"Wait, I forgot to ask!" Heracles stopped in the middle of his conversation with Beatrice and Earl to look back to Diana.

"How did you manage to survive that attack from that asshole?" The words left his mouth and Beatrice fist connected with his stomach. While he was reeling over and getting healed by Beatrice, Diana started to speak.

"No, it's okay, you don't have to punch him like that. It's because of the magic I inherited from my mother. It allows a magician to create a contract with an animal or other type of object. Not only that, but it also transfers any harm that I would suffer from to Vita. But it seems that I still feel the pain." The last few words she muttered to herself in a hushed tone.

Diana, baby, what the fuck you are talking about? If I wasn't a living hack, I probably would have died back there. But don't worry about it, your tiny growing brain can only handle so much right now. And I will ignore that last part for now, because I would have needed to smack you across the nose if I wasn't so much stronger than you.

"Now that Diana started this conversation. It's your turn next, Heracles. What was that stone stuff you did anyway?" Beatrice turned to Heracles.

"Oh that. Well, my Grandma calls it 'Ruler of Everything'. It was she who taught me it as well. I can use it to, uh, manipulate the world around me to make armour for myself. But right now I only know how to use earth," Everyone except Earl and Vita nodded. So only Diana and Beatrice.

"Do you want to talk about your magic, Earl?" Heracles looked for him, but with a quick 'no' it was Beatrice's turn to speak about her magic.

"I was actually born with this magic." She demonstrated by spreading her magic to the nearby ground, letting some flowers grow out from the snow. " When my dad found out, he wanted me to go here and get a deeper understanding of it. I figured out a lot on my own, but maybe I will learn some more," She finished her sentence and kept quiet as they had finally reached their location. The large mass of people made space for the group, so they walked up to the front to get the information they would need at the start of their year here at the Magi-milians University, the School of Soul.

(-Meanwhile-)

In a completely different place, back in the World's Tongue. In a makeshift camp, a soldier pushed away a flap to enter the room with a stack of papers in his hands.

"Sir." The soldier placed the multiple reports on a table in front of a higher ranking general. The general was reading through the papers, but quickly furrowed his brow when certain keywords popped up. Especially three words. The general looked back up to the soldier.

"Abominations." He placed the papers on the table. "A dungeon." He pulled a metal bottle out of an inner pocket and took a quick swig. "And finally, the corpse of a true dragon." The general rubbed his stone-cold face with a groan.

"You, don't bother with the 'Yes sir' crap now. This is now a matter that is above my position. Neither you nor anyone who was involved in this report are allowed to speak of this matter in public or in private under the law of the Crown, The Four Knights and the Royal families. Go find the soldiers from the Firebrand family and have them come here." The general paused before letting out a soft smile.

"We won't be staying near that shithole any longer, so I will allow a small celebration. But keep it quiet," The soldier was a bit shocked at all the info, but nodded and saluted before leaving the tent with a smile in his eyes. The general on the other hand let out another breath and placed the reports inside a large letter, stamping it and letting it sit on the table.

Again, somewhere completely different.

Victor was walking down something. It didn't have a form, yet it made a clear sound whenever his shoes made contact with it. Either far in the distance or nearby, bundles of books flew around like flocks of birds. Some flocks had massive numbers and some with only a couple books. There were even some scrolls moving forwards similarly to caterpillars. Not only that, every second or so a new book would materialize.

Suddenly, a dozen or so books were pulled down from the sky towards him by his grey mana. The books had multiple generations of difference between them, but Victor picked one with the title 'Legendary Monsters'. Flipping through the pages, he arrived at the section for Wendigos, which was a few pages short. Only having information on the total number of wendigos alive and information on the three wendigos who have been found in the Kingdom throughout its history. The one that was recruited by the Demon King of old, the one that both Odin and a younger Lothair had to fight together.

"Hm?" Victor looked the page over and flipped back to the previous two. Except for the picture and some text describing what he already knew, no additional information was presented to him. Checking the other books, they were similar. Vita was in there, sure, but no useful information. Which should be impossible, unless Vita is somehow able to hide their soul. No matter, it barely mattered as Victor saw a couple of reports cartwheeling by him.

Before he got to chase after them, a bipedal bug showed up and started chittering.

"Fine, I'm leaving. I got what I wanted." He waved his hand before disappearing from the Soul Library. The bipedal bug tended to the books with an annoyed sound. Victor appeared again and left a bottle of alcohol before quickly leaving this time, which seemed to make the bug much happier.