Hey all here's the chapter you've all been waiting 1 month for! As requested here's a little recap:

Zed was born in the Rigel Royal Family as the third prince. He got Malakir, the Codex of Magic, when he was just a kid. Using Malakir, he was able to get every magic available but only if he creates them himself. He goes to Asmodeus Academy to study magic and other things. Along the way to Asmodeus Academy, he gets kidnapped but then he gets rescued by his family. Then he meets his fiancee in Asmodeus Academy and finds out that her brother is there. Zed's father knows this and forces Zed into making Kaiser, his soon to be brother-in-law, to be a pawn to be disposed of and used. Zed doesn't like this and harbors hate because it also implies that his fiancee is also nothing more than a pawn. With Malakir's help, he travels to Hell and gets even more powerful. But the ruler of Hell is very crazy and when he gave the power he took it back and made restrictions to Zed's power.

Zed returns to the Academy and creates a new school known as the Institute. With the Institute's help, Zed has reached fame and renown in the Rigel Kingdom. Currently, they are in an interscholastic competition with all the magic schools in the continent.

(Alex is not mentioned in the recap because his importance is later on in the story as I only made sure to cover things that would be important for now.)

Anyway enjoy the chapter!

“Excommunicated!” these words resounded in the banquet hall, some in hushed tones others in disbelief. All eyes were on us now as Elenia stared at my sister in a strange look.

“What do you mean excommunicated? How is it that you are able to do that anyway? A whore like you can’t be a priestess!”

It was hopeless, there was no way that I could do anything to stop this anymore. I sighed and watched the next things that happened.

“Of course I can,” said my sister as she showed her clergy mark. It was a white triangle with a purple hammer and black staff crossing each other. This was the symbol of the “Santa” and “Verita” respectively. One who had this basically was known as the “Great Executor”. Whoever had this rank had the power to excommunicate anyone including the High Priest.

Everyone gasped at my sister’s mark. Even I didn’t know that my sister was so high ranked.

Elenia’s face turned from pride to distraught.

“It can’t be!” she said as her voice got high pitched near the end.

“Oh yes, you and your family are now excommunicated and there is no way for them to come back. Guards take them away!”

The guards came and escorted Elenia and her team away from the banquet hall. There was an uneasy atmosphere when they left but it was gradually getting better.

At one point I congratulated my sister on her achievements and she said, “Oh it was nothing, its not like I had to purify 1 million skeletons under pitch darkness and not knowing where I was as the ‘Great Judge’ teleported me into that place without even knowing what it was for and then having to do it without any food or water.”

Her expression didn’t carry any sort of disdain but it seemed like she didn’t like the ‘Great Judge’ at all.

She kept on and on about what she had to do and I let her as it seemed that she needed to complain to someone.

Concerning the clergy, their ranks are different than everyone else’s.

Obviously the highest rank is the “High Priest” but there are also the 13 Great Truths, Bishops, Priests, and Laity.

The 13 Great Truths are the second most powerful members of the clergy. If the High Priest was the Light then the 13 Great Truths are the Dark. Each one has power over only one section of the clergy but when combined they have the power equal to the High Priest. If the Truth’s and the High Priest ever got into a confrontation with each other in what to do, the Truth’s will have their way.

The 13 Great Truths are: ‘Great Judge’, ‘Great Executor’, ‘Great Priest’, ‘Great Healer’, ‘Great Confessor’, ‘Great Inquisitor’, ‘Great Keeper’, ‘Great Index’, ‘Great Exorcist’, ‘Great Apologetic’, ‘Great Missionary’, ‘Great Watcher’, and the ‘Great Mediator’.

Only the 13 Great Truths and the High Priest positions can only be filled with one.

Along with this rank they also have a sub-rank. There are way too many sub-ranks as they can keep on making them whenever it is needed but the only ones I know of are: ‘Veritas’, ‘Fide’, ‘Animus’, ‘Adagnitio’, and ‘Lex’. I don’t really know much about these sub-ranks and my sister seems reluctant in answering so I put it off.

The banquet finally lost the tension in the atmosphere and I felt the need to leave, so I excused myself from my family and looked around at my old school.

I got out into the courtyard and it looked just like it did before. The trees, benches and hedges as well as the fountain. It was like nothing changed. Then I saw a figure sitting on the fountain. The figure was looking into the water as she was sitting down.

I was walking towards the figure when I saw her, that’s why I knew it was a woman.

When I got close enough, the woman was Elenia. She was silently crying as her tears fell down to the fountain.

I stood next to her and she said through her sobbing, “What do you want?”

I really didn’t know why I was there at all. I should’ve left but my feet felt like lead and I really couldn’t just leave a girl crying.

Since I was still hesitant on what I should be doing, she scoffed and said, “I suppose you’re here to make fun of me too right?”

Before I could say anything she said, “I’m so stupid! My family is going to kill me once they found out that they were excommunicated! My friends also left me alone and said that they didn’t want to be excommunicated too!”

I kept quiet as she kept on sobbing and complaining. Then I noticed that her clothes were ruined. Her figure was seductive and revealing.

She seemed to have noticed where I was looking when she said, “All men are the same. I don’t even know why I’m telling you all this. But yet, I feel that if I told you, you wouldn’t do what they all did to me.”

I stood there quietly waiting for her to explain herself.

She stopped crying a little as she smiled and said, “I was raped, by my own friends. Raphael tried to stop them but he too was raped. He did have a feminine figure, maybe not for humans but for elves. Raphael is still being raped somewhere here I don’t know where, I was lucky enough to escape but I fear for Raphael, please could you help him. I’ll accept the punishment as it was my fault but my best friend should not.”

I nodded and had Galahad come out and take care of her.

“Thank you,” she said as I left to look for Raphael.

I used Spatial Recognition and found that a lot of people were still at the banquet hall and that there was a group of people surrounding someone in my old summoning class.

I was appalled at the gall that they had, in my old summoning class room?!

I was sped my way there and when I got close enough slowed down so that I could hide my movements.

Then I realized that I actually had no hiding spells. So I thought of creating one right at that moment. I combined Wind, Light, Earth, Spirit, and Arcane mana into “Invisibility”. I used it and I was unable to see myself at all.

I tried to move forward but fell down but there was no crash.

“Master, try to feel with ‘Spatial Recognition’,” said Malakir.

I did as he told me and it got easier to move. I was able to tell where my body would move, of course, this did not use any Space mana because I had to use it continuously.

Having regained control of my movements, I ran to my old summoning class room.

There a pile of flesh could be seen as well as harsh words could be heard.

“Take that!” shouted a gruff looking elf? he didn’t look like an elf at all.

“This is what you get for letting that whore get away!” said another.

“This is what slut like you deserves!”

Muffled screams could be heard.

“How do you like it in your mouth slut?!”

“Take it all!”

I had enough of what was happening in front of me and immediately I used Ice Age on them.

This was an emergency as I didn’t know what was happening to Raphael and these guys definitely deserved what was coming to them.

“What the fuck is this!” shouted the gruff elf as ice surrounded and broke, leaving nothing of him behind.

The others also had looks of shock and despair as the same thing happened and killed them.

When the last one died, I saw Raphael who was covered in bruises and scars, as well as all sorts of liquids.

I removed the invisibility on me and brought out a coat that I created when I heard what they were doing to him.

When Raphael saw me, he lunged onto me and tired forced himself upon me. Shocked by the suddenness of the situation, I was unable to stop him from getting on top of me but I was able to push him away.

But then it disappeared and I was on the ground next to the fountain.

Shocked by the suddenness, I didn’t recognize the voice behind me saying, “Honestly, how could you fall for something so easy?”

I turned around and saw it was Elenia. She didn’t have any ruined clothes in fact she looked exactly the same as when she was in the hall maybe even better.

A small section that I wanted to do. From now on, at the end of each chapter, I will be doing some FAQs to explain some things I think are confusing or just some random things that I just want to expound upon. This may be history or some knowledge that everyone in the story knows.

So without further ado may I present the first of many, ???'s Compendium (??? is someone the MC has met and if I reveal who he is it would ruin all the fun of reading the story as he is pretty much the cause of everything)

???'s Compendium: Secrets of Magic

Magic is separated into five types: Primordial, Spectrum, External (replacing Supreme), Internal (replacing Ancient), and Spatial (replacing Legendary). Each type of magic has at least three sub-types:

Primordial - Water, Fire, Wind, Earth

Spectrum - Light, Dark, Arcane, Nature

External - Summoning, Healing, Holy, Chaos

Internal - Form, Void, Spirit, Inner

Spatial - Time, Space, Ethereal

But Magic is not just limited to those. The word 'magic' means 'power that manipulates', because of this though we call it 'magic' it can also be very different. When one thinks of 'magic' one also thinks of 'mana', that which is required to use magic. Now this 'mana' is actually separated into five different types.

Mana comes from the origin of magic, Pure Mana or 'Ashukunx' which means ' God's breath', though no one remembers the name (not even Malakir).

Pure mana is then separated into Mana, Necromantic, Angelic, Demonic, and Mystical mana.

Each type of mana changes the effects of magic, either strengthening, or weakening or changing it to a different type.

Mana does nothing to magic but it has the uncanny ability to transfer. Someone who uses Mana is able to change their mana into that of a different type of magic. Example: Primodial Water mana can be transferred into Spectrum Arcane mana. Of course the possibility of doing something like that is difficult but if one has Spatial Ethereal mana then it is a different matter.

Necromantic mana increases the power of Inner magic (Form, Void, Spirit and Inner) while weakening the effects of External magic on them or on who they use it to. At the same time, it also mutates Dark magic into Necromancy.

Angelic mana increases the power of External magic (Summoning, Healing, Holy and Chaos) while weakening the effects of Internal magic. At the same time, it also mutates Chaos magic into Angelic magic.

Demonic mana increases the power of all magic while weakening the user's body to a degree equal to how much they strengthened their own magic. At the same time, it also mutates Holy magic into Demonic Magic and also changing some body parts into crystalized Demonic mana.

Mystical mana increases the power of all magic without any consequences save for one, it isolates the mind. Anyone who uses mystical mana must be able to handle or disrupt the deterioration of their mind or else it will turn them into a vegetable. Even a single drop of Mystical mana is able to cause such a problem.

And that's it, it may have been a bit spoilershish but it shouldn't be too bad, hooray for situational irony! I wanted this to be explained as some people were confused on magic as it is very complex. And some people were also very impressed on my magic system that I did want to share it for others to see I just couldn't find a time to do so until now. Anyway that should be it.

For the next chapters, I can for sure only do 1 chapter a week but we'll see if I can make more. Thank you for reading and bearing with my leave of absence. Let's aim for the top weekly again!