I awoke in confusion as I sat on a stone throne in the middle of a clearing. In front of me floated a book that seemed to be made in pure gold. Next to it floated a pendant it reminded me of the one that I always wore around my neck. But this one was new with 13 symbols that seem to throb with blue pulsating light. As I sat on my throne the golden book floated before me and out of instinct my hand raised to touch it.
Light flashed into my eyes as my hand met it and a feeling of warm flash through my body. When I open my eyes, I was a child again a man was holding my hand as we walked somewhere. I kept trying to see his face but all I could see was a gold shimmer where his facial features should be. I could tell he was looking at me but nothing else.
“I know you have many questions” he said slowly. “And it pains me not to tell you, but you are just not ready yet to learn most of it. First you should know that I have sealed your memories my son as soon me and your mother will begin a journey you just can’t join us with.” He paused for a min and I could tell this sadden the man no my father quite a bit.
“The pendant I gave you will only activate to slow give you back your memories when you reach adulthood or when your life is in danger. It is the key to your inheritance but before you can grow strong enough you will use another item. The book of knowledge it has the power to divine any question about none sentient specific things. It is a rare item one many will fight wars for so never reveal it.”
Sighing heavily, we stopped walking and he bent down to be face to face with me. " I know I have open up a box full of question for you, but I can only tell you this. Your mother and I may or may not be dead by the time you remember any of this. And second when you do gain these memories back I ask no beg that you find a place to fortify and allow yourself to gain stregth as there will be plenty of reason to need it in the future.” His last words seem to be slurred as I was slowly pulled from the memory. I awoke on the stone floor and knowledge slammed into my brain. I knew how to summon the book of knowledge out of my pendant and that I could choose if anyone eles saw it.
“I’m alive.” I said softly.
“I’m alive!” I screamed in elation
A huge grin began forming on my face and I couldn’t make myself remove it. For a moment I debated if the memory of my father was a dream but knew I could only test it by summoning the book. Holding out my hands I summoned a book I was only supposed to see. A flash of light and in my had was a golden book with a square with three linking triangles in it.
The book felt soft to the touch which let me know it wasn’t made of metal like I thought. Slowly I opened the book and staring back out me was a blank page.
Are all these pages blank?
Words began appearing on the page.
What Knowledge would you like to divine?
8,760 – KP available
“What is KP?” I asked confused.
New words began appearing on the book mimicking what I just asked.
What is KP? (Cost 0 KP) Yes or No?
“Um yes” I murmured. A book can understand that I’m asking it questions? Well it is a magical book.
KP points are better known as Knowledge points are used to divine information. They are 2 points regenerated each day and additional points can be added using mana.
Understanding bloomed in my mind along with excitement. Knowledge is power it was a saying that always stuck with me. And wasn’t that the problem with me I knew nothing of magic or really about the world. It wasn’t like earth where education was free some places.
“What is the basic information to become a magic user?”
I knew it was a broad question, but I wanted to see if it would answer it.
What is the basic information to become a magic user? (257- KP)
What is the basic Information to become a magic user? (Hidden-473-KP)
What is the basic information to become a magic user? (Forgotten- 1012 KP)
There are 3 different options to choose from and the each have a different cost. Is it based off how valuable the information is or how unknown it is. I wondered.
Instead of guessing I asked luckily it was another that cost nothing.
One question can prompt more than one answer the more valuable and broader the information the more it cost.
That means the question that has forgotten on it was not rated for its age but its value being more than twice that of hidden. I thought.
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It was expensive since I only had around eight thousand points, but I still decide to get it.
Saying yes, the book seems to glow, and letter seem to begin showing up on the pages. 293 pages of information was quickly shown.
Magic I was finally learning magic!
Magic was split into 8 official powers Fire, Earth, Water, Wind, Arcane, Void, Death and Life. Each power gave a basic abilty for those who practice that path. Magic users choose one power and then choose which way they will both gather that power and use it. These ways where classified as Warrior, Mage and Magic Warrior each gives advantages and disadvantages. Warriors puled the power of their choice into a weapon first and then slowly use it to create body armor boosting the defense and melee attacks. Mages pulled their power into a book or scroll something they can see their spells on, so it makes it easier to cast while also creating robes which gives massively less defense than warriors but help them gather magic power to throw out powerful spells. A Magic Warrior was someone who does both while they will never be as strong as someone who choose one path they gain versatility to compensate. The other diffrence was there way of gathering magic. A warrior pulls in power while doing a set of workout routine to refine his body but not really touching his brain while a mage mediates while pulling in power to refine his mine. A Magic Warrior however pulls in magic to refine his whole body equal.
I looked over the three different classifications and becoming a Magic Warrior excited me. I wanted to be able to use spells, but I also wanted to be able to fight with melee weapons. Next, I looked over the powers to decide which best fit and looked over the additional abilty the gave besides the manpulation over the certain powers.
Fire- The manpulation of fire and the abilty regeneration uses fire to slow heal injuries (grows stronger with every level)
Water-the manpulation of water and the abilty cloning using water (grows stronger with every level)
Earth- the manipulation of earth and the ability hardening vastly increases defense for an amount of time (grows with every level).
Wind- The manpulation of wind and the abilty fluttering vastly increase speed for an amount of time
Void- The manpulation of the void striping the powers of the elements and arcane. The abilty devour able to take in the energy of the world to augment abilities.
Arcane- the manpulation of all elements and the abilty copy able to use other elements abilty (at a lower efficiency)
Life- summoning the creatures of life and the ability life stream able to heal all things.
Death- summoning undead creatures and the ability undeath gaining endless stamina when mana is above a certain threshold (grows with every level).
The one that I could stop thinking about was death my first reaction was not to choose it but another part of me screamed to fight my fear. I gritted my teeth and decide to go with death. I was afraid of dying I had experience it before even if I couldn’t remember it every time I tried fear seem to slam into me. I didn’t like the feeling no I didn’t like anything in this life and with this book I would change that. The knowledge I now need was split into different part. To become a magic user and grow in power you need a cultivation method along with that was spells for attacks defense and other special spells. A warrior used skill for attack and defense but since I was a Magic Warrior I would need all of them.
“I want the strongest death Magic Warrior cultivation method.”
My face went long when I saw the number of points required for that 26 billion KP points, so I decide to continued asking till I got something in my price range. As cultivation methods can easily be change if it’s in the same power I knew it was a use money to make money scenario. I would get the best cultivation method I could get now put in energy into the book to get a better one later. The cultivation method I ended up with was Chilling Undead for 1576 KP and the more I read it the more I understood the difference between cultivation methods.
First each cultivation method affected the spells you use for example while all fire mages used the fireball spell the diffrence came in how much damage and any additional affects the fire ball may have. If someone practice a sun gathering method than their fireball would be extremely hot and even have a good effect agianst death users while someone who practice a magma cultivation method fireball would do splash damage. Second was how long you can use it for like the Chilling Undead method I had now I could first summon low-tiered to mid-tier skeletons and low-tiered zombies. Next, I could only use it to gain the rank of knight, so I would immediately have to change once I reach the peak of knight.
Finally digesting everything I need to know I immediately began becoming a magic user. I closed my eyes and began trying to count my heart beat after finding it and counting I began to slow my count to be between my heart beat and just like the book said I felt a weaker beat from within my body that was following that beat. My mind seems to enter a black space. A clear crystal was the only thing I could see in the dark space know as my soul place and I knew this crystal was the very essence of my being, where my soul and my body meet. To use magic, I slowly sank my awareness into my essence crystal and began feeling around for the different powers of the universe. Even though it was my first time feeling the different powers I could instinctual tell what each was. I began trying to only feel death and my crystal seem to fly out of the dark space to somewhere else.
I knew I was going to the source of death magic I had wonder exactly what that was, but the cost of that knowledge was even higher than the best cultivation method. My crystal seems to land on a planet all around me where the undead slow moving aimlessly. Earlier I couldn’t tell because there was nothing I could measure it with but next to undead I seem to be about the size of a grain of rice. My soul seems to brighten as I followed the instruction of how to move my essence inside my crystal to gather the power of death. It felt weird to move something that’s apart of you that you have never moved before. Energy seem to gather into the crystal quickly filling it to the bream still moving my essence through the chilling undead cultivation method my crystal began refining the energy I had. My conscious seem to leave my crystal at the source of death magic and return to the black space where an identical crystal seem to be created but this one was the ghastly grayish black color of death magic. As the black crystal the same size and shape finished forming in the black space I felt my conscience be knocked back to my body and warm heat began slowly press all over my body. I understood the entire process was like setting a personal antenna by leaving my soul crystal there and making another to receive the energy from the source of death magic. Sighing in comfort I knew I had become a knight.
I knew it was easy to start on the path of magic but extremely hard to gain true stregth, but I was still happy. I had become a magic user! Even though endless energy seems to flow through me I still laid my head on the bed deciding to sleep as today had been a LONG day.