Arcane Academy: The Divine Extraction Legacy - #222 - 222 Treasure



“You have to forget about it, Professor Lucius.” Headmaster Jean spoke with a stern voice.

This cold reaction baffled Lucius as he didn’t expect to be treated like this after his discovery. He even spent a lot of money to capture another Evil Creature just to prove his theory.

“Hmm?”

Lucius felt something off as the Headmaster’s aura suddenly changed.

“Headmaster Jean, can you tell me the reason why?” He asked cautiously.

However, Headmaster Jean simply shook his head, refusing to explain.

This confused Lucius for a moment as he thought that he knew the Headmaster really well. As a matter of fact, he’s one of the Professors who assisted Jean to become the current Headmaster.

He thought he had gone closer to this person, but it seemed utterly one-sided.

“You can observe his progress, but you can’t intervene. Just teach the classes that you have and don’t think of anything else about that young boy. Sir Isaac is already watching him.”

As soon as Lucius heard the man’s name, he immediately stiffened since there could only be one Isaac in the Academy. That would be Isaac Vermont, the son of Morgan Vermont.

Morgan Vermont established the Academy of Dark Arts and didn’t take any positions in the Academy. However, he sent one of his sons to conduct top-secret Arcane Research in one of their facilities.

If that man is observing Vale, then Vale’s significance is indeed something he can’t afford to ignore.

“Then please remind him to be careful of Vale. I’m unsure if the Spell he was using could be easily controlled. If it was a Tier 3 Dark Spell, there would be a chance that Vale might fail to suppress it since he lacks enough Life Strands.” Lucius said as he decided to give up taking Vale’s Spell Model.

As he said this, Headmaster Jean couldn’t help but chuckle. He didn’t elaborate on why he found Lucius’ words funny, leaving the Professor unsettled.

Professor Lucius could only bite his lips in frustration as he turned around to leave.

Soon, Headmaster Jean was left alone on the balcony.

As the cold wind breeze touched his face, Headmaster Jean closed his eyes and flicked his finger. In an instant, a squirming dark matter appeared at the tip of his finger.

If Vale were here, he would surely realize that it was his missing shadow.

Headmaster Jean played around with it for a little before snapping his finger.

The shadow disappeared, but Jean’s smile remained on his face.

***

In Melthorn City, Vale summoned Yvaine and immediately asked. “Have you felt the presence of those crows again?”

“No.” Yvaine flatly answered.

Vale had used his Spirit Vision to confirm that no one was following him. However, he might’ve missed something, so he still asked the Dark Spirit.

It was only at this time that he could finally relax.

‘This Incorruptible Body seems to be causing problems. I should ask Master Heinz about it.’ Vale sighed inwardly as he knew that his actions had been influenced by the side effects of this original Spell.

After making this decision, Vale checked his current attribute panel.

He didn’t have the time to check his extractions a while ago, but now, he was pretty excited to see the progress he had made.

Although he felt uncomfortable knowing that he had killed many lives, he couldn’t hide the fact that he wanted to see some improvement in his attributes.

[ Name: Kyle Marshall ]

[ Attributes: Strength 40.52, Agility 38.39, Intelligence 57.10, Vitality 45.20 ]

[ Dark Arts: Spell Dispersion Lv4, Ghost Hand Lv7, Incorruptible Body Lv7, Darkness Manipulation Lv2, Spirit Vision Lv0, Light Absorption Lv3 ]

[ Holy Arts: Divine Sense Lv1, Blessed Healing Lv0 ]

[ Celestial Arts: Call of the Divine Lightning Lv0, Shadow Mutilation Lv0 ]

[ Neutral Ability: Extrasensory Perception Spell Lv6, Traceless Shift Lv0 ]

[ Available Energy: 2785 ]

[ Available Divinity: 3.78 ]

Vale’s smiled from ear to ear as soon as he saw the progress he had made.

This is just his second day in his six-week summer break, but his progress has already made him incredibly stronger.

No wonder he felt his Nimble Talon is lacking. He had so much increase in his strength and agility. He must retrain his technique in order to control his current strength.

However, his smile faded as soon as he saw his Divinity Points.

From 4.78, it went down to 3.78.

A single point was lost!

“This… Are you telling me that each usage of Celestial Arts would cost me 1 Divinity Point?! Isn’t that too much!” Vale couldn’t help but complain after realizing what had just happened. This is the only explanation he could think of.

Vale lost his mood to upgrade his other spells.

‘Tsk… So that was the reason why I felt something had disappeared from my body after casting that Spell! It was my Divinity Points that were used!

Vale sighed after a while as he couldn’t really do something about it.

At the very least, this would explain why casting Planar Spells didn’t use any Dark Energy or Life Force. He could only comfort himself by reminding himself that Planar Spell still requires energy to be summoned. It won’t appear out of nowhere. Even if he recorded the Spell Model in his body, it could only help him trigger the phenomenon and not complete it.

If there were no Divinity Points that were used, there wouldn’t be lightning emerging in the sky at all.

Anyway, Vale was still thankful to learn about it now.

He also stopped himself from upgrading the mastery of this Spell because of this.

To be honest, he decided not to level it up with his energy points because he first wanted to see the original strength of the Spell. He wanted to see how strong the Divine Lightning was without forcefully advancing its level.

Now that his curiosity was satisfied, he would still not upgrade it because he doesn’t have many Divinity Points anyway. He would probably not use it for a long time unless it was an emergency.

At this time, Vale shifted his attention to the treasure box he got from the gang leader.

He first informed Yvaine to hide in his shadow just in case the man was telling the truth that it could drive away Evil Spirits.

Although Yvaine isn’t one, she’s still a Dark Spirit, and there might be some effects on her.

“Let’s see what we have here…” Vale muttered as he slowly opened the box.

Clink…

The first thing that came into his sight was a demonic mask that made his body shiver.