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The tale of a lone cultivator

Chris Parker reincarnates, after experiencing mysterious circumstances. In his new life, which is also full of mysteries, he looses many things, due to an attack of the ones he should be protected by. After that, he allows no one to get close to him and finds the path that is stated as evil by others, to get revenge on those who betrayed him. (P.s.: the real storyline begins with chapter 6, so if you don't want the background information just start reading from there on out) (P.p.s.:The chapters before chapter 6 are relatively short and not as good as the ones thereafter. I hope that if you don't like the beginning that you'll try reading the longer chapters. Thank you.) (The chapter release rate will depend on how much support I get, so if you want more chapters per week, give feedback, so I can improve my writing skills, and power stones to encourage me in publishing more frequently.)

1txd0r1 · Fantasy
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38 Chs

School

Two weeks passed in which Idris had studied the functionality of The Superb Necromancer Technique.

He hadn't found out for what exactly the energy stat stood for, but it made the shadows stronger. Every time Idris absorbed orbs or energy, the energy would go up. That wasn't necessarily good, since he wanted to quickly improve his cultivation. It was slowed down by several times.

He had also further killed monsters and made them his subordinates. The beast spirits he had gotten from them still weren't enough to brakethrough though and he stayed at the bottleneck of the 7th layer.

Even so, he began to learn more spells, this time focusing more on defense than offense. The spells [Dark Fur: Darkness covers the caster's body and creates a defensive fur] and [Wind Shield: Wind forms a shield that can be used in every size and form] were the ones he had trained the most. They were both king ranked spells, so they were very effective.

The only offensive skill he had learned was the king ranked [Slash: Forms lightning that can be shot].

Idris had also made a decision of not learning spells for every element, but focused on lighting, light and darkness. Even so, he still used fire and wind for support.

As the time passed, he prepared for his entry into school. Even though Idris didn't need more knowledge, there were training grounds inside the school. They were like dungeons. The good part about it was that the beasts that were inside the dungeons would still drop beast spirits. He could increase his cultivation even faster with their help.

The dungeons were divided into 5 ranks. The first one had rank 1 beast spirits inside, the second rank 2 beast spirits and so on. That meant, he could always farm at least rank 3 beast spirits, what was a huge aid.

Idris would still make progress faster, even though The Superb Necromancer Technique absorbed most of the energy.

Therefore he was excited and waited for the day of the entrance ceremony.

When the awaited day finally arrived, he went to the other side of the city, where the school was located.

The building was white and 20 metres tall, making it stand out in its surroundings. Many windows were placed on the front, so one could take glimpses inside.

There were rooms with 20 seats each and a big blackboard. They were relatively small, but looked comfortable.

Children were standing in the front, some with their parents. Some even wore a backpack.

Idris had neither of them.

He just sat on one of the stones besides the entrance and waited. The people that saw him had pity in their eyes most of the times.

Suddenly when Idris looked up, a child began to cry. The mixture of the cold gaze he still had and the mask was too much for them.

One of the parents came to him, bending over and saying: "Could you please take off this mask? It may be disturbing for all the kids here."

I looked at her and grabbed my mask. I took it off and asked: "Is it better now?"

The woman had a strange look on her face when she saw the red skin and white eye.

"I'm sorry to have bothered you. You can do as you wish." She left and went to calm her child down.

Other people had also seen his face. They too had a weird look on their faces.

Suddenly someone yelled: "It's the king!"

Everyone turned their attention towards the person who had screamed. It really was the king with his daughter that came.

The school was actually a school for nobility, since no one besides them could afford the fees. Idris was also only there because of the money he had gotten after the death of marquis Asteria. And since there was money flowing in from the mines he had inherited, it was no problem spending this amount.

Everyone bowed down to welcome the king. All but Idris. When the people saw this, they signaled him to do the same, but he didn't respond. They thought it was foolishness not to bow. One could get imprisoned if they didn't.

But to their surprise, king Ludwig walked towards the boy and said: "Hello Idris. I didn't know you would go to school here.You could've told me."

"I greet your majesty. I thought you didn't need to know. And I certainly couldn't have anticipated that your daughter would also attend school." Idris said calmly, while looking the king straight in the eyes.

"Hahaha. You're right, I should've told you earlier. I hope you'll find friends here." King Ludwing said and started laughing.

"I'm not interested in friends. I just want to become stronger."

King Ludwig raised his eyebrow, nodded and moved on to speak to some of the nobles who had heard the conversation in disbelief.

Who was that kid to chat with the king so easily?

Soon enough everyone calmed down again and continued their conversations. Some kids had already found friends and were running around together.

After another 5 minutes of waiting, the door suddenly opened and a bulky old man came out of the building.

"I greet all of you. Today the school will take in some students again. But before that happens, we still need to do an examination of the children. For that, please follow me." He turned around again, his long gray hair floating in the air behind him.

Everyone followed him hastily, as it went way to fast for them.

Idris was the last to enter the school, before the doors were shut again.

The building inside was even more impressive than from outside. Chandeliers hang down from the roof. The school had 3 floors: the underground floor for all the dungeons and the training ground, the first floor for the classrooms and the second floor for the teachers.

They went down to the underground floor. A big hall with 5 different colored crystal-like blocks were to be seen standing near the right wall.

The first was yellow, the second red, the third blue, the fourth violet and the fifth green.

On the opposite side was another room which had a big stone in the middle.

Another door could be seen that probably led to the training grounds.

The man stopped and began to speak: "I totally forgot to introduce myself. I am the headmaster of this school, Herbert Neredras, but please do call me Herbert.

I led you to this room for the mana core examination. We will test which level you're on to aid you with the right support. We will not neglect the ones who are low in cultivation, but will increase the help the higher it is.

To do this, you just need to lay your hand onto the stone here and pour mana into it. Then it will glow and state your cultivation level. I will come to the colors when the time comes."

Every person had a surprised look on their faces. They've never heard of such test, but they all agreed.

"Let's begin"

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[The Superb Necromancer Technique]:

[Shadows: 57]

[Strength: 28]

[Energy: 12]

[Cultivation: 5th layer Body Tempering Realm]

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{Overall stats:

1. Cultivation: [Advanced stage of the 7th layer Body Tempering Realm]

2. Elements: [Water: 2nd layer]; [Fire: 5th layer]; [Wind: 5th layer]; [Earth: 1st layer]; [Ice: 3rd layer]; [Lightning: 5th layer]; [Light: 3rd layer]; [Darkness: 5th layer]

3. Spells: [1-Waterfield]; [1-Fireball]; [1-Windblade]; [1-Earth wall]; [3-Fire Lance]; [3-Lightning Strike]; [3-Wind Armor]; [3-Revert]; [4-Dark Flames]; [4-Dark Domain]; [5-Spirit Destruction]; [5-Wind Shield]; [5-Slash]; [5-Dark Fur]

4. Techniques: [?-The Superb Necromancer Technique] }