After walking through the Sections , Mike finally stopped in front of a dusty Shelve . A Finger-thick layer of dust decorated the surrounding books . Seemingly not touched in the last few hundred years .
Slowly one of his arms moved , longing for a specific book on the shelve which seemed like every other book in the surrounding . Thick , old and dusty .
As soon as Mike touched the Book he could only watch helplessly as something moved along his hand into his head .
Infomation flooded him , as he watched something which seemed mythical . The birth of a boy , his adult ceremony , his first love . His journey of magic in a society with the symbol of a tower , after people discovered his talent in magic . Ending with the situation of getting ridiculed by other people followed by the leaving of society to become a holed up researcher . Almost using up his entire life he finally discovered his life goal : a spell which should change his element for every , using the spell he spreads terror and fear throughout his world . His life ended as few knights of light grouped to destroy him .
Mike could even see the magician casting a last spell on his memory to seal it away , until another one the same element would touch the book .
It felt like an eternity as Mike watched the memory passing by , only to slump down catching for breath . Sweat dripped out of his body as he tried to process the life of the magician .
Because of his action the dust scattered throughout the air , causing some dust to enter his lung .
Coughing Mike wiped his sweat away before standing up and walking back to section where he left all of his books .
He thanked the dust for leaving his footprints behind , else he would've been lost in this labyrinth of books .
While walking Mike pondered about the things he just watched . It didn't felt like it he experienced it , instead it felt like he watched the entire life of a magician .
Thinking of the many powerful spells and mysterious curses the necromancer could cast in his life astounded Mike . But he also clenched his hands at the fact that the other elements seemingly easily possesed more powerful spells .
Thinking about the memory which he could feel , he couldn't help but think that this is a heritage that doesn't seemed to be so simple . After all the magician used the spell to kill countless strong people .
As he dragged his chosen spell books back to his room , he passed by two other disciple who looked at him with disgust before walking away in a hurry .
Since they held their noses it appeared that he smelled , but Mike frowned : Didn't those people he met at the field also beat him up even though he smelled ?
Arriving at his room he could see the stone creature standing in front of it , seemingly pissed .
As Mike arrived with a big stack of books , dusty and tired , the creature replaced his pissed look with a smile as he said : "Student Mike , you should be punished since you didn't attend the excursion of the first year . However since you passed the time in the library filled with books and lost your sense of time fitted to the library faction you won't be punished ."
Quickly bowing to the creature Mike replied : "I am sorry ."
The creature replied : "Nothing to apogolize for , but in two days the an important field trip will start . It is the main field trip for first years . The Goal is it to survive in the wild for a month . You can keep every part of the monsters you hunt , but remind we don't help you . You need to hunt for your food , get a base as well as protect yourself from monsters . So be prepared . Since you are part of the library faction you will naturally be part of the library group ."
Trying to sound as nice as possible Mike asked in a humble gesture : "What are factions ?"
"They are part of the school system . Each Faction needs to have at least one member of each element . Else they will be called a group . Being a Faction is something of Honor , for example there is the Knight Faction who has the spirit of justice , the Hunting Faction which focuses on hunting monsters etc. . We are the library faction , we care about books and knowdledge ." stopping for a moment to hink about his next words the creature continued :
"A faction represents honor and strength , so it needs to have a certain grade of strength . You don't need to worry about the strength of the library faction , instead we have a lots of strong people . What we lack is the amount of people . Thus i recruited you . Besides you have the dark element which was perfect . After all we lacked somebody with the dark element ."
Naturally Mike couldn't care whether he joined the group of a snotty nobel who wants to touch his big sister or a faction with a stone creature . But seeing the fact that he's able to live in the library as well as the fact that the library faction needed him to fill in the slot for the dark element , he decided to stay . After all according the creature the strenght of members is quite high .
Considering the fact that the snotty nobel hasn't any background compared to the library faction , Mike decided to cling to the bigger tree .
"May i ask where the baths are ?" asked Mike as he nodded as the creature blabbered a lot of praises to the library faction .
Seemingly delighted at the nods the creature spoke : "Normally one would need to go to the official bathing house , but since you are a true hearted library lover i will install a bath in your room ."
Finishing the creature stepped into his room , thus Mike only wait . After a while the creature stepped out and replied : "I am finished , there is a bath in your room . If you want to get water then use your spirit force to activate the channel ."
Watching the back of the creature as it walked away , Mike judged the creature to be quite dumb but devoted to the faction .
"In two days i will pick you up ." said the creature while turning his head towards Mike . After saying that the creature resumed his walking and disappeared behind a few bookshelves .
Mike frowned at the fact of a field trip . Somehow he was able to avoid the first field trip , but it seemed that this trip ain't so easy and has something to do with the library factions honor .
Naturally he doesn't give a shit about honor , but he needed to be not loathed to survive . Or else people will just search problems with him .
Throwing the thought of the field trip away he stepped into his room , only to be amazed by the fact the room expanded . An empty pond the size of a small hut decorated the former room edge . A tap appeared on the ceiling of the pond .
After activating the tap to fill the pond he undressed himself and stepped into the warm water .
As soon as he stepped into the water , the first layer of his skin seemingly dissolved causing the water to take on a brownish colour .
After washing himself the water looked like mud . So Mike opened the drainer before filling the pond again . Now he enjoyed the warm water surrounding him .
Not wanting to waste any more time , Mike grabbed a book of his book tower to read . Because of his hunchback Mike rather layed than sit .
Bone Spear :
Use the bones of your Minions or yourself to make a spear out of Bones . It can be harder than metal or even steel . If the mastery is high enough i can even rival magical weapons . Naturally one can also make Bone-shields or any other weapon out of the bones . Though it isn't as practically as a Spear .
Compared to other Spells , Bone Spear has the advantage of not needing any cast time . Instead the faster you can manipulate Spirit Force , the quicker your cast time is .
Focus your Spirit Force on the Bones you want to manipulate , circulate your Spirit Force in a circle to generate the power to form the Bone . Now enforce the Bone , the harder you want to make it , the more you need to invest . If you are good enough at it you can learn to add more gimmicks onto it . Maybe it shall contain a poison cloud or explode into countless sharp fragments ?
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If you want to control your own Bones you just have to do the same , but care which bones you want to move . Maybe you are still in your growing stage , if that is the fact care about mishaps happening to your body . There are many things that can happen , too large rips or maybe shorter arms . But everything can be fixed , just use bone manipulation again and you will be able to enlargen your bones ! (It also can be used to make you grow smaller or taller )
Reading the last few pages made Mike almost wanting to cry . This single spell is able to fix his hunchback ! Once and for all .
Tears flowed out of his eyes as he reminisced about his past experiences . The tears felt like a ritual as Mike soon left the reminisced state .
Grinning he started to circulate his spirit force on his back .
Pain , nothing but pain filled his eyes as Mike started to circulate his Spirit force .
However he didn't stopped . Flesh moved as as well as his internal organs , sweat poured out of his body .
His lungs and his hearths shifted into an upper position as the bones of his hunch spread throughout his entire body .
He wanted to scream the pain out , but all he could do was to open his mouth and shout in silence .
Tears of anguish streamed out of his eyes as his back slowly bend into a straight shape .
Instead of the Hunch a broad back appeaered , the sound of flash tearing apart could be heard as the bones slowly straightened themself .
Darkness surrounded Mike as he felt that his body changed .
As he woke up he could feel that time passed as the warm water turned into cold water .
Trying to feel up his hunch with his hands astounded him . He could touch his own back without any difficulties .
His own body astounded him . Eventually he realized that turning his hunch into a normal back in one go was life threathening to him in many ways , he survived .
However after touching his belly , he frowned . The rips were clearly visible , one could amost see the white of the bones through the skinny skin .
But the fact that his hunch disappeared made him smile , now he only has to deal with the fact of being "ugly" .
Being ugly wasn't that big of a deal , instead intelligent people would realize having such an ugly follower would benefit them . Since people would always say that the person is way too ugly , thus raising the beauty/coolness of persons around the ugly person him .
Stepping out of the water caused Mike to shiver , it's way too cold in his room . Especially since his back got stretched , causing his entire fat reserve he stored for the last few years to disappear .
Turnig his sight to the food corner caused Mike to smile , 2 large portions of vegetable soup and 3 loafs of black bread appeared there . With a high chance he could say that the creature wanted him to be healthy when the field trip started .
Looking back to the stack of old necromancer skills he pondered for a while . Not wonder none of spells got recorded until now . It may be powerful to alter his body and bones , but it comes with too much pain . .
Although the main use of it was creating weapons out bones , it still doesn't seemed to be such a good idear . After all one has to throw the spear or use it as a melee weapon . Both facts in which most magicians are not good at .
Since Mike already mastered the basics of the Bone Spear spell which had no cast time , he decided to focus on spells with no cast time . They seemed to be easy to learn , while not having to worry about any backleashes or interrupting problems . Though chanting spells are deemed more powerful , so Mike decided to decide on the whim as well as the description of the spell whether he should learn it or not .
While searching for his next spell book from the stack of books , he ate the bread and slurped the soup .
Naturally he wanted to master the heritage spell he got from the necromancer , but it seemed like he needed sacrifices for the ritual . Even if it seemed more logical to follow the heritage first , but Mike knew one thing : He has to get stronger in the shortest way possible .
It may be a fact that the heritage may give the most time/power ratio , but now he wasn't even stronger than a healthy man .
Deciding on the most famous skill of the necromancer , Rise Corpse , Mike started to read :
Making Corpses to walk is one of the most iconic Spells of the Necromancer Branch . You will be able to resurrect mighty warriors to fight for you . Though it is not recommended to use the corpses of people who got the light element . Also never use a magician , they mostly turn into undead magicians which are only able to use dark spells or raise other corpse . Their spirit force turns into dark element as well . It's entirely different if you find a dark magicians corpse ! Use it ! It will be able to use all of the spells he mastered in his life time !
There is not a general chant for Rise Corps , thus you need to realize the core of the spell . Since every chant is different it will be different for every people , here are some examples (Note that for some people it may only give the corpse 10% of its former strength , if you are lucky enough you will see a chant which will give you the maximum amount of its former strenght which is 100%) :
- "Hear my voice lost puppet and rise up from the death to serve me for eternity"
- "Though who has no ego , stand up and fight for eternal time ."
- "Oh forgotten body of a soul , listen to my answers and reply to it , swear loyality for me ."
Reading the book opened Mike a whole new Universe , though he needed to work with corpses of humans or beasts it didn't mattered much to him . After all he was deemed as cripple and thus marked as an inferior human .
The new Universe is build out of the fact that he realized that it doesn't mattered what words he used for the spell . Instead he only needed to understand the core and then build his own chant which will work good for him . For example the Rise Corpse skill consist of two parts , one that the corpse shall rise , the other is loyality to the magician .
After memorizing some chants of Rise Corpse , Mike moved towards the next book which seemed quite good . Energ Absorption .
It sounded like Stamina Absorption but Mike expected something better .
Just as he wanted to start reading , he could hear the voice of the stone creature :
"Okay , are you ready ? It's time for the field trip !"
Mike turned his head to look at the source of the voice , only to discover the stone creature stepping into his room .
"Oh .... seems like you need other clothes . Well , you get to choose some equipment before the field trip so we don't have to care about that ." said the creature as it realized that the Hunchback of Mike disappeared , thus making the former clothes (rags) of Mike pretty much too small .
Since Mike dicovered that the hunchback morphing process took more than one day , he could only follow the creature after it explained about the honor of the faction and the fact that he is able to equip himself with new clothes for free .
While walking the creature explained the general rule of the field trip . First of all it seemed normal for every student to follow his or her room . If you are part of a faction , like the library faction you would be part of the faction instead of the room .
"This field trip is quite important for the newbies , they get better experiences in the wild and they get to feel the law of the jungel . Though the length is unknown the longest trip was about 2 years . But don't worry , the general trip length is about 4 to 6 months . The shortest was about 2 weeks ." explained the creature as it lead Mike to the warehouse where Mike could equip himself freely .
Arriving at the warehouse Mike could see that it was nothing more than an open plaza with tables filled with weapons , bags and survival goods .
As Mike arrived some people already walked around in search of their weapons , mostly in small groups .
Mike could see the group of Iron Lions standing not far away from him , but this time they didn't dared to bully anyone . Instead they even explained in a grand manner which weapon or which armor is the best .
Looking around Mike could understand why , middle aged mans and womans stood around while looking at the students .
Since the creature stood out like a white point on black paper it naturally attracted glances of other people looking at it .
Just as Mike wanted to use the excuse of searching for equipment to leave the creature , a middle aged man in uniform neared the creature before laughing :
"Here to arm one of the library members ?"
"Yeah , this one is new . Besides he didn't even participated in the first field trip ." said the creature .
"Ts , ts , ts . So he didn't even experienced blood yet ?" laughed the middle aged man .
"Well yeah , but i think your son Dave can help him a little bit . After all he reached the level of a first rank warrior at the age of 19 . Besides since you always wanted a male friend for your son i think this is a good chance to meet your future son's friend , Georg ." replied the creature before pushing Mike towards Georg .
Since the middle aged man examined Mike , Mike did the same . Brown hairs , a sturdy build but somehow smaller than Mike , a beard and a friendly facial expression .
"Mhm , not bad . When will you reach first rank warrior ? Which weapon do you use ? Ahahaah , my bad . After all you are young so i bet you are still trying to find your weapon ." said George after assessing Mike for a while .
Mike looked at George before replying : "I am not a warrior , i am a dark magician with the branch necromancer ."
Shocked George looked at Mike for a short time before turning his head towars the creature and asking : "Are your kidding me ? He is at least 1.9 meters and looks way more sturdy than most other warrior students ."
"He had a growth spur , since he only had one pair of clothes he now needs new pairs ." replied the creature in a blunt tone .
Sighing George turned towards Mike before saying : "Choose your equipment , you can take everything you want . If the equipment is too small or too big you can ask one of the guards . We have the armors in different sizes ."
Nodding Mike turned towards the tables in search of new clothes , seemingly deep in thought .
"Ah , before i forgot it . We will assemble this midday , a bell will ring at that time . The library faction has the number 27 ." said George as Mike turned away .
Answering with a nod Mike moved towards the table in search for suited weapons .
First of all he grabbed grey underpants , grey pants and a grey t-shirt . After throwing away his old clothes(rags) he walked around with his comfortable new clothes .
Since Mike walked around while thinking about his body boost , he choosed things that he deemed necessary to survive . First of all he choosed a sword . Not a long sword , neither a short sword but a sword which lenght was in the middle between both .
After that a leather armor which enabled him protection as well as no limitations to his movement .
Just as Mike walked towards the shield section a youth with light brown hairs walked towards him . A group of girls accompanied him , however as soon as they realized that the goal of the youth is Mike they bid goodbye before walking away .