“But your highness… It’s the only one left.”
A faint smile.
“It can’t be pursued nor chosen. It grants itself to whoever is worthy.”
***
Primus Magus: The United with Mana. The Pioneer of Intelligence. The Supreme. Through unprecedented Mana control, the highest affinity in all Mana subclasses, and raw emotion that spoke to the world—to Mana itself, Somani was granted one of the seven eternal classes, the Primus Magus—has a chance to reach the zenith.
To the shocked eyes of everyone present, white Mana particles gathered around Somani, forming a white sphere that raised him off the ground.
The pure white Mana particles entered Somani’s body. Through zooming in, I saw the transformation; It was unbelievable.
They entered each cell, changing its composition and optimising it. Each cell part, from its cellular walls to its innards and nucleus, was transformed. The cells still kept their shapes, but instead of the normal building blocks, they were now formed from Mana.
Crk!
Somani’s core cracked, and then…
Boov!
The explosion destroyed the remainder of the building, killing a legionnaire on the spot while sending the rest flying with different injuries.
The pure Mana changed every cell, except for neurons. When it reached them… the brain melted into a sludge, then evaporated, leaving a hollow inside Somani’s skull.
‘Somani!’
No answer.
A transparent liquid began to accumulate inside Somani’s skull until it filled it. The liquid hardened, forming a material similar to the one Soman’s core was made of, except it was a thousand times larger and denser.
The crystal brain looked dazzling as pure white Mana began to fill it.
‘…Grandpa? Save Mom.’
Somani’s thought came sluggish before completely disappearing.
‘Of course.’
As the crystal brain began to fill, the system spoke again.
Titles Available:
-Sagax: The Mana Sage can: learn how to cast any spell by only seeing it once; Memorize the tapestry of endless weaves and recall them easily; Combine, dismantle, and create new spells by himself.
-Insta-Caster: The Instantaneous Caster can create Mana Engines with limited use, basically having the ability to create pseudo-skills. The Mana Engines will allow the Primus Magus to cut the cost and casting time of every spell by turning them into engines. It will also allow the strengthening of a spell, allowing the user to push it beyond its tier to a higher one.
-Mana Star: This title will turn the Primus Magus’s body into a Mana Generator, turning the entirety of his innards into a Mana Core. The Mana Star can regenerate the entirety of his core within a thousand heartbeats, and due to losing his innards, the Primus will operate on Mana alone, increasing his power and forgoing the need for sustenance. (The regenerated amount per heartbeat scales with the increase in capacity of the Body Core).
-Immortal: As long as the Primus Magus has Mana, he won’t age nor die, regenerating any wound, no matter the type, with ease.
You can only choose one title. (Titles are unupgradable, unchangeable, and you can only have one title per class tier.)
I ignored the titles, surprised by…
This bastard!
I hadn’t noticed it earlier, but the tall human had somehow managed to evade the blast as he didn’t have a scratch.
He was now staring at Somani, who was still inside the Mana sphere.
The man had his arms closed and didn’t attack us for some reason.
Could he be scared?
I threw that possibility immediately out of my mind… the man was too calm.
Maybe he’s waiting for reinforcements?
I didn’t have enough knowledge about how the sphere operated, what this white Mana was, or how this human thought, but what I knew was that Somani had to finish his class and come out way stronger than before, or our lives are forfeit.
I have to choose a title that’ll help us survive this day.
I quickly went through the titles before settling on this one:
-Immortal: As long as the Primus Magus has Mana, he won’t age nor die, regenerating any wound, no matter the type, with ease.
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The other titles sounded incredible, but they wouldn’t give me an immediate benefit, and surviving to see another day was more important than anything now.
I choose Immortal!
And the System obliged.
The White sphere grew a bit, but then the tall human suddenly disappeared from his spot.
Where did he go?
As I searched for him, I noticed something…
The sphere!
As the Mana was getting absorbed into Somani’s new brain, the sphere shrank.
Could he be waiting for the sphere to disappear before attacking, and seeing it suddenly grow made him scared? Anyway, I should be more careful.
I wanted to create a Blood Bomb in case he came back, but feared that it might interfere with the class somehow.
I’ll wait and see. If he attacks, then I’ll have no choice…
The already changed cells got another change after choosing the title. They now seemed to quiver a bit and had a shine to them.
The System spoke again.
Class skills:
-Primus Manipulation: Mana Manipulation, but with the ability to attune Mana into any sub-class without the need of an attuning skill, specific skill, or Mana stone.
-Primus Senses: Allows the user to sense unattributed, attributed, and hidden Mana. Any Mana hidden through wards, skills, or scrolls at the tierless level shall be uncovered.
-Primus Skin: Gain an invincible passive film that covers the entirety of your body like a second skin. As long as you have Mana, the skin will protect you from any tierless magic weave or ward effect.
-Primus Bubble: A spherical shield that surrounds you, protecting you from physical and energy-based attacks. Any damage dealt with the equivalent or less power of a tierless levelled attack shall be nulled.
-Primus Construct: Stores up to three Mana weaves, which can be instantaneously summoned as constructs. (If used, the Mana weaves have to be reweaved before they can be stored again.)
-Primus Will: Allows the user to battle for control of a Mana weave within a certain range, destroying it or continuing its intended construct purpose. (Primus Will’s strength scales not only with level, but also with the user’s mind power.)
-Primus Domain: Allows the user to inhibit the creation of any tierless Mana weaves, while increasing the potency of chosen weaves, inside the domain. (Primus Domain strength scales not only with level, but also with the user’s connection to the world.)
-Primus Batteries: Allows the user to store Mana in a secondary core that has half the capacity of the user’s core. (The battery needs to be recharged manually from one’s own preserves.)
You can only choose one class skill. (Class skills are unchangeable, and you can only have four per class tier.)
I scanned the eight skills before settling on what I thought would help me the most, given my current circumstances: [Primus Will].
I had chosen this skill because if I intended to escape alive, I was probably going to have to fight stronger opponents than myself, and a skill that didn’t fully depend on tiers for strength sounded like the best idea to bridge the level gap.
I debated choosing [Primus Domain], but I didn’t know what connection to the world meant.
Unlike the title selection, there was no visible change in the white Mana; It continued to get absorbed into Somani for a few minutes, until the Mana sphere was a thin film, and before it disappeared…
Status!
Species: Manima Monoform.
Species-specific skills:
-Mana Manipulation Lv. 9
-Soul Manipulation Lv. 9
-Rudis Subtilis Biomancy Lv. 8 {Tier 1} (Unique)
-Hive Mind Lv. 2 {Tier 1}
-Manima Senses Lv. 8 (Unique)
Class unavailable
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Perfect Unity Host (Somani):
Species Specific Skills:
-Adaptation Lv. 2
-Fast Learning Lv. 2
Class: Primus Magus Lv. 1
-Class Titles (1/1):
*Immortal
-Class Skills (1/4):
*Primus Will Lv. 1
General Skills:
-Identify Lv. 5
-Forced Mana Regeneration Lv. 5
-Intermediary Mana Control Lv. 9
-Heal Lv. 4
I fell to the ground as the sphere’s last strings got absorbed into the new brain.
Observing Somani through my skill’s vision: the kid had lost all his scars, his skin shone with a faint light, and his body seemed to have unending energy.
I used [Hive Mind] to connect our brains—
Woah… This is 9BP, no, it’s 10BP. This Mind Core is amazing!
I also felt the amount of Mana at my disposal; it was multiple times as big as before.
Thankfully, Somani was still unconscious, which meant I could escape without hassle.
I kept myself cautious as I scaled the rubble.
I’ll survive this and then take my revenge!
***
Shamoni’s POV:
The monster was still encased in Supreme Mana, a volatile Mana subclass that was very hard to wield, even for those with the rare affinity. I didn’t know what it was doing, but I had no intention of intervening without reinforcements.
Seeing the Mana bubble expand, I teleported away, expecting another explosion.
I had barely managed to escape the first one with [Short Teleport] and wasn’t intending to end up in a hospital like Bell, Shraider, and the legionnaires.
Is it feeding on the Supreme Mana? I thought, observing it from a distance.
From the explosion until now, only a few minutes had passed. Still, thankfully, with teleportation, I had managed to rescue my friends, evacuate the vicinity, and inform the interior ministry of the threat. Although with the heavy teleport use, I was starting to run low on Mana.
After a few tense moments, Three Legionnaire squads, all tier 0 with tier 1 captains, arrived. I stopped them before they entered the former house, now a pile of rubble.
…Weak.
“I asked for a tier 2 emergency response and… this?” I asked, confused.
One of the legionnaire captains stepped forward.
“Sorry, sir, but Branch Leader Gamher didn’t believe the hasty report. He said: ‘That stupid Shraider still believes he’s a hotshot. He won’t fool me again!’ Before sending us to investigate.“
No wonder Shraider despises him.
“Look out!” A legionnaire shouted.
The lieutenant and the adventurer shot from the air, hitting the ground in a tumble of limbs.
They’re still at it?
I was about to intervene and end this stupid fight, but then…
A kid, no, the monster climbed a half-broken wall and gazed towards… the White Walls?
…this is bad.
For some reason, everyone held their breath as they stared at the monster kid. Even the adventurer and magus’s fight stopped.
The tension could be touched.
“You! It’s all your fault!” Yallub pointed at the monster, breaking the silence.
Hambara shouted at it. “Run, kid! I’ll hold them back!”
The kid didn’t even move a finger; he stood unnaturally still, completely ignoring us as if three legionnaire squads, a lieutenant, and I, a tier 1 being, were too insignificant for him to bother with.
For some reason, I believed it. I believed that we were inferior to this creature.
He looks… different.
The monster had looked like a normal, healthy human kid before, but now… His face looked like it was chiselled out of marble, his naked body’s muscles looked more defined, his skin shone with a faint light now and then, and his eyes… they were the same as those of a Noblesse I had caught a glimpse of from afar—the eyes of a supreme being.
“…Demon.”
Without my enhanced perception, I wouldn’t have been able to catch Hambara’s mumble.
Demons… banished by the giants from entering our plane… is this one?
I thought grimly.
“Hambara… run.” The monster’s voice was soft.
I used [Short Teleport] to try and get behind the monster for a surprise attack, but for some reason, my skill’s weave didn’t get finished, unravelling behind the monster at the last knot.
What is going on?
Suddenly, Hambara kicked the magus towards the legionnaire that had been sneaking behind him.
Opening a small teleportation scroll, Hambara disappeared with a burst of Mana.
So he’s really a spy.
As soon as Hambara left, ten perfect red spheres appeared above the kid; they glowed ominously like small planets.
“Die.”
The spheres shot at us with tier-zero speeds.
Is he toying with us?
I teleported away, and then…
BOOM!
The explosion was weaker than the first one, but a tier 0 being would get damaged or possibly die if they weren’t careful.
The legionnaires’ shields shone with green Mana as they formed a wall—a steaming one.
“Advance!”
A captain ordered.
Another ten bombs were formed and shot, but this time, the explosion hit a bit harder, although that didn’t stop the legionnaires’ advance.
He’s certainly toying with us.
I played with teleportation’s weave as the men advanced under bombardment; I was trying to find the closest distance I could teleport to.
It ended up being not that far from the demon, but he noticed it forming outside his range and hopped to the ground, destroying it.
You don’t want me to get close, huh?
I created ten teleportation weaves, fully knowing that if they were to become constructs, I’d die from skill error.
The monster’s bombardment lessened as he dismantled my weaves; still, one weave managed to become a construct, and I teleported.
I drew my dagger, slitting the demon’s throat with lightning speed.
Red blood gushed, and I went for the limbs, but then…
“You’re not stealing my kill!”
The magus was floating above us, and above him was a fireball the size of a human.
This stupid bastard!
I teleported behind the legionnaires, but the heat of the explosion still reached me.
“Hahaha! This is what you get for setting me up, kid!” The magus shouted.
But then…
The ground was burning and melting, but a scorched sphere still stood in the middle of the small crater.
Is that bone?
The sphere cracked in half, revealing a perfectly fine human kid inside.
This is going to be hard…