Rifts

Adrien was confused after hearing what Dante said. He had never heard of someone with a black mana core. He didn't even know if a black mana core was normal.

"My mana core is stable right ? It's not gonna explode in my body is it ?" Adrien asked in a terrified voice.

"Your mana core is fine and it's completely stable. The unusual colour is due to my attributes which are chaos and darkness. You can use your light attribute too but because my energy was more dense so it affected your mana core. Don't worry, my mana core was black as well". Dante said.

Adrien heard Dante's explanation and started heading towards the Angelo Castle. He arrived at the castle and headed straight towards his room. He took a shower and changed his clothes.

His father was the head knight while his brother was also a knight of the knights guard. Their job was to protect the head of the family. So they weren't home.

He left his room and went to his mother's room. It was still pretty early and he still had a lot of time before heading to school. He spent some time with his mother. Mostly it was just him talking to her sleeping body.

Dante felt disheartened looking at Adrien's condition.

After the soul merge, Dante could look at Adrien's memories and knew how painful his life was now. He genuinely wanted to help him.

'Let's go kid. You should train a bit'.

Adrien left the castle and went towards the training grounds. He entered the training grounds.

At the moment, Adrien was a Neophyte Human. With his mana core formation, he had started on the path of becoming a sorcerer.

His dream was to become a stalker. Stalker's were the people who dealt with Rifts.

2000 years ago when the first 'rift' as humans call it opened, It was due to a spatial magician who experimented on the natural laws of the Exalos Continent. He ended up causing a mana disaster that lead to the spatial boundary of Exalos to weaken. This caused long-term damage to the spatial boundary and tears in the space started to occur all over the Continent.

Beings of other worlds saw this as an opportunity and started invading Exalos Continent. The first invasion by these races happened when the people of Exalos were still fighting with the void beasts that come from outside the Continent.

1000 rifts opened and Exalos became a land of death and destruction. People of Exalos were caught off guard and suffered a lot.

The war continued for 30 years. Finally Exalos won but with huge losses. The Continent was damaged even further and this caused the Mana concentration to plummet.

Exalos weakened even further and levels of power once known to Exalos became Ancient knowledge.

He could become a stalker after graduating from college. But to enter college he needed to pass the Upcoming college exams.

"Well, let's get started then". Adrien said in a determined tone.