Dark Magus Returns

The Crimson Crane were wondering what Raze was intending to do with the Ghost Blade that they had given him. The weapon was already incredibly powerful, but why would he pull out a certain crystal?

'Ah, that reminds me, Reno explained that he uses these crystals to create the weapons. So he's planning to enchant the weapon himself?'

Thinking about it, Alba couldn't help but speak up about the situation.

"Wait, won't the weapon strengthen more with a higher quality crystal?" Alba asked.

"It would," Raze replied. "But with my current capabilities, I could only enchant it with a level 4 crystal in the first place. Anything higher I would have to increase my own power."

Although Raze had the knowledge of a 9-star mage, he did not have the power and was only at the 4-star level. So he thought he might as well give his weapon the best enchantment.

"It's hard for us to even get crystals higher than the 4-star level due to the limited access with middle stage realms, but I think we could get you at least a level 5 or 6 crystal for you to use.

"From what Reno told me, once you upgrade the weapon, it seems like you can't upgrade it again. With a weapon as good as that, don't you think you should wait?"

Raze looked at the sword again. It certainly was extremely powerful, and Alba was right. The enchantment he would give it now would be impressive but that was in terms for those in Pagna.

If he was to go against other mages or the items Idore and the higher members of his guild had, it wouldn't be able to hold up.

The question was, how long would it take for Raze to reach that level, or increase his star level. He would either need high-level crystals, higher than this level 4 crystal or to absorb those that were stronger than him.

'I somewhat regret not absorbing Eston and the other mages now, but it would have been a difficult thing to do. Fighting all of them would have worn me out, and the Crimson Crane were already worn out.'

'But I would need something like that to occur again for me to increase my star level.'

Raze should have been happy with his progress. Increasing one's star level especially as it got higher would take years, yet he was doing everything in the matter of months.

"What you said, it makes sense, so what do you want in return?" Raze asked.

To which Alba just shook her head.

"I told you, we're in the same clan. You said you would still go to Repton and create weapons for us once in a while. Maybe just come along with us to one of the dimensions and help us get the crystal yourself."

"And for now, keep the level 4 power stone and use it for something else."

Raze thought it was sensible. The strength of the sword was already strong due to its other effects, and he hoped that he wouldn't run into more difficult opponents like he had just done so that he couldn't be patient enough to wait.

In the meantime, he could increase his strength in other ways, but while he was here, it was better for him to use the power stone.

If he did enchantments on this level on the outside, it would certainly cause a portal break to occur, and Raze had an idea of what he wanted to do with the power stone.

"I need to stay here a while, but before sending you guys back, I thought there might be something of interest to you," Raze said. "I didn't want to speak about it while Amir was here."

"But these portals, they tend to have items scattered across in the dimension somewhere. You remember like last time, so they should be of some use to you."

"But I'm a bit worried that more mages might come through the portal the longer we stay here."

"I don't think we have to worry about that too much," Reno answered. "We heard the mages speaking. They were meant to be searching this place for a week top to bottom."

"It seemed like they were looking for something here as well. I think as long as we don't spend longer than a week here, they won't get suspicious about what happened."

That was good news to hear, and it confirmed Raze's suspicions as to what the mages were doing here in the first place.

Since the same thing had occurred in the other dimension he was in. What he was more curious about was what happened to the dimensions after that fact.

Why was the sky warping and taking everything in? He was unsure if it was a natural occurrence or something done by the mages themselves.

Either way, it wasn't a mystery for him to solve.

With that, the Crimson Crane split up and decided to search the vast dimension.

In the meantime, Raze got to work drawing his enchantment on the ground, and he had placed the level 4 power stone on the ground himself.

'In situations where I have to face people one on one, I do quite well. Worst case, I'm always able to escape like I did against Feebie.'

'However, recently I have fallen into situations where I've had to face many at one time.'

'Those mages, if they were more prepared, they could have stopped my attack, and then I would be facing a number of large spells at once.'

'The Noble Guild will have a flurry of items as well, and the same with Alter. If I go up against them, I should better prepare myself.'

With that, the ingredients to make a Qi pill had been placed on the ground, and a spark of lightning formed on both of Raze's hands before he pressed it into the ground.

The ingredients all swirled as they mixed together, and a pill had formed in place of the circle. It was bright blue in color, almost glowing, and had sparked the ground slightly.

It also had the marking of DM on it, a signature of the Dark Magus.

'A level 4 Qi pill for myself.'

[An Elite Grade Lightning Qi pill]

[This pill will fully restore one's mana]

[An additional buff will be granted. All spells will have an increased range and have the chance to affect others close to it.]

'The pill works like the Cursed pill, but there's no time limit. It also won't have the nasty side effect, so I'll be able to take other pills along with this one, so the same thing doesn't happen again.'

'This will come in handy if I have to fight multiple people at once again.'

Thinking about the fight with Eston, and thinking about the match he had with Feebie, this time Raze wasn't strong enough to take both of them on.

It was annoying him, but he remembered something when battling with Eston.

'There is one way for me to increase my strength, if I was to run into another battle or forced to go against the principal, a way I could win right now.'

'If I was to find out how to breakthrough with a Dark Core.' Raze thought.