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I don't understand the logic of we don't have firearms but we have flintflocks as they are related.
I think magic enginer will be more correct.
I think if you manually load the bullets, the flintlock fire by magic than gunpowder and it cannot have a bullet of a spell over C power (fireball), it should be reasonable. @The Everdistant Utopia

 

Name: Lee
Race: Human
Sex: Female
Age: 12
Position: Member (Don't change this)
Rank: E (Don't change this)

Equipment:
Sturdy Pink dress kit
A simple wand
A small package of magical medical instruments

Inventory: Things that go into your travel bag and the like.
5 dry jerkies

Specialty: In what you specialize at with magic.
Spells: At least 2, at most 5~ Use the space wisely~

Backstory:
She graduated by accident
The headmaster of the school she was in was going to have her wait a few more years so that she would be the same age as her work peers, so that she could have a smooth transition into society as a normal genius, and it was what she wanted, but a clerical error resulted in her graduating 6 years before she should have, and being a prestigious school, the headmaster could only sigh as he sent her to the magical association to further her career now that the mistake had been made, even if she was his adopted daughter.

Appearance:
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Personality: studious and shy, but always curious and seeking fun.
Magic Origin: Health


Spell Name: Heal
Spell Type: Healing Type
Spell Description: Speeds up the natural healing of the body, and with enough mana, the un-natural healing of the body.

Spell Name: Cure
Spell Type: Healing Type
Spell Description: Helps the target in the removal of harmful chemicals and organisms.

Spell Name: Repellent
Spell Type: Support Type
Spell Description: Repels Pests from the target, the more mana used, the stronger it is and the longer it lasts.

Spell Name: Regeneration UP
Spell Type: Support/Healing Type
Spell Description: Increases Regeneration of a target's health by up to 10% with each minute costing x mana, and each more percentage then 10 costing exponentially more mana.

Spell Name: clean
Spell Type: Support Type
Spell Description: Cleans the Target, strangely, the target smells of peaches for a minute afterward.

 

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Spoiler: Character Information

Name: Aria
Race: Human
Gender: Female
Age: 14
Position: Member
Rank: E
Appearance: Bright Red Hair that reaches a bit below her chin, generally wears light clothes in tones of white and yellow. Has a classic white Witch hat on her head that is tied with a simple string.
Personality: A cheerful and bright girl that doesn't like giving up! Commonly loses control of the tone of her own voice, making people tell her to stop shouting all the time.
Magical Origin: Fire
Specialty: Fire magic; Magical Arrays; Arcane Magic

Spoiler: Backstory

Aria lived in a small village on the countryside, she helped her mother and her older sisters with knitting work and was pretty sure that would be her life for many years to come, probably for the rest of her life.

Their life wasn't particularly hard, but they definitely didn't had no luxury. It was a common family for a common village.

One day when she was 7, she saw a traveling merchant was passing by the village with a really weird symbol on his clothes, the symbol remained on her head due to its weirdness, and a few days later, she tried replicating it by knitting something similar.

... When she did, her house almost burnt completely... "Uhn... Surprise! Your daughter is a mage!" was not the reaction she had, nor the reaction her parents had. She was grounded for a good while.

Luckily or unluckily, she decided to keep on making strange stuff with strange symbols out of curiosity... Away from her house or from the plantations though, she got the grasp that she could make fire, and that she had some magical prowess.

When the tax collector came to the village, she showed him her magic... It was a childish prank, nobody liked that guy, so it would be nice to give him a scare.

... And that was the day that Aria was taken away from her village and brought to the capital of Nyllia. For the first time she heard the name of the country she resided in.

The next 7 years weren't kind to Aria, she had food and lodging paid by the government, as well as 1 set of her academy's uniforml, the rest was on her own... She had to work part-time by making some small fixes on damaged clothes or some odd-jobs like making noble children's birthdays cooler with some fire show. It was a bother.

But the biggest bother... Was how useless she was at magic. Most mages could instantly cast all sort of spells... Her? She couldn't cast a thing, she needed an array to make anything, she needed to prepare anything in advance and they usually took a few hours to knit, to be used a single time... She was obviously the worst student at the academy, that one girl that can do nothing...

It took a long time for her to come with a solution, her gloves. She knitted some gloves that had a simple array on them that made a semi-permanent small floating fire when Mana was infused on them. By doing that she could make arrays on the spot with the small fires created by her gloves.

Took many attempts until she could make this have a decent mana-efficiency, and even more attempts to make the firest last enough to make complex arrays, and an even longer time for it to stop prickling her hand. But hey! It finally worked.

She had to develop her spells on her own though, since arrays were usually used for large-scale magic, and she needed them for the small scale ones... In any case, she started having fun.

Her real fun was when they started having flight classes though, discovering a small affinity to the Arcane was really neat, as she could laugh at the face of all of her colleagues that desperately tried to fly with wind magic... Ha! As if someone could make a wind strong enough to lift a person!

Even so, she couldn't do much by flying if she constantly needed to draw arrays mid-air to give her small impulses... And so came her second magical item! A witch's broom! The classics never fail us!

... Which is basically a broom full of arcane arrays that allow her to fly by putting magic on it, it's really simple, but works pretty nicely~

And that was the gist of her academy life, 7 years to graduate, with time she made a few friends and was able to stop being bullied by being able to compete a bit by making quick arrays mid-flight and shooting fireballs at her sparring partners, so things got better. She even got a good reputation as an entertainer at the parks! It was a lot of fun to do that with nice children rather than to the nobles~

Once she finally graduated, she thought of going back home, but she honestly had no idea where her village was located, she already forgot its name, and she doubted she could find any map that had it drawn on...

So, she travels, explores the world, kills some beasts for money, and leaves an easy-going life, she has no ambitions at the moment, but she doesn't mind it, life is fun right now, this is what matters.

Spoiler: Equipment

Fiery Gloves: By imputting a small amount of Mana, the gloves will create a magical semi-permanent fire that floats midair, she can make up to 10 fires at once (one for each finger), and the flames can be extended by moving her fingers around. Those flames are completely useless against pretty much anything, and even at close quarters they would barely damage anyone. Its only purpose is to make magical arrays mid-air. The flames last for as long as she imputs her Mana on it.
Witch's Broom: The classic, has arcane arrays incrusted on it that allow the caster to fly by putting Mana into it. A pretty generic item actually, but it's hard to home-make it.

Spoiler: Spells

Aria's spells are all magical arrays that she needs to draw (usually with her gloves, but can also be knitted, painted with ink, draw with a stick on mud, or pretty much any other way).
They are generally a lot more Mana-efficient and customizeable than other spells due to the necessity of making an array for them, but the big cast time is a terrible disadvantage.
All her spells with small cast time are made to use both of her hands, though it can also be done with a single one.

Spell Name: Fireball
Spell Type: Offensive
Spell Description: The first spell that Aria crafted, and the one that she actually spent most time working on. It's a pretty simple spell that comes from an array of 5-10 (depends if it was made with 1 or 2 hands) different flames intertwined together in a multiple spirals shape.
The spell itself is a ball of fire that flies on a straight direction, smaller changes on the array can change: the size of the fireball, if it explodes or not, the size of the explosion, heat of the fireball and range of the fireball.
It doesn't consume much Mana normally, but can still cost quite a bit if she tries to make really big explosions, her record is a fireball with 1m radius and 10m radius of explosion after 200m flight.
Usual cast time: 1-2s

Spell Name: Jump!
Spell Type: Support
Spell Description: A simple magical array that Aria used to practice flight before she had her broom. It gives a huge impulse on whoever steps on it, making them jump really high.
Can also be used as a makeshift barrier if timed correctly, but this is almost impossible to work out as it only lasts a second.
Since the person needs to be in within the array, it can't be made in a very small area like the Fireball, which limits how many flames (fingers) Aria can use to draw it, leading to a bigger cast time. She generally needs 4 fingers to make it, but it can be done with 2.
Usual Cast Time: 3-6s

Spell Name: Firestorm
Spell Type: Offensive
Spell Description: This is a spell Aria never used, and only made theoretically, it needs an array that is as big as a mansion, which obviously means it can't be done by maintaining the fires from her gloves.
It would create a hellfire that would devastate everything on its path, the scary part of this spell is that it should last for 10 minutes before it exhausted Aria's Mana, and the area it would affect would be as big as a small village, but it would be moveable by changing small parts of the array in real time.
The range of it is hard to measure, theoretically, it should be able to hit anywhere for as long as Aria can pinpoint the location and direct the array to cast the spell there, it's unknown if bigger distances would change the Mana Cost.
It's not a very easy to use spell due to it's large destructive radius and absurd cast time, especially because messing up with the array could completely nullfy the spell, or worse, direct it back to Aria. It should still have devastating effects if used on the right occasion though.
Usual Cast Time: Some hours, probably.

Spell Name: Flame Elemental Summon
Spell Type: Summoning
Spell Description: One of the things Aria discovered on her academy days, is that this isn't the only plane out there, definitely not.
While there were other students that could summon things, most were able to summon wild animals that were forcefully controlled by their spell.
Aria was different, she held a strong affinity to fire and only fire, there was no way she could control some being... While she had originally given up on summoning... There were many times in which she felt alone, and she needed company, that is why she tried this.
Many failed attempts went into this until she could actually make this spell work, instead of mind-controlling her summons like her classmates did, what she does is to create a pact between her and the summon. She asks for help, and offers something in return.
Her first summon was a Fire Fairy, and that is what she summons the most, she offers her time, in exchange for the fairy's time, they talk their time out happily and made happy memories by staying together... There is a limit to how long she can maintain the summon though, as it always drains her of her Mana. Smaller summons can last a few days, while bigger ones can only last a few minutes at best.
The size and complexity of the array varies a huge lot depending on what type of elemental she wishes to summon, so the casting time has a big variation.
Usual Casting Time: 10 minutes to a few hours.

Spell Name: Healing Flame
Spell Type: Healing
Spell Description: Probably the weirdest spell Aria ever made, and the one she spent most time thinking as well.
On her last year at the academy, when she finally had some friends of her own, a fight erupted between two cliques of the top students of the school... And sadly, her best friend was on the surroundings.
It was the only time she seriously considered using a Firestorm, but she realized she didn't have the time to draw that big thing. Instead, she rushed into the middle of the squabble to rescue her injured friend.
By the time she arrived the girl was already on a near-death state... Aria did the craziest thing she could possibly do, and tried using fire to heal her.
The spell worked, but it had a cost. The fire burn your wounds. It burns to smitherins until there is nothing left, by using the principle of the reincarnation of a phoenix, she made a fire that burns something to nothing, and then brings it back.
Her friend survived and didn't even get a scar out of it... And she never talked to Aria again, for the pain she went through, was a thousand times worse than the death that was approaching her.
Aria doesn't regret what she did, but she doesn't really tell anyone about this spell, as she doesn't want anyone to rely on her when they need healing. She doesn't want to see that face full of fear, that she got from her friend, ever again.
It should be noted that this can't revive the dead, she needs to have some life to burn and bring back.
Usual Cast Time: 5-10 seconds.

*is happy I didn't need to make any significant changes*

 

11 Years younger !
Wow, you removed a bit more of 1/3 of her age.
Nice ! :x

By the way, do I need to change my spells, or they are alright ?

 

There are firearms, just not as well developed.

It is fine~

 

All fine and normal~

*coughs* It's magic.... retcon magic!

Also, please repost so I can see... I already lost track of your character...

 

Okay, I will repost in a few minutes, need to do something~

 

Gau~
(^o^)

 

Btw, will you update the first page later with information on each Kingdom as they are developed, or will you just leave it as is? @The Everdistant Utopia

 

Hai~

I am still waiting for Way to check with him before I create the Job Thread.

 

Well, I'd like to add more info on that post, but I might need to add a "More information at: Link" because you went too far with Nyllia's, and I don't think that it'll be able to fit all the info about the kingdoms in that sole post!

Also, I think it would be better to make a thread for such info as to not cluster this one, which is the Registration Thread.

 

Name: Umbrum
Race: Half-Shadow
Sex: Male
Age: 17
Position: Member & Receptionist
Rank: E

Spoiler: Tasks

● E : 3
● D : 6

Spoiler: Regular stuff

Spoiler: Backstory (old)

Commoner coming from a modest family, he was a simple and cheerful kid who wasn't interested at all in magic until he goes back to his home and notice that his little sister and parents weren't there anymore.
Not that wasn't it, there was just nothing, the house was empty, no commodities, it looked like an haunted house where nobody lived in yet a few hours ago, there was a happy family.

After thinking for a bit, he decided to go learn in the Lusio Academy, known to accept everyone, why learning there ?
Because there is magic class, and what's better than forgotten magic to understand something incomprehensible ?

When he left the academy, he looked back and noticed that the Academy became just like his old house, uninhibited, there was nobody, and there was nothing inside despite the fact that a few dozens of seconds ago, he was talking to a friend who... isn't here anymore.
Alone, he decided to wander in this world, getting both stronger in magic and physical fight.

Spoiler: Background

A door opened as a child left to hunt, he seemed to be young, his clothes weren’t clean but not particularly dirty, just used and dirt seemed to have colored its clothes.. in the first place, they were in leather.
Holding to a over-sized knife for his size, he began to track a rabbit, normal, he is just a kid, it’s not like he was going to chase after a wolf, in the forest who was actually safe, the light was easily penetrating into it, creating a mystic atmosphere as a child was slashing his knife in the bushes almost tripping like a fool.

Blood splattered, a life was lost, and a childish voice echoed on a cheerful tone.

“Yosh ! Here is my dinner !” said this child of six years old as he held the dead rabbit in his hands, honestly, he didn’t need to hunt it but he always wanted to eat rabbit… so he hunted one. Sincerely, he didn’t care about the blood, his father was a hunter and since he is an infant, he is used to dismantling animals, once… or twice… or maybe thrice, he helped his father doing the dismantling, putting his hands in the flesh to remove what should be removed, to keep what should be kept.

Let’s just get back to the main point, as always, he was going back to his home, nevertheless… in the forest, there was a black cladded man with a white mask of a… a… the form was ever changing, seeing this, the young child didn’t care and only passed next to him, hearing some words.

“What are you ?” he turned back, and nobody was there, there wasn’t any traces on the ground, like the person who said this never existed. His face paled as he decided to hurry going back to his home.
...however, he was startled, his home wasn’t the same, the light brown wood became dark and similar to rotten flesh of left board meat. Afraid yet advancing, those legs moved on its own, following his desire which was to find his parents and his lovely little sister.

Falling abruptly on the ground, the door was now crushed into bits, a child entered, and nothing was there, no drawers, no light, no food, no beds, no little sister, no parents… it was empty. Panicked, he searched everywhere but there was still nothing…

His emotions altered into a turmoil of grief.

“H-Hey ! T-That’s not funny ! Come out !!” the floor who was as robust as rocks suddenly crumbled and made him fall as tears began to unite themselves into his eyes. Crushed by the rubbles, he looked around him and… it was a cave, a book, yes a book.
Why was there a book ?
Nobody in his family could read, so why…?

“...I will… find…” trying to get away from the cumbersome rubbles, his body began to fade, no, it was slowly beginning to become… a fog, despite being hurt, he wasn’t bleeding, his body was fading slowly but surely…
But he didn’t notice, his mind was filled with foolish grief and regrets of not being there when they disappeared.
Crawling… he tried to drag himself when he noticed that his right arm wasn’t there, and a weird pitch black smoke seemed to invade the room, coming from behind him, no, it was coming from him.

“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!!” He screamed, scared out of his skin, he could only scream as his body completely disappeared and the cave was invaded by an unnatural fog, who was violently twirling despite the fact that there was no wind.
The child disappeared and only shadows were left, along with this mist who was melting with the gloom.

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One day, in a certain place, where vines were covering the ground and slowly invading a certain cave, a shadow suddenly surged from the ground, slowly, it began to gain color and the child was reappearing, aware of his surroundings, his eyes were frightened and his skin paler than anywhen… he looked around him and recognized nothing except a book, the same book who seemed to have yellowed a bit.

“...uuuu…” he didn’t move and only sat, entwining his knees, his tears that he couldn’t let fall finally dropped, how long has it been ? He didn’t know, he only knew one thing, he never wanted to feel this… he didn’t know how to describe this, not having a body, not being able to touch the light, no being able to feel the ground, feeling suffocated because you aren’t breathing despite the fact that he didn’t need since he didn’t have a body.

After one or two hours of ceaseless weepings, this child stopped and attempted to touch the book, he looked at the cover and tried to read… normally he shouldn’t be able to, but…

“Umbrum.” It was what was written, his name, he noticed that… ¾ of the pages were ripped or burnt, only a part of it was left, and it was called…
“Edax Umbra.” Even if he wasn’t supposed to know, he knew what it meant, Edax meant <Devouring> and Umbra <Shadow>., at first, he was… shocked by himself, but then he didn’t care and began to read…

...he didn’t understand anything… what’s magic ? He didn’t know what it was, his parents already talked about it with disdain so he always avoided to ask, but what’s magic ? Then, he saw the resume of the magic…

“A shadow is always present down at your feet when there is light.
When it's not there, it means that you aren't there.
So what if during daylight, despite you having originally both arms, your shadow is missing one ?
Your body shall have only one arm.

That is the principle of Shadow Devouring, if your shadow is completely devoured, when exposed to light, your body will disappear, you will be nothing, it's almost like you aren't existing anymore, but only when there is light creating a shadow, you only exist when there is no lights.When nobody can see.
After, it's what happens when someone's shadow has been devoured completely.

Magically talking, this spell depend mostly on the amount of mana when used.
As long as the user has used enough mana and the devoured isn't trying to counter attack, the devoured person shall not exist in daylight, he won't be able to move, to see, to hear, he will be nothing. However, he can't be killed.”

What was that…? He was still disoriented by all of those words who were unknown to him, what’s a spell ? What’s mana ? What’s magic ? But he understood one thing, the part about being nothing, about being unable to move, to be nothing.

Because he experienced nothing, nevertheless, even when it was dark, he wasn’t able to move… he felt scared but then thought about how convenient could it be when hunting ! Next to the book, he found a dagger, it seemed to be filled with a weird energy… but he couldn’t feel it, he could only think this because it was shining, the dagger was shining…


When he held it in his hand, he felt that it was too long for him, the dagger’s size was around one feet, he took the book and the dagger with him, that was all he had left, he noticed that there was a skeleton, a rabbit skeleton… he didn't know why but it felt familiar, he shrugged and cried as he left for the first time his home.

It will also be the first time he sleep outside, out of a bed, strangely, it didn't bother him, on the contrary, it was consoling him, the feeling of the grass and dirt were consoling him and his broken heart.


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Waking up suddenly, this child immediately held the dagger in his hands, ready to ripost at any attacks.
It has been one year and some months since he left his home, he was longing the forest, so he can hunt an animal if he needs to eat, though sometimes, he almost burnt the forest and got attacked by Treants… but this time, it as something else, something was troubling his poor and not so childish mind, he knew what it was.

“...ghosts…” he muttered and still readied his dagger who had a special property, one he didn't know, he could slash at incorporeal begins with it, it was the only thing he knew, nevertheless, it didn't seem to do anything else than that…
Feeling a sudden grief surging in his heart, he immediately looked around and saw the ghost trying to hide while launching spells, the first thing he did was to throw his dagger which sunk into it and ended its undead life.

After finishing this, he couldn't sleep so he began to read Umbrum once again, despite the fact that it has been more than one year, he still didn't succeed to use it correctly, no, he didn't even succeed to make a cast, the circle appeared but then after less than 1 second, it disappeared and he felt exhausted, if he wasn't used to be strained, he wouldn't be able to move…

Each time, he tried to cast, he could feel something heating inside him, his body was becoming hotter and hotter, he felt like he was internally boiling… once per day, he did this, the first time, he immediately fainted, and little by little, day per day, the effect changed until it becomes simply exhaustion, through sheer effort… but it was worthless, he couldn't even use the spell, it felt… disappointing for him, he felt like this book was crappy but still he kept it because he had nothing else than that.

No family, no friends, no acquaintances, no pets, he had nothing. So he was nothing… as his thoughts began to be more and more down, his eyes shrunk as he saw his body disappearing, he quickly stood up and shouted on a desperate yet excited tone, to fool himself.

“YOOOOSHHH ! I bet I will find them back then we will be able to live together once again !”

Gradually, his body stopped disappearing as fake yet cheerful thoughts invaded his mind, forcing himself to feel happy despite being… completely alone.
“Yeah…” his voice quieted down as a man cloaked in black with a white raven mask was holding his book, his words resonated into Umbrum.
“Such a peculiar curse…” when saying this, he was eyeing the book but then Umbrum, he stared at him… until his gaze fell on his dagger, he sighed and said.

“Basic Enchantment… hmm…” then he sighed and kicked this poor kid in the face, knocking him off… why ? Because it will be easier to avoid trouble and maybe he can get a new pupil this way… no he probably doesn't have any attributes, that's useless to.teach him, nevertheless trying never hurt.

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Snuggling against the bed, a child couldn't even open his eyes considering how comfy was the bed, but he still needed to open them.
To see an empty and white room, he lifted his head and.saw the same man,at first, he wanted to scream and curse at him. However, he remembered how he easily knocked him off with a mere kick, so he stayed silent and simply stared at him with a threatening glare.

“Hmm, I will give you a trial, if you succeed, both your dagger and book will be given back, and also.we will give you an opportunity to enter the Lusio.Academy as a privileged student, normally we accept everyone, but most of them leave after a short moment, for those who stays, they are working earnestly to get an access to the private library which you will be able to enter if you accept this opportunity.”

Despite living in the forest, he knew.what Lusio was, an Academy for Magicians, immediately he nodded and approached the suspicious man who didn't present himself.

“My name is Umbrum, and I will take everything you propose.”

Everything changed from this second.
Frozen by what just happened, this child was trying to refrain himself because…
...the man disappeared, the ground became a familiar wood, the walls were now decorated commodities appeared and the room’s structure changed in itself.

He knew what this place was.
His dear home.

“Umbrum~!!” This voice made his heart ached as a little girl hugged him with a childish grin, a bit away, from another room, he could see his parents, during those many months, he had forgotten their faces, he couldn't remember then, but now he could, because someone showed him them.
Nevertheless, as she was pulling his shirt, he was advancing toward a locked door since it wasn't them, they weren't real, he already made many of these dreams because of the ghosts he met, each time was painful but they never felt as real as this one, but this was why he needed to leave, because it felt too real.

And something so good can't be real no matter what you see, when he was halfway to the locked door, both of his shoulders were caught and his ankles were grasped by his little sister.

“D-Don't leave me alone !!”
“Son, don't you want to hunt ?”
“Honey, there is rabbit to eat tonight.”

He wiped off the hands in his illusory parents and continued to walk, struggling because of those insistent and frail hands, as his hands were going to open the door when a last embrace arrived along with a pleading and weeping voice.
“Uuuuwuuuu… don't… leave… I want you… to stay...meanie…” With tears flowing in this unsightly face, he hugged this precious yet fake gem that is her, whispering to her ears words that were not audible, then he kissed her forehead with a gentle look before opening the door and leaving.

“Don't worry, we will see each other for sure.” and when he opened the door, everything shifted back to an empty and white room with the man who was eyeing Umbrum with a hidden smile.
After some seconds, he threw his own robe to the child who had only shred of clothes as outfit, along with the book and the dagger he has took recently l, he was going to talk but someone interrupts him on a determined and uselessly stubborn voice.

“Teach me this magic.” it was also filled with anger, why did he needed to see that ? Was his trial need to be painful ?
Indeed, it needed to be.

“This spell is named Mare’s Nest, I will teach it to you only after you learn Physical Enhancement, now follow me.” Silently he followed him, he was guided to a bedroom.
“This is now yours.” and that scoundrel left like this, not even presenting himself, how depressing. But all he did was to try using Shadow Devouring, unlike before, he could feel something flowing in him, it seemed like a seal disappeared, making him able to release more mana despite the fact that it wasn't much, it was better than anything.

He looked at his own shadow, in the book, it was said that it could be used on an enemy but it didn't say if he could do it on himself or not, so he will try.
As his mana quickly emptied, the shadow of his hand disappeared along with his real hand, it looked like it never existed.
His right hand disappears along with the shadow of his hand… however, now he was already exhausted… that was too much, nevertheless, he continued to red again and again and again this book while he knew every words of it.

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Crashing out of his bed, he felt the cold ground stuck to his face and moaned out of pain.
“Arggg… it hurts damn it.” exclaimed this child as he stood up, he noticed that his hand was still missing… after a sigh, once again, his mana circled into his body and get consumed as his hand came back… the consumption was greater than when he used the curse.

“...uwaaaaaaaaa… that was scary… worse than ghosts…” he couldn't help but spoke to himself loudly, his nightmare this night was the worst he ever experienced.

“Alright ! Let's just see that man ! Maybe he will be kind thus this time ?” A stupid hope he had, but he still wished that it happens.
Quickly wearing his new coat who was far too big, even if one day he will make around 6 feet, that will still be too big, but between that and showing shreds of clothes, the choice was quite obvious.

As he left his room, he bumped into someone quite sturdy despite their androgynous looks, an elf with pale skin and dark hair.
“Hello there, quite hurried aren't you ?” his voice had a hint of sarcasm but he didn't even let the disoriented child reply, continuing to talk.
“Anyway, the name’s Ash, I will explain everything that you need to know, so let's just eat in our room.”
As he felt his hand placed on his shoulder, Umbrum felt chills going to his spine, that was far too cold ! How can someone be so freezing ? But then arrays shone on the ground shone, the surroundings seemed to twist, the circle on the ground was locking both of them and suddenly… they were teleported to a gray room which was quite monotone despite the huge amount of commodities… but the thing was that there was no windows or doors, it felt like an isolation room…

However he wasn't even observing the place as they wanted to do only one thing, puking. The teleportation was making their bodies going amok… at the same time, a young girl forced Umbrum to put his head into a bucket while Ash did this on his own, it seemed like he was used to it.

“Huh, it looks like you didn't progress at all, still using array and needs dozens of minutes to prepare the spell ?” Actually, Ash was in from of Umbrum’s room since more than 30 minutes, he prepared everything… of course the child didn't know.

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“Umbrum~ between 7 and 8 years old~”
“My name is Ash like I already said, 14 years old.”
“Around 12, Eliya.” She had purple hair and a rosy skin, a shame that she was expressionless, anyway, while they were serving a sweet that Umbrum didn't know, they explained to him that they had the same master, Raak, a Magician proficient in spells like Teleportation, Mare’s Nest and Physical Enhancement, he is known to be tyrannical and overly violent, nevertheless he is also protective, once because one of his former student was humiliated and beaten blue and black, the student that attacked him almost died and paid back what he has done with something far worst.

“Anyway, I thought about this, we should learn from each other, Eliya share with you her Mare’s Nest knowledge while I share with you my Teleportation’s knowledge then if you have something, could you share with us ? Meanwhile, that bastard will probably teach you Physical Enhancement.” At first, Ash mocked him because he bumped into him like a fool, nevertheless, this time his tone was gentle.

Wordlessly yet reluctantly, Umbrum gave the book named ironically Umbrum, both of them looked at the content, they seemed to be quite close, Eliya leaning her head on Ash’s shoulder…

“That's really interesting, could you show us an example ?” As he said that, Eliya stood up and faced Umbrum, ready to take the curse.

His face distorted and instead to use it on Eliya, he used it on himself, making once again his hand disappear.
Seeing this, Ash’s eyes were shining, he thought that it could make a good defensive or support spell.

“Haha… I can't do more than that…” his voice was filled with exhaustion, Eliya gave to him, three weird crystals seeming to be filled with mana, he took them… and somehow, he could absorb and fill the mana he had emptied… half of one mana crystal was used.
Filling up with reserve.
“Thank you !” he was going to give back those mana crystals when she stopped him, replying curtly yet kindly, it was quite odd.

“No need, the first one is from Raak since you became our junior, the second is for your honesty and will to share, and the third one… was to avoid using spells on your comrades because you don’t want to hurt them.” Somehow, it was a test ? And he succeeded on every points, honestly, he was surprised, he didn’t even know that they somehow supervised them.

“I…” his voice had a hint of gratefulness as he made his hand come back, he couldn’t even form words correctly, it has been almost two years since he talked to someone and not to himself, true, he talked with Raak, but can an one-sided conversation properly be called speaking ?

“No need to thank us, we have been only the two of us since a long time, so seeing a new face is refreshing.” Eliya said on a kind tone which was contrasting with what she has been showing. Umbrum just let everything out and hugged her as he began crying, this year has been pressuring him.

Startled by his sudden action, Eliya didn't know how to react, nobody ever did that to her except Ash but it was different. Sighing, she began to pat him, trying to console him from something she didn't know but that was enough for this child.
On the sides, Ash only looked with a soft glare, that was just cute from his eyes.

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“Physical Enhancement is in fact reinforcing the muscles in your body, though, there is drawbacks if your body is too weak, the the differences will be too great and you will suffer from it, nevertheless, the body is quite strange, if something isn't broken enough, it can repair and become slightly more resilient…” Hearing the latter part, Umbrum felt chills in his spine, those words were cold and piercing.

“But I don't want to take risks so I won't, anyway let's start right away…” those words relieved him but then he felt a hand catching his shoulder brutally, momentarily he felt scared, but then felt mana surrounding his body, interior and exterior, it compressed and entered into his muscles, organs and bones.

“Wow !” he felt surprised by the newly found strength that he had, he felt lighter and without any hesitation, he began to run in this white and empty room who was used for training until a certain person make him trip while words echoed.

“The first level is enhancing the organs and not the muscles, this spell was created for physical attacks that ignore magic, so obviously he is unused because who can do that now ? Those were legends… Anyway… The second is enhancing the muscles, the third is enhancing the bones, and the rest is mostly enhancing everything, including the brain.” Umbrum never learnt any terms about biology even if his father hunted, he only knew what parts were consumable or not, how to recognize them, et cetera

So he didn't know what was a brain and what kind of things it could bring to “enhance” it. Nevertheless, it didn't matter as he began mimicking what he has done to his body earlier.

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Umbrum was now 10 years old, officially he could interact with other students, normally, in this academy, student doesn't interact with each other until they are 10, and they can only enter when they were between 4 and 8 years old.
And there was a ceremony for all the ones that were 10 years a certain day who was opened by an old man with a furious voice.

“Kids ! All of you are definitively and officially belonging to this academy who shall, as long as you don't betray it, protect, shelter and nurture you until you become an adult at 16, then we won't provide any kind of helps !”

Six years was the time they had to learn freely, afterward, if they want to stay, they will need to make tasks in exchange for everything they had before becoming adult from their eyes.
Umbrum continued to smile during all the speech, during this time, Ash was completing a task since he reached 16 years old not a long time ago, so only Eliya was at Umbrum’s sides.
Of course, Raak wasn't there.

Since he entered the academy, he made big progress, unlike most students, he couldn't learn every basics spells from the most basic elements. He was human so they didn't understand. Anyway, he could use Physical Enhancement until the third level, his body wasn't much reinforced, let's say that instead of easily lifting 10kg with two hands, he could lift easily 10.4kg with two hands.

Also, now with Shadow Devouring, by using his whole reserve of mana, he could make disappear an arm.
During this time, they tested what happened when they are making a head disappear, the person stay alive and it becomes easier to get out of the curse because it's a place more complicated… they tested it only once though, it was more terrifying than anything that they saw, one of their comrades, headless yet still alive… the worst is that they can still control their body but can't see nor hear anything.

Of course, Umbrum tested on himself or an animal, but unfortunately they couldn't really confirm their thoughts since they couldn't talk with animals, he did it on himself.


Receiving a basic and underrated earth ball in his belly, Umbrum fell on the ground as Raak’s voice echoed.
“Don't think you can fight when using physical enhancement, you are nothing when in front of a true mage, a fireball and you lost, use it to avoid or run away.” he said this because Umbrum tried to counter-attack and as expected, it didn’t succeed.

Since Raak already knew about Shadow Devouring, it wouldn’t work on him, it will just be too easy for him to dispel it since he knew all of its current effect and weakness, even if Umbrum used it in his sleep, he wouldn’t get panicked, he would just dispel it like it was nothing, after all, to his eyes, Umbrum was nothing but a troublesome yet unique child considering his Magical Attribute who did not allow him to learn even the most basic elements, it made him sincerely curious, actually, he had trouble learning this…

“...Shadow Devouring…” he muttered it allow but he shouldn’t have since this child had some strange obsession over names.
“Edax Umbra !” It made him look mad and use directly “Edaw Umbra” who missed its target who wasn’t there anymore, Raak was behind this child and just kicked his back… Immediately, Umbrum moaned in pain and had an urge to curse at this bully… but each time, he looked at his face, he did not. Because to him, he seemed to be lonely, Eliya and Ash who are his students don’t trust at him at all… right, by the way, he removed his mask and half of his face was burned, so he had bandages on his face. His hair was dark purple and his last eye was blue.

Hmm… If only he didn’t have such a despicable personality.
Nevertheless, maybe he just needed a friend ?
That was what this innocent child thought.

“Umbrum !” He heard Ash calling him, at the same time, he suddenly lifted him up and spinned, he seemed sincerely happy.
“Hey, I know that you like hunting and you see at the shop I saw a nice and cheap enchanted bow… so I decided I will buy it for you ! Does it bother you ?” Normally, he wouldn’t ask but this kid wasn’t like most people, he was worried about if his friends had trouble choosing something for him, and if they did, he will try to refuse it and pay them back no matter what happens.

“R-Really ?! Thank you !!” He immediately hugged his brotherly friend, honestly, both of them were like sibling, fortunately, Umbrum didn’t notice that otherwise he would have fall apart and cry maybe a bit, since he will remember his disappeared family.
“Hehe.”

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Another year passed, Umbrum met others people but most of them were avoiding this trio because of their horrific teacher who was Raak, that was sincerely depressing for him but he didn’t care as he had the three of them, yes, the three of them.
Including Raak.

Recently he has always been trying to be friendly to him and it seemed to work since he has been hitting him less roughly and seemed even speechless of what this kid acted toward him, maybe even embarrassed, because Umbrum was too sweet, he has been hitting and a tyrant to him for three years yet he doesn't give up on thinking that he is a nice person… how stupid…

“Umbrum, come I think I can begin teaching you Mare’s Nest.” This was what Eliya said to him when they were alone. This child immediately nodded with a wide grin.

“First, Mare’s Nest is an illusion that actually affects one to three persons, most of the time, illusions spell isn't affecting anyone, they are just “pictures” in air that everyone can't see, there is often no sounds coming from it, unlike most of the illusions who affect only the sight, Mare’s Nest affect sight at the initial level on one person, then both hearing and sight, then it will be another sense on your choice, and well, the next for another time.”
Hearing that, Umbrum gulped as he was even more eager to learn it, it might be fun to try tricking Raak or Ash.

With a soft smile, he passed behind Eliya and softly whispered as he began to massage her shoulders.
“Thank you~” honestly, he couldn't do much to help them so he was feeling a bit guilty.
Eliya’s body relaxed under his hands as she said on a soft tone, booping his nose.
“You are so cute. No need to do that.”
Umbrum looked away embarrassed by her comment as he didn't stop massaging her because she needed to relax since she has been stressed by not being with Ash and well in one year, she will be able to accompany him, letting Umbrum alone with Raak, nevertheless she thought that something was different with Raak.

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“Raak~” As he had four mana crystal on him, it has been two years and today is a day of competition, so he will participate willingly while his Master Raak will oversee him.
“Beat them with all the dirty tricks you have.” This kid innocently nodded as he entered the ‘arena’., in front of him was a supposedly normal kid who could use both wind and fire while him could only use tricks.

Wordlessly, a fireball was thrown at him, at the same moment, a wind blade was launched under the fireball so he can't evade by crawling. He sidestepped and avoided it through using Physical Enhancement otherwise he might have been burnt, then, Umbrum counter attacked, using Mare’s Nest, he threw a dagger, his opponent sidestepped to avoid but then noticed that a second dagger was thrown at him.
He couldn't avoid as it stabbed him, the first was an illusion while the second was the true dagger, since Umbrum didn't want to use too much mana, he didn't hide the second one, he took this opportunity to approach and attack in on a way that doesn't fit a mage, physical.
He didn't have any offensive spell after all, so that was all he could do. Something that wasn’t for a mage, he punched his opponent’s groin, mercilessly.
Crushing what was there..

Ouch… that was the reactions of all men that were watching this as Raak was nodding somehow proudly ? Such a good child he is… indeed… learning and properly using everything that this bully taught to him.

Be the dirtiest scum when fighting, no matter who it is, and especially when it’s a mage, so did he think that it was finished ? Yes probably, and it was. Because tricks need to be preserved.
Otherwise they won't work the next time.

Nevertheless, there was another fight, against a purely barrier mage, nobody knew how but he succeed at beating most people in the tournament or even outside tournament.
That was quite a peculiar way, using moving barriers to beat someone up.

Unfortunately, Umbrum immediately lost, he couldn't do anything if he was closed into a barrier, he couldn't attack so he gave up.
Thank to having one win, he won one Mana Crystal, now he had six mana crystal… three from the start, one from Ash who have one after finishing his first mission just like Eliya who did that this same year, and one from the tournament.

Right now, he was training with Raak, after emptying his mana and endurance, he was driving a carriage, forced to resist against his wish to sleep in his bed, of course, the carriage wasn't driven correctly.
Suddenly, he found something hitting his back.

“Drive properly.” Fortunately, this time he wasn't bleeding because of Raak’s hits, unlike before, it was rather weak and frail to Umbrum, though it's still hurt like hell to him.

“Good job.” Those words were said and Umbrum felt immediately invigorated with plenty of energy as he began to drive the carriage correctly without any cons, he was even humming happily.

_

Instead of sleeping, a child was reading a book in the library, more precisely a spell that wasn't chosen by anyone because of one reason, if the user is not strong enough, both physically and psychologically, he may die.
This spell was named simply and crudely “Mirror”, it's reproducing an offensive or defensive spell that the enemy is launching, of course, the reproduced spell has less strength of the original spell, despite this, it provokes pain that is what would a person had would felt when touched by the reproduced spell.

So if someone reproduced a crude fireball spell, they will feel the pain of being burnt, often, it's an experience that people doesn't want to feel no matter what, but Umbrum will because he doesn't know any real defensive or offensive spell, so it may be quite useful even if it's no significant, it's already better than anything.

“Copy partly a spell through pain and mana at the initial levels… this resume is… depressing.” he muttered to himself as he thought that he didn't want to but still he needed to if one say he goes back travelling to find his family he didn't forget, right, he still didn't forget why he joined the academy despite the huge amount of good times he had there.

One day he will leave, but with those three, he only wants to stay with them, so he will try to leave with them, though it's probably won't work, he will still leave, he just hoped that he wouldn't be alone, once again.

“What are you ?” He was startled by this voice and turned back to see nothing different… he just thought that it was because he was tired that he heard this voice and indeed he was exhausted.

Then he fell asleep and the books he had were put back in the library by cloaked man with an ever-changing mask.

Of course, that's something nobody noticed.

______

Umbrum was 14 years old, nothing really happened, he continued to learn peacefully all the spells he already had, he had nothing else to do.

“Umbrum.” Ash called to him by coming by behind with a soft smile, he noticed that Umbrum was still wearing this coat since he came, that was Raak’s, he often tried to think why Raak gave this to him but he never understood, this coat was something he never removed.

It was self-repairing, and could passively hide the wearer if the user wants to. Also, upon commands, it can relieve from exhaustion, he knew this became Raak had an old and awful which was working until he faints, this can be seen in how he trained them, if they couldn't do anything magically, then they will begin to train physically. All the professors have been gifted a self repairing coat, it just that Raak modified it a lot by himself.

“Ash ! How are you ?” asked Umbrum in an overexcited voice as he hugged his friend, alike a big brother.
“I am fine ~ I am fine~ I just thought about taking a break by skipping works~” Ash’s words are always careless when he talks to Umbrum, this child who only want a few thing, and one of them are his friends following their wishes.
“So I thought about giving you that, since you have a low affinity with this kind of magic that I mastered~” he gave to Umbrum a book about teleportation, but not people but objects which are simpler. Honestly, he didn't care about this spell but learning it for Ash who probably passed hours on this book was doable, though that wasn't important right now.


“So ~ did you have any troubles ? Is everything going well with Eliya ?” his question had a certain hint of viciousness.
“Well… we have always been living together, just not in the same bed… it's not that different than before. It's just that we are even closer that's all.” And unfortunately for Umbrum, Ash was a good at avoiding the subject by saying the truth yet not everything, at least, he knew that it was going way better than only “closer”, internally, he laughed and congratulated them since they deserve this happiness, they had a lot of scars they got from unfair means, he didn't know much more than that. Because he never asked, and he never will.

“Hehe… naughty stuff then~” Ash shamelessly nodded and smiled blissfully when reminiscing what happened last night.

“...I didn't sleep, no we didn't. But I have no regrets.” hearing that, Umbrum couldn't help but look away since to him, that was embarrassing, he wanted to trick his friend but… ha… it didn't work that all.
Such a foolish child.
“Hehehehe…” Ash’s laughter was loud and somehow mocking this kid that is his junior and one of his only friends.

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One year later, Umbrum was given two mana crystal by Raak who seemed to be drunk, it made eight, he just put them away then joined Raak who was probably going to waste his money senselessly, his smile student sighed and stopped him with an usual smile along with a kind voice.

“Come on, just take a rest… stop working and if you need to vent, you can just vent at me, don't worry, I won't mind anything and I am here, you aren't alone.” his words moved this despicable master who turned back and put his hands on Umbrum’s shoulders with an astonished smile.

He didn't know what to say, this child was far too kind for his own good. What if…

“...it looks like I didn't succeed…” he said those words and didn't let the time to Umbrum to wonder about what he was saying.
“You didn't change from the very start… my goal was to teach you about not being weak, so you won't be hurt… at least, after the first months, when I picked you, it was just on a whim…” Umbrum didn’t care and only hugged this ‘old’ man who still couldn’t understand why he was doing this, why was he still as innocent as a child despite all the violent acts he did on him. And then he understood, because he was alone, right, this child has been alone when he found him, he was fighting against a ghost. He remembered him shouting that he will find “them”. So he had people, but he lost his way.

What didn’t he think about that earlier ? That’s true, why such a young child was alone in the forest ? Without any family and killing ghost with an enchanted dagger ? Why did he only have shred of clothes ? How could he stay so cheerful despite this ?

He didn’t think about that until now, it looked like both of them were foolish. One didn’t know what giving up meant, while the other couldn’t even realize such an obvious situation.

“Why would I change ? After all, when I will see my family, I would like them to recognize me no matter what !” Even if he was talking about something quite sensitive to him, his voice didn’t change in the slightest, still so joyous. Hearing that, Raak wanted to say that they were probably dead but he couldn’t open his mouth when seeing his childish and happy face who was staring at him.

...He never thought that one day someone will once again look at him with these eyes despite the fact he was doing everything he could to avoid this.
How ridiculous.

“What are you ?” This child heard this voice but he didn’t care as he continued to hug his master who was deeply moved, he couldn’t utter a word, but was it important ?

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One year later, everyone was reunited with Umbrum who left the academy to hunt, for the occasion, Ash and Eliya came to him and talked to him with bright smiles. They were already accomplished mages by now, one was 20 while the other was 22, both of them have experiences in completing assignments. Nevertheless, they won’t help him because he will progress even further if he discovers by himself.

“Greeting Seniors, how was your night ?” Umbrum’s voice was respectful yet sarcastic, honestly, he didn’t think at all when he said that.

“Oh, look like our junior learnt to talk rudely, should we settle this problem ?”
“Hmmm… I wonder, should we just beat him up a little ?”
“Ahahahah, Eli ! That”s a bit too violent, what about breaking this ?”

Ash drew out a bow that seemed to be unused and quite new… even if it was bought at a cheap price, the enchanted weapons were quite expensive, so when he saw that, he remembered something and immediately bowed, apologizing with all of his heart.

“I am sorry !” Both of his seniors laughed as they gave to him the bow, and explained what it could do, not much actually, it just use mana instead of arrow, and the magic power isn’t stronger or weaker than a regular arrow after all.
“Anyway… take care of yourself, if you come back injured, I swear I will break your arm.” It was Eliya who said this with a worried look while Ash sighed and facepalmed at her words.
“Alright, come back soon, okay ?” Hearing that, Umbrum nodded and entered in the forest.

For now, Umbrum was asked to hunt a rare monster, called Shadow.
Weirdly, he felt quite interested with them because of his spell named Edax Umbra, both had links with shadow despite the fact that Edax Umbra, in others word, Shadow Devouring and simply the Shadows are somehow similar.
Anyway, the Shadows were just “Goblins”, theses moving shadows first have invisible and take the characteristics of a specific monster like a Goblin, and there was around three or four of them.

They were really rare so someone wanted to capture them but because of Raak who wanted his student to gain experience, they were let to be killed by Umbrum. How fortunate.

Entering in the forest, he felt something not moving but a sort of link to some living beings, he looked around and saw harmless wolves, he didn’t attack them and oddly, it seemed like he was attracted somewhere.
Climbing onto a tree, he began jumping from branch to branch, staring at the ground from above until he noticed monsters moving, it was the Shadows. They felt… familiar to him, they were… just similar.
Calming himself, he just took his bow and aimed at them, he shot one arrow and it pierced into his head, the three were startled and looked where the arrow came… when they found from where, another came and murdered another of them.

The two decided to charge at the faraway archer, unfortunately, once again, an arrow made one of them fall.

There was only one left who wasn’t giving up and was only halfway toward Umbrum who was without any kind of hesitation launching a last arrow as he felt disturbed by a otherworldly feeling which wasn’t his.

“...why did I feel like… I was killing… someone and not… not a monster…” this was what he felt when the arrow pierced this thing. Quickly, he decided to leave the forest as nausea became more and more intensive. He didn’t even went near to the killed Shadow because their bodies will disappear, there was no blood nor flesh yet he felt disgusted. He didn’t understand, he couldn’t.
Like this, his first mission has been accomplished, as reward two mana crystal but he will need to work freely for his academy during at least two years to get future reward, to prove his fidelity.
But he didn’t care, for now, he just wanted to stay peacefully with his three and only friends.

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Soon, he will be seventeen, Umbrum was talking happily with Raak.
“So what are you planning to do ?” This child wanted to know since his master seemed like he wasn’t going to stay for long, his stuff was less messy, more organized and also… less present. It looked like he was ready to depart.

“Well I planned to leave in one year, I will travel and search someone I miss.” Hearing that, Umbrum only nodded and agreed as he replied on a cheerful tone, taking his bow, a blank book, his dagger and all of his mana crystals.

“I am going to hunt for the meal !” His voice was as cheerful as always as he left the academy, that was the worst choice he could have made because he won’t be able to come back, just like when he left his home to go hunt in the forest.

Entering in the forest, he wandered happily, it wasn’t the first time he is hunting after all, he has been doing this many many times, not in was a different this day except one thing.

“What are you ?” Unlike before, it was echoing. It wasn’t just in his head, it was echoing in the forest, this person has been haunted him since years, he stopped being scared of this sudden voice, but now… he was still terrified because it was different than usual, the man was in front of him. He was staring at the foolish child, the ever-changing mask was slower and he could see its deep eyes, the color was also ever-changing, but he didn’t care.
Those eyes were… filled with fear.

Seeing this, Umbrum’s heart thumped heavily as he began running the fastest possible toward the academy, he exited the forest and saw….

A plain, a simple and clear plain.

“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!”
Not again, everything disappeared once again.
He was screaming, he couldn’t understand why.
Why did it disappear ?
Why… just why ? Why did he need to suffer like this ? Why…
He couldn’t understand.

Why was he the one staying once again ? Why was he left alone ?
As his body was fading away once again, once again he will disappear, once again he will come back, once again he will be left with nothing.

Once again, he will alone, all he will have will be objects of the past.

“...I give up…” He wanted to, but he didn’t.
He decided that he will close his heart yet he won’t change, but the next time, everything disappear. He won’t be affected, that is his choice.

Thus, he began wandering in the world, not to search a way to find them back because unconsciously, he knew that he won’t be able to… one day, he fell on the Magic Association and joined them on a whim, secretly hoping that it will not disappear.

Appearance: When his mood is at its bottom, his body won't be visible and only be part of the shadow, or a fog under the moonlight.

And in normal circumstances, his appearance is just of a metis young man with brown short hair and eyes wearing glasses and over-sized clothes with a slight beard.

Personality: Overexcited, Optimist, Decisive, Protective, Friendly, Delusional, Lonely

Spoiler: Inventory

17 L.Wooden Coins
50 S.Wooden Coins

16 Arrows
1 Basket
Art Of Human Observation
3 Appraisal Talismans

160 Merits

Spoiler: Equipment

Enchanted Long Dark Coat : Self-repairing using the wearer's mana, passively creating an effect of invisibility on the user, can be deactivated.
Upon commands, the coat will relieve the user from exhaustion against an exponential mana.
May auto-activate a barrier in case the wearer is in death or life situation.

10x Small Mana Crystals : Absord surrounding mana and stock it to future use. (Can be filled every 24-32h)

Enchanted Dagger : Dagger that can slash incorporeal being like ghosts. Nothing else.

Enchanted Bow : A bow that can create "magic arrows" by using and putting mana into it, the arrows won't be stronger than a real arrow, in fact, it's just a bow with "mana" as munitions.

Fiery Ring :

Spoiler: ”Umbrum’s Book”

Spoiler: Magic

Hmmm... they often left their pupils learning magic by themselves so I only learnt what seemed to be the more versatile and useful to me... afterward, I didn't even try to read the basics... maybe I should one day...
For now, I will let blank pages for

Spoiler: ”Monsters”

Spoiler: ”Treant”

A treant is a type of trees, what's peculiar is their ability to move unlike any trees. They aren't specified as dangerous monsters because of their weak strength, nevertheless, they are known to have many different evolutions.

Spoiler: ”Devourer”

In short, a Devourer is an evolved treant which is almost as weak as a regular treant, his special ability is actually to devour mana, this is why they are hunted, the environmental mana is disappearing because of them, their materials are known to be extremely compatible to mana, it's flowing quite easily and quickly into these branches, so there's lot of reasons to hunt them, unfortunately, they are quite rare. So others evolutions of the treants are hunted widely.
A hidden fact is that the evolutions of the devourer are many and there is some that develop a consciousness, unlike any others evolved treants.
Unfortunately, they are still undiscovered.

Spoiler: ”High Treant”

This creature is similar the Treant, it's just that every of their capabilities are stronger than it, it still has no goals or something special to do with it.
The only thing that changed is maybe the capacity to use mana that is into them.
Another evolution will be based on the element that is using and the place where the High Treant is living.
Thank to this, the materials made from High Treants are very wished considering that it has a great versatility around elements.
But for a specific element, a evolution of the High Treant is advised.

Spoiler: ”Guardians”

Unlike the others treants, they are unnoticeable, they are literally fusing with the nature and making it prosperous, every times, the nature is in danger, it will try to force the animals and monsters in it to cooperate to protect it.
A legend says that its final form is called “Yggdrasil”

Spoiler: ”Shadows”

It may seem weird, but sometimes, there is moving shadows when there isn’t anybody, some people thought that there was just some invisibles monsters that were wandering.
The truth isn’t actually known, because we don’t know anything.
Everytime a “Shadow” is killed, both the invisible body and shadow will disappear, almost like it never existed in the first place.
Those creatures can be anything, but can’t change, what I mean is… If there is the shadow of an Orc, they will stay as an orc, they will have the exact same characteristics, nevertheless, they don’t need to eat, drink or sleep, just like undeads yet they aren’t.
A shadow may be tameable but there is still no cases of it happening… I mean, what if we meet a “Cat’s Shadow”, theoretically talking it’s possible, just probably rare, in the first place, those creatures are only a few.

Spoiler: ”Soulless”

Among them, there is Soulless Shadows.
In the first place, they are quite difficult to detect but them are even worse, because they don’t have such thing as magic in them, and even if we have the spell “Life Detection” which I don’t have, it’s still impossible to detect them… hmm…
Fortunately, they are rarer than the regular shadows which are already on the verge of extinction...

Spoiler: Goblins

Goblins are such an odd race, as versatile as humans, sometimes there is only crude tribes of them, and other times there is literally a kingdom... unfortunately, if they weren't so obsessed about... uhm... mating... they would be just like humans, however they aren't.
Their skin are green pale, their body are often deformed and oddly-shaped, some of them have three arms for example, anyway, most of them have tiny horns on their crane, often the stronger among them have darker green skin, then grey skin until it becomes black.

After there is a lot of different kind of goblins, what I talked above was just about Goblins fighter, the one that have no real attributes. After like humans, there is goblins mage which can be recognized with their blue skin becoming lighter and lighter as they become stronger unlike the fighters..
Anyway, a real goblin kingdom hasn't been confirmed, most of the ones that are commons are just mindless monsters who can't really talk, if they had what they wanted, they could develop quickly due to their high reproduction rate, it's great that they can't though.
If they became developed, they may be too dangerous.

I think we should exterminate them so people aren't in danger...

Spoiler: ”Harpy”

This is a humanoid monster with the lower body, legs and wings of a bird, the bird parts may change depending what variants the harpies have, they aren’t all similar after all…
Anyway, they are known to eat all kinds of fleshy creatures, including us humans, because apparently to them, our flesh contains all kind of useful proteins and we are “tasty”...

I prefer not describing them too much, just thinking about… it feels revolting… well, as long as I can remember them, it should be alright…

Spoiler: ”Undead”

Here goes a really wide subjects, there is a lot of different kinds of undeads, some are brainless and can’t think, they are just puppets to Necromancers or natural disasters… There is also intelligent undeads which is quite a controversial topic because, well, they are intelligent so maybe we can talk to them, but they are monsters…

First, no matter what kind of undeads, all of them have an infinite stamina, or should I say that they have no stamina from the start since they are dead and can’t feel anything ? Whatever, the result is the same anyway.
Second, they can be separated in two big aspects, one is corporeal, one isn’t.
After, there is also a mix between the two like.. hmm… a Dullahan, it’s a floating armor in which resides the specter of someone, they are still physical but also aren’t.

Spoiler: ”Corporeal”

Spoiler: ”Zombies”

The most common .
Zombies are considered to be a living being that was brought back to life but obviously, it didn’t work.
They are corpses of dead living beings, there is not much to say except that they are weaker than when they were alive I suppose…anyway, they are mindless.
Anyway, their strength depends mostly on what they were when they were alive, between an Human Zombie and a Wyvern Zombie, the stronger is obviously the wyvern, nevertheless the most common is still the human zombie who is quite weak and can even die again with a blade, there is mostly no need from mages against them.

Spoiler: ”Ghouls”

Ghouls… are different from Zombies, unlike them, they weren’t living beings, and unlike them, they have a sort of intelligence, though it’s only child-like so it should still be easy to trick them.
They are quite fast, as quick as a dog, their senses are quite sharps and they eat all kind of flesh, they are like crows who are eating a corpse left in nowhere, often wandering around cemeteries to eat corpses, cold or hot.

Nevertheless, their origins are quite shady, some says that they are summoned by evil mages, some say that they are experiments from some weird researchers trying to revive someone… but well, we don’t know.

Spoiler: ”Draugr”

It’s an animate corpse encrusted with sea shells, it’s covered with sticky liquid from the sea or they are frozen, they are similar to zombies, but more dangerous.
Most of them were living being that died because they drowned or were frozen to death, often they died when they were filled with wrath, because of this, they came back from the dead and became undead which are naturally emitting ice elements.
Despite being supposedly frozen, they are faster than the zombies, their senses are even better and they are not chasing living beings to eat, but to kill.

...I never saw one, I only read books about them but

Spoiler: ”Ethereal”

Spoiler: ”Ghosts”

Ghost can’t actively hurt someone physically, but it can disturb someone emotionally or psychologically, most of them don’t have any concretes power, they are easily killable with magics.
The only thing that is worth mentioning is their “Mind Attacks” which can confuse someone, provoke panic, force someone to kill themselves through trying to manipulate their feelings and they can’t be killed through physicals means.

Spoiler: ”Mixed”

Spoiler: ”Dullahan”

Well, the Dullahan is either a ghost that fused with a armor or a warrior who at his death became a ghost but his arm stayed with him/her/it.
Unlike ghosts, they can affect directly the world with their physical bodies which are their armors.

A way to “kill” them will be to destroy the armor, or try to use magic to affect the spirit which is stronger than a regular ghost and half-protected by the armor.

Spoiler: ”People”

Spoiler: ”Disappeared (Death isn't confirmed)”

Spoiler: Family

Papa ~ My protective and truthful father that mysteriously disappeared. There isn't much more to know.

Mama ~ My secretive and awkward mom who always had some weird fetishes, I do not know much more than that.

Little Sister ~ My sweet and cute little sister who always hated the concept of money and liked hugs, pats, foods and obviously me.

Ash ~ My first friend, always was so valiant and severe, he helped me greatly before disappearing like the others.

Raak ~ A despicable brute who unexpectedly had a weak heart and was sensible, he was just being a bully because nobody ever trusted him.

Eliya ~ She was always near to Ash, despite her cold looks and apathetic smile, she was one of the softest people I knew.

Spoiler: ”Alive”

Blaiz, hmm... he seems to be quite friendly and his sis- servant Ruby is quite protective, shouldn't it be the contrary ? Anyway, it should be fun to talk with him.

Aria, maybe a bit blunt and haughty ? I don't know, it hasn't even been that much time with her after all.

The Most Despicable Mage Ever ~ A person to avoid no matter what, normally I wouldn't like to kill but there is always exceptions, I still never dirtied my hand but for her… maybe I will be able to…Though she will probably die before I get enough mana to be powerful enough to beat her.

Spoiler: ”Dead”

...Just writing this question in case, but about what I know, there isn’t anybody.
There is nobody, they just disappeared, and I will find them !

Specialty : Support

Spoiler: Spells

Mirror (minimal)
Spell Type : Misc

Everything in this world can be copied, no matter what it is, it can be.
On this principle, this spell was created, considering his low proficiency, he can replicate anything related to offensives or defensive spells but with a reduced capacity, for example, a Fireball, only 70% of the firepower shall be replicated for the same amount of mana.

But it's too simple, when replicating the spell, he must feel what would have happened if he was touched by the corresponding spell, let's just say a Magic Barrier, is there someone who already wondered if the Barrier was alive, what would it have felt when it was shattered ? This is what he would feel when replicating it.

Shadow Devouring <Edax Umbra>
Spell Type : Curse/Support

A shadow is always present down at your feet when there is light.
When it's not there, it means that you aren't there.
So what if during daylight, despite you having originally both arms, your shadow is missing one ?
Your body shall have only one arm.

That is the principle of Shadow Devouring, if your shadow is completely devoured, when exposed to light, your body will disappear, you will be nothing, it's almost like you aren't existing anymore, but only when there is light creating a shadow, you only exist when there is no lights.When nobody can see.
After, it's what happens when someone's shadow has been devoured completely.

Magically talking, this spell depend mostly on the amount of mana when used.
As long as the user has used enough mana and the devoured isn't trying to counter attack, the devoured person shall not exist in daylight, he won't be able to move, to see, to hear, he will be nothing. However, he can't be killed.

Physical Enhancement
Spell Type : Support.

Spell Description : Simple, with this magic, you can enhance some muscles/bones/organs in your body, of course, the body always have limit so if you overuse it, it will be dangerous and harm your body that may exist or not.
But there is a lot of thing to take in account in, if one of your arm is far stronger than your other arm, it will create an imbalance, it will need more oxygen considering that the muscle is more... strong, the body's needs will be improved.

And brutal alteration often brings troubles or harms.

Mare's Nest (small)
Spell Type : Support/Misc
Spell Description :

Mare’s Nest is an illusion that actually affects one to three persons, most of the time, illusions spell isn't affecting anyone, they are just “pictures” in air that everyone can't see, there is often no sounds coming from it, unlike most of the illusions who affect only the sight.
Currently, considering Umbrum's level, he can affect sight and hearing at the same time at a high cost.


Teleportation (minimal)
Spell Type : Support

His range is around thirty feet, nevertheless, he can't teleport himself, only objects that was marked by his magic signature since his level in learning Teleportation is really awful.
And it uses a lot of mana considering his low proficiency and affinity in this kind of magic.

Magical Origin: Neutral/Darkness

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Name : Niris
Race : Human
Gender : Female
Age : 26

Spoiler: Appearance

Spoiler: Spells

Ice Dome
Type : Barrier

That can be only a part of a dome, for example, a half dome, nevertheless, Niris is only using it to protect herself from attacks.

Ice Pillar
Type : Offensive

The tip of the pillar can maybe be a little sharp, sharp enough to pierce someone and kill it supposedly ?

Freeze
Type : Support/Offensive

Everything that is touched by Niris can be frozen when using this spell, useful for when she wants to preserve food.

Life Detection
Type : Support

All life can be detected at 30 feet around her when the spell is used.

Spoiler: Equipment

Nothing except a black outift which is hiding her form.
A hooded black coat, she also has a mask that modify her voice.

Spoiler: Inventory

Empty

Specialty : Offensive/Defensive
Magical Origin : Constance

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Name : ???
Race : ???
Gender : Male
Age : ???

Spoiler: Appearance

Spoiler: Origin (?)

Being here with Umbrum since more than ten years, he always thought that he was an illusion however, he was wrong since he wasn't. There is no explanations to why he was here in the first place.
He is real. He has been ignoring this fake hallucination for more than ten years.
However, what is he ? Who is he ?
There are actually the questions that "he" asked to Umbrum many time, then he replied and became silent.

And, one day, his words will come back.

OOC:
@The Everdistant Utopia
Here it is~
Everything is there~

 

*is sad because the link doesn't work*
*recovers quickly as he continues to write Umbrum's background*

 

Okay, @Naraku

Not categorized, for some reason.

Ill categorized. Check the first page.

The neuroscience part still irks me, but those are my only nitpicks. Tag me once you're done correcting those two parts.

 

Sure! It works well! *hugs*

And in my defense, it's all your fault for letting me decide Nyllia's coin! That much info would never exist otherwise! >.<

Remember to use the Roleplay Games subforum for the other threads btw! We don't want another case of Dungeons cluttering the Community Games! ^^)/

 

What other threads, I wonder... I guess that one for stories and one for jobs...

Also, on the topic of jobs, I've asked it more than once, but does no one has any suggestion or request for specific jobs/requests to be added?

 

@The Everdistant Utopia my spell is both creation and control type . . .

 

Besides the maker, hunter, etc.? I think there was a post with other suggestions I quoted

 

A spell can be two types at the same time, though, as long as it isn't unreasonable, which yours isn't~

 

Should I write both or put hybrid or something?