Miller, Mira, and Levi were walking up to the tower.
Mira was upset with Miller for making her walk long distances, on the other Levi was expecting a fight, however, he quickly ends up disappointed, Miller did not defend himself, this made Levi doubt about the toughness he showed her for years.
Miller says. - Don't get angry. The walk will serve as a good exercise. He tried to calm his wife with words, however, she did not want to calm down.
Look, he answers. - Fuck exercise. You should have gotten a better mount a long time ago -.
Levi decides to add fuel to the fire. - Is right. I am just a child and I have to walk a lot. I could start to have problems from walking too much at my young age -. In Levi's mind "I'll make you pay for the beating I suffered for the girls."
Look adds. - Is right -.
The two constantly attacked Miller verbally. He can't stand her complaints for long, so he decides to summon his mount.
Miller when invoking her tells them. - Levi will keep walking. Look up -.
Levi is stunned by Miller's words. He puts on a pitying expression, then turns his gaze to Mira hoping for help, however, she doesn't help him.
The two climb in and fly away on the mount, leaving Levi alone.
Levi is left alone. He looks around him, the forest began to seem darker and more dangerous now that he is alone.
Helplessly Levi continues walking.
Three hours have passed since Levi is walking alone. "At this rate I will arrive in 10 days if I don't find problems", after walking a little more, he approaches a tree and begins to lean on it, "that damn skeleton will pay me", he began to feel a great hatred for Miller , "Besides what happened to getting along and being a family", now his hatred was directed at Mira.
He stopped thinking about them and relaxed in the tree.
Levi says. - Dark soul, which is only used once. It is a skill that will not serve in the future -. Sighs. - I'll have to practice on the way -. He stays leaning against the tree for an hour, when he decides to keep walking.
Along the way, Levi began to use dark magic.
The darkness spell he would use is the move the shadows spell, a spell that doesn't work for defense or attack. He practices with this since the other spell he knows is not suitable for him to practice in this place.
He constantly repeats the same spell despite its characteristics.
The rapid mana consumption made him no longer able to move forward after half an hour, however, this didn't stop him, he would only stop when his mana was totally depleted. He could only resist 5 more minutes.
Levi is panting on the ground, "It's more difficult than I thought, will I have to learn the method that the pearl said and store mana in my brain and heart", his gaze remains on the ground, he doesn't know whether to take that way or not, "Damn, I'll use only my knowledge, discard anything else that gets in my way, but it doesn't mean I can't be inspired by those methods." Levi gets up, closes his eyes, begins to feel the coldness of the forest, feels the mana that surrounds him, with what he has learned for a long time, begins to guide the mana inside him, managing to penetrate his veins, flesh, bones and organs, something that differentiates his method from the original method of the dark heritage, where it only integrates mana with the heart and brain, and Levi's is from the whole body, but what he did not expect is that his body begins to suffer great pain.
His body was trembling from the pain, but he stood his ground through it all.
The suffering he felt was made visible by seeing that his eyes, nose and ears were bleeding, his veins were beginning to burst, while they were also taking on a dark tone. In his ears, in the part of the lobes, two small black spots similar to moles appeared. His skin turned brown. The red color of his eyes increased its intensity and his pupils stop looking like rhombuses and start to take on a circular shape.
Levi was still mobilizing the mana inside him, despite all the pain, until he felt something snap in his body. He spit out blood instantly, his bones started to break in tune, yet he didn't stop the movement of the mana, instead making it increase in intensity.
He didn't know why he didn't stop, he just kept going, something kept him going, but he just didn't know what it could be.
Five days passed since Levi began to mobilize mana through his body, in the end he only resisted two more days, until he fell unconscious.
Miller and Mira were watching were watching Levi the whole time. Seeing how it fell, they quickly approached.
Upon arrival Mira says. - What was he trying to do? -.
Miller answers him. - Don't know. It's the first time I've seen someone do this with mana -. Miller puts Levi on his back, then he starts to float, Mira also starts to float. They start flying towards the tower, at a speed that far outpaces Miller's mount.
A few hours passed before they reached the tower.
When Miller arrives, he first leaves Levi in his room, after doing this, he heads to his lab and then begins to prepare a potion to heal Levi's injuries.
A smile begins to form on Mira's face as she watches her husband brew a potion again, reminiscing about the past and some memorable moments.
Miller quickly finishes the potion. Seeing the potion in her hands, she suddenly turns her gaze to Mira. She begins to worry about the way Miller was looking at her, she knew he was up to something.
Miller begins to speak. - It's been a while, don't you think? -.
Mira answers him. - Well, it hasn't been a long time.
Miller shakes his head. - I know what you're trying to do, you shouldn't postpone the inevitable -.
Mira couldn't bring Miller to reason in different ways. In the end Miller gets what he wants.
Three months have passed since then. Levi hasn't been woken up yet because of Miller's fever.
Mira had no choice but to hit Miller on her little jewelry, as she didn't know how long this would last. Miller with tears in his eyes begins to use the potion on Levi.
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Going back three months ago, the events that happened in Levi's mind.
Levi with concern says. - Not again, now that happened. He waited a while for something to happen, but to his surprise no matter how hard he waited, nothing happened. His disappointment showed on his childish face.
Suddenly, he starts thinking nonsense, "Maybe I died from self-harm, I might as well be in a space in my mind again. What makes me more thoughtful, is this space was formed by my mind or by the pearl. In the future maybe I'll find the answer."
He starts to get bored after a while, with nothing to do, he casts the fireball spell, he didn't expect to be able to perform the spell in this space.
He decides to cast spells from the different elements he controls.
First I use a basic spell similar to fireball, but this time water, the spell is successful.
Then I cast a wind spell, I form a small gust of wind.
He was glad to see that his secondary items could be used, so he could train while in this place and not get too bored.
He begins to constantly perform spell after spell, without a break. By constantly doing magic, he begins to understand more clearly the elements he uses. Realizing the benefits this place has, he decides to practice dark magic. With this in mind, he begins to cast a darkness spell that he developed himself to further his understanding of the dark element. Calling this spell "Dark Runic Circle", he began to concentrate to perform the spell, however, he realizes that nothing around him changes, so he decides to recite it, however, it does not work either. This made Levi seriously reflect, "Why is it that I can't use the element of darkness, but why the other elements than the other elements if I could use them?" This question made Levi doubt his intellectual abilities and magic, however, did not give up easily.
Thinking for a while a solution occurs to him, however, it had to be discarded, for two reasons, the first. He would try to create darkness in this place using the earth element, however, he didn't know if he couldn't use the earth element in this place either. The second reason is that he didn't know how to use earth magic.
In the end, his only tools to solve this problem are the other elements he controls, which would be fire, air, and water. He begins to think of a way to use them to create shadows. Thinking so much, he realizes that he missed a detail, "Instead of thinking about why I can't use dark magic, I should think about why I can use the other elements".
He observes the place and then the only thing there is is him, the rest is a blank space. You don't feel any rush of air, there's no water, there's not even heat and cold around you, there's just nothing. This makes his head start to ache from thinking so much.
Not taking it, he does what a normal 8-year-old would do, throw himself on the ground and start crying.
Her crying lasted a few minutes as she felt the moisture on her cheeks. Then find a possible answer to your unknowns.
He begins by putting his hand in front of his mouth, in doing so he begins to blow.
Levi meditates on these two things.
Start formulating a theory about this place.
There is no air, but he can still blow air as if he were breathing. "Then if my body outside of this place is still breathing then I can use the air element. The water element should be because my body contains a certain amount of water. Lastly, fire, this maybe I can use because of my body heat." ".
These thoughts filled Levi's head, he was analyzing them, however, he couldn't find a reason why he couldn't use the element of darkness. "If inside the bodies there is no light, only darkness, then why can't I, unless their requirements are different", he begins to remember everything related to darkness, "hatred, sadness, anger, loneliness, death, lust. I think that is not the case either, I have some of these things, but everything remains the same. There has to be another reason."
It seemed that nothing was progressing, but without knowing it, he was getting closer to an answer.
Levi doesn't distract his brain with other thoughts, he is fully focused on solving this problem. Spells and spells pass through his mind, however, these did not serve him or he still did not have enough capacity to use them. "How useless I feel", Levi begins to think, however, this thought made his mind begin to remember something, "useless, useless, that is", he was happy as if he had finally found the answer.
The answer Levi thought of was to use the soul ability he got from the inheritance. "Dark Soul".
Levi begins to materialize the dark soul, as it is inscribed in his mind.
From his forehead, a small totally black figure begins to emerge. The figure is in front of Levi, he observes it carefully, disappointment can be seen on his face, reality can sometimes be cruel, something he would remember.
Levi grabs the small figure with his hands.
Having the figure in his hands, he begins with the second step, which is the fusion of himself with the figure.
This step does not suffer any difficulty. At the end of the fusion, he does not feel any change. But he does not despair, he waits a while for the changes to occur.
Hours passed, the change never happened, not undergoing changes, this makes Levi stop insisting to be able to use dark magic in this place as it did not undergo changes.
Start casting the fireball spell.
What happened when the spell was cast surprised Levi. When he performs this spell normally two fireballs come out, but this time 6 came out. This was a surprise for him, so he remembers what the figure told him earlier. - With your ability you can only perform three simultaneous spells and you can only use one incompatible spell -.
Try to see if this also applies to other elements and sure enough, the other elements have the same result. He no longer intends to underestimate this ability, however, he remembers that the figure said that it can only be used once, but did not tell him how long he can use it.
Levi leaves those doubts for later, then starts casting three different element spells, hoping it will work.
Levi's expectations were not betrayed, the spells were cast without difficulty. It should be said that he can use the three spells at the same time, since he does not need to recite them, he can perform them just by thinking of the spells, however, for it to work, he had to divide his thought into three parts, this division of thought only someone with talent could do it.
Upon performing the three spells, he notes that they are as effective as they were before he used the dark soul, yet he was happy about this result.
Without further ado, Levi decided to reach apprentice rank with his three secondary elements.
Time passed. Outside, one month had already passed of the three months that Levi had been unconscious.
Levi fulfilled his goal of reaching the apprentice rank with the three elements, the difficult thing would be to increase its magnitude, in order to advance in rank again.
Levi ponders, "The elements I control are darkness, fire, water, and air. I've already reached apprentice rank with the last three, and before I was in this place I was already an initiate rank with the dark element." Levi was thinking about various things. for a time.
Reflecting for a while on his new abilities, he begins to get bored of being in this place, after a few hours he makes the decision to continue with the mana integration that he tried before. However, this time you will be more careful when performing the procedure.
After thinking about it for a few moments, I decide to start with the head.
Try to put his mental state as calm as possible. Doing so starts the process.
In Levi's mind no anomaly can be noticed during the process, but in his body outside his mind they can be noticed. You can see how in Levi's head, his veins begin to swell, his holes begin to bleed.
Levi in his mind did not feel pain, but he did feel the small improvements that his head had and how he could think more clearly.
Feeling no pain, Levi speeds up the integration by drawing more mana into his body.
The integration into his head took a few minutes because of the large amount of mana Levi drew.
Levi was pleased that the integration went smoothly. He decides to take a risk and perform the integration in the rest of the body. As expected, he didn't feel pain, but his physical body did suffer a lot, so much so that a pool of blood could be seen in Levi's room.
The process takes hours.
At the end Levi breathes a sigh of relief. Then he begins to move his body, to get used to it. The next thing he did after moving around a bit, was to do body workouts like running, squats, push-ups, etc. When he finished these physical exercises, he began to cast the fireball spell.
The spell is successful.
With this Levi realizes three things. The former with the integration of mana into her body realizes that she can now freely activate the abilities of the dark soul. The second is to see that his magic got more power, the third that he could not feel any improvement in his physique. He then began to analyze how much he increased the potency of his spell and came up with an estimated 4 times.
She was so happy that her tears came out uncontrollably. The satisfaction of accomplishing something he couldn't do before made him happy.
When he calmed down, he began to feel that something was missing, "Apart from not having solved the problem with the dark element, I feel that there is something else to be solved", this feeling makes him feel uncomfortable, he begins to reflect on what he lacks, "hate, I have plenty", "charisma, I don't need it", "magic, I don't think it's missing", "sex, I'm still a child", "style, style, of course, a fighting style How could I forget something important." Having resolved that feeling, he begins his practice, throws a punch with his right arm, then his left, and so on for a while. Tired of throwing punches, he starts throwing kicks, but he also gets bored at the same time, "well, I guess it's not my thing, I'll have to improvise in fights and if I die I'll leave a letter where I blame Miller".
I finish thinking about the words I would put in the letter to make Miller feel bad. When he did, he just stood there, doing nothing.
I try to sleep, but it doesn't work. Not knowing what to do, he decided to try using dark magic again and if it didn't work, he would practice with the other elements.
As expected, Levi was unable to use dark magic. So he focused on the other elements, only this time Levi decided to add moves.
Levi was running and jumping while performing magic, he looked like someone playing.
I spend another month abroad, with only one month left for Mira to wake up Levi.
Levi kept running while performing magic. In doing so, he had some ideas, such as integrating the elements into his body, however, he temporarily abandoned this idea, as he did not have enough knowledge about the elements he masters. Instead, he decided to use the items to make more versatile moves.
The movement that he liked the most is the "jump tri-mento" (it's a play on words, tri of three and mento of elements, there will be more). In the movement, Levi begins with a jump to separate himself from the ground by at least 10 centimeters, then under his feet he creates two mini tornadoes of air and inside them he uses fire to propel himself with more force, of course he must concentrate enough the fire and make the wind enclose the fire and leave only one exit, as in rocket propellants, finally when it rises to a height greater than three meters, it adds the element of water, to create a small explosion of steam make it go higher. This is the tri-mento jump, which he invented for his current abilities.
The last month passed, in the three months Levi learned many things for his young age. I also create 6 more abilities apart from the jump, where it combines all three elements. He also decided to call his improvised fighting style "Elemental Style", of course he was trying to combine the element of darkness to these skills.
In the end he couldn't find the solution, so he could use dark magic.
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Out of Levi's mind, back to reality.
Miller gave Levi the potion to drink.
He slowly begins to open his eyes.
End of the chapter.