Chapter 8

Ivan woke up on the floor, his head cracked and there was a terrible dry forest. The student opened his eyes and found that he was lying in his apartment. Ivan saw a bottle of soda standing on the table and drew it to himself with the magic of space, after which he heard a short surprised squeal from the side of the bed. Ivan got up, and drinking the contents of the bottle in one gulp, looked at the bed. Olga was lying on the bed. "Unfortunately, dressed," Ivan thought quickly. Ivan recalled that after sitting at the bar, they went to catch up with him at home. Olga got up from the bed and asked in surprise:

"Did we rob the wake balls from the Magic Center?" How did I forget this? But there is no other way to explain your element of space.

Then Paul's voice came from the floor on the other side of the room:

- What, an element of space? At Ivan's? Where are the hidden stones of awakening, I also want.

- Yes, we didn't rob the Magic Center, it seems. And now I'll tell you about the element of space, just go to the kitchen. - Ivan said and got up from the floor.

Marina was sitting in the kitchen, drinking black tea. Ivan remembered that she slept in another room on the bed.

- Good morning - Marina said sleepily - why are you so alarmed?

- Ivan has an element of space - Olga said - I saw it myself, and he does not deny it either. - Marina looked at Ivan in surprise.

Before Marina put forward another crazy suggestion, Ivan told his friends that he had awakened three elements at the initial level and that he had innate fourth spiritual boundaries. After a short silence, Paul was the first to speak:

"Cool dude, that explains how you summoned the highest Servant in the first rung of the entry level.

- Hey, and you, such an asshole about your super talent, did not tell us, you didn't even blurt out a booze - Olga said with feigned resentment and weakly hit Ivan in the shoulder.

Marina just stood dumbfounded.

- Do you think you will awaken three elements at each level? - Pavel asked

- I don't know, honestly, tomorrow we will find out, I'll tell you everything. - Ivan said, relieved that his friends were not offended by him. - What elements do you want to awaken?

- Water, I would like to be strengthened by a marsh seed, then if I get the opportunity to cultivate again in the Heart of the Marshes, I will be greatly strengthened, they say the marsh seeds of earth and water reinforce each other. But if I wake up the water without the seed, then the seed can still be bought. - Pavel said.

"I want to awaken the wind — a good combination of mobility and combat power. - Olga said

- And I would like to awaken the earth - for movement and protection. - said Marina.

- And you, Vanya? - throwing a questioning look at the guy, asked Olga.

"Sound is the only element of the magic of change that I don't have, but it is usually awakened at a minimum at a high level, so I have little chance," Ivan said.

After chatting a little more, Ivan's friends went home, and the next day Ivan went to college to awaken. In front of the room in which the awakening was to take place were about 40 people - ten sophomores (including Ivan) and about thirty third-year students who broke through to the middle level without the help of the Heart of Marshes, among them was Marina.

Ivan approached his friends and found out that they would be summoned to the office in turn, starting with sophomores. Ivan was called first. The student entered the office, there were several stones of awakening on the tables, with signatures next to it. The teacher standing in the office said: choose any stone of awakening, but try not to do it for too long, there are still many of you there.

Ivan began to examine the stones of awakening until he came across an almost transparent stone with silver veins, on which was the signature "Change?" Ivan told the teacher that he was choosing this stone, after which he concentrated, put his hands on the stone and entered his inner world.

In addition to the three usual clusters of stars in his world, Ivan saw two more that had just appeared: brown, Ivan immediately realized that this was an element of the earth, but what kind of second element he awakened, Ivan did not know: the stars had a dark glow with glimpses of blue and death was emanating from these stars. "This time I awakened one element less, but I still have the same elements as a spell mage, but I wonder what kind of element I awakened last? Most likely, it is an element of dark magic. "

When Ivan left his inner world, a dark glow with blue flashes emanated from the stone of awakening. The teacher looked at this with interest until he said:

- Apparently, this is an element of necromancy. Congratulations, in our country this element is not very common, although there are several associations of magicians with this element. I advise you to contact the Magic Center, where, as far as I know, there is a consultant for this element. "Necromancy, cool, I now have two summoning elements. Earth is not bad either, but now we need to focus on controlling the summoning stars, chaos and necromancy. I'll have to go for a consultation at the Magic Center. "

When Ivan left the office, Olga and Marina asked that heawakened, and Paul went to revival. Ivan told the girls that he would tell after everyone woke up. As a result, Paul awakened the water with a spiritual seed, Olga awakened the shadow element, and Marina awakened the light element. Ivan told his friends that he had awakened the earth and necromancy, after which Pavel laughed and said:

- I understand that at each new level you awaken one element less, that is, at the level of the spell, you will lose an element !!!

-He heh - said Ivan - what are your plans? I was planning to first go to the Magic Center to find out about the element of necromancy and buy everything you need to raise Clubfoot to Leader of the Pack, will you come with me for company?

Pavel and Olga went with Ivan to the Magic Center, and Marina went home, saying that she had something to do. The Magic Center was a complex of buildings where you can get all kinds of magical services, including a shopping mall for magical goods and an auction. Ivan made an appointment with friends to meet in a shopping arcade and went to the center of magical consultations. It turned out that the consultant on the element of necromancy is now accepting and, having paid for the consultation, Ivan immediately went to his office.

A pale-faced middle-aged man sat at a desk in the study. Seeing Ivan, he said:

- Hello, have a seat, my name is Bogdan Nikolaevich.

- Hello, I am Ivan - a student shook hands with a consultant and sat down in the indicated chair - I just awakened an element of necromancy, I was advised to contact a consultant.

"Okay, then I'll give you some basic information about this item first.

Ivan talked with the consultant for a long time, after which he said goodbye to him and went to the shopping arcade.

The student learned the following about the element of necromancy: this element establishes a connection between the magician and the afterlife. The underworld, which is part of the Dark Dimension, is not one, but divided into many parts corresponding to the undead of different countries. Previously, many of these parts of the underworld were headed by the Emperors, but now only Cheops remained "alive", the state of the rest of the Emperors is unknown. Each magician of the element of necromancy is associated with a certain part of the afterlife, most often corresponding to the place of his awakening of this magic. Therefore, the magic of the element of necromancy in different countries may differ.

Ivan has a Slavic element of necromancy, which originates from Koshchei the Immortal. The initial level of the element of necromancy is called "summoning undead": it is similar to the initial level of the element of summoning and allows you to summon one or more ghouls from the corresponding part of the underworld, the number depends on the strength of the summoned ghouls and the psychic powers of the magician.

The middle level of the element of necromancy is called "Breath of Death": the mage spreads the breath of death over a large area of ​​space, thereby strengthening all undead in the area.

Ivan met Olga and Pavel in the shopping arcade, who had already bought several magical tools useful for cultivation. In the shopping arcade of the Magic Center, there were goods for magicians from the beginning to the upper level, inclusive. Friends found blood, bones and the soul of a bear-leader of the pack in a trading row, which Ivan immediately bought. Then Ivan, Olga and Pavel went to the training ground, where Ivan successfully promoted Kosolapy to Burelomny Bear at the level of the senior Leader of the Pack. Clubfoot now possesses a faint earth element aura that increases the strength of his hide. After Olga and Pavel congratulated Kosolapy on raising the level, Ivan said:

-In August there will be admissions to the magic university of Peter the Great, you are also entering there? - after the affirmative nods of his friends, Ivan continued - I propose to go hunting in the vicinity of Veliky Novgorod before the introductory ones, I would like to inspect the ancient burial places with an aura of an element of necromancy, and there, as they say, the strongest creatures in the forests are the lower Leaders of the Pack, well, how, Let's go hunting?