Elementalists

"I am not joining." Arthur subconsciously said when he heard the words 'mortal enenmies'.

"Unfortunately you can't say no, kid. Now that you know about me being a spy from the enemy kingdom, your only option is to join me or die. Besides do you know the identity of the person who wanted that book and the core?" Austin knew that Arthur had fallen into his trap. Now he just need to make him think that he is the only one who can save him.

When Arthur heard about the person behind the scenes, his interest was immediately piqued. Because he know nothing more than the name of the person who wanted the book and dungeon core. Also he isn't sure if that person is really a prince or just using the prince as a name. Seeing that Arthur remianed silent, Austin continued.

"The person who wanted the book and the dungeon core is actually the son of the ruler of this kingdom, the 5th prince, Veric Ozalis. Do you think he will let you go after you had stolen things which he had been trying so hard to obtain."

"What?" Even though Arthur thought that maybe the person named "prince" is actually a prince, it was only a thought. But know finding this, Arthur knew that now he don't have much options left.

"Yes, he wanted to obtain those things before his siblings to show his capability to king. But you stole those treasures from him. Not even mentioning that I will kill you if you didn't chose to serve my kingdom, what do you think will happen to you when Veric you will caught you."

"It is true that they won't kill you. They won't want to kill a genious like you. But this is only if you joined them. And even if you joined them they will still be suspicious of you. In fear that you will backstab them because Veric had killed your friends. I am sure that you will be forced to accept a harsh contract. In the end you will just became a slave for them. You will even have to serve Veric, the one who killed your friends. On my side, I can assure you that nothing like this will happen. We can also help you to get your revenge on Veric. In exchange my kingdom just want your loyality. What do you think?"

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After eating breakfast Arthur came back to his room and fell down on the bed. He still has much time left before the classes starts. To make the students wake up early, the breakfast is given at 6:30 am. There is no breakfast for those who came after 7 am. Arthur didn't manage to get much sleep due to practising in the Training Ground and the also due to the incident with Austin. He had a lot of time for shower and preparing for the school. So Arthur wanted some rest now. While lying on the bed Arthur thought about the things that happened today.

He had chosen to join Austin's side. Well, it is not like he had any other options. Arthur would have been killed if he hadn't done this. Also he agrees with Austion. Only slavery awaits him if he wanted to serve Ozalis kingdom.

Austin was ecstatic when Arthur said he wanted to save his kingdom. He praised Arthur that how he made a good decision. Then he made Arthur accept a contract. The contract was to serve the Kingdom of Omeryn and be loyal to it. This contract will connect to his soul and he will never be able to go against it or so should have been the case...

Arthur couldn't stop his grin when he thought of this. When Arthur accepted the contract he saw a notification appear in front of his eyes.

[Can not establish the contract through soul]

When Arthur asked the system about it he was told that it was probably due to his soul is mixed with Origin Law. This made Arthur question why Ethan and the illusion spirit were able to contract with him. The system said that the contract that he made with Ethan and illusion spirit were actually made using the cube of spellbinding as a medium. Nobody is able to contract with his soul directly unless they use something on the level of cube of spellbinding as the medium...

Arthur also had checked Austin's expression and found no change which means he doesn't found out about it.

"I will definitely serve the Omeryn kingdom, Mr. Austin." Arthur tried hard to not say this in a sarcastic way. After some talk Austin left happily before giving him some books about elementalists and both the kingdoms.

After some time of rest Arthur took out a book from inventory. "Elementalists" was written on its cover. There was a lot of information about elementalists, different elements, elemental energy, elemental particles, elementalists' advantages and disadvantages, skills etc in it.

Elementalists are simply those who awokened with elemental energy. During awakening they will get an element or two in rare cases. These elements' elemental potential or ability potential awakens naturally after two years from the time when they first awakened. The ability potential determines how much further an elementalist can reach.

After continuous sensing and practicing with the element a person gets during awakening or simply his innate element, when he reaches F-rank, a symbol of his innate element will appear on his right arm. The number of lines surrounding the symbols indicates the ability's potential. One line for F-rank and seven lines for S-rank.

A person can increase his ability potential by using elemental treasures but they are very rare. Whenever an elementalist reaches a new rank he will get a skill related to that element. One of the biggest disadvantage of elementalists' is that they can only use skills. They can't use spells which the wizards, sorcerers, wizards use. They can only use the skills, which can only be obtained from dungeon. They also can't use a skill higher then their rank unlike wizards. The advantage of being an elementalist is that whenever their rank increases, their defense and physical strength also increases. They had no need to use defensive spells unlike wizards, mages, sorcerers, arcane masters etc.

At the end of the book, the author also wrote that "What I concluded is that fate of an elementalist is sealed the moment his ability potential awakens. Our growth has a limit unlike others. We have to face many hardships. I always took proud in being an elememtalist. So I was hurt very much when I found that being an elementalist is nothing much as compared to other classes if your ability potential is not above B-rank. Once you reach your limit then you could only watch others surpassing you... I just hope one day, to see a powerful elememtalist show those b*stards of the empire that we are not weak.