He got sixteen level ups just from that guy alone, and here is the reason.

[You have killed Murakami Yoshida - Vampire Duke Lv 442/ Martial ancestor Lv 401. For killing an opponent 310 levels above your own you will receive bonus XP.]

Anything can be killed if you try hard enough.

Seriously though, this guy was useless. While the vampire job can level up from living a long life and eating, his class evolution for level 200 was the most common.

Not like it is a weak class, it's just that all the others on the martial path would laugh at him for only using his physic while on such level. I mean, at that point this guy could only use Chi attacks up to five hundred meters. That's a tenth of what is expected of him.

While you may say that is plot armor, do you really think all reincarnators would know that vampires have a high chance to develop emotional afflictions much more easily than other species because of how their biology works and that would cause his furthering of the martial path to be a very long and grind filled one even when compared to others.

Long story short, certain human clans turned to hunt and rob the magic of a certain predator then infuse it to their biology to better survive. Vampires are born. Everyone has a problem with their temperament.

While vampires have many good things on them, their weaknesses are what make them a failed product and also something others can copy.

It's like that, the lower the blood purity, the more it will try and cause harm to the body. The effect doesn't need the bargest's blood anymore, since it has been in crusted as a curse and remade in plenty of ways.

That's why vampires are such asses.

The licantropes are another in the same way, but theirs is that a curse actually changes their biology into followers of a very high class wolf.

By the way, in such cases, the lowest casts are not that different from zombies and grouped together as ferals, not together with their intelligent counter parts.

Yes, I am mumbling such trivia mainly because it is not very opportune to make a cut right now and the way to the capital of magic is pretty boring at the moment.

Luckily the mountains were very close to it, so they reached it an hour or so before the gates closed.

As for the line… there was none.

This place is known as the capital of magic for hell sake, of course they don't have problems checking people in.

They were most definitely stopped at the gate though.

-Halt! Those that have angered the gods are not allowed in so easily, you need…

-To pass some tests, right? Well, I also know that you guys need to check the magic potential of everyone entering your cities, and on that quote, anyone that has a sage level is allowed in no matter what crimes they have committed. I also know you need to do that before the tests to determine which level of difficulty it is fair to apply, so please, let's proceed. Aki said while using some magic to skip all that nagging.

-Eh, certainly… said the charmed men.

Them it happened. A large, condensed fireball went in Aki and company's direction.

He didn't panic and caused a vacuum in the fire's trajectory. It wasn't like he could take all the air out of an open space, but he sure as hell can saturate an area with a specific kind of element or take it out. Luckily carbon and oxygen are still part of this planet's atmosphere.

The colors all around are basically the same, so what else did you expect?

-Too amateurish. Keep walking everyone. Aki said and threw some normal daggers up to the sky. That was to take the lighting tempest that was starting to happen.

While that wasn't a permanent solution, it sure did buy him enough time to erect two iron pillars from the ground.

That certainly wasn't all, but Aki made a void shield around everyone, including the death roll convict pretending to be an official, and the laser beans, cold breath and cursed metal were all stopped

The theory was quite simple, you use mana crumbles to direct the elements in a way that they will be repulse each other but be attracted to anything else attacking. The stability can be maintained by using certain layers of weaker shields with the same kind of thing, but this was used the result mainly because void naturally tries to consume other things, while the other elements would need the use of other kind of particles to adhere better to each other each time something struck it.

Sounds like bullshit, right? just know that Aki's shields are the good kind and only some few use it like him.

The moment they stepped inside the wall the attacks stopped though.

The republic law actually states that they aren't obligated help in affairs in the surrounding of their territory, in a very subtle and underlined way of saying everything but that they need to. Of course, the government doesn't normally ignore people attacking right in front of their gates and have constant monitoring of their territory by magical means which they use to stop violence inside their borders and keep order, so crime is actually quite hard to find here. Not impossible though.

-Greetings. I see you have brought the scaping criminal back. I thank you for that. Said the very japanese young man with a calm face while seated in a chair while looking at some documents. He was the only person in there.

-Hello mister clone. Ya gonna apply or aptitude test or can this construct not use tools? Asked Aki while at the front of the group.

-It can. I will have to ask for some… I see you have the documents prepared. Then please, put your mana into this device and we can… *BOOM*

-I am sorry, my control slipped a little. I will pay for the damage caused of course. I have a pre-registered item officialized by republic that wasn't even taken out of its box here, why don't we use it. I intended to renovate it since the new model was going to be launched and i needed to obtain a new officialization for it, but since such case happened now, why don't we try it out to see if it is functioning correctly? Here's my current documents for owning and using it though. You accidentally burned them , oh my, here's another copy.

-...

And so the battle between a law student and a second year high-schooler who dreamed of being a devil lawyer ensued.

At the end the hero of magic couldn't even get a hair out of this maniac here.

Going to an Inn wasn't a problem, though it's pretty obvious that they would either be rejected or the price would be escalated for some stupid reason.

Thankfully Bea had come beforehand and warned the servants in the manor of this city that they would be coming.

That's why they were greeted by rows of maids and butlers saying "Welcome home, young master", which made a vein pop on Aki's head.

This was definitely Bea's work.

His beautiful sister will definitely love the cursed mirror series he was projecting for her.

-You and you, come show me my room. Said the young master with a pissed look in his face.

Getting to the fully golden place and with silk filled tapestry, the sound of something popping was heard by the two seemingly scared maids.

It would be ok if it was just silk and gold, but how was he supposed to sleep with those drawings of him doing such grand things and staring back whenever one looked?

His cursed mirrors just gained a cursed wardrobe full of frilly dresses as an assistant.

Seriously, the one of him killing a dragon with his hair blown by the wind was even naked and bathing in it's blood while being worshiped by lots of beautiful woman. It was also so big it was half the size of the glass doors to the veranda, which measured five meters in height.

-You two, take your clothes off and wait for me while I burn these things. Five minutes later Aki finished putting the ashes and burned metal holders in his inventory.

When he turned back the two maid were only on their underwear. This is the magic capital, do I really need to say there's normal underwear here? With normal I mean bras and panties, of course.

Without changing his expression and wordlessly put his hand in the mouth of the one in the left and pierced the right one's chest, again with his hand.

After taking a teeth out of one of them and a round object resembling a magic core out of the other, he stored both and got a dagger he used to stab in the air above the assassin, regenerated the homunculi and binded both of them.

At the start they screamed, but after a while the assassin got serious and the homunculi just turned apatic.

-Now we can talk. I've seen, battled and lived with both skilled assassins and homunculi before, disguises won't fool me.

By the way, I forgot to say he binded them with mana shackles, his new active skill. Normally it'd take some time to level it up, but with him having used similar spells all this time during and out of battle…

[Active: Mana shackles - Lv 16

Despite what the name suggests, it is actually a myriad of sealing techniques using mana as a base. Able to incorporate any know effect into this technique at the cost of more mana.]

Seriously, there should be a limit between individual differences. Is this even the same skill other mages can obtain?

[Active: Mana shackles III - Lv 1

Despite what the name suggests, it contains many types of sealing techniques.

2° stage: Extra effects may be imbued at double the normal cost.

3° stage: Your great and skillful use of multiple sealing arts has made you able to cast sealing rituals much more easily.]

It is a good skill for how basic it is, but Aki doesn't even have the second stage and the effect of the third is technically there too. How do you think he got it to level 16 so fast otherwise? He sealed… oh, I can't say that now, can I?

Back to it.

-To begin with, I'd like to ask you two what you are doing here. Though I certainly understand assassins coming after me, an homunculi with auto disintegration function wasn't something I was expecting till later. Aki said before turning to the slack faced girl.

-I came to bring a message, so I inform. My master will come later and wishes to talk, as proof of his generosity he gifts this unity, so the message states. Said the Homunculi.

-What is your serial number? For how long have you been conscious? Aki asked in a cold tone.

-Q92 is my serial number and this one has been functioning for a week, so I inform master.

-Your new name is Elizabeth, you may also be considered as Beth, Liza, Eliza and other variations of such name. Lay on the bed and find a position you feel is better for you to rest them go to sleep. That's all for now. Then Aki turned to the assassin and looked her up and down.

Black raven hair, gray eyes, sharp features, not a day above twenty, her muscles are well developed but more focused on movement ability than strength…

He stayed there just looking her whole body like an art piece or a very important document. For ten minutes. Then the pocket watch he set beforehand sounded an alarm and he stopped.

-It seems you have all the time of the world as well, so, don't you want to tell me why you work for whoever it is and I cover it? Protection, herbs, talent, teachers, family rescue and all the money you want, I don't really care, I just need info. By the way, why don't you try and break those shackles already, the other ten I prepared are going to get lonely, you know? Said Aki while flickering his fingers and revealing ten more layers of the same spell that actually only had a scratch.

Yeah, Smooth movements help with stealthily doing anything.

Seeing that the woman frowned.

-I have sworn a vow. She said dryly.

-How much can you tell me about it? Did the person in question use an object to bind said oath?

-Just that there is one. I don't know. Just kill me and… aahhh…

Since the person was cautious enough to bind their assassin this much, the vow would do it's magic if Aki had to get permission for searching her memory.

Failure to protect an oath can only result in physical damage instead of the soul damage in intentionally breaking it.

Two minutes later she stopped choking and started breathing hard and gritting her teeth waiting for the pain.

It didn't come though.

When she opened her eyes what she saw baffled her enough for her to blink while thinking some kind of spell had been cast to fool her.

"I am really bleeding profusely here. Arms and legs broken, blinded, mute and deaf. I lied about there only being ten layers, by the way. We're even." said Aki on her mind.

Five minutes later Aki finished overcharging himself with healing magic of all kinds.

-Yeah, that was unpleasant for the part I felt anything. Beth isn't asleep yet, so you might as well try and talk to her, just try to understand she hasn't learned how to hold an actual conversation yet, so bear with it. You may leave the room and the manor if you want nothing to do with me after I come back, ok?