All their eyes were on Greg, even most of the adults.
He cancelled the fusion and his strength had never been better.
'It will take effect in a second, Young God' Gareth said with a groan.
Suddenly Greg felt it too, all his mana was going crazy. He felt a core in all of the scales on his back, Their power was crashing into his mana core. He could absorb the a little of the strength but the rest attacked and damaged his core each time.
'WE ARE NOW DARKNESS, latch on the power that hits and eat it from the inside.' Gareth started to explain.
'A summoner is is the class that creates links, a dark summoner creates links to all darkness. USE IT YOUNG GOD.' Gareth said in an aggravated gruff voice.
With that all said Greg patted the lizard on his shoulder and took a knee. Focused on the energy that rushed from the cores and found the source. He quickly took it over and all the energy from that core helping him instead increasing his energy. He did these with the other ones as well, until all of them were drained.
the twenty of them boosted his strength to the bottleneck of rank-F.
He felt his mana core was bursting with energy and he was in much terrible pain. Black smoke erupted from every orifice in his body then he heard Gareth.
'Absorb the smoke, everything can be absorbed by darkness.'
he did as Gareth said and tried feeling the smoke that was released. He felt it and connected to it, then pulled it back into his body. This started to leave black spots on his skin.
The break through was sped up due to his actions and in twenty seconds he was [rank-E]{basic stage}.
The other children stared at Greg with absolute fear. The creature he turned into was double their height and slaughtered many kids. Now he had ranked up in such a bizarre way.
It was beyond terrifying.
'What do you think would happen if I went on a killing spree right now.' Greg asked Gareth with anger on his mind.
'Hmm that man would probably stop you.' Gareth said as he directed his attention to the man hovering in the air.
'he's reached [rank-B]{basic stage} he could flatten us before we moved.' Gareth spoke grumpily. 'If I could get my original power back I could torture him and squash him like a bug.'
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"Everyone return to your cells, afterwards you will be given a trainer who will teach you for the next 5 years." The masked man said then returned to the room he came from.
Everyone was escorted by two people covered in fully black clothing.
When they came to escort Greg they asked with their politest voice. "Could you please return to your cell?"
"No, I would rather kill you and eat your bones." Greg said with a hate filled voice as he stared at them with a malicious grin.
They stepped back and put their hands on their weapons.
"Don't worry, I'm just kidding. I would never eat such trash." Greg said with a cackle and turned to walk back to his cell.
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They reached the cell and put Greg in, then locked the cell. They then ran fast as Gareth started to talk to Greg.
"Now that you reached rank-E, you can use more abilities known as dark-world travel, darkness control, and dark absorption." Gareth said then explained the abilites
[Dark-world travel] {allows user to travel between shadows and darkness.}
[Darkness control] {allows user to manipulate the shadows and darkness.}
[Dark absorption] {allows user to increase their mana using the darkness around them.}
"These will be your foundation skills in the future so master them quickly." Gareth said then continued on.
"I've also gained some new things. I have more freedom to move farther from you, around 100ft away. I have gained the same shadow abilities as you although at a weaker level. The last thing I've gained is [Insight menu], which allows me to show you the current status and skills you have."
"I'll show you now but if you ever want to see it say menu." Gareth said with a happy tone.
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Greg Gareth {Rank-E, Basic stage}
Element: Darkness
Class: Shadow Summoner- 1/2 summon links left
Skills: [ Summon fusion ]{level 1} [ Dark-world travel ]{level1} [ Darkness control ]{level 1} [ Dark absorption ]{level 1}
Summons: abyssal lizard {Rank-F, advanced stage}
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'It's good to see all this. So how do I increase your power?' Greg asked Gareth to explain.
"It's simple, pour your mana into me and I can absorb it to become stronger. Summons take a lot more mana to increase in rank and stage then beasts or humans." He told Greg.
Greg went to the center of the room, There were two torches lit up outside the cell, next to the door. He used the darkness control to smother the torches, then he sat down and crossed his legs.
He focused his mana into Gareth and simultaneously used dark absorption to fill his mana core. The consumption of mana outweighed the absorption, so after 3 hours he stopped giving mana to Gareth.
He continued to recharge for an hour, then his mana core was completely full. He started to give mana to Gareth once again.
This cycle continued until the sound of someone walking towards the cell was heard. Gareth did manage to get to [rank-F]{master stage} and Greg leveled up his [dark absorption] to level 3.
A woman suddenly appeared in front of his cell.
She had porcelain white skin and black hair. The Iris and pupil of her left eye was black like the bottom of the ocean. She wore a grey cloak which covered all of her body except her head.
"Hello teacher." Greg said while staring at her eye.
"Hmm being the wielder of the darkness element I'm not surprised you could see my in this pitch black darkness. Hello Greg Gareth I will be your new trainer for the next 5 years. If you impress me at the end of my training course then I will tell you my name." The new teacher said.
"I don't care about your name, I only want to kill you at the end of the training." Greg said with intense hate in his voice.