Walking off the stage, K glanced at the cheering crowd, and a reminiscent feeling welled up deep within his subconscious mind.

“Are you okay?” Davis asked, his question snapped K back to reality

K shook his head and with a wry smile said, “Worry not my friend, I’m just thinking about something”

Davis, who had formed a soul contract with K, briefly felt what he was feeling, but only for a split second, “you know… if you ever have any… you know unfinished thought, you could come to me”

Davis tried to reassure K that he was always available if K ever needed someone to talk to, but his words only made K even more confused

“What in god green earth are you even talking about?” Raising his eyebrows K asked in a confused tone

“I’m just saying that if you ever need someone to listen to your thoughts I’m always here” Davis awkwardly continues to explain his intention, but since this is the first time he has ever tried to do so for someone, it is very uncomfortable for Davis to speak

K laughed him off, and with a joking manner, K questioned Davis “Didn’t think you cared about my well-being that much. Did my irresistible charm court your attention? My friend?”

“Hell no, I just thought that since we’re going to be together for a very long time from now, I might as well get to know you more” Davis answered with anger

K giggled as he shook his head, “There is no need to worry about my well-being. The feeling of loneliness is nothing new to me”

Davis thought to himself, “Why are you taking pride in that?” he wanted to ask but decided not to

As K leaves the noisy stadium arena and heads toward the spectator area instead of the waiting lounge, he senses a familiar presence somewhere far from his location... a familiar demonic energy!

“It seems something has caught my attention, and I must leave for a while. Make sure to keep me up to date when I return if anything interesting were to occur while I’m away. Au revoir” K said before leaving Davis's body and flying off in his crow form

“W-Wait” Davis tried to ask a bit more but K flew off in a hurry

“sigh* there he goes again” Davis mumbled in annoyance

As Davis walked into the stadium spectator area, he looked left and right trying to find an emptied seat but couldn’t, he walked around for a bit before a man raised his arm calling for him

Davis had never seen this person before but out of curiosity he went up to him, at a closer look the man had an average appearance and casual attire

Davis sat down and the man leaned in for a handshake, “I’m a huge fan of your battle earlier, Mr. Davis. I must say it was a such spectacular display of magic”

The man spoke with enthusiasm and shook Davis's hand, hearing his words Davis thought of him as a fan of K’s battle and awkwardly said, “T-Thank you”

“My name is Vincent but most people call me Vin for short, I’ve never seen anything like that before, your ability to cast up to 3 different magic elements at once was unheard of” Vincent cheerfully praised Davis for K’s battle

“Would you mind me asking, Sir, how did you do it?” Vincent asked, his puppy dog eye awaiting Davis’s response

“Ummm… It's my little secret, I can’t tell you that, I’m sorry” Davis responded, his eye turning to the side as his forehead started to sweat

It's not that he doesn’t want to answer this fan of his, but it’s because he too does not know how K does it since he was just as shocked as the audience

Vincent closely examined Davis’s body movement and noticed his awkward body movement and his eye shifting to the side and misunderstood thinking that it was some sort of high-level technique that Davis discovered by himself

Although casting multiple elemental magic at once isn’t unheard of if you’re a high-ranking magician for a freshman to do as such was astonishing since the technique that Vincent knows about casting elemental magic spells requires 5 important things: Incantation, its function, control, casting time, and most of all focus

For K to cast 3 different magical elements all at once in an instant meant that he found a way to bypass one of the 5 important foundations of magic, during their entire talk Vincent's left arm was placed in his pocket

He was holding a small knife engraved with poison, his thought was to kill him after getting his little secret. But there are 2 reasons why he couldn’t do so and one of them was that he wanted the secret for himself

The other reason was that during their entire small talk, they were being monitored by the 4 pillars of the Empire, so he let go of the blade and continued his friendly chitchat with Davis while keeping a close watch on the pillar

On the other side of the city

K was flying high in the sky trying to pinpoint the location of the earlier aura but to no avail, he was about to give up and head back but the familiar presence appeared again this time very close to him

Following the demonic trail, he arrived at a worn-down building near the outskirts of the city, he flew in acting like a normal crow, and scouted out the area but he couldn’t find anything

The demonic energy grew as he was inside and by following the energy he arrived at a wall below the stairs, following his senses he used his beak to tap on the wall

Knock* Knock*

He heard a hollow sound behind the wall, not knowing where the secret switch was, he used his dark magic to merge with the shadow and phase through the wall, and on the other side, he found a stair leading to the basement.

He went down not knowing what to expect, but when he arrived at the bottom, he saw a sight he knew all too well, multiple dead bodies with stabbed wounds on their heart lying around a drawing of a pentagram using their blood

In front of K was an altar he flew up and saw a bull skull with a familiar symbol drawn on its forehead, with his vast knowledge he realized what happened in an instant

“What a bunch of idiots!” K said while laughing in a demonic tone

He flew down onto the center of the pentagram and turned to the altar, “Baphomet huh? Hehe, not a bad choice… if only that demon would be so easy to summon”

K laughs at the dead, “Judging by the corpses and the demonic energy they should be dead around 1-2 days ago… I wonder what went wrong?” K pondered, his eye widening with realization as he counted the corpses

“There seem to be a few life-short… I see whoever it was must have tried to summon Baphomet but they accidentally summoned another demon in his stead” K smiles demonically

As he stood among the dead corpses, his eyes flashed with a crimson glow.

Gibberish chanting*

“Come to me my delight missionary, as I your master have a task for you” K called out and 4 shadowy spirits emerged from the shadow

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“Only 4 of you? It would seem my power is very lacking at this moment…” K let out a sigh of disappointment as he stared at the 4 shadowy demons

“Go my friends, find that person” The moment K finished the shadowy demons he summoned moved out of the room through the shadow at a very fast speed

K soon disappeared and reappeared in the sky as the only bird flying

Back at the stadium

Davis watches on with sweat as he sees Kane battle, Kane flawlessly wins his fight without putting any effort into his attack, Kane then turns to Davis and with a smile clearly states his intention

“Look like he’s challenging you Mr. Davis” Vincent smiled in amusement after seeing this

Seeing this declaration Davis frowned, Vincent wanted to add more fuel to the small amber but something caught his attention as he turned to look at his pocket

“Why not?” He thought to himself with disdain

He excused himself and left, Davis waved him goodbye before turning to see the next battle, “What did I miss?” K's voice came from above

“Huh?” Davis was surprised to see K perching on top of his head without him knowing

“Since when did you get here?” Davis asked

K joyfully answered, “A few moments ago after that man left… speaking of which who was that person? From my view, he seems rather close to you”

Davis rolled his eyes hearing K's joyful talk, after all, things are always going to be difficult whenever his little companion speaks in that manner, “More like a friend of yours, he a fan of your battle and came to greet you… well I came to him since he was enthusiastically waving at me the moment I arrived”

Hearing this K raised an eyebrow as he turned to Vincent’s direction, “You said he was waving at you the moment you arrived?”

“Yeah, I couldn’t find any available seat but luckily Mr. Vincent allowed me to sit here,” Davis said as he watched the next pair coming up the stage

It was the Princess of Celestial Royale family vs the count’s daughter, Davis looked at Rachel with confusion, especially at her choice of weapon

Since this is a magician vs magician match why is she wielding a blade? He thought before asking K

K looked at her closely and saw an enormous amount of magical mana emanating from her body

K laughed in amusement “So, she’s a magic swordsman, a very rare class indeed”

“What is a magic swordsman?” Davis probed, eager for clarification

K scanned her physical body further, “Her physical body is fit meaning she is not unfamiliar with physical activities, and what amazes me was her enormous mana locked up deep within her soul”

K continues his explanation as Davis carefully listens, “All of this combined tells me that she had been training in both magic and swordsmanship”

“Isn’t that awesome? Wait no, that might mean that she might be a hard opponent for us” In a moment of clarity, Davis stated

Hearing this K laughs, “Not really, learning both ways is great and all but it’ll also divide your understanding of both paths in half. Imagine your entire journey of learning magic up until now and split it in half that is how much you’ll gain”

“Wouldn’t that be a hindrance then?” Davis looked at her with curious eyes

K shook his head, as he looked at her with excitement, “Well at the end of the day it all came down to her ability to understand her lesson and how much effort she put into learning it. Think of it as 2 students learning the same things at the same time but during the test, one of them got a better score, that is her”

Davis after getting his answer turns to the fight in front and watches with careful attention to detail

Rachel and the daughter of the Count bowed as a sign of respect and brought out their weapon

The count daughter said before the fight began, “Your Highness, I’m not sure what you’re doing but I’ll not go easy on you”

Rachel didn’t reply, she raised her blade and prepared for battle. The fight begins and the count’s daughter launches an attack on her

Wind blade*

Three wind blades were launched at Rachel. She dodged the first two by quickly shifting her body at the right angle to avoid the attacks. Then, she countered the last attack by infusing her blade with aura, although the effect was not very noticeable

Swift movement*

Using a magic spell that helps increase her movement speed she rushes at her opponent with a blade at hand

Seeing this the count’s daughter tried to stop her by moving back and attacking her with more magic attack

Frost blade*

Lightning spear*

One after another the count’s daughter launched the attack at Rachel but each of them was blocked by Rachel as she conjured her magic to counter the incoming attack

Flaming wall*

With a swing of her blade, she created a firewall that blocked the attack. However, when the wall of flame dispersed, Rachel noticed that she was standing at the center of a whirling windstorm that had formed during her time blocking the attack

Whirlwind enclosure*

A circular wind cage contained Rachel in place, she was unable to break out of the cage

The count’s daughter cast a bigger attack and launched it at Rachel who was trapped at the center of the whirlwind from the top

Fire dragon*

An image of a dragon appears in flame and rushes at Rachel causing a massive explosion that shakes the stage

The crowd watches on with worry and excitement…

“Fascinating, but in the end it's all meaningless” K smiled as he said with an all-knowing tone

The smoke disperses and reveals the uninjured Rachel standing still unmoved by the attack. In the blink of an eye, Rachel slashes at the count’s daughter using a stronger type of aura slashed

Davis was astonished and was about to ask K, “It's very simple Davis, it's because she has trained her magic into her blade so much it turns into a type of aura just like a knight aura” K answered him before he could even ask

Davis rebukes his explanation, “That doesn’t make sense Magic and Aura are 2 completely different things, how could magic be converted into aura”

Hearing this K let out a deep sigh, “You don’t get it, none of you get it”

K's eyes glowed with wisdom as he shared, “The concept of aura and mana is nothing but 2 sides of the same coin, Mana is the art of controlling and manipulating mana which came from the universe itself by giving it shape, form, and function. Such as magic that increases one movement, magic that causes an explosion…”

“Mana can change the very law of physics by creating for example a fire: To ignite a flame there must be oxygen, heat, and fuel. But magic skipped 2 of the ingredients, such as Fuel and heat by using mana which was a source of energy that existed along with the universe to substitute the missing ingredients” K continued to explain as he stared at Rachel trying to help the count daughter up

He then turned to Davis, “For example using fire magic in a snowy area there is no heat there but by using mana to substitute it you can create fire. But the aura is different as it came from the same source it is a type of magic that entered our body like mana but because our body was trained to filter it into a safer to-use power it became sharper, fiercer, and harder to maintain its shape similar to Ki”

Davis after hearing K's explanation turned to K with seriousness like a person who has gone through enlightenment and with a serious look he asked

“What is oxygen?” Davis asked with a questionable expression

Hearing this K almost spit out a mouth full of blood as he looked at Davis in shock, “Eh? What do you mean?” K turns to him with a questionable expression

The two looked at each other for a few seconds before K said in a pissed-off voice, “Oxygen is the thing you breathe in every day, dumbass”

Davis snapped back at K, “The fuck are you on about? We breathe air not ox-oxcii whatever that is”

K stood there stunned, then he remembered that this world's technological advancement is halted due to the people's focus on magic advancement”

K after clearing up the confusion said in a gentle voice, “Oh my, I’m so sorry…”

“For how stupid you are” K murmured to himself

Davis popped a vein on his forehead as he snapped back with a fury, “I heard that you dumb son of a”

K stopped him with a loud yell, “Ah ah ah ah, mind your language young man, I’ve lived 10 of your lifetime”

Since K came from Earth, he replied with a phrase he saw on TV, which only pissed off Davis even more…

The announcer came up and called the next pair which was Rowan and his opponent, “Oh my, look like it our dear little Rowan turn to play” K joking said as he looked at the awkwardly shaking Rowan