chapter 3

Time passed relatively quickly after that, Montez taught me everything he knew about artifacts and runes, even giving me several ancient untranslated books that contained entire runic alphabets unseen for thousands of years.

Finally it was time for me to leave the academy much like Leylin, the mission I chose was to head back to the Chernobyl Islands and escort another batch of hopefuls. Siley sent me and several other 3rd rank acolytes on this mission to keep us out of the war for the time being.

Our mission would last us a little over 3 years total. The academies situation was much better than in canon thanks to me bringing them over 50 additional acolytes. Most of them would die so that the better talents could be spared. The mission would be fairly easy since the only danger would come from the beasts in the plains of death.

The journey to the islands was pleasant enough, some of the acolytes from the other academies tried to make trouble but luckily there was a treaty that prohibited fighting between academies on either the dirigibles or the islands to prevent one side from slaughtering potential students. The most powerful dark academy on the south coast would enforce this treaty and punish anyone who sought to break it.

Lighthouse of the Night is headed by a 3rd rank official magus, on the south coast this is the peak of existence. With the treaty in effect myself and the other acolytes from Abyssal Bone Forest Academy had nothing to worry about.

After we arrived on the beach of the islands the other acolytes and I along with our escort of enhanced knights began our journey of recruitment in the kingdoms and empires of the Chernobyl Islands.

The Chernobyl Islands is a very small island within the Magus World, as it was said that even South Coast is several times larger than the Chernobyl Islands. Despite this, its size is suspected to be as big as the Eurasian continent of my earth.

The round trip took us just under 3 years there and back, my kingdom generously donated another 150 serfs that were pre-tested to become acolytes at the academy. I had already signed them to the academy and taught them the meditation technique. The situation at the academy would be much better with the addition of 150 new acolytes to replace those lost in the war.

During these last 3 years I had gotten so bored that I decided to just use my HGMT, I created it based off of Jellal Fernandes from fairy tail. It was called the Celestial Heavens Technique. When we made it back to the academy I knew I could easily be sent away as Montez died while we were gone. Siley agreed immediately to send me away for my safety, I decided to go to the Zither Moon Mountains to await Leylin and his party.

When I got there I started using my HGMT and advanced to become a rank 1 official magus. My innate spell was called Meteors Grace, it covered me in a golden light that both protected me from harm and allowed me to move at monstrous speeds. I could deal 22 degrees of damage with this spell right now.

My stats had also gained quite a jump from what they were, (str 19.4) (agi 24.3) (vit 20.1) (spiritual force 34.7) (mage force 34). With these stats I might just be able to kill the Black Horrall Snake in the Dylan Gardens myself.

I had always planned to kill Leylin after he came out of the gardens and before he could become a rank 1 Magus himself. But to fight and kill the snake would possibly leave me injured and then unable to troll Leylin.