"Let's start...." Henry opens the book with excitement.
Don't
# 1
Don't kill
# 2
Don't Rape
# 3
Don't Ste-
"What the hell is this!!!? Isn't this book of black magic!! It's not a sacred or even Holy Scripture!!" Henry yelled in frustration as he angrily huffed. Instead of stopping he decided to continue and did he know why.
The book said that doing a major sinful act will taint the black magic core and will make it corrupt him. Every drop of blood, a wail of a woman, and others will make his sanity reduce until Demon starts to actively invite that one for a contract. Transforming him/her core to demon core.
"So, it's not about magic but how you use it. Nice..... Why not use my black magic to kill those sinful to have it a stronger curse? Is that possible?" Henry asks himself before starting to reach again.
The Do's part is mainly about how to control and manage the black magic core and avoid any lethal mistake.
"So... I can do a ritual but I must strictly follow a set of rules to make sure nothing will affect it negatively. Sound like lots of jobs..... Ha!! I'll create dolls first!" Henry thinks of an idea and started to write on a spare empty note.
The morning came and Henry is now out cold after pulling an all-nighter. Harbek enters his room with a relaxed and calm smile.
"Hmm. It's already late why is he still asleep? Ohh!! Hahaha!! Stupid human! Hmm... His idea is good. Let me check my books." Harbek flies back to his house after inspecting the ideas Henry wrote.
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The afternoon before lunch finally Henry wake up. He is currently staring at Harbek who is sitting on a small stool while reading his work. Henry has a smug face.
"Like what you see?" Henry asks after jumping off the bed energize.
"Yeah, you have a cleaver head. I didn't think of it in the past. If we could create this Ghost A.I of yours then you can have multiple worker dolls. In the past, someone tried to create dolls for trivial work but it's really hard to keep up on the extensive control per doll. The question is how can you get a ghost that will man your program and you even don't even know much about the phone and you are thinking about a large program project as your first work? Laughable human! Hahahaha!!" Henry's smug smile vanishes and is replaced by depression.
"It's fine, we will manage it somehow. Let's go to eat. I'm starving....." Henry said leaving the maniacal gnomes laughing to his death.
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The two are now at the cashier. Henry is reading a book '[Basic Black Magic Spells]'. He will occasionally wave his hand and a small amount of black mist will come out and surround the apple on the table.
"Black magic is about sacrifice ritual, curses, decease, and warding. Don't overuse your magic core. You can't still unconsciously draw-in energy from the surrounding so I need to supply every you once in a while." Harbek said holding a miniature phone as he watches a movie for a man of culture.
"Do you know other ways than hand waving? It hurt my wrist." Henry said as he holds his hand and makes it stretch a little.
"There are... Wand, sequence, chant, and hand waving. Wand basically will help you at aiming and intention like a clutch. The sequence is very hard for anyone as you will program the energy inside you and make it act on how you want it before expelling it out of your system. Chanting is mostly used by a light-based wizard, God's Servants, and newbies. Lastly, hand and wand waving is like a sign language. You don't need to memorize crappy lines and cringe yells." Harbek said before looking at Henry who has blank look.
*Slap!*
"What did you do that?!!!" Henry wakes up and looks at Harbek confused.
"You're losing yourself... Better focus on training before you start doing real magic. Follow me..." They then left the store and enter the backyard. The backyard is closed by a 3-meter cement wall. His father almost died due to burglar but the car seems to have a better plan for him.
"Now! Spartan! Start your push up!!!" Harbek yelled and Henry involuntarily starts to move.
"Shit!! What did you do again!!! I can't control my body!!" Henry whines in protest.
"Do it. I don't want to lose my only contractor early. I'm still single and in need of a wife." He seriously said.
"So what happen to me?" Henry asks like his mind was separated from the body that is already in pain as it trembles.
"Corrosion... Your body is weak to host over a black core. I didn't know you are that weak. Typical human....." Harbek said and wave his hand again and Henry floats up and started to do squats.
"This sure is pretty good... I don't have to growl at every reps. Let my body do the work." Henry said in joy as he can see that his body is already at the level of abuse. His body is weak due to a constant lack of sleep and drinking. This was just the start of his abstaining on both two.
Then a cold wind passes Henry but his hair and leaves on the grass didn't even move a little.
"What the hell is that?" Henry asks nervously.
"That? Just a roaming ghost. Let him be and in time he will cross" Harbek answered. Sitting on a mushroom while the phone floats above him.
Henry is having a very cold sweat as a man in a rugged cloth who has his head dangling on the side with just some skin and tissue holding up from falling. He was in the blue ethereal form that he passed through the 3-meter wall.
The squat he was doing became faster and faster as the ghost came nearer and nearer until his sense shut down but the body still doing squats faster than before like it was on 10x fast forward.
The ghost is intrigued by the black energy inside him. He tries to touch it but then he suddenly got pulled in and burn by black flames. A wail of pain came from within as Harbek jumps in shock from the sound he looks around and resumes his work.
Henry is still doing squat but now at normal speed with his head on the side asleep.