Reborn With a Magic System

While Mage Teft was stretching, Phil took to the sky and was quite happy to be out of the cramped quarters of the catacombs. Damion watched his companion for a moment before taking out his tablet and looking at the map for the floor.

The floor appeared to be a combination of the prior floors. A battlefield, set next to a large graveyard where there was an entrance to a set of catacombs. Thankfully, the core was on the far side of the battlefield and not down in the catacombs.

Once Mage Teft saw where it was, she headed towards it, leaving Damion and Phil to quickly follow behind. Just as on the other floors, as they flew over the graveyard and the battlefield, Demonic Beasts began to rise from their graves. Unfortunately, Mage Teft was trying to make up for the time they lost in the catacombs and was flying even faster.

The trio continued on reaching the C Rank floors and then one by one began to clear them. Thankfully, none of them had underground elements. Just a generic forest filled with typical Demonic Beasts found in forest dungeons. Wind Wolfs, Steel Claw Owls, Forest Froth Spiders and a few others that Damion was not able to get a good enough look at to identify.

Once they reached the twentieth floor and Damion saw that it was meshing the landscapes of the last four floors together, he knew this was the final C Rank floor. After they entered the passageway and reached the twenty-first floor he could feel the difference in the mana. It was not as drastic as a suffocating man suddenly getting oxygen, but he did feel the difference.

“Leave Phil to fly around and hunt on this floor,” Mage Teft told Damion.

“Shouldn’t Phil come stay with me? What if there is something stronger on this floor?”

“There isn’t. Phil can easily handle all the Demonic Beasts on this floor and will quickly grow and be able to handle the latter floors as well. Besides, if the B Rank floors have a Fire Cave amongst them, I don’t want Phil to slow us down in the tunnels.”

“I guess that makes sense,” Damion agreed. “Phil, hunt on this floor as much as you want. I’ll be back when it is time to leave.”

‘Hunt,’ Phil sent back as it flew off. On the map, Damion could already see that in the direction the Blizzard King was flying was a group of Demonic Beasts.

“Now, we will rush towards the A Rank floors,” Mage Teft said. “Unless you want to stay on these floors to train?”

“No. The A Rank floors will be better. The higher the mana concentration the easier it will be for me to raise my magic power.”

“Good that you understand. Once the floors are unlocked you should be able to speed your way to the A Rank floors easily enough. Just don’t go and try to fight any A Rank Demonic Beasts.”

“I’m not suicidal,” Damion quipped.

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Without an artifact to assist him, he had only a few spells that would even be able to harm something A Rank. Frost Fire and Exile were among them. He had been able to win against Justiciar Strauss, but only because the man had been a knight. Strauss may have reached the magic power threshold for A Rank, but since he was not a mage and could not cast spells himself, his control of mana was not comparable to a mage’s. As for Demonic Beasts, they had an intuitive understanding of their abilities and unless he was lucky with his two killer spells, he doubted he could kill one, in fact, he was fairly certain he would struggle to even escape from one.

“According to the map, this floor is a dense forest, quite similar to the one you encountered when you first entered the labyrinth. The core is about five kilometers away; we should hurry and move to the deeper floors.”

“Works for me,” Damion told Mage Teft cheerfully as they started flying towards the core.

A few minutes later, they were entering the twenty-second floor, and they found it was quite similar to the previous floor. A large dense forest filled with Demonic Beasts. Damion wondered if among the dots on his map were Shadow Cats or Shadow Rend Bats, like he encountered previously, but he supposed he would find out in the future.

Once they were through the passageway to the twenty-third floor they could see a mountain rising up above the tree canopy. On the map it showed the mountain range rose up quite high and extended far enough that the auto-mapper could not properly map it. What Damion also noticed was a series of tunnels going deep into the mountain. He could not be certain, but he felt that most likely they were Fire Caves. The good news was that the core was not located inside the caves, it was actually a few kilometers away from the nearest cave entrance near where the mountain began to rise out of the forest.

“Well, it looks like that at least on this floor we won’t have to go into any caves,” Mage Teft commented when Damion showed her the map. “Let’s hurry. On the next floor we may not be so lucky.”

Damion agreed with his mentor’s note and flew after her on their way to the core. It probably would not be too bad if they were forced to go into the Fire Caves. After all she was a Water mage and he was an Ice mage, as long as they did not do anything stupid, passing through the caves would not be an issue.

“Here is the core,” Damion announced when he found it and crushed it.

With the core destroyed the passage to the twenty-fourth floor appeared and they went into it. Once inside, they discovered they were inside a cave. The chamber was large, and a familiar scent told Damion this was a Fire Cave. There was a single tunnel leading away from the cavern they were in and after looking at the map on his tablet, he was able to see the passage wound its way underground with numerous branches heading off in various directions.

The auto-mapper was able to identify several large chambers deeper in, but no sign of the core. Since they were underground, the pulses of magic the auto-mapper sent out to map an environment were taking longer to map things out. In the open, the pulses went out and relayed the information back to his tablet fairly quickly, but because of the narrow and winding caves, it slowed the process down.

Damion actually found it somewhat fascinating to watch as the map on his tablet grew with each passing second. The tunnels continued to grow longer, and more chambers were located. Eventually, one of the tunnels led to the surface and to both his and Mage Teft’s surprise, the core was just outside the cave mouth on the side of the mountain they were inside.

“Looks like we just have to make our way out,” Damion told her as he traced a path on the map, following the tunnel from their chamber all the way to the surface.

“Quite a few Demonic Beasts along the path,” Mage Teft told him. “Since this is a B Rank floor, I think it is time you show me what you have learned since you left school and what you can do with those other affinities of yours, aside from playing Spatial mage. Just don’t use any Fire spells.”

“I think I can manage that,” Damion replied with a smile.