Grimoire

First Pov

I´m now 15 years old and not much has happened but that all was going to change today, in more ways than I planned. Apparently, my less-than-good reputation and tense relationship with my family have led my older brother, who took over the family 2 years ago, to give me an ultimatum, I had to leave the house one week after I got my grimoire, not that I could blame him.

Unlike other children, I didn´t help in the house or the field, as I deemed it unnecessary, and spent most of my time practicing soul magic even though I refused to become a magic knight in the future and bring honor and wealth to the family. In other words, I was a freeloader, not that I cared for any of that, my goals and plans were way beyond their comprehension.

While we are already at the topic of soul magic, it has proven itself to be way more complicated than expected. I have no clue how I should even begin to make the spell that was supposed to give me more attributes, realizing that I needed way more time, I decided to focus on the soul transfer spell that was going to give me pseudo immortality.

So far it has been going relatively smoothly, I started by practicing soul manipulation and then stepped up my game by switching the souls of small animals, that was among a few other things that gave me my bad reputation as cats acting like dogs and pigs acting like roosters was not as funny as I thought but I have yet to succeed on humans.

I was really hoping that me getting a grimoire was going to speed up my research otherwise I was going to have a problem.

Today was my grimoire acceptance ritual, apparently grimoire towers weren´t in every village and Hage village was a rare case because of its historic importance, so I had to go to the nearest town. So here I was, next to nearly 60 other children my age, standing in the grimoire tower that was way bigger than the one in Hage, waiting for the old man to finally end his speech and give us our grimoires.

After what felt like an eternity of listening to the honor, opportunity, magic knight, loyalty, and friendship speech it was finally time. The first books started flying from the shelved walls and people started getting noisy, not long after a purple book with golden edges and a four-leaf clover flew in front of me. I immediately grabbed it and pressed it on my chest, I didn´t want others to see the four-leafed clover as it would only attract attention, I had no plans to stand out so I immediately left the tower and soon the border of the town.

Once I was out of the city and in a nearby forest I took the time to finally inspect my grimoire. It didn´t look that impressive except for the clover or better said what the four-leaf clover stood for, but I honestly didn´t care how it looked, what was important was what was inside. So, I opened it and the moment I did I felt it connect to my soul, before I could even understand what happened, my soul started to corrupt the new foreign thing attached to it and make it become one with it.

The corruption traveled through the connection and finally stopped at the grimoire, as it did its looks started to change, its purple started to change to a very familiar black and any trace of the clover and the golden edges vanished and then the book disappeared.

After a few seconds of panic and fear that my soul erased my way to greater power, I realized that I still felt the connection that I had formed with it. Upon closer inspection I felt it inside me, or more precisely inside my soul, and with a simple will for it to appear, it appeared in my hand like it was never gone. I opened it again and this time nothing happened, after a few seconds of waiting I started looking at the open page. The page was light brown like it was already very old, and it had no content except a single spell, soul control.

It´s been a few hours now and I have done some tests with my magic. I have been more than surprised by how effective my magic has become, my soul control has become perfect, like I never did anything else, and after testing the soul swap on a few birds, two new spells appeared in my grimoire, soul swap and soul expel.

It wasn´t what I aimed for but it was a good start, what really surprised me was how easy it has become for me to interact with the souls of the living, when I did it before I always felt a resistance but now that resistance is gone. I have yet to try it on beings with stronger souls like humans but I will soon.

With that in mind, I started to walk to a nearby village to try and control the soul of a living human and begin with the creation of the reincarnation spell.