In a lab, there was a table with a woman on it. The woman looked to be in her twenties. And her stomach was a little chubby.

Beside her there was a man wearing a white lab coat and taking notes. That man was Adrius.

He was examining Mary to see if everything is OK with the baby, and he was also seeing the developments.

He saw that there is nothing wrong with the baby and it is growing at a decent pace.

“ Mary I’m done you can go now“ Orders Adrius with his usual cold tone.

Mary did what her master said and went out, she was now 4 months pregnant. And she was getting checked every 2-3 days by Adrius to see if everything was alright.

After Mary went out, Adrius was alone in his lab again.

In the past month he has been researching everything about meditation techniques. He needs one if he wants to advance into an official magus. But the information was very little about the subject, and he knew why. Meditation techniques are usually one of the highest treasures in an academy or a family. So it is only obvious that they will try to cover a lot of information about it. Also even if he finds any inheritance he can’t be certain that he can cultivate the meditation technique. That’s because of the elements, he cultivates the darkness element so he needs a darkness cultivation technique so he can advance. But if he can’t find any meditation technique that is darkness then, he will probably have to change his Element. Which will make him restart cultivation all over again, because when he first started cultivating he absorbed dark particles in the air and his dantian was built with them. So he needs to destroy his cultivation and start all over again which is pretty hard to do.

Adrius then stopped thinking about meditation techniques and started thinking about the Firebird city and his organization out there. He has gotten news from Lilly that says the Giants syndicate are fighting back but they are losing the battle against Blood Raven. From what he could find about The giant syndicate. He knew that the Giants syndicate was created by a bunch of knights. It has been taking over the underground world of the Firebird city for 10 years now. And when Blood Raven came into town they didn’t give it much thought. But now they are really worried about Blood Raven. So they started a war against Blood Raven and now they are losing because Blood Raven has a Magus backing them which is pretty damn powerful for a mortal syndicate. No one knew exactly who was backing Blood Raven but they knew it was a pretty damn powerful person. Even though Adrius is a magus apprentice he is still a magus so he’s ranking is not on the mortal charts.

He knew it was only time before Blood Raven took over the Firebird city underground world. After that he can start his next step of the plan which is, destroying the Lord’s family from the inside and making gaps between the family so when the time comes he could kill them without effort. It would be hard but he knew that Lilly will do everything she could to achieve his goals. He also knew that Lilly fears him a lot, and he knew exactly why she feared him. When he asked Hadith about Lilly’s past. He told him that she was an orphan and she was adopted by the family they served to make her a guard. They said that her parents were taken by a Magus and were never seen again so they were probably dead. And that traumatized the little girl and she got an irrational fear of magus from that day on.

Also he was not the friendliest Magus so it was probably hard to cope with him. He knew that she heard him torture the souls, and he knew that she heard him talk about murder like nothing but it was a normal thing for him to do that. It was not a weird thing, he was a dark Magus, he was violent and ruthless. It is not a new thing for dark magus to be.

He stopped thinking about Lilly, he started thinking about something that was bugging him for months now. He needs new spells! Even though his spells were not that famous, only a couple of people know about them. He still needs new spells because they know then they can counter attack it, so he needs new and unpredictable spells so he can secure himself and increase his power. He was not yet a rank 3 magus apprentice so he can’t just shape his magic to his own will and make whatever he wants, he needs spells to make what he wants. When you reach rank 3 magus apprentice you can shape magic around you to make it whatever you want. You can control the particles of magic like fire particles or darkness and you can make whatever you want like a fireball. Of course it needs practice but it is possible to make. But for him now he is still rank 2 magus apprentice so he can’t use magic like that. He needs a spell to make a certain thing like a fireball or a dark arrow.

Adrius then walked out of the lab and then went to Phil’s shop. Today was the second appointment with a guy that Eve brought a month ago to get his antidote. He has prepared the antidote in advance. But now he needs to find some way to befriend this guy so he can have a pawn in his play against Eve. If you think about it, if Eve ever wants to do something to him he can just say that he won’t make antidote and the guy will die. So she will have to listen to whatever he wants, and do whatever he says. It may sound unethical and like a low life thing, but who can blame him? That was life if you’re not strong enough you die.What can morals do to him? Can morals bring him power? Can morals make him stronger? No, it can’t. Morals are something the weak invented because they think it will make them better than anyone else. The strong know that there’s no right or wrong, there's only power. And in front of power everything is available!