Chapter 2

I'm not going to attend any other classes, I don't need halfassed fantasy flavored high school.

But now comes the hardest part, facing HR. The academy staff won't be happy just handing over resources to some nobody first year, especially not a luggage carrier. That's why I will try to get the majority of the resources from outside the academy, though I will have to find work for money. Finding work won't be too hard, luggage carrier at it's base form allows me to carry ten times my body weight in a pocket space. Though accessing that pocket space has some conditions. 

Which is why I bought this trusty backpack, but there's another problem.

I'm supposed to connect to this thing, I know how to do it. But I don't like it. The dorms for the first years will open only after a week which is troublesome since I need some privacy for the connection to take place. 

So I will have to wait an entire week until I can use my skill, but Liam died in two weeks from now. No wait, couldn't I just do it at night? I'll have to try out later. 

I have to focus on learning healing magic, which will be time consuming since Liam has no affinity for pure healing. He's more of an earth guy, even though he tried to go full martial. 

So, will l just train my healing magic until nightfall? Better than doing nothing.

I made my way through the academy to the library, I didn't write a detailed layout in the novel. But if this world is what I envisioned instead of what I wrote, then I'm the closest thing to an all knowing being there is. 

Just like I thought, left from the entrance hall once you reach the cafeteria go right and it's the third one to the right. 

 Not like I need anything from the library, I just wanted a quiet place. 

I'm gonna be honest, I did not do a good job writing this novel. But, one of the few things I did get right was to make a proper magic system. There's ten base elements, fire, earth, water, wind, light, darkness, time, space, death and pure healing. Every element has either two or three branches and some can be combined. 

For example, magma is a branch of earth but lava is a combination of earth and fire. In the same sense is ice a branch of water but snow a combination of wind and water.

I sat at a lonely corner of the library where no one would bother me, I grabbed a book to not look suspicious. 

Sword stances and their secrets, yay. 

I closed my eyes and felt inside of me, which is easier said than done. Breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breath out... yeah, still nothing. 

I mean, there's also a different way to awaken ones magic. But that's a bit risky... fuck it. 

I threw my backpack to the ground and opened it as wide as possible. 

This is gonna be so fucking weird. 

First my left leg went in, my right leg next. I kneeled down and tried to fit in as much of me as possible in the bag. 

Alright now, I have to "let my soul seep into the bag". I really shouldn't have been that fucking vague, there's like ten different ways to interpretate that and five of them include suicide. 

I suddenly found myself in a white void, the air here actually feels enjoyable to breathe and I feel like I am home belong. 

Huh, this is nicer than I thought. 

I knew that luggage carrier would create a point perfect space to keep something as it is, yes time doesn't pass here. But time will continue as normal in the outside world so I can't just jump in the bag mid fight and heal up. But I can put wounded allies in here since their wounds won't worsen, I can keep people that are on the verge of death here and pull them out once either I or someone else can treat them. 

I feel something, I feel great, I feel like I could go on a ten mile sprint. Unlocking your connection to the arcane can give great physical boons. I called it mana in the novel but I was planning on revealing in a plot twist that the "mana core" is actually the soul of the individual and all magic comes from the soul. Running out of mana is just your spirit running out of stamina. 

What I pulled off is a "Soul push". By unlocking my skills primary function my soul had some "momentum" left and pushed over the verge of magic. The possibility of it working get's lower the older someone becomes, which is why it was better that I did it so early. 

Which is why I won't form a mana core. Yes, it makes cultivating your mana easier. But quite frankly I find giving your soul a vulnerable physical shape is a massive design flaw. Do you know what happens when the carnation of your soul gets damaged? Your soul gets damaged. The mere possibility of my soul getting damaged, much less shattering, scares the shit out of me.

Alright ,now, how do I get out of here?

My face hit the ground, hard. I'm back in the library with a bit of my legs still in the backpack, gotta practice the landing. 

For anyone watching it must have looked like the backpack spat me out. 

Wait, is there someone watching?