Isekai Grimoire System

Chapter II: The Fellow Outlander (II)

Archie tried to stand on his feet, which were still shaking. At least he had to do something. Otherwise, something bad would happen to his mother. She was the one who straight away gave him warmth and affection—something he had never received before.

"Sotna mamakku," Archie shouted, using his world language spontaneously.

The masked figure was surprised and turned its attention to Archie.

"You?!" Behind his mask, his eyes stared with shock. The language Archie had just spoken was not the language of this world.

"You are not affected by my magic, huh?" asked the masked figure. "I don't care, my business is not with you, brat."

He continued to strangle Emeline's neck while his other hand held Emeline's face tightly.

Slowly but surely, Emeline's body became limp and stiff. From between the fingers, the mother's eyes glanced at her son with affection.

Archie's spirit flared up, his mixed feelings worsened, and a wave of magic rose within him.

The wind ruffled his hair and clothes. Archie's eyes filled with tears as his mother's gaze reached him—a gaze full of hope.

“WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!”

Archie was about to take a step. In the first push, a strange sensation sent him crashing fast toward the masked figure. In a matter of seconds, he grabbed his mother's body, and the strong wind followed, sending the mummies and the masked figure down.

The masked figure swiftly dodged the wind’s gust; he jumped back and stood unharmed.

“I see, yeah…you are also an Outlander. You are not a soul that should be in this world,” said the masked figure. He stared intently at the figure of Archie floating above the ground holding his mother's body.

“Outlanders? Not from this world?” replied Archie, who was confused.

“Heh, apparently, you didn't know anything. Look at yourself."

Archie looked around. The wind swirled, creating a protective shield that protected him and his comrades. At that moment, he realized he was no longer touching the ground; he was floating in the air.

“This is the first time for me to witness the grimoire’s awakening other than mine,” said the masked man.

“Grimoires?! Is this?"

Archie's gaze moved again. This time a white book hovered nearby. The book's front cover is decorated with an ornament that forms a beautiful batik pattern and an inscription written in an ancient language.

“Grimoire…of the Winds?”

The wind was spinning faster and looked like it would rage when Archie read the cover’s text. Sheet after sheet opened, at first glance, it only looks like a blank white sheet, until finally the book stops and he sees the first page.

[[Grimoire of the Winds

Possessor: Archie Shellford

Basic Class: The Wanderer

Class Level: Whitecaste

Transcended Class: Insufficient

Compatibility Rate: 1%]]

Archie's attention was focused on a straight line under the first page. The 1% number appears on the left side of the line, while the 100% appears on the far right of the line. But the attention was diverted again because something appeared on the same sheet.

Something began to be printed on the white sheet. In the ancient language of his world, a letter was printed, which then became a word and formed into a whole paragraph right below the old one.

[[Quest Encountered!

Main Quest: Settled the Initial Encounter]]

“From your expression, it looks like the first mission has already been written, huh?”

Those words snapped Archie out of his endless confusion. The figure in front of him kept saying something only he should know.

"Actually…who are you?"

“Who am I, huh? Huh,” replied the masked figure haughtily. “I am the same person as you; we are Outlanders. We are not the original inhabitants of this world.”

Something is starting to connect and make sense. First, the figure is wearing a Tutankhanum mask that comes from his world, even though it's a different era and region, but Archie has studied history.

Second, he heard the masked figure chanting magic using a recognized language. The masks and language came from the same region.

Archie's aimlessly thoughts had drifted back to his senses. The mother in his arms didn't move; Archie put his ear to the mother's bosom to listen to her heartbeat.

"Mother?! Wake up, Mother!” Archie tried to shake his mother's rigid body, but there was no reciprocation. The mother's heartbeat was slowing, and her face turned pale.

“The initial effects are already starting to appear. If you don't do something, that woman will die soon, you know," said the masked figure.

“What have you done to my mother? Bastard!” Archie's pitiful gaze turned into a threatening looking at his opponent. Fear, worry, and another emotion rolled into one.

The masked figure opened his palm and showed something. A deep purple crystal with a shining white core has a pyramidal tip.

“I have succeeded in extracting the holy power from that woman,” explained the masked figure. He tossed around the crystal in his hand like a toy. “A person whose power is taken by force, their soul will not be able to last long, and slowly, that person will die.”

“Then I just have to grab that thing and kill you, right?” Archie was threatening with words, but his opponent would have easily guessed that he wasn't playing around at all.

"Ha ha ha. You? Even though you just awakened the power of a grimoire, your compatibility with the grimoire is unelevated. You won't be able to use it against me, who is superior to you.” The masked figure laughed as he heard Archie's serious threat confidently.

"Listen, brat. When you first awaken the grimoire, the skills you can use are the least and they are just lowly skills that won't even be able to fight against Bluecaste class adventurers,” he continued sneeringly.

After Archie checked his grimoire, on another sheet was written down:

[[Passive Skill: Floating, Actived]]

[[Passive Skill: Protective Dome, Actived]]

Then below that paragraph:

[[Active Skill: Syphon

Spell: ___]]

In the paragraph that reads "Active Skill," there are evident sentences, which are a series of words commonly used as poesy.

“Done checking it? Try reading the spells written there, I'm also curious about your first skill," said the masked figure sarcastically.