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"Looks like everyone is alive," said the spatial mage.

" I was getting worried seeing you not coming out, " Randal said to me.

I got to know everyone went through similar trials with everyone fighting a different kind of dragon in different environments. Randall is in a land biome, Gadjah in an environment with frequent lightning strikes, and the two mages near a beach. Unlike the rest, the last two mages were not so lucky, one lost a few fingers while the other one lost an eye. Seeing them Gadjah's mood became gloomy.

So far I got the most dangerous environment out of all of them. From what everyone told, I concluded that every opponent was selected based on the overall strength of the person.

Gadjah seems to have reached the same conclusion. I don't know why but since the beginning, he has been observing me as if trying to find my strength.

"So what did everyone get? I received two spells with my resistance increasing " said Gadjah

Randal - "Two spells "

Mage 1 - "One spell "

Mage 2 -" One spell "

" Two spells and increased resistance, " I said. There is no way I would reveal the second thing I received.

As we were discussing the next course of action, mana from all of our bodies was absorbed into the platform. The mana started rotating and took the figure of a human with clothes similar to royals.

Seeing the appearance of the image, everyone prepared a spell in case an attack happens but nothing happened.

"Welcome my fellow companions from the future, I congratulate you for completing the dungeon trails, "said the man and paused and looked at all of us.

"If you are seeing my image, that means the Enkanomiya must have been destroyed …..

Before everything went wrong, I along with some of my companions tried to turn this place into a dungeon but we failed to protect our people. I had designed this dungeon with the trails and rewards linked to the total strength of the person.

The digits above your head should tell you that"

One by one letters started appearing on everyone's heads. Above me and Gadjah was digit 0, Randal 1, and others 3, 4, etc.

I could see everyone was shocked seeing it above my head.

"Does anyone know anything about these numbers? " I asked

"Yes, this is the common power system we use in the Heart Kingdom with level 0 being the strongest, " said Gadjah.

So he too got a strong opponent but seems like mine was stronger as it has the power to wield almost infinite mana from nature.

"I cannot tell you, people, what happened but the ruins of the city should have plenty of clues for you to find out. " the man continued

" One last message, always choose the right side to ally with ….make sure that the history is not repeated...

Below this platform is some of my treasures that I managed to save along the years, you all can take them if you want " said the figure as it disappeared.

The figure burst out into mana particles and entered the platform which started descending along with everyone. After descending for a few minutes we reached a chamber which a golden light. On clear view, the entire chamber was filled with different jewelry and ornaments made of gold and diamond.

All of us were experienced in exploring dungeons so nobody ran to touch anything and started to look around for traps or mechanisms. After deeming that the chamber was safe all of us started looking around. There was nothing that interested me as there were only ornaments.

I picked a diamond ring and some earrings, they may be useful someday.

The spatial image stored everything in his spatial dimension and would give us our share when we reach the land. This chamber also had inscriptions on its walls too like the paths I went through. I used Sharingan and memorized everything on the walls to inspect them later on.

After exiting the chamber all of us explored the entire dimension but found nothing except monsters which respawned at regular intervals. One thing we noticed was that there were some roots all around the kingdom that would emerge from nowhere and entered nowhere but no one had any clue about those.

" This place should be investigated by bringing scholars, " Randal suggested.

" Yes, judging by the situation it doesn't seem like the dungeon would collapse after we exit it. I would inform my higher-ups while you inform yours, A joint investigation would be better. " Gadjah said as he appeared to be in deep thought.

Ancient civilization, ruined by something, humanoid monsters, wrong ally .. seems like I found an interesting thing. I must join the investigation team when the time comes.

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We exited the dungeon from the same spatial passage and found ourselves near the water tornado that had become a vortex now releasing spatial fluctuation. The sky was dark with stars shining.

All of us reached the land after flying for a while where mages from both the kingdom waited. The spatial made divided our share and flew towards the Heart kingdom along with the mages. A spatial mage from our side stored the gold and another spatial mage transported us to the headquarters where the wizard king waited.

" GOOD EVENING SIR ! "both of us greeted

" Good work both of you "

Both of us started reciting everything to Wizard king while Marx recorded everything.

" Hmm, joint investigation. it's an interesting proposal. I will discuss it in the next captain meeting "

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Every member of the Black Bulls was standing outside the base and Magna was standing with his upper body naked.

" Ready? " I asked

" Yes "

I pointed my finger towards the chest, from my finger a red beam of light emerged striking Magna. Slowly the diamond mark in my hand got erased while another diamond mark formed on Magna's chest. Immediately Magna was enveloped in a coat of fire mana. Magna showed a pained expression and said that he felt as if something was tearing every cell in his body. He was for the first time getting in contact with natural mana so the pain was understandable. I too felt a lot of pain during the time I developed mana rotation. Now my total mana is more than half of the captains and infinite if I use mana rotation.

I could feel the natural mana from the environment entire Magna's body through the mark. It was after 15 minutes that the pain completely subsided.

My first choice was to give the seal to Henry but I found that even giving him more mana would not solve the case as his body was incapable of handing natural mana. He can only absorb mana from people moreover Henry's life signs are connected to the Black Bull's base, if he goes too far from here his life force will start to deteriorate.

I am still trying to find a way to cure curses and the effect of forbidden magic. The leftover curse of Kirin and cracking Secre's forbidden magic have been one of my goals for a while. Back to the current situation….

Magna tried a few spells and found that his reserves were getting filled almost instantly. Although he would have almost endless mana but the maximum mana he could use is equivalent to his total mana pool. I had the same problem in the earlier days but with my current mana pool, it's not a problem anymore. I transferred the two news spells I had received to him by touching out Grimoire and informing him.

Magna enveloped me in a hug.

"Thank you …. Thank you so much…. Now I wouldn't be useless because of my mana reserves and be useful to captain Yami " Said Magna with tears in his eyes.

I can understand his situation, born a commoner with low mana, looked down on by everyone, and finally getting a chance to prove himself using the opportunity by Yami but low mana still getting in his way. Today he found a way to deal with his mana reserves. Although he can use a lot of small spells they can be also improved to a degree that can rival large spells.

" Good for you Magna, now we can fight for longer, " said Luck while everyone had a smile on their faces including Yami.

"With this good news let's celebrate!!!!! " I said as birds made from flame brought a few bottles of alcohol from my room.

"Yaaaay! "