"Hey , you there . What is your name ?" asked the light brown haired youth while smiling .
Ignoring the youth Mike moved towards another table choosing his shield .
"Ah , choosing shields ? Good choice . After all shields are good weapons for defense as well as offense . I recommend a triangular shield . You can hurt other people with the sharp point and it is handy as well ." blabbered the youth while following Mike .
After taking a handy round shield , Mike walked towards another section while the youth followed .
"Ah , a small-medium round shield . Not very good against arrows , but light and good for small combats . You even choosed one which is enhanced with metal parts . Do you got the necessary arm strength ?" commented the youth while following Mike .
As Mike neared the table with bags he turned around and asked the youth : "What do you want ?"
"Someone tasked me with the task to help you ." replied the youth with a smile .
A moment of silence followed as Mike suddenly replied :
"I don't need any help , go away ."
Seeing Mike who turned around , the youth suddenly spoke : "But we are in the same faction afterall , so why don't we choose things together ?"
Mike stopped in his walk as he looked at the youth . Both of them looked at each other .
"Ah i forgot to introduce myself . I am Dave , Georges Son . My Father talked to me that a second male joined the library faction . So i am here to help him ." smiled the youth .
"Oh ? Second Male ? What do you mean ? Does it mean the rest are females ?" asked Mike .
"You don't know ? Well then why the heck did you joined the library faction ?" asked Dave .
"Naturally because i am honored to be in there ." replied Mike in a smile . Though the birthmark on his face caused it to look like a malicious grin .
In the blink of an eye the youth grabbed Mikes shoulder in a frienly manner . Like a friend he hugged Mike before whispering : "Tell me the truth right now or i am gonna beat the shit out of you ."
Sweat poured out of Mikes body , how did Dave appear next to him without him even realizing ?
"Because the library faction seemed to be a great power so i joined as a creature offered me the position ." whispered Mike back , naturally in a humble tone .
Though the creature didn't offered , more like forced him to join it .
"Mmm , the Gargoyle ? What are you for a warrior ? Heavy , light , medium or some elemental knight ?" whispered Dave .
"I am a dark magician ." replied Mike in a low voice .
As if enlighted Dave smiled before saying to Mike : "Ah , then welcome to the library faction my friend . I will gather my equipment as well , bye ."
After the encounter Mike continued to choose his equipment : A small bag , fire stones , sharpening stones , ropes , two knifes , a bottle made out of leather and a little pouch filled with healing herbs .
Naturally he didn't forget a small-medium iron pot and a few iron sticks .
The last item he choosed was a camouflage coat which could take on colours of the surrounding , though a middle aged woman reminded another girl that it wasn't able to take on colours of the city . Thus it is only a useful camouflage item in the wild
Equipped with sword , iron pot , leather armor , coat and a small bag Mike walked towards the gathering field with the number 27 .
A few groups already discussed where they wanted to go , some argued about the dungeon they wanted to go to , some about whom shall be the leader and others talked about how this field trip is way different than the field trips before .
An outdoor kitchen stood in the middle of the field , providing free meals for every student who wanted to fill their belly .
Since everyone could take as much as they wanted , Mike filled his iron pot with stew and took 2 loafs of white bread as side dishes .
After taking 2 more loafs of bread and one more pot of stew Mike filled his stomach to the brim .
Waiting for the bell to ring Dave appeared in front of Mike , armored with a half plate armor and a triangle shield he looked like a majestic knight .
"So are you ready .... ?" asked Dave while smiling .
"Mike ." replied Mike .
"Ah yeah Mike . Since you are new here i will explain how the library faction works . Except of me the rest are all girls . We have one quadruple magician , one light magician , one berserker , one logistic member who can also fight with her hammer and one thief ." said Dave .
As if waiting for a reaction Dave looked at Mike before saying : "Normally one would be surprised since we are able to fill a whole faction in only a few members ."
However just as he wanted to say more a girl suddenly arrived in front of the boys . With beautiful golden hair , a perky bust and alluring hips she looked more like a goddess than a human . Her white dress with shiny jewellery only enhanced her look .
"Are you the dark magician ? Nice to meet you . Appearently my little brother wanted to get you into his room , but it seems like you ended up in the library faction . Though it is quite regretable , i welcome you to the library faction ." said the golden beauty towards Mike before standing next to them.
"Hi Helena , are you ready to move out ?" smiled Dave .
"Yeah , i heard this year we don't have a specific goal ." replied Helena before asking : "I heard that you reached rank 1 warrior , gratulation ."
"Ahaha , naturally nothing to brag about . But i am quite happy that i reached it . Besides won't you reach rank 1 light magician soon , at the age of 18 ?"
Smiling Helana and Dave waited for the rest .
Just as they waited a voice boomed throughout the entire plaza :
"Students of the Lion Kingdom , this will be your goal of the field trip : Go out and travel around the lion kingdom . Naturally only in your factions . So whomever isn't in a faction will be assigned to one or be grouped with other rooms . Because this a great journey for everyone , every single one of you will get a steed as well as a space ring . Not only that , to ensure your safety a hidden guard will accompany your faction throughout the entire year ! You can go into dungeons , hunt field monster or just relax . Good luck on your field trip ."
As soon as the voice said the last sentence a ring and a steed appeared in front of every student .
Astouned at the display of power Mike took the ring while inserting his spirit force into it . A Space capable of filling more than 5 horses appeared .
As Mike played with the space ring a group of people appeared , a beauty with black hair , a female dwarf with two mighty weapons daggling on her chests , a dark brown haired beauty with two round bear ears and a female masked with a fox mask appeared .
Accompanied by a handsome blond youth who talked happily with the beautys .
As soon as they appeared before Dave and Helena the blond youth spoke : "Dave , do you already know where you wanted to go ? After all the academy doesn't forbid travelling together ."
As soon as the surrounding people heard that a boy suddenly spoke : "Yeah , i am gonna follow Prince Arthur . After all travelling with more people is way better ."
"Yeah , i will follow Prince Arthur as well ." kyaaed a girl while looking at the handsome youth with a lovestruck gaze .
Soon more and more people said that they will follow Arthur in this field trip .
Smiling Arthur replied to the crowd : "Naturally , why don't we all travel together ? Naturally without any dark magician , they are doing their disgusted experiments ."
The whole crowd cheered .
"Yes Arthur , naturally without those dark magicians ."
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"Kyaa , i am so happy to be able to travel together with Prince Arthur ."
"Good , since there are enough people travel with you i think we don't have to travel anymore Arthur ." replied the black haired beauty before jumping onto her steed .
"Naturally not Lira , i believe you should follow me ." smiled Arthur with his brightest smile possible .
"After all you are not a full faction so i think the academy won't say anything , after all .... "
"Well , Arthur . We recruited a dark magician , thus we are now a full fledged faction . I don't think we need anymore cooperations after this ." smiled Lira before turning to Dave and saying : "Is the dark magician ready ? If yes we are moving out ."
Dave bowed before mounting his steed and sayig to Mike : "Its time to move out ."
Naturally Mike ignored the gaze of Prince Arthur before mounting his steed .
He never mounted a horse before , but it wasn't that hard to ride since it wasn't so different compared to a dunkey .
"Okay , move out !" shouted Lira before dashing towards the exit , followed by the rest of the library factions Members .
As they passed the other students , they pointed at them . Especially at Mike .
Exitig the Academy Mike could see a green ocean . Green grass filled his view from left to the right , from the his point of view till the end of te horizon .
Occasionally a group of trees could be seen .
While riding Mike soon dicovered that the rest of the group meditated . Thus Mike meditated as well , at first it felt quite different compared to the meditation with no disturbances .
However Mike got used quite soon and he started to grow his spirit sea .
Time passed as the group dashed towards the horizon . Mike could feel how one of the members evoked a spell , causing the grass behind them to cover their tracks .
As night neared Lira , the black haired beauty , said : "We are camping in the opening , care about monsters such as goblins or hobgobs ."
Like a well oiled machined each started their duty , Dave pulled tents from a second space ring and started to build up a tent formation , the little dwarf girls started to make a fire and the rest just meditated .
"Hey Mike , help me ." said Dave .
Ignoring Dave Mike pulled his steed a distance away from the camp before sitting down to meditate as well .
The dwarf looked at Mikes Action with a smile before concentrating on her fire . As she judged the fire to be big enough she pulled out a big pot and filled it with water .
Then she proceeded with throwing vegetables and meat into it .
As the dwarf girl cooked , Mike stopped his meditation while looking at the direction of the pot .
Feeling the gaze of Mike the dwarf girl smiled back . She couldn't but help to grin as she imagined why Mike gazed at her pot .
But Mike didn't did thing the dwarf girl expected , he pulled his steed further away from the fire before pulling out a knife to cut down some grass .
A delicious smell emitted from the pot before the dwarf girl stood up and said : "Time to eat !"
Slowly the girls stopped from their meditation , they walked towards the pot while chattering .
Lira , which could be seen as the leader looked into the direction of Mike .
Even though it was dark , she could see how Mike put the grass he cut into his mouth before chewing on it .
Not only her could see the action of Mike eating grass . Every single other member looked at Mike with an odd look .
After eating the group crawled into their tents after deciding whom shall take the watch at which time .
They didn't included Mike , since he isolated himself .
While the others meditated in tents , Mike leaned against his steed , wearing the camouflage coat .
In the night , Mike opened his eyes as he could feel danger surrounding him . He grabbed his sword as well as his round shield before standing up .
Though he couldn't see as well as in the day , he could still see the figures slowly surrounding him .
As Mike stood up , the creatures stood still before charging in with a loud howl .
"KHEAAARG !"
As soon as the first creature used his stick-like weapon , Mike blocked it with his shield . After that he use his sword like a spear , he stabbed the creature .
"AARGH !" howled the creature before Mike kicked the creature away . It was quite easy , after all each creaturs heigh didn't reached past 1.4 meter .
Compared to Mikes new height of 1.9 meter it looked like an adult fighting against children .
As if the death of one creature caused the other creatures to fall into a state of anger , they charged at Mike as if there was no tomorrow .
However Mike replied the charge with a loud shout : "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !"
Shocked from the war cry of Mike , the creatures stood still . Perfect for Mike to reach the second creature , swinging his sword down like an axe .
The cry from Mike caused his steed to waken up . As soon as it realized that it got surrounded , it used his legs trying to kick the creatures .
It surprised Mike that the horse didn't run away . However he accepted the new ally while hacking through the creatures like a wolf in the horde of the sheep .
The pile of corpses grew as the creature continued to surround him .
One , two , three , four , five , ... as killed creatures from Mike grew to six and the creatures killed by the horse grew to 3 , a bigger creature stepped out .
At the height of 1.7 meters it looked much taller than the rest of the creatures . It charged at Mike with a howl , only to be blocked by his shield .
It tried to overpower Mike , however it wasn't stronger than the 1.9 meter Mike , so it died as Mike fought with it for a while .
As soon as the leader died , the rest of the creatures escaped .
As soon as the creatures disappeared , the steed moved towards Mike , nudging him with its head the horse neighed for a short time .
After caressing the horse for a while , Mike collected the corpses of the goblin and the hobgoblin he killed . He needed them for his "experiments" , thus he stored them in his space ring .
A smell of blood surrounded his former sleeping place , thus he lead the horse to another place before leaning against the horse to sleep .
Meanwhile Dave looked at Lira before saying : "What do you think about the dark magician ?"
"Magician ? He is more like a normal youth with a stronger body ." replied Lira in a low tone .
"He didn't even used any spirit force at all . Perhaps he is trying to hide his spirit force ? After all for some goblins and a hobgoblin there is no need for magic ." pondered Dave .
"No , there is a high chance that he didn't learn any magic at all . After all there are many who aren't gifted ." replied Lira .
"Gifted ? Are you serious ? Why don't we just say that everyone is a peasant ?" mocked Dave .
"You can't put him into the same league as you or Arthur . Besides i researched and yeah he is a peasant ." replied Lira .
Silented by the fact of Mike being a peasant Dave bid goodbye with a "Do what you want , i am going meditating ."
After Mike finished his migration from one grass patch to another , Lira moved back into her tent as well .
The sun dived the plain into a golden radiance as morning arrived .
As Mike opened his eyes , he could see the black haired beauty wearing a leather armor standing not far from him .
Standing up he turned around before asking : "And ? What do you want ?"
"Wouldn't it be better for you to join us ?" smiled the black haired beauty .
"Why ?" replied Mike before putting a hand of grass into his mouth .
"I think as a newbie it would be better for you to join us ." smiled the black haired beauty while adding : "Besides you won't be attacked by small goblin groups like yesterday ."
"If i am with you only bigger groups will attack me . If i am alone big groups may ignore me ." replied Mike before mounting his steed .
"Mike , you know that if you die then our faction will be punished , right ?" smiled the black haired beauty .
"Naturally , i won't leave the group . I will just act alone , if that is okay ." replied Mike in an understanding tone .
He replied her question with small bow .
"You can call me Lira , since you are acting alone that is fine too . After all we all need to gather experience . Since you are part of our group i will tell you our goal . Our goal is Nava , surrounded by mountains it is not threathened by any other country . However since it has many dungeons and many monsters it is quite the material factory ." said Lira before stepping back .
This time Mike didn't ride along with the rest of the group , instead he meditated on the horse back without even wasting any time .
"Sigh .... how come we have to meditate all day , i would rather fight every day ." sighed one girl while riding on her horse .
"Even if you're a bear man , you have to meditate . Though it is not effective as if you are a human you get stronger as well ." said Lira .
"I think that one guy doesn't get bored of meditating , just look behind us . He seems to meditate all day long ." said the female dwarf .
"Yeah , he even eats grass . Somehow he reminds me of an animal from my home , they eat grass all day long while sleeping the rest of the day ." smiled the female bear .
"Aruru , it is not nice to talk about others ." said Helena while meditating as well .
"Maybe it is because Mike doesn't like the food Poetra cooks ?" suggested Dave .
Following that he got punched by the female dwarf .
While they chatted and laughed , the female masked with a fox mask slowly slowed down .
Only to ride alongside Mike .
Naturally with a distance between them .
Night arrived as the group started their tent building . Mike naturally didn't participated , except this time another one didn't participated . The fox masked girl lead her horse to a distance near of Mike before sitting down and leaning against her horse as well .
A silence filled the space between both of them as they leaned against their horses . Nobody of them looked towards each other , instead they looked in two different directions .
As the moon stood high on the sky , Mike opened his eyes and pulled out a goblin corpse .
He muttered his spell : "Hear my voice lost puppet and rise up from the death to serve me for eternity"
After evoking the spell he could feel how spirit force disappeared from his sea flowing towards the goblin corpse .
Like a puppet the goblin slowly stood up .
To test the three spell models in the book , Mike casted Rise Corpse two more times :
"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 ."
Two goblins slowly stood up , the blood under the moon made it a beautiful , yet cruel scene .
Standing up Mike held his shield as he commanded the goblins to attack him with a stick .
Three times the sound of a stick hitting his shield sounded through the air as Mike judged the one with the most power .
"They are all pretty much the same , not less than half of the former power remains but it's not the full power ." judged Mike before commanding the three corpses around .
He analized the limitation from the spell and he could say that there is none . The spell brought many advantages to him . First of all the amount of spirit force needed to control the corpe is practically zero . Second of all it seemed that more than half of the former power remained , thus making it a quite valuable spell .
After evoking the spell for a fourth time he could feel how his sea emptied , so he meditated to recover it .
After the night , 9 goblin corpses and 1 hobgoblin corpse were ready for his command . He stored all of them in the space ring , causing it to get filled by half .
Just as he wanted to lean against his horse he could feel somebody spying on him .
"Who is there , come out ?" yelled Mike before drawing his sword .
"Ahahaha , seems like you got me there ." said Lira before appearing behind the high and thick grass .
Silence filled the air of the night as Mike looked at Lira .
"How about we take it as if this never happened ?" smiled Lira .
"Yeah , let's act as if nothing happened ." replied Mike before walking back to his horse .
As Mike walked back to his horse , he silently waked up his horse before mounting it .
The masked girl slowly stood up as well . As if encountering a poisonous cloud , Mike dashed into the dark night .
The masked girl mounted her horse to chase .
"Dammit , how the heck did such a mistake happened to the gifted quadruple element magician Lira ?" mocked Dave Lira as they arrived at their campsite .