(Hope's POV)"Since Jason won't give me any useful information anymore. So I had to find someone else who could."I looked at the reflection of myself in the mirror. I'm trying to gather my resolve. I will meet with Carla a few minutes later. Today I finally found a chance to approach her in school. I asked her if we could meet after school. She agreed when I also told her that I'm Oscar's friend. She also has a deep interest in him.I wonder if we could be friends? I don't know about Oscar but she seems to be into him. I wouldn't be surprised if she were to be in love with him or something. Oscar will eventually find himself a lover. I just want to be in his life at that time. I waited for years to meet with him. Ever since my father told me about him, I always wanted to meet with him."Little by little, I'm learning about you, brother."One last time I checked my outfit and left the home. I'm wearing dark blue jeans, a white shirt and on top of my white shirt, I'm wearing a black le
The chilly weather of the mountains was keeping me awake. I couldn't even get a wink of sleep for the last four hours. I found a cave to shelter myself at night. Unfortunately, this wasn't the cave I was looking for. I tried to rest my body for tomorrow. Traveling for a whole day made me fatigued. Since I still couldn't find the cave I will have to travel tomorrow too. I took out a piece of cake from my bag and start eating it. If I can't sleep I'll at least eat something to energize my body. I will start moving soon so I should better ready myself before I begin moving again. The map uncle Zheng gave me isn't helping much. The path drawn in it was very vague. "How do I find the path? I have been walking all day and I still couldn't find the path. I guess I should move deeper into the mountain." I use this time to circulate my mana. It kept my body warm and recover some of my fatigue. I obviously didn't spend all of my mana like I used to do. But unlike normal, I kept it for hours
"Damn it! It keeps regenerating!"I didn't know that something could irritate me this much. No matter how much I attack it, its body kept regenerating. This is getting annoying. I already spent half of my mana and I still couldn't damage it properly."[Fireball], [Crushing Wave], [Lightning Spear] and [Boulder]."I cast four spells one after another. I used all of my affinities. Water, fire, earth, and lightning. Fire and lightning gave it the most damage but even the wounds they caused healed a few seconds later. Alright, I'm almost out of any ideas. Since water and earth almost don't hurt it, I have to use fire and lightning. I can't really use runes and mana strings. They are too fragile and this beast literally destroys the environment at every step it takes.Perhaps I should somehow create an explosion huge enough to blow away most of its chest and then I could go and grab its core from the wound before it heals. But then the explosion must be strong enough and I should be close
"Today we are going to have a PE lesson with another class. As usual, there will be competition."Said Mister Weaver, PE teacher. Today was essentially class 1-A's usual time to have a PE lesson. Class 1-A was the class where Oscar and the others were. Jason and the boys were restless. They were missing two people. Oscar and Mason weren't here for three days now."Teacher, who will we compete against?""Class 1-C. They should be here any minute now."Class 1-C was Carla's class. And in just a few minutes they come out of the changing rooms and joined class 1-A. The boys of the 1-A were depressed seeing the cheerful expression on the boys of the class 1-C."I already hate them." (Matt)"I heard they have several people who are great at sports." (Rick)"Now I hate you too." (Matt)"You aren't the only one." (Rick)Matt looked at both classes. He compared them and became even more depressed. With Mason and Oscar being absent they were already missing two people but to think that the othe
PE class was over. Jason stood in front of the Owain. They were competing in a basketball game, just two of them. After the class, they had free time and Owain asked Jason to have a competition among themselves.Jason shot threw the ball high. The ball got past the hoop and he scored a goal. Owain caught the ball and took the same place as Jason did. He threw the ball and he scored a goal too."You know, I wanted to have a competition with you and Oscar. But he is been absent for a while now. What is he doing?""He said he had family matters he needed to attend to. I don't know much but he should return soon. You can have your competition then. By the way, why do you want to compete against us this much?"Jason threw the ball while talking with Owain. It's already been the third day of Oscar's absence so it was natural that people would ask questions. But he found it weird that out of everyone Owain wanted to ask about Oscar.It's true that Owain had this weird desire to compete with
I fought against a spirit and won. I also created a new element. And finally, by sunset, I arrived at the cave described on the map. It was surrounded by many different boulders. From afar it was impossible to notice the cave because of the boulders and the snow. There are also huge trees in the surrounding area."I must admit. This looks natural if you don't pay close attention. As expected of grandpa."The entrance of the cave looks like a giant broken boulder. If I didn't know this beforehand I wouldn't able to find it. The cave is connected to the mountain so there is a space behind the entrance. It doesn't look to be going deep. This must be done by some illusion.Wait, Uncle Zheng has come here before. So he should be aware of the supernatural. Or at least part of it. I slowly walked into the cave. As soon as I stepped into the cave I felt like I passed some sort of barrier. It was a weird feeling. I also felt my necklace vibrate. So that's what Grandpa Henry mentioned as "the k
I slowly walked into the study room. This is where grandpa should have kept his journals. I suppose they are the things that Carla's grandpa mentioned in his letter. I'm going to study all of them. This foreign energy is more useful than I first thought so I won't stop until I learn everything about it."Maybe I should also become the first sage. The first sage on earth. It sounds nice."The study room was messier compared to the rest of the mansion. Grandpa wasn't a person who likes to tidy up after himself. This makes me emotional but I don't have time for this. I searched around the room and finally found some journals that had leather covers. I sat in the chair in front of the desk.The journals were written by grandpa. The writing belongs to my grandpa. I can recognize it wherever I see it. I start reading the journals. The first one I read was about grandpa's adventure in his early ages. As I thought, he really is involved with the supernatural.My grandpa, Uncle Zheng, and Uncl
The Hex. The third energy source I learned about. It works differently than both mana and aether. It had both similar and different uses compared to mana. As I continued to read about it from the grandpa's journals I noticed a certain thing about it. A person needs an organ called Hex Organ to be able to use this energy or produce it, to begin with.This Hex Organ, I remember hearing it in my nightmares. Is it just a coincidence? Nope, I don't believe it is. It is time for some truths to be revealed. But I couldn't find the answers I'm looking for in these journals. So I did the next thing I could do. Practice using or producing hex energy.Since my body is already capable of producing this energy to some extent I must have Hex Organ somewhere inside my body. The last time I did it was when I was fighting against that strange man and it was accidental at that time. So I have to figure out how to use it without absorbing it from the necklace.I sat cross-legged on the ground. I took a