The moment Oscar beheaded Howard, the fire spirit stopped moving. Before it could even scream its body cracked. Its body breaks down into many shining blue particles. These were the mana that its body was made of. Some particles were pitch black but all of them disappear quickly. The only thing left behind was a basketball-sized crystal. It was mainly red but some parts of it had black marks. "So, Oscar managed to do it in the end." Kairi took the crystal and rushed to the place where she felt Oscar. While moving she felt that Oscar's life was slowly fading away. She increased her speed to reach him faster. And soon enough she reached him. He was lying on the ground, bleeding out. Next to him was a beheaded corpse that is starting to vanish. "Oscar!" There was a huge wound on Oscar's abdomen. He was losing a lot of blood. She gathered her mana and cast healing magic on him. His bleeding stopped and h

This was only a few hours after the hellish night which was full of explosions. People were scared to leave their houses. Even though the sun rose high in the sky there was almost no one on the street of the city. Miranda quickly walked through the hallway and reached her son's room. She opened the door without waiting. She released a sigh of relief when she saw her son sleeping on his bed. She slowly walked closer to him and nudged him to wake him. Just a minute later he slowly opened his eyes and woke up. "Mom?""Oscar, you should wake up. There are crazy things going on outside.""What? What do you mean?""You'll understand it when you saw the news. Come on." Oscar rose from his bed and rubbed his eyes. He followed his mother downstairs and walked to the living room. The television was on and the news channel was open. The news was showing a devasted land. There were many explosion craters and bur

(Oscar's Pov) Hmm? What is happening? I can't move my body. Where am I?! "Father, he came to the age. But he still hasn't awakened our bloodline power. We should do something about this!" Wait, I know this voice. He... Father. What's my father doing here? What bloodline power is he talking about?! And did he just mention the grandpa?! "Calm down, Robert. Let me inspect him. There might be a problem in his body." G-grandpa... What is happening? You died... A-am I d-dead too? Suddenly, I felt discomfort in my chest. It was similar to using mana to examine a body, but mana would give a warm feeling not this discomfort. Wait... How in the heck is this possible?! This is clearly foreign energy, and if I am not wrong my grandpa is using it. "He doesn't have the hex organ. He didn't inherit our bloodline completely." He sounds... sad. And what i

It was already four days since the night of the "incident". Oscar spent the last three days studying the spiritual core and his necklace. He didn't manage to uncover much but he was able to absorb spirit mana from the core and gained a bit of fire affinity. It wasn't much but his arsenal wasn't much, to begin with.   He also gained a little bit of understanding about foreign energy. It had a weird reaction with Aether. With Aether, it became darker and more powerful. But it didn't last long. Soon it returned to its previous state.   "This could be very well a "key" to use Aether, for me."   He first thought that chasing after power was a greedy thing to do but not anymore. Aether was an energy that was barely explored. It has almost limitless potential in Oscar's eyes. Maybe even more than mana.   Mana could very well replicate and reinforce natural phenomena. But according to Kairi even it has limit

(Oscar's POV)   Hmm? The weather became cloudy, suddenly. I have been training for a while now. I think it's already been an hour or two at this point. I guess I lost track of time, again. It started to happen a lot these days. I can't help but get lost in my research.   I don't know much about magic. So, learning something new is extremely important to me. Not just learning but practicing what I learned is also feel amazing too. It gives me the feeling of getting stronger.   Anyway, today was a little different from other days when I practiced magic. Today I tried the original spells I created, mostly. First was the [Rock Bullet]. I inspired it from the novice level spell, [Water Ball]. Of course, I didn't use the same size as the water balls. I used the size of normal bullets. But the way it works is copied from the water ball. I changed some of the parameters.   The spells are like little codes bu