I have always believed that the journey holds far more weight than the ending.

Let me ask what gives life value? It’s death. Without an ending the journey has no purpose. But I still believe that the journey holds more weight. Because the end is just that the end.

Teachings of the spider.

•••••

“ So how do I do this per say miss” Erick

“ well that simply you just ask me the grimoire to teach you the knowledge and then it will be carved into your soul from your perspectives. Actually this is the way people are supposed to use me but like fuck that ahh I mean like sure ok what you want.” Grim

“ So I don’t have to get the ones you suggested” Erick

“ I recommend it” Grim

“ ok but before you’ll teach me?” Erick

“ I know you one lucky fucker to learn from me huh it’s like really coming up for you huh” Grim

“ So you really are useless to me huh” Erick

“ What… I’m a great fucking teacher besides even if you beamed the knowledge into your head you would still need years to properly understand it. Also the martial arts but you can get probably will also need like a lot of training if you did things the way of knowledge beams you like still need to learn how to use it and train also there's much more that can be acquired from me then what you have seen.” Grim

“ is that so” Erick

“ yes it is” Grim

“ Ok give me calculate and the path of the victor”

“ Ok let me teach you”

“WAIT!!!”

“ ok why? No why?” Grim

“ I’ve got this ok?” Erick

“ ahh sure”

I raise to my feet and I leave the room I’m currently in and make my way through the temple like facilities that I’m at until I find a big empty training room. It’s a large room with a few steps at the rooms edge.

I stand in its center and raise my hands and say.

“ Secret powers ACTIVATE!!!” Erick

And I give my hands a little wave. Nothing. Damm that sucks

“ Are you an idiot?” Grim

“ No I just felt like a bigger room would be better I also want to see how my swordsmanship is doing but that can come later what now grimoire” Erick

“ ok first” Grim

“ Wait” Erick

“ what the fuck do you want now”

“ Is your name actually grimoire. Like if I needed you to sign your name you would put like Miss Grimoire or is it mrs Grimoire?”

“ Are you like some Fucking house wife I’m about to teach you a technique so powerful that fate itself deemed it a threat”

“ I’m sorry… are soul cultivation techniques that amazing?”

“ Well ah in a sense but sure ahh… also my name’s Grim”

“Is that so”

“ I told you my name so now shut up and learn”

“ ok miss Grim”

“ no miss please”

“ ok Grim”

“ good. To start you need to sit in a cross legged on the floor. The floating comes later”

“ Is that so” Erick

I do as I am told.

“ good now place me in your hands so one cover is in each palm” Grim

I reach for the book in my pocket but stop I feel something akin to a chain around my neck. I reach for it and to my surprise I pull the book out of a shadow that formed on my chest. Is this knowledge that came from the grimoire. I place it down in my lap with my hands as she stated.

“ Ok first close your eyes you should see me” Grim

I once more did as I was told and before me a library seemed to appear. It was endless and seemed to stretch on forever inside it was a mass of books. Few were stacked evenly somewhere in piles that stretch on upwards. I look up to that once more an endless amount of books are before me. But there's a room roof but I need to strain my eyes to see it which is amazing thing if you remember that my eyes are super human. I feel a tap on my head.

Above me there's a black butterfly. The butterfly flew forward a little before settling before me and the part between begun to morph. She took the form of a girl but seemed to be without set form and color. After many different she shook her head as if they were unsatisfactory. She change once more into an animorphs shadow. From her back grow back the wings of a butterfly but now they held wing spans of a few meters and they began to fold around her until they resemble a dress that showed clearly female features. Her face seemed to drift towards the feminine side however it was still all but impossible to her feathers other then she seem to have very long hair.

“Ok here . ” Grim or the Butterfly spoke using Grims voice! No it probably just Grim. Grim seemed to pull two books out of the side of her head and she handed them to me. The first was titled calculate and the second was title feast deviour and consume. Grim seem hesitant when handing me the second book and before she did so she turned to me and said

“ He who stands shoulder to shoulder with the titans will never know the strength of he who stands above them” Grim

“ What is this?”

“The soul cultivation technique. To works by simply devouring the strength of other or manly the soul of those who are slain by you. It’s a safe soul eating ability” grim

“ Aren't these soul magic spells really dangerous?”

“No what!!! Don’t you fucking dare make comparison between this any fucking any shity little soul magic. Trust me ok. First your soul doesn’t do anything and soul magic is the act of using mana to get your soul to perform an action this simply takes the life force of those you kill as your own before devouring any remains of will and then using it as fuel for the technique itself. That I will emit that I have like no fucking clue on.”

“ So you are useless after all” Erick

“ I’m not useless. I’ve read and memorise all the knowledge here and understanding everything but two techniques. The only two things that I can not understand are the two techniques I just gave you. All I know is when you feast on someone you gain their will it’s the same method that fate uses but just much more direct and has only a small chance of success. And the only reason I have it to you is because of all the techniques I can give you these are the cheapest simply because I don’t understand them in the slightest.”

“ Ok ok weather your useless or not remand to be seen so what now”

“ huh well it obvious that we hunt for fuel so you can get your hands on the path of the sword. Once you do that I can pass on my experience in swordsmanship through and we can begin your training. After all you're my master now and since I’m the greatest grimoire my master need to be the strongest or it would look bad on me ha ha ha ha”