Star continent

Chapter one :

Night slowly settled in a quiet manner and bright stars began to appear.

On the hillside, a child about six years old is in a strange position, his legs were crossed, his palms were joined together almost in a praying manner but instead they were placed on his crossed legs and faint spiritual energy constantly circled within his small body.

Moonlight shone down,enveloping the child's body.

The boy continued meditating in this position, inhaling spiritual energy into his body, letting it flow along the meridians.

In this world, the spiritual energy which was currently flowing into his body was called Mana.

Night slowly passed.

As the moonlight faded, replaced by the first rays of sunshine, the child slowly opened his eyes to reveal deep dark pupils that seemed to have a dark blue glint deep within them.

Lucas breathed out a mouthful of foul air as he slowly got up from his meditating position. From the day he was born till the present day, it has been six years since he came to this world.

In his previous life, he was a genius in terms of swordsmanship and was appointed the title 'master of swords' at the age of seventeen.

He was recognized by all in his former continent and in terms of swordsmanship, no one could rival him.

But unfortunately, he met his demise at the age of eighteen, a year after he was given the title 'master of swords'. his killers were unknown to him, but before his death, he finally realized something, that he was just a frog stuck at the bottom of a well.

The matter that depressed Lucas the most was the fact that he didn't know how or why he awoke in a newborn baby immediately after his death.

Lucas looked at his small hands and smiled sourly, he had been eighteen and after seventeen years of hard work, he finally got rewarded for it, but never could he have imagined that he would be killed and end up starting all over again.

At this moment, Lucas heard the soft rustle of footsteps coming from the direction of the hillside, he turned over his shoulder and saw a lovely little four year old girl, big round eyes and her hair tied up in a ponytail coming up the small hill.

This little girl was Lucas sister, Annie, "Big brother, dad and mom are looking for you "Annie shouted in hopes that Lucas would hear her.

"Dad and mom are looking for me?" Lucas asked when Annie finally came into view.

"Yes, hurry let's go back, if we are late, mom and dad would spank your backside!"

When Lucas heard this , he smiled and squeezed Annie's cheeks before replying, "let's go then" as he made his escape from Annie who chased after him, screaming in protest because she always told Lucas not to pinch her cheeks anymore.

The siblings frolicked all the way down the hill till they got back to their little courtyard situated at the foot hills.

Although he was already eighteen in his previous life, being with his sister brought out the child in him.

When they arrived at their courtyard, they both went inside, immediately he got inside, he met a middle aged man in his mid thirties and next to him was a pretty woman. This married couple were Lucas's parents, Liam and Sasha.

"Dad, Mom, you were looking for me?"

"Where did you run off to so early in the morning" Liam raised his sharp sword like brows

"Its fine, don't frighten the child" Sasha interjected with a smile, "Luca, in a few days you will be seven years old, it's about time to awaken the Mana spirit in your body. Your father and I are planning to bring you over to the spirit Hall for the awakening ceremony.

Mana spirit awakening? Lucas blanked for a moment

In this world, humans have an existence termed as Mana spirits in their body. Mana spirits were rated from one to ten and within each grade, they were considered low , average and high. Mana spirit rated one to three were referred to as D rank Mana spirit, four to six were C rank and seven to nine B rank, Mana spirit rated ten was referred to as A rank and above ten were referred to as S rank, The higher the talent, the more the body absorbs the world's Mana and become a strong warrior.

Nevertheless, people who were born without Mana spirits or crippled Mana spirits were labeled as wastes.

Mana spirits................A light flashed in Lucas's eyes for he too wanted to know if he possessed any Mana spirit in his body and if he does what Mana spirit would it be.

Thus, Lucas was led by Liam and Sasha, to the Spirit Hall of Lance village.

When they arrived at the outer area of the spirit Hall, it was already packed with people waiting with their children wanting to awaken Mana spirits, other than Lucas, there were also children from Lance village who were present.

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Lance village is a small village inside flame empire with no less than one thousand inhabitants. Lance village is located inside Azure city, Azure city is one of the many cities in flame country.

All cities have a king but the overall ruler of flame country is the countries emperor, and all Kings of each city pales in comparison to the Emperor of flame country, not just in fame, but also in individual power.

An imposing middle aged man stood guard in the front of the huge door which lead to the Spirit Hall, only one person was allowed to enter the spirit Hall at a time, when they awaken their Mana spirit, they would exit the hall and someone else would go in , anyone who spends more than ten minutes in the hall would be immediately fetched by the guard, that was the rule.

All the children stood in line waiting their turn, some who came out were seen with bright smiles on their faces while others were disappointed.

It was finally Lucas's turn to go in the Spirit Hall, he pushed the door of the spirit Hall open and immediately he stepped inside, apart from a bright hexagonal pattern which formed a beam of light there was nothing else present in the hall.

He wasn't curious about the hexagonal beam of light that laid in the center of the hall, because he was already told by his parents on their way coming to the Spirit Hall that he would see the hexagonal beam of light in the middle of the hall and all he needed to do was touch this beam of light and his Mana spirit would slowly form in the beam of light.

He did as he was told and when he touched the beam of light , something began forming inside the beam of light.

After a while, it finally formed, and what he saw in the beam of light was a sword, a sword with skulls imprinted on it, his Mana spirit was the death slasher, a Mana spirit that was graded eight, a high grade eight Mana spirit, he was so filled with joy that he almost let out a cheerful scream.

But he immediately stopped when he saw the sword slowly taking the form of something else, something he had never seen before, it changed into a black ghost.

When Lucas was only age one, he could already read and understand their language, so he would secretly read some of his parents books.

He has read many books about Mana spirits , this included their types, their abilities their grades and other important factors about Mana spirits.

Although most children his age had some knowledge of Mana spirits, but their knowledge all paled in comparison to his.

With all the knowledge he had, he still didn't know what type of Mana spirit he was currently looking at .

After wondering for some seconds, it finally dawned on him, the most important fact he had ignored due to the strange Mana spirit he just saw was that he had twin Mana spirits.

People with twin Mana spirits in the whole of star continent could be counted on one hand.

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Star continent had more than a hundred countries in it and each countries had up to two hundred cities, with the least being one hundred.

In this world, there existed four continents, star continent which was inhabited by humans, green continent which were ruled by elevs, rock continent, the home of dwarves and finally dark continent home to demons.

Amongst these four continents, star continent has always been weaker while Dark continent was always at the top.

This was because of star continent's lack of high talent warriors.

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Lucas finally left the hall, after exiting the hall, he met up with his parents and they went home, they were both anxious to see what their sons Mana spirit was.

On their arrival at their little courtyard, they went inside and immediately Sasha asked Lucas with a curious but excited look,

"So, son, show us your Mana spirit!"

Lucas did as he was told and then he summoned out his Mana spirit.

Shock could be seen on both Liam's and Sasha's face,

"Death slasher, a high grade eight Mana spirit" Liam said with shock evident in his tone like he couldn't believe what he was seeing.

Lucas decided not to show them his other Mana spirit, because it might be dangerous if others knew about it.

Although Mana spirit can't be transferred, this was a different case for someone with twin Mana spirit, if transferred it would significantly boost the new host's strength but this would only happen once, after that, the Mana spirit would become destroyed. Leaving it in the original host's body would be a better scenario due to the fact that it's benefits would be much greater than if it were to be transferred.

His death from his previous life taught him a valuable lesson, 'no matter your strength, you must always be careful'.

Seeing the shock in their faces, he began wondering what their reaction would be if he actually revealed his other Mana spirit.

"Since you awakened your Mana spirit, you can finally enroll into light academy!" Sasha said with excitement in her tone, at this moment, she sounded like a little kid that was exited about opening a present, screaming for absolutely no reason .

Light academy was a place where all children his age in Lance village who newly awakened their Mana spirit went to learn how to fight and use their Mana spirit.

Light academy had an annual event where all students of the 1st year class and the second year class would fight to see who was the best in their class.

The third year students would also fight but not to figure out who was best in their class, but who was best in the overall school.

The winner of the third year class would then be sent to represent their entire village in the imperial city competition which was hosted by the Azure city, and if they won, not just them but their entire village would be rewarded.

Hearing that he would soon enroll into light academy shocked Lucas, because he just realized that he would once again start the competition for power, his normal peaceful life was over.

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Just like that a week passed and Lucas soon found himself in the front Gates of light academy with his parents.

The term had just started and it was time for registrations.

They walked in through the gates and what came into their view the large amount of people present in the grounds of the academy, both parents and children his age where gathered together, all awaiting their turn for registration.

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Time slowly passed, and children were still getting their Mana spirits checked.

It was finally Lucas's turn and when he released Mana spirit, the square of gathered people fell into an awful silence.

"A grade eight Mana spirit!", "I can't believe it"

These were the words that came out of their mouths when they began talking again.

Even the administrator was shocked, to the extent that it felt like his jaw was going to fall off seeing the high grade eight Mana spirit, 'Death slasher'.

"We get it!, You have a grade eight Mana spirit" an arrogant voice said as it came closer to Lucas

"Now step aside so we can all register and go home" the arrogant voice said again as it finally arrived near Lucas.

"It's the young lord!" Whispers could be heard from the background

"Oh, it's you Elijah" Lucas said with a touch of disdain lingering in his tone

Among all the children present for registration, only Lucas dare call Elijah by his name, but not because they were close, but because they hated each other.

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