"What the fuck just happened, Hugh" he pukes in surprise still feeling dizzy tries to stand. Everything was just moving too fast for him
"Come over here!" he shouts at Daniel as in a giant rock a rectangle hole opens up.
staggering over they walk in.
"Gosh the dust" he coughs, "so you wanna kill me before my time you old hag" he says as flame torch light up around the corridor as they walk into a clearing, decorated with books and scrolls all around. you could see rock golems all around.
"Is she dead already, hahaha I won"
"You, senseless bastard who do you think is dead" a voice screams out from another corridor as someone walks out, dress in green, orange and red robes circling her body, silver hair dropping down almost reaching her toes, supporting herself with a crooked stick with mana gems inserted all around its color gold and red all scattered around the stick, even with her age her eyes still sparkled. her red pupils glowed, warmly mana seeping out of it
.....
looking at each other lucard breaks into a smile as he works over." long time shera"
"Same to you grouchy" she says as a radiant smile breaks out.
"Hey, am nice now, try to be nice too"
"Humph, that's how nice I could get, after not seeing me in 5 years" she scoffs
"who's that boy, he's the reason why you here right"
"Uhm...yes"
"Good you can leave now" she says in annoyance as she turns back waving her staff which glows
rocks golems gathers and tries to escort them out.
"Wait shera, can't you just be patient for once"
"Ugh you definitely here for one of my treasures right. you know how many years it took me to gather all these?"
"Yes, I do"
"I wasn't asking you old scoundrel, just leave don't have time for you"
"she's a time mage"
"What!!" she looks back in shock her pupil dilates.
"Yes, can you imagine"
"hahaha" he laughs in excitement as he savors the look on her face.
calming down she looks at Daniel, up and down. "Become my disciple"
"What...?" not knowing what to say, he asks as he secretly looks at Lucard, in expectance as he delivers
"You do know he is my student, right?" the old man answers for him as he steps to his front in a guarding way.
"Is he? I bet you never even asked him..." she looks at Daniel and confirms
"Yeah, just like old times, no ounce of care for others."
"Well.... I don't need to ask him, am the one running around to better his life." he answers
"You really do think this is gonna help him, do you now the amount of danger you're putting him in?"
"What danger? his normal life is already over without power he clearly won't survive, with time magic his life would be better than normal, isn't that better"
"You only doing this for yourself you selfish bastard" she roars in anger.
"Ugh, just give me the damn scroll, hasn't it collected enough dust?
"You...." her faces red, as smoke escapes from her ear, breathing out she looks over to Daniel "so, do you want it, do you really which to enter this life, mind you, death will be a regular if you choose this"
hearing this and the old man impatient look closes his eyes, it's been what now, four days, he could only hope his father, mother and sis where alive but if they where he needed this power to find them and also to survive until he finds them, the world is different, wait it's not even a world the entire galaxy by working through a hole you could go to another world, and another world means new different and dangerous, just now he couldn't do a thing when they were ambushed and just walking took all his energy.
"Am in!"
"You see, I know my student" he says in confidence, clearly not remembering he just met him a day ago.
"Ok if you say so" she says waving her staff
"This is an official welcome to devour world kill or be killed" she says as she collects a scroll from a golem and passes it to Daniel "open it"
as Daniel unfolds the scroll everyone focused on it, then swoop a golden glow smash into his eyes, he falls to the ground.
"a soul scroll, incredible that should save us time"
"Yeah, and that's goodbye to my time spell" she says in slight anger, a soul scroll had benefit, when opened, it's automatically imprint to your soul making you able to cast the ability without even studying it or ever casting it before, a rare treasure indeed.
"Well not like will be expecting any time mage this century or something, it I'll be left to him to pass down more time spells"
"If he lives to that level"
"Have a little faith in him"
"Stop talking like you give a damn about him, he's just like a little lab rat to you"
"Your jealous right"
"What? why on earth should I be"
"Because he's my student not yours, haha"
"he's not even a wind mage what the heck are you gonna teach him"
"hehehehe, I sensed a little talent in air magic, and beside you don't need to have the same element with your master to learn just my, knowledge that have gathered over the years is enough to completely change his life" he says stroking his beard.
"Dummy, you seem to have forgotten with the devouring system, by killing you anyone could get all those shits stored in your head, your death will be a blessing not a loss"
"Did you just curse me, and even though if it was that easy, to be sure to get the exact thing and not just anything like skill or life force we will both not be dead, the system chooses randomly what you should get" he says still proud of himself.
"Whatever he's waking up." shera says as she looks over to Jane.
"ugh my head what was that" he says recollecting after the bright light all he saw was darkness then a ring created with strange words glowed brightly, looking at it in a sense he could understand it, at least understand it use , a rune crafted to bring the spell to life, a time spell that could pause time, well not really, it was an artificial time created by him that can freeze a little space in time.
"So, what is it, can you cast it" Lucard says stepping closer
"Give him some space you enthusiastic bastard" shera says.
Why the hell do they curse a lot he thinks as she tries to stand upright remembering the spell and how to cast it. he stretches out his hands thinking then his both palm glows as a gold rune suspends in the air looking at one of the golems working, he points at it and from the rune circle golden light shoots at hitting the golem which immediately stops.
"Interesting so does it pause or slows down time" the old man ask as he brushes, he's beard with he's left hand.
"It pauses time, but with the mana I have I can only pause time for 5 seconds"
"haha incredible, don't look down at it, in a battle just five second is enough to finish up your opponent, and as it didn't take you much time to cast it that means you have a strong soul, continue practicing the mana absorption method I thought you".
"hmph, with the devour system you shouldn't put all your time on magic, " she says.
"Other fighting style will be helpful too"
"Well.... she's right but your time magic is definitely unpar with any ability you will ever learn so don't neglect it"
"Ok, thank you very much sir lucard and Ms. shera, you just gave me hope in saving my family"
"oh" the old man answers in surprises clearly haven forgot about that.
"You should check your devour system" shera says to him looking at him with a slight smile, but she swore he saw a glimpse of sympathy
"Uhm...ok" Daniel says as he opens it
everything was pretty much the same except his occupation had been changed from civilian to time mage.