Vesper and Aurora looked at each other before Vesper walked and answered the door, opening it he saw a young man with light purple hair holding a fox in his hands, the same man who appeared after him and Chloe battled.
He was the fourth prince, and first son of the fourth Queen. Prince Amon, he always had an easy going smile, plastered on his face but those that knew him, knew he was far from easygoing, he was a very sly prince who had a rare case of dual affinities, both mist and illusion, two of the most sense confusing elements, combined in one person, that made him the personification of unpredictability.
Vesper saw Amon smile at him while stroked the fur of his fox companion beast.
Amon looked at Vesper with a smile and said, "May I come in Vesper, I have a few things to tell you."
Vesper looked at Amon and opened the door wider while leaving a path for Amon to walk in before shutting it.
"What is it you want Amon?"Vesper asked with no expression on his face.
"Relax Vesper, I came to make a deal with you, aside Chloe, Lisa and Catherine, I am also aware of your new secret, so how about we make a deal, I would keep your secret for you on the condition that you help me with something." Amon said.
Vesper looked at Amon and sighed, he knew one day it would be known to everyone that he could access mana, but he wanted to buy some time first but now that seemed impossible.
"There would be no need for you to keep my secret for me, like you said, a few people already know, so it is no longer a secret anyway, even if you do not say anything about it, one of them would. If that is all then I am sorry to disappoint you dear prince." Vesper said as he walked toward the door.
He was not willing to have any dealings with Amon and he wanted to avoid this person at all cost. Amon's personality was very fitting to one of those people that would stab you in the back. Just how his twin brother in his past life had killed his mother.
Amon's expression flashed with surprise before reverting back to its usual smile.
"Alright then, I apologize for disturbing you, have a good night rest, you too sister." Amon said as he walked out of Vespers' room.
As Amon left, Vesper let out a sigh and looked at Aurora. The both of them stayed together until late night before Aurora bid Vesper goodbye and left for her room.
Vesper then brought out the scriber and looked at it, then he used the sharp point to prick his thumb and drop it on the crescent moon insignia on the body of the scriber.
Every scriber was a blood bound instrument used by rune inscribers. A rune inscriber could inscribe rune one weapons, armours, and even papers to make the items become enchanted, for battle, or for other uses.
Vesper then picked up a parchment and started moving his hands, drawing a rune, he had basically all the knowledge of this world and other worlds, so he could speak multiple languages, and delve into hundreds of trades successfully.
His hand moved as the scriber lit up with a dark and grey film of light encasing it, Vespers hand moved with speed, as beads of sweat formed and rolled down his face.
After ten minutes he stopped and fell back onto his bed, panting heavily, the mental drain on an inscriber was immense. He sat up and picked a bottle of blue potion and drank it.
After a few moments he gained himself and looked at the parchment, he channelled his mana into it and a dome of two meters that surrounded half of the room, he looked at the parchment and sighed.
"It is defective, seems, I made an error on the inscription of the distance, well I should try inscribing two more. Vesper picked up two more parchments and drew very slowly, making sure he was careful not to mess up the lines.
After an hour the dome shimmered out of existence and Vesper opened his eyes. Looking at the two new enchanted talisman he inscribed in the past hour.
"Very well then, it is time to use this", Vesper said as he waved his hand and a purple fruit that emitted a dark aura appeared on his palm, this was a gift from Erebus, the fruit was a unique magical herb that contained a pure aura of darkness.
Erebus told Vesper to eat it once he was ready to start training his darkness magic, but Vesper felt he needed to gain as much strength as he could before going to this battle.
Vesper channelled his mana into the talisman and a transparent dome shielded the entire room, it was a spacial dome, that sealed the space around him, preventing mana from going in our out of it, meaning, no one below the transcendent rank could see what he was doing.
Vesper ate the fruit, then he felt, a cold energy emerge from inside his body, as he was about to fight it, his vision turned pitch black and he saw himself in a dark space where there was no light.
Turning around he saw nothing, while looking around his mind ran on different possibilities of what could have happened. After a few moments of fruitless search, he let out a sigh and sat down and absorbed the darkness.
As the time passed and Vesper absorbed the darkness he felt his rank moved from the early stage of Novice rank to the Mid stage then the peak stage, before he broke through to the Apprentice rank.
After a while Vesper felt he could no longer absorb the darkness, then he let out a sigh before he stood up walking in a direction.
Vesper walked, for minutes, then hours, then days, but he could not tell how long because his perception of time seemed to be distorted, he did not know how long he had been in this space, nor how much longer he would be here.
Frustrated he waved his hands and channelled his mana but instead of darkness he forced himself to manipulate the space element, to tear the space in front of him.
Vesper tried and failed and tried and failed, for a long time before sitting down, looking at the endless darkness surrounding him.
He tried to feel his halberd and failed, he tried to summon it but could not summon it. Vesper felt like he had been in this place for more than a month, meaning Aurora would be worried about him and he was so angry.
Then he tried connecting his mind to feel the flow of darkness, as he felt it, he saw his own darkness become corrupted and he lost control of it.
Then Vesper had an idea, why not try corrupting it by himself, then he sat down and channelled his mana, observing how his mana was corrupted then he reversed it, by using his space element to isolate a small amount of darkness, he corrupted it successfully and then did it again and again.
After months, Vesper had successfully taken control of the darkness fifty meters around him, then he heard a voice.
"You can leave here through that gate young lord, you have successfully grasped an authority of darkness." The voice said.
Vesper turned around and he could not find anyone, nor where the voice came from.
"It is important you leave now young lord, it is already morning in your realm and a human is currently headed towards you, so if you do not want to be caught it is best you leave now." The voice said again.
"Who are you?" Vesper asked.
"You would know when the time is right, young lord."
Vesper sighed and walked towards the door and entered, then he woke up from his bed. His eyes glimmered with a purple light and a small amount of dark aura escaped from him.
Vesper calmed himself and used his space element to isolate his mana inside his body so it would not leak.
At this moment, a knock sounded on the door and a female voice came.
"Vesper, are you in?" She said.
"Come in" Vesper replied.
The door opened revealing a stunning beauty.