I slowly descended into the basement. This is where grandpa kept the records and the knowledge of the Hex Clan. Yeah, turns out we have a clan. Ugh... No, we are a clan. I searched the study room more and find some more journals. In those journals basically some part of our family tree and the records of our family being called Hex Clan.Anyway, it's time to discover what the library of my clan holds. The basement was huge and all of it was the library. There were many shelves and all of them were full of books. There should be at least thousands of books in here."Amazing. This all belongs to my family and me."The words just come out of my mouth. This was so impressive that I ended up muttering. I mean there are supernatural secrets in these books so this alone makes them something ridiculously important. And I don't really know what else is in there. This makes me excited.I have to pull myself together. Remember what you came here for. Ï have to find a way to defeat death and brin
I finally found what I need. I also studied it thoroughly. So I feel like I'm ready. I'm also taking some books with me so I can study them even after arriving at the Daxhoull. Anyway, since yesterday I worked on the formation till late night today I woke up late. I refill the key with hex and prepared everything to get out of here.I left an Exchange rune back in the Daxhoull but unfortunately, I can't use it yet. It requires a ridiculous amount of mana since the distance is hundreds of kilometers. I modify the Exchange runes to be able to simply teleport instead of changing places with other things but the mana cost is still high. I wish I had a space element. It is extremely useful in teleportation.Anyway, I left the mansion and take one last look at this dimension. Yeah, I confirmed it to be a separate dimension from the outside world. Grandpa mentioned it in his journals but he didn't explain how did he create this or did it exist before him. There are a lot of things I need to
A gang from Zlorith. That's the first impression I got from seeing inside the hideout from a window. There are some old daggers that are the specialty of Zlorith. The people of the Zlorith are extremely serious about their traditions. They have a long history, the Zlorith region was a region almost entirely made up of blacksmiths back in the old times. They were the creators of almost every weapon in the old medieval era. At the same time, the Zhose region was a region focused on mining so the two were getting along pretty well.At some point, there was a conflict between the people of these two regions. There were a lot of speculations but the main reason isn't clear. All we know conflict was quite big and it caused two regions to be enemies each other for about a century.Anyway, Zlorith isn't the important thing here. There are seven people in this hideout. All of them have mana traces on them. But there is one person who is quite different than others. She has... aether in her bod
"Fine. Then we will get rid of her after we got our payment. Since she can't hear us while wearing that bracelet she will be unprepared. Jack, you can send energy slashes so behead her head with one strike." "Why do we wait until we got our payment? Let's deal with her now." "You do realize that we are dealing with someone very dangerous, right? The Crimson Skeleton is a big group. They may erase us if we look weak to them. And we are in fact weak now." I heard some more confusing things. Firstly that bracelet sounds terrible. It makes someone unable to hear anything. So that's why she wasn't reacting to what they were talking about. I should inspect it later. The other thing is Crimson Skeleton. This is a weird name like it just jumped out of some fantasy novel. Wait! The world around me has a lot of weird things recently so this should be acceptable. Anyway, it sounds like a name for a dangerous group. According to their conversation, they must be the ones who ordered them to ma
Her body was covered with dark veins visible to even normal eyes. Her eyes also changed. Her scleras turned dark and her pupils start glowing with crimson light. There is also a bit of blood coming out of both sides of her eyes. In just a few seconds the air around her changed. Whatever this form was, it made her a seriously dangerous opponent to me."Kill him!"With the shout of the man, she moved to attack me. She swung her fist toward my face but I dodged it by jumping backward. She didn't care about me dodging her and she kept attacking me with a similar pattern. She would gather a lot of aether on her fist and charge at me. It was easy to read but the problem was her getting faster every time I dodged her."Hey, your name is Izumi, right? Why are you listening to that guy? Isn't he using you for his own gains?"She didn't respond to any of my questions and kept attacking me. I was still able to dodge her attacks but at this rate, she will be able to land a hit on me soon. Before
"Izumi! Stop laying on the ground! You can not look pitiful! Get up, right this moment!"Kenji Kinukage yelled at the little girl who was weakly laying on the ground. He was frowning while watching the girl struggling to get up. The tiny body of the girl was shaking. She was trying to breathe but she was coughing nonstop and unable to breathe air properly."You have to master our clan's teachings. If you can't learn them that means you have no talent and you are the disgrace of our clan. Do you want to be a disgrace to our clan?""...no...""Speak louder!""...No...""Then get up! You aren't allowed to rest until you at least get the basics.""But father-""No buts! You have to do as I say! Get up now!"Kenji shouted at the little girl. She was clearly frightened by his father's harsh attitude. She tried to get up even while her body was shaking. She gathered the last of her strength to stand straight but a single flick of the finger from her father made her fly away several meters aw
After dealing with Izumi I was finally able to relax a bit. She is sleeping for a while now. She looks peaceful while sleeping. Compared to that pained expression this one clearly suits her more. Anyway, let's return to the present.The moment I relaxed, I start vomiting. It seems like seeing that bloody death affected me more than I thought. Or it was me killing those gang members and robed figures without any hesitation. I was afraid of getting used to killing people and it seems like I'm turning into what I'm afraid of. Am I turning into a monster? A cold-blooded killer?I can safely say that those people I killed weren't innocent. I'm not sure about that robed guy but if I took the suicide of that one member, I think it is safe to assume that they are a shady group of people wanting to preserve their secrets even if it cost their lives. Not to mention the things I heard about the mana and magi-tech. These things alone are enough to prove to me that they aren't innocent. They are t
An eight hours long bus travel to Daxhoull. That's how I was planning to return. But because of what happened at the border of the Zhose, my plans have been changed.Izumi has become my companion and she started traveling with me now. We are basically running to the Daxhoull, thanks to our bodies it's not as bad as it sounds. My body is already strengthened by mana and hex so I have more stamina and power compared to before. Izumi also has a supernaturally strong body.Unlike mine, her body seems to be strengthened from birth by aether albeit the degree of strengthening is about the same as mine, which I achieved in about two weeks."So, you have a bloodline power. It comes from birth and only manifests itself when you are able to activate it.""Yes. I couldn't activate it when I was little so it was dormant for a long time. But about six months ago I was able to finally activate it.""What it can do exactly? I saw that weird berserk form but I don't really understand what it was.""T