Chapter 33: Shadow Magic: Savage Ball!

Crystal Souls are quite weird. They came from dead bodies but there is no set of rules for them to form. Everything depends on luck. Even the mages in the Larton Kingdom doesn't know how to replicate them

Mages can randomly find one literally everywhere but they are extremely rare. Even the Nobles in the Kingdom might not have even a single piece of it

But if Cairo managed to make an artificial Crytal Soul Shard .... just thinking about that was enough to excite Cairo

"Del, get me books about shadow magic and parasites" Cairo said before walking towards the couch inside the library and sat on it

Del nodded his head and accomplished Cairo's orders. After some time, Del puts a stack of books on the table in front of the couch and Cairo started to indulge himself in the sea of ​​knowledge presented to him

Cairo will sometimes close his eyes to watch more clips of his past life's memories. It contained the steps that Cairo can follow to succeed in making Soul Crystal Shards

Now, Cairo is almost sure that the world of the past him is far more advanced than where he is currently living. There are some missing knowledge in the books that Cairo was reading that is present in his memories

Fortunately, the current Cairo can also watch the scenes were in the past Cairo was reading the knowledge from the books that are needed to succeed in making the shards

Every time that Cairo will find it hard to understand something, he will use every resource he has. Whether it be books, the past memories, and the expert mages that were hired for Cairo, all of them contributed to the kid's learning

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February 19 Year 30,766

After two weeks, Cairo's knowledge improved a lot but it will still take him a long time before he succeeds. Since Cairo stops focusing on designing his core, it comes to the point where his mage teachers were urging him to breakthrough and become a real Mage as it will make his soul stronger and he'll be able to learn more things easily

However, Cairo doesn't want that. His teachers' words were correct and he also knew that it will take him a lot of time to succeed in making what he needs but he knew some things that even the experts in the Larton Kingdom doesn't know

It was okay for a mage to spend years of his life trying to make their Magic Core. If the core was strong enough, it wouldn't be a problem for the mage to make up for the time they have lost

A true superior core will enable the mage to catch up to their batchmates that decided to become a real Mage in haste in no time

In fact, if Cairo managed to make a core as strong as the past him, it wouldn't be a problem for him to defeat mages that are several ranks higher than him. Also, for every realm he broke through, the increase in strength is superior to the other mages

Thus, Cairo doesn't care that he will look like an idiot to other people for his actions. That can actually help him too. Cairo has some ideas about the Kingdom's situation and if he becomes too talented, the enemies might make a move on him

It would be better if he lay low for now and let people think that he is stupid and weak. Being in the spotlight will just bring more dangers to him

As of now, Cairo is currently training his Shadow Magic in his real training grounds. Learning and applying the knowledge in real life are two entirely different things

The cases wherein the mage can easily learn things but cannot perform them in reality and vice versa is very common

If Cairo trained with his shadow magic, it would be easier for him to perform the necessary steps to make the parasite that will enable him to make the Crystal Soul Shards

Around Cairo were hundreds of tombs. He was inside a dark cemetery where shadow magic would be easier to use. This was one of the terrains in the training ground made just for him

From the tombs, ten pair of hands came out before the rest of their bodies were revealed to Cairo's eyes

The enemies this time are zombies. They have sharp nails and fast speed. These zombies are also hard to deal with due to how the difficulty of killing them

The zombies don't feel pain and the only way to kill them is by severing their heads or destroying their brains

Cairo decided to fight ten zombies at once so that he will be pushed to his limits and hopefully exceed them. He also has magic that he cannot wait to try

The ten zombies made their move and opened their nasty mouths. Ten dark clouds approached Cairo at a fast speed and black energies coated his feet

"[Shadow Magic: Ghost Steps!]" Cairo moved his feet around and dodged every single dark cloud. His footsteps were quite strange and hard to read. He would even jump high as if he was as light as a feather from time to time

After the opening attack, the zombies moved their legs too as they rush to where Cairo is

"[Shadow Magic: Shadow Clones!]" Two more Cairo appeared that confuses the zombies

Cairo covered his whole body with mana and since the Shadow Clones are all made from mana, it became harder to detect which is the real one

The three Cairo charged at the zombies and they use the same attack while also having the same target. "[Shadow Magic: Death's Claw!]"

The three Cairo clawed at one of the zombies' body that also uses its sharp nails to scratch him

However, when the zombie scratched two of the Cairo's it found out that they are fake and the clones dissipated into specks of black light

The next thing that the zombie knew was that a claw was already in front of it and Cairo destroyed the zombie's face. Cairo's claw also penetrated the enemy's head and dark vile juices came out from its body

Cairo wasn't disgusted by that though. He literally spent years of his life living inside a trash can, what is there to he disgusted about?

Cairo managed to kill one of the zombies but there are still nine of them remaining. He still wasn't able to retrieve his hand from the enemy's head when another zombie tried scratching him

The kid tried to dodge but the zombie still managed to scratch his face a bit, leaving an injury in it

A part of Cairo's face immediately turned black in color and even the blood coming out from his wound also turned black

As a result, Cairo kicked the first zombie to retrieve his arm and used his Ghost Step magic again to dodge

After that, Cairo put his hand in his face and a black liquid came out from it. Cairo hissed from the pain as the zombie's nails have venom on them

Fortunately, Cairo has decent skill in Shadow Magic now and he managed to extract the venom. If not, he wouldn't have a choice but to stimulate his blood so that the white blood cells can fight the foreign invaders

Cairo only finished extracting the venoms when three dark beams approached him and he used his Ghost Step for the third time to dodge the enemies' attacks

If Cairo can use another type of magic, he wouldn't be pushed in this kind of situation. Too bad that he decided to only use Shadow Magic to help him get more used to it

Cairo moved far away from the zombies and jumped to one of the tombs before he put his palms close to each other. "[Shadow Magic: Savage Ball!]"

A small black ball appeared in between Cairo's palms and his face visibly paled. This magic is a powerful one and this is the first time he uses this

Cairo wants to fight the zombies to the end but he also has one more goal and that is to try this magic and he became too impatient because of that. Cairo knew that this magic is a hard and powerful one but he did not think that the burden to his mind would be this severe

He thought that he can kill a lot of the zombies with this and still have some strength to clean the ones that will remain. If it was one on one fight, Cairo can kill around three of four zombies easily

However, with their numbers, just killing one of the zombies already caused Cairo to be injured.

Too bad for Cairo that he miscalculated things and after this attack, he might not have any ability to fight again

Cairo threw the black ball in his hand towards the zombie and when it got had physical contact with one of them, the ball issued a strong suction power

Cairo's spell works literally like a black hole albeit much weaker and inferior. It manages to suck and shred the zombie's head before Cairo controlled it to kill more zombies but failed in the end

Now, Cairo knows why the past him labeled this as an ultimate magic that should only be used in the face of great danger. Its power was high but it was extremely hard to use!

Cairo still has around 90% of his overall mana but just using the Black Hole magic a single time already turned that 90% into zero!

Cairo's vision blurred after that and he immediately loses his consciousness