?The Crimson Crane were wondering what Raze was intending to do with the Ghost Blade that they had given him. The weapon was already incredibly powerful, but why would he pull out a certain crystal?
‘Ah, that reminds me, Reno explained that he uses these crystals to create the weapons. So he’s planning to enchant the weapon himself?’
Thinking about it, Alba couldn’t help but speak up about the situation.
“Wait, won’t the weapon strengthen more with a higher quality crystal?” Alba asked.
“It would,” Raze replied. “But with my current capabilities, I could only enchant it with a level 4 crystal in the first place. Anything higher I would have to increase my own power.”
Although Raze had the knowledge of a 9-star mage, he did not have the power and was only at the 4-star level. So he thought he might as well give his weapon the best enchantment.
“It’s hard for us to even get crystals higher than the 4-star level due to the limited access with middle stage realms, but I think we could get you at least a level 5 or 6 crystal for you to use.
“From what Reno told me, once you upgrade the weapon, it seems like you can’t upgrade it again. With a weapon as good as that, don’t you think you should wait?”
Raze looked at the sword again. It certainly was extremely powerful, and Alba was right. The enchantment he would give it now would be impressive but that was in terms for those in Pagna.
If he was to go against other mages or the items Idore and the higher members of his guild had, it wouldn’t be able to hold up.
The question was, how long would it take for Raze to reach that level, or increase his star level. He would either need high-level crystals, higher than this level 4 crystal or to absorb those that were stronger than him.
‘I somewhat regret not absorbing Eston and the other mages now, but it would have been a difficult thing to do. Fighting all of them would have worn me out, and the Crimson Crane were already worn out.’
‘But I would need something like that to occur again for me to increase my star level.’
Raze should have been happy with his progress. Increasing one’s star level especially as it got higher would take years, yet he was doing everything in the matter of months.
“What you said, it makes sense, so what do you want in return?” Raze asked.
To which Alba just shook her head.
“I told you, we’re in the same clan. You said you would still go to Repton and create weapons for us once in a while. Maybe just come along with us to one of the dimensions and help us get the crystal yourself.”
“And for now, keep the level 4 power stone and use it for something else.”
Raze thought it was sensible. The strength of the sword was already strong due to its other effects, and he hoped that he wouldn’t run into more difficult opponents like he had just done so that he couldn’t be patient enough to wait.
In the meantime, he could increase his strength in other ways, but while he was here, it was better for him to use the power stone.
If he did enchantments on this level on the outside, it would certainly cause a portal break to occur, and Raze had an idea of what he wanted to do with the power stone.
“I need to stay here a while, but before sending you guys back, I thought there might be something of interest to you,” Raze said. “I didn’t want to speak about it while Amir was here.”
“But these portals, they tend to have items scattered across in the dimension somewhere. You remember like last time, so they should be of some use to you.”
“But I’m a bit worried that more mages might come through the portal the longer we stay here.”
“I don’t think we have to worry about that too much,” Reno answered. “We heard the mages speaking. They were meant to be searching this place for a week top to bottom.”
“It seemed like they were looking for something here as well. I think as long as we don’t spend longer than a week here, they won’t get suspicious about what happened.”
That was good news to hear, and it confirmed Raze’s suspicions as to what the mages were doing here in the first place.
Since the same thing had occurred in the other dimension he was in. What he was more curious about was what happened to the dimensions after that fact.
Why was the sky warping and taking everything in? He was unsure if it was a natural occurrence or something done by the mages themselves.
Either way, it wasn’t a mystery for him to solve.
With that, the Crimson Crane split up and decided to search the vast dimension.
In the meantime, Raze got to work drawing his enchantment on the ground, and he had placed the level 4 power stone on the ground himself.
‘In situations where I have to face people one on one, I do quite well. Worst case, I’m always able to escape like I did against Feebie.’
‘However, recently I have fallen into situations where I’ve had to face many at one time.’
‘Those mages, if they were more prepared, they could have stopped my attack, and then I would be facing a number of large spells at once.’
‘The Noble Guild will have a flurry of items as well, and the same with Alter. If I go up against them, I should better prepare myself.’
With that, the ingredients to make a Qi pill had been placed on the ground, and a spark of lightning formed on both of Raze’s hands before he pressed it into the ground.
The ingredients all swirled as they mixed together, and a pill had formed in place of the circle. It was bright blue in color, almost glowing, and had sparked the ground slightly.
It also had the marking of DM on it, a signature of the Dark Magus.
‘A level 4 Qi pill for myself.’
[An Elite Grade Lightning Qi pill]
[This pill will fully restore one’s mana]
[An additional buff will be granted. All spells will have an increased range and have the chance to affect others close to it.]
‘The pill works like the Cursed pill, but there’s no time limit. It also won’t have the nasty side effect, so I’ll be able to take other pills along with this one, so the same thing doesn’t happen again.’
‘This will come in handy if I have to fight multiple people at once again.’
Thinking about the fight with Eston, and thinking about the match he had with Feebie, this time Raze wasn’t strong enough to take both of them on.
It was annoying him, but he remembered something when battling with Eston.
‘There is one way for me to increase my strength, if I was to run into another battle or forced to go against the principal, a way I could win right now.’
‘If I was to find out how to breakthrough with a Dark Core.’ Raze thought.
Chapter 452 Stepping into the World of Pagna
The Crimson Crane had split up, some of them heading off to areas on their own, while others had gone to try and explore the more habitable areas in search of something good.
It was quite good news for some; Elvlin had managed to find her glaive, so she was no longer weaponless, although a thought did cross her mind on whether or not she should just throw it away.
Since she wanted a new weapon courtesy of the Dark Magus. He was a busier person than they imagined, so the amount of times they would meet with him and he could create a weapon for them they believed to be limited.
So at the moment, everyone was fighting to get in line for him to create a weapon for them, and not having one was a good excuse, but she decided to keep it because she honestly didn’t know how long it would take.
The rest of the group didn’t find much. They assumed it was because the academy had been in charge of the dimension for a long time.
Whatever was of use in the area must have already been taken away, but while Alba and Reno were walking together, she had spotted something in the sand.
Lifting it up, she gave the round object a rub a couple of times, clearly showing what looked like a large thick coin.
“This was what that mage used to stop our attacks,” Alba commented. “This might come in handy for us.”
“Yeah, although we haven’t much in the dimension itself, some of the mages had dropped some handy things. It’s not like Pagna warriors; they hardly have anything like this,” Reno replied.
Although Clans did find items from different dimensions quite frequently, the use of them was relatively rare.
This was because either the clans didn’t know how to use the items or it just didn’t fit their taste and style. The special weapons they did find that could be used were more so swords, rare armors, and ornaments.
Things that could enhance their strength hand in hand with their Pagna abilities. The other thing with these items as well was they tended to belong to the clan rather than any individual.
Such precious items would be kept at the clan’s bases and would only be used if they were directly attacked or in extreme circumstances.
Rather frequently a new head would be selected, betrayal, or the death of a head would occur, which was why things were decided this way. So not all would be lost with the death of a leader.
As they continued to search the dimension, there was something that had been playing on Reno’s mind for a while.
“I kept quiet about it while we were around because I thought you would have mentioned something, but since you didn’t I didn’t mention it either,” Reno said suddenly.
It had almost come out of the blue for Alba, but she had a pretty good idea what he was referring to.
“I wasn’t sure if we should tell him or not, and it’s because I’m not even sure if he knows about it,” Alba stated.
“Right, just what was that protecting him? It’s clear that it isn’t something the mages had, and when I was struck by that thing… the power coming from it, it felt more like it was a type of Qi,” Reno rubbed the center of his chest.
Out of every attack that had occurred, out of everything they had faced. The thing that was most fearful for him was still the invisible force that had taken him out.
The power, although wasn’t strong that was used, when touched it felt extremely powerful.
“If it’s not something he is aware of, isn’t there more reason to tell him?” Reno repeated. “You talked about being family, isn’t it something that you would mention to us if it happened to us?”
“You’re right,” Alba replied. “I guess I was just a little frustrated. I thought we had reached somewhere in this world, you know.”
“Climbed to the top, or at least close to it, and then I learn there’s so many things that we don’t know, and it feels like we’re passing one of those things onto the Dark Magus.”
After searching the area for a while, they had eventually all returned to where the Dark Magus was. When they showed him what they had found, Raze actually told them all what the items do and how to activate them.
That’s when Raze looked at the item that Alba had given him.
“This is probably the best of the lot. It’s a fifty-fifty chance on whether or not it will block an attack; it’s a mythical level item,” Raze explained and handed it back.
“All you need to do is flip it, even if you try to force an outcome it will flip itself, and depending on if it lands on heads it will block the attack. fгee?ebɳoveɭ.cøm
“Be careful though, the timing of flipping the coin needs to be carefully adjusted. Mages would still be able to attack you while the coin is being flipped.”
Raze said, giving it back, as he was moving to the magic circle on the floor.
“Wait, you’re just giving it to me, don’t you want to keep it?” Alba asked.
“You found it, and you helped me. You deserve the rewards here, and besides, there are better items than that in the world.”
“I have to focus on increasing my strength and use items as a last resort. If I rely on items now it will only make me weaker. If I get as strong as I possibly can and then enhance myself with items, then I’m sure there will be no one that can stop me,” Raze explained.
The hunger they were used to, it was back, and it was then that Alba had decided to speak up.
“There is one more thing I wanted to speak to you about,” Alba said. “It was something that happened while we were attacked.”
Alba and the rest of the Crimson Crane went on to explain what they had seen. Detailing what had happened to the mages, and Reno had even gone to talk about his own experience as well.
They thought Raze might have been surprised, and although he was initially, it was almost as if he had an idea of what it was.
“Did any of you see what this figure looked like, this ghost?” Raze asked.
The members shook their heads.
“No one could see it, not even the other mages, but there was one thing, I guess,” Reno explained. “The voice I heard, it was soft-spoken, almost whispery.”
“Every time I think about it, I get this strange cold feeling in my body, but it was definitely a female’s voice.”
Although there weren’t a lot of details to go by Raze was sure of it, it could only be the bloody women he had seen a few times and Safa was able to see herself.
‘I guess it’s still around then.’
“Don’t worry about it for now, it’s something I have to deal with,” Raze thought, letting out a big sigh.
The Pagna warriors, the Bonum Society, Alter, Alterian, The Pagna Academy, and the Dark Faction founder himself, there were so many things that he had to deal with.
Including the mysterious person that was attached to him along with the death of his current family and why they were being targeted.
There looked to be a lot he needed to go through just for him to get to the Grand Magus that he was trying to deal with.
“I have to tackle them one at a time,” Raze said as he activated his dark magic, opening up the portal in front of them. “For now though, I need to deal with Alter, and getting to them.”
“I wonder what the Grand Magus’s reaction will be, once they find out Eston’s dead, and if they decide to make a move themselves.”
Pagna, the center of multiple worlds colliding. There wasn’t just Alterian and Pagna to worry about, but more people were soon getting involved and stepping into the world of Alter fully, Raze would get closer to knowing the truth.
Chapter 453 Alter Otherworlders
The morning sky was out, and the city was covered in a nice orange hue. Raze was walking through the busy street of people, listening to the sounds of people haggling for produce or just having a general chat with one another.
He himself was wearing his stylish blazer that made him somewhat stand out, but in a city as big as this one, there were countless people that had a strange sense of fashion.
At the moment though, he also wore a hood over his head, covering him up somewhat, but it wasn’t his usual enchanted hood that would cover his face; he had it clearly on display.
With this look, not many people knew it was him or the Dark Magus. Very few people had seen him in combat with the blazer, one of them being the head of the Neverfall Clan, and one of the main disciples that he was technically wedded to, although there had yet to be a ceremony.
‘I have to be careful while I’m in the city of Repton to not run into her. I can’t be dealing with the whole Neverfall Clan mess right now, not when I have no clue what’s happening to those at the academy,’ Raze thought.
How many times had he been in the Demonic Faction, and in this city in particular? It had become a sort of safe haven for him.
For some reason, there weren’t many operators of Alter in the Demonic Faction and he was certain there wouldn’t be those from the Dark or Light Factions either.
So it had become somewhat the perfect place for him, but even here he had to keep his head low from others.
The city of Repton was where Raze had transported the rest of the Crimson Crane back to. Allowing them to continue what they needed to do, but he didn’t plan to stay in the city long.
Because his aim was to meet those from Alter, to work his way deeper into the organization than before. He could grow stronger, find out more, and possibly get items that would help those out at the Academy.
But he didn’t know enough about the Dark Faction or the world of Pagna in general to get from one place to another, so the current situation was a little troubling.
Taking a right, Raze had entered into a small Inn. There were few people, it was an odd time of day for drinking, but there were those that would enjoy a snack or two as usual, and a few people that didn’t mind drinking no matter what time of day it was.
At the back, Raze sat at a square table, but there was a particular person that was also sitting at this table.
“You know, I’m still not quite happy about this,” Fixteen said as he placed a large pouch on the table.
Raze took the pouch, opening it up, seeing a number of gold and silver coins that were inside. He then quickly hid it away with a flicker of his magic.
“I know, did you manage to get any information?” Raze asked.
Fixteen reluctantly shook his head and folded his arms.
“The Dark Faction seems to have gone on complete lockdown. Apparently, it was hard to get information on the Dark Faction even before this.”
“The last piece of information we got was that there was an impressive rising star called the White Dragon, but since then, it seems that all informants can’t get any information at all. So as it stands, I don’t know the state of Dame or the rest of them,” Fixteen said.
It wasn’t particularly news that Raze wanted to hear. When Raze had arrived at the Repton he had asked the Crimson Crane for a couple more favors.
One was to meet Fixteen; upon their meeting, Fixteen had become somewhat aware of what was happening.
Him and Raze seemed to be on the same wavelength as both of them were wondering if they could get any information about what was happening at the Academy.
In the meantime, Raze would supply more pills to the expanding business that Fixteen was conducting on their behalf.
Raze had done this as the ingredients were supplied to him, and this was the advance payment he had received. The payment would help him fund his travels and anything else he might need to do.
“Look, I want to make this clear, we owe Dame a lot, a lot of us do. He’s stuck his neck out for us multiple times. A lot of people think he’s a useless man with no ambition, but that’s just not the truth.”
“Well, part of it is, but either way, if you’re going to help him or rescue him at some point, then we want to be there when it happens. This is something that we won’t be left out of,” Fixteen said.
Raze understood, shaking his head, building up allies at this point, it was becoming natural to him. After all, his true enemy, the Grand Magus, were groups with giant guilds themselves.
And he had a feeling that at some point maybe the world of Pagna and Alterien would be going at each other.
“My other request, are things going well with that?” Raze asked.
“Sure, sure, 3 in the evening, just meet at the same spot here and it will be done,” Fixteen answered, getting up from his seat and leaving.
There wasn’t much for Raze to do, so he took a long rest until the meeting time, and he had returned to the Inn sitting in the same spot and place Fixteen was at.
This time, he was the one that was staring at the door waiting for the visitor to arrive.
‘After this, it’s time to get out of here and to head to the Dark Faction… but where should we go, maybe it will be best to ask him.’
Entering through the door, was a short man, with a scruffy beard and a large backpack on him. He looked to be around his fifties.
As he entered the place nervously, he was looking around until he eventually found out where he was going to be.
Coming to the corner of the room.
“I believe, I have a meeting with you at this time,” The man said.
Raze gestured, allowing him to sit down, which he had done so.
“I heard that you had a request for a guide in one of the dimensions. Your friend paid me quite generously,” The man said. “I was a bit worried that it might be a setup for something else.”
Raze looked the man in the eye for a few moments and then pulled down his hood. The old man was quite surprised to see that his client looked relatively young.
“You don’t recognize me, do you?” Raze asked.
The man took a deeper look, but no recollection had come to mind.
“I apologize, in my time I have met a lot of people, so it’s hard for me to remember them all,” The man replied.
Right after, Raze had reached into his inner coat blazer, and had pulled out a round device, pressing a button on it.
At that point and time, a buzzer from the old man started to vibrate as well. He pulled it out and the two of them placed it on the table.
“It seems you kept your promise, Graft. You didn’t remember my face and you didn’t tell Alter about me,” Raze stated. “But this time I need you, I need you to take me to Alter.”