Life here~, with yet another chapter of the fall! Enjoy

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After our introductions, Linthos finally left his throne and we moved towards another room that was directly behind the stone throne. Unlike the dark throne room that had its floor riddled with rocks and was so dark it was hard to see much unless you were close enough. This room was lit by torches with blue flames, according to Linthos those torches are special and instead of burning, they just have the ability to shine. The floor was surprisingly clean but one thing was common in both rooms, they had very little things in them, as the throne room contained only the throne, this room only had the torches.

“ Well then... before we begin let's have you sign a contract shall we?” Linthos said with a evil smile.

“But you said you would teach me!”

“That I did, but i never said it would be for free.” His smile became bigger.

“What do you want from me....” I said as i resigned myself to the fate of servitude.

“Oh not much young one, I want you to become my champion. I can't leave this cave because of the seal placed on me by some of the gods, and i can't leave unless their power diminishes, and that's where you come in. While you go about your killing spree, I want you to destroy the faith in the gods of this world. Although gods are strong beings, they can only interfere with this plane of existence only if they have enough faithful believers.”

“So you want me to dimish their faith so that your seal will weaken and you will be able to escape?”

“Shade.... It's great that you catch on so quick.”

“If you will teach me, then i will do that while i kill the chosen ones.”

“Great, i waited for so long that few more years won't make much difference, but remember that the contract you are about to sign is derived from dark magic, if you try to get out of doing your part of the deal, the contract will erase your existence, and you will perish before finishing your vow.”

He then handed me a parchment with bloody red letters written onto it, it read -Shade will weaken the faith to the gods, and for that, he will be paid in advance by Linthos by training him to the best of his capabilities.-, finish the parchment and seeing that it does not contain any extra points for me to achieve, I look back at Linthos.

“How am I supposed to sign it? I don't have any ink.”

“Oh right, forgot you are clueless about most things. Dark contracts are sealed by spilling blood onto them.” After hearing his explaination, I was rather confused.

“You do remember i am a skeleton right?” I started to become a tad worried about my new teacher. How is a skeleton supposed to give some of his blood? Seriously, either he is stupid or i don't know what.

“Uhhhh, right right, sorry about that, blood contains a small piece of your soul, and that is why it can bind entities into contracts, so in your case seeing as your don't have any blood...... You should will a small piece of your soul to transfer into the contract.”, finally getting a decent explanation I willed a small fragment of my soul into the parchment, and a black mist oozed out of my bony finger and entered the contract, sealing the deal.

“Good, now before we start what do you know about mana?”

“Uhhh, mages use it to create spells?”

* Sigh *

“Okay so i guess you do not know much....” his expression change in a frown “This is gonna take a while then.” his tone was irritated, very much so.

“ Mana is a part of nature Shade. It is in our environment as well as inside us. There are many sub types of mana, but i will only tell you 5 main types as they can classify every other mana as a branch of itself.

Holy, Dark, Chaos, Natural, and Neutral, those are the main types of mana that exist within the world. Holy mana is used by most of the gods, their followers, as well as creatures that they created to serve them such as angels. Dark mana is used by small number of dark gods, and monsters such as you and me. Chaos mana is basically a mix between natural type mana and one of the other four types. Natural mana is used by non-sentient life around us, such as air, ground, water, fire, stones, trees etc.. Last type has the most being using it, Orcs, humans, elves, dragons, elementals, dwarves, even demon tribes classify as the bearers of the Neutral mana. Although the last example might shock you as demons usually worship dark gods, and are said to be dark creatures, but in reality only a handful of them use dark mana while most use neutral one. Humans tend to not like beings that look too different from them so they don't like, let's say, demi humans, but since demons look more.... demonic, they are considered evil. Oh, sorry, I seem to have drifted from the topic.” Linthos cleared his throat and continued.

“Well, Since we use dark energy I will not teach you about other mana types in depth but it is always good to have some knowledge about your enemies. No?”

* Nod *

“Well then, we will see what talent is hidden within those white bones of yours. This here.” He pointed at the floor. “Is the reflector of the soul, simple really, you just have to pour some of your soul into the floor, and you will find yourself face to face with your inner self, and although it wouldn't talk with you in most cases, this reflector gives your inner self a way to communicate answers to you, and once you find out what you are good at, we will be able to start your training.” grinning from ear to ear he said. “What are you waiting for? An invitation? Just hurry up and do it!” The walls of the cave trembled as he raised his mighty voice. Not waiting for another encouragement, I place my hand onto the floor and poured my soul into the stone, next thing i know, i am no longer within the confines of the room, but in a never ending darkness.

“So what did he do this time?” I grumbled first the contract, and now this. I looked around and found something behind me. It was what seemed two huge eyes inside the darkness, they were very big and white as if nothing was inside of them but the contrasting white and black gave them a very powerful feel.

“ Why are you here?” said a voice that sounded like few people speaking at the same time molding their words to create one from many. The voice sounded ancient and all knowing, but it did not carry any feelings in them. They were impassive as if no one truly asked the question.

“Why are you here?”

“To find out my talents”

“.....You who is born of hatred and rage, hated by the gods, have no friends with your new kin, you are the avatar of darkness and power, you control the lightning which strikes fast and hard, and the darkness bestowed upon you an ability that will surely aid you in your trials.”

“What ability?”

“You become darkness itself, no one can touch you, but you can touch no one all the same.”

“Uhh. So is that everyth.....” before i could finish my sentence i was thrown out of the darkness, I was back in that room with my new friend waiting for me to finish impatiently.

“Finally took you a while, so what did your inner self say?”

“Uhh, It said i control lightning, and i have an ability to become darkness itself.”

“What is that?”

“I don't know, I just learned about it, why are you questioning me?”

“It is your ability and all, you should be able to instinctively activate it, but with lightning we will need to train your mana capacity, so you will be able to put up a decent fight. Anyways, try to activate that power and see what's it all about, you should be able to instinctively trigger it.”

Just like Linthos had said I knew how to start it up but did not know what it will do. So i tried to activate the ability. I felt that my soul change slightly as i trigger the ability, it slowly changed all around my body, but it took around half an hour to completely activate it.

“Done.”

“Well.... now we know you won't be able to use it in combat anytime soon.” He looked sad. Almost pouting as he finished. “Well what else did the inner self said as i can't see anything changing.”

“It said that i won't be able to touch anything, and at the same time nothing will be able to touch me.”

A glint of mischief and amusement appeared in Linthos' eyes. “Okay then don't dodge this.” Suddenly a large stone ball hovered around Linthos and then it came at me. I had no time to dodge it went so fast i almost lost track of it as it rushed towards me and then when it was supposed to hit my body and shatter my bones, it went through my body without any kind of resistance and simply shoved itself inside the wall behind me creating a loud *Thud *.

“Great, Great! This is great, you really are talented, but for now this will be useless as it takes too much time to activate and deactivate. We will work on that. Yes but for now I will make sure that your lightning control will be able to aid you in battle.”

“Uh, aren't you supposed to teach me?”

“I am teaching you aren't i?

“No, i meant teach me to mastery.”

With disbelief in his eyes he siad “I never said i will teach you everything, you know how long that will take? I can't wait so long for you to get stronger. I will teach you how to train yourself when you are alone, as well as basics, but that's all i will do. The rest will be up to you and your imagination to make the best use of your abilities and further increase your own capabilities. My First lesson for you, young Shade. If it is not written on the contract, do not expect it to be fulfilled.” He looked evil, truly evil. I was angered by my stupidity and how i fell for such an obvious trap, nothing i could do about it now as i have already signed the damn contract, no matter I will still come out on top out of this deal, no matter how much of a liar this dude is....

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