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Dungeon of Apples? (Completed)
Chapter 18. Tomes and Tales.

Chapter 18. Tomes and Tales.

I wake up at the same time with Mirikin and Akuna this time. We all put our school clothes on and go downstairs... The arrogant princess sipping a cup of tea already... Wait... Why is she even inside? Did my maids just let her in? I look to Mirikin who is just as surprised as I am. Akuna is even more surprised.

Quinn: "Oh... What is this little gift?" I say in a sarcastic voice... I hate annoyances... And this one is supposed to be one  because it is an arrogant princess and my future fianceé... And I didn't accept the latter.

Jenica: "Joke all you want. I came here because I have to wait for you... You are my future fianceé after all... We just haven't gotten to the engagement party."

I roll my eyes and go downstairs. Jenica gets up too and we all leave. Why do i have a feeling that I am about to have the biggest headache of my entire life...? I really need to find that library...

We walk for a little while until we reach the campus. We enter my class because we all are in the same class now.. Damn king... The moment I enter everybody gets up and rushes to ask me questions.

Quinn (While shouting): "STOP! I will not answer any questions!"

Everybody stops and then looks at me dissapointedly. I really don't want to answer questions. I've always hated being bombarded by questions. I head to my seat and Jenica sits next to me... Why didn't I notice this earlier? Because I was too distracted to think about who is sitting next to me probably... Well I ignore it. Mirikin and Akuna sit on the seats left and infront of me. I am in the back row. I am now surrounded by girls... And why do I feel like this formation I am in is going to make every boy in class mad at me?

Ahh... So many annoyances... When the class begins and the teacher comes in I ask her if I can leave and go to the library. She is surprised a little but says I can. I rush off to the library where nobody is at right now. The peace and quiet here is enjoyable. First I need to find tomes... Tomes tomes tomes... I search around for a little bit and find an entire section about magic.

Quinn: "Yes!!!! So many tomes!!!!"

I couldn't hold my excitement so I litteraly screamed. Finally! Magic! I rush over and search for the nature section. I need to learn about nature magic because Apples come from trees. Trees are nature. I also get some instructions from Acila to learn some earth magic and a little bit of wind magic to help grow Moths.

I grab about thirty books. Twenty of them about nature. Eight about earth and two about wind. I read them for what seems hours. I think I skipped every class because when I came out it was midnight and the only people left here were me, Mirikin, Akuna and the arrogant princess Jenica.

Quinn: "So you waited for me?"

Mirikin: "Upcourse! We couldn't enter though... Jenica tried to enter but when she did she saw you concentrate on books so much that she came back out. We didn't want to interrupt you. Not even Jenica."

Quinn: "Hahaha... I lost all track of time and everything around me huh."

Akuna yawns and then looks at me.

Akuna: "Can we go now.. I'm tired..."

I laugh a little. She acts like a little kid sometimes.

Quinn: "Sure. Let's go."

We head back. I recollect everything what I read about nature magic. Apparently you need a place filled to the brim with nature mana to train nature magic. Nature mana is plentiful in forests but it is filled to the brim only at the Elven Forest. There are always Nature Orbs inside of beasts what you can use to gain better control over Nature but it isn't as effective as training in the Elven Forest. Sadly the Elven Forest is filled by strong beasts too due to its strong mana. The Elven Homeplace can only be there because it has a magical barrier blocking every beast. I wonder if it has any effect on me...

I also recall everything about Earth magic. You need to go to the depths of caverns to train that fully. The deepest cavern is the Cavern of the Spider Queen. Even S-classes don't want to meet the Spider Queen because of her excellent control over Earth magic due to living underground for so long.

Wind magic... Now that was a problem. The best part to train that was actually at the peak of the tallest mountain. The tallest mountains peakl is so thin that you can only stand on it with one toe... That is why Wind magic is really hard to master due to it being everywhere but in small amounts and not easily trainable. I also learned a little bit about fire magic in the Nature Tomes. Fire Magics best training spot is at the Deanis capital. "The Fiery Capital" is its nickname due to the extreme heats inside the core of the keep. Only the Demon King and supposedly the Dungeon King can enter the keep without being burned to death instantly.

That was all I learned about the elements so far. I need more info. While reading up on Wind magic I found something interesting...

There might be a hidden element. An element nobody can use. It is only reffered to as the "Collosal" Element due to only Collosals having the element and when they die the element quickly switches to a random one. Collosals are now long extinct the books say... I want to find the "Collosal" Element... It souds... Powerful.

At our house I also found some story books. I read through them at night... I must say some of these are quite hilarious. Some of them talk about a man who used the power of friendship to win a battle against a demon who could've slain the entire world. The power of friendship cannot change a mans physical and magical capabilities... I guess these are just story books. There were some more realistic darker ones. One of them caught my interest. It was about some gods going rogue after a huge battle in the divine plane against some Evil Gods. And the tale ended with this: "Now there exist three types of gods. The Evil Gods, The Rogue Gods and the Real Gods. The Real Gods keep the peace. The Evil Gods destroy the peace. The Rogue Gods do both."

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I wonder if that story is true... When morning came and Akuna with Mirikin woke up I was still reading. I didn't want to sleep much anymore. I also got a message from the king during the time I spent in the library. I read it at midnight. Apparently the king is prepearing me a present for winning such a hard battle and surviving. The damn bastard had this all planned when he first saw me power didn't he? He even sent me a suit of armor together with the message to go to war.

I decided to practice magic and skip classes again. Well not all of them. I went to the class where you learn to write... The letters vastly differed from the ones I am used to from my past life. I once went back to my home class just to find my desk scribbled full of bad words. I heed them no mind because they weren't directly physically attacking them. They are trying to test my mental fortitude. I'll test their mental fortitude later too. Just to see if they can handle seeing a real monster... But first i'll have to figure out what THAT side of me was... When I fought that S-class... I asked Mirikin and Akuna about it... They didn't know anything. I also searched the library for things about such a change... Nothing. Not even the demon section offered any help. I even searched the dungeon section of the library. Nothing. It's like that is only my ability... I am afraid to know what it might do to me if I don't know how to control it if it comes out... I recalled everything what happened with the S-classes and the moment I thought about killing an S-class, one of those I hated, the form came back... The half-ruby half-emerald mask... With black spots around my eyes... Ruby hair... This time... My horns were way longer... I was in the library when this change happened and Mirikin stepped in and saw me. She screamed and Jenica and Akuna came in and screamed too. I luckily changed back before the students could come.

Hah... So that is the form what comes out when I think about killing those I hate.

There was one distinct change about my form though... I had a tail and I had wings. My tail was that of a dragon... My wings that of the Luna Moth but they seemed way stronger and harder to pierce. I tried to cut them with my sword once but couldn't. I then asked Akuna to swing at my wings and the sword she had split in half on contact with the wings. Having wings and a tail felt like having extra limbs... Once I calmed down and stopped thinking about S-classes I turned back.

I practiced my control over magic for a while. It took me a few days to start using wind magic though. Nature magic came to me naturally... Heheh... Earth Magic I dug a hole for myself. I am not kidding. I dug a literal hole in the ground with a shovel and meditated in it to learn Earth Magic. When you go near my manor you will see a hole just good enough for one person to fall in. I jumped in and out of that hole to learn Earth Magic. Once a maid fell in but luckily didn't break a bone. I got her out of there and then warned everybody about the danger of the hole. I also had them put a fence around it.

Wind magic I trained at the top of my manor. There was a chimney what went 5 meters above the roof. I jumped ontop of that and meditated for a while every day. I can now use advanced Nature magic, Basic Earth and Wind magic. Fire Magic I can't train because of the... Mana... Around me. There is litteraly no fire magic around the Academy. Well It would be troublesome if the academy suddenly caught on fire. Water magic I did want to learn but there was also no water mana around. I have time... "I must find the Collosal element" I thought to myself every day. I also didn't forget about my core pieces. I gathered some info about my core pieces over time. Apparently all of my pieces have been found by adventurers except the ones I have. Now I just need to get them out of the adventurers hands and into me...

There is also one more problem. Jenica won't stop troubling me about the Engagement party. Her father said that he will disown her if she doesn't get engaged with me in a month after I recover. That is pretty harsh to tell your own daughter. I really don't want to marry her but it's a good chance to get more valuable info. And some very valuable connections to the kings family tree.

Upcourse I am still going to marry Mayu... And maybe Akuna... And Mirikin... Four wives for one dungeon? Hahhah... My ring finger is going to be glistening with rings isn't it?

When I thought about that and laughed loudly everybody looked at me. It was on a coffee break my manor had. I set up a small little coffee break for everybody in the manor on the same day. We had a huge table what had enough chairs for the 3 girls, me and all the maids and butlers. We all ate and drank. Upcourse... I made the food. I never cooked before but it naturally came to me after learning it from the original cook for a while. I made a couple dishes from Earth. They were surprised about my selection of ingredients but still ate it. They all said it was delicious and we ate and drank coffee. We also talked about any problems the manor has. At one time the problem of what will happen to the maids and butlers when I leave came up. Apparently all of them are coming with me to the county after we are done here.

I also felt some... Uninvited... Visitors around the academy.

I'll handle them soon. And then I'll find the sender of the visitors. I won't play nice and let them attack first. They won't like me very soon. Hehehehe.