1 Prologue

Blackwood forest, one of the a few dangerous places in the Aroan world. Sky is blocked with clouds and the moon in red hiding behind them and a chilly wind would make ones hairs stood to end. But Blackwood isn't a dangerous place for its atmosphere, it is a dangerous place for the ones living in it. Living would wrong word to describe them because they do not have bodies and they are transparent, the ghosts. Because of the ghosts, Blackwood one of the dangerous places in the Aroan world.

South of the Blackwood there is a lake boiling with the heat coming from the lake, there is no plant around the lake. Color of the lake shows that, it isn't a normal lake. It glows in ghastly blue and a couple of ghosts floating near it. Suddenly the color of the lake begun to change between red and blue. After a dozen of breath or so the lake gained its calmness as before, with one difference; there was a body floating on the lake. The body was transparent like the ghosts, the new ghost floated on surface of the lake for two hours without any movement and the breeze carried him to the shore. When the ghost was on shore his eyes opened but his eyes was different from the others. The ghosts have unfocused eyes, one can tell that they are dead, but the eyes of the new ghost just confused and one could tell he has intelligence. After the confusion faded away from his eyes, he looked around in scare then he stood up and started to carefully inspect himself.

"I was sure I was dead but it doesn't look like I'm in hell or heaven."

He could easily deduce that from his memories but for to be specific his new instincts. Because instinctively he could understand that he was a ghost and his abilities. Leon before he came here, he was swimming and he had drowned in the sea. Before he knew it, he became a ghost and came here. Under this drastic changes, he was still cool headed, maybe its because his mentality didn't caught up to situation. Sitting on the shore looking to the lake rather distracted. After gathering up his thoughts and caught up with reality, he stood up and looked around and started to walk around.

While he was walking around he also saw other ghosts. When he was happy to some kindred, his instincts told him otherwise, there was loathing and contempt deep inside his subconscious. He didn't understand why this way but there is too many mysteries around him this was the least he could concern about.

But he thought if his subconscious trying to tell something to him he should at least try to understand it. Thinking this, he sat under a tree and he tried to disconnect from everything around him and concentrate to his subconscious. He wasn't into meditation and he doesn't know anything about it but he tried his hardest to feel his core being. He didn't get any result after some time passed, so he thought he had to walk around and experience different things to make his instinct to kick in.

Being a ghost he didn't feel any fatigue after going around the forest for two days without any stop. During the two days he didn't find any living creature, all he saw ghosts floating around. And he noticed further he goes to the south, he felt like he became more sluggish and losing energy to move. When he noticed this he thought maybe in the south, he could find some living creature. Supposing the ghost and livings having opposing environment to inhabit. So he started to his journey to the south with more careful attitude but more he goes to the south, less he encounter ghosts. It was also verified half of his conjecture. While he was moving towards south, he came across a corpse. It was well preserved and seemingly young man. Looking thoughtfully to the corpse

"Maybe I can possess a corpse being transparent and floating around made me lose feeling of reality."

Saying this he moved towards to the corpse and he started to laid on it. When he fully laid, he tried to move his arms and he saw he could do it. With his new body he slowly got up and made some stretching moves then sat down because he started to inherit the memories of the corpse. While he was immersed in the memories, he forgot about passing time. While he was experiencing the memories, he also trying to maintain his consciousness. After he digested the memories, he knew that this world called Aroan and this forests called Blackwood. And this body belong to someone who ventured here for finding a soul recovery fruit, but before that his vitality corroded by death attributed mana . From the memories he learned a lot of things; like in this world there are people who wields mana and attain long lives and they're called Magus. There a lot of types of techniques for storing mana in the body and use it, but basically they divided body tempering type and mana cultivation type. There is also soul type but, it considered unorthodox by magus. Unfortunately, Leon didn't find any soul cultivation techniques in the memories.

"Even if I knew cultivation techniques I don't have body to practice, at least not living one. I should careful when possessing a body, it was a bit dangerous I almost forgot myself."

He looked around if he missed anything else, seeing there is nothing else he opened the spatial bag. From the memories he knew there is nothing not worthy but he is also curious about this bag which is bigger on the inside. There is a cauldron and a few magical fruits and herbs also there is information crystals which have techniques in it because the previous owner of the body memorized them he also know them.

["Maybe I can find more corpses like this and learn more about magus and the world."]

Thinking this Leon started look around for more corpses.