"Is everything alright son?" My father was first to arrive.

"Yes no problems."

"Thorus." My mother was out of breath with moisten eyes. She jumped down and hugged me.

"I was so worried."

I gently pushed her away and wiped the tears away.

"You need to stop these dangerous things. I wouldn't bear it if something happens to you."

"Don't worry, there was no danger from the beginning."

"You say that but how I see things, big things happened. We could feel the mana from the surroundings rush to this place." My father said.

"Father, mother. Your concern warms my heart but I'm alright."

My mother shook her head.

"You hav- EH? What happened to your eyes?" My mother became shocked all of sudden.

"Right, I didn't notice at first. You eye colors don't match. The right eye is blue while the left is red."

They both looked worried. I can't blame them, there were many changes in these seven years.

But to have different eye colors? Man that sounds bad ass. I can't wait to test my new powers.

"Well lets head home, I'm hungry."

My father couldn't help but sigh and shake his head.

"This is not over. You will tell us what happened when we are home." My mother looked at me with serious eyes.

- - -

The next morning I woke up early. I told my mother and father that I just was training and that it was normal to cause such a uproar.

They seemed not so happy and knew I was hiding something, they didn't pry to much however.

Currently I was in my room when someone knocked on my door.

"Come in." I said.

The door opened, Elise, Neo and Neurocarnium came inside my room.

"Ah, good that you guys are here."

"Master" Everyone knelt down and said in unison.

"Woah, I'm surprised. Now that's the proper way to greet me."

They seemed kind of pleased.

"Raise. Don't kneel when my parents are nearby they might scold me."

"Master, we will keep in mind. Anyway, do you have any orders? I was waiting so long to carry out your will. Tell me who should I kill or cripple."

Neo had a wicked grin on his face.

What the hell.

"Yes, Elise will also do her best." She smiled at me. A tooth was missing, I didn't notice at first.

"My life belongs to you Master." Neurocarnium said with an expression I can't quite grasp.

"Aiya, it seems that you guys have changed a lot. I neglected you guys too much."

"No." Elise raised her voice.

"I-I'm sorry I didn't mean to yell. Master, you are too good to us. I don't mind you neglecting me. You can even abuse me."

"What?" I thought I miss heard.

"I live for you. If you want me to end my life, I'll do it."

"Woah, Elise calm down."

What the hell, she broke. How did this happen?

Elise realized what she said and became embarrassed. Her face turned red and she quickly hid behind Neo.

Neo grinned and only shook his head.

"Master, you don't know but Elise missed you very much."

"Neo, shut up."

Neo turned to Elise.

"Ho, can you make me shut up? We don't want your little secret to leak out."

Elise turned pale.

"What secret?" I asked.

Neo laughed.

"You should have seen her. She has a pu-"

"No." Elise screamed and took out a dagger.

She charged at Neo aiming at his neck.

Her movement was quick and efficient as if she practiced for a long time. With my eyes I could see that she channeled mana to her feet to boost her speed.

In a blink of an eye the tip of the dagger was millimeters away from Neo's neck.

Neo snorted. He disappeared in an instant and appeared behind Elise.

Elise noticing that turned around fast. I mean really fast. She aimed at Neo's eyes.

"Humph, naive." Neo snorted. He wanted to catch the dagger between his two fingers.

That never happened though. Before the dagger could be caught it vanished and was heading to the liver.

Neo's eyes widen.

"I got you." Elise sneered.

"Humph. Parlor tricks." Neo raised his knee hitting Elise's elbow. The sound of bones breaking could be heard and the dagger fall to the ground. The right arm of Elise was broken, the fore arm was in a ninety degree angle to the elbow socket.

Elise face distorted in pain but she didn't scream. She looked coldly at Neo.

"What's your problem? How can you expose my secret? I trusted you."

"Hahaha, not bad Elise. You almost got me. Also, I was only joking. I was not intending to tell master."

Neo put up both his arm and shook them while smiling.

"Humph, that better be true." Elise spat on the ground and straightened her arm with a pull. Cracking sound could be hear.

Okay, this was impressive. Damn, Elise you are even cooler than me. Damn it, shame on me.

I clapped my hand.

"This was a good show."

"Eh? Master... I" Elise turned from a killer into a shy girly again.

"Hahaha,good, good. Elise, you developed well. I'm proud of both of you."

"Hehehe, master."

"Is your arm alright Elise?"

Elise smiled with a blush on her face.

"This is nothing for me. I had all my bones broken at least once. I even broke my neck once when Neo insisted on practicing his neck chops on me."

Such a tough girl.

Neo looked a bit of fearful towards me.

"Good job Neo, you raised her well."

Neo's face brightened up and he nodded several times.

"Yes, yes. These two are something." Neurocarnim was also nodding several times in approvement with his hand in front of his chin.

"Well, I was worried about your training. Seems like I was worried for nothing."

"Mistress Verrona was a good teacher. After she taught us magic our battle force was raised several folds."

"Good, good. Now, Elise get your arm fixed. Do you need any medicine?"

"No need, aunty Verrona left some healing potions."

"Good. Anyway. I plan to go into close door training. I will only go out just before we head to school."

All nodded.

"You guys can go" I made a swiping motion with my hand and everyone vanished in an instant.

"Wow, they can even do that. Too good."

- - - - -

I went back to my base and repaired it.

Sitting cross legged inside my base I was thinking.

Till now I was using magic in too crude way. I just imagined it and poured mana into the spell. This time I plan to go deeper. Imagination is not only the key to magic, understanding the laws is also an important key point.

One can create a flame with just imagination and basic understanding but if your understanding of fire is profound you can make the flame hotter.

Since I want to be a demon like existance the dark magic suits me but I have to admit that my understanding is lacking. I planned to learn dark magic from the dark elves but I never got to learn from them.

I will be the laughing stock in school if I can only show a superficial understanding of magic. It's time to to dwell into the mysteries of dark magic.

I closed my eyes and cleared my mind. Darkness, from my understanding it's the void, the nothingness.

Having a blank mind will help me get a deeper understanding of dark magic.

I was trying to not think the whole time. Since I'm a genius it took me only ten minuets.

After an hour I opened my eyes.

"That's it. This is he direction I need to go."

If light is life than death is death. I now life and I know death since I died several times already.

Understanding life is no problem for me since I was alive the most of the time. Yet I'm sure there is more to life than it at first may seem.

Life and death are connected. It's the circle of life. One is born and than one dies someday. Good thing that I read many xian xia novels in my old life. Else I would be clueless where to begin.

To understand life and death is to understand the heavens. To cultivate is to go against the heavens.

"Hahaha, now it's getting ridiculous. Anyway I should start to understand life first or at least grasp the truth."

I went outside my base and went into the forrest. I decided to sit under a tree like Buddha to grasp some truth.

Sitting under the tree I could hear the birds chirping. I could see the sun rays shining through the gaps of the trees.

I was seeing all this yet I was still not feeling it.

After an hour I realized what the problem was. It were my thoughts. What hinders me enjoying the present were my thoughts. How can I see what's real when I have thoughts that distract me from the present moment.

I decided not to think. It can be tricky at first but since I'm a genius I slipped into a state of no mind.

The moment it happened I was blown away. Suddenly everything seemed so intense.

I could feel the ground. I felt my body. The pressure on my ass from sitting on the hard ground. All these things I couldn't notice due to my mind, I could realize them.

The mana in the air, moved towards me. Coating my body, it was as if nature approved me.

"That's it. I have been enlightened. Oh I was so wrong doing evil stuff. I have sinned. It's time to become a monk and live for the people...or not just kidding. But man this life stuff is really deep."

"I need to understand life more."

I saw a small beast a few meters away from me. It was a horned rabbit.

This is also life. I caught the horned rabbit. The rabbit was struggling with fearful eyes.

"It fears, so its alive." Gaining more understanding I noticed a small change in my mana.

I looked at the red and blue sun and the black planet in between. A small light barley noticeable appeared in the orbit of the black planet.

"This I need to understand more. Life what is life?"

I dug a small hole with my hand.

"This is soil. Trees and plants grow on soil.This is also life"

I was slowly grasping something but it always slipped away before I could fully understand it.

"The soil provides food to living beings and sustains life.It gives life. The soil is part of life."

"We need the soil to live."

The light became stronger. It was like a moon.

"Not only the soil gives life. The sun also gives life. Without the sun trees and plants can't grow.Without plants and trees we have no oxygen to breath."

I sat down and relaxed. I only concentrated on my breath and my surroundings.

After a while I opened my eyes and said to myself.

"Life is life. Yet life can't exist without death. Death can't exist without life. It's a circle.If a living being dies it will nourish the ground. New life will sprout from the ground. We kill animals to eat, to live."

Suddenly I felt a strong force in my stomach area. It was warm feeling full of life.

I looked at the black planet inside of be. A white shining moon formed and orbited the black planet.

I could also see a dark dot orbiting around the black planet.

I grinned with a satisfied smile. Who would have guessed that understanding the laws of the universe made such a big change in my body.