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" I'm back, master "
I went back to my dorm and as many things happened, I had to sit down and collect my thoughts.
Apparently, Harold unlocked his first skill and nothing serious happened other than using the arcane.
The academy currently is in serious trouble because of the attack. In the novel not many children died, only very weak students suffered, but this time with Jerrad involved.... There was a total of 17 dead students. It was an unfortunate thing, and I feel sorry for them. However, I really couldn't afford to help them. I barely survived after saving two of the main leads. It might aound missed up but Harold's life is more important than thousands.. no millions of lives.
If he died then I might have to forget about saving this world. Although now he was weak and inexperienced, but after the invasion he fought maliciously and learned many things in the war. I don't have to babysit him, but if it comes to his life then I will try to save him without getting known.
The reason why I don't want to socialize with him is because of the many dangers around him. Plus he wasn't the only variable to keep in check. There was the dwarves, elves, orcs, dragons and even the deadly sins.
The deadly sins are quite the abnormal demons. For example, the demoness of charm, 'Lilith' was only an A rank. In the other hand the demon of pride 'Heylel' was actually as powerful as the demon king.... yes the demon king himself, but he wasn't an immortal.
Pride for a fact hate the demon king. His pride will never allow himself to obey anyone. However, there was one thing that broke his pride. It was the demon king. Throughout his limitless lives, the demon king managed to make something terrifying. It was the ability to control other demons, for some reason it didn't work with other species. Pride had to stay as far as possible from the demon king because of that ability. His worst nightmare is to end up like other demons and bow his head.
" Will he help killing the demon king?"
There was something that can counter or hinder the function of that ability. The ability was actually a 'Semi-Devine' rank artifact. It wasn't completely Devine because it actually can be countered with an easy method.
" I will not risk it "
Although it was mentioned that pride was a neutral being, I can't risk approaching him.
" Let's just focus on myself now "
Livia has already sent me the files of the crystal mines I owned, she is smart to keep it under her merchant group name and not mine. However, they are mine to use. Once the dwarves buy them... of course I am not a charity or something. After all, I needed their artifacts as well. Anyway, once they get their hands on them the equipment of both dwarves and humans will give them advantage over the incoming war.
" Pheww... now I think after this training and the vampire boost I might be ready for that artifact "
In the future the leader of the 'Freedom' group found a powerful mythic grade artifact... an SS ranker with a mythic artifact... you can imagine how terrifying that could be.
Using that she managed to take control over the eastern continent and subdued many cities including two elite families, the 'Waltons' and the ' Maxilliams'. Although their leaders were powerful... specially the Maxilliams who had an SS ranking mage, but that barbarian wasn't only an SS rank but she had that stupidly broken gauntlet.
Before finding the artifact, she found an ancient compass in a secret hidden room within a strong A rank dungeon. She bulldozed the whole dungeon alone....
To clear an A rank dungeon, a party of at lease 1 S ranker and 10 A rankers were required to clear it. She recklessly went alone there, and unfortunately for her the dungeon turned into a black one causing the dungeon to level up to an S rank dungeon.
After killing the hidden boss she broke through SS rank and barely managed to kill the real dungeon boss, then she found an interesting looking compass that directed somewhere. There she found the crazy gauntlets and went on a power trip.
" I don't need the compass "
Originally after reaching the area where the compass directed to, there will appear some instructions in the compass on how to unlock the hidden treasure.
I already knew how to do it, so there shouldn't be a problem.
" The only problem is where it was "
It was hidden inside an underground blacksmith vault below the famous ' Nightwolves territory '
The nightolves were only some B rank monsters, but for me It was a very scary place.
" Sighe... I have to use my funds as soon as I liquify them "
For now I don't need the magic crystals so I will sell some of them to buy some equipment in my next trip.
" The forest was in the central continent luckily.... however it was still in a very far away region "
However, it was worth it. That gauntlet actually embeds itself in the wearer's fist, so in other words people can't see it. That's why the association didn't prioritize retrieving it since they didn't know about its existence in the first place. It also changes its size and and weight depending on the user. Overall, it was the best weapon for people like me who uses their own body as a weapon.
However that wasn't all, reason why I am so adamant about getting it is because of its crazy ability to break through mana like paper.
Although my body got stronger but when I fight stronger martial artists. Unlike me who depend on the ' Toughness' passive, They can protect their bodies with their own mana. However with this, their mana barriers will not be a problem.
Specially mages, who completely depends on their own mana. The mages in the practical dungeon were C rank at best. So with my strengthened punches, I can damage them. In contrast, if it was B rank mage... not only will my ' void ' will be on cool down, but also I won't be able to touch them because of the barrier.
" I will have to pay the black market a visit pretty soon "
High ranking materials and equipment are not easy to find, but in the black market it is a whole different story. There were many drugs and dangerous equipment over there, hopefully nothing crazy happens in this trip....
" I guess, I am wearing that mask again..."
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