"Huh!! what happened?" Lewis thought as he heard another sound, it seems someone was attacking the goblins.
"You bastards..." a voice shouted, Lewis couldn't tell who the voice belong to, but he knew it belongs to a human, and the human was currently fighting the goblins.
Lewis wanted to continue with what he was doing but he was too tired to cast another spell, if he used even a bit of his Mana he was sure he would fall unconscious, even now he was barely conscious, and struggling to keep his eyes opened when he saw the book hovering in front of him.
[New spell unlocked: Dark Harvest]
Lewis could barely see what was written but he knew what had happened as memories of how to cast the spell flooded his head.
"Lewis are you okay, are you dead" a voice called.
"You know my name, who are you," Lewis asked in a weak voice.
"You have lost too much blood, you won't last if I take you back to the tent, but I can call Alfred here, keep your eyes opened till then, don't you dare close your eyes" Lillian spoke as she dashed away.
She had swept the area and eliminated all the goblins around, she made sure no beast was in the area before going back.
Lewis had lost too much blood so if she removed the arrows from his body he was surely going to die and if she tried to take him back with the arrows he was still going to die, so she was going back to bring Alfred.
'I gained a new spell that only works on dead bodies, but I still don't know what it does' Lewis said inwardly as his eyes glanced at the side and he saw the dead body of a goblin close to him.
'Dead body' Lewis stretched his right hand till he could touch the goblin's face.
[Dark Harvest]
Lewis mumbled as he cast the spell, even though he was weak, he was able to cast the spell but he couldn't see it through as his consciousness faded.
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"I can teleport us to the barrier," Alfred said as the space in front of the cracked and a rift opened, he and Lillian ran through and appeared in the forest a few meters from where Lewis was.
Both of them ran towards where Lewis was but something was different, Lewis wasn't on the ground instead he was in front of one of the goblins with his hands on the goblin's head.
Alfred and Lillian looked at the rest of the goblins and their flesh had been pulverized leaving only their skeleton, and the last goblin's flesh slowly dried off and Lewis breathed a sigh of relief and stood up.
Alfred immediately conjured Mana in his hands just in case, and Lillian's hand was on the dagger on her waist.
"Hey guys, sorry to alarm you but I learned a new spell," Lewis said.
"A new spell you say, what is the name of the spell?" Alfred asked.
"I have no idea, but it..."
"What is my name and her name, and what's the name of your summon?" Alfred asked.
"What are you talking about, you are Alfred and she's Lillian, and my summon is Xavier, is something wrong?" Lewis asked.
"You are more compatible with dark magic and necromancy than anyone I've seen, the spell you just learned is called Dark Harvest but it seems yours isn't complete, are you okay?" Alfred asked.
"Yes, I'm fine, sorry to worry you guys," Lewis said.
"We were not worried," Lillian said as she walked away.
"But you ran to me breathless telling me if I don't save him, you'll kill me, isn't that what you said?" Alfred spoke.
"What!! I didn't say...I wasn't worried" Lillian shouted and vanished into thin air.
"She usually acts cold but she's really soft, let's head back, I still have a lot of things to do," Alfred said and turned around.
"You said the name of my spell is dark harvest and mine isn't complete right?" Lewis asked as he and Alfred walked back to the tent.
"Yes, dark harvest is a dark spell that works only on a fresh corpse, the spell converts the remaining life force of the corpse into health for the caster and absorbs the skeleton of the corpse, the skeleton can be used by the mage once before the corpse are returned to the underworld" Alfred explained.
"Wait, so I can summon the goblins I killed?" Lewis asked immediately.
"No, you didn't absorb the skeleton, that's why I said your isn't complete, wait... can't you see the barrier here?" Alfred asked.
"What barrier, is there a barrier here?" Lewis asked as he waved his hands to see if he would touch the barrier.
"Now I know why you almost died, I placed an invisible barrier here to protect the tent from beasts, all mages would be able to see this barrier because of the Mana coursing through their body, but you can't even sense the Mana coursing through your own body"
"I can create a portal here that leads directly to the tent," Alfred said as a black space opened in front of them and they stepped in.
Both of them appeared in front of the tent and Alfred walked inside to continue his work, while Lillian was outside cooking, Lewis looked around and it was already evening, the day was slowly getting darker.
Now he had nothing else to do, Lillian was busy cooking and Alfred was making potions, Xavier was destroyed in their last battle so it would be a while before he would be able to summon him again.
"Wait... I'm from the modern world, they are many work-outs that would increase my physical strength, push up, plank, Russian twists, jumping jacks, they are tons of them, I can train on my own" Lewis smiled as he stood up.
'I've watched videos of workouts sessions, I just need to set a goal and work towards it, since it's almost night, I'll set my goals at the bare minimum'