"If you don't want to be killed, show yourself." Jax said, looking at the tree in front of him. Shadow appeared a moment later.
"Our king wants to meet you, sir." Shadow bowed to him.
"Sure" Jax agreed, and shadow touched him and they disappeared.
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At her office, Elizabeth was looking at a sealed letter.
"He sent me this, but why is it sealed? If he wants to say something important, he just says that I should visit him."
A few moments later, the seal on the letter broke.
"Elizabeth, I am beyond the Phoenix Kingdom. You don't need to worry about me, they will not dare to hurt me, even if they do, I assure you, they will beg Gods for death"
"What does he plan to do?" She sighed, but when holding the letter, she saw, that postscriptum appeared at the end of the letter.
"I know you will sigh or be angry, so when you read the last letter, a postscriptum will appear. If my serum doesn't work, I have two experimental solutions, but I don't want to say how long it will take for me to complete them, because I don't know." Elizabeth smiled at this.
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"It's nice to meet you, king of the Dragon Kingdom, Malcolm." Say Jax.
"I am honoured to meet the creator of regeneration serum" said politely Malcolm. Malcolm was a man in his 40s, he was one of few supreme sword masters, and king of dragon kingdom. He had long black hair and golden glowing eyes, that had vertical pupils.
"So what you propose your majesty" Jax asked calmly, he didn't care about the aura Malcolm emitted. Malcolm was surprised that Jax was calm.
"Go to my country, I will give you all you want" He said directly. Jax sipped tea and replied.
"I can't, I am bound by a contract with Elizabeth, also I don't want to leave my country" he shook his head.
"So, what you propose?" Malcolm knew that Jax knowledge and talent were priceless, so he wanted to make a deal with him at all cost.
"As you probably tried you can't copy my regeneration serum, and you know about different types of it, something like normal or lesser one doesn't interest you. Well, it's opened to the public anyway. What you want is greater one, also you want me to help you create something to help to create swordsmen or accelerate they grow. Is that right?" Malcolm nodded.
"You know very well that you and Elizabeth and other countries have box with my work, so I want to make a deal with you. I will help you create that kind of thing, also I can promise that I will not use my inventions and machines against your country unless you attack my family and people I consider close or just me."
"It's all sounds perfect, but what is a catch?" Malcolm asked.
"Unlimited access to resources, slaves and knowledge including experiments and your Royal Academy, and also your blood in constant delivery."
"Fine I agree, let's swear on our blessings after we talk the details" Malcolm said. He was blessed by God of Fire, Sultur. Jax nodded, after everything was done he was teleported away.
"Why your majesty accepted that deal, wouldn't it be better to force him by torture?" Shadow asked.
"No, it wouldn't be so easy. He has a spell carved into his soul. He can kill himself when he wants, also thanks to our deal he can't do anything to our country, also he just wants immunity from or the countries. That guy isn't a threat until we do something to him, his inventions are helping everyone, it's better to be allies with him." Malcolm said.
...
"That was interesting, I have another source of income" Jax said while stretching on his bed.
'Now we need to wait for another countries'. Shiro added. The biggest countries around are Phoenix Kingdom, Dragon Kingdom, Elven Republic, Beast Federation. Phoenix and Dragon kingdoms are mostly populated by humans kingdoms, Elven Republic by elves, and Beast Federation by beastman and sentient monsters like centaurs or lamias.
"Yeah, but I need to get stronger to be able to take, from them, what I need. If I create some weapons and go to Beast Federation, I will be able to convince them to make a deal with me." What could surprise people is that Jax was happy. He was never tired, and always had a goal in his life. 'Well the pockets of Phoenix and Dragon kingdom will bleed for few next years.'
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Jax was now 8 years old. He was very tall for his age 148 cm, he attributed it to divine orc lineage. He was reading research on new types of monster that were spotted few months ago. It was a new species of manticore. This new species of manticore is faster, stronger and instead of a tail that can inject venom, it can shoot its venomous spike.
"Interesting what caused this mutation? Maybe some mana vein, or some of them ate some fruits or drank blood of stronger species. Without any body or live specimen, I can't figure it out. Academy will invite me anyways, to study it" He stood up and went to magic path headquarters. The academy had three main buildings. First one is general area, in that place people learn general knowledge and study civilian path. Second is for knight path section, it includes places like training field or areas for fighting. Third is magic path section. It has a vast variety of rooms for things like enchanting, alchemy etc. The academy is surrounded by the forest that the Academy uses as training grounds for students and place to hunt monster to get money for hunters. Jax took out cube and throw it on the ground. The cube transformed into a skateboard that he created for this. This skateboard is soundless, also Jax doesn't need to use his feet to power it up, the only thing Jax does is to control speed and direction. The academy is huge, to walk from one end to another it can even take an hour. Jax didn't want to waste so much time, so he created this portable skateboard. Few minutes later he was at the doors of magic path section. He took skateboard and injected his mana into it, which caused skateboard to come back to the cube form.
He opened the door and walked in. Jax was greeted by mages that were walking near him. He went to Merlin office. When he arrived, he knocked and waited for an answer.
"Come in" said Merlin from inside. Jax opened the door and walked in, at the sight of Jax, Merlin smiled." Nice to see you Jax, come let's talk" Merlin poured him a tea.
"Sir Merlin, I have a question. Do you have any information, about that new species of monsters that were discovered?" Merlin sighed.
"I don't have any information, why they appeared"He shakes his head"The only thing I can tell from information I have is that, they appeared near Frozen Mountains, and they have abnormal levels of not innate elements."
"This isn't normal at all, small fluctuations are natural, but if they have abnormal levels that means either something is mutating them, or worse someone is doing that" Jax wasn't against mutating monsters, but freeing them to walk around is just stupid and reckless. 'People here don't know about DNA and genetic inheritance, most monsters are descendants of a lot more powerful beasts, if someone awakens it, we are in deep trouble'
"I know, but I can't do anything about, in a few weeks our country will make an expedition there to check it out. Do you want to come?"
"Yeah, I want to see if I can figure it out."
Jax talked some more with Merlin and went back to his dorm room. When he was near his room, he saw one of the servants holding a letter.
"Young master Jax, you got a letter from your family." He handed the letter to Jax, who nodded.
"Thanks." He took a silver coin and handed it to him." Here as a thanks." He didn't look at the servant and just entered his room. He sat at the chair and opened the letter.
"Son, you should visit us, we have something to tell you." He closed the letter" Well what would they want to tell me? Well it's not like I need to go to school" He exited his room and used the box again. When he exited the academy, he used mana to activate the second mode of the box. Wheels disappeared and it became longer and wider. When everything ended, Jax was on something that looked like a snowboard, but it was levitating. He then started to speed towards spatial gate. Normally it took the carriage two days to go from spatial gate to city. It was because of safety in case someone was able to control it. Jax instead using his board was able to do it in few hours. His arrival at spatial gate caused a lot of stares. He didn't care and just show, his phoenix insignia. Soldier nodded, and Jax 10 minutes later was in spatial circle.
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At Jax family home
"So, what you wanted to tell me?" He was eating cookies and drinking tea. Abigail looked at Haytham who nodded.
"I'm pregnant, you will be big brother."announced Abigail with a big smile. Jax nearly choke on the cookie he had in his mouth. He knew that his mother, after giving birth, couldn't have children. 'Huh, serum affected it'. Jax used [Researcher Eyes] to look into Abigail womb, a few moments later he sighed in relief.' Child is developing well, nothing is wrong' Jax knew that regeneration serum, doesn't affect fertility. It was because one of the soldiers he tested [Lesser Regeneration Serum] on, after that, made his wife pregnant. Jax met both of them, and confirmed it was this soldier child. He also saw that there are no defects in the child's body, and everything is the same as it should be. Although Jax knew it, he wanted to check to be sure. He spent some time with them, and after that he went to his workshop, to create a necklace for his mother. That necklace had function of sending all information about her and baby status to him. It had a lot of gems imbued into it. He gave it to her, which made her extremely happy.
"My little man made such a beautiful necklace for me." She said hugging him and kissing. Jax was embarrassed, but he didn't say anything.
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Some time later, Jax finished creating a prototype he was working on for a few days.
"Well, I need to fix some issues, but I will test it during expedition"