Desmond, taking Lydia with him, made his way towards the dungeon area of the academy. He wanted to go in quickly.There were still many students around, studying. Most of them were from the second and higher years of study. The first year's exams, apart from the alchemy and magic theory exams, would be held towards the end of the week, from Friday to Sunday.Lydia had already taken her magic theory exam and, according to her, had done incredibly well.The pair went to the dungeon guards, gave them their school IDs, and stated that they wanted to form a team.Once the team formation process was complete, the pair began extensive preparations.Desmond gave Lydia several dozen potions, handing her everything from healing pills to high-quality armour.Lydia was a skilled magician, a sorceress, people could say. She was just a young girl with two magic rings, but her magical power was enormous compared to that of most people. After all, Lydia, or Penelope herself, was a member of the imper

Desmond had wanted to proceed directly with conquering the dungeon. While Lydia slept, he had chosen one of the three options presented to him due to his level-up. Of course, Desmond was no fool, so he had selected a different skill and subsequently acquired a skill that would indeed prove very useful in the future.This skill wasn't of a particularly high rank, but to be perfectly honest, it was a really good skill:[Dash (Rare/Active/Upgradeable) Tired of standing still? Then move with a single move! The user will be able to move suddenly between 1-10 metres, depending on the amount of mana spent using the skill. The user can use this skill in any direction: up, down, left, right, and diagonally. The skill can be used to cover short distances.]This was a really good ability, it really was.Especially if he had to fight a fast magical beast, or even people or other races that were faster than him in the future, Desmond could use this spell, or rather this ability, to close the g

It was an unbelievable sight."So... beautiful..." the young man had thought in that brief moment, and then suddenly remembered what he had to do and pulled himself together.He gripped his sword tightly. So tightly that he could feel his hand were getting numb from holding it like that.In a split second, he managed to swing his sword. Just once first.Then again.One more time.Again.Then again.Harder.Higher.Lower.Five times, ten times, then a hundred times.When the time was up, Desmond had slashed the same area exactly seven hundred and seventy-two times.At that moment, an incredible pain shot through his body. It was truly an unbelievably bad pain. His arms ached as if hundreds of lightning bolts had struck them, and his veins were visibly throbbing constantly due to the blood flow, as if they were about to burst out of his arms.It was truly horrific.Desmond began to fall from the air to the ground, and at that moment, Lydia lunged forward.She didn't know what was happen

Desmond had parted ways directly with a few inquisitors.He had managed to get into a horse-drawn carriage and had managed to return home at hyper speed.When Lisa and Mycroft saw him, they breathed a deep sigh of relief. Desmond was overcome by a strange feeling of déjàvu. This scene was the same as the one he had encountered when he returned from Nyx's realm.Desmond went straight into the mansion, threw himself into the bathroom and managed to clean himself up as best he could. Afterwards, he put on the outfit he had asked Elise to prepare and asked the servants to do his hair.It was almost two hours after the ball had started, at nine o'clock in the evening, when Desmond was finally ready.Following today's ball, the feast that would take place across the entire empire would begin and continue for a full month.Desmond had also prepared the necessary gifts. Since he didn't know exactly what he needed to prepare, he had purchased many weapons from the system shop, and even the ext

Desmond had said it like he had asked them to send jewels from the holy land, as if he had brought a few pieces of dough from one of the small corner shops in the neighbourhood.This was something none of them could have imagined.Desmond had said he had requested jewels from the sacred land, as if he had asked one of the small corner shops in the neighbourhood to bring him a few pieces of dough.This was something none of them could have imagined.However, Desmond closed the wooden box and then took the two boxes of White Obsidian he had placed on the floor, handing one to Evander and the other to Alissa."This is my final gift. What you do with them is up to you," Desmond had said.At his words, Evander and Alissa looked at each other for a second. Immediately afterwards, the lids of the small boxes were opened, revealing these two stones.These stones were orange. It would be accurate to say they were a bright orange. Both contained white feathers, which was enough to indicate that