The night was quite chaotic as the bandits of freedom alliance raided the mansions of nobles in the city. Jack who has now reached in front of Mortis magus tower saw that all the guards near the vicinity of the magus tower have long been killed.
Watching the ruined state of magus tower and the corpses of the apprentices a hint of greed born in his heart as he entered the ruined magus tower to search for anything valuable, after half an hour of unfruitful search of dead apprentice bodies his high hope died as those bastards of freedom alliance has taken all their loots long ago but Jack did not give up as he knew that previous body owner worked in this tower as a guard of Robert.
Jack moved towards the dormitory section of the tower to search the room of the apprentices one by one. As the dormitory had more than 50 wizard apprentice living inside it took Jack half an hour to independently search each room for anything valuable.
Many of the apprentices had died in their room while sleeping when someone cut their throat killing them in one strike swiftly.
After sometime Jack reached Robert's room, Jack was quite disappointed to see that he was unable to found Robert's dead body neither inside the tower nor in his room while Jack was busy searching the wardrobe of Robert's room he suddenly felt a shadow pouncing on him from behind with knife.
Jack dodged the knife swiftly while punching the assailant with all his strength on his face. The assailant fall back while covering his face, Jack who knew this was his chance started to mercilessly kick the shadow again after a while the shadow form disappeared revealing the true body of assailant.
Jack was surprised to see that the assailant was none other than Robert who was now currently beaten into half dead state by Jack, without wasting much time Jack picked the knife beside Robert and swiftly cut his throat to early remove the thorn the previous body owner has made.
As Jack was in his dilemma after killing Robert and was making sure that no one has seen him doing this deed Jack was shocked while hearing an immediate sound inside his brain when he killed Robert.
[Ding! Host has gained 100 exp points.]
"Wait, What do I have a system and I had not known this till this stage!" Jack exclaimed with mixed emotions on Jack's face.
"SYSTEM STATUS" shouted Jack and a blue colour semi-transparent screen float in front of him showing his attributer and an inventory option.
"Name: Jack;
Age: 17;
Exp: 100;
Physical strength: 13;
Mental strength: 20;
Inventory [1/20];
[Body possession scroll (Gift from system)]"
Jack now was having mental break down as he had the system for past seventeen years with a body possession scroll in inventory and he let himself suffer like a foolish lone prisoner in this body for whole seventeen years.
This time Jack really wanted to commit suicide to end his shame but who really can kill themselves for the thing they really don't know about.
Jack then took out the body possession scroll from his system inventory and murmured "If I will possess the body then I will possess the body of a lord rather than servant" while ignoring the body of Robert, Jack moved towards the room of the apprentice who was also the second son of a count and one of Robert's friend and one of the top talent Inside Mortis magus tower Edward Newgate.
The room of Edward was quite luxurious compared to other apprentice but now it was totally destroyed by someone with all the valuable things stole. Jack moved near the dead body of Edward who has died a swift death while his sleep and tore the scroll on two parts to activate it as he had watch many apprentices doing so to activate the scroll. He then selected Edward as the target of possession after doing so Jack felt a sudden suction force as his soul went flying inside the body of Edwards as various memories of Edward child hood till now burst in his brain after possessing him.
The injury on the neck of started to heal at rapid pace and after some time the scar on his neck completely disappeared completely healing his body, while comfortably controlling the body Jack performed various set of exercise to test the control over the body although the posture he does were rather creepy to watch but that was the only way to judge his control over body.
"STATUS" Jack silently said in his heart as the system screen appears in front him.
"Name: Edward Newgate;
Age: 15;
Exp: 100;
Physical Strength: 9 (+);
Mental Strength: 30;
Rank: Level 1 Apprentice magus;
Magic root: Water/Frost;
Affinity: 87%;
Inventory [Empty.] "
"Now I will live as Edward as a birth of noble family and not as Jack the commoner" said Edward while glancing towards his handsome new body on mirror in glee.
The body was quite skinny and had an average height of 1.5 m but equipped with beautiful silver hair and emerald colour eyes (a hereditary trait of Newgate family) but was quite pleasing to eyes.
This was the main reason Jack preferred this body to possess over other bodied as Edward has both talent as well as beauty which mover the heart of various people with awe and jealousy.
Robert was also one of such person who was jealous of Edward talent and charming body but he became his friend as Edward father was a count with a fief ten times larger than Robert's father with three mid size city under control and can crush any baron just by any sending any random legion under his command.
Money and power both is needed to live an extravagant life in this world and Edward had both of them as for girl if he wanted he could just seduce them with his charming face, this was the body everyone wanted to yearn for and Jack took his chance to possess such body.
The seventeen year of foolery really was a blessing in disguise, if he had used the scroll long before to possess that commoner body forcefully then he would be unable to possess Edward's body.
For Jack it was really a blessing from heaven.