ALL NOVEL Chapter 18: Adept Rank.
Chapter 18: Adept Rank.
"Thank you, I shall reward you after this." King Donovan can feel his body full of vigor. Although he cannot get his throne back. He still has secret wealth that he hides in case of emergencies. With that, he can start a new life.
"Don’t worry about the reward." Levi is waiting for any sign or voice that he has completed the second mission. But there are none.
"I am already fine; open my shackles."
Levi, while deep in thought, is interrupted by King Donovan, or, to be precise, the ex-king. "I am sorry; I shall release you from this shackle."
Hearing that the king is pleased. However, Levi doesn’t open the shackled right away; instead, he raises his hand and this time creates a head-size magic circle straight away. Since this is not a fight, he can take his time drawing the magic circle without interruption.
The only disturbance is the king, who senses something is wrong. "What are you doing? Release me." Shouted the king.
Levi ignored the king's outburst.
The king's instincts are telling him to escape. Before the unknown glowing circle that has a strange symbol in the air is complete, however, his limbs are shackled on the table. The shackles are specially made to retrain the dhampir and undead zombies. In the previous incident, the test subject managed to break the shackle and kill the researcher.
"It’s done; I shall release you from this shackle." A stream of fire comes out of the magic circle and consumes King Donovan's body. The fire burns everything, and the king is burned alive. The room smells like burning meat.
"AAAAAHHHH!" The king screams until the room is quiet and the flame disappears.
[Mission complete return to the main body.]
Levi's body disappears from the room, and what is left is the charred corpse. He already ordered his people to leave the capital city with the wealth Levi stole from several rich bastards. At first, they are confused by his generosity. But when they see the money and goods without hesitation, they leave.
The next day, the disappearance of the king caused the whole palace to panic. The crown prince sends people to find him. However, even after one month, they still can’t find the king. Because of that, to prevent any future problems, The king is pronounced dead, and at the same time, a ceremony will take place for the crown prince to be the next king.
At the coronation ceremony inside a room. The crown prince with the king crown on his head and wearing the red royal robe is looking at the mirror, and his blue pupils turn red, and after a while, they turn blue again. The new king smiles and walks out the door.
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Acheron World, Violet Forest Fortress Clara, and Ben can feel a torrent of mana enter the room. Both of them absorb the mana that they can get before it disappears. The horn bear, without realizing it, manages to create a monster core inside his body. Most horn bears take a long time to create a monster core.
inside the room. a vortex of mana energy enters Levi's brain, and the first thing he needs to do is become an adept mage. From the mid-stage apprentice ranks, theMana storage in his brain becomes larger and goes straight to the peak stage. The mana energy keeps coming until Levi can feel his mind getting clearer and understanding certain things. He finally broke through into an adept rank mage.
When the mana torrent looks like it’s going to calm down, another torrent of mana enters the room. This is the additional reward that Levi completed. It will be a waste to focus only on magic, and the mana is not enough to advance to the mid-stage mage adept rank.
This time, the mana energy enters through his body and heart, and Levi's body breakthroughs into the adept rank warrior. After that, the torrent of mana disappears, and the density of mana in the air becomes normal again. After this, he needs to train his body to get used to the sudden surge of strength.
What Levi doesn’t realize is that apprentice-rank mages and warriors will get their bodies exploded. When a large amount of mana enters their body at the same time. It is like suddenly pumping a large volume of air inside a balloon without making sure the size of the balloon is large enough to handle the pressure.
If breaking through rank is easy, the rich and powerful kingdom can create numerous adepts and master rank to fight with the Federation. However, even if they can, humans are greedy and selfish by nature and don’t want to share their resources with people who are not their kin.
The next morning, Ben, after eating, told Levi that he was going to live in the violet forest for a while. The horn bear instinct was telling him to go to the forest. Levi is not going anywhere and has decided to stay in the fortress.
Several days later, in the courtyard, Levi has been beaten up by Clara in sparring. After teaching him how to fight. She suddenly remembered something and decided to leave, promising Levi to return when she finished her business.
The fortress suddenly feels empty. But Levi is already used to it; people or monsters come and go in his life. If they don’t return after winter, he will return to the Pondover forest alone. Because he can’t kill people without a reason in the human kingdom to gather death points. He already tasted the benefit of the unique ability to travel to other worlds and the reward.
With the mission reward, it might take him a few or several years to reach the master rank.
At the fortress courtyard after training his body and magic. Levi closed his eyes.
[Mission: Survive in the unknown world.]
[Reward: Advance Magic Elements Manual.]
[Death point required: 5000 DP]
[Further detail will be added when the mission starts.]
[Death point collected: 727.23 DP]
Levi has checked many times to find out more detail, but without starting the mission, he will not get anything. The cost of the death point required to do the next mission is a lot. Even collecting 1000 death points takes him a long time. This time the reward is the Advance Magic Elements Manual. He doesn’t know if they are any different from the Basic Magic Elements Manual that the voice gives him. The only way to know is to get the reward.
Opening his eyes, he decided to pack some supplies to hunt in the forest. Without Clara and Ben, it’s easier for him to move alone.
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During autumn, the village around Violet Forest is busy gathering food and wood to prepare for winter. However, there are always the less fortunate. The orphan, single parent, or people with a disability because of an accident, bandit, or monster.
After being ostracized. They create their village, Longdale Village, near Violet Forest. After a long time, the village becomes a sanctuary for the outcast.
Some outsiders try to cause trouble, but the villager from Longdale village is a mix of eccentric people. Those troublemakers ended up buried underground. The viscount tries to collect taxes in the village, without any success.
One day, a brave general suggested sending soldiers to Longdale village, but during their march, that general suddenly died from poison. Not only that, but the soldier that accompanies the general falls ill after returning to the city.
Since that incident, the Viscount has given up. The reason he needs money is that each year they are required to send some funds to the Cirean kingdom to protect the border from monster tides coming from Pondover Forest.
The problem is that Pondover Forest is not the only place that has monster tides when winter arrives. The people who live near Violet Forest also suffer from monster attacks during that time. The Viscount also needs resources and manpower to defend his territory.
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In Longdale village, a woman with a scarred face wearing a cloak enters the village. The villagers ignore the new outsider.
Clara walks inside a wooden house. "Grandpa, I am home!"
"Who is your grandpa? My name is Otis and I am still young!" A bald, skinny man wearing a white mask comes out of the room.
"You are my teacher junior; that means you are of the same seniority."
"What do you want this time?" Otis gave up and asked.
"Sleeping or paralyzing gas, I am going to hunt someone."
"Wait here." The man enters a room and comes out with a leather bag. "Here."
"Thank you. How long are you going to stay here in Longdale Village?"
"I don’t know."
"Oh, I forgot to tell you I teach someone blood manipulation."
"Did you find a disciple?"
"No, although I already told him how to start, he doesn’t want to learn it."
"Most people cannot withstand the pain."
"Have you found a new disciple?"
"Forget about it, they've already fled." The middle-aged man sighs in resignation. Primitive magic is too hard to learn and will die out sooner or later. The main problem is the pain in the early stages of learning it.
"Blood Witch, we finally found you!" A group of men holding a sword and a flintlock gun enter the house.