Child from the Dungeon-Chapter 54: Trace (2)

" You were looking for this, weren't you? " Donovan asks the investigator as he holds the very object the investigator was meant to seek.

" Grimdark's Memory Shard... " Donovan says to the investigator as the investigator himself was drowned in sweats.

As Investigator Richard gazes at the Shard Crystal upon his very sight, he then grins for he went silent for a bit before making his next sentences.

" Interesting, I must say that you are, *gulp*..... impressive to have that Memory Shard in your hands... "

" After all, not any Mages and Sorcerers that are able to completely extract it from the Dragons.... " Richard praises Donovan for he never thought that Donovan would pull that thing out from his pocket or whatever place Donovan stored that object earlier.

"( No..., I never thought the boy would have his hands on such legendary object that we and the Nyx Nocterra House gathered for many months. )"

"( If he had the Shard on his hands for a long time, then he must have ... or well likely, have the last memories of the Grimdark Dragon about.... )" Richard stops his thoughts for he tries to hold the worst possible scenario while trying to persuade Donovan to give him the Memory Shard.

" Fine then, you win boy..... " Richard says while using his Trace Magic to trace Donovan's emotion.

< Trace Magic: Trace Emotions >

" I admit defeat, I must say that without a fight, you have defeated me in the battle of tactics that is already one step ahead of me. " Richard tries to get on Donovan's ego, so he can make him give the Memory Shard to him.

While the investigator thinks about what words shall he used, Donovan who sees him with the support of the System can see the identified values of his emotion where his emotions value is -1.000 which means he is not at his good intention right now. 𝒃𝙚𝙙𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝒍．𝒏𝒆𝒕

"( I see, no wonder he sounded so nice right after I show him this Shard. )"

"( He is trying to make me give the shard back to his hands, for he fears I will share the memories to the others about the Nyx Nocterra's house dirty work based on what I see from Grimdark's memories. )" Donovan says for he still remembers seeing investigator Richard inside the Memory Shard, which means the investigator also took a role in killing the Dragon, Grimdark with the other men from the House of Nyx Nocterra.

While Donovan is thinking about this, Carlos behind him then shouts for he tells Donovan to not give the Memory Shard to the investigator while gazing upon the Memory Shard as it shares the Memory of Grimdark's life to death just after Carlos took a glance over it.

Seeing that, the investigator then slowly makes his hands towards his pocket as he is about to bring something out but sadly Donovan orders him to stop as he then threatens to destroy the Memory Shard if the investigator does a suspicious move.

" Don't try to make any attempts, investigator. " suddenly says to the investigator.

As the investigator becomes impatient, he begins to arrogantly ask what happened if he tries to make a move as he then had no choice but to prepare to get the Shard by force.

" So what, grandson of the Richter House!!!? " he asks arrogantly.

" You may have the advantage of threatening me by showing the Shard, but I assure you, with the difference in our age and experience, the chance of me to get that Shard from your hands by force is still higher than whatever plan or threats you come with. " Richard says while unleashing his magic aura and increasing his Mana.

*< Special Magic Technique: Natural Absorption >

< A technique used by skilled sorcerers to absorb the vast Mana of Nature into their body to increase the use and the potency of their Magic. >

< This technique is so rare to be learned, for the Royal Houses had also claimed the rights of this technique for their own in order to decrease more powerful mages or sorcerers that came from the lower classes. >

As Richard uses it to increase his Magic, Donovan then was warned by the System that the values from Investigator Richard's MP are increasing rapidly and also the System also adds another MP bar for it shows how much Mana from Nature the investigator had gathered in order to increase his Magical Pressure.

< MP Bar 2 had been applied. >

< This second MP Bar is the way for the System to show if a scanned target is using another source of power than their initial Magical Power which in this case is the Mana from Nature. >

< Name: Richard Trazer >

< Class: Mage, Investigator >

< Level: 60 >

< Magic: Vision Magic, Trace Magic >

< HP: 580.000/650.000 >

< MP: 530.700/600.000 >

*< MP2: 370.400/600.000 >

* The MP2 limit value (600.000), is how much Mana Energy from Nature the investigator can absorb into his body.

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As he absorbs the Mana, the investigator then takes a step with high pressure for the traces of his menacing power can be felt inside the room and outside the room which also gets noticed by both Duncan and Frank who can still manage to hold his consciousness.

" Richard is using it again huh....? " he says slowly and Duncan glimpse heard his voice.

" What did you say? " Duncan asks, Frank then responds by laughing as he tells Duncan about investigator Richard's Special Technique.

" Impossible, he learned that technique!!!!!! " Duncan shouts at Frank as he turns back on him and uses his magic to go to the Medic Room to confront Richard. Sadly, his path was then blocked by a <Mana Shield> cast by investigator Frank as he uses his Secondary Magic the <Shield Magic> his subsidiary magic that he only uses often for Defense, but also for Blocking Attacks too, and right now instead of blocking attacks, the Shield now was used to Block Duncan's path to confront Investigator Richard.

" Oh no Duncan Grimshaw, don't leave just yet!!!! " Frank then tries to step up.

" Our battle is over when I say it's over!!!!! " Frank yells at Duncan as he then confronts him again as the two men clashes with their magics.

As the men were clashing outside, inside the Medic Room, the two boys have to felt such intense pressure from Investigator Richard as his Mana was increasing rapidly which even makes a Mage who has Tier V like Carlos feel fear for the first time as he never thought will see a person with this kind of pressure in his life again after his dad.

"( His Mana Surge, it feels fathers it's too.... )" Carlos was drenched in sweat while Donovan who managed to hold on is still holding the Shard in his hands as he stares at the investigator.

" You have sharp eyes grandson of the Richter House...!!! "

" Even in the presence of increased power, you still look at me without fear as this still means nothing to you. " Richard praises Donovan while still wanting to trace any fear from Donovan's emotions as he wants to threaten him back after Donovan's threats managed to make him cower for a short period of time.

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Extra:

*< Special Magic Technique: Natural Absorption >

The most powerful buff technique or skill any Mages and Sorcerers could've ever learned as it enables the Mage to absorb the Mana from Nature that could theoretically and practically buff the mages and sorcerers' magic, making it more potent than before.

Even though this ability is so powerful, there is also a limit that one needs to know, for one who uses this technique can only gather the Mana into a certain limit, or else their body will pay the consequences.