The Return of The Ex-Mage

After having plenty of sleep at night, Faust finally woke up from his sleep. He tried to get up from his bed only to realize that he is now sleeping inside a sleeping bag and the roof above him is clearly made out of earth instead of wood. He looked at his side and as always, Angra is still sleeping soundly on his sleeping bag, it seems that the quality of the bed won't affect Angra's sleeping quality at all.

The twins are currently sleeping inside the dirt house that Faust had made yesterday. Faust literally made a box with earth walls for the dirt house since he was tired from fighting the three magic turtles yesterday, he didn't really care for the aesthetics yesterday and just made sure the walls are solid and won't fall on him and Angra when they sleep.

And since he doesn't want any bugs or insects coming inside the house, he didn't make any windows, slits, or holes to the outside. For the house's door, he intentionally made one part of the house wall thinner and can be broken easily so that if there is any emergency, Faust can break it by only punching it, or the zombie crew can break it from the outside to inform Faust of any emergency.

And because of that, right now there is no sunlight coming in to wake Angra up. So the first thing Faust does when waking up is to nudge Angra until he wakes up. As usual, Angra quickly wakes up when his sleep is disturbed.

Leaving the sulking Angra alone, Faust went out of his sleeping bed first, tidying it up and placing it in a corner before dissolving the thin earth wall in front of him back to the earth using magic and then went outside.

Behind the earth wall, the sun is already up, but luckily it is still a long way before afternoon so they didn't oversleep for too long. Faust then calls over the zombie crew who have been patrolling the area and protecting them from magic beasts when they are asleep. Faust felt lucky that he had his own dedicated and tireless undead army to keep watch at night. If he doesn't have one, he and Angra have to take turns and do a night watch.

When the zombie crew came over, Faust noticed something different from them. He looked at them closely and realized something. Faust then checked their statuses and his guess turned out to be true.

"Congratulations Edgar! You finally reached level 10!"

Edgar, the ex-mage from a bandit group and now turned a zombie, has finally reached level 10.

"Why haven't you evolved yet?"

Edgar then tried to say something, but words still hadn't come out of his mouth. Faust then tried focusing on his mental connection with Edgar.

"You want to wait for me to see it for myself? And you're afraid that you'll still won't be able to use magic even if you reach rank 3?"

Edgar then nodded to answer both of Faust's questions.

"Don't worry, dad said that undeads that can use magic exist, even if you can't use it on your third rank, we will rank up again and try until you'll be able to do it. And since you're the only one who has mana sense on your skill list and the others haven't got them, we can say that it's a good sign isn't it?"

Knowing that his master won't abandon him even if he failed to regain his ability to use magic on the third rank, gave Edgar the courage to finally decide to evolve.

After Edgar decided to evolve, nothing can be seen visually, so Faust quickly checked on Edgar's status.

-Edgar-

Race: Zombie Mage

Rank:3

Level:0

Skills:

-Unordinary Strength 2-

-Mana Sense 5-

-Chantless Casting-

-Elemental Affinity 1-

Faust looked at Edgar's status and confirmed that he is now rank 3. He also noticed his race is now a zombie mage, and Edgar also got two additional skills: chantless casting and elemental affinity 1.

"Edgar, You did it!"

Edgar looked at his master and then himself. And sees his own status. He wanted to jump and celebrate, but first there is one thing that he needed to see first. He once again looked at his master, and Faust looked at him back and nodded.

"Go ahead and try, Edgar."

Edgar then remembered the feelings back when he was still human and still a mage. He tried to do this back when he was still rank 1 and felt nothing. He tried again at rank 2 and could feel the mana start to slightly move according to his command, but he still failed to conjure the spell. He thought that it was because he can't chant the spell. But now that he got the chantless casting spell and he has successfully reached rank 3, he tries to do it again.

Edgar then focused on influencing the wind mana around him since he is most well versed in the wind element. Edgar closed his eyes, and imagined making a small wind dome appearing at the palm of his hand. Since this is his first time using magic without chanting, the feelings are a bit different.

Usually, when he chants the spell, after he finishes chanting, the spell will conjure on itself. But this time, when he started to imagine the small wind dome appearing on his palm, he felt the wind attribute slowly gathering around his hand, moving little by little, gathering onto his palm and steadily turning to a dome shape. And when Edgar opened his eyes again, a small hand-size wind dome is now spinning on top of his palm.

"YOU DID IT EDGAR!!"

Along with Faust's shout of joy, the zombie crew followed suit by jumping around and waving their hands up high congratulating Edgar's successful attempt in using magic again.

Angra soon got out of the dirt house to see what commotion happened outside. What he sees is a human child jumping up and down with 5 zombies throwing another zombie up and down with one skeleton boar running around them.

'What is happening Faust…'

Faust then told Angra about Edgar's successful attempt in using magic.

'That's good then, you won your bet. This means the zombie crew may be able to fight against rank 3 magic beasts on their own.'

'If Robin also reached rank 3 and got an archer class, then I'm confident they will be able to.'

'Oh and by the way, did you level up yesterday?'

'Of course! I'm level 9 now, one level above you.'

'What? You're higher than me again? How?'

'Because the zombie crew have been killing a lot of magic beasts and yesterday, you only killed one magic turtle while I killed two, remember?'

'Ah, you're right… Okay Faust, let's go hunt the other rank 3 magic beasts, and give the kills to me!'

'Yes we will hunt more, but wait a minute.'

'What?'

'What should we hunt first?'

'I mean… It doesn't matter right?'

'The gorilla lived in packs and the adults of the packs are the rank 3, but the rest are rank 2 magic beasts and they lived in packs of 8.'

'The others?'

'The others are not pack magic beasts, and they live alone. We can just roam around the forest to find them.'

'I think we should just run around the forest and fight whichever we find first, Faust. Since we don't have a specific strategy for each one.'

'Alright then, we'll do it your way. But we also need to be cautious about them. The magic turtle yesterday turned out to be aggressive and not peaceful like what dad said to us.'

'Let's think about it after we have our breakfast first.'

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Race: Cambion

Name: Isaac Marchosias (Faust)

Age:7

Title:-

Level:8

Job: Necromancer

Job History:-

Attributes:

Strength=30

Agility=25

Endurance=21

Intelligence=58

Mana=330

Skills:

Link Undead

Create Undead 2

Chantless Casting

Multi Casting 8

Unordinary Strength 4

Soul Vision

Mana Sense 8

Unique Skills:

-Soul Telepathy (to Aiden)

-Loved By Death

*Charm undead: Souls and Undeads naturally are not hostile to you, and weaker soul/undead will willingly submit to you

*Help of the dead: You can borrow death mana from undead/souls who submitted to you

*Death Mana Talent: You have a natural affinity in controlling death mana

×you can't directly harm souls/undead with your death mana

Race: Cambion

Name: Aiden Marchosias (Angra)

Age:7

Title:-

Level:8

Job: Barbarian

Job History:-

Attributes:

Strength=66

Agility=37

Endurance=39

Intelligence=25

Mana=188

Skills:

Bloodlust

Weapon Mastery 5 (Halberd)

Close Quarter Combat 7

Mana Sense 5

Unordinary Strength 9

Elemental Armor Break

Soul Vision

Unique Skills:

-Soul Telepathy (to Isaac)

-Feared By Death

*Scare undead: Souls and undead will naturally avoid you and the weaker ones will be scared of you

*Death Eater: You can consume death mana and souls to strengthen yourself.

*Death Mana Talent: You have a natural affinity in controlling death mana

×You can't use your death mana to control undead/souls