Chapter 25. Beginner hamster.

When he woke up, the first thing Eros saw was a wooden ceiling.

- The kid woke up.

Rising up, he turned to the voice, where he saw Gildarts.

- Teacher, what happened to you? - "surprised" Titan exclaimed, - Who beat you like that? - it was impossible to look at the magician without tears, there was not a single part of the body where there were no bandages. Somehow he reminded Eros of a mummy, if only he had to rewind his face and the resemblance would be one hundred percent.

- It's funny, huh?

- There is a little ... Ay! For what?! Eros looked resentfully at Gildarth, rubbing the top of his head.

- This is so that life does not seem like raspberries to you, - the magician drawled with a mockery.

- You wicked, I'll leave you.

Hmyknuv, he patted Eros on the head and sat down next to him.

- Do you remember? He asked more seriously.

- Yes, - with a dreamy smile, said Eros, - I will never forget this, these memories will warm my heart for the rest of my life.

Seeing the soulful face of his student, Gildarts suddenly wanted to feed him a slice of lemon ... No, a whole unwashed lemon with a peel. But still he managed to pull himself together.

- What was it?

- The magic of transformation, as I understand it, - he looked at his hand and a crimson magic circle lit up on it, the crimson glow absorbed it for a moment. The hand was covered with dark tattoos on the outside, and the inside turned gray, and long claws grew on the fingers, - Demonic Transformation, sounds?

- Partial transformation, - the magician stretched out thoughtfully, touching and examining his hand, - When did you manage to learn?

- This knowledge seemed to appear in my head on its own when I defeated the demon in my inner world.

- That's how it is, then good.

- I can also completely turn into a demon, show? - from these words, Gildarts winced.

- I don't think it's worth it, and since you're all right, you better take a walk.

- Where are we?

- Still in Shirotsumi, and the city healer lives here.

- I see, but what about the children?

- Those whom you brought out in order, but ... - he hesitated for a moment, - All those who were dragged to the demon are already dead ... If I had undertaken this task earlier ...

- I thought so, - with a sigh, Eros returned his hand to its former appearance, - You have nothing to blame yourself for, only the advice is to blame, which missed the whole demon and he ruled here for five whole months. Okay, I was carried in the wrong direction, I'll go, I still have one unfinished business.

- What exactly?

- You will find out soon, - Eros said mysteriously, leaving the room.

As the titan walked through the city towards Everly's mansion or what was left of it. On the way, people approached him thirty times and thanked him for saving the children, many tried to repay him with money or some kind of things, others invited him to their home to stay. But Eros with a modest smile refused and tried to leave them as soon as possible. Still, taking the latter away from people is not in his rules.

After leaving the townspeople, he accelerated slightly and after a couple of minutes, stood over a pit fifty meters deep.

- Eh ... It was a good mansion, - with a sigh stretched Eros, jumping down.

And when it was already fifteen meters before meeting the ground, a pair of black leather wings opened up behind him. Having landed, Eros removed his wings and began to look around, inspecting the room. But when he saw the state of the room, he almost cried bitter tears.

The room in which all the research of the demon was was almost completely destroyed ... Of the shelves with books, only a third, or even less, remained. Eros, of course, doubted that all of the demon's research was kept here. Even his father always said that a scientist keeps all the most important in his head.

Eros was very sorry about one thing that he did not possess Spatial Magic, because then he could take all this good with him, otherwise he would have to give all this to the council, and the books here are such, for which they can plant. What to say about the first one that caught his eye: "Rituals with sacrifices" from her alone, Eros can easily be imprisoned for a year.

But nevertheless, the titan decided to study all that was left in order to better know what future enemies are capable of, if they suddenly use "dark magic" or a curse is imposed on one of his relatives. Of course, there is a saying, you know less, sleep better, but Eros would argue with her. Indeed, in the world of magic, this is unlikely to work.

Therefore, taking out a pair of black glasses, he quickly began flipping through the book. It took Eros five minutes to study its contents, and he could comprehend everything in the guild. Therefore, almost until the evening, the titan did only what he memorized the contents of all the books.

The goggles that Eros used were hurricane reading goggles with 128x acceleration. Of course, his skill level is not yet sufficient to place such runes, so he solved this problem in a different way. Eros bought glasses with an acceleration of 32x and erased the runes, later he turned to one of the masters and for an additional fee, they put the runes at 128x. Although even Eros cannot use them for a long time, only five hours, and then a severe headache begins due to information overload.

Taking off his glasses, he rubbed his eyes and put them in a case.

- At least half of it is, - said Eros in a tired voice, - Tomorrow is the same and that's all ... Eh ... I hope they will be in 2-3 days, so that I could explore everything here, - "It's a pity that I won't be able to soon to get to the knowledge of the demon ... "- the titan thought with annoyance.

Having absorbed Astaroth, Eros should have received all the knowledge of the demon, but it is sad that his brain is not ready to accept the memory of the demon, which is almost five hundred years old. The seal set by the red magic power prevents him from accessing them. No, the titan is not offended, but on the contrary, grateful, because if then she had not blocked this flow of information, then Eros could have gone with a roof, and his personality could have changed not for the better. After all, with the memory of Astaroth, he received the emotions once experienced by the demon, his worldview, his views on the world ... And in this battle, Eros would hardly have won.

After wandering a little more, the titan approached the demon's body.

- Already a day lies and there are no signs that this is a corpse, only breathing is absent and the heart is not beating, - the titan whispered, examining Astaroth's body with interest, - "Indeed, the demons have something with something ... There are no cadaveric spots, signs decomposition ... Slightly frightening ... "- the titan began to check the demon's pockets, remove all jewelry and armor from him.

Yes, this is looting, but Eros did not feel any remorse. After all, anyway, when the council magicians come here, they will take everything, most likely they will even dissect the corpse. Therefore, the titan decided to take everything for himself, because he could confidently say that almost all the rings on Astaroth's hand are artifacts, the necklace is also an artifact, the armor of course is badly crumpled, but the material from which it is made is quite valuable, nevertheless it withstood a couple Gildarts' bumps and dents on it are full confirmation of this.

After only ten minutes, the demon had almost nothing left, except for a thin robe covering nakedness.

- Not bad, so the mission paid off, - Eros purred rather, rubbing his palms, looking at the bag of good, the size of the titanium itself, - "Okay, I'll take the rest tomorrow ..." - when the titan was about to leave, his gaze caught on the book, what the demon kept with him.

Picking it up, Eros began to twist it in his hand, but he did not find anything remarkable in it. Just a red cover, with stones at the corners connected by a gold line in the shape of a square. But still, a sixth sense told him that this book was not simple, although without pages and for the sake of interest, Eros decided to use Analyzing Magic on it ...

The next moment, the titan froze with his mouth open. After all, the magic simply showed nothing, and that meant only one thing. The level of this spell is too low to tell anything about this thing.

"Interesting ... I'll take it with me, and then I'll study it!" - with a satisfied pug, Eros lifted the bag in his arms, and a pair of leather wings grew on his back, - "I almost forgot!" - the titan, already in the air, turned to the magic circle that was painted on the floor. Stretching out his hand, he began to mix the power of destruction and the power of absorption, creating a gray ball in his hand, no larger than a ping-pong ball, and threw it at it. Coming into contact with the magic circle painted on the floor, the ball exploded and the explosion completely engulfed it, leaving only a deep hole, - "What the demon studied, I can't call it good for sure, and I don't want to give it to someone either, suddenly there's a psycho will figure it out and want to continue researching. " - Eros was not worried about it, because in the future he will get to the knowledge of Astaroth.

***

Back at the doctor's house, Gildarts stared at the titan with a fucking face.

- What's this?

- Trophies, - Eros rapped out briefly.

- Trophies ...? - with a twitching eye, the magician specified.

The titan nodded in response and pulled out a piece of the demon's armor.

- In the future, I'm going to do Artifactory, and this will be a good help in this.

- I will not tell you that it is bad to carry around the corpse of a demon, because you yourself know it, - Gildarts said in a tired voice, - But be careful with these things and if you want to take it with you to the guild, then hide it.

- I know, but for sure, - having rummaged in his pockets, Eros took out a golden key, - Teacher, do you know what this key is for? - he looked at the key with boredom.

- It looks like the key of the celestial spirits.

- Somewhere I heard about it ... - said the titan thoughtfully, twisting it in his hand.- I know little about this magic, since I was not interested in it, but if I remember correctly, then with this key you can summon the Celestial Spirit, but only Celestial Spirit Summoners can use them. That is, this key is useless for you.

- Here it is, - looking again at the key, he put it in his pocket, - Okay, while I leave it with me, then I'll figure out what to do with it.

The titan went into the next room, where he studied the contents of the sack until the morning ...