I awoke to the rays of the sun, groggily waking up I found that there was a tray of food already prepared for me on my study table.
' Everyone can get in my room huh?....' I remembered that.
I mean if even the maids could get in here then what stopped anyone from coming here at the dawn of night and putting a couple holes in me?
' Okay fuck, I should go to the library.' I thought as I walked out not even taking a taste of the food presented for me, shit might be poisoned after all and I wasn't gonna take any chances.
So immediately I walked over to my father's library which was all the way to the other side of my father's castle.
Luckily it was still early and I didn't bump into any of my family members.
The library was guarded by 10 guards of which were all at Peak Tier-3 of strength, they didn't hussle me as I simply showed them my badge and after verifying it they let me pass.
Entering the library I immediately felt relaxed, here I would be safe... probably.
Now another problem arose.
I couldn't use my ability on these books.
Not that I couldn't but just that if I did I'd be giving my father more ammunition to fuck me over, each of these books was a 'treasure' to my father, probably.
After all, using my knowledge devour ability kinda broke the books down to nothing but ash.
Now I could either walk out of here and maybe try the public library for anyone in the castle or I could just disregard my father and devour every book in here.
' Or I could hopefully just devour the knowledge instead of the book...' I thought gaining a sudden idea.
So walking over to one section that held a plethora of Earth Magic books I was about to try the ability but realised that my Earth Magic skill was maxed out already.
Rummaging through my pocket I took out the bag containing all the skill stones.
There were 10 advanced skill stones so I could afford it.
I broke the advanced skill stone.
[—Choose a Skill to break the skill limits of.
—Basic Swordsmanship[25/25]
—Basic Mind Magic[15/25]
—Basic Martial Arts[8/25]
—Basic Earth Magic[25/25]
—[]—
Choosing the earth magic i felt something within me loosen.
[—Advanced Earth Magic[25/50]-]
And just like that I could level up my skill further.
So with that I grabbed a book on earth magic.
I then activated [Knowledge Devour] and focused on just the knowledge it contained and not the physical book itself.
[— +5 Earth Magic]
And the book was still intact and not damaged.
' Good...but the level gains are a bit low.' I thought but shrugged.
' It doesn't matter, there are a lot of books here that will give me levels.' and so with that I used [Knowledge Devour] till the Earth Magic skill maxed out again.
Seeing this I used one of the 5 Expert Skills Stones.
Then proceeded to level up further.
And by the end my skills looked like this.
—[Skills]—
—Basic Swordsmanship[25/25]
—Basic Mind Magic[15/25]
—Basic Martial Arts[8/25]
—Expert Earth Magic[75/75]
—[]—
' Okay....now to grind!' I thought before I used the skill stones I had to increase some of my other skills level cap.
And so after using 3 other Advanced skill stones, 3 Expert Skill stones this was what my skills looked like again.
—[Skills]—
—Expert Swordsmanship[25/75]
—Expert Mind Magic[15/75]
—Expert Martial Arts[8/75]
—Expert Earth Magic[75/75]
—[]—
And just like that I now had 6 Advanced Skill Stones, 1 Expert Stone and 2 Master Skill Stones.
' Not enough...' I thought grinning before looking at the dozens of books in the shelves.
' Time to get gud!'
—[5 Hours Later]—
It was five hours that I was finally done with Devouring the magic books.
This because I had ran out of skill stones.
And so my status now looked like so.
[—Name: Darius' Lucifer Sinclair' Morningstar.
—Age: 16.
—Tier: 1
—Race: Demon.
—Bloodline: Drechro Bloodline.
—Sin: ???.
—[Stats]—
—Body: 67.
—Mind: 54.
—Soul: 9,999.
—C-Mana: 70.
—[Abilities]—
—True Insight[S+]
—Parasite[S+]
—Knowledge Devour[S+]
—[Bloodline Abilities]—
—Mind Sanctum[S-]
—Blood Thralls[A+]
—Mind Moulding[B+]
—[Skills]
—Master Swordsmanship[89/100]
—Master Necromancy Magic[89/100]
—Expert Mind Magic[75/75]
—Expert Martial Arts[72/75]
—Expert Earth Magic[75/75]
—Advanced Fire Magic[50/50]
—Advanced Flesh Magic[40/50]
—Advanced Life Magic[45/50]
—Advanced Wind Magic[40/50]
—Basic Sexual Arts[9/25]
—Basic Subterfuge[0/25]
—Basic Speech[7/25]
—Basic Concealment[19/25]
—Basic Enchantment Magic[25/25]
—Basic Alchemy Magic[25/25]
—Basic Blacksmithing Magic[25/25]
—Basic Poison Magic[10/25]
—Basic Curse Magic[23/25]
—Basic Space Magic[25/25]
—Basic Warding Magic[25/25]
—Basic Illusion Magic[25/25]
—Basic Arcana Magic[25/25]
—Basic Plant Magic[25/25]
—Basic Blood Magic[10/25]
—[]—
These were all the skills that I deemed necessary to learn, I also had Swordsmanship all the way to master after finding dozens of Swordsmanship manuals on different styles in the library.
So I decided to use one of my two master rank skill stones to break the skills level limit all the way to 100, I also used the relevant books to level up the skill granting me instant mastery of said sword styles and how to utilise them in combat.
As for my other choice for a master skill, Necromancy.
This was was just for my personal glee, I always liked necromancers in fiction even when they were evil bad guys and incredibly stupid, having the capabilities to build your own army of the undead is an incredible magic skill in my opinion so I decided why not.
I also leveled it up while learning dozens of necromancer spells in the process.
Next were my Expert Skills.
Mind Magic was chosen because I was already proficient in it and knew of its benefits, I mean now I could bend beings to my will with magic, I know that I could do the same with my bloodline ability but this also served to give me a more creative way to utilising my ability.
Martial arts was chosen because weapons break or are stolen, so with this I won't be defenceless in the occasion that I don't have a Weopon close by.
Earth Magic I had decided to get to expert level in mastery and power because I saw a master level spell that could 'call' for meteors to fall into my enemies, that was a busted spell so I took it.
Next were the advanced skills.
Fire Magic was leveled up to this level because it was the most destructive of the 4 basic elements and because if I used it with Wind magic which too was at Advanced level would make for a destructive combo.
Flesh and Life Magic would be so that I could be able to modify and strengthen any undead I may raise, I didn't want them to start rotting on me and plus these two magics had a lot of utilisation effects that I can achieve with them.
As for the basic skills, I took these ones and leveled them as much as I could to the amount of books on them I had, this was because I saw potential in their uses that could and would synergize greatly with other magic skills I had.
' Alright then...now that's done, time to get the fuck out of here.' Were my thoughts as I couldn't stay here forever, plus I knew that father would come here to go check whether I 'fell' into his trap and destroyed his prized magic books or not.
All the books in here went from Basic, Advanced, Expert and the scant few Masters so this library was worth a lot if I guessed right.
But even then I still didn't find a single book on fucking soul magic.
' I guess dad doesn't want me any close to that branch of magic.' I thought, and for good measure too as soul magic was extremely dangerous for the single fact that only other soul mages can heal soul damage and even then it was only possible for Expert level mages of that domain.