Chapter 10: A Good Old Read on the Roof Never Harmed Anyone… Yet

Chapter 10: A Good Old Read on the Roof Never Harmed Anyone... Yet

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"And so, I kept hitting him until he vomited all the money he was about to swallow! This dumb shit!"

"""Ahahaha!"""

A series of laughs echoed around the saloon building. It is already the afternoon and the boys were done cleaning, helping in the kitchen, disposing of the trash and doing all the minor chores. They finally got their time off earlier than usual as Jordi claimed thanks to Leon's speed.

To catch the last rays of sunlight this day, Leon went to the backyard and avoided the places where the hooligans gather. He then found himself the perfect wall and started climbing up the wall of the saloon until he reached the second story and from it to the roof. The roof seemed to be covering a third story or an attic as how the people of this culture built them so the roof on top of it was flat even though it is built with roof tiles.

Leon found a spot to sit on and through his [Space-Time Magic: Storage] spell, he pulled out a total of 14 books. Back when he woke up for the first time in the academy, he found those books lying on a shelf and the reason he took them without even looking was the probability of them containing both evidence and knowledge that he may or may not need. The idea was inconclusive at first but it is now the right time to take a rummage through them.

"Geography of Northern Agartha by the Research Council of the First Royal Academy. Notes on the Hymn of Light by Minister Emile of Rossantte. Strategic Battles of the First Empires by Van Sal. The Arcane Theory by Magus Arnold the Old. Art of the Illustrious The High Society The Accounts of King Alvis Relations of Nations"

An overwhelming amount of academic books almost made the eyes of Leon blur. The way in which these books were written was overwhelmingly boring if not too boring to read. It made no sense how the previous Leon was good at Academics.

Yet under this amount of books, he finally found what he was looking for. A leatherback journal tied with a strap and had no title on it finally saw the light. The air felt cold in Leon's skin as his heart started to beat faster when he was undoing the strap around it. He didn't know why he was having this strange feeling of forebodings as a fiery sensation gripped his core yet the fabric of his being knew what it was.

He just didn't make sense of it until he opened the first page.

He frowned

These were just notes. Not anything personal either simply class notes. The handwriting was nothing special either and it only showed how dedicated he was in his studies, nothing

Then Leon gazed at the side of the journal and unlike its starting pages, the ending pages seemed to be heavy with the color of ink reaching as far as their sides. He flipped the first page, the second, the third nothing but boring notes until the last entry then the empty pages started. Leon then flipped the journal and started from its back.

[Leave me alone!]

[Get out of my head!]

[Who do you think you are to do what you like with me!]

Sweat drenched the skin of Leon the moment he saw this. His semi-white shirt started sticking to his back and his brown pants and vest felt as if they were tightening themselves on him.

Shady felt as if Leon was talking to him, shouting at him from within for taking over his body, demanding him to leave. But Leon wasn't.

This feeling had nothing to do with Shady to begin with, it was all Leon all his frustrated emotions the moment he wrote those words were coming back to him.

Shady, or the current Leon, panicked. He just closed the journal as the world around him felt more natural again. As if he could breathe. As if the dark cloud above him was lifted. nove(l)bi(n.)com

Should he read it again?

But he may remember he will remember what happened to him to Leon.

Is it a bad thing?

Why not use this spell "Read" on that ginormous book "The Arcane Theory" in order to gain the information in an instant?

Just to be clear, if the future Leon only has one regret, it is that he can't use the Space-Time magic in order to return back in time and beat the crap out of the current Leon for doing this stupid thing.

Something about reading 700 pages of pure Arch Nerd-level seemed appealing to him at the moment.

And he said the magic word while looking at the book.

"Read!"

< Analysing 0.001% >

Only a screen appeared and a count-up started moving on it.

Nothing painful nothing dangerous

Actually he may have felt no pain no cold no air nothing at all.

It started with a strange sensation above his head growing a little closer to the upper surface of his brain. Then it became sensible like something warm with its heat increasing on a horizontal scale then it felt like

*screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeech*

as if a hot knife's blade was scratching against the top of his brain as if something was scratching against metal.

A wet sensation came from his right ear, the hand that inspected it had a red liquid on it. The same happened with his nose and eyes.

And a violent spasm!

Sometimes people had to learn the hard way that Power and the Knowledge regarding it always come with a price.

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