Chapter 288 279: Spirit Magic (1)



"Going off the grid alone? I am sorry, but did you think I won't figure out what you're doing?"

If god.

And hear me out here.

If god had a machine that could purely annoy people on a rate of one to ten, and like, we set it on eleven. Would it be possible to be more insufferable than that machine itself?

I say yes.

And that very more insufferable being was in front of my eyes, making every breath taxing.

"Miss Irina, what do you want?" I asked.

Were her words that annoying? Her actions? I didn't know. But I did know that she was a fucking loser. If there was a race for losers alone, she would come second, because that's how much of a loser she was.

"I am here to keep an eye on you, Eugene Hall," said Irina Lester. Maybe she wasn't as annoying, but her waterlogged ganglion of a brain had managed to annoy me to no extent.

She had come found me after I had informed everyone at the dinner of their fate and their expectations and had added that I would be leaving the place to them and go look into one more problem.

"We have your punishment to settle. As someone that has been harassed by you to no end, I think you deserve all the shade I throw you. And so, I suggest, that you carry out this punishment we had decided in a long-form."

"What do you mean?" I asked. When she brought up the part about harassment, I couldn't argue anymore.

"I'll come with. Whatever you're up to is probably no good, and since you kids are planning to do something absurd, it is natural that us teachers keep an eye on you."

"So that's what this is about?" I asked. "You're doing this because you think we're kids in need of supervision?"

"You will never not be as long as you're students. It is part of it, the other part is that I want to make your life insufferable."

I hated this bitch.

"Fine, but why can't I take Miss Rio then?"

Irina shook her head and sighed.

"That girl will excuse everything you say and do by claiming that you're doing something good and that she knows because she is your teacher. Just what did you do to make her trust you so much?"

"I've come to learn there's just a lack of agreeable folks in general, more than you would imagine."

"Oh, I can see. I feel it in my veins this very moment."

Irina grinned and my forehead twitched.

"Fine," I said. "I'll take you along, but it's going to be much more dangerous than what you could have done here."

"All the more reason to be involved. I don't think it's going to be as bad as going to hell though."

"Why so? Hell's my backyard at this point."

Irina tilted her head and I nodded. That was the plan at least. I mean did people really think I was going to let the place that made a bike leave be? No way, that city was going to join Apollon the first thing when I hold all the power in this country.

"Fine," Irina sighed. "Then, what is it? What kind of 'evil' are you planning to vanquish?"

"Drugs," I said with a grin. "We head at the break of dawn."

No more words or explanations were needed. She was rather useful in that regard. She didn't even ask for any clarification as she left.

The night in Apollon passed well.

Within the next month, I had a country to rule. From the shadows.

"Before that…"

As I looked outside in the backyard of my mansion, the sight of a few little spirits flooded my eyes.

"Let's go get stronger."

***

Titania dragged me to the back of the Ediab forest, saying the presence of the spirits was the strongest here. Where the once original base of Dark Moon used to be and the landmark that announced my presence and the strength of the good old World's End Slash, now stood mansions and properties for the nobles that had decided to snakily invest in the city. Since it was far, it was no better than living in a reclusive home.

Thankfully, the forest was big and we had enough space to train deeper inside.

I sat on a small stone while Titania floated in front of me.

The dark of the night was stronger here as barely any light passed through the canopy of the trees. Grass had grown on the ground and some of the green moss held a faint glow.

Even though the night was as dark as the area under a bed, for me, visibility was not compromised at all.

"Hahaha!"

"Hehe!"

"Kieekiee!"

Small spirits were constantly running about in the air while others hopped up and down, all of them filling the night with a glow akin to the stars falling to the ground.

"How many do you see right now?" Titania asked.

"About thirty?"

"You're growing faster than I thought…" Titania said. "Well, to begin with. There are well over three hundred spirits in our immediate vicinity, Eugy."

"Three hundred… huh?"

Titania then floated in front of me and stretched her body, cracking her waist and stretching her hands above her head.

"To give you a hint of what you can do with these spirits…" she snapped her fingers.

The spirits around me started gathering toward Titania.

In the next moment, all the mana and the ki around started to disappear, and something different, something murky overtook it all.

"Watch. Carefully."

She snapped her fingers once more.

And my hair rose on end.

A slight breeze picked me up at first.

My eyes shifted to the side where the stones and the rocks all around slowly started to float into the skies. Followed by larger ones. Bushes and trees alike trembled as the glow spread on them all in the blink of an eye.

The ground below.

Merged with the sky above.

"Woah…"

The entire forest started floating.