaa.."

After that, the Spring Dorm is back to being peaceful, but Angus feels that someone is approaching him at a fast speed.

"Angus!! Fight me!!" said Jayna who is coming out of nowhere.

"Ehh.. Nope. I am too tired." replied Angus shortly.

At this moment, Jayna already launched an attack on Angus. Like usual Angus managed to dodge it easily. Her punch cracked the ground where Angus previously lay down.

"Huamm... Jayna. Why don't we stop this? We both know this is only a waste of time." said Angus in a lazy tone.

"No.. This time it will be different." said Jayna before flare up her mana.

"This.. First grade. Congratulations." said Angus casually.

"Yeah.. I managed to form my mana core just a moment ago. Now, it's time for your beating." as Jayna launches an attack at Angus rapidly.

Punches, kicks, spells, and skills are launched at Angus without stopping. But Angus could easily dodge them. The only difference is Angus didn't make it look like he dodges them accidentally.

It is not because he doesn't want to do it but because he can't. Jayna's speed and power are different than before. So, Angus needs a little bit of effort to dodge them. Still, her attack didn't even manage to catch Angus at all.

After a while, Jayna's mana quickly consumed and exhausted her since she kept attacking without stopping.

A moment later, "Haa.. Ha… H-How? Why can't I hit you? I am already forming my core. I am supposed to be stronger and faster than you." said Jayna frustrated.

"I don't know. Maybe I'm just too good at dodging." replied Angus nonchalantly.

Then, Angus walked away because of Jayna's attack. It will surely attract some attention from others. Looking at Jayna's slump on the ground, he didn't want to create a misunderstanding that he beat the princess.

Before he got away, "Hic.. Hic.. Why.. Why can't I hit you? Was I still weak like before?" as Jayna begins to cry.

Looking at her, Angus could only sigh silently. "Jayna, why did you want to become stronger?" asked Angus while approaching her.

"I.. I just…" as Jayna stopped talking like she was thinking about something.

"Well, I don't care why you want to be stronger either. But, aren't you too obsessed with me?" said Angus.

"Ob.. Obsessed? Who will be obsessed with you!!?" rebuked Jayna.

"But, you always try to fight me. Like right now, despite me being on Magician Path, you still choose to fight me after forming your mana core right away." said Angus.

"I just want to teach an insolent person like you a lesson. That's all." replied Jayna.

Hearing the reason, "Ehh.. What a hassle. Find Ian if you want to beat someone." before Angus walks away as the princess already calms down.

Before Angus gets away, the princess is tucking Angus clothes.

Feeling the tucking, "What's it?" asked Angus.

"Umm.. Am I weak?" said Jayna.

"No, of course not." replied Angus shortly.

"B-but.. Why can't I even hit you?" asked Jayna more.

"I don't know. Maybe I am just too good at dodging. Look here, with your current power I bet you could beat Ian easily." said Angus before he continues to walk away

"Really?" asked Jayna again.

"Yeah.. Just beat Ian if you don't believe it. Oh yeah, you should also get away from here." said Angus.

"Get away from here??" replied Jayna confusingly.

At this moment, Jayna heard a female scream behind her. "Kyaaa.."

"M-My Garden!! Who did this?!" shout Millie while looking at her destroyed garden.

Then, Millie looks at Jayna. "Princess Jayna, could you please explain this?" said Millie in a chilling tone.

"N-No.. This is Angus.." as she looked at Angus but she couldn't find him.

'Ehh.. Where is he? He is here just now.' thought Jayna.

"Enough excuse, Princess. Now, why don't you help me fix all of this?" said Millie while keeping her smile.

"Y-Yes… I will help.. I will fix this." said Jayna who is somehow feeling afraid from Millie's smile.

While Jayna is helping Millie fix the garden, 'Fiuhh.. Fortunately, I manage to getaway. Otherwise, I will be forced to fix the garden.' thought Angus while on the top of the dorm before getting away silently.

Meanwhile, Angus enjoys his life at the academy, the world becomes more chaotic as the day for the Monster Overlord attack is approaching.

All the underground organizations use this chance to spread their power and conflict, while the government keeps focusing on strengthening their defense against the monsters.

This period keeps happening until a few weeks before the monster overlord attacks, suddenly the monster becomes more aggressive.

Not only at the Dark Forest, but at the other monster habitats such as Astic Ocean, Reese Mountain Range, Morvo Wasteland, Sagar Desert, and many more monster habitats.

All this place suddenly becomes a forbidden area for civilian society as the monster becomes more aggressive and attacks anything on sight. Not only they attacked, but they also hunted the people from the Civilian Society that entered these places.

Because of this, The Civilian Society is sure that there will be monster attacks from these monster habitats.

Meanwhile, in the Black Fortress, Duke Jacob is doing some inspection towards the wall and defense. Because the approaching time is near, the duke needs to make sure the Fortress is ready to fight anytime.

The Heart kingdom does not underestimate the monster overlord attack and already called all kinds of help they can towards the Black Fortress. Two of the four dukes even reside in this fortress.

Their job is to hold down before King Leon comes from the nearby city. They also hire a few adventurer guilds to increase their manpower.

Now, the Black Fortress is the most secure place beside the Grand Palace in the Heart kingdom. As Duke Jacob did some inspection, the nearby soldier saluted the duke.

"At ease, soldiers. Anything unusual?" asked the duke.

"Nothing, sir. Everything is calm as usual." replied the soldier.

"Alright, keep vigilant." said the duke before leaving for more inspection.

During this time, "Work hard like always?" said an elf towards the duke.

"I am not like you, Sylvan. I have a responsibility." replied the duke.

Before long both of them laugh together, "Hahaha"

"You should take it easy and enjoy life more. Besides you humans are too life shorted." said Sylvan jokingly.

"Well, compared to your race I bet our life is really short. Anyway I am glad you could come here to help." replied Duke Jacob.

"Don't worry about it. Didn't a friend need to help one with the others? Besides, this will be a good experience for the young elves.

After being together in the investigation team for two years, Jacob and Sylvan become good friends through many life and death situations. Through this friendship, Jacob managed to get help from Sylvan to defend the Fortress.

Not only that, but he also brings a few young elves to gain experience in fighting against monsters. Although they are called young, their age is already hundreds of years and fifth-grade combatants.

While walking together, they saw a woman in grey attire help the logistic squad. Approaching the women, "Priest Saya, please don't overwork yourself." said duke Jacob.

"Duke Jacob, don't worry about it. I just can't sit around and do nothing." replied the priest Saya.

"I am still glad that the Temple of Death could send a person such as yourself." said Duke Jacob.

"The Monster Overlord is the enemy of society. So, it is normal that the temple will send help. Besides this is also the will of the Holiness Lady of the Death."

"I see. Still don't overwork yourself. We have enough manpower for this job." said Duke Jacob.

"Certainly, Duke Jacob." said the Priest Saya before going back to her work.

Leaving the priest, "As an elf, I never believe this so-called god. Especially since their vision is always inaccurate whenever it involves seventh-grade people." comment Sylvan towards Jacob.

"Yeah, I am also not a religious person. But, The Temple of Death is quite different from others." said Duke Jacob.

"How so?" inquired Sylvan further.

"Well, you may not know this since you live in the Roundel City, the Temple of Death is always impartial to any faction. They could also create a contract will absolute death penalty."

"Even Though they didn't have champions and high priests like the others, their force is the strongest among the other religious groups."

"Rumor said they have high-level spells that could kill any life instantly. Priest Saya is one the person that rumored could use these spells." explain Jacob further.

During this moment, a loud roaring sound could be heard all over the world from inside the forest. The duke and Sylvan immediately go towards the Fortress wall.

Imbue their eyes with mana, "So, it begins." said Sylvan.

"Soldiers, sound the alarm!! The monster horde is coming!!" command Duke Jacob.

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"Soldiers, sound the alarm!! The monster horde is coming!!" command Duke Jacob.

*Teng* *Teng* *Teng* An Alarm sounded throughout the whole Fortress. The nearby soldier immediately moved to do work and go towards their station.

As for Jacob and Sylvan, they go inside to wear their equipment and prepare for war. After changing their equipment and clothes, they found that many soldiers were already in their position nervously.

Approaching the group in the Fortress center, "General Borkins, Duke Blue, Friends." greets Jacob shortly towards the groups.

Then, they return to focus at the Dark Forest a few kilometers away from the Dark Fortress. The group not only consist of high-grade people but also few nobles.

Some of them are mixed from Duke Blue's faction and Duke Jacob's ally. Despite the group strength none of them feels secure and safe.

All of them feel nervous, even the elven group. But, they didn't show it on the outside as it could demoralize the nearby soldier. Still, the soldier and the surrounding people could feel the tense situation.

After a while, a variety of roaring sounds was heard from the Dark Forest. Countless humanoid monsters with claws and wings approaching the Dark Fortress from air and ground.

"IMP!! Artillery, ready to fire!!" command Borkins.

Looking at the Imp getting closer to the Fortress, "Fire!!" Command the dwarf general.

Thousand projectile weapons along with a few spells release at the approaching horde of Imps. Soon, the projectile attack hit the Imps and killed hundreds of them. Despite they could fly and agile, they still couldn't evade the attack of thousand people at once.

Then, balls of fire revolve while moving on the ground towards Dark Fortress. Looking at this, "Fire the cannon!!" command the dwarf general. *Bom* *Bom* *Bom*

A series of magical cannons fired towards the approaching Fire Armadillo horde. Unlike Fire Armadillo in the Royal Academy's monster house, these Fire Armadillo already evolved into third grade and has a massive size of 3 meters tall.

"Hmm… Imp and Fire Armadillo. I don't like where this is going." said Sylvan.

"What do you mean, Sylvan?" asked Jacob

"Heart kingdom is famous for their fire affinity combatant. Both of these monsters have resistance towards the fire." explained Sylvan.

"Then, that means..." said Jacob.

*HMMM* Suddenly, a low humming sound was heard from the Dark Forest. Hearing the familiar low sound continuously, "Check the communication device!!" command Jacob towards the soldier nearby.

"Sir, the communication device is jammed." replied the soldier after checking the device.

"As we expected, change it into the wired mode and send an emergency signal to the king." command Duke Victory.

After getting jammed a few times during the investigation one year ago, the duke already expected this kind of situation. He created a wired communication line that connected directly towards the nearby city.

Then, they will pass on the signals towards the capital city through normal communication devices. This way, they could still communicate with the capital city.

The king couldn't always stand by at the Black Fortress, so they could only resort to this route to call help for the king.

After sending the emergency signal to the capital, thousands of various kinds of fire-based monsters come out from the forest and keep running towards the Fortress.

"Damn.. this overlord is smarter than we thought." said Sylvan.

"Don't worry master Sylvan, even if they could resist fire they are still no match for our army. Ready the Fire Squad!!" command the blue-haired duke.

"Let's hope. you are right, Master Olven." replied Sylvan shortly.

Then, groups of soldiers in red attire begin to chant together while holding their hands above. Soon, a big yellowish fireball was created above them before launch towards the approaching monsters [Combined spells - Grand Fireballs]. *BOM* *BOM* *BOM*

Each of these [Grand Fireballs] creates an explosion towards the monster army. Some of them died instantly while the others hurt a little bit.

Because the majority of the monster is fire resistant, most of the monsters only get hurt a little by the shockwave before back charging again.

"As I expected, fire spells and skills will be less effective against them." said Sylvan.

"Yeah.. But, we still have another hidden card. General Borkins." said Jacob.

"Alright, I guess it's time. Release the Golem!!" command the dwarf general.

Suddenly, the Fortress wall shifts open and shows a gold-plated 3-meter tall humanoid with many different features. The Golems are released from their hold and fall to the ground outside the Fortress Wall. *Bam* *Bam* *Bam*

The golems create a crack at the ground and a little bit of tremor towards the surrounding. Before long, "Enemy detected, Battle mode initiated." a sound heard from all the golem.

Then, all the golems are enveloped by a blue mana aura before approaching the monster slowly while each of their steps creates a small tremor.

Soon, they begin to clash with the monster. *Bam* *Bam* *Bam* Each golem punch managed to kill a few monsters in front of it. Despite their slow movement, their attack is very fast.

Moreover, the golem's defense is impenetrable for the surrounding monster's attack. They couldn't even leave a scratch on the golem body.

So, the golems didn't even need to avoid their attack and focus on slaughtering the monster. Looking at the golem's strength, the soldier begins to cheer.

"It's worth every coin to build them." comment general Borkins.

Suddenly, the Dark Forest trees collapsed like a domino and appeared a group of four-legged monsters with a pointed horn on their nose.

These four meters monsters that looked like rhinoceros ran wildly on the field and didn't care about the surrounding monster. Then, all these monsters immediately gathered fire elements in the surroundings and enveloped their body.

"Grade four Barculos!! Artillery shoots them!! Kill.. Kill them before they approach the wall!! Focus on them!!" command Borkins.

As the group of Barculos gets bombarded some of them die but there are still dozens of them approaching the fortress wall like a missile. Even the golem couldn't stop their charge.

"It seems it's time for us to move. Alright everyone, show them what we elves are capable of." said Sylvan.

A few elves approach the Fortress wall and touch the ground. A thick vine appears from the ground and tries to entangle all the Barculos [Combined spell - Great Entanglement].

All the Barculos got entangled with thick vine. However, the biggest Barculos managed to slip away from the vine. To be exact, these Barculos burn all the vines that try to entangle it and keep approaching the Fortress wall.

Before anyone could react, the biggest Barculos increased its speed and arrived at the Fortress wall. It slams its horn towards the Fortress wall. *BAM* it managed to shake the whole fortress and create a shockwave towards the surrounding.

On the contrary to everyone's expectation, the wall is still intact and only cracked a little bit. Looking at this, "Fiuhh.. Kill that damn Barculous!!" said the general Borkins.

'Huft… Fortunately, the Fortress wall was reconstructed with Palpat stone.' thought everyone.

Barculos is a famous monster for its aggressiveness and its strong charge attack. One of their nicknames is wall breaker. Until this day many countless strong enchanted walls were destroyed by its kind.

However, all the projectile attack is bounced away from the sheer fire barrier in its body. Suddenly, these Barculos moved back like running away under the rain of various kinds of weapon projectiles.

After gaining some distance, it charges again towards the same spot of the wall. Looking at this the others also feel horror at this monster.

Not only that, some of the Barculos that still survive under vine entanglement, managed to burn down the vine and charge at the Fortress wall as well.

"Everyone move, I don't care how you do it but I want all those Barculos dead!!" command duke Blue towards his nobles.

Duke's victory also sent a few of his noble friends to fight against Barculos. As a four-grade monster, a normal attack will not work against these monsters.

At this time, all the surviving Barculos accelerate their speed towards the Fortress wall. At the last moment, few people arrive from the above and attack these Barculos. *Bang* *Bang*

Their attack created a shockwave towards the surroundings and managed to push back some of the nobles.

"What ridiculous forces!? No wonder it could manage to crack the Fortress Palpat wall. But, we are stronger!!" comment one of the nobles before flaring up his mana.

A clash between nobles and Barculos continues. Some managed to penetrate Barculos's defense and kill it. But some only could intercept them during their charge.

Still, the Biggest Barculos managed to keep his charging speed and even pushed back the nobles that tried to intercept it. *Bam* Soon, it managed to create a bigger crack on the Fortress wall.

However, before it backs away a sharp wood tendril appears from the ground and stabs towards the Barculos belly [3rd circle - Wood Spike]. It managed to penetrate its fire barrier and hurt the biggest Barculos.

"ROOARRR" as the Barculos stuck on the sturdy [Wood Spike].

Before it managed to get away, few nobles approached it and launched their attack to kill it. [Spear Art - Splinter Strike] [Axe Art - Mountain Cleaver] [Sword Art - Thousand Stab].

All this strong attack managed to penetrate its weakened fire barrier and kill the biggest Barculos. Before they could cheer after killing the biggest Barculos, A huge gigantic Fireball appeared from the Dark Forest.

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A huge gigantic Fireball appeared from the Dark Forest. Looking at the gigantic fireball that is as big as the Fortress wall, some soldier could help but take a step back.

"Shield up!! Everyone Shield up!! Active defensive mechanism!!" shouted General Borkin's through the whole Fortress.

The soldiers on the top of the wall bring out a shield and huddle together to make a line defensive formation. All the shields connected one with the others and imbued with mana. It also connects to the wall and makes it more sturdy. *Clang* *Clang*

The Fortress wall is also imbued with a bluish-colored aura and creates a sort of thick membrane barrier. Even with all of this preparation, the soldiers are still feeling nervous.

"Hold up!! Hold your ground!! Hold as your life depends on it!! Show them all of what you got!! Brace for the Impact!!" shout General Borkins.

Before long the giant fireballs decimate everything on its path and arrive at the Fortress wall. *BOOMM* The giant fireballs shook the entire area and created a huge shockwave towards the surrounding.

After a while, the dust settles down while there is a massive crack on the fortress wall. The Black Fortress managed to hold up against the gigantic fireball albeit it is not with repercussion.

The Fortress wall is very important to defend against the monster wave. Using the high ground they could keep the monster without having contact with the monster. It means less casualty for the soldier.

It also will help soldiers to save up mana. Therefore the advantage of the Fortress wall is very important.

"We can't receive another attack like that or the wall will crumble." informed the dwarf general towards others.

Then, from the Fireball path appears a huge lizard monster with red color. The monster is so huge and creates a tremor for every step.

Looking at the monster far away inside the burning forest, "T-That's grade five Fire Drake."

Fire Drake is a huge monster with the appearance of a lizard. Moreover, its humongous body is very strong that could even withstand the five circle spells easily.

Fire Drake also has a huge resistance towards the fire. Some rumors even said that they could take a soak in a hot magma pool without any harm.

"Tch… This is the worst possible monster. I think most of our spells will be useless to it." said Duke Jacob solemnly.

"Don't worry, Jacob. I will do my best to help you. Call your back." said Sylvan as he summoned his spear ready for battle.

"Alright, fall back everyone." Jacob shouted towards the nobles on the field.

After all the nobles fall back, "Kids, let's change the terrain a little bit." said Sylvan to the other elves.

"Yes, Master Sylvan [Combined Spells - Bloom of Thousand Spike]." as the young elves flare-up huge mana at once and tap the ground.

A huge magic circle appears on the ground that envelope the entire area. Less than a second later, thousand wooden spikes stabbing at the nearby monster along with Fire Drake. All the wooden spikes create a blooming flower while killing all the low-grade monsters.

However, the wooden spike that could kill Barculos easily, couldn't even penetrate the Fire Drake scale. Later, the spikes burned down because of the high temperature around the Fire Drake.

During this moment, Sylvan flares up his mana, "Jacob, cover me." said Sylvan while he runs among the protruded wooden spike [Windwalk].

After a while, Sylvan is already in front of the Fire Drake. Without any hesitation, Sylvan attacks the Fire Drake head-on [Spear Art - Piercing Hawk].

A gigantic silhouette appears behind Sylvan, then the hawk entering the spear attacking the Fire Drake head. During this time, the Fire Drake also did not just idle around and create a burning fire barrier in front of him.

However, the fire barrier in front of him suddenly wavered and slowly diminished [Fire Manipulation]. Jacob forces the fire element in the surrounding Fire Drake and weakens its fire barrier.

Using this opportunity, Sylvan stabs his spear towards Fire Drake. *BLAMM* The attack is very strong and creates a huge shockwave towards the surrounding.

After the view cleared, "Damn.. It's really hard." said Sylvan while he was standing on the wooden spike.

As for the Fire Drake, it knocked back a few hundred meters away. It also has a crack on its scale between its eyes. Besides that, there is not even a drop of blood.

"ROOARR" roared the Fire Drake angrily while glaring at the elf.

Then, it releases a huge breath of fire towards Sylvan. During this time, a fire barrier envelopes Sylvan along with the appearance of big Fire Wyrm in front of Sylvan [Firecast - Fire Wyrm].

Using the accumulated fire element in the air, Jacob creates a big Fire Wyrm instantly to block the incoming fire breath attack. *BOOMM*

The breath attack and Fire Wyrm clash with each other and create an explosion. The surrounding landscape scorched while the survival monster got burned alive despite their fire-resistant trait.

"T-This is the power of a high grade." comment one of the soldiers

"Y-Yeah.. Each of their attacks already creates a huge shockwave." said another soldier.

"Stop daydreaming and keep firing those monsters!!" Rebuked the dwarf general towards the soldier.

Then, Sylvan continues to fight against the Fire Drake with the help of Jacob and young magician elves.

During this time, they turn into a stalemate as the Fire Drake is too slow to catch Sylvan while Sylvan couldn't give a fatal wound towards the Fire Drake because of its high defense.

After a while, everyone feels another heat from a different direction inside the Dark Forest. Behind the thick dark tree, appears another gigantic fireball approaching the Fortress Wall.

"Damn it, there is another one. Duke Blue.." said Jacob as he is still assisting Sylvan.

"On it.." As the duke claps his hand and creates a huge fire barrier on the outer layer of the Fortress Barrier.

A bluish membrane appears protecting the entire Fortress. before long the gigantic fireball landed on the Duke's barrier. *BOOMMM*

"GRTTT… ARRGGHHH" shout Duke blue as he maintains the barrier against the gigantic fireballs.

After a while, the fireball's force diminishes and turns into nothingness. Meanwhile, the Fortress wall crack is becoming bigger.

"Huft.. Haaa… Ha… It's a strong attack" said the Duke while he took out mana potion and drank it.

From the fireball's path appears another Fire Drake. However, this Fire Drake is not approaching but accumulates fire elements in its mouth.

Seeing this action, "Stop his charging breath!! All cannon focus on it!!" shout the dwarf general.

Before the magical cannon attack approaches Fire Drake, a huge being intercepts them while on fire. The other Fire Drake managed to intercept the magical cannon with its fire barrier.

Sylvan used this opportunity to launch a deadly strike towards the Fire Drake. As he approaches the gigantic lizard, it suddenly spins its body horizontally while creating fire [Flame Wheel].

Fortunately, Sylvan managed to back away using [Windwalk] the moment it spun rapidly. Still, his [Fire barrier] that protected him got cracked in various locations.

Before long it stops spinning around as the other Fire Drake launches a gigantic fireball towards Fortress. The Fireball is smaller than the two previous fireballs but still enough to destroy the Fortress wall.

During this precarious moment, a man appears out of nowhere in front of the gigantic fireball. *Swiish* Every nearby soldier that is braced for impact suddenly hearing something that is cutting down [Sword Art - Rune Slash].

Suddenly, the gigantic fireball in front of the man slashed into two and scattered away without damaging anything.

Jacob, who is trying to use his remaining mana to defend the attack feels relief looking at the man's appearance.

"Huft.. You are a little bit of late, My Liege." muttered Duke Jacob slowly.

"A mere lizard trying to run amok in my kingdom." said Kind Leon while releasing his majestic aura that only seven grade people only have.

Feeling the oppression from King Leon's aura, the two Fire Drake feeling dreadful. But, they also couldn't oppose the order that is kept on their head.

"Ehh.. Why are you shuddering all of sudden? I haven't even warmed up yet." mocked King Leon towards the two Fire Drake.

Being taunted by King Leon, the near Fire Drake immediately attacks him with a fire claw while the others approach the human king.

The near Fire Drake who is couldn't even catch Sylvan being toyed away by King Leon. The king also did not stand idle and dodging the attack, he launched his counter-attack with his mighty greatsword.

Although he didn't use any skill, his sword managed to leave a scratch or crack on the Fire Drake's scale.

"Such a strong scale you got there!? Let's see if you can handle this!!" said the King before disappearing.

The moment King Leon appeared, a burst of blood sprouted from the Fire Drake's body. [Sword Art - Decapitation Slash]

'Hm… I intend two cuts it in two but it still survives' thought the king looking at the bleeding Fire Drake.

Suddenly, it feels a hot sensation on its side. The Fire Drake covered in fire charge at him with tremendous speed [Flame Charge].

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[Flame Charge] The Fire Drake rapidly approaches King Leon while its body is covered in flame. Before the impact, King Leon disappeared once again from his spot [Blink].

Missing its target, the Fire Drake couldn't stop its momentum and keep running until a few hundred meters away.

Using this opportunity, King Leon appears in front of the wounded Fire Drake. Without wasting any moment he stabs his sword towards the wound. An illusion of a giant sword manifested behind him and embedded into his sword [King Gladius]. *BAM*

The sword pierced its body and created a big hole. At this moment, the wounded Fire Drake immediately fell on the ground lifelessly.

Although Fire Drake is a very strong grade five monster and created a lot of trouble towards Jacob and his party before, it still did not match against grade seven combatants such as King Leon.

Even King Leon didn't use his elemental attack, it is still enough to slay the Fire Drake. This shows the big difference in power between grade six combatant and grade seven.

This is why grade seven is hailed as a legendary figure because not only are they hard to get but also their unbelievable might.

Looking at the fallen Fire Drake, "YEEAAHH!!" all the soldiers cheered at King Leon's achievement.

During this time, the other Fire Drake enraged as its partner was killed by the small human in front of it. Once again it uses [Flame Charge] towards the human king.

While the Fire Drake and King Leon clashed with each other, the other soldiers also kept firing spells and projectile weapons towards the endless tide of monsters.

Although many monsters died and were heavily injured from the Fire Drake's fireballs and its fight, there are still countless monsters that are coming towards the Fortress.

Now, the monster tide mostly consists of third and fourth-grade monsters that could withstand the aftershock of the Fire Drake fight nearby.

This monster is the true force of this monster army. Jacob and his friend could easily kill these monsters. However, thousands of these monsters keep coming towards the Fortress.

"Keep Firing!! Push them back until the King kills the Fire Drake!!" command Borkins towards the other soldier.

The monster already reached the Fortress wall. Since they couldn't destroy it, they are forced to climb the wall using various kinds of means.

During this time, an explosion suddenly happened on the top of the wall. From the explosion, a black reddish humanoid monster killed the nearby soldier.

"Corrupted Fire Elemental!! Soldier!! Charge!!" as Borkins leads the soldier to fight against these monsters.

Like a breaking dam, soon more monsters managed to climb up the wall and begin to create chaos on the upper wall. The monster in the upper wall creates a distraction and disrupts the projectile attack towards the other monster.

"Jacob, give me some time!!" said Duke Blue as he began casting high circle spells.

Hearing this, Jacob immediately helps the nearby soldier to fend off the monsters. However, all this monster has strong fire resistance. The Duke needs to expend more mana to kill all these monsters.

Especially the Corrupted Fire Elemental that could absorb fire elements to heal themself. Fortunately, Sylvan is already back at this moment and helps the others to kill the monsters.

After a while, "All things in the world turn to ash… Everyone brace yourself!! [6th Circle - Firestorm]

Duke Blue claps his hand before raising it and creates a huge magic circle above the Black Fortress. From the magic circle appear many small blue flame sparks that keep hovering around the Fortress.

Soon, these blue flames become bigger and engulf the entire Black Fortress along with the area nearby it. All the monsters who touch the blue flame immediately turn to burn and turn to ash despite their high fire-resistant.

Even the Corrupted Fire Elemental couldn't resist its heat and was destroyed by the blue flame. This shows that the blue flame is hotter and more powerful than the ordinary flame.

Moreover, the blue flames didn't harm the soldier and the fortress. Such fine control of spells is very hard to even for a six-grade combatant. Still, duke Blue managed to do such an impossible feat.

Looking at the burning monster, "What a superb control of spell and element. Even for the elves there are only a few who could do this kind of control especially in this large space." said Sylvan.

After the blue [Firestorm] recedes, the soldier gains a little bit of breather and goes back into their position to release to attack the endless tide of monsters.

As for Duke Blue, he is slumping on the ground with a pale face. Controlling large-scale and high circle spells truly exhausted him in body and mind. If it is not because of his strong will under years of battling in many kinds of war, he may already have fallen unconscious.

Using his remaining strength, he drinks some potions to rejuvenate himself. Still, his power is dropping a lot more than before.

However, the strict duke refused to back down and keep assisting the soldiers from behind. As a duke, he knows that each of these soldiers could potentially become someone greater one day.

During this time, "ROOARRR" a roaring sound heard from the Fire Drake's location.

After a dozen times clashing one with each other, the other Fire Drake is finally slain by King Leon.

"What a persistent lizard." said King Leon as he looked at the lifeless Fire Drake.

Then, the king disappeared and arrived at the Fortress using a blink. Looking at the exhausted face of Duke Blue, "You look terrible, Olven."

"Haa.. Ha.. This is nothing, my lord. I could still fight." replied Duke Blue.

"Good… Soldier of the Heart Kingdom, show them the might of Heart Kingdom!!" shouted King Leon.

"YEAHH!!" cheers the soldier.

The presence of King Leon raised the morale of the defending soldier. They fight more zealously than before. They feel that as long as their king is here, they are not unbeatable.

On the contrary, the monster keeps coming without regard to their life like a moth coming towards the flame.

Hours passed by and soon the sun began to set while the battle against the monster continued. Fortunately, there is no other grade five monsters coming from the forest.

Still, the King sometimes needed to step in to give the soldier time to take a breather and shift their position. The hardest part of fighting against monster waves is not to kill all the monsters but to withstand the attack of the endless tide.

Various kinds of monster corpses lay in front of the Fortress wall. It soon became a stepping stone for other monsters to climb the fortress wall.

Despite the endless tide of monsters, the high-level combatant and King Leon feels relief. It's because the main preparator of Monster Overlord is not coming towards this way.

Otherwise, the monster overlord will already appear a long time ago when King Leon kills the two Fire Drake.

"RUF… VARR… SOR.. FUE…"

After some time, an echo of the chanting sound was heard in the air. All the high combatants immediately become vigilant towards the surrounding. But, they couldn't find the preparator.

The chanting sound is also not in the common language and seems like gibberish. Despite the clamoring sound from the fight, everyone could still hear the chanting perfectly.

Hearing the chanting, Priest Sara who is tending the injured soldier feels a dread feeling towards this. But, she still couldn't find the source of the chanting.

"RAAS.. VON.. SURVANT.. END… [Arise Children of Miasma]" soon the chanting came to an end. *Boooo* *ROAARR*

As the chanting came to end, they heard a war horn and a monster roar. To be exact people all over the Firuman heard this.

Suddenly, a thick black tendril coming from the forest and ground. The black tendril entering the monster corpse. Soon, all this corpse comes back to life. All the monsters have red eyes and their skin is black colored.

"I-Imposible.. A-All of them become undead." said Priest Sara looking at the impossible thing in front of them.

Undead is a creature that is not alive and also dead, they are usually created and controlled by someone. There are various kinds of spells to create undead. However, because of the difficulty of controlling the undead body, only a few people are capable of doing this.

The strongest of these spell practitioners could only control not more than ten. However, thousands of monster undead keep being resurrected. Moreover, the monster also looks as strong as when they are still alive.

Then, the resurrected monster once again comes towards the Black Fortress. Looking at the resurrected monster, Jacob drinks a mana potion before flaring up his mana.

He manipulates the thick fire element in the surrounding and instacast [Fire Wyrm] to burn all the resurrected monsters. Although undead is bizarre creatures and instills fear towards others, they have a lot of weakness.

One of them is as long as their body is destroyed they will be dead permanently. In terms of destruction, fire elemental could be said to be one of the best elementals for this job.

On the contrary to Duke's expectation, the burned monster keeps regenerating and moves forwards while ignoring the Fire Wyrm. Some of them could even withstand the fire without getting burned.

"T-This.. They retain their trait of having fire resistance." said Jacob.

*ROOARR*

*ROOARR* a loud roaring sound was heard from the Fire Drake corpse location. Seeing the black-red colored Fire Drake arising, even King Leon begins to look serious. Then, he disappeared from his spot towards the Priest Sara.

During this time, he noticed that the half-burned undead could regenerate themselves. He needs to find another way to destroy all these undead. Otherwise, it will be just a time before all of them collapse.

Fortunately, one of the weaknesses of undead is the holy magic that many religious groups practice. Although the temple of death is different from the other religious group, they still practice and teach about holy magic.

As a high-ranking and high-grade magician, Priest Sara must know few ways to deal with the undead.

Appeared in front of the Priest Sara, "You are a priest, right? Did you have any idea how to deal with those undead monsters?" asked King Leon straightforwardly.

"This undead seems stronger than I have seen before. I suspect low circle holy spells will do nothing to them." as the Priest Sara sends a bolt of light towards one of the undead.

The bolt of light easily destroyed the undead body but it managed to regenerate again after some time. Seeing this, King Leon begins to know that this is no ordinary undead.

Normally, any undead that is getting hit by holy magic will be dead immediately, especially getting their head destroyed.

"Then, do you have any solution?" asked King Leon once again.

"Yes, actually the temple of death's specialty is to do with undead and soul-like monsters. This monster may seem like undead but they are also similar to soul-like creatures. Fortunately, by fate, I know a high circle spell that may stop all of this undead."

"Really?! then, do the spell. It's still better than nothing." said King Leon.

"Certainly, King Leon. However, I need a lot of time to do this spell as I am not too familiar with it." replied Priest Sara.

"How long do you need time to cast the spell?" asked King Leon.

"I need around twenty minutes to cast this spell." said Priest Sara truthfully.

"Twenty minutes??! Alright, I will buy you as much time as I can." replied King Leon solemnly.

Fighting against two grade five undead Fire Drake is not simple even for King Leon. Twenty minutes is quite a long time, anything could happen in this duration.

"Soldiers, I want you to protect this priest as your life depends on it." command the King towards the nearby soldier.

"Yes, my lord." replied the nearby soldier.

Before King Leon goes away, "King Leon, please wait." said Priest Sara.

"Is there anything else?" replied King Leon.

Rather than reply to the King's inquiry, the priest went towards one of her knights.

"Sir Buck, could you please lend me your sword for a while?" asked the priest towards one of her knights.

"My lady, my sword is…" before the knight could finish his sentence.

"I know your sword is a rare artifact, but now is not the time to be petty." said Priest Sara sternly.

"Alright, my lady." said the knight before giving his greatsword to Priest Sara's slim hand. Still, she could hold the weapon easily and walk back towards King Leon.

The priest went back to King Leon, "This is one of our rare artifacts that is enchanted with holy magic. I believe you will need this to fend off the Fire Drakes, King Leon." explain Priest Sara.

"Then, I will gladly use it." as the King holds the Greatsword.

The moment he held the weapon, a bright light shone upon the greatsword. Some of the artifacts have a sentient spirit on them. However, in front of the might of a grade seven combatant, this spirit could easily dominate.

Some rumors even said that the artifact could only show its true strength in the hand of a seven-grade combatant. Still, there are some exceptions where an artifact couldn't be controlled by the seven grade combatant.

"Good sword.." muttered King Leon before using blink to fend off the two Fire Drake.

While King Leon talks to the priest, the Fire Drake is already approaching the Fortress slowly. Seeing that King Leon is already gone, the priest begins her chanting.

"Earth, Lightning, Fire hear my call…" as the priest focuses on her chanting.

Hearing the chanting echoing in the air, all the undead monsters immediately target the priest.

Seeing the change in behavior of the undead monster, "Soldiers!! Protect the Priest!! Push them back!! Don't let them get near the priest!!" shout General Borkins

But the undead monster is like an unstoppable train that keeps pushing forwards without caring about their lives as they could always regenerate.

"Duke Olven, try to hold them back, your fire still could destroy them into nothingness. I need to take some time." said Jacob as he cast a complex magic circle in front of him.

"Alright, don't take too long." as Duke Olven goes towards the priest's location.

They know whatever spell the priest is trying to cast will be very effective against these undead monsters judging by the undead monster reaction. So, they need to buy some time for her to finish her spell.

Arriving at the priest's location, Duke Olven immediately cast blue fire spells without any restriction and burned the undead monster to ash.

He found out that if the undead monster was destroyed until it became ash, it couldn't regenerate its body back. So, the duke's blue fire is quite effective against these undead monsters.

Still, the duke is only one person while there are thousands of undead monsters. *BAM* Suddenly, a tremor shook the entire fortress. In this chaotic moment, everyone forgot the wall breaker monster also rose again.

Since they become undead, they turn into unstoppable monsters with their fire barrier and rapid charge attack.

'Shit… at this rate, the wall will be destroyed.' though general Borkins while he is trying to fend off the biggest Barculos along with the other nobles.

During this precarious moment, a loud eagle cry was heard. *KYAA* *KYAA* *KYAA* *BOOO* Then, a war horn sounded from the air.

"Soldier!! Charge!!" shouted someone from the air.

Then, a large group of soldiers riding a large four-legged bird come down and help fend off the Barculos. From their aura, everyone could feel that most of them are four to five-grade combatants.

Looking at the banner of Heart kingdom, "I-It's the Gryphon Squad and the Royal Guard." said one of the soldiers who noticed their armor emblem.

Hearing this, all the tired soldiers raise their morale and fight more seriously. Then, the leader of the royal guard approaches General Borkins while fending off the undead Barculos destroy their Fortress Wall.

"General Borkins, I am sorry for my lateness. What is the situation?" asked the leader.

"Better late than nothing, The situation is…" the dwarf general explained the current situation towards the leader shortly.

"Hmm… Undead Monster.. No wonder they couldn't die after being killed a few times. Alright, I got the gist of it." said the leader.

"Sven, bring some of your men to assist the king. Others... Protect the wall and the priest! Show them the true strength of Heart Kingdom!!" command the leader towards his group.

"Yes, Sir" shouted all the reinforcement.

Since the majority of them consist of high-grade combatants, they could help to kill the undead monster to turn into nothingness before the monster got a chance to regenerate themselves.

Looking at the strong power of reinforcement, the Fortress soldier morale rose again despite their exhausted body and mind. Still the endless tide of normal monster also not stopping coming from the Dark Forest

At this moment, a large magic circle appears in front of Jacob. Rather than getting bigger like usual, the magic circle becomes smaller until the size of the palm. Then, between Jacob's hand appears a small ball of fire.

Less than a second later, he throws the small fireball towards the concentrated undead monster [6th Circle - Flash Fire]. The moment it hit an undead monster, it exploded and created a blinding light towards the surroundings. *BOOM*

Then, a loud explosion heard from it engulfed all the nearby monsters. The explosion was so hot that it could even melt part of the Fortress wall a little bit despite the distance.

All the engulfed undead monsters burned and turned to ashes. Jacob's spell managed to give a little bit of a breather towards the other soldiers.

While the soldier is trying to protect the priest and wall, King Leon is having a hard battle against the two undead Fire Drake.

The two Fire Drake completely abandon their defense and focus on attacking the king. Moreover, they even resort to suicide attacks few times. If King Leon didn't have [Blink] skill, he may already be severely wounded.

'Tch… Despite using the holy artifact, they still could regenerate again after certain times passed. The best move is to cut all their limbs or destroy their entire body.

However, their thick scale is very troublesome.' thought King Leon while evading all the Fire Drake attack. *Kya* *Kya* a loud eagle cry heard from behind King Leon.

Hearing the familiar cry, "Took you long enough." commented King Leon.

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"Took you long enough." said King Leon.

"My King, let us help you fend off this monster." said Sven as he led his group towards one of the Fire Drake.

Although King Leon is very strong, he still needs to become passive facing against two Undead Fire Drake. Especially they keep using suicide attacks to wound King Leon.

Fighting against high-grade monsters such as Fire Drake is different from fighting high-grade combatants. A high-grade monster's attack contains a high concentrated miasma. Getting fatal hit by it is the same as getting sentenced like being crippled or death.

This miasma attack is very lethal even for grade seven combatants such as King Leon himself. Furthermore, King Leon also feels that the miasma in their body is several times higher than when they are still alive.

Therefore, King Leon could only dodge their attack and waited for an opportunity to launch a decisive attack. However, the Fire Drake defense is very sturdy. All his causal attacks only wounded them a little bit before they recovered back.

He needed to charge up to create a big move, but the Fire Drakes didn't give him any time to charge up a strong attack.

However, the current situation has changed. With the help of Sven and the other royal guard, he could fight against one of the Fire Drake alone.

"I leave one of them to you. Careful of its attack, it contains a high concentration of miasma." said King Leon to others.

Then, King Leon begins to charge at one of the Fire Drake. As the King fought and wounded one of the Fire Drake, the other Fire Drake also came for help. But, it got intercepted by Sven's group.

Using this opportunity, King Leon flared up his mana and tried to slash the Fire Drake's limbs [Sword Art - Thousand Cut]. Engulfing his greatsword with blue fire, he cut the Fire Drake multiple times.

"ROOARR" roaring the Fire Drake as all its limb being cut down.

Without wasting any time, the king [Blink] to the others Fire Drake and cut all of its limbs using the same method.

"Keep attacking them to prevent them fully recovering. I need to help defend the Fortress." command King Leon before disappeared.

"As you command, My King." replied Sven and his group.

Arriving at the Fortress, he found that all the soldiers were in a dangerous situation of exhaustion especially the high-grade combatants.

If his royal guard is coming a little bit late, the fortress will crumble already. This shows the true horror of the undead monster tide. Unless they are burned to nothingness, they will keep regenerating and become unstoppable forces.

The only one that could destroy them completely is the high-grade combatants using high consumption mana skill or spell to obliterate them.

Without wasting any moment, King Leon flares up his mana and creates a big magic circle in front of him. Less than a second later he raised his hand and the magic circle became bigger in the sky [6th Circle - Starfall].

From the magic circle shone many bright lights that bombard the monsters. Once again countless undead monsters are reduced to nothingness. After a while, the remaining one begins to regenerate and moves again towards the Fortress.

'Tch.. What a persistent monster.' thought the king while looking at the regenerate monster.

Then, the king looked at the priest who kept chanting the spell. 'We need more time.' thought the king

"Soldiers!! Defensive Position!! Go into a defensive position!! Magicians cast all your combined area spells from the back! Hold on as long as you can! Show them the might of Heart Kingdom" command the King.

"WOOOO!!!" shout at all the soldiers.

"You hear that, boys!! Defensive position!!" shout General Borkins.

Then, the soldier took out the shield and created a defensive line position. While the magician huddles up in the backline casting a combined area spell.

"High-Grade combatant, follow me!! Target the one with the higher grade and the flying monster!! CHARGE!!" as the King begins to massacre the undead monster.

"Follow the king!! Charge!!" shout the Royal Guard leader riding his griffin.

As the soldiers turn into defensive positions, the battle turns into a battle of attrition. As long as the soldier could delay some time, they have a chance to survive this unstoppable undead.

While the King and other high-grade combatants were fighting the other high-grade monster, a huge magic circle appeared on the ground.

"Take and give my enemies eternal sleep… [6th Circle - Destroy Undead]" shout Priest Saya.

A powerful invisible wave blew up towards the surrounding area even entering the Dark Forest a few kilometers away.

After getting his by this invisible wave, all the undead immediately fall on the ground like a doll losing its string. Even the gigantic Fire Drake also stops regenerating and turns into a corpse.

Seeing that the undead turn back into the corpse, "WOOOWW" cheers all the soldiers.

"Fuhh… It seems the spell is effective. Worthy to be called the Temple of Dead." muttered King Leon.

Looking at the undead monster dead, the remaining surviving monster went back to the Dark Forest. As the monster waves retreat, the soldiers cheer as their battle finally ends.

While everyone is celebrating, some of the high-grade combatants immediately fell unconscious on the spot because of exhaustion and mana deficiency. These include the two dukes and Priest Saya who already fell unconscious after casting the spell.

Then, King Leon ordered the dwarf general to do some clean-up and tend the wounded. Looking at the wounded one, he could only sigh. He knows all the surviving wounded soldier's careers already end because of the miasma wound they receive.

Previously he thought that by building a stronger fortress, he could reduce the number of soldiers who will clash head-on with the monster and reduce the wounded one. But, he never thought that all the monster corpses would turn undead.

Still, if he does not make any preparation and rebuild the Black Fortress before, the injured and casualty will be increased more. It may even lead to cripple the military power of the Black Fortress.

As King Leon wants to rest inside the Fortress, a soldier from the communication squad comes running towards the King.

"My Liege…." as the soldier bowed to King Leon.

"At ease soldier, What's bringing you in a hurry?" asked King Leon.

"R-Royal.. The Royal Palace is under attack." said the soldier in a hurried manner.

Hearing this King Leon immediately flares up his mana, "Tell me the situation." Ordered the King.

Few hours before the monster attacks the Black Fortress, Angus is on the way towards the Royal Palace.

'Why the hell Jayna invited me once again into the Royal Palace? I want to avoid going outside these days.' thought Angus while inside the carriage.

He still remembers Ernest's warning to not stay in the Capital City. However, he also could not go home with a concrete reason.

'I just hope nothing will happen.' Thought Angus.

Not long after that, Angus arrived at the Royal Palace. This time he is welcomed by the old butler Darius himself.

"Welcome to Royal Palace, young master Victory. Please follow me, the fourth princess already waiting." said Darius politely.

"Certainly, please lead the way." replied the old man Darius.

"Do you know why Jay.. I mean the fourth princess called me?" asked Angus while following the old butler.

"I am not too sure myself, she seems to be in some kind of trouble lately." replied Darius with a smile.

Looking at the old butler's expression, 'Liars… He knows something… This is troublesome.' thought Angus inwardly.

After walking for a while, "Alright, we already arrived." said Darius as they arrived in some clearing land that seemed like a training area.

In the middle of it, there is Jayna who keeps swinging a sword. She was wearing the training attire, but it could not hide her developed figure. Moreover, the way she is sweating and makes her look attractive.

Even Angus who could control his expression got stunned looking at her figure. A second later, he immediately reverted to his lazy expression as nothing happened. But, the old butler Darius already noticed Angus's change.

Besides Jayna, there is also another person that keeps observing Jayna's movement. Based on his expression and stature, he seems to be a sword practitioner. As Angus could feel a hidden sharp aura inside him that was ready to be released anytime.

"Pardon my intrusion Fourth Princess, Young Master Victory has already arrived." said the old butler Darius interrupting Jayna's practice.

During this moment, the man beside Jayna looked at Angus intently while Jayna took a blanket and wiped her sweat.

Any puberty teenager that looks at her act will immediately awestruck. Still, Angus only looks at her with the same lazy expression.

"You are finally here." said Jayna.

"Princess Jayna, is this the kid that you mentioned before?" said the man beside Jayna while keeping glaring at Angus.

"Yes, teacher. He is the one." replied Jayna shortly.

"I see… I hear from Jayna that she could never land a hit on you. As her teacher, it kinda interests me a little bit." said the man.

"Okay.." replied Angus.

"Ahh.. Where is my manner? My Name is Ban, a swordmaster." introduced the man shortly.

"It's an honor to meet a swordmaster. My name is Angus Victory." replied Angus.

Observing Angus for a while, "Hmm… It seems you have a nice body, why don't you have a spar with Jayna?"

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"Why don't you have a spar with Jayna?" asked Ban.

"Spar??" asked Angus back.

"Yes, since you could dodge all of Jayna's attacks, that means you must be trained a lot in Warrior path." explained Ban.

"Err… I am sorry, Master Ban. But, I am a magician." replied Angus.

"Ehh... EHH!! Magicians!! Don't lie to me. There is no way you are a magician?!! If you are a hybrid I will believe you but a pure magician. That's absurd." said Ban with a shocked expression.

"But, I am not lying. You can ask Jay.. I mean the Fourth Princess herself. I even chose a magician class in the Royal Academy." said Angus.

Then, Ban looked at his disciple to confirm Angus's explanation.

Seeing her master looking at her, "T-That's true, master. Angus is entering magician class." said Jayna.

'Come to think of it, I never knew Angus's true combat capability.' thought Jayna inwardly.

"No way… Then, how did he dodge all your attacks? Jayna, you may not know this since I never clarified this to you as it will only make you get arrogant."

"However, let alone ungraded students, even second grade experts will have a hard time dodging all your attacks." explained Ban as he knows the true capability of his student.

"I don't know myself. Maybe I am good at dodging." chimed Angus casually.

"Good at dodging?!! Hahaha… Kid, you may fool others but under my magic eyes, I know you have a great body strength."

"Hell, your body strength may be as strong as a second-grade warrior. Now, you said that you are a magician that's the most hilarious joke I ever heard." explained Ban.

"Magic eyes?" asked Angus confusedly.

"Ehem.. young master Victory, you may not know this but Master Ban is not only a famous swordmaster but he is also famous for his magic eyes. One of his nicknames is All-Seeing Swordsman."

"The rumor said his magic eyes are special that could even see the tiniest detail from hundred kilometers away." explained the old butler Darius.

"That's some exaggerated rumor, Darius." said Ban but he also didn't deny it.

"Now, let's back to the topic. Angus, right? Since you didn't know about it means you didn't realize it. So, Why don't you spar with Jayna and if you win, I will take you as my disciple."

"Ehh.. But, master… You already have me as your disciple." retort Jayna.

"Well, one more disciple is nothing for me." said Ban proudly.

"I am sorry, Master Ban. But, I have to refuse. Jay.. I mean the fourth princess is stronger than me. This will be a one-sided beating. Besides, I never learned to fight properly before." said Angus giving an excuse with a lazy tone.

Hearing Angus excused, everyone didn't need to look at Angus to know that he was blatantly lying.

'Did he just want to call me by my name casually again!! And what's this pathetic excuse you use every single time.' thought Jayna inwardly.

"Hahaha… What a funny kid. How about this rather than a spar let's make it into a game of catches. As long as you touch Jayna in the back or knock her down, you will win." said Ban.

'This guy is... troublesome.' thought Angus while looking at the slender man that keeps glaring at Angus.

"Alright, I agree. However, rather than become your disciple. If I win I want to not be disrupted again for something like spar or fight, especially from Jay.. I mean Fourth Princess." said Angus.

"Hee.. Don't you want to become my disciple? Even though I am like this I am quite a strong swordsman." asked Ban.

"Nope.. I just want to learn magic peacefully." answer Angus shortly.

"Interesting… Well, as long as my disciple agrees. I have no problem except the opponent will be me." said Ban while smiling at Angus.

"Ehh… " as Angus was surprised at the sudden change.

"Don't worry. I will be using this weight enchanted bracelet. This way I will be much slower than my real strength. I will also wear a mana restriction bracelet." said Ban while he showed the bracelets.

"If it is the teacher that will fight then I have no problem with it." said Jayna.

"Alright, that's settled for Jayna. Still, this condition is only lucrative for you. So, if you lose, you will be my disciple."

'Tch… This guy is troublesome. He must realize my true strength under those eyes.' though Angus.

"Huft… Fine… But, I don't want anyone to know about this bet beside us." said Angus.

"I believe I could take care of that." said the old butler Darius.

Darius claps his hand, "Guards you may leave us alone"

Suddenly various kinds of hidden movements were heard from the surrounding. After that, Angus and Ban go to the center of the clearing.

Seeing that Angus walking to the center, "Uncle Darius, did you think Angus would win?" asked Jayna.

"That's difficult to say. However, young master Victory is stronger than you expected." said Darius.

"Alright you can start any…" said Ban.

Before Ban finished with his sentence, "Wait a second." said Angus.

"What is it? Did you suddenly get cold feet?"

"No, I just need to take out some of my clothes since this will get in the way." said Angus as he takes out his vest and ties until it was only his white shirt and long pants.

Looking at Angus finished putting his clothes on, "Anything else?" asked Ban.

"Nope, that's all." replied Angus shortly

"Alright, then you can start anytime you want." Said Ban.

"You sure?" said Angus.

"Yeah.. I will show the true strength of what a warrior can be." said Ban.

"Alright, then I will start." as Angus walks to Ban at a steady slow pace.

Everyone is confused at Angus's act. Without Ban realizing Angus already entered Ban's range. This surprised Ban and made him stretch his hand to pushed Angus back.

Before Ban's hand reaches Angus, he turns his body sideways and grabs Ban's hand [Yin-Yang Balancing].

The moment Angus touches Ban's hand, Ban feels like his hand is getting pulled along with his body. As Ban loses his balance and almost falls forward, he does a quick front flip and forces his body to regain his balance. *BAM*

The floor is cracked under Ban's foot. "Nice trick.. But it will not work for me again. let's increase the difficulty a little bit." said Ban as Ban suddenly moved left and right while doing strange footwork [Double Step].

Ban's silhouette becomes a little bit blurring even though he is still in the same place. Angus keeps his calm and approaches Ban slowly like before. Once again Ban tries to push Angus backward.

At the last moment, Angus disappeared from Ban's vision. Before he noticed, Angus already pushed his part of his stomach. Once again Ban feeling his body balance losing but out of his instinct Ban slap Angus's body that suddenly appears near him.

Although the slap is supposed to be casual, it still packs a punch towards Angus. Even though Angus managed to parry it, the force is already more than he could handle. *Bam* Under such a force, Angus flew a few meters away.

"Shit.. I put too much force on it." said Ban as he gained his balance.

The moment Angus landed on the ground, Angus's feet cracked the ground as the effect of [Yin-Yang Balancing]. *Bam* Without wasting any moment, Angus disappears from everyone's sight and appears behind Ban's back instantly [Beast Walk].

During this moment Ban could see Angus's movement with his magic. But, he couldn't react properly because of his weight bracelet. Then, Angus touches Ban back. *Pat*

After touching Ban's back, "Alright, it seems it's my win." said Angus casually.

"T-Teacher lost.." muttered Jayna.

"Hohoho… What a superb skill." commented Darius.

Meanwhile, Ban himself couldn't even understand why he is losing. Without any warning, he tried to grab Angus's hand. But, Angus once again dodges him by turning his body at the last second.

Ban keeps pursuing Angus trying to touch his body, but Angus keeps avoiding him. After a while, "Kid, don't run let me check your body."

"Why should I? Besides, I prefer Jayna rather than a stinky old man like you." said Angus while dodging Ban's grab.

Hearing Angus's word, Jayna immediately blushed like a red tomato.

'W-What… Does this mean Angus is like me?? Nonono… I am royalty. I need to get my bearings. B-But… What if Angus likes me?!' as Jayna's mind becomes more chaotic while ignoring her teacher and Angus's battle.

As for Darius, "Ahh… It must be good to be young." said Darius slowly.

Since Ban couldn't catch Angus, he became more frustrated and take out his weight enchantment and mana restriction bracelet.

The moment Angus sees this, he immediately runs towards Darius. Darius himself also noticed this and appeared in front of the swordmaster.

"Master Ban, I believe this is already enough." said Darius.

Hearing Darius, "Haa… You are right. I lose my composure. I am sorry, kid." said Ban

"Well, as long as you don't check me up like some pervert I don't mind it." replied Angus.

"Hey.. I am a renowned swordmaster, not a pervert." said Ban

"Yeah.. Yeah.. tell me that after you chase me like a maniac. Anyway, I won the match, you got no problem with that right? Jayna, how about you?" Angus asked everyone causally.

"E-Eh… What did you say?" Jayna was startled because her name suddenly called.

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