7 Lucas Aizel

I went out of my room and down to the tavern he was seated in the same place. I sat next to him and he handed me 2 documents.

"The first is an identification that is issued by the Kirin kingdom. The second is approval of migration, we have a deal with the agency here. So if you have any issues just flash your branding and they will be dealt with."

I didn't say anything I just stood up and left the inn. I decided to see if I could get any books of magic theory. My understanding is only the rudimentary knowledge I was taught in the training camps.

I went by a little general store and entered it was dark and dusty with wooden frames of various animals on the walls and shelves of miscellaneous items. The clerk stood behind the counter reading, I walked up to him.

"I'd like any books you have on magic theory, and knighthood."

The clerk looked me over and pointed to a bookshelf near the left corner of the store. I quietly walked over it was sparse with books. Most unimportant to me and I only found one book on magic theory and nothing on knighthood.

I took the book and brought up to the counter the clerk looked it over.

"3 gold." He said in an uninterested tone

At this point my gold supply was starting to dwindle soon I would be broke. But before I get to Rolnose some extra knowledge couldn't hurt. So I forked over the 3 gold and quickly left for the migration agency.

I waited in the line until my turn meanwhile I decided to spend my time reading. Until I realized it was finally my turn.

I saw a woman in blue behind the counter call me over.

"I'll need to see your forms."

I handed over my forms and waited for her to look it over. Here came the advantage of the thieves' guild network. They don't forge documents they pay off the agency workers and get those documents easily. So this is very unlikely to end up bad for me.

To join the guild it takes a certain amount of skill because they require a cut of any money made stealing and they verify the heist. They've got fences, and people who deal with documents if you need something the guild can provide for a cost.

If the heist is big enough and approved by the guild then they will handle all costs and expect a nice cut in return the system works rather well.

"Alright all the forms have been verified take this form that allows migration to anywhere in the Rain kingdom."

I took the paper and left now I can leave without any issues and I have 12 more days to get to the capital.

I am currently 2 days away from the capital based on this map. I have enough gold to stay in an inn for 12 days. After that I will be almost completely broke my concern for now will be info.

After leaving the town I approached a large gate with 2 people in armor standing guard. Here's the border pass as long as I have this form everything should be fine I thought nervously.

"Travel papers please." Said the guard to the left

I presented the paper and he thoroughly looked it over before opening the gates.

'That went rather smoothly.' I thought

Looking at the map I continued to walk to the Rain capital city. While the book on magical theory. The fundamentals were simple magical power exists all around us we can use it to alter the physical world.

Magic comes in 6 elemental branches but due to a disaster both shadow and wind have been cut off. Because of that there 4 elements and all practitioners pick from these 4.

Light, Fire, Water, and Earth which were all granted to those of the mortal plane by the gods.

Edith, Goddess Of Light, Lodite: God Of Fire, Juphine: Goddess of Water, and Ovagi: God of Earth.

They manage magical power and granted it to mankind along with the knight path to deal with the corrupted beings.

When shadow and wind were lost creatures in the shadow and wind planes became corrupted. They started to attack the mortal plane and the gods acted to train warriors to resist those threats.

Of those threats the greatest came from the corrupted dragon race. Powerful magical creatures that control the corrupted creatures.

Sadly the knowledge I gleamed while reading had nothing about how to start of the magic path. But this knowledge was rather helpful if magic is granted by the gods. The disappearance of that magic is either because the gods took the gift back or disappeared.

Since the wind and shadow planes were corrupted it points to disappeared. So where did Cenir go and who was that young man?

Does being marked mean I can use shadow magic? I can't become a mage without the risk of people wanting to experiment on me. So maybe I should try the knight path instead maybe I have a chance for that.

Meanwhile I will look for info on how to succeed in the magic path away from any prying eyes. Either way I must never reveal my shadow magic to anyone.

But sadly I do not even know if I have the talent to become a knight and I have no info on the knight path just some rudimentary mage knowledge.

While I had some time I decided to mess around with the shadow markings. I would try to activate it and my eyes would become violet again as the markings showed up on my face. So far I can only activate I can't use like last time.

But I did notice some interesting things after the markings appear. I see a bluish energy floating around. Also although my blood vessels turn purple in this state my blood stays the same. Only my perception seems to change but luckily I am in control of this little transformation.

That day I reached the capital I went to an inn and bought it for 10 days then I went out and got some info about the Rain Academy test. It would be held in 10 days at the school there will be two exams for mages or knights.

They test your age at entry then they test your physical fitness. Then lastly they test your talent based on your weapon resonance.

If you succeed you will be brought to the dorms and then you must pay unless you show great talent then you will be admitted on a scholarship basis.

I spent the rest of my time deducing more things about my shadow magic in my inn room and waited for the test.

Normally I would feel nervous or at least concerned but ever since the experiment. I have felt so detached to everything I guess I just became indifferent to such small things.

Or maybe it's just confidence, either way, I don't feel the same anymore. Like I had truly died from that experiment and this is some other person in my body.

It's a strange feeling but I still feel the feelings I felt before the experiment. Well it's not a bad way of thinking I died in that desert.

Then I will give up my name and became someone else. Someone who will become supreme that will never be weak again.

Whatever I need to do and however I need to do it regardless of the consequences I will act to ensure that I succeed.

I guess I have one more thing to do then I remembered the name of a contact that the documents guy gave me at the border town.

'He's at an Earless tavern he loves hanging around with some of his army buddies there.'

I went over to the tavern and found him drinking with some guys.

I sat down and waited when his friends left a few hours later I sat next to him showing him my arm.

"I need a new identity a citizen of the Rain kingdom since birth, born near the border town how much and how long?"

"You got lucky I know someone who looks similar to you that just left the kingdom. Come back here tomorrow and I will have your identity. As for the money, this is easy and you remind me of my son, so it's free of charge."

I hate favors so I left a gold piece and went back to my Inn the next day. I came back and took the identification.

From now on I am Lucas Aizel a citizen of the Rain kingdom. With that I took the travel documents from earlier and burned them.