Chapter 10

The next day, Nick's family was joined by Alice at breakfast. She felt uneasy, though, because a legend was sitting next to her. Varion the Ghost Blade was a legendary warrior in the previous war against the undead. Where he was able to kill the Lich [Legendary] being only Lv. 280 with the [Special] class. After that, the nobility gave him only one nickname [Mage Killer] and for this, as Varion himself said, he received the [Epic] title. He was truly a living legend, for which he was hated by everyone, from the nobility of the holy kingdom to the Eminence of the undead. And she was lucky to train his son, who himself would soon become a monster comparable to his father. After breakfast, when the children went to training, Varion asked Alice to stay and talk about his son's training.

"Miss Alice, I thank you again for taking on the task of teaching my son, it is difficult to find a mage like you who would specialize in more than just one school of spells."

"Of course, Sir, it is a great honor for me to teach your son."

"That's good, I'd like to ask you, what are his chances of becoming a mage at 15? I know it's hard to understand after one lesson, but I ask you to think about it."

"No problem, it's not hard for me to answer your question, he will definitely be able to become a mage at 15, he has more talent for it than me. It's hard to find someone so talented."

"That's certainly great, but I'm sorry to hear that. See, we made a bet that if he couldn't become a mage by his 15th birthday, he would choose our family's swordsmanship as his main class. But I'm not asking you not to train him as you see fit, I just wanted to tell you about it. Thank you for taking the time to tell me."

"You're welcome, Mr. Varion."

After such an ambiguous conversation, Varion left Alice to ponder the appropriate training for Dylan.

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On the training ground, Nick was trying his best to stop Benedict's retreat. He had caught the rhythm and was now trying to match his technique with his own. This time, he not only wielded a real short sword, but also tried to catch the butler with a well-aimed throw of daggers. Due to the fact that his strength was much higher than that of an ordinary person, he could already wield a real sword well at a young age. But the most important thing he was trying to do today was not to develop his own style, but to gain a skill that would allow him to roughly understand how his opponent reacts to various actions. The battle was very difficult for him, his stamina had already dropped by a quarter, and given that you need to wait 100 hours to earn a full stamina pool, this was a lot. After a successful sparring with Benedict, Nick went to the bathroom, and then had lunch to start learning magic. For today's training, Alice took with her only one book of magic, from what was written on the book, Nick understood that these were sound magic spells.

"Hi Dylan, today you will be learning the sound magic spell after a little practice with the force bolt spell. I want you to try practicing in every spell school as an arcane mage. Plus, today we will talk about the different options for the mage and mage apprentice class."

"Thank you very much Miss Alice."

"First try to make a power shot with the mana you have left, don't worry if you can't do it, try to stretch your mana or make the spell as small as you can and shoot it at the earthen wall."

Alice stretched out her hand and said "Wall of Earth" where an earthen wall 2 meters high and wide grew in front of Nick, having walked around it a little he saw that it was about 40 cm thick. Shrugging his shoulders Nick tried to create a power shot from two mana, but no matter how hard he tried, it did not happen and the mana dissipated in his hands.

"It's okay, don't be upset. Take the mana potion and start practicing."

After drinking the mana potion, Nick decided to make sure that his spell would be better than yesterday, after a complete rest he felt better than ever. Therefore, he built his spell for a long time and made sure that there were no defects in it in his opinion.

"Arrow of Power."

His spell was a faint blue color, which looked much better than yesterday, when it landed it was able to leave a 6 cm diameter imprint on the wall. With such a spell it would be convenient for someone to put a wait, but nothing more. The second spell was worse than the previous ones, with the third spell Nick left a trace slightly deeper than the first.

"Okay, not bad. Here's another mana potion and now let's go through the tutorial. This is a sound magic spell, it uses unaspected mana, so it should be easy for you. The spell is called remote talk, but we'll change it a little, remove the remote control part, and you'll use the sound of the wind. All together, this gives you a first level spell. I'll leave you the book so you can figure out how to change the spell to change its sound. If you want that, of course."

Instead of a book and pictures, Alice created a spell between her hands and waited for Nick to be able to figure it out. Nick looked at this spell, but it looked like something perfectly round, and inside it were various straight and distorted lines that resembled how music is recorded on earth. Looking at the spell, Nick realized that it was responsible for recording various sounds and playing them back, it was quite simple with his education. In his past life, Nick earned money by repairing various electrical equipment and knew perfectly well how speakers and microphones worked. Nick thought that he would be able to figure it out better later and began to make this spell, it was smaller than the power arrow spell, but the accuracy of how he would depict part of the sound with his mana was important in it. After 10 minutes of precise control of the spell, he decided to cast it.

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"Play sound."

It sounded more like a wind hissing loudly, or like the wind blowing on tightly packed leaves on a tree, but it was a success. Alice was pleased with his spell, too.

"Well done, it turned out better than I expected, and I expected a lot. It even looked like the wind. Hmm, maybe I should think of another spell for you? No, I know. I'll make up a spell for you and leave it like that for a minute, and then you can try to repeat it from memory."

Alice, without waiting for Nick to collect his thoughts, composed a spell between her hands. Nick had never tried to construct different spells so quickly before, and when his time was up, he screwed up the spell, so that nothing even happened.

"Okay, we'll try that tomorrow too, now calmly repeat my spell."

Nick began to calmly repeat the spell and after watching it carefully, he cast it. "Play sound" the sound was like a light wind that was near him.

"Really good, at this rate you'll need to become either a sound mage or an illusion mage. Okay, let's continue with the previous conversation about the requirements for the mage and mage apprentice classes. As I said yesterday, I chose the Arcane Mage Apprentice [Uncommon] class instead of the Mage class. I did this because I wanted to develop several schools of magic. The Arcane Mage Apprentice [Uncommon] class gives me a class boost to the learning speed of all schools of magic in my skill list, not just shape magic like the Mage [Uncommon] does. Although the Mage Apprentice is technically below the Mage class, this is not entirely true. To become an Arcane Mage [Rare], you need to have a spell creation skill of Lv. 201 and have at least 3 other schools of spells in your skills that are not lower than Lv. 101. I specialize in barrier magic, divination magic, and force magic. Thanks to the fact that I chose the Arcane Mage Apprentice class, I was able to easily reach the Arcane class mage. In general, to become a mage of any kind, you need to have a high level of spell casting skill, but this does not work a little in the case of a mage of any other element. To reach the Fire Mage class [Rare], you do not need a [Rare] level skill. You need several skills of an uncommon level. You need the skill of mana sense, mana control, meditation, spell casting and the skill of the School of Fire Magic [Uncommon]. This is all you need to become a mage of any other element, in addition to the fact that you need to be able to cast a 4th level spell. In general, in the society of mages, ordinary mages are not respected at all. Such people are either considered too indecisive in choosing a preferred school of magic, or untalented. Then there is a fairly easy way for any elemental mage to improve his class in stats per level. It's simple, you need to tune your mana core to the mana of a specific aspect and thanks to this they get +10 characteristics per level in the class." But even more elite mages in our gradation can get +15 characteristics per level from tuning to a specific element, for example blood mages, space mages, holy mages."

To Nick, it all almost made sense. And so he decided to ask about the necromancers.

"And necromancers, how much do they get if they aspect themselves?"

Alice listened to his question with a serious expression on her face. And decided to answer.

"If a necromancer aspects his mana core with undead energy, he himself becomes undead. Some can perform a ritual and become a lich, which is the best choice for the undead. But if they don't, these crazy people become even more abnormal. They can accept a variety of undead races, or even die from it. And so all forbidden magic gives +20 stats per level in the class if you aspect your core. It can be cursed energy, demonic energy, undead energy. Everyone is so afraid of this magic, because it consists not only of mana, but also of soul energy. Holy mana works very well against all of them, but in order to develop holy mana to the level of compatibility with soul energy, you need to become an angel, answering your question in advance, this is impossible due to something related to the church."

"Angels exist? I thought they were fairy tales."

"Angels exist, and not only angels in general. Today I will finish your magic lesson, go have a good rest."

Instead of going back home, Nick sat down near a tree and decided to check his status.

"Status."

Name: Dylan Ghostblade (Nick Miller) 5 years old

Race: Evolved Human [Rare] Lv. 8

Class: Blocked

Class: Blocked

Health 270 HP 0.27 HP/hour

Mana 190 MP 0.12 MP/hour

Endurance 250 ST 2.5 ST/hour

Statistics:

Strength 23

Dexterity 24

Stamina 25

Vitality 27

Constitution 27

Intelligence 52

Wisdom 41

Mental Control 46

Willpower 54

Perception 32

Charisma 14

Mana output 12

Mana 19

Mana Regeneration 12

Luck 18

72 free attribute points

Titles: Otherworldly Reincarnator [Legendary+]

Racial Skills:

Quick Learning [Uncommon]

Low adaptability of characteristics [Common]

Minor Adaptation [Common]

Lesser Mana Core [Common]

Low Mental Resistance [Common] Lvl 28

Low Poison Resistance [Common] Lvl 15

Pain Resistance [Common] Lv. 3

Skills:

Meditation [Uncommon] Lvl 144

Lesser Mana sense [Common] Lvl 63

Language Proficiency (Ramiast) [Common] Lvl 75

Minor Manipulation of Mana [Common] Lvl 66

Disciple of Sword Mastery [Common] Lvl 38

Knife Throwing [Common] Lvl 26

Casting Minor Spells [Common] Lv. 5