"Lucas, be on your guard I got a report that the prince were seen at downtown yesterday."

"Relax Elea, I'm sure everything will be fine. besides, if anything were to happen I know you can handle it." Shrugging off the warning, Lucas walk out of the waiting lobby towards the arena.

"I wish that would really be the case Lucas, I really do." He muttered to himself before leaving the other way.

The moment Lucas enter the arena the crowd went wild, and even wilder as his opponent entered. when they stand 30 meters apart, the referee calm the audience then spoke.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this would be the last battle for this tournament, I hope all of you are able to enjoy yourself these last few days. As for you, honorable champions, you all have done well to reach this far. Now, once more you will show us your courage, your strength! Let the match begin!"

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"Vanessa how could you left Martin for that jerk Alvin! Didn't you said you would love him till death!"

"What?! The reason Vanessa was so in love with Martin is because of a charm spell and Alvin is actually the one betrayed?!"

"Sigh... This book is just as trashy as the others but at least it distract me a bit, well let's go back to magic practice."

If you are wondering about what happened, don't give it too much thought, there is just so much one can do in a dungeon.

Most of the books I've found was a trashy romance novel or yet another trashy romance novel, I think it was around two thirds of it? The rest of the books is either magic tomes, skill books, alchemy comporium, blacksmithing books, plant catalogue, mineral catalogue enchantments books, recipes books, history books, bestiary, etc.

There are some books to learn languages and market pricing catalogues and there are also some magic scrolls laying around, but the boon of all these is some research papers about the space element and time element.

The ideas are rough and mostly guesses but hey it's better than nothing. according to the papers, time is a force that free, formless but is etched into every matter and element, it is infinite yet finite, it is what affect every change and transformation of all matter be it solid to liquid or liquid to gas or gas to solid or any other way around. but time by itself cannot achieve this by itself and that's where space comes in.

Space, is both exist and non-exist, space is mass and mass create matter. Space contains time and time contains space, with the stimulation from time space may contract, tear, fold, or merge but time without mass would freeze then seize to exist.

Personally I think it's inaccurate but again it is better than nothing, these papers also state some spells for both time and space but I am still unable to use them.

The papers mentioned some untitled biography of some unnamed authors with an experience of being "out of time". According to them after failing their time or space related experiment the people around them started to forget them, things that written with mentions of their names disappeared, and after awhile they themselves started to fade into nothing. The experience is depicted as some energy seem to slowly corrode their body and breaking it apart but they could feel yet at the same time not feel the part that has fade away.

The papers speculate that these "out of time" phenomenon is caused by the failure of those experiments disrupted the stability and connection of time and space within them, allowing another element to invade their body.

What this element is are still not know and even it's existence is debatable for the lack of evidence and facts to proof it.

Leaving that aside during the last.. few days maybe, I have made a lot of progress in magic and learned a few spells in the six elements especially the dark element.

[shadow hands]!

Casting the newest spell, around six black tentacles made of shadow rises from my shadow. There are just no effort used for the dark element, it is almost like they are part of me unlike the others.

Dispelling the tentacles, I sat on the only chair in the room and stare at the crystal pod, my curiosity has been nagging me to open it but I felt like I should prepare first and so my magic training.

Even after killing and extracting that shade, the dungeon still operate like nothing happened and still spawn monsters or should I start calling them practice target? Anyway after all these times my status has finally reaches 4000 on all of them and my Lv rises to 21, that... actually turn the no longer hard monsters to effortless.

"System, show me my status and skills."

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—status—

Name: Vayne

Title: Alchemy maniac, Lost child

Race: Magical Puppet

Age: 7

Main Job: adept Alchemist

Sub jobs: Apprentice Blacksmith, Hermit

Lv 21 exp: 2.833/224.719

Hp: 120,000/120,000

Sta: 100,000/100,000

Mp: 100,000/100,000

Str: 4000 | Vit: 4000 | Agi: 4000 | Int: 4000 | Res: 4000 | Cha: 167

Rewrite point: 10.221

Condition: fine

—Skills—

Special skill: Rewrite, Devourer, Extract Essence

Active skill: Body fortification, Mix Concoction, Throwing Lv3(2%), Hiding Lv8(21%), Mana Circuit Creation, Golem Creation

Passive skill: Observation, barehanded combat Lv 5(16%), intermediate alchemy knowledge, Herbalist, Hunter, Explorer, sword mastery Lv 4(24%), pain resistance Lv 9(36%), Smithery Lv4(12%), Metallurgy, Tinkering Lv4(2%), Tailoring Lv2(19%), Cooking Lv4(12%), Alertness Lv6(9%), Tracking Lv5(21%), Dagger mastery Lv4(44%), Thin presence Lv8(34%), Heat resistance Lv4(12%), Cold resistance Lv8(50%), Shock resistance Lv3(1%), Axe mastery Lv2(12%)

Spells:

->Virr(Fire):

→Fireball

→Fire blast

→Flame stream

->Nevear(Water):

→Water bullet

→Water torrent

→Water bubble

→Ice spears

->Vyn(Air/Wind):

→Wind cutter

→Cyclone

→Whispering wind

→Still air

→Lightning bolt

->Ewyr(Earth):

→Earth throw

→Earth shield

→Earth Spike

→Mud floor

→Earth to Stone

→Stone to Metal

->Aurora(Light):

→Magelight

→Healing light

→Sun Beam

→Shine

->Nyx(Darkness):

→Darkness

→Dark bolt

→Form shadow

→Shadow cutter

→Shadow Armour

→Shadow Blade

→Shadow bind

→Shadow minion

→Shadow hands

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Never checking skills sure make you surprised once you check the progress eh. The weapon masteries are probably from using the weapons until they broke, the hiding and thin presence are probably from my hiding days and from stalking prey now days.

Well all these are nice but spending time reading and cursing those novels are probably the most helpful, I don't hear voices in my head, I don't have urges to kill, and I'm civil enough to not laugh like a maniac when killing.

...Back to training I guess.

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"Damnit!" Cursing, Lucas block his opponent quick jabs, his weapon broken long ago.

It has been approximately 30 minutes since the beginning of the match, the moment it began they are already in front of him and his single palm strike shattered his sword.

Ever since, he could only block, evade, or counter with bare hands, it didn't make much difference though as none of his strikes hit his opponent.

Everytime his opponent would nimbly spun around his strikes and counter him with punches or kicks powerful enough to bend steel.

Lucas throw a wide swing but his opponent shift themselves lower, double jab his stomach then launches an upper cut on his lowered chin.

The hit disoriented Lucas focus and he took two step back before his opponent sweep his feet, grab then fold his hand behind him as they pun him down.

"Surrender." He commanded with a somewhat forced deep voice.

"Never!" Lucas bark as he struggles under his opponent.

"Alright then."

"Aaaaaaahh!" With a loud snap he howled in pain, his arm numb. He then felt pain behind his head and everything went dark.