"You don't need to worry about the mutated monster." Jax said, sitting in Merlin's office.
"It was connected to pipes?" Merlin asked.
"Yeah, it was," Jax replied while drinking tea.
"Fine, you don't need to say anything I owe you. Also, when can I expect that house?" Merlin asked excitedly. Jax smiled and pulled a few boxes.
"Here, it has everything my has, and even food, if you want to customize it, just give me a word." Jax answered, and Merlin shook his hand.
"Thanks Jax. These old geezers will envy me, Haha" laughed Merlin. Jax talked some more with him, and exited his office, and went to the training fields. When he arrived, he saw that the group of young knights, were sparring. Each of them was covered in aura most of them had a red aura, but some of them had a yellow or green aura. They also had different shades of aura.
'Most of them have one or two rings, and they don't have affinity, but there are a few that are already at the third ring, and even have some rare affinity'. Knights create rings of aura around their hearts, which allow them to use them to enchant their bodies or weapons. Aura is the natural force inside the human body. The knights are divided into junior knights, who are people who create one to three circles, after that, there is the senior knight, who is from four to six. When someone advances to seven, that person is called a swordmaster, and at eight rings, people are called grandmasters. When someone reaches nine rings, they are called the supreme master.
"You are not here to slack off! Hey you there, if you don't want to be dead, don't swing a sword like this!" Yelled instructor. Jax watched them training, but he was mostly curious about how they use their aura. Jax wanted to improve the basic aura ring technique as much as possible. To do this, he needed data in the form of how people circulate their aura.
"This thing is just unnecessary and just uses aura." Jax started to find more and more flaws in how students used their aura. He used his second mind to look at how people used aura, when he was making adjustments in real time.
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"Who is he, instructor?" I asked a girl. She was 14 years old. She had long blonde hair, and green eyes.
"This is Jax, you don't need to worry about him, Marceline. He is a special case of a student. He probably just looks to help his research."
"What kind of research could such a young person conduct?"Asked another person.
"You all heard about the opposite aura technique?" Everyone nodded. It was a technique that allowed for a boost of destructive power, by collating energies in the body. It strained the body and could lead to permanent damage, but it was still useful.
"So he is the inventor, it was Jax who created that technique." Everyone was surprised and ashamed, he was a lot younger but created so much.
"Don't feel bad, he is just who he is. He didn't use it to gain any benefits other than to gain access to research on the knight path."
"Can I challenge him?" Asked Marceline. Instructor shook his head. 'Battle maniac'
"If he agrees, why not?" Marceline ran towards Jax.
...
'Why, every time someone must come and bother me.' Jax looked at the girl in front of him.
"What do you want?" Marceline bowed.
"Would you mind fighting with me?" She asked, with sparks in her eyes.
"No" Jax rejected. Unfortunately for him, Marceline was stubborn.
"Oh, come on, please!" She held his hands
"No" Jax rejected her again.
"Please, only once." Marceline didn't give up.
"No"
"Please"
....
"Fine, I will." She asked Jax for 10 minutes, and he had enough.
"I knew I could convince you." She replied with a smile. She held his hand in fear he would escape. A few minutes later, they were already at the training area. It was square 10 by 10. Jax picked up the training sword from the side.
"The first to fall unconscious, to lose a weapon, or to be incapable of continuing a fight loses. You both understand the rules?" The instructor asked, and Jax and Marceline nodded.
"You can start"
Marceline ran towards Jax, but he disappeared from her sight, and she lost consciousness.
"Jax wins." Replied instructor. He was shocked at Jax's speed. He moved from his place and just hit Marceline in the back of her head, before she even reacted. Jax just went back to watch people training. A few minutes later, Marceline woke up.
"Ughh my head, what's happened?" She massaged the back of her head.
"Long story short, Jax moved so fast you didn't see it, and he hit you in the back of your head." Instructor replied. Marceline was shocked, but she wanted to know how he did that. She looked for Jax but couldn't find him. The instructor, on the other hand, looked at one spot. Jax looked at him and smiled. He used invisibility to observe in peace, and the instructor was able to see through his disguise. Instructor didn't reveal it to Marceline, but he knew she would either way look for Jax.
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Some time later, Jax traveled to the Frozen Mountains. He went towards the gate of the fabric, and waited. He was teleported soon after.
"It's nice to see you, my lord," Kurkhak greeted him.
"You too. I wanted to ask. When can we harvest these magic stones?"
"If you want, my Lord, you can do it even now. I will send you a message when you need to stop"
"That's great, mining tools are in the same place as spare parts?"
"You are correct" Kurkhak confirmed, and Jax went to the room. He found a pickaxe, it was made from a very durable metal called orichalcum. Pickaxe didn't have any enchantments, it was caused by the risk of contamination of magic stones by the mana of the pickaxe. 'I need to make some drills'.
Jax went to some domes and started to mine magic stones. If someone wants to mine magic stones, they need to be careful not to damage the core of magic stones formation. Jax hit the crystal formation, cracked a huge chunk of it, and repeated it in a few other domes. When he finished, he teleported away from the factory and, went to the nearest spatial gate.
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"Now I just need to shape them to the shape I need." Jax was at his workshop. He took out a tool that was a laser cutter, but it worked on concentrated mana. He focused it on the chunk of neutral magic crystal and started to cut it. Neutral magic crystal is just magic crystal that is made from pure mana, and it doesn't have any energy like fire, water, etc. The chunk he was working on was very big, 1 meter long, 50cm tall and 10cm thick. He cut it until, it became a cylinder. He did that with other chunks. In the end, he had five cylinders made from:Neutral, Fire, Lightning, Wind, Poison.
"Well, five should be enough for demonstration if not, I can just use mana in the air." Jax said. He decided it's time to finally reveal it, but he needed help from Elizabeth and Malcolm.
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Jax was in the royal palace and was walking towards the Elizabeth room, but he was stopped by a butler.
"You shouldn't come there, young sir." he said.
"Why not Alfred? Did something happened to Elizabeth?" Jax replied worried. Alfred just shook his head.
"No, it's just that her majesty is in a bad mood. "Alfred explained politely. 'Something is going on, I should check on her anyway'
"I understand it, but I still need to visit her"
"As you wish, but I warned you" Alfred said, stepping back. When Jax arrived at Elizabeth's room, he saw her with the bottle of alcohol.
"What are you doing here Jax? Are you here to mock me? Look, you are able to see me drunk." She waved her hand with an alcohol bottle in it.
"What happened?" He asked. 'She isn't like this normally'
"I'm perfectly fine" She said.
"Elizabeth, we both know I'm too smart for this, and you are a bad liar" Jax said. After that, he tilted his head to dodge the bottle of alcohol.
"You smart guy. You always act as you know everything, you try to control everything, but you can't. You don't even treat me with respect. I don't know why my mother wants me to marry you. You are just a bastard that doesn't know his place. I am the queen of this kingdom." She started to vent all her emotions. Jax just listened to everything.
"Am I the cause of all your misfortunes?" He asked.
"Yes! If you were born earlier and gave that serum to my husband, he would be alive and so my child!" She yelled, and started to fall down, fortunately Jax appeared and caught her.
"You should, in the future, be more honest" he said, carrying her to the bed. He wanted to leave her, but she grabbed his shirt.
"Please, Arthur, don't leave me I'm scared" Jax saw. She was crying in her sleep. Jax sighed and took a chair from subspace.
"I hope you will be well" He said, holding her hand.
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"Ughhh my head, it hurts so bad." Elizabeth touched her head, but only one touched it. She looked in the direction of her other arm and saw that Jax was holding her hand.
"Why are you here?!" She yelled and took her hand back.
"Well, I wanted to talk with you about something, but you were drunk, and passed out, so I carried you to bed" Jax answered bluntly. Elizabeth then remembered what happened, and she turned red.
"I I" she started, but Jax cut her off.
"Listen, just rest and eat the food I cooked, also I healed already some of your hangover. When you get up, we will talk" Jax said and went for a walk. Elizabeth smiled. 'Who would guess he had such a side to him'