BXBX NOVEL Chapter 79: Plans
'How long was I asleep' Anthony thought and activated the Authority of information and found out he was out for twenty four hours.
He had missed class and a lot of things, although he normally missed classes, he always sent clone in his place.
"You are finally awake boy" A voice resounded
Anthony looked up and saw the same small figure he saw before he fell asleep.
"Why are you so small" Anthony asked
"It's because you are too weak to hold my power, now I've lost all of it and I'm now this small so be fast and become strong"
Anthony shook his head as he already guessed this but he needed to know for sure.
"What's your name" Anthony asked again.
"I don't have one, nobody has ever met me so I have no name, my creator bestowed me no name either" the Divine Flame said.
"Then I would name you Romulus as your master now" Anthony said with a smile.
The Divine Flame looked at Anthony for a while without saying anything, then it sighed and just nodded then disappeared without saying anything.
Anthony shook his and decided to get ready for class as it was already 8AM in the morning
After dressing and getting ready, he stepped out of his room.
He walked towards class and entered as he met the rest who were already in the class waiting for the professor.
"Look who decided to join us today" Bringer said as he and everyone looked at Anthony.
Anthony simply shook his head and went to sit as his usual seat.
"Is there a reason you didn't come yesterday, you missed class for the first time" Donna asked as she wondered why he missed class.
"Nothing much, just personal training and that's all, so I just got tired and decided to take a day off, I have been working too hard" Anthony said with a straight face.
"Well, with the amount of Academy points you have, even if they take points it won't affect you, but I'm sure with your excellence, the professors won't deduct a point" Spectre said.
They discussed amongst themselves as they waited for the professor.
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Hidden Location
A man could be seen with happiness on his face as he walked down the stairscase to an underground that was hidden very well.
He got to a wall and perform some movements then infused his mana into it then with click sound the wall opened up.
He walked in and the wall closed behind him immediately.
Then the man casted a magic spell and illuminated the room then looked at the magic circle on the floor and inspected it one last time before he began whatever he was going to do here.
He took out an artifact which looked like a black stone and crushed it, space trembled as everywhere became sealed so that nothing happening here would leak out.
He came to the magic circle and took out many mana stones and placed them on the magic circle and activated it.
Mana moved from the atmosphere and the mana stone into the core of magic circle and it released a bright light, space at the centre of the magic circle bent as a portal opened up, and stayed open for a few minutes.
A being walked out of the portal circle with it's human features, looking handsome with no mana emitting from it's body.
But it wasn't a human, it was a demon in a human disguise.
The demon looked at the man who summoned him with a cunning smile.
"When will I get the payment as promised, I need it urgently" the man said.
"You will receive your payment in full" the demon said.
Immediately the demon finished speaking the man's view of the world spun as everything turned upside down.
The man's head fell off his body, as the head rolled and the body fell with a thud sound.
"How dare a low specie such as you demand payment from me" the demon said.
The demon took out a communication device and contacted another of its kind.
"I've arrived in their domain" the demon said
"Handle the preparations immediately, everyone is ready to move and the lord is tired of waiting, we need to move now that 'he' is 'there', make no mistakes" the other demon at the end of the call said.
"I shall begin then" said the disguised demon.
Then the demon destroyed everything in the room and cleared everything that had any sign of a demon being here, then the demon disappeared from the room immediately with a dark smile as it went to carry out the plan.
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The Academy
Anthony's class ended and they walked out discussing with smiles on their faces.
"How about we have a meal on the fourth floor again" Bringer said.
"Have you become so rich now, did you forget the last price we saw there, we already spent those points on resources to breakthrough" Marcus said as he shook his head claiming he was broke, and he Indeed wasn't since they had taken many missions within a four day span like mad men.
"It's not that I have become rich, it's just that Anthony's pocket seems too full so I was thinking maybe we take another dive at it" Bringer said again.
'Should I test the Divine Flames on this idiot' Anthony silently thought as they walked.
Then he looked at Rider as he saw a strange element which he didn't possess an affinity for surrounding him minutely that nobody would be able to sense, if it wasn't for his extreme affinity for the element, Anthony won't notice unless he used the All seeing eyes.
'It seems he bought a skill book with some of his Academy points after selling the 'life ball' Anthony thought silently as they walked.
Skill books granted skills and abilities, it can grant a skill called 'fire ball' to someone who doesn't even possess a fire affinity, that is the joy of a skill book, it can give you a skill of an element you don't have affinity for and you can use it without troubles, but as usual everything has it's drawbacks.
Unlike someone who has fire affinity who can just increase his or her fire ball skill damage output by putting in more mana or increasing fire control, the fire ball skill from a skill book has a fixed damage depending on the level of the skill book and can't be changed no matter how much mana or fire control you increase, this is a fixed law. (Of course Anomalies are exceptions to this)
This is why people hardly used skill book that grant elemental skill and just focus on those that grant abilities, besides who would waste their time buying a skill book they don't have affinity for when they can still use the same skill in their own element and can even increase the output if they wanted (every single being is born with an element)
Of course a fire mage or swordsman or whoever who is at the peak SSS rank can find a skill book of ice element at the Master rank with very high damage output (which they don't have affinity for, or even have affinity for it) they can learn the skill from the skill book but they won't have mana to even cast the skill in the first place making it become a waste.
So although skill books are good, they still have their own limitations.
Besides who would even put their own abilities on a skill book and sell it for money, that is no different than stupidity here, so skill books granting abilities are extremely rare, even if you find one you should have enough mana to even activate the ability in the first place to begin with.
This is why Rider had an element he didn't have affinity for surrounding him, whatever restriction that skill has, will be there forever without it being changed.
Of course as Rider is a genius who is at the early S rank possess more mana quantity above the usual S ranker, so even if the skill book he used is above his level, he can still activate the skill or abilities he learnt if he has enough mana for it.