Life Hunter 75 ''Hi, Karma''

"{Master, what happened?}" Lanya asked Night "{Arima looks a bit strange since he came back}"

Night glanced at Arima and shrugged "{Don't worry, he's just a bit irritated, he'll soon be like always anyway. Nothing can perturb him for long}" He said.

"{I…see}" Lanya looked one last time at Arima and resumed the test that she herself was doing, too.

At the end of the day, Arima created a s.p.a.ce and time dimension and directly went in it with the other three, including Arister.

Once Arima arrived at the top of a mountain, he called Karma. Night was curiously looking at him from behind in his dragon form. Lanya and Arister already had left to train together, but it was more like the latter training the former.

"[Primum, Secundum, Tertium, Gaudete] (First, Second, Third, Break)" Arima broke the three seals and Karma's aura spread in the entire mountain. Its power had taken a huge leap along with Arima's.

The latter drew Karma and planted the sheath on the ground. He then spun the katana in his hand and planted the blade in the ground too.

"Night, you can go back. Train those two if you want" Arima said "I'll call you if I need your help"

Night shrugged and flew away "[Karma, Verto]" Arima chanted and Karma started to transform, it became bigger and bigger. It didn't lose its form as a katana but it became extremely huge, like, too huge. The blade was now five meters wide and fifty meters long, with over half of the blade planted in the mountain.

"It'll be easier if you're bigger" Arima muttered and placed his palm on the giant blade. He closed his eyes and stopped moving.

After a few minutes of silence, some blue lines started spreading on the entire blade, forming something like a circuit board.

Arima breathed out and sat down. He started mumbling inaudibly. He was actually constantly chanting. And the blue lines started moving in some strange patterns.

The mana all around the mountain started to gather around Karma, the plants, the soil, the sky, the sun, everything was giving mana away to Karma, so was Arima.

Small dots of light kept forming around the whole mountain. Of all kind of colors, blue, white, red, black, green, purple, yellow, orange and even silver. A beautiful scene that looked like all the fireflies in the world gathered here.

From afar, Night, Arister and Lanya were all looking at the lights gathering. Night observed for a moment before grinning, finally understanding what Arima wanted to do.

"Well, don't pay attention, it'll most likely take days for Arima to finish what he is doing" Night said to both Lanya and Arister.

"I'll play the teacher for you two. Since Arister is here, I'll start to talk about the five basic arts. Lanya, it's a revision for you" He said and Lanya nodded.

"What are those arts you're talking about?" Arister asked.

"Arima's magic set, The Kind Demon's" Night answered with a grin "Let's start from the beginning" He declared and sat cross-legged with his arms crossed, while in his dragon form of course.

"First, we have five different categories, each having five arts. First, we have the blue arts, it's supposed to be the arts connected to fire and purification. Each art is a different flame, it's called blue arts because of the first art being a blue flame" Night started explaining and Lanya and Arister sat down to listen "The fifth art is called 'Inferno', I used it once against Lanya. It's just a basic fireball"

"Then, we have the red arts, connected to nature and humans. Each art is supposed to either control the nature or possess a theory directed against humanity itself. The word 'humanity' represents a whole for Arima, it combines everything, men, elves, demons, everyone, and even G.o.ds"

Night smirked "That's how Arima sees everyone else, nothing else but humanity. Someone is human as long as he has awareness. The fifth art is called 'Exhaurire', which means 'Drain'. That's what Arima is using right now" Night pointed at the light spectacle "It drains mana from the surrounding nature, and humans if there are"

"After that, it's the black arts. As the name implies, this one connects to darkness and void. The arts in that category arts are made to punish souls and minds. And also, to retrieve the former. The fifth art is something Arima use a lot, 'Penitentia conspiciunt', 'Penance Stare'. It's a magic that burns the soul while taking the memories of the victim. It can also be controlled to not take life"

"The fourth category is the white arts. They are connected to life, death and time. It could heal, seal or even restore anything. Arima said himself that the most delicate arts were the ones in the white category. The fifth art is a simple one though, it's called 'Sana Intrinsecus', 'Intrinsic Heal'. The simplest you can find in the whole category. But that's still a special magic, the magnitude of the heal depends on how much mana you use to cast it"

"And finally, we have the destruction arts" Night paused "It's basically, the five most efficient killing magics that Arima ever created. They can be of any element possible, just that as you go up, the more destructive the arts are. The fifth art is called 'Spatium Horti', the 's.p.a.ce Garden'. See? The first art is already a s.p.a.ce magic" Nigh wryly said.

He stood up and deployed his wings "I'll show them to you, Arister you should remember the chants and the flow of mana" Night said and a fireball formed in his hand "Let's go"

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Ten days later. The light dots still didn't disappear and kept being absorbed by Karma. Arima did not move once since he began.

At some point, he opened his eyes "{Night, tell Lanya to come here}" He said and Night, who was hundreds of miles away, frowned.

"Why?" He muttered "Lanya, Arima is calling you" Ultimately, he transmitted the message.

"Eh?" Lanya was greatly surprised, she didn't expect Arima to call her at all. She quickly teleported and arrived just below the mountain. She instantly deployed her wings and flew up toward the peak. There, she saw the giant Karma, glowing with blue lines, forming some beautiful circuits. Those circuits were all leading toward a single point, a small square on the middle of the blade, just in front where was Arima was sitting.

"Come here" Arima called her and Lanya sat down beside him "Put your hand on the blade, the rest will come to you naturally" Arima said and Lanya nodded. She slowly placed her hand on the blade and closed her eyes.

She was suddenly overwhelmed by a great quant.i.ty of information. After a few seconds, she was surprised to see what it was. She finally understood what Arima was doing since the beginning.

"I suppose you know what to do" Arima smiled and said "I'll support you, I just need you to take care of the main parts" He then declared.

Both of them started to work on Karma. The latter started to glow like never before. All of the 'fireflies' in the vicinity started to be absorbed by the blade. Even Arima's mana. Since he had been giving it away for ten days straight, he only had a quarter of it left. Considering the size of Arima's mana pool, it was impressive.

A black and white light was traveling on the blue circuits, and Karma started to slowly get out of the ground. It also began to tremble strongly. At the same time, a strange circle appeared in the sky.

After a few minutes, Karma was already hovering in mid-air, pointing its blade at the sky. Its aura was also growing each second.

Arima and Lanya stayed on the ground with closed eyes, they were still connected to Karma. Arima suddenly opened his eyes and looked at the sword, his sigil revolved and Karma started to enter the magic circle.

The latter was absorbing the katana. It only took a few minutes for Karma to disappear, just leaving a red magic circle.

Lanya sighed in relief and panted a bit. She looked at the sky and waited. Arima waved his hand and the circle descended, it also became smaller, with just a meter in radius.

It descended until it was on the ground. Arima stood up at that moment, followed by Lanya. Then, the circle started to slowly recede from the ground, as it was gaining distance from the ground, a figure was also forming between.

After the circle left a figure that was around 1.80 meters tall, it vanished. The ident.i.ty of that figure was a beautiful woman, wearing a red and purple dress, she also had her hair of the same fiery red. She slowly opened her eyes and looked at Arima with her dark red eyes. Her whole appearance gave off a hot-blooded feeling.

"Hi, Master" She spoke and smiled. Arima grinned while Lanya gaped.

"Hi, Karma" The former responded.