Alex opened the door to his dorm after spending all his time hunting for cores, he heard a sound and looked towards it.
Two of the four boys who were Kai and Ethan glared at each other. Kai had black hair that was messed up with purple eyes and a buff body.
His ability was [Black Lightning]. Ethan on the other hand was also a buff dude but he had red hair and green eyes, his ability on the other hand was [Undying Flames].
"If I don't want to attend classes, I won't, you can't make me!" Ethan retaliated to Kai's words.
"Oho, is that a dare?" Alex walked right past the two, not in the mood to care, when Kai suddenly pulled his collar and raised him up.
"Why don't you stop bothering me, you can bug this wimp but not me."
Ethan's veins bulged as he gritted his teeth,
"Kai, if it weren't for these anti-mana bracelets, you'd be dead."
"Back at ya dude"
"Hey, I'm not involved in this conversation, let me go!" Alex yelled because no matter how much he struggled, he couldn't get out of Kai's grasp.
After a stare down that seemed like almost an hour, Kai finally gave up and let Alex go, "Fine, I'll go to class for today, but don't expect the same tomorrow."
Alex rubbed his neck before changing from his bloodied clothes to a fresh uniform.
When he removed his shirt, it showed his defined muscles and six-packs as well as many scars and scratches with one long scar on his chest.
Kai and Ethan looked at Alex in surprise, "Those scars, you're a martial artist? You look like someone who would be a mage"
Alex looked at them weirdly for a second before he talked, "Me? A mage? Only those who dream can do that." He donned on his uniform which was similar to the school uniform.
The only difference would be the orange sleeves and hood.
Alex tapped on the anti-mana bracelets which turned out to be similar to smart watches.
He opened a map that lead him to his class that would start in twenty minutes.
***
Alex opened the door to his classroom and calmly walked inside, ignoring all the eyes that had turned on him due to his hair and his new face.
He saw only one empty seat at the back row and sat on it.
Everybody gasped. Checking his time and realizing he still had some time before class, he wore his hood, put his head on the table, and slept.
About two minutes after, a handsome black haired boy who had the 'Young master' aura walked into the classroom along with another boy who could be considered a national model and three girls, one being Alice.
The group walked to the back row when they noticed someone had taken one of the back-row seat.
Hey, dumbass, you're on my seat." The 'Young master' slammed his palm on the table, startling Alex awake, who took a few seconds to register what was happening before he looked at his seat.
"I don't see your name on it, how was I supposed to know it was yours, you call me a dumbass but you're clearly the stupid on-"
Bam!
Alex flung like a kite into the wall behind him, taking an astonishing amount of damage, he fell on his knees, coughing out blood while the young master smirked.
By this time, Alex's hood had fallen off and Alice was finally able to recognize him. She ran up to his body and cast an ability she had copied during one of the classes she went to,
[Healing Touch].
Alex raised his head looking at who healed him when he was suddenly stunned. She was Alice, he knew that much, but now she looked like those fancy models! Alice raised him up to his feet and he spoke, "Thanks Alice, I didn't even notice you were here".
The young master raised his brow in surprise, how did Alex know Alice, he was about to interrogate him when the other boy blocked his way.
The boy who had just appeared seemed mature, with a clean face and glossy, sky blue hair that swayed in the breeze.
His sharp chin took attention from his hooked nose that was positioned below his eyes that were a vivid blue.
"Percy, that's enough, even if you only used your physical strength which isn't against the rules, you do know that you can kill him" Percy, looked at the blue hair with a provocative look.
"Try and stop me Max, if you dare." Shoving him away, Percy walked forward, about to hit him again for calling him an idiot.
One of the girls had already sat down busy calculating something with her hands whilst the other just watched the scene unfold like a movie.
Alice was about to block Percy from entering when Alex suddenly pushed her away and stared at Percy face to face.
Percysuddenly sent a kick at Alex, but this time, Alex saw his leg moving. Alex grabbed his leg and threw it up, sending Percy in the air.
"Is that.. a skill?" Max frowned seeing what Percy was doing.
Neutral skills weren't like other skills. They could still be used even with the bracelets.
His body had suddenly slowed down, letting him fall without taking damage.
'It's only been a day since we were shown that skill'
Alice frowned. She didn't want to admit it, but from what she was seeing, Percy was talented. Crazy talented.
He smirked and suddenly surprised them even more,
'Discharge'
'Another neutral skill, huh'
Alex watched Percy slowly moved towards him... No, it wasn't that he was slow, but Alex was just too fast.
"You're welcome"
Alex heard Z's frosty voice and numbly nodded.
"You used soul link?" Alex frowned.
"Yea. Just for a bit. I gave you a fraction of my physical stats. I cant do it often, but this time I can."
"How much of a break do you need?"
Alex watched the first slowly approach his face.
"A month. I can only use it once a month."
"... What a waste of such a power"
Boom!
Alex latched onto Percy's face with one hand. Pushing it backwards and slamming it onto the ground.
"Oh. I forgot about the strength increase"
Everything looked normal again, but the faces of the spectators seemed like a mix between shock, joy, and fear.
He looked down again, and caught the pathetic sight of Percy. He had already lost consciousness.
'I planned on using the cores I had to give me a temporal boost. You didn't need to use the soul link now.'
Alex was slightly annoyed that such a power was used to solve a little issue.
While Alex grieved internally, everyone was looking at Alex like a monster.
They couldn't even see him move at all! The girl who sat by idly calculating something was about to speak up when she was interrupted by a sudden noise.
Bang!
"Alright brats take a seat, it's time for general class." A drunk teacher who had beer in his lab coat and seemed as though he hadn't bathed for days entered the class.
He glanced at Percy's body for a second before guessing what went on.
His eyes locked on to Alex who was wiping of the dust on himself and he smiled.
'Interesting'
With a snap of his fingers he teleported all students to their seats.
"Alright class, let's go straight to what I asked you last time, what is a magic formula?"
Alex patted his body, realising he hadn't even noticed that he was moved.
'How strong are these people... No. Now that I think about it, where are these people even from? Maybe the same place as the fairy.
"Magic formulas are magic circles which influence skills and abilities, they consist of the manipulation of mana particles in a specific arrangement, creation of a chant and use of a medium."
"Good answer Ayaka, but, mediums are not necessary…Hiccup… they only help increase efficiency. Taking a big gulp of alcohol, he continued. Today… we are going to crelate personnal magiicc foremulas. I dont nnot rcommmend tellng veryone … I mean ny.one…whatt yoou plloan on maqking, aass tthatt giives therm o waoy to duisrupt your magiic cirrcles iff theryre shmartt enuogh.
[Today we are going to create personal magic formulas. I do not recommend telling everyone, I mean anyone what you plan on making as that gives them a way to disrupt your magic circles if they're smart enough]
Another big gulp. "I will give you mamamaggicc pattterns you caen ushe if youf need dhelp, but for creadtion of gfchanrts and mediums, you're on…Hiccup… yooour own. You have tillllll… the end of the lessson to crerate a magic …Hiccup… ffoormula, no neefd for fuinvdusing mediums, just cahst a spgell withgout the systefm, with a mafgic formula."
[I will give you magic patterns you can use if you need help, but for creation of chants and mediums, you're on your own. You have till the end of the lesson to create a magic formula, no need for using mediums, just cast a spell without the system, with a magic formula.]
With that, the teacher who called himself Professor Bao lead them to the training area. He then removed all anti-mana bracelets and handed everyone the patterns they could use if they needed help.
Converging pattern-This pattern would increase the casting time needed by a skill but drastically increase the effects of it in return.
Diverging pattern-This pattern will drastically decrease casting time needed by a skill but reduce the effects.
Unity pattern-There is absolute unity between the skills. The effects and casting time are slightly increase in exchange for reduced speed of the skill.
"When you use your spells for the first time without knowledge on this, you usually cast the spells with the Unity pattern".
Bao sat on the ground, holding a fresh container of alcohol that came out of nowhere.
"Try any of the patterns, but use formulas. You should be able- hic. To tell the difference.."
Alex read through the information about the particles and realized, they were the same particles he saw that time when his eyes changed.
Trying to replicate the feeling, Alex closed his eyes and tried to feel the particles, but all he felt was his mana resting in his core.
He closed his eyes and spoke to himself, 'Imagine, move my mana to your arm, and release it into the air.
Slowly gather the mana that has left back onto your palm.
Now use the converging pattern. Turn the mana into the elemental particles of the spell you want.
Imprint the completed formula onto your consciousness.'
After reciting it again, he begun following the steps, but when he tried gathering the mana that had left his body it didn't work. Disappointed, he tried again, yet he still failed. He sat down and begun thinking, which made many eyes look at him, wondering why he sat down.
After five minutes, he finally begun once again. Once he reached that point again, this time the particles moved according to his will, causing professor Bao to raise his brow.
'...He's good'
Alex smiled looking at his palm. The technique he was was simple, but it worked. Instead of pulling all the particles to form the pattern, he used fewer particles to form the same pattern. Of course as a result, it was smaller.
A small black circle appeared upon his palm and glowed brightly, illuminating his surroundings a bit.
[New skill [Shadow Slave Lv2 G-], has been created]
Alex smiled noticing the system recording the spell, which means it was really complete.
A proper spell, and not the random shit he had been pulling earlier. Even it's level was higher already. Even though he used less particles than he was supposed to.
A little shadow stood on his palm, looking right back at him, he smiled seeing how successful it was when it suddenly disappeared.
'Shit, I lost focus'. Meanwhile all the other students except a few were gawking at him and a few other students.
Percy was glaring at him and Max, while Max was too focused on his also complete spell to notice anything going on around him. Alice had also completed a magic formula, it seemed to be a fireball.
Apart from them, only twelve other people had already completed theirs before Alex, and Alex only knew three of them, the first two were Kai and Tamashiro and the other was the intellectual girl. This was a class of well over four-hundred people. Alex spent the rest of the class trying to recreate his mana formula without shortcuts. In the end, he succeeded twice out of thirty-five times when suddenly a student spoke.
"This is bullshit! Why do we have to learn this when the system is already able to do the same for us! And you're even drunk. Just being close to you makes me want to vomit. I barely understood what you said earlier!! "
Bao looked at the student for a second, when suddenly, the boy who spoke became flushed with crimson red.
The male student stood still, when suddenly scratches and other marks appeared on his body, and the boy hunched over to vomit a few times.
The other students immediately ran away to keep their distance with the student.
'What the, what's happening to him?' Alex didn't feel disgusted but rather curious at what Bao did to him. He looked at Bao who was reading a book calmly, ignoring the chaos. 'So he can maintain whatever he did while doing something else, is it a permanent ability like mine? Or is his he able to multitask? Just how much focus does that need?' Alex observed all of the student's movements carefully, seeing more scratches appear on his body when he suddenly saw, this dude had an erection… Is he a masochist?'
After emptying his stomach for the umpteenth time, the student did something inconceivable.
He was stripping until he was completely naked! His erected donger stood proud for all to see!
He was smiling for a second before he began screaming like a lunatic, fear evident on his face. Bao suddenly flicked his fingers when the boy suddenly stopped moving once again for a second, seemingly have gained back his reasoning. His face became red like a tomato as he dashed from the training area.
The place became as quiet as a cemetery… They kept staring at the student in pity until he completely vanished from their view.
No one even tried to laugh at the student. On contrary, they glanced at the Professor Bao, they looked at him with eyes full of fear and horror this time.
"Just so you know, my ability is called [Nightmare]. Once affected I can create any situation I want and you will be affected in real time if I choose to do so. If you're curious what I showed him, it was him being tortured and about to be raped by a beautiful lady, who turned out to be a goblin. A male goblin. You don't want to know the rest. And I can affect multiple people at once, they don't call me the living nightmare for nothing."
This time, everyone, Alex included looked at him with eyes of disgust and fear.
'How evil could you be!?'
The same thought ran through everyone's minds.
"What? Don't look at me like that.
If you want to be able to use this ability properly, your mind must be filled with atrocities and abominations I can't mention without making one of you faint."
"Enough about me though, we're ending the lesson here today, I want to see each of you have at least one custom formula and any other three recorded formulas by next week."
'Copy'
Alice watched Bao take another swig as he walked out the hall.
[Ding]
[Ability failed]
'Huh?'
She was stunned seeing the notification. She raised her head to look at him again, but his eyes were already on her.
'...Fuck'
***
"Sorry about earlier, Percy can be a bitch sometimes"
Max walked up to Alex, offering a handshake. Alex glanced back and forth between Max's hand and his face for a while before he eventually accepted the handshake.
"Alexander. My name's Alexander"
Max smiled broadly seeing Alex accept the handshake.
"Im Max"
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CURRENT PLAYERS: 6,657,914,282
NO OF DEATHS: 5,427
TOTAL NO OF DEATHS: 8,136,763,723
CURRENT GAME: TUTORIAL
CLEAR TIME: ONGOING
Note of the day
THE RECORDS
There exists a total of seven records, but only three have been identified. Chaos records, Arkashic records and Blasphemy records. Each of these records hold powers rivaling that of the servants of god. The advantages given are not trival. One main advantage of the records is that the requirement for each rank up is higher than others, this is not a disadvantage as a holder of d rank can be 5 times as powerful a normal d ranker.