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Whispers Of The Wavering Blade

This story is set in a world named Eldoria which is quite like the 1980s in terms of advancement in the field of technology. The world seemed like a normal world with people going about their normal lives, but not for Daemon Grimsby who cannot help but hear and see things he couldn't describe. Daemon is a typical 16 year old normal high school student who was suddenly sucked in a world of magic. But it doesn't seem to be a good thing for him. Follow the journey of young Grimsby who is suddenly faced with hard decisions in his life and how the qualities which he thought were a bad part of him, helped him through it all. Author's note:- This is my first time writing a web novel and if there is anything lacking you find please mention it. The character development will be realistic and not like cliche novels with sudden enlightenment. Hope you enjoy it.

Whispering_Shadow · Fantasy
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9 Chs

One month

While Daemon was deep in Luna's thoughts while sitting on the hard floor. The cat sprung up to his arms and snuggled in his embrace.

There sat a weird combo of a cat and a young man on a hard floor instead of a bed.

Daemon quickly unpacked his small suitcase and arranged his clothes inside the cabinet. He took the pillow and bed sheet along with the blanket present in the room and spread them on the ground and got ready to sleep with his newfound cat. He had the habit of sleeping on hard surfaces since childhood and can't feel comfortable on the bed. He had this habit since the day the kids in the orphanage attacked him one day when he was sleeping on the bed. Ever since that day he always slept with all lights off without a single light bulb on and on the floor beside the bed. He has developed his senses to be alert all the time.

Through his connection with the cat he could feel the cat was also as vigilant as him. They looked at each other's eyes and found something in common between each other. Daemon nodded his head at his companion who nodded back in return before drifting off to sleep.

For the next month, Daemon woke up everyday and used the method he got from Professor Elijah for training of magic warrior. He used magic particles to strengthen his body and also performed physical training till his body gave out almost every day. After morning practice he would go to library as usual and get all the knowledge he could cover till the lunch time. He got acquainted with the strict and stern middle aged librarian named Mrs. Abbot and asked her daily for her recommendation regarding what to read after he was finished with one book. Mrs. Abbot developed a favourable impression of the new student who was diligent in seeking knowledge and always looked tired. She could see his improvement in physique daily. She had never seen any first year who was as disciplined as Daemon in all her years as a librarian. She knew he had already started learning Nullify art but didn't know if he was finding it easy or difficult. Even she can't understand Nullify magic so she was curious about him studying only this art.

Daemon had indeed studied Nullify and knew it all depended on the brain power of a person and his speed to calculate. He was always a smart guy but lacked any motivation whatsoever... Now he was doing something which gave him purpose in life for the first time. He gave it his all and found out he was very suited for it. Suited couldn't describe his talent in the art because he could already nullify many spells after studying those spells in the library.

He had also pushed his body to become five times as strong as before . According to Professor Elijah he was already a magic warrior when his body got twice as strong as before. He didn't tell his professor later on how much he had improved. What he knew though was that there was no limit to how much a body can be strengthened and no limit to how much a magic quality is improved inside a body. So magic world has boundless paths with no limits to each path.

Even though the quality of his magic particles did improve, his capacity didn't increase much just as headmaster predicted. He was bound to be less talented in using spells so he focused on increasing his control over his magic more. He will use particles to increase his body quality and thus inturn also increase the capacity he can store by a little. He found out about this after his body got strengthened to this degree. He didn't tell anyone about it though. He always keeps his cards to himself after all, he isn't preparing to just survive this world like professor asked... He is preparing to kill anyone standing in his way and preparing himself to become strong enough to protect Luna.

Lunch and Dinner takes place inside the banquet hall of the Vinkort fort. All the professors and staff including students eat there. It has large tables with seats for all students and a separate table on a higher level of floor for the Teaching staff and Headmaster.

Daemon has been eating his meals at the hall since he arrived and always seated at the end of the tables. Many professors look at him daily with curiosity filled eyes. Sometimes Professor Elijah who is also used to eating alone comes to sit with him and give him company to the surprise of many. Since the day this member of Serpentine family arrived at the fort he didn't converse with many people and minded only his own business knowing well that almost all were scared of him. His last name was that terrible but not more than the stories about Aberth Elijah Serpentine. The lone snake who went to war with his own family for freedom.

Vinkort was located inside the Revaris continent in the Republic of Lavera. Although the country was of average power for normal people. For magical world it was one of the strongest due to the presence of one of the most powerful magic families present here strengthening the magic council of Lavera.

And the name of that family is-Revaris.

Now Daemon was wondering if Luna was from this family or not. Even though he knew she was from a very powerful aristocratic family, he didn't know if it was a magical family or not.

And just like this one month passed away and it was time for the arrival of new students as well as the older ones.