Chapter 788: The Glory Guild
With the Glory Guild being a large guild, there were many candidates that fit the criteria that Harvey was looking for. To be honest, Bronk wasn’t even the only one who had committed
despicable acts.
Many powerful mages who had abused their powers had gone to the Glory Guild. It was almost as if the place was some sort of image change for them. With it, Harvey had done some digging, and the most information could be found on Bronk.
For one, it turned out that Bronk was still committing a large number of crimes, and the department was just covering it up. Honestly, it was above the position Harvey was in, but the more he found, he wouldn’t have been so surprised if there was a whole division within the police to just cover up the acts of the Grand Magus and their guilds.
Still, cover-ups needed to be recorded, so all of the information could still be accessed.
‘This is it,’ Harvey thought as he looked at Bronk. ‘This mage is even a higher star level than me. Dark magic always has the element of surprise, but in situations like this, it’s best to use one’s head to fight.’
‘I’ve read your file-you built up so much of your reputation. Every time an incident occurred, you would go to the police to deal with it, to cover it up. That’s how much you cared about your reputation.’
‘Of course, if I release this information, the police will be able to trace it back to me, so I don’t plan on doing that, but all I need from you is to comply,’ Harvey thought.
Bronk looked at the situation, staring at Harvey. He was trying to see if he recognized the man in the seat, but there was a hood and a face mask covering most of his features, making it impossible to tell.
“Did I hurt someone close to you, a sister… or maybe a lover? Is that why you’re doing this?” Bronk asked.
“What are you saying? Are you saying all these images, these videos, the reports are they all real?” The woman next to him asked as she started to grab Bronk’s arm. “Answer me!”
Immediately, Bronk snapped out his hand and grabbed her, holding the woman around her neck. It started to freeze over, and then, clenching his hand, the ice broke, and the head fell to the floor with part of the neck frozen.
“You decided to blackmail the wrong person,” Bronk said. “Everything is fine, as long as there are no witnesses, and that included her.”
Bronk lifted both of his hands, and a stream of misty ice magic came out of them. Immediately, from the seat, it was Harvey who needed to react fast. He pushed back with his feet, falling backward and landing on the floor. As the stream of mist hit the chair, it completely froze over.
“This was somewhat expected!” Harvey said as he got up and crossed his arms. “But I guess this is just how it was meant to be!”
Crossing his arms, out from behind the door, dark tentacle-like structures came out and wrapped around Bronk’s wrists and ankles. Immediately, he could feel a burning sensation on his skin.
“This magic… it’s Dark magic. I should have known, it was my job to get rid of scum like you!” Bronk shouted.
“Look who’s talking!” Harvey shifted his hand forward, and a spike of magic came out from his palm, reaching out to hit Bronk in the chest. As it came toward him, Bronk opened his mouth, and fire came out, hitting the Dark magic and pushing it away.
“Even though Dark magic is based on destruction, he’s still a six-star mage after all, but he has no clue what Dark magic can do,” Harvey said.
Using strong Ice magic, Bronk was able to create space by turning the air into ice between the Dark magic that was wrapped around him. He expanded it out, breaking the Dark magic.
When he turned around, though, he could see a large tentacle hit his body and shift him to the side. Bronk’s entire body was seen crashing through the wall and breaking part of it.
As Bronk looked up, he could see a strange shadowy figure come from the hallway, and then it moved over to Harvey’s back, covering him.
“That… that’s not Dark magic, is it? I’ve never heard of Dark magic being able to do something like that,” Bronk said.
“You’re right. I knew you would be a tough one, so I went all out from the beginning. This is my breakthrough. Unfortunately, my magic core is Earth magic, and my breakthrough is a puppet made out of the earth itself, but mixing it with my Dark magic made it extremely interesting,” Harvey said.
Lifting his hands, the puppet behind him lifted its hands as well, and it was as if two figures were both gathering Dark magic around their palms. Bronk, seeing this, knew he needed to move, but when he tried, his hands were stuck to the floor.
“What the…” They were iced down, but his ice abilities shouldn’t have had that effect.
That’s when he could see a young woman with one of her hands on the floor, having used Ice Magic. Being so used to the cold, Bronk hadn’t even noticed it since his mana core was ice- based.
Not only that, though, he could see that in her other hand, she had also been gathering Ice magic.
“Dark Cannon!” Harvey shouted out, and he and his Dark Puppet both threw out beams of Dark Magic.
Meanwhile, Kelly did the same, throwing out the magic from the palm of her hand. The whole area was being destroyed. The floor was disintegrating into nothing, even the wall behind, as the Dark magic, concentrated in one place, exploded into different areas.
Eventually, both Harvey and Kelly stopped.
“I thought… we weren’t meant to kill him. He’s still alive, right?” Kelly asked.
That was when she could feel a chill enter the whole room. When she looked at the furniture and the walls around her, frost was gathering on every single item.
“Both of you are using Dark magic. What is this? Is something going on that we, the Glory Guild, don’t know about?” Bronk said. “I guess I have no choice but to go all out. Breakthrough!”
The light in the area where Bronk was started to shine, and the whole area dropped by at least ten degrees in an instant. A massive amount of magic exploded out, shifting Harvey and Kelly back around a meter.
“I knew he wouldn’t die from that!” Harvey said with a smile.
789 Breakthrough!
When a breakthrough is used, a tremendous amount of mana is released by the mage. It activates all of the magic circles surrounding one’s heart. The power manifests depending on what type of person one is.
Not everyone’s breakthrough is the same, but some can be similar. The mass amount of energy released will be based on what type of affinity the magic circle has. In this case, Bronk’s was Ice magic, which was why the whole room had gotten chillier, and everything was now covered in frost.
‘A six-star mage doing a breakthrough—I was hoping he didn’t know how to do that,’ Kelly thought. ‘I think this is going to be a lot harder than Harvey thought.’
As the magic started to settle, Kelly could see Bronk standing there, different from before. His whole body was covered in ice. It almost looked like armor, a knight in light blue, covered from head to toe, apart from his eyes.
“Ice armor? That’s a pretty lame breakthrough if you ask me!” Harvey jumped to the side, and he controlled his puppet to do the same. Then, from both sides, they both fired beams of dark energy.
It hit Bronk’s body cleanly, but the magic just disintegrated into nothing. Then, when Bronk lifted his hand, a sword began to form. Bronk lifted the ice sword above his head and swung it down through the air.
The attack let out a large trail of ice on the floor. Harvey tried to move away, but his feet had frozen.
“Damn it, the file didn’t say anything about him being a magic swordsman.”
“You Dark Mages will be executed by the Glory Guild!” Bronk shouted as he charged forward. The Dark Puppet moved, swinging its arms like tentacles through the air.
Bronk was swift as he swung his sword, freezing the tentacles and getting rid of part of the puppet bit by bit.
Quickly, Kelly moved over, and with her hands heated up with Fire magic, she placed them on Harvey’s leg.
“This might hurt a little,” Kelly said.
“Do you think I have time for that!” Harvey stated. As soon as his feet were back to normal, he charged forward, encasing his hand with Earth magic.
The Dark Puppet practically leaped onto Bronk, and as it was stabbed in the center, its body was turning to ice.
Harvey jumped forward and bashed Bronk from the side with the heavy fist, shifting his feet but not breaking the ice. Instead, it was Harvey’s arm that was now covered in ice. Thankfully, it was just the part he had covered in Earth magic.
“Everything that touches this armor will be frozen,” Bronk said. Even the ground beneath his feet where he stepped was frozen with Ice magic.
“You know Fire magic, right? Just use whatever you’ve got, use everything, or we won’t live through this!” Harvey shouted.
His puppet was on the verge of destruction, but with it so close to Bronk, he knew what to do. He controlled it to dive onto Bronk one more time.
While Kelly, staying far back, started to fire fireball after fireball.
‘I can’t break through, I don’t know how, I never learned how to, but I can do this.’
With one hand, Kelly started to use Fire magic, and with the other, she used wind, making a devastating combo that blasted out a tunnel of flames toward Bronk. For a moment, he couldn’t do anything as the puppet was using its body, bashing it against Bronk, not caring if it was frozen or not.
Harvey looked like he had lost his mind as he was just forming giant rocks and throwing them in Bronk’s direction.
“Keep firing those flames, young one! Don’t let up, just keep going!” Harvey ordered.
But then, the puppet was destroyed, and Harvey felt a great pain around his chest. He fell to his knees. The distraction had caused Kelly to run to his side, checking if he was okay.
“Are you alright?” Kelly asked.
“My puppet,” Harvey said, knowing full well it had been destroyed, but even then, he wouldn’t have had the energy to control it anymore either.
“Of course, he’s not alright,” Bronk answered, stepping through the flames. His ice armor was still on his body, but it appeared to be falling off, disappearing into the wind.
“A breakthrough uses an incredibly large amount of mana; it practically breaks the magic circle. Time is needed for it to be mended again. He used his breakthrough for far too long, which means currently he can’t use any magic, and I doubt your three-star spells will do any harm to me.”
Bronk no longer had the armor on his body, but he still had the ice sword in his hand. He was ready to strike but noticed the smile on Harvey’s face.
“Aren’t you in the same position as us then?” Harvey asked. “After all, you are using your breakthrough as well. Did you force your armor away so you could linger onto your power just a little longer? Because that’s going to work against you.”
Kelly fired a fireball out of the palm of her hand. It was the only thing she could do—a quick magic attack while her opponent didn’t expect anything.
Bronk lifted the sword and sliced the fireball in half, making it disappear into nothing but particles of frost falling to the floor.
“Even now, his power… it’s a lot stronger than mine,” Kelly thought.
It was over. Their first mission as the Dark Guild had come to an end. They had failed. She started to think, when the Dark Spirit would return, would he be upset that they were gone?
Surprised that they had been foolish enough to do something like this? Would it be too much to hope to see him appear now?
“Meoooow!”
“Was that a cat?” Bronk turned around and saw a cat flying right at his stomach, its paws covered in Dark magic. The moment it touched Bronk’s skin, it pulsated, and a shockwave of magic was sent out, sending Bronk flying through the air and crashing into the kitchen.
Harvey turned his head to see Bronk unmoving, blood dripping down from his head, and then he turned back to the cat.
“Let’s hope he’s still alive.”
790 The Third Leg
Kelly had to blink a few times as she watched Sophie casually sitting there in the center of the room, licking her paw. It was at times like this that she found it hard to believe the cat was human, but then again, what kind of cat could produce such a strong magical spell?
‘I don’t know those spells, and I’m not sure Harvey knows them either, and he has a lot of knowledge on Dark magic,’ Kelly thought. ‘Could it be that Sophie’s knowledge of Dark Magic is even greater than Harvey’s?’
‘It’s too bad that even with her Wind magic, she can only pick up a pen for a limited amount of time. Otherwise, there are so many questions I want to ask her.’
Harvey had a smile on his face as he stood up, still looking exhausted from the fight. “It looks like the plan worked well, right?” Harvey said, reaching out his hand, and Sophie gave him a paw, slapping it as if to give a high five.
“Wait, you planned this? As in, you knew she was going to come?” Kelly asked. “I thought you said she was doing something important, so she couldn’t be here.”
“Yes, she was doing something important—she was sitting by and waiting for the perfect moment to attack,” Harvey answered. “I was pretty sure that Bronk had a breakthrough, so we needed to push him into using it. After that, it was just buying time, then Sophie could deal the unexpected final attack. Even if Bronk saw a cat from the corner of his eye, he would never expect it to know magic.”
Kelly had to admit that it was a good plan, and she would have never thought of using Sophie this way, but she was more upset about something else.
“Why didn’t you tell me about the plan? Am I not part of the Dark Guild as well, or do you really see me as so useless?” Kelly asked.
Harvey walked over to Bronk, who was still lying in the destroyed kitchen. He reached out his hand, and Sophie didn’t hesitate to jump up and go on his shoulder.
All of it was annoying Kelly quite a bit. She was the one who had found Sophie, she was also the one currently looking after her and feeding her, yet the two of them didn’t need to say anything, and they knew each other’s actions and even made secret plans behind her back.
“If he moves, then give him a small zap for me,” Harvey said, to which Sophie replied with a meow.
“It’s not that,” Harvey said as he used his hand to open Bronk’s eyelids and then started to check his pulse. “I wanted you to try your hardest, and I was worried you wouldn’t pull through. If you knew that we were relying on Sophie here, then maybe you wouldn’t have fought like your life was on the line or waited for the right moment.”
“We both needed to push ourselves to the limit, and there was more risk in telling you the actual plan.”
Harvey breathed a sigh of relief when he could feel a pulse, and then with his hand, he waved Kelly over, but she refused to move.
“Look, I know you’re special, very special for the Dark Guild,” Harvey stated. “Think about it, how many members, how many people have we been through, tried to recruit, and all of them are no longer here, yet you are here. You were here near the beginning, and you’re still here now, which means you’re definitely special if you’ve survived this long.”
“If it wasn’t for my job, I don’t think I would have survived so long either, so there’s that.”
The compliment had stopped Kelly’s pouting for now, and so she decided to come over.
“You don’t have to worry so much. This lump won’t be able to use magic, even if he wakes up, and with how he’s been thrown around, his body’s going to be extremely sore,” Harvey explained. “Do you still have some mana left?”
“Yeah, a bit,” Kelly answered, and it was then that she could see Bronk’s eyes were starting to flutter open. They were closing and opening again, and his body was slowly moving.
“I saw you use some flames earlier. Sophie, use Dark Pulse right on his leg like a laser—cut it off—and then I need you to sear it with your flames so he doesn’t bleed to death,” Harvey ordered.
“What the… are you crazy?” Kelly said.
Before she could even argue her case, Sophie had already acted, as dark beams came out from her eyes like a laser and went right through the leg. This had woken Bronk right up as he screamed in pain.
As the leg was sliced off, blood was pouring out.
“You need to be quicker, otherwise he’s going to bleed to death,” Harvey said.
With no choice, squinting, Kelly started to use her Fire magic and began to sear the leg. She continued to burn it, and the man screamed in pain, passing out and waking up a few times on the spot again and again.
Finally, it looked like the bleeding had stopped.
“Oi!” Harvey said as he slapped Bronk right across the face. “Don’t pass out, don’t die on me, I need you—I need you awake so you can’t pass out.” Harvey continued to slap Bronk across the face a few times, and his eyes finally opened again.
Soon, he could see him looking at his leg.
“My leg… my leg, I can’t move my leg.”
“It’s because you don’t have a f*cking leg!” Harvey stated, and looked at Kelly, as if the guy was an idiot. “Did you lose brain cells when you got knocked back? Look, you need to start talking fast. With no leg, you can use your ice powers to still be a half-decent mage.”
“But if you don’t answer, it will be your next leg, then your arms, and then we’re going to go for the third, shortest leg of the lot,” Harvey said, pointing right at Bronk’s groin area.
791 Build A Dark Guild Army
“I’m awake, I’m awake, I’m listening!” Bronk shouted after hearing a number of threats. The leaked photos, videos of all the atrocities he had committed didn’t get his attention, but the threat of losing his third leg certainly did.
The large threat was looming over his head, and to this man, it was more important than never being able to perform magic again.
“If I knew you cared so much, I would have just gone straight to this in the first place,” Harvey tutted, clicking his teeth. “Just tell me, what do you want me to do? Do you want me to make a post admitting to my crimes? You want me to head to the police station and confess? I’ll do it!”
All of those things were useless promises, and Harvey knew it. A post would be deleted, saying that his account was hacked. The police would cover it up once again. One day it would be nice for Harvey to follow the trail to see who was covering up this stuff, but after today’s fight, they knew it was pointless.
They were only a three-member group, and just getting rid of one Glory Guild bastard who could easily be replaced was not going to amount to much.
“I want you to tell me about Enaxx,” Harvey asked as he grabbed Bronk’s hair and lifted his face up. He could see Bronk’s eyes widen as soon as he heard the name. “Yeah, that’s right, your little boss of the Glory Guild.
“I know he ain’t so glorious like the rest of you. In fact, it’s clear as day that he was the one who murdered Ashley, and I want to know how he did it.”
Bronk opened his mouth for a second, as if he was going to speak, but then quickly closed it again.
“Kelly, burn it,” Harvey said, looking at his groin again.
“No, no, pl—please. You don’t understand; I really don’t know much,” Bronk claimed while sobbing.
It was hard to imagine—a six-star mage would put you in the top 5 percent of mages in the world. They had this superiority complex, believing they were better than most and could get away with doing what they wanted. This traveled even more up to the Grand Magus—that was Harvey’s theory anyway.
It was a sight to see, something no one could imagine, such a highly regarded man breaking down like this.
“Then just tell us what you do know. You must know something, being with him when he started all of this. Anything unusual, anything that was said that just felt a little strange?” Harvey asked, “Anything!” Harvey shouted.
Kelly could see that he was getting frustrated, and it was understandable—they had all just risked their lives for this. To capture this man. Even if they did succeed, there was a chance that their identities and everything about the guild could be exposed. They needed something for all the effort they had given.
“Look, the reason I hesitated is not because I don’t want to give him up. I can tell you guys are serious—you’ll kill me, he’ll kill me. At least after telling you something, I would have the chance to run away, and it’s not like you’re actually going to go up against the Grand Magus—that would be impossible,” Bronk explained.
This was a normal thought for someone to have—the Grand Magus were just considered that highly as beings, and in many cases, they were right. If the three of them could barely beat a six-star commander, what hope did they have of not just defeating a nine-star mage, but a Grand Magus at that?
“The problem is you want to figure out how he managed to kill Ashley, and the answer is I don’t know. Sometimes it’s almost like the man can be in two places at once. I have to look over my shoulder, and I have phantom images in my head that he’s there.”
“Recently he went off somewhere, so I’ve had time to finally relax and have peace of mind, and then this happens—f*ck my life,” Bronk groaned in pain.
“Look, what I know is, it has something to do with a special trait he has. Something that is unique to Enaxx, that only he can do. I’ve heard others talking about it before. His trait is so skillful and strong, that they said, even when he was an eight-star mage, he would have been able to take out a nine-star mage.”
Both Kelly and Harvey’s heartbeats thumped a little louder. Enaxx was a tough opponent as it was, but hearing about this trait made him sound impossible to beat. If he was that strong as an eight-star mage, then how much stronger was he now that he was a nine-star mage?
“I promise you, that’s all that I know, that’s everything.”
Harvey then stood up and looked at Sophie on his shoulder.
“We can’t have any witnesses for the sake of the Dark Guild.”
The cat on Harvey’s shoulder turned its head to look at Bronk. Its eyes lit up, and a beam of energy expanded out, going right through Bronk’s head, making his whole body lifeless.
Kelly didn’t complain, she didn’t say anything about how they shouldn’t kill him. She knew what the man had done, and knew if he was left alive, there was a chance that it could come back to bite them.
Quickly, the three of them needed to escape the area. They left through the back and continued to move. Harvey was taking the lead and even pulled out his phone, typing to someone. Then, when they were about five neighborhoods away in a different area, on the street, he could finally let up.
“That was really close,” Kelly said. “We can’t do things like that, and that trick of yours with Sophie might not always work.”
Sophie soon moved, jumping over to where Kelly was. At first, Kelly didn’t seem too happy until Sophie started to rub its furry cheek against Kelly’s.
“I know, trust me, that won’t happen again. We need an army for the Dark Guild, and I plan on creating it—you leave that to me.”
Chapter 792: I’m Not A Good Person
Lying flat on her bed in her studio apartment, Kelly was staring at the wall. She wasn’t in her school uniform even though it was a weekday, and the bed sheets had formed a shape around her due to how long she had been stuck there.
“I can’t get it out of my mind, even when I look at the wall,” Kelly said. “I’ve seen people die before, I’ve seen sights like that, but this was the first time I was so involved in something. I saw everything, and the image of him losing his life right in front of me is constantly there.”
“Meow.” Sophie opened her mouth and walked past, brushing her tail on Kelly’s face, trying to cheer her up, but it was useless and had been for the last four days now.
Due to the events that had occurred, Kelly had called in sick at the academy. She claimed she had come down with a serious case of the flu, something that could get her off for more than one day.
The academy, being who they were, had even offered to send someone with Light magic to come and help, but Kelly stated that she wanted to naturally fight it off to make her body stronger, which was an expected excuse.
The academy didn’t try to get involved with politics in that matter. Some people were for and against the idea, so the academy just let students do as they wished.
However, the reason for calling in sick wasn’t because she was sick, of course, and neither was it because she couldn’t get the image of the day out of her head. It was because of what had happened that day.
Before leaving, Harvey had told Kelly to take a couple of days off school. The reason was to see if going after Bronk would have any effect on them. An investigation would be run on Bronk’s death, and Harvey would be able to look at the files even if he wasn’t an investigator on the project.
He could see if they had any idea or any suspects at all. Constantly checking her phone, Kelly was expecting to see something, and when she went to look at it again, she continued to scroll through articles.
“It’s been four days and still nothing-this is crazy,” Kelly said. “I understand we were careful so no one saw us, but they haven’t even reported on his death. Didn’t he have any family and friends that cared about him? Even on his social media, no one knows he’s… gone.”
She was sure it was safe for her to head back to the academy. She could have done so after the second day according to Harvey, but she just didn’t want to. The academy, all of it, felt so small with all the problems Alterian had, and more were being discovered each day.
If it wasn’t for the fact that the Dark Spirit found use for her being in the academy, then she would have dropped out already.
Picking up her second phone, she went ahead and checked the messages.
“Today is the day, right? It will be happening in the evening, and he hasn’t even sent a message. Nothing to reassure me everything is okay, or even a hello to check up on me.”
Thinking about it more, a shiver ran through the entirety of Kelly’s body. It was the look that Harvey gave once in a while, and how he was doing everything with ease, making snap decisions and judgments.
At times, it was exactly how she thought the real Dark Magus would act, or at least how people viewed the Dark Magus to act, but for her, the Dark Magus was more of an anti-hero- the real Dark Magus anyway.
“That man scares me,” Kelly said, and then turned her head to Sophie, who was reading a book at the desk. “And you, that day you just went ahead and listened to everything he said. You didn’t hesitate either. Why did you do that?”
Sophie stopped reading the book for a moment, then with her magic, lifted up a pen by the side. This was an enchanted pen that, when the top was clicked, would leave lingering words in the air for a few moments when waved about.
One could practically write in the air and use it as their canvas.
“Harvey is not a good person,” the words read out that were drawn.
“I know that,” Kelly answered as she propped herself up and sat on the edge of the bed. “None of us are completely good. I can’t say I’m a good person-look what I did. Regardless of how bad someone is or what they have done, it takes a certain type of person willing to commit murder.”
The pen started to move in the air again. “You are a good person…” Then the pen continued to move. “Sophie is a bad person.”
Right then, before Sophie could expand on that, the pen dropped to the floor. She had run out of magic and could no longer communicate more. Things seemed to be getting better day by day, but it was at a snail’s pace.
“You’re a bad person?” Kelly said. “When you look this cute, it’s hard to imagine!”
Kelly came over, hugged Sophie, and started to stretch the cat’s little chubby cheeks and patted its belly a few times. While doing this, though, in the back of her mind, she did have a thought—what was Sophie’s past, what was Harvey’s past?
Sophie did everything she was told with no hesitation, as if she had done it before or was willing to do such a thing. Sophie even said she was a bad person. If Kelly met up with Sophie in real life, read about what she had done to others, would she think the same thing?
What if someone who learned Dark magic was just like Bronk, with a bad past and history? What were they to do then, just accept them because they know how to use Dark magic?
All of these thoughts had lingered in the back of her mind for a long time-it was the first time they were coming to the front. Suddenly, as Kelly was playing with Sophie, both of them felt a weird energy.
All of the hairs on Sophie’s body looked to be standing up, and when turning their head to look at the center of the room, they could see a black, dark ball expanding.
“That’s what happens when the Dark Spirit arrives-he’s arriving now, right here!”
Chapter 793: The Dark Spirit Arrives!
Kelly and Sophie couldn’t stop staring at the condensed level of Dark Magic that was appearing in front of them. She had seen it a number of times before, but it had always been at the same place during the meeting, which wasn’t due for a few more hours.
So it made her wonder, why here of all places, and why now? Quickly, she started to scan the
room.
‘My underwear is all over the place, and it’s a mess-I need to clean up everything as quickly as possible!’ Kelly thought as she dashed around the room and started to use magic with her other hand.
“There isn’t enough time!” Kelly thought, lifting both hands and using a large amount of magic. In the middle of conjuring her spells, she could see the figure in front of her taking a somewhat solid form-it was the Dark Spirit, it had returned.
“What’s wrong? Is there a fight going on?” Raze asked as he looked at the state of the room.
In Kelly’s haste, forcing herself to use her magic, she had made the room even more of a mess, and now things were all over the place.
“It was your magic!” Kelly lied. “When you appeared, it let out a small burst of magic that ruined the place.”
Raze looked around, wondering if that was the case, but he was conscious of when he moved through and didn’t feel a pulse or anything. If anything, the astral projection technique was a condensing of his powers into another form here.
As she saw the Dark Spirit acting a certain way, Kelly shook her head and got down on her knee with her fist to the floor. Sophie the cat had jumped off the table and had done a similar striking pose as best as a cat could.
“I greet the great Dark Spirit. What brings you to my… dorm of all places? Is there something wrong?” Kelly asked. “Are we not meeting at the usual place today?”
The last thing Kelly wanted was a Dark Guild meeting in her small apartment. Although technically nearly all the members were present, save for one.
Raze looked at his body; it was the same as last time. He could feel the leakage of magic at the same pace or close to it. The last time, he had reached a middle-stage warrior, and he was still a 7-stage warrior.
Although, due to his superior condensing of Qi, he was even able to go against those with higher Qi, as well as his Qi control, which allowed him to perform techniques that weren’t possible for many.
However, his star level had increased, and he was now a 5-star mage, so the amount of mana he could hold was larger, making it so he could use more magic while in his current form and stay here longer.
Out of the fight, though, Raze noticed more than anything he had gained a lot of Dark Essence from the death of the powerful, increasing the power of his Dark magic even more.
Raze looked at Kelly for a few moments. She felt like he was staring into her soul, but he really had other thoughts on his mind.
‘When using the astral projection technique, I need a hook to sync into, and that was Dark magic. There were more than one connection-I could have ended up at Harvey’s place, but I’m here instead, which is fine. I needed to speak to her anyway.’
Just when Raze was about to open his mouth and talk to Kelly, his focus shifted onto the black cat.
“You have magic now? I can feel the mana core coming from you and moving in the air, and your affinity is quite high.” Raze was wondering why he felt a familiarity with the cat, and then it clicked.
“You have a Dark core as well. I’m assuming it’s because you recreated your magic core when going into a body and this time created a Dark magic one. It’s no wonder I can feel your magic.”
It was then that Raze realized Sophie should be able to tell the same from him and that Dark magic core users would be able to recognize one another. Maybe Sophie couldn’t tell now because it wasn’t his real body.
Kelly, seeing the Dark Spirit interact with the cat, didn’t know why, but she found it extremely frustrating, and it was putting her on edge. Eventually, after giving the cat a soft pet on the head, Raze stood up and looked back at Kelly.
“I’m actually glad I am with you right now,” Raze said.
“You are?” Kelly felt her cheeks heating up and went to look away. “There is something I wanted to ask you to look into the mages that disappeared more when you get the chance.”
“There might be some professors at the academy that know something. You might even have to talk to Ibarin if you have to. I doubt he will do anything to you, but if there is any pushback, just back off. I don’t want you to get hurt.”
It was then that Raze started to notice something else. Kelly’s knees were bandaged up, and even her arms had some bruises on them. They didn’t look too fresh but were serious wounds.
“Is everything okay? Did something happen at the academy?” Raze asked.
“It wasn’t the academy,” Kelly replied, wondering if she should say anything. After all, the whole thing was Harvey’s idea, and she had no reason to question what he had planned.
At the end of the day, though, this was all for the sake of the Dark Magus and the Dark Spirit. They were the creators of the Dark Guild.
“This was from something quite recent,” Kelly awkwardly said, as she went on to tell him everything.
How Enaxx was being suspected of murder, and they wanted to get to the bottom of it. Going to the Glory Guild and everything Harvey had done in the end, including the information they
had.
After hearing everything, Raze shook his head.
“I’m surprised you did that. I can see you thinking this was a chance, and Harvey is keeping an eye on the Grand Magus as I asked, but there was no need for you to go through that.”
“What do you mean?” Kelly asked.
“Because I already know that Enaxx has a special trait, and I know what it is,” Raze answered.
Chapter 794: One Mystery solved
The Dark Magus, Raze Cromwell, was an old man when he perished-he was 76 years old, and his body was already deteriorating quicker than most.
There were perhaps countless reasons for this.
For the last ten of his years, he had spent them as the Dark Magus. Perhaps during that time, he had put his body through too much with the countless experiments, especially those revolving around Dark Magic.
Another reason could have been the countless fights he had with the Grand Magus.
The Magus title, in the first place, was only referred to those at the very top. The Dark Magus had gotten his name because, in a way, even the public had to admit that he was worthy of standing side by side with them, only he was on the other side.
The side of evil, or the bad, compared to the Grand Magus.
“Anyway, let’s get ready to head to the meeting place, and remember what I asked you before. “I want you to do research on the mages that went missing as much as possible.”
Regardless, it was clear he had the same strength as them because the Dark Magus had been in countless battles against them.
And there was one person whom Raze had fought against more than any of the other mages, and that was Enaxx.
There was a deep grudge that was held between the two, but Raze’s hatred for the Grand Magus was almost equal among all of them, with the exception of one individual.
So it wasn’t as if Raze was constantly going after Enaxx. It was just due to his position in the Grand Magus of being the most open, he was the easiest to target.
“I know you have your suspicions,” Raze said as he looked at Kelly. “About who I really am, and let’s just say you are correct.”
“Then you will understand.”
Kelly was rapidly blinking-she knew the Dark Spirit was hinting around the idea, but the theory Kelly had was that the Dark Spirit, although not looking like the Dark Magus that she knew, was the Dark Magus.
“You mean, it’s you, it’s really you!” Kelly said.
“I stated if, and as you can tell, things are different,” Raze replied.
“But you’re growing your power, right? Compared to the first time when you appeared in front of us, you were able to gather more energy.”
“After I met with Sophie and saw the state she was in, I realized that you could be in any state. In fact, it wouldn’t be far-fetched to say that you could even be in any body!”
Raze had a feeling that this girl was quite clever. Even in the academy, she was the type of student that Raze would have taken a careful eye over and would have loved to see what she would grow into.
Right now, he could tell that Kelly was extremely excited about her theory more likely being true.
“I fought with the Grand Magus countless times, and I fought with Enaxx the most. I had pushed him to the point where he used this special trait of his.”
“And I’m telling you now, with his trait, if he was the strongest mage in terms of his powers, his special trait would easily make him the strongest in the world.”
“But in terms of magic, he greatly lacks behind the others.”
Hearing these words, now the Dark Spirit was no longer denying being the Dark Magus. Kelly was curious about what had come for him to be this way, why he had lied to them about being the Dark Spirit instead of just saying he was the Dark Magus.
But she also believed that if he needed to, he would tell her, and he had already informed her in a roundabout way.
“Still, I don’t know his full power. I pushed him far enough for him to use his special trait, but never got him to reveal his breakthrough. Perhaps it was too big of a risk, like what happened to Bronk.”
“And whenever the two of us would fight, he could always rely on the fact that one of the others would soon come.”
Although the Dark Magus might have earned the title to stand toe to toe with the Grand Magus, he could never fight multiple of them at once.
If he got back to Alterian, Raze had to come up with a plan to try and take them out one at a time.
It was also because of his many fights that Raze knew, with his current strength, he wouldn’t be able to go up against Enaxx even now.
With his magic and Pagna skills, he would be able to survive, but beating the other person was another thing altogether.
“So then, what is Enaxx’s trait? Do you think he used it to kill the reporter? Harvey seems to think so,” Kelly asked.
“That… sure, I’ll tell you,” Raze said, as he went on to explain Enaxx’s trait in detail to Kelly, and Sophie was there listening.
Raze thought there was no harm. These people had done more for him than he thought. They were acting for him at the risk of their lives, just like some initiates he knew in Pagna as well.
A task that he once was forced to do on his own, in this strange set of circumstances, he had found those who were helping him, so giving them some information would be fine.
“I can’t believe it,” Kelly said with her mouth wide open. “I didn’t know such a thing was possible… if he can do that, then the number of spells, the… I can see why you said he had the potential to be the strongest in the world now.”
“Nafob Alok, his name was also on some of the files that had Dark Magic on them that me and Harvey found.
“And see if there’s any link to Bofan Kilikola.”
Kelly nodded along, but she stopped for a moment as she realized something.
“I think I might have found your link already. It might be a coincidence, but I’m sure that the two people you’re looking into are the same person.
“Bofan backwards is Nafob.”
It was the confirmation that Raze was looking for-that the Dark Faction founder was someone from Alterian, and now that he knew both names he went by, he was sure he would find this man, and with it, the location of the Golden Globe.
