59 Chapter 59 - Four Arms

As I walked go my next class, I thought about what sort of Mana Art I could create. The wind pressure thing was unlikely to work, it would've been very cool, sure. But, honestly I don't think it's even possible. It would be better to move on and try make something.

I had a little idea to displace air by vibrating all the cells in my body, but that's just impractical and upon further thinking, might just kill me by overworking my heart. Instead, I've thought of something else that's still related to cells.

I'm a close combat fighter, so any Mana Art I use should obviously be one that can help me in close combat. And, what better advantage can there in hand to hand combat than multiple arms?

I've undergone the process of recreating limbs before, so with Arcane Magic, turning myself into a four armed monstrosity isn't impossible.

Only thing is, that it would turn me into something straight out of a horror movie. I don't even want to imagine people's expressions when they see a near immortal, nearly two meter tall, four armed man with 3 eyes in each eyeball. At that point, I'll probably look more like a monster than the actual Demon's, right?

Well, it's fine. I don't care that much about appearances, and I can probably just chop off the arms if I feel it.

And honestly, the advantages to having four arms are just too good to pass up. Two arms for attacking, two for defending. It should also help me increase how well I fair against faster opponent's or multiple opponent's. Also it'd let me to stuff like grab onto someone's torso and just punch them while they're immobilised.

Though, it'd be a bit annoying when I use a weapon. But in a situation like that, I can just get rid of the arms.

Sighing, I went to my next class.

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It was now the end of the school day, I had barely payed any attention. I didn't even remember my teachers' name. I was kind of busy thinking about what gonna happen tonight.

Tonight, another contratee should appear. Demon's could partially manifest and offer a contract to someone who met certain requirements.

In the novel, this Academy was a huge hotspot for Demon's to create contracts. After all, where else could one people who had both talent and the negative emotions required to fall to their temptation?

Many people were hateful of those ranked above or below them, the wrath clan had a talk with them. Those who wanted everything were chosen by greed. The lazy ones were talked to by sloth and so on and so forth.

I don't totally remember what clan appeared to offer a contract tonight, but it shouldn't matter. If a contractee appears, it's best I end them if possible.

I don't exactly care for the original plot, so I'll do what I think is best. And, killing the Contractee who may make an attempt on my life is probably a good idea.

'Only thing is, should I tell Arthur. Unlike me, he shouldn't know where and when this happened until it's too late.'

The contractee that appeared today shouldn't be too strong. Though, I'd probably use Ignition. That way, when the burnt corpse was discovered, I wouldn't be suspected as nobody expects me to be able to use flames aside from Arthur, that is.

And, that guy won't care if some contractee dies.

'Though, there's a few hours. Why don't I test out that limb making stuff.'

And so, I headed to my room and took off my shirt, blazer and tie to avoid tearing them.

Then, I shut my eyes for a moment. I didn't really need to do any research on the structure of arms and joints, I had recreated my arms so many times that I knew their structure like the back of my hand.

Using Arcane Magic, I imagined a second set of arms being made. For Magic to be utilised, one had to be able visualize the phenomena they wanted to create.

I wanted a second set of arms below my original set. And so, I felt a joint being constructed on the inside of my torso. The pain was pretty intense, but nothing I wasn't used to.

And so, two more arms grew from my torso. The process of creating arms cost about the same amount of Mana as regenerating my arms. In otherwords...

To create a new set of arms cost next to no Mana.

I looked at myself in the mirror, my current form reminded of the Asura I had heard about in my previous life. If I was being honest, the form was kinda cool.

'I should give this Mana Art a name, 'Asura State' maybe? Oh well, that can come later.'

I was pretty happy, I had just created a second Mana Art. And so, as I wad about to scratch my chin with my new set of arms, I realised that they weren't exactly moving.

"Ah."

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A/N: Idk if you lot find it as cool as I do, but some stuff about Reinhardt was based off of Asuras. Like how his fighting style is pretty much just a cycle of regeneration and destruction, ie birth/life and death. Which is supposed to be what Samsara (according to what I found out online) is about.

Tho I'm not totally sure if it's offensive since they hold a presence in religions but considering there's other forms of media that use them without lashback/offense being taken I figured this would be fine.