Adam’s P.O.V

This door is rigged to explode of it comes in contact with someone’s skin, that or there is a special

property of her gloves that make it impossible for it to trigger on her. “Anti magic gloves I believe", I

say out loud, she seemed confused at first so I clarified. “you’re wearing anti magic gloves to prevent

this formation from triggering”. She seems shocked I know this, is knowledge on formations so rare

in this kingdom .

“who are you really... only imperial level existences are aware of anti magic and items made of it...

how does a cripple like you have such information??”, she asked with caution but I can clearly sense

her forming a magic circle on the hand she had at her back. I was aware for a while that she is a

mage already but I doubt a circle with a basic spell is that lethal, could she possibly be hiding her

abilities??

As soon as she stretched her hand revealing the magic circle with a fire ball spell ready to launch I

enhanced my body with a miniscule amount of mana and dashed before her catching her off guard,

her spell slowed and I disrupted the circle flow by injecting some of my mana into it making the

magic circle collapse. The maid paled at what I just did backed away looking at me like I am some

sort of monster.

“How the hell did you do that?!”, she demanded as multiple fire magic circle appeared beneath me, I

disrupt the mana flow and collapse the circles once again. “If you’re done get out, I have an

awakening ceremony to attend today", I say in a threatening tone, in truth while I can’t kill her, it

goes both ways, so long as I have no magic affinity I will not be able to kill her even with my mana

enhancement. I heard her take in defeat and internally sighed, if a fight broke out I wouldn’t walk

out unscathed no matter how weak her magic prowess is, though I’m pretty sure she is only a basic

mage but as long she still has her affinity advantage i will surely not be able to win.

She gave me one last glare before leaving the room in a huff, followed after her and went in the

direction of the family room, this boy’s parents came in last night so let’s meet them. I walk into the

family room and see two adults at the dining table reading their own news paper, the both dressed

in their official formal wear and looked quite good in it, the man i assume to be Adam’s father is

rather large with a muscular build, he has the aura of an intermediate mage so he can’t be all bad

even the wife is an incomplete intermediate mage.

“Good day father, I am ready for my awakening”, I say trying to act the good son part well. “And you

are??,” I hear him ask in a tone of anger, usually I would walk out of here but I can’t wait any longer

for my magic awakening. “Adam von Marlow, second son of the Marlow dukedom”, I say without

lowering my head. The man gave me a surprised side glance while the wife gasped and turned

towards me.

“Do you really expect me to believe such a thing?? Walk away while I am feeling merciful and I may

just forgive your bull-", Duke Marlow suddenly cut himself off and released a massive wave of killing

intent towards me, It quite cute compared to what I am used to but I have to admit I’m surprised a

man with intent like this could possibly have political difficulties. I felt an invisible force slam me into

the wall as the intent rushed at me.

I didn’t flinch nor struggle with it and looked Jim in the eye indifferently. “who are you and what

have you done to my son?!”, he demanded in fury as he put a blade to my throat. I inspect his Mana

base and find that he is a mage with both the space and soul element as his affinities. “since you can

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read souls I’ll cut the bullshit... your son died years ago because of your neglect, that healing

formation was blocking his mana channels and allowed for a special poison to take over his body, I

just possessed the body of a dead and abandoned child”, I say as I disperse his killing intent, I just

noticed but he is not using formations, maybe Normal casting a trick passed down nobility in this

world or something.

The Duke drew his blade and slashed at my throat but knowing he wouldn’t have the nerve to

actually harm his son I looked directly at the blade as it stopped short. “Do you really think I would

flinch at your meagre power when I died and retained methods of my death??”, I ask to make sure

this old man wasn’t a retard. He seemed ticked off at this but i don’t really care about all that, I am

however intrigued as to how he was able to read the nature of my soul despite only having a mid

stage basic mastery of the soul element.

“Why did you pick my son of all people", he asked with a growl, “you clearly weren’t going to use

him for anything, so I did... I will have my awakening ceremony within the hour, and when I am done

I will leave this household with whatever minute inheritance you leave for me by the time I am

done... and In three months I will be back to attend the magic academy”, I say setting the ground

rules early, while I obviously plan to help this family since it was this boy’s dream for whatever

foolish reason, though afterwards I will leave them to their own means.

After saying what I needed to I left the room and waited in the family’s second study, for the next

hour I was brushing up on the worlds knowledge and familiarized myself with the way all other

societies were Structured, I have to say though, as back water as this realm is they still run by a

might is right system, I wonder what the grandmaster would think if he saw all of this, whatever I

will probably just leave the family a few techniques of mana cultivation or something, that should

last them next century or so at this realms rate of development. Surprisingly a different maid came

to tell me that the awakening crystal was ready so I made my way to the practice room, for a falling dukedom this family sure knows how to spend on their mansion.

I stand before the crystal under the gaze of Adam’s parents as well as some court mage from the

Royal capital that was supposed to guide me on this whole thing but I’m willing to bet he is just here

to make sure the Royal family either plucks away or destroys any talent that comes from this

dukedom, especially considering the influence we would have once we deal with the opposing

faction for control of the region. I will only be able to awaken three elements per stage in this body

job matter how I improve so I guess I’ll just get an offensive element, a restrictive element and

specialized element, I can rely on my mana techniques for speed and defense anyway, though I’ll

have to make myself a grimoire, while I may be weak now I may not have the time to make more

later so I will probably just make five S rank ring grimoires or something.

I heard the court mage spout some nonsense but I ignored him and walked over to the crystal

myself, I could feel him trying to check if I had a pre-existing mana base but as he could I didn’t so

he let me be, not like an intermediate mage like him could do much anyways. I rest my hand on the

crystal and Channel my mana into it, once I felt it was enough to allow for a natural awakening

rather than a forced one I transferred my consciousness into the crystal, I took the form of a spirit

body as I traversed through the awakening crystal for the elements I wanted to secure.