Mage of Blade

Return

"it's Indomeria"

[Teleporting]

[You have been teleported to the capital of Indomeria, Inoveria]

Wosh!

Aryan gets teleported into the central plaza of Inoveria which is filled with people entering and exiting the tower. He had seen the city countless times in the game before but seeing it upfront was totally unreal, the city looked like it was taken from some fantasy novel. The buildings were mostly painted white with hints of gold.

Aryan came to the city because it was known as the magic capital of the planet Gor. It had every magical instrument one could think of, there were carts flying around in the sky, and people using magic for everything. Aryan was amazed but soon took control of himself and headed to a magic tools store, as soon as he entered, he was greeted with a doll welcoming him inside.

"Could I get a mana circle for enhancing mana and aura intake?", Aryan asked the doll, the doll smiled and took him to an elevator, as he entered the elevator, he saw something weird. From outside the shop had only 2 floors but in the elevator, he saw buttons to the 25th floor. The doll floated in the air and pressed 18. The lift moved incredibly fast and they reached the 18th in less than a second.

The doll showed him various circles but all of their prices were too high, "Could you show me the cheapest one here", Aryan asked. The doll nodded and took him to a circle kept in the corner, it was 400 blue coins(new currency), which was barely enough for him to purchase the circle. His dad worked in the navy and he had a good salary but everything changed on the day of beginnings.

31st December 2022 is referred to as the day of beginnings, after that day, mana started to condense on earth, which was suitable for people but at the same time, it was a curse as animals also evolved due to mana. Keeping this in mind, the government decided to fire most of the servicemen who didn't have mana. His father was one of them, he was not chosen for the Tower and had to remain on earth. It was fine till then but on 4th Feb, the bank in which they had kept their money went back corrupt.

If they wanted to now live in the city for their children's better future, they had to cut expenses on everything. On the Aryan was going to move to the Tower his dad gave him a card with 450 blue coins in it. He remembered everything and gritted his teeth, "Please give me 1 of these", Aryan asked and purchased the mana circle. He was boiling with motivation to get it done.

He rushed back to the plaza, "Enter the tower", Aryan said while crunching his fist.

[You are now entering the first floor]

As soon as he returned, he placed the paper with the drawn mana circle, as soon as he did that, a mana circle got imprinted on the floor, he sat in the middle and got ready, "Let's do it!", Aryan thought while fire burning in his eyes. He started taking in mana with his breath and absorbing aura from his skin, according to his calculations, he first started to make the aura circles, activating the skill 'Concentration'. As the aura circle was about to be completed by joining its ends, he stopped and started making a mana circle around the aura, he could feel his head getting hotter.

The mana circle started enclosing the aura like a snake would do to its prey. After 14 hours had passed he was closing in to complete it. The last was the most difficult part as he needed to join the mana and aura circles at the same time. He started doing deep breaths and holding them in, both of them were getting closer and closer. After 4 hours it was finally done.

Both mana and aura circles were working completely fine, Aryan was swimming in sweat, and as soon as it was completed he lay down laughing at what he had just done. He stood up and tried manifesting mana, he could feel mana flowing through his hand when he thought of doing so, then he tried using aura, he strengthened his hands and punched in the air. He could not believe how fast and powerful he could feel.

[Congratulations!! You are the first one to wield mana and aura]

[As a reward you have been given the skill 'Mind acceleration']

[Skill: Mind acceleration(S+)]

[Description: While the skill is in effect, your speed of mental calculations and comprehension would increase by 100%]

[Duration: 1 minute]

"Yooooo, bro.... what is this skill, how can there be such a broken skill", Aryan commented while laughing menacingly. He had never heard or thought that such a broken skill would exist, this skill is the same as having 2 brains. "I need to go to earth as soon as I can", Aryan thought. He wanted to meet his family.

"Return"

[Teleporting]

Wosh!

"Well well, look who is here.....", a black man in a white suit standing at his back commented. Aryan was teleported to the Return plaza of India as it was his country but he didn't know who the person talking to him was.

"Who are you?"

"Who am I? you ba*tard. I'm the senior who beat up 2 years ago in the swimming pool"

"So what? do you need anything?"

"Look at your guts, ahhh... I challenge you to a sword fight"

Aryan didn't want to do anything unnecessary right now so he just told him that he took the path of magic and tried heading out but he was blocked by security guards. "What's the problem?", he asked. "You need to take the rank assessment before leaving.", the guard replied. Aryan had totally forgotten about that test.

He went into the queue and waited till his turn. After 15 minutes it was his turn. "What did you choose?", the examiner asked. "Magic", Aryan replied with a dull expression. "Place your hand on the crystal and put all the mana you have into it", Examiner stated. Aryan puts his hand and starts sending mana, he knew that it should be not too high nor low to avoid suspicion.

After the results came in, he was stated to be a C-rank player. People on earth had made different ranking system due to the limitations of the previous one. Previously if someone had a unique mana circle with more power than others, then also the person would be considered the same as others. To avoid this, people on earth made a new ranking system.

The Ranks were:-

F -> E-> D-> C -> B -> A -> S -> SS -> SSS

After receiving his rank, he straight went outside and stopped a taxi. "Would you go to xx/xx street xx, xx city", Aryan asked the driver. The driver nodded and Aryan sat in the car waiting to reach his home and start a new life.

Aryan's house was like any other middle-class house, when he reached it, he saw his mother outside putting up clothes to get them dry. Both of them were very happy, his mother took him inside. Aryan sat on the couch and told everything that happened to his mother. His mother was astonished but more than that she was furious as his son got in such danger. But in the end, they both laughed.

After a couple of minutes, his father came down, without asking anything he first asked him, "What is your rank?". Aryan replied with a smile, "C-rank". He saw his father smile after a very long time. They were happy that finally they could get there reputation back which was tainted by others for not having enough money.

The next day he headed down and told his father that he wanted to continue challenging the tower, but his father was against it as who would want their son to die at the age of sixteen? Somehow he convinced his parents and went for a stroll. After walking some distance he went into an apartment and sat on a chair with nothing else.

"Come out!", Aryan stated...