Chapter 129

A month had passed since the battle between the Dark Guild and Avrion academy and the atmosphere was still grim. Only now were things starting to feel a little normal in the city. Sir K managed to inform the elders of what happened, and they sent a medical team as well as knights over to the arena as soon as possible. They tried their best to save as many lives that day but even with all the medical equipment in the world, there was nothing that could bring back the dead. Around 30 Students had died that day and one of them included Ian. Martha and Slyvia cried their eyes out that day and the rest of the group cursed at themselves for being so weak. Ray, on the other hand, didn't blame himself but the academy for acting so slow in the first place. Ray's anger only grew as he would think about it more. If only they had sent people sooner. If only Sir K and Wilfried hadn't stopped him from intervening. Ian had lived a life similar to Ray's growing up, as they were both red-haired children but unlike Ray, Ian always saw the positive in people. Ray decided he needed to do something about the academy, no, about the whole human race if he wanted to stop things like this from happening. Not only were there students that had died but also those that were told they could no longer fight. Cherry and Nay were two of these students. They had been hurt so badly from Morfran that they were unable to control their bodies properly. For the past month, the students were exempt from training while the academy and city got its act together. The second-year students that used to number around 200, now were halved and this was similar for the third-year students. Ray had originally wanted to use this month to gather more crystals but after the attack, there was always a master knight that was put on guard duty. They were stricter than ever with security. During this time, Ray decided it would be best if he planned what he wanted to do. After thinking for a while, he came to a conclusion. Ray was currently up on the roof of the dorm. It was his favourite spot in the academy as it gave him a full view of the city. He observed with amazement how quickly they rebuilt everything that was destroyed. It was hard to imagine only a month ago there was a major attack on the city. "Status screen open." The first page displayed Ray's basic information. After giving Jack back his 100 points of mana, Ray had 120 remaining. Just from containing the 120 points in Ray's body, he would feel uncomfortable as if his body was constantly full of slight pain. Ray found that after using 20 points of mana this feeling would go away.

Ray decided that it was best if he got rid of the extra 20 points. Ray tried using the skill mana share on his pet Noir but for some reason, the system wouldn't allow it. In the end, Ray decided to spread the points between his teammates. Although Ray wasn't sure whether they would agree with his goals, he knew that they meant no harm to him and thought it was best if they had extra power to protect themselves. Ray did this in secret of course, either when they were sleeping or during a handshake. Ray knew that if he wanted to store more mana, he would need to get more crystals to make his body stronger. The only thing he wasn't sure about was if the next evolution would change his appearance. "Skill page." These were the skills that Ray had before the battle between the Dark Guild. After facing Morfran and chasing him off, Ray had gained an additional 7 skills. Ray was slightly confused by the number as there were more people than 7 people there that day but now without a doubt, Ray knew the system had something to do with saving people. Out of the seven skills that Ray had obtained, four of them were attack based skills that all required mana. Just like the name stated, it allowed Ray to shoot a ball of fire from his hand. This was the most basic of basic spells and the power of the ball would depend on Ray's fire attribute. Each attack consumed 5 mana which surprised Ray. When using Mana as Ki, the rate it went down was considerably slow and after watching Morfran shoot thunderbolt after thunderbolt, Ray couldn't imagine how much mana Morfran had. Similar to fireball, but instead it shot out a ball of ice. Ice bind was a skill that only worked within a range of 10 meters. Ray had to place both hands on the ground for this to work. It would then shoot a trail of ice out which once it reached its target, would freeze the bottom of it. This skill used up 20 mana and Ray wasn't sure how effective it would be considering his ice attribute points were low. This was a skill that allowed Ray to create a clone of himself. The clone would only have a quarter of the strength of the original and wasn't able to cast any skills. The clone felt more like an empty shell…it didn't have a mind of its own but would listen to Ray's commands. The main problem with this skill is it took up half of Ray's mana points just to use it. At most Ray was able to create two clones of himself before he had completely run out of mana. What interested Ray the most though wasn't the offensive skills but the next four skills that he obtained, especially one of these skills which was named "Contract."