Chapter 5: Potential (1/2)

Tyler was stunned by the sight in front of him, he could not believe that there was a Library inside the demon King chambers (Mostly because he couldn't imagine the Demon King reading a book. He always thought demons were born with their magic and didn't need to learn spells. It took him a while to compose himself and organize his thoughts, he then took a step forward into the library in order to get a better understanding of what was in the library.

The moment he entered the hall the door behind him closed, he felt something shatter around him but he did not notice anything out of the ordinary. Just like the rest of the castle the library was lined with gold, almost as if gold was a common metal. The walls were carved with strange symbols and drawings, there were no coloured crystals to light up the room but it was strangely bright, like it was under the sun.

Tyler started to walk towards one of the bookshelf closest to him to take a better look at the books on them. The demon King must've used an insanely advance concealment spell to conceal the library, for a spell that had managed to last almost 1000 years after the death of the demon King it must've been something even above the legendary Tier 7 Magic.

Getting closer to the shelf he could see the titles of some of the books.

• Silent Incantations

• Greater magics

• Magic Circles

• Fundamental modus

• The Book of Death

Apart from that last one each book he saw was extremely valuable, to any magic user, this was a treasure trove that all races would die for. ”Was this the real reason humans started the war.”

Tyler frowned slightly at this thought, if the humans had somehow found out about the knowledge possessed by the demon King, it makes sense why they were so bent on invading the demon continent and they probably deceived the dwarfs with their promise of rare ores and high leveled beast cores.

Even if the dwarfs notice something latter on their interest in the materials from the high level monsters would be more important to them, after all there won't be too many books here that would interest the dwarfs, their main focus was weapons after all.

Tyler didn't hurriedly pick a book, he casually walk through the library in other to get a better understanding of the place. The hall was large it would take him a while to look through the entire library, it was a shame he wasn't skilled in using magic, his potential was not even at the Tier 1 standard. Even after trying all he could to learn basic magic spells he couldn't perform any of the spells, the only reason he had any magic was because of an innate ability he had, Potential Break.

At first he had thought this was a cheat ability he had received for being reincarnated but he later found out that even though it was a unique and rare ability, there were a few people who had innate magic abilities as well, before even learning magic.

An innate ability is a unique ability that is different from each and every other innate ability. It would have been awesome if he was really able to use magic as Potential Break was able to forcefully increase a magic users potential turning a Tier 2 mage or Magic Swordsman into Tier 3. But in the end Tyler could only use it on one person and for only 60 seconds because of his limitations, still this was an incredible ability for his companions which was why he was able to join a relatively strong party and learnt from a Tier 3 Magic Swordsman in other to become a D Ranking Adventurer.

”Sigh... what a shame.” Tyler said as he began to compose himself again, he started walking around the library, he saw various magic books and even Magic scrolls that contain various support type spells, the latter was quite common in the human continent he had quite a few himself when he was an Adventurer, he secretly decided to take as many of them as possible when he leaves the castle, after all the library was too valuable and the books might be easily tracked he didn't believe he could protect himself if he took a book to sell.

After deliberating about it for sometime, he started walking again to continue his exploration of the library. There were books and scrolls on the shelfs in both sides of the hall. He read the names of each book and even took a look at the scrolls. An hour later, he arrived at a corner of the library. There were no books nor scrolls, the shelfs here contained different types of accessories, artifacts and various items (Possibly magic items). There were rings, bracelets, masks, crystals etc.

The items that were displayed in a magic library would obviously be special, although Tyler was interested in them as he thought he had found a way to be stronger, he still didn't touch them rashly he had heard of how dangerous magic artifact were, not to mention a magic artifact belonging to the demon King, plus the fact that he couldn't use appraisal magic.

There were many artifacts on the shelfs about 150, to Tyler's disappointment there were no weapons, but there was something that caught his attention. It was something he recognized.

It was an orb the size of a volleyball, it was dark in colour like it was absorbing all the light around.

The orb was used to test the magic potential of people, Tyler had used a similar one in his evaluation in the Adventurer Guide, he could still remember the looks of the staff members present in the room when he found out he wasn't even able to be a Tier 1 Mage

He creased his brows at the thought. 'Those staffs were totally mocking me weren't they, it's not like any of them had a magic potential to brag about. Bunch of dumbasses.' After cursing at the dead, he thought about using the orb again maybe after so many years his potential had improve a little or whatever kept him alive underground might have done something to improve his potential (Potentials are usually permanent), but he was still a little hesitant, it took him a while to get used to the idea not being able to use magic after being reincarnated to a world with magic, and there have been people along the way who had mocked him for being weak and even told him his innate ability was wasted on him. If he took the test just to be disappointed again he might die from the emotional impact.

It was not a very hard decision to be honest, it wasn't like he had much to do, and even if it was the same results he was already a warrior swordsman and could still used one of the other artifacts and magic items and crystals to compliment his vast weakness so why not?

Tyler had finally decided to test his potential again after contemplating for a while. His reason was because of the fact that he had no fatigue right now. As a matter of fact his body felt amazingly fit, he had incredible balance and control over all his limbs, he had instinctively assumed that all improvement was related to him being a Swordsman, but he had no idea what happened to him or why his body was in such a great shape, so maybe his magic potential was better now if he can get a Tier 3 potential it would be insane and if he gets the same results as last time, he'll be fine because of he's improved physique and more importantly no one else was here.

He then walk to the shelf with the orb and picked it up. Taking a few steps back he concentrated like he had done in the past.

The orb was dark with dots of light gathering in a cluster in the center, in other to use it one must be holding the orb and will their Mana into it. The orb had the characteristics of attracting light out of the atmosphere which are a form of energy as a result it is able to attract the mana from whomever holds it, this makes it easier to sense the Mana within so even a novice would be able to sense his own mana when holding the orb and once the orb contains the Mana the specks of light scatters within it and it in turn glows the more powerful the Mana the more excited the light within is the brighter the orb glows which shows the magic potential of the one holding the orb.

As Tyler held the orb and injected his Mana into the orb he slowly opened his eyes to look at the orb nervously, Crack...