15 Chapter 15 : Magus Tower

After one month of adventuring within the premises of Kemoyin island, an agile figure was fighting against a giant wolf like magical beast.

If you look carefully at this figure of a young man, you could see his chiseled face, and also faintly discern it without any hint of childishness.

It could be estimated that this youth is not that old in age. And the color of the eyes of this youth was dark but the depth of it seems to suck the life out of everything.

The giant wolf he was fighting was a middle-class magical beast called Dire Gale Wolf, it has high level defence and is one of the toughest magical beasts of its class. Once it targets its enemy, its infamous to never let it go.

This youth was Allen, these days he had already started to travel inside the forest to the inner zones as he used his skills to protect his life and hone his abilities.

But after starting his journey, he found out that his chakra limit and control wasn't very adequate.

Every time he uses his Chakra to attack, he would use a huge amount of it, this wasted much of his reserve but also inhibited his growth process.

In an environment such as these where numerous dangerous encounters and fatal beasts lurk, he cannot afford to be wasteful or lay defenseless in a weakened unprepared state.

After realizing his problem, he decisively stopped to continue relying on just chakra and devised strategies to fully maximize his powers in the most efficient way.

Through his practice routine he had only one goal, that is to perfect his control.

Control! That's right, what he needed the most is control. If he is able to probably utilize Chakra to maintain his physical peak and fight with his iron rank battle aura and make use of soul force to scan for danger then he would be closest to the peak state.

He needs to create a balance between these three and use the resources he has before him. Each power is dependent on another so, he shouldn't focus on only just one.

In a strict sense, the most powerful is soul force but it's close to impossible to efficiently use it, because of lack of soul force for him to absorb as well as lack of elixir so, the soul force most useful application for now is the spiritual sense it provides to scan and gauge an enemy or terrain. With this he can avoid various dangerous and precarious situations.

Battleforce, this is the power of this world and is obviously the most suited one to train in here. Allen would love to maximize this power but his missing technique is shunting his growth. With his ability and mastery even without using Chakra or soul force he can match a 1- Star Copper rank.

Allen wants to find a way to breakthrough in this regard as well but the problem is direction, there is no lack of types of techniques.

But he has no idea about the type his battleforce belongs to, he could only reluctantly buy battleforce technique of every attribute and, use trial and error methodology. Which would cost him a fortune.

Among all in his arsenal the most versatile power system Allen has is the Chakra. He has high hopes for chakra but they were pretty much all dashed due to his inability to use the Ninjutsu but that doesn't mean chakra itself useless now.

The power it gives to the body is very remarkable, if perfected and controlled with highest proficiency he might be able to shatter boulders with a punch but the problem is again, his lack of Chakra.

Low Chakra reserves is directly proportional to his inability to breakthrough in Battleforce as well as the difficulties in training soul force.

But, there is a silver lining. Allen has been able to find the path for himself. It is quite simple - He would use chakra as a support in his fighting style for leaping, increasing power, strengthening endurance, empowering speed.

He would use spiritual sense through the soul force, to gauge his enemy, his surroundings as well as keep gauge the fighting adaptability in a restricted environment.

With spiritual sense, he doesn't need eyes and he can function properly regardless if it's day Or night.

In addition to that, he also has a 360° sense of his surroundings so, sneaking behind him and catching him unprepared is close to impossible. Obviously his perception range is pretty pathetic but it's good enough if focused entirely in one direction.

For his fighting style, he would mainly use Battleforce. This is the most natural force in his body that he is most used to, being in a world where battleforce is the main source of power, and not using it is just a handicap.

With his three power together he can increase his ability, endurance, and prowess to another level. The usage of chakra is obviously more powerful than Battleforce for now but it would just exhaust him very swiftly.

With his increasing proficiency in this new fighting style, even without exhausting him Allen has a great chance to slaughter the mercenaries from before.

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Allen looked at the magical beast before him with caution as he wasn't able to gain any sort of leverage after fighting it for a long time.

There were faint droplets of sweat all around his face and he was huffing. Allen instantly withdrew a few bone daggers from his pocket as he masterfully threw them in the beasts direction targeting its eye. Allen created this dagger himself by making use of a particular beast called 'Canion Leo' which has extremely sharp teeth and ridiculous speed.

Canion Leo is a particularly dangerous beast but fortunately the one that Allen met was at the end of it's life span and also injured.

The teeth from such a creature are very well shaped to be used as sharp daggers, Allen just faintly sharped them a bit and it was ready to use.

The Dire Gale Wolf looks at his opponents offence in disdain, and releases a huge roar from its mouth while advancing towards the incoming daggers.

Just before the collision, the bone dagger magically changed direction! Dire Gale Wolf tried to dodge and although the daggers still pierced through its skin, the injury wasn't fatal and the magical beast marched towards Allen more furiously.

"Come on here, you piece of shit!" He looked at the tree behind himself and lured the magical beast to follow him closely.

He removed all the distracting thoughts from his minx and started to focus his chakra on his foot, Allen has learned to balance his chakra without soul force help. And he slowly set his foot on the tree which stood before him.

He started to walk on the surface of that huge tree trunk.

"Concentrate your mind, control the amount of chakra, feel with the spiritual sense, and attack with the sword coated in battleforce." He was repetitively saying to himself within his heart, while carefully walking upwards the tree.

*Boom*

The magical beast behind him collided with the tree as Allen jumped away in a backflip before the impact threw him off.

He knew that these petty tricks aren't enough to kill Dire Gale Wolf. But taking advantage of the time when the Dire Gale Wolf was stunned, in a flash he arrived at the side of Dire Gale Wolf.

"Moon Dance— Whirlwind Disaster! " He quickly lowered his body, using his momentum enhanced by chakra and swept past his sword slashing away the Dire Gale Wolf's right leg.

Suddenly the Dire Gale Wolf fell to ground forcefully as its right leg was chopped off.

Allen didn't stop and followed up his first strike with a straight thrust towards Dire Gale Wolf's head.

The speed of his thrust produced air splitting sound. Originally Allen wanted to use only Battleforce for offence but after being aware that he cannot achieve victory that way, he didn't hesitate to utilize his expertly controlled chakra.

The pale crimson chakra revolved around his sword like a shape saw with threatening penetrating power as it carried unmatched momentum.

*Psh!*

Because of Allen's full force attack, the Dire Gale Wolf couldn't resist, as the sword entered its orbital lobe through the eye and pierced through its brain like butter, and the point of blade emerged outside its posterior lobe.

Allen took a step back anf sat down breathing heavily, he was only able to win because he constantly harassed the beast throughout the bout and totally exhausted it.

After drawing circles all around the beast Allen finally used his final attack and emerged victorious.

"My skills are already not something a silver rank could match up to. Although I don't have the arrogance to claim myself as the strongest but with my unusual methods and the advantage of the terrain here, not even a normal Gold rank could easily get rid of me without paying a price." Allen assessed his strength calmly.

He has gained a fair bit of experience and strength through this month of adventure and his skill has been polished very much, his swordsmanship has achieved great results.

Now, he could easily capture and perceive the faster movement of his foes with the help of spiritual sense, his only limiting factor is lack of stamina, and if that is remedied then he could walk undisturbed throughout the kemosin island except for the forbidden zones.

Allen quickly collected the important parts of the beasts body as well as his daggers and immediately retreated to rest for a while, the smell of blood from the dead beast could attract some others which is a scenario he definitely doesn't want to deal with right now

Allen immediately continued his journey after recovering to his peak state. He has already reached his destination and entered the premises of the marked ruins.

"The Magus Tower huh?" Allen sighed as he looked at the destroyed structure and walked inside the ruins coming near the sole still standing remains of once glorious structure.

This place has already been excavated multiple times, it is a small ruin that was said to be a tower that used to be a magus's residence.

The colossal tower in the legends that reached out beyond the clouds described in books was no longer standing, but there has been a discovery of the three basement floors which shocked the finders. In the end they took what they can and left the place, it has already been checked various times and it's a hotspot for researchers especially regarding the last floor which is said to be site to behold for researchers, Allen was also interested in the last floor as well.

Magus Tower (past)

Magus Tower (now)

Allen walked the destroyed and uneven path filled with overgrown tree roots as he saw the entrance which was a small gloomy opening, from the size and placement of it around the ruins one would need to slither through it like a snake.

As Allen was about to come closer, he saw a bunch of people around the opening. From the looks of it observing the fascination of some individuals of that group as well as the annoyance of others, it seems like a team of researchers escorted by a hired mercenary group.

Allen paid them no heed and walked near the entrance, meeting other humans here isn't a rare encounter nor a frequent one.

The island is very big and the number of people here is also not small so there are chances to meet others, actually this is the first time Allen has met any humans though since his massacre.

As Allen was walking, the group of mercenaries were immediately alerted as they drew their sword and looked in his direction. But after looking at Allen they were bewildered and confused.

Allen on the other hand didn't look at them but he was ready to act the moment they show signs of physical aggression.

The crowd relaxed after seeing him because from Allen's body, there was no whatsoever Battleforce at all. Actually he didn't have any presence around him like a ghost or something.

He looked nothing different than an average human when looked without much interest but if anyone would notice him then they would find him very odd. Not only did Allen have low presence, his steps made no sound either and his breathing was inaudible.

This is why the mercenary group was startled badly as they cannot sense anyone coming near without the footsteps or any other anomaly.

Sadly, this group wasn't a particularly impressive one so they couldn't find anything odd with Allen except for him being here alone.

They group looked at Allen with interest but soon lost any desire to investigate, The only thing they kept in their mind was to search for Allen's teammates as they looked around.

In their mind there is no way Allen a normal human is here unaccompanied but to their perplexity there wasn't anyone except him.

Suddenly one of the mercenaries noticed the sword hilt buckled in Allen's waist as he snorted in disdain for a swordsman wannabe, "Hey Kid, where is your team? This isn't a place for the likes of you to roam freely-"

As the mercenary was talking Allen didn't even spare him a glance as he looked ahead, Allen ignored the whole existence of the group and immediately slithered his way through inside the magus tower.

"What? This bitch! Let me beat some respect into him." The mercenary was talking endlessly as he noticed Allen ignoring and going away. He was bursting with anger and embarrassment, he wanted to march through and teach Allen a lesson.

"Josh! Ignore the kid, let him go. Our mission is done, I just want to go back to the port and enjoy some ale and women in Glasgow Inn." One of his partner hold his shoulder and spoke with a perverted grin.

"Yeah man, that kid is going to die before he knows it. Let's go back." Another mercenary said.

"No! I don't think he is so simple. For him to come here without any help is very suspicious. The most obvious situation would be him being Noble or a student with a protecting team, teachers or guardian who strayed from his entourage, but I don't think so either cause his face held no signs of panic and he didn't ask for help either. His clothes were a bit torn as if he had gone through a couple of battles but that is preposterous. These parts are very risky and only a team of trained swordsmen like us could come here without any trouble, but he looks like a normal kid. It's better to not underestimate him, and create any trouble." The leader spoke as he looked in the direction of the gap, "Anyway, Let's camp for today and leave tomorrow morning we have a long journey so keep yourself in top conditions."

As the group began to look for a place to camp ignoring the cursing fellow and rest for the night Allen walked inside the structure paying no heed to them, with his spiritual sense he could observe their level hence he wasn't necessarily on guard towards them.

Allen walked through the first two underground basement which was pretty average and desolate and entered the third and last floor as a strange scene appeared before him

Large, smooth walls made from stainless steel shone like a mirror, seemingly unworn from the passing of time. There were pictures of wolves depicted on those immemorial walls.

Lines stretched across the floor up to the walls and intersected to form a complicated, three-dimensional magical formation diagram and chunks of neatly-arranged rocks with archaic script could be seen in the vicinity. These could be the cornerstones that served as the foundation of the magical formation.

Many people dreamed about gaining boundless wealth and fame for discovering ruin like these but felt it wasn't too realistic. Most of the ruins that humans once inhabited had already been excavated and studied and were no longer of much value with only a few exceptions that possibly lay hidden somewhere in the lush, dense forests or the desolate mountains.

Given their abilities and the magical beasts that lurked around such areas, however, it would have been a suicidal effort. They could only daydream in vain of the glory and riches that awaited.

The reason this place wasn't ransacked was because it held no meaning, although the place looked valuable it was only artistic not anything more. Once destroyed it would lose all value and in essence, It could only serve as a place of fascination and research for scholars and nothing else.

In an indirect way, it could be said that not destroying it is more profitable as the mercenary keeps getting hired to escort people here and gain a long lasting benefit.

Allen looked around and saw a life-like Wolf statue sculptured around the far end of the room, Allen felt a unique interest and attraction from it so, he walked near the statue and looked at some foreign words inscribed there.

"Is this the ancient language of Magi?"

These magical languages by nature could not be easily passed down through the generations. But the magi of the time frequently inscribed the script of these languages onto stone tablets to record important information.

These days, the field of language studies can only rely on the characters on the tablets to slowly decipher the actual meaning of the words by matching the drawings that were occasionally found next to the characters. So far, the largest achievement in the field of language studies was the ability to distinguish words of a different language from that of a different era. Not much progress had been made however in understanding the language themselves.

And amongst these languages, the most difficult and headache inducing is the ancient magi language which is called the Barlyon language.

There is some ancient manual about this particular language which seems to hide the strength of magic within itself. People have searched high and low to understand this but except for names and some few translations there hasn't been much luck.

More importantly even imitating the language won't help because they cannot draw onto the true strength hidden in the language itself.

Allen looked at the weird unrecognisable words and the serene ferocious wolf with an unreadable expression.

Just then an odd fascinated expression appeared on his face and his hand subconsciously stretched towards the words.

*Growl*

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