The Silent Deaths

Going out of the damp cell Akira moved silently while regulating his breath, with his strong yet flexible muscles, he was a jack of all trades.

As his gaze flickered across the unyielding darkness in front of him, he walked slowly the empty cells in the stone walls appeared creepy, and a floor made of dirt he heard Wind shrieking through the hollows and gaps of the stone cold hall like banshees haunting a graveyard, and echoes of water dripping, his noise picked up a humid yet strong scent of the old stones that had moss growing over them.

As he walked with upmost care, he heard speedy steps coming from the opposite direction, so he looked up, 'this hall is approximately 5 meters wide and 4 meters in height' he eyed the distance and jumped up using his well trained body and stuck to the top corner using the protruding stone poking him in the back as he sat still as a rock, making his breath faint and silent he stayed put with his eyes watching like a predator in the forest.

After a minute he saw a flustered mage with his wand up and bright pacing fast with hurried steps, 'how lucky he is too careless' Akira waited for a bit before he dived down directly at the wizard's head, the unassuming wizard was still oblivious but a flickering light green sphere appeared around him, but that didn't change the outcome, Akira stabbed right through the shield and ended the mage's life.

[Wizardly World - Death Count: 3]

He had a gut feeling that if it wasn't for the Magic Slaying Dagger he would have been pressured to leave, 'i need to know more about this world, after all it's a magical place who knows what exists here' Akira shook his head and searched for valuables in the wizards robe, and he found a pouch and an old patch of paper that had 3 red gems and 2 of them were still bright and the 3rd was dim.

"Maybe this is what made that energy shield, it doesn't matter" Akira finished searching and found that the mage only had a pouch and the patch of paper, he tried opening the pouch but he felt as if it was sealed by something unknown, 'i feel like it can't be opened with physical strength' after a bit of trying he shook his head and slashed it with the dagger, to his surprise nothing happened even after the pouch was destroyed.

"Looks like i can't brute force it, this might be a mechanism against normal people if they chance upon a wizard pouch" Akira felt that it was a pity but he didn't worry about it anymore and stood up with the old patch in his pocket, and moved out of the cold dark stone restrains to the sunny green, neat but empty environment.

He looked around and noticed that there was a weak barrier around the entrance where he came out from, he went close and slashed it with his Dagger, the latter made a tear in the sphere big enough for Akira to go through it.

Walking outside the protected space he didn't feel unsafe but felt relaxed 'freedom feels as great as usual', he then saw that the place he was thrown in was in between the school and a vast sea of hills, Akira looking at the school, registering how it looked then disappeared in the green sea.

After hours he finally arrived to a different biome, still green but it was darker, it was a forest where freezing cold wind blew out of it, it was as if it was screeching at Akira, but the look on his face was as cold as the wind hitting him, his instinct told him that this forest was dangerous, yet he felt excited 'with the immortal serum i am more afraid of being bored than dead' he said with a maniacal smile.

*Meanwhile*

At the Cell that was previously occupied by Akira, 2 middle aged men and 1 woman were staring at the corpse on the ground, the older and more powerful looking man with a greyish black hair and a pale skin said "could that sap do this with the strength he showed against Acheron?".

The other 2 thought for a bit before saying "we don't think so, according to what the report said there was some other mage apprentice that was killed in the hall, and he was in possession of a low-tier Protection Talisman, even though its not that impressive, it isn't something that a normal human can do".

The powerful man shook his head and said "everything will be clear" "vicissim actibus".

When he said the name of the spell the other 2 had their eyebrows up and focused on the pattern that the man drew with his wand.

Green Particles started gathering and forming the silhouette of the corpse but just as it started gathering into a real form, the Green Particles dissipated, and the man who casted it looked a bit paler.

"This isn't the work of a normal human, maybe he had some connections with the dark mages" that's what he said out loud but in his head he thought 'what kind of energy was that, it's like the bane of magic, thankfully it was weak and can be countered by a intermediate recovery spell'.

He looked at the body for a while before waving his hand and saying "let's take the bodies back and send a letter to their families along with a compensation, thankfully those from noble families don't work as guard or else we would have been in big trouble, and share a wanted post with that Sap's face on it, write that he has connections with black mages, we don't want for others to think that our Wizard School can't deal with a sap", after a series of orders he flew out of the hall.

[Spells are in Latin]