( DAY 001)
it has not been long since I have acquired this magic, then again I still don't know why I even agreed to such a crazy thing. memory storage magics while useful can be very dangerous, especially the kind I had to go through and they are not even that useful.
Anyway, since this is the very first time that I have activated this magic, let me introduce myself. My name is Jack, also known as dragon knight.
I never expected that I would be using this magic in such a crazy manner, but then again I never thought that I would end up in such a resourceless world a few days ago.
Well, I did not expect a lot of things in the last few days to happen. I am very lucky that I have not lost my life.
Anyway, my past is not important now. Just know that I am a ghost hunter and hunter of many similar things.
I am stuck as a ghost right now. I had expected it to be more painful, but I could deal with the pain even before possessing a body. (a spirit without suitable protection will dissipate, basically break down into pieces. In the beginning, it will be a loss of memory, with me slowly losing a sense of reality and then finally becoming soul fragments.)
Thankfully I managed to possess a body, though I would rather have possessed another body. We ghosts can possess anybody, living and dead.
The body I am possessing is a skeleton. Normally a skeleton is considered to be one of the best options for possession, but the problem for me is the investment.
A skeleton has no muscles or nerves, which would allow for motion. Normally the way that skeletons can move is through something called string circuitry. It is a complex bit of magic, that I rather not get into. complex magics are something I am not good at.
Just know that such kind of magic is not easy to perform, especially in a resourceless world like this. The mana of this world is not very high, barely enough for cultivation and maybe for a few high-level formations.
Well I can create a basic string circuit, but it definitely won't be as fast as a normal human, but it will be enough for a normal fight especially if I am dealing with magicians.
Another problem with all this would be my magic spells, all of them are the kind that hurt or damage beings like ghosts ( I used to hunt them, never expected I would become one of them. )
Still, string circuits are complicated magic, even the most basic one might take me a couple of weeks to complete. Until then let's hope that nobody tries to kill me because I don't have any other choice other than this body. I will most likely dissipate before I have the opportunity to find another body ( one that has more flesh on it preferably. ), so I have to take this gamble and hope for the best. Let's just hope this land does not have gods because beings like me are usually easily detected by the servants of gods. But, with the position of the world I was previously in, I am most likely in some god's private plane.
( worlds where they tend to experiment. A god needs a stable source of faith energy to survive and these are the worlds where they experiment with the best ways to extract faith from a set of people. that would be the only reason a god would be interested in such a useless world.)
( DAY 014)
Surprisingly It took me only two weeks to build a string circuit. I admit it is not perfect but I can at least move the body I am possessing.
Another problem with being a ghost is this problem, being stuck in the body you possess. A living body is not a problem because as long as you work with the being whose body you have been in, you can expel yourself from the body without much damage, but I have possessed a corpse and a skeleton at that, so leaving this body is going to be quite a hassle. If I am not careful I could become a bumbling idiot. I am stuck like a glass ball stuck in a bowl. I can leave but with too little force and I will return to this body and too much I will accelerate the dissipation while escaping out. I will live only for moments after that
Regardless, I have finally moved this stupid body. I was in a coffin and I have finally moved the lid of the coffin. Judging from the decoration in the place, I can tell that this place Is the grave of someone very important.
No wonder I could not sense another body, regardless now I am stuck with another problem. The grave is guarded by seals and not any ordinary seals at that. I can see the direct influence of gods in this place.
Any seal from a god will be very hard to beat. A God's knowledge can be considered to be one of the most highest after the mages, especially the older the God is, the more knowledgeable he would be.
Regardless, the seals themselves don't have much mana behind them, so I should be able to break them, though I am going to take my time with this one. I don't know who this skeleton I have possessed is, but seeing as how he was buried he was a very important member of the clergy of a God. he will have some kind of guards.
Let's just hope this body does not cause any problems for me.
The grave I am in is also pretty barren, with a few sculptures and paintings in the place (quite beautiful paintings, I might add.)
Other than an urn with a seal on it, and the coffin there is nothing important here. Too bad, it would have been nice if this place had some nice things too.
I don't dare to touch the urn, don't know why, but I have learned to trust my instincts in some matters. Also, I have a solution to the problem of spells. When I had started on the path of hunting ghosts, there had been one, going by the name of heavenly ghost. At that time I was young and rash and had dared to challenge him head-on when it appeared to challenge me. I lost miserably and he had imparted on to me an inheritance, quite forcefully.
Later on, I did manage to imprison him, but that ghost became the reason that I have lost everything. Well, I can't exactly blame him this time, even he was a victim, but an angry man is not good at using his head. I will most likely kill him the next time I meet him.
Regardless, a ghost's inheritance can be used by a ghost, so it is time that I finally crack the seal I have placed on it. ( the only way to stop a memory inheritance. I don't mean to brag but our seals are about as complex as any god's, which means I am going to have another headache trying to break the seal on the memory inheritance)
You know, I never thought that I would be doing something like this. I always did consider myself loyal to the cause, turns out I'm not. Regardless, Time to get to work.
(DAY 20)
I have managed to finally crack the seal on my memory inheritance, well almost broken. If I want to be honest, I still don't want to use this inheritance.
It has been many years since I have acquired this inheritance and in all this time I have never been tempted once to use it.
Regardless, it is better that I don't think too much about all of this. Sometimes, life is more important than honor, especially when the one that taught you honor is the one that tries to kill you
Regardless I will break it now. who knows what I will find.
(DAY 21)
This memory inheritance has been a big messy problem for me, even before today.
When I had gotten it, I had just become the young master of the sect. ( my sect is not very important, at least now. just know that I was a young master of a sect)
The heavenly ghost has been a problem for the sect for a very long time. The ghost has been attacking us for a long time or more accurately been teasing us.
Every talented person of the sect has been visited by the heavenly ghost. The young masters, the generals, or the more talented soldiers have been attacked by the heavenly ghost.
Anyway, as I was saying that I have been attacked by the ghost when I have just become the young master of the clan.
To be honest, until then I was an arrogant young man, sure that I was peerless. That day, the heavenly ghost crushed my spine and passed on to me the memory inheritance.
Thankfully my master was close by and managed to seal the memory inheritance and save my life. Though I still carry a limp for which I have to thank him(at least now I don't have it now, I have lost my original body.). Even sealed, the memory inheritance did not comfort my allies.
It became the gathering point around which the people that opposed me, how could they trust a man that has a memory inheritance from the heavenly ghost, can we trust the young master. It just made my maintaining the position of young master a lot of hard work. any other ghost would have been fine, but it had to be the heavenly ghost, the collective embarrassment to the sect.
Anyway, the inheritance was not particularly normal. The inheritance came to me in the form of a book written by the heavenly ghost (henceforth called the book. it appears as a book in from of me. This Is why I hate mental magic, it is too creepy.) Normally that is not how memory inheritances work (as anything you write will have way too many emotions attached. The goal is to be as emotionless as possible.) the way that the heavenly ghost managed to do that is pretty unconventional. He made someone else create the inheritance rather than creating it himself. He really must have trusted this other person because inheritances tend to be your legacy, you naturally would not like others (Other than the inheritor) to know of it.
Anyway, I have managed to figure out two spells from the book, the most basic spells in the books. One is called bone bolts and it is exactly what it sounds like( don't ask me where the bones come from, even I don't know. This Is my first time practicing such evil arts.) They are bolts made from bones. And the second is called 'demonification'. I am not too sure about what its powers are exactly, just that I should not use it too much.
Regardless, I think until I perfectly figure out the two spells, I won't be able to reach the next page.
Other than the technical knowledge related to the spells, the book also contains something akin to a diary entry by the heavenly ghost.
As for why he would put that In a memory inheritance and then give it to the young master of the sect that had hunted him for a millennia, don't ask me why. The heavenly ghost's action never made sense to anyone. though I must say, the heavenly ghost has a dramatic way of speaking.
( heavenly ghost memory )
the very first thing I remember is the pain. it is not the bone wrenching kind but the annoying pain, that is a bearable one that leaves you in a perpetual bad mood. possessing a corpse did not help much with the pain. I did not want to believe it, I did not dare to believe it.
but the truth Is pretty much obvious. I have become a ghost and for a long time for that sake. thankfully, at least my mind is still intact though I don't know where I am or how I ended up here.
I keep trying to think as to what my most recent memory is, but this pain does not allow it only.
I know that becoming a ghost is a pretty selective process. no one becomes a ghost by accident, as for how I know that I don't know, then with cold sweat, I get a question.
'who am I ?'