Dark Magus Returns

The single book had gained a lot of interest from Raze. He was flipping the pages back and forth, looking at them in detail.

So engrossed in the book, he was taking in the information there and then. He thought that he might have to figure out a solution of his own through the information of the book, but that wasn't the case at all.

In the book itself, the solution was there, the answer he had been looking for. A way to increase the strength of one's enchantments, not using the three known methods already, and it was something that only Dark Magic could do.

Because he was so amazed by the research, Raze took a look at the name. Wondering if it linked to any of the other books or knowledge about Dark Magic that he knew. However, he was unable to recognize the name at all.

"It seems you found what you were looking for?" Harvey said as he came over, and placed down a box of extra materials concerning Dark Magic.

These were materials that had yet to be sorted, and he was going through them himself before bringing them to the Dark Spirit.

"Do you have anything else that was written by this person?" Raze asked, showing the book. "Nafob Alok."

The book was worn, and even had a special type of wax put over it to preserve it. It was hard to tell how old it was, but it looked similar to books Raze dealt with as a professor that were hundreds of years old, maybe even longer.

"I can't say I have, but we have a database that logs all the items put in. I can get my team to look through pictures and see if they spot anything with that name. It might help us save some time as well."

"That way, we won't have to go to every station and raise suspicions and can go just to the ones that have the same name. From the looks of things, the book is fairly old, the older the text the more information there was on Dark Magic, at least that's what I found."

"There's a reason for that," Raze replied. "Back in the past, at a time of frequent war while magic was still used, Dark Magic wasn't considered so much of a taboo."

"Practically everyone born who had become a mage would have to consider murder. Which is why the Dark Magic techniques are so deadly as well. A peaceful era had arrived, and shortly after there was the banning of all Dark Magic."

"At first, it was just the banning of further study and prohibiting anyone to learn the magic, but during this time, the continents were still under control of a single emperor. The emperor later decided to execute all those that knew Dark Magic."

"There was a culling and a burning of the text and most of the history that occurred during that time, bringing us to the time today.

"Of course, we don't have emperors in this day and age, but at the moment we do have the Grand Magus."

Using his special blazer, Raze had stored the book away; he had gotten his answer but perhaps there would be more information.

With the rest of the texts on the side, he took them all away as well. New spells could come in handy for him to use as time went on.

After taking away everything on the shelves, he decided to sort through the boxes as well.

"I have a question to ask you, that has been bugging me for a while… Dark Spirit," Harvey added at the end, but the words were almost more of an afterthought than anything.

"It's quite clear that you were looking for something, you aren't just looking for these texts to help advance our Dark Guild… why would you need all of this? If you are an acolyte of the Dark Magus, don't you already know everything that is needed to know?" Harvey asked.

This question made Raze wonder, how many people knew the real truth of the Dark Magus? In many Alterian eyes, was he just someone who had decided to go against the mages, learning Dark Magic.

Was he a master of some kind wishing to bring back Dark Magic to the masses like that in the past? Very few, if any, would find it hard to believe if he stated he was just an old man by then, simply wishing to get his vengeance.

Someone who was a master of Wind Magic, who dabbled in Dark Magic to help him achieve his goal. He was no grand master of Dark Magic, far from it, especially with his Wind Core.

But… perhaps in this life, he could become a master of Dark Magic.

"The Dark Magus might not be exactly who you think he is. He isn't some type of god; in fact, I'm pretty sure he is more like most of you. Someone who was hurt by the world and just wanted to find a way to hurt it back," Raze answered.

"Just like you, though, I plan to continue where the Dark Magus left off, The annihilation of the Grand Magus, so I myself have to get stronger as well."

"I will study these texts, sort out what is useful information for the guild to have. Since I can't be here for long, and won't always be here for the meetings, I will leave things to you."

Harvey's heart was pounding when he heard those words. The expansion of the Dark Guild, a big change would be coming to Alterian; he could feel that they were at the tip of it.

They were close to letting themselves be known to the entire world.

"Sir!" A young police officer had barged into the room opening the door.

"What are you doing Sine!" Harvey shouted. "I told you not to disturb me."

"But… there is an important message, those from headquarters are here again, I think they want an update on the situation from before!"

"Well, tell them I'll be with them in a second," Harvey replied back.

This wasn't a good situation, the people from headquarters wanted him to look into the Dark Magus, most likely working on orders from one of the Grand Magus.

They would surely question a stranger being in the room with them. To stop anything going wrong, the Dark Spirit would have to stay in the room while he sorted things out there.

The young officer looked down the hallway though. "Sir, they are here." He gulped.

Harvey went to look at his side, telling the Dark Spirit to get out of there, or at least hide, but when he looked to his side, he was already gone.

Vanished into thin air, he had left as quickly as he had come.

Shortly after coming into the room, were the three officers from headquarters, coming into the room.

Harvey was still looking around, trying to make sure the Dark Spirit wasn't there.

"Is there something I can help you with?" Harvey asked.

Raze could feel it, the people walking down the hall having an immense amount of magic power. Worried that he would get caught and already having what he needed in his hands.

He decided to stop the astral projection. What he didn't expect when opening his eyes, was to see a large enemy ready to swing his hammer down at both Anna and Rayna.