Looking at her apprentice, a smile appeared on Selena's face, then, a few moment's later, she a thick book suddenly floated into her hands.
"I'm somewhat busy right now, so you should study on your own for a bit," said Selena as suddenly, a dozen or more books floated over in front of Beatrice, creating a large pile that was over a meter tall.
After that, Selena placed the book in her hands on the pile before suddenly turning into smoke and disappearing.
Looking at the large pile of books in front of her, Beatrice couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, feeling much safer than before.
Beatrice then picked up several books from the floor, before walking up to her room with the rest floating behind her.
...
As Beatrice lay on her bed, looking through a book, some thought's couldn't help but appear inside of her mind.
'She really is confident that I won't betray her,' thought Beatrice as she looked at the spells contained inside of the book.
Unlike the spellbook provided by the academy, which only contained Rank 0 and only some Rank 1 spells, this spellbook was much more complete, going all the way to Rank 3.
Rank 3 spells were the most powerful spells that Official Mages could cast without paying a large price, with Rank 4 spells and above being usually restricted to Archmages.
At the same time, the number of Rank 4 and above spells is truly small, as the very concept of spells becomes slightly meaningless at that rank, as with their understanding of magic, archmages can easily achieve things without using any spells.
'As such there are only 5 Rank 4 Dark Spell:'
'Dark Ressurection'
'Curse of Being'
'True Darkness'
'Dark Summoning'
'Dark Ascendance'
As Beatrice read the names of those spells, for some reason a slight chill appeared in her heart.
Sweat dripped down Beatrice's forehead, while at the same time, her vision suddenly became slightly blurry.
Suddenly, Beatrice regained her senses, as the mark on her neck suddenly shone in a blood-red color.
The moment that happened, Beatrice quickly flipped to another page, as no longer dared gaze at the page regarding Rank 4 spells.
After a few minutes, Beatrice finally recovered, as the fear that she had just felt slowly but surely receded.
Beatrice then closed her eyes, falling deep into thought.
'What in the world was that?' thought Beatrice as she remembered the utter dread that she had felt once she merely read the names of those Rank 4 spells.
If not for the fact that Beatrice had a much more powerful spirit than normal apprentices, there was in fact quite a large chance that she would have died from merely reading their names.
"Is it a curse, or is it the influence of the archmages that had cast this spell?" mumbled Beatrice when suddenly, she noticed something written on the page she was on right now.
Unlike the neatly printed text next to it, this handwriting was quite messy and left behind without much care.
'My dear apprentice, now that you have satisfied your curiosity, you should not try to go back to the previous page before becoming an Offical Mage'-Your Dear Teacher
As she read those words, Beatrice's mouth couldn't help but slightly twitch.
"Well she is right in leaving this here," mumbled Beatrice, knowing for a fact that her curiosity would definitely not allow her to stop reading.
But now that Beatrice had not only learned the name of those spells but also seen the consequences of acting rashly, she would follow her teacher's words, and no longer go to the previous page.
Even though this incident was quite shocking, after a few minutes, Beatrice had already recovered, and had continued on reading the rest of the book.
...
At the same time, in another location,
Millions of souls lay in a huge mansion, each of them experiencing the most terrifying of tortures at the hand of the thousands of Demons present in this Mansion.
While this was happening, in the center of the mansion stood a huge golden. throne, with a giant demon, tens of meters tall sitting on it with his eyes closed.
Suddenly, the demon opened his eyes, feeling a certain call.
Without any hesitation, the demon disappeared, leaving the huge golden throne empty.
"Mortal, why have you summoned the Demon Duzgeraun," said the huge demon as it stared at the cultists that were shaking in fear below him, when suddenly, dozens of black emerged from the walls of the huge hall, aiming straight for the demon.
Looking at the huge chains coming towards him, no expression could be seen on the face of the demon, as he simply waved his hand, causing the chains to fall to the ground.
But suddenly, the face of the demon changed, as he felt some weakness in his right arm, which he had used to destroy the chains.
"A wizard?" mumbled the demon, when suddenly, his frowning face turned into a horrified one as a certain thought entered his mind.
'A mage??' thought the demon as a portal suddenly appeared behind him, but as the demon wanted to flee back to hell, the portal in front of him suddenly shattered.
Without warning, a several-meter-long black needle pierced through the head of the demon, passing through it at an unimaginable speed, far over beyond the speed of sound.
But even so, no sonic boom was heard as the needle once again flew towards the demon, who was now restrained by hundreds of black chains.
Another hole appeared in the body of the demon, as the black needle once again pierced right through it with no resistance.
After this happened several more times, over 75 percent of the body of the demon was completely annihilated, but even so, he was still very much alive.
Several minutes later, the demon only had around ten percent of his body left, causing the needle to stop mid-air before dissipating.
A few moments later, Selena Watford, the Witch of Death appeared next to the demon, staring at him with a smile on her face.
"An Archdemon, even better than expected," mumbled Selena as what remained of the demon floated behind her, still being restrained by chains.