Dark Magus Returns

Raze had finished drawing the large magical circle under the body of Yanin. Both Rayna and Anna were confused. They had assumed the reason he wanted to keep him alive was so he could absorb him with the infamous extraction technique, yet now he was doing something odd.

Due to the situation as well, Raze had stopped worrying about hiding his magic from the others. The strength of the enemy was too much to worry about them, and his strength was growing at a rate now where he felt like he could deal with the situation as it came.

The only issue was using magic, even creating magical items and the chance of a dimension break happening. Yet Raze also predicted that it was nothing he had to worry about.

There were two reasons for this. The first was the fact that there was already a dimension nearby the town. From the knowledge he had gathered, never had there been a case where a dimension was at least 5 kilometers within each other. Perhaps because there was already a dimension from another world opening to this one, it was unaffected. Then there was a second reason why he was so confident.

During his battle against Yanin, he didn't hold back in using his magical powers, but now there should have already been a situation where a portal would have opened if that was the case.

After finishing drawing the magic circle around the large Yanin, Raze continued drawing more circles and a larger one in the formation. It was a good thing they were doing this in the street and that there was no one nearby due to the size of all the drawings he needed to make.

In the bigger circle, there were two more circles that had been drawn with patterns on the inside, one with Yanin's body inside it. Then Raze pulled out a power stone placing it in another one of the smaller circles within the bigger circle.

Finally, Raze had also brought out a large black shield and placed it in one of the circles.

"That shield, I recognize it along with the high-level power stone as well!" Rayna thought. "When we were in the Lethal Bite Clan's base, the Crimson Crane, that man with the shield, Tilon, they had given him the materials and shield for him to work on."

Dreaded thoughts started to fill Rayna's mind, but it still seemed impossible. Raze was the Dark Magus, an Alchemist that created Qi pills.

It was only recently she found out that he also created weapons and that was what the Crimson Crane were after him for as well.

What was all the setup for? Was she about to witness how the Dark Magus created his weapons and if so why was there a need for a life?

Getting to the edge of the magic circle, Raze placed the Lux Sword away, having recovered a small amount of his mana, but it would be enough for what he needed to do.

Placing his hands on the floor, Dark Magic started to linger out, and the large magic circle lit up. It started from the very edge.

When the edge lit up, the circles in the center started to light up as well around the items placed on the floor, including Yanin.

'The book, in Alterian, it has given a way, a way for one to increase the enchantment of magical items!' Raze thought.

'In a traditional sense, the power stone, the item itself, and the magic used, these are the three limitations of the weapon one can produce.'

'Using Dark Magic transcends these limitations, but it comes at a cost of the item being cursed, but in that book, there was another method.'

'A way to increase the enchantment rank of a weapon was to add another variable into the mix, and that was, of a strong life force!'

This was the reason why Raze wanted to keep Yanin alive. A strong middle-stage warrior, surely the Qi in his body would be enough to strengthen the weapon.

The reason he had never thought of such a method was because it was inhuman in a way. His experiments were going through the knowledge of other magical attributes.

Having forgotten that the Dark Magic was based around death in the first place. However, one needed to know a lot more than just the magic circle that was needed for such a thing, or a strong life force.

There was also a specific technique that needed to be done in order to extract the life force and use it in the weapon creation process.

As the magic circle lit up, Rayna and Anna noticed that Yanin's large body was starting to shrivel up. The large size was getting small, the skin sagging while getting tighter as well.

"This, it looks just like the extraction technique!" Rayna said.

When Raze had read through the book he had thought the same, and that was when he started to come up with a theory.

Why was there a relation between the Dark Magic founder and the Demonic Faction? How did the two come to meet?

At the same time, why could Raze perform the extraction technique faster than any of the other warriors or those from the Demonic Faction? How did the two come to meet?

At the same time, why could Raze perform the extraction the Demonic Faction?

Was it because he was talented in Pagna martial arts? That was unlikely; all of his skills in martial arts came from his knowledge and control in magic. The similarities between them.

That was when it clicked to him, the extraction technique that was known to be a warrior technique, what if it wasn't a warrior technique.

What if it was a magic technique instead? Taking one's life force and adding it to your own, it sounded a lot like the Dark Magic Raze knew.

And now, there was an enchanting technique that also required one to take the power from one person and add it to the item.

The answer was, the extraction technique was originally created by those that practiced Dark Magic, and its main use was for this moment, to create powerful Enchanted Weapons.

Yanin's life was no more, and the crystal had disappeared, the large black shield was now illuminating and pulsating with power.

"What… has he created?" Rayna said with her mouth wide open.