A Degenerate's Tale

After getting out of the bath, Earl went to the top of the Magic Castle to check for any Delivery Birds. Delivery Birds were the mailing system of this world. It was nothing new or surprising to train birds to deliver mail.

To his pleasant surprise, a Delivery Bird was waiting by the window when he arrived at the top of the castle. It had a small and cute appearance with white fur and blue accents around the eye. A simple message scroll was tied to its little legs.

Earl carefully removed the message from the bird. The crest indicated that it was from a slave trader, as expected. Unscrolling the message, there was a simple message:

We have a demon slave that you may be interested in. Please visit us whenever you can to take a look. We have reserved her for you.

Earl nodded in satisfaction and wrote his reply before rolling the scroll back into its original shape. He then carefully seated the scroll back onto the Delivery Bird and gave it a few treats.

The Delivery Bird happily pecked the treats and then flew off into the distance.

This slave was going to be his reward for advancing to the Advanced rank. Being an Advanced Mage at the age of 8 was an unheard-of achievement. Most children only started learning magic at the age of 8 and that was for nobles. For commoners, they were only able to start learning magic when they had enough funds to pay for a tutor. That meant that the age range in which commoners started learning magic was very wide.

Earl felt all giddy inside at the prospects of having another slave. He would have to train her as he did with Aria and he was going to have a lot of fun with that.

He could already imagine his bright future of being served by two slaves at the same time. This was what life in another world was all about.

The rest of the afternoon was then spent studying magic. He was starting to have a general grasp of what his magic "Style" was. "Style" was one's general inclination and use of certain types of magic.

His mother, for example primarily used Frostflame, Fire, and Unclassified despite good at everything else. It was her natural inclination and preference to use these things over the others.

For himself, he wanted to revolve his magic around Shadow Magic and Unclassified like his Charm Magic. He was proud of his creation and wanted to develop them further. From talks with Ari, the next era was shifting to that of Unclassified Magic.

Earl set his eyes back on the text he was reading.

Magic was something that changed era by era.

In the First Era, there were only Adepts among humans and demihumans. Magic began to sprout when the Great Dragon Lord descended and showed the teachings of magic to humans. From then, groups of Mages began to emerge. They were devout followers of the Great Dragon Lord and strictly imitated the Lord's Magic which was Elemental Magic.

In the Resplendent Light Era, the Church found a method to quickly determine the Magic Talent of children through the use of rocks which they dubbed Awakening Rocks. These rocks were only able to detect the elements of Fire, Water, Earth, and Wind. From here, it was determined that Magic was strictly these four elements and those who could not make the Awakening Rock shine would be deemed useless. It was a tragic time when many unpolished gems were tossed aside due to the ignorance of the Church.

This was all changed when the Hero King was born. The Hero King was deemed useless by the Awakening Rock. But that was not enough to stop him. He persevered and was able to perform the miracle of using all 4 elements of Magic. This broke an era long belief and placed the Hero King in a position against the Church.

And hence, the Hero King and Demon Lord Era began. It was a bloody period of war and bloodshed between the humans and demihumans against the demons.

The demons had been eyeing the Holy Continent and Great Continent for a long time. After the Demon Lord emerged and united the entire Demon Continent. The Demon Lord then formed the ranks of 12 Demon Kings and, the first Great War started.

The Hero King fought back and many dozen years later, they both perished leaving the 12 Demon Kings without a leader. This was when the first Otherworld Hero was summoned.

More blood was spilt across the continents and there was finally peace. Hundreds of years later, and they were finally in the current era. The era where they were finally moving away from the 4 elements and taking a closer look at Unclassified Magic.

Thud!

Earl closed the book and stretched. The only question he had left was why did no one try to attempt magic even after being deemed useless by the silly Awakening Rock? And why did none of the element identified Mages not attempt to learn any other element?

Earl could not wrap his head around this detail. It almost seemed like the magic he was using was a whole different thing than what was described in the book.

"I'll just ask mom later." He mumbled and dismissed his thoughts.

'History is written by winners. There was probably a lot of modified detail and silliness added in to make the demons look bad and heroes look good.'

Earl placed the book back on the shelf where he took it from. Looking out the window, the sun had fallen considerably. It was going to set soon which meant it was time to pick up his new slave.