20 - [First Enemy] [Dark Magic - Tome 1]

I woke up. I put my things on, took the God Card and headed out of the house.

- We need to go to the tavern to refresh ourselves.

Today I wanted to try the Signature dish of the Hunting Lair Tavern.

The dish was basically noodles filled with high-quality seasonings and juicy Mountain Tiger meat. I ran to the tavern faster, ordered a dish and in 15 minutes it was on my table.

I started eating. After 5 minutes, I ate the whole dish and headed to the Academy.

***

- At the academy -

I entered the grade 1 stage class and sat down. The eyes of my classmates caught my eye.

- It's him...

Everyone was whispering about me. I involuntarily sighed and stopped paying attention to the situation in the classroom.

*ding*

A teacher entered the classroom.

- From today I will resell your lessons on high magic. Ahem, ahem. My name is Argale.

Everyone nodded. The teacher took out his notebook and began to explain a topic unknown to all of us.

- So. As you know, God Cards and her skills are divided into 7 classes: F, D, C, B, A, S, SS.

- Each class increases your stats by 2 times. It's the same with skills, the higher the class, the more powerful the skill's power will be. I assume that everyone here has the B Class of the God Card. Is that true?

Everyone agreed except me. The teacher was indignant.

- Hey, Alex! What's your class?

- Anyway, I have A Class...

the teacher was very surprised.

- This.. is that true? If so, then you are the first Genius in 100 years!

The teacher moved away from surprise and continued the lesson.

- But you can upgrade your Class thanks to one way. It is called a Rune Improvement. It consists in the fact that by killing monsters of various ranks, you can get Runes. They are also divided into different classes:

- Lowest Rune (Rank 1-5 monsters)

- Ordinary Rune (Rank 6-10 monsters)

- Rare Rune (Rank 11-16 monsters)

- Strong Rune (Rank 17-22 monsters)

- Great Rune (rank 23-28 monsters)

- Excellent Rune (rank 29-36 monsters)

- Void Rune (rank 37-45 monsters)

Of course, there is a theory that there are runes of a higher class. But these are just guesses, a lot of hunters are working on this.

- Has anyone received a Rune? It looks like a stone with a glowing symbol.

I remembered finding something familiar.

- Is there a Rune class ? -

- Sorry, it looks like this is the Rune. Can you take a look?

I went up to the teacher and slipped him a Rune.

- Hmm... Let me check...

after 5 minutes, the teacher was ready to make a verdict.

- It looks like it's a Strong Rune... Where did you get it?

I didn't tell him.

- I don't know.

- Take it, now I'll tell you how to use it.

All the students were staring at me intently. I felt awkward. I sat down on the desk and exhaled heavily.

"And how do you use them, Mr. Argale?" I thought.

- Now I'll tell you how to use them.

I will give you Runes of a Lower Class in order for you to understand the principle of using Runes. Alex, you use your Rune.

I nodded.

- Take out your God Cards.

Everyone took out their God Cards and put them on the desk. I also fulfilled the teacher's request.

- Now attach the Rune to the God Card.

I took the Rune and put it on the God Card.

- Found A Strong Rune -

- Use it? -

- Yes.

Bright light began to pour out of the Rune and go into the God Card.

- Hmm, he's not bad... - the teacher thought.

Soon, all the light was swallowed up by the God Card. The light from my rune was 5 times brighter than everyone else's.

- Received Rune Enhancement -

God Card B Class Rank 3 [Synthesis] [+1]

- Great...

- As you may have noticed, your God card has become stronger. A Strong Class Rune can raise 1 rank for a God card.

*ding*

- The lesson is over... I'm waiting for you at the next lesson!

"Good-bye, Mr. Argale."

The next lesson was fencing. I didn't want to go to it, but I shouldn't miss lessons, as I may get punished for skipping lessons.

- Ehhh... I'll have to go...

I came to the arena where the fencing lesson was being held. I've only been here once.

I hope Teacher Lonn won't scold me for all my missed classes.

*bzhj*

- So, everyone line up!

- There is

- Today you will hone the Combat Technique of the Scarlet Stone. It is based on a series of strokes. Now I will show you the first Technique.

The teacher stood in a pose similar to a stone statue that holds a sword inserted into the ground. After that, the teacher took out his sword and ran to the target in jerks. Running up to the target, he struck 5 fast but strong blows and, as expected, cut the target into 5 parts.

- This is how it should look. Try it.

Everyone began to train the first movements, at that time I had already completed all the movements with 100% accuracy.

- Wahaha kid! You're doing great!

- Thank you, Teacher Lonn.

He left me and started going through all the other students, pointing out their mistakes to them.

- Ehh, boring...

I put the God Card in my pocket, when suddenly someone ran past me. I realized that he wanted to steal my Card.

- Damn it!

I felt a whiff of vert and dodged again.

A tall figure appeared in front of me.

- Ha, and you are strong for Garbage.

- Who are you?

"I don't have to tell you who I am. My goal is to defeat you!

- Ho ho ho! Virgo, there are duels for this! Do you want to fight?

- Yes, I agree.

Without listening to me, Lonn took us somewhere.

- Where are we going?

"We're heading to the duel arena.

(Hmph... Looks like I really have to fight... Well, thanks to Black Magic, I can defeat her in two counts!)

- But there are rules in a duel. You don't have to use your magic skills!

I stopped where I was.

(Damn... What the hell?!)

We came to the arena.

- Start the fight...

To be continued...