The moment Josep completes his sword, the sky becomes gloomy and starts raining all over the world.
Few people from various parts of the world notice the commotion that change the weather in Hirth.
Inside one of the gigantic churches in Hirth, kneel a woman towards four statues in front of her. She prays to the four righteous God.
Suddenly, her eyes opened and shone brightly. "A weapon that wields the power of the dead has been born." She speaks in a deep and mysterious voice towards other people in the hall.
Hearing this all the people in the hall began frantically moving to notify their superior.
On the other hand, inside the deepest part of the sea forest, lay a man with an elegant figure. The man seems to daydream before finally noticing the strange weather and looking towards a certain direction seriously.
Meanwhile, In other parts of the world. An elderly woke up from his meditation. "The souls are crying." said the elderly solemnly before returning to his meditation.
While all this commotion happens, Josep still lay unconscious on his bed while some maid tries to heal and soothe him. Although, he didn't get injured at all but he still fatigued after having full concentration for a whole week.
Another year has passed since the Josep's new weapon commotion. Now is the day he will go to the capital to attend the royal academy of Rosewood kingdom.
Despite Josep's talent, he still could only cast until the third circle spell. It's because he is still in a growth period. Still to cast a third circle spell at the age of eight is already a huge feat that rarely happens before.
As for his physical prowess, it's also not increased much as he needs a lot of equipment and resources to achieve medium stage. Still he calculated that he could now at least defeat lvl 3 people from the warrior path easily.
But, in deadly combat he could match and kill lvl 5 warriors since most of his secret technique is used for killing rather than sparring. Of course he will get exhausted and need to recuperate for a long time after doing such a feat.
Beside that, Josep also created his own skill and spell based on his previous live technique and knowledge.
But, that's not the biggest trump card that he had is his ability to control elements in mageforce his perfect affinity.
Now, he could redirect low level mageforce attack be it from skill and spell that after him. He could also disrupt others' mageforce control especially the one with poor control.
Still he will use this kind of attack as one of his trump card. So, he will not flaunt his skill like some spoiled rich brat.
He also learned how to break the spell diagram of others. Even though he could only do it with a low-star spell that uses a common spell diagram.
Apparently, the backlash from the higher star spell can lead to someone death which is very dangerous just for training. From the four star spell to above, the backlash of the spell could cripple users and possibly end their lives.
Now, Josep is having farewell with others from the mansion to go to the academy. He got accepted from them a few months ago and also fulfilled the minimum age requirement of going into the academy.
He wears a noble attire with his sword by his side that he created one years ago. Apparently, this sword is turning into a very ridiculous thing.
Somehow, it also has sentient weapon spirit albeit still newborn spirit. Still its grade as a weapon is not below than 5 and will grow stronger along the time because of the spirit.
Josep's mother warned him to never let others inspect his weapon as it may have the same grade or more as a national treasure weapon.
If the sword is not attached to Josep, his mother already sealed the weapon by herself to protect Josep from it.
After a few tests, Josep found how strong his sword is. Even Gene's sword which is called [Red Dog] which is grade 4 that has its own spirit weapon is not as ridiculous as this sword.
However, if they clash with each other with the same strength and skill, his sword will lose to hers. All of this because [Red Dog] has more mature weapon spirit than [SOD]. (A/N: Song of the Death will be shortened into SOD)
Weapon or equipment spirit is very complicated and one of the mysteries in Hirth to this day. It's because the rarity of such items and the process of they turn into weapon or equipment spirit.
Some of them gain spirit after being used countless times. Some of them could gain spirit right away after being made like [SOD]. Some gain spirit after being left in ancient ruin and many other reasons.
One thing for sure is the spirit item will always grow stronger along with its chosen user. Because [SOD] is still a newborn weapon spirit, it still didn't have any unique abilities or properties beside its hardness.
Beside that, [SOD] also could fetch a very high price in the market. An ordinary spirit item could fetch more than 1000 white gold easily. It already has more value than all liquid cash of the Temus family despite its marquis noble title.
In Hirth, people still use metal type coins as currency which are copper, silver, gold, and white gold.
One white gold coin equal to 10 gold coins which is 1000 silver coins also equals to 10000 copper coins. The annual salary of commoners in the Hirth is around 10-20 silver per month depending on the jobs.
Most of the kingdom in the Moreva continent is still using aristocrat title such as commoner, knight, baron/baroness, viscount/viscountess, count/countess, marquis/marchioness, prince/princess, duke/duchess, and finally king and queen.
They start from the commoner as the lowest title and king as the highest title.
The Temus family is a marquis family that has many influences in the military at Rosewood kingdom. The Temus family produce a lot of magic knights which are one of the strong job specialty in battle that Rosewood use to increase their defense.
After a lot of hassle of goodbye from his family, Josep finally could get on his carriage. On the way to capital, Josep insist to only bring Moru as his personal slav *cough* maid.
At first, the others worry about my safety but my mother and Gene reassure the other that it will be others that need to be careful around him. This way Josep granted to only bring Moru as her maid.
During the past year, he managed to 'persuade' Moru to have a special contract with him through one of Envy's soul contracts. Unlike others Envy has a very intriguing part that interest in soul and ghostly stuff.
With the help of Greed, he managed to learn all kinds of Voodo, shamanic, soul contract and many other things.
The journey toward the royal academy which in the capital is quite far and takes about a week from the mansion with this carriage.
Even though it looks like a carriage, actually the one that runs this carriage is not a horse or other animal but a magic powered engine.
Josep found it quite interesting. Apparently, there is one ex-path called magic engineering that studies and produces such stuff. But, his mother said that Josep will learn more about them at the royal academy.
So, he is really looking forward to this royal academy which is said to be one of the best academies on Moreva continent.
It is said that they only accept genius students and never discriminate the status of one person inside the academy.
The Rosewood kingdom, like any other medieval kingdom that uses a noble system in their social life, has many discriminations toward one status that are lower than noble titles especially for commoners.
As the carriage moves and is driven by Moru, Josep lay inside of the carriage and thought about his current strength.
He also needs to apply to respective guild in the capital to get his path along with specialty title certification. Each of the guilds have different requirements. However, one of the basic requirements is mastery over skill respective with the path.
There are many certifications from various guilds that Josep needs to apply with his current skills. But, he will take only a few of them to keep being labeled as a genius boy.
He only plans to apply as a magic knight, sword master for his warrior path. As for his magician path he will apply for battle mage and enchanter.
Having more specialty in combat at the age of 8 is already too excessive. He also plans to get a few ex-path for blacksmiths.
With only this many path certificates, he will only have hailed as a genius boy but not a monster. He needs to spread out some of his genius talent since in the royal academy the more your genius the better privilege you got.