Monarch of Darkness

"You can choose books from any section of library except the profound technique section", the vice principal said solemnly. Evan didn't object to this as he was never interested in the magic techniques of Imperial academy.

He had already spent some time in this world and had gained basic knowledge regarding many matters throughout many conversations and reading books in the library of Sylvia clan. Magical techniques were life blood of any kingdom or empire in this world. Everyone desired the powerful techniques which could increase their battle prowess. So, Evan could understand why vice principal barred him from freely accessing the profound technique section in library.

Evan reached the entrance of library building with vice principal. Night was dark but it couldn't impede his vision. It was a separate building located behind the central building of Imperial academy. Evan saw many armoured guards infront of the library building. There were not a lot of guards inside the campus of academy but there were many of them guarding the entrance to library building. From this, one could tell the importance given to magical techniques.

Evan and the vice principal entered the library building. The guards were standing there like statues. Their quiteness was giving compliments to the silent dark night. They didn't even bow when they saw the vice principal.Evan felt slightly strange but didn't bother to think about it.

Evan saw a oldman who was dozing off in a distance. He was sitting on a simple looking wooden chair. Looking at the old man, Evan sensed a unfathomable aura within his frail looking body. Evan always believed in his accute sense which was a innate ability of his soul. "This old man must be a powerful expert of Northpeak empire", Evan thought inside his mind.

The vice principal bowed slightly towards the old man and then led Evan to second floor. There were a large collection of books arranged in wooden racks. Eyes of Evan lit up after seeing the large collection. He quickly started scanning the books and scrolls with his eyes.

'History of Northpeak kingdom', boring...

'How to tame magical beasts', not interested..

'Different way to use inscription', keep it.

'Are gods really exist', throw this book outside...

'A comprehensive study on magical beasts', keep it...

'How to identify a devil cultivator', keep it.

'10 basic etiquettes of noblemen', useless...

Evan scanned through many scrolls and books and finally choose fifteen books. Then he left with vice principal.

Next day, the matter regarding the fight between Evan and Roland was known to entire Imperial academy. The vice-principal declared the punishment given to Evan infront of all grade one students. Likewise, everyone became aware of his identity as the sole prince of Thousand swords kingdom.

Many of grade one students, came to admire the strength of Evan. Even with his low cultivation, he managed to beat prince Roland who was a Meridian opening realm student and had a powerful weapon. Such a feat gained him admiration from everyone.

Inside a room, Evan was reading a book. It was very quite inside the room. The only sound was coming from turning of pages. Obviously, it was a small room. It was located near the secluded house of vice principal. The vice principal had arranged this for security purpose.

Evan was quite happy with this arrangement. He could easily read witout any disturbance. He didn't know, how much commotion he had already made outside. His eyes were constantly scanning across the pages of books. He was reading a book called A comprehensive study on various magical beasts.

'Giant ape, a type of ancient magical beast.It's entire body was covered with thick black hair. It has a burly looking large body and it was a earth attributed magical beast. They can only be found in the depth of Northern mountain range. It was a solitary magical beast.It's nature was violent and loved to battle most', Evan read through the various interesting informations related to magical beasts. A few hours passed quickly. He put down the book he was reading.

Evan stood up and do some stretching.Then he looked outside from the square shaped window. Two guards were chatting outside and they were talking about their families. Evan lose interest after some time and again brought his focus on books.

He scanned through the books and finally choose a old looking thin book. 'An introduction of vast world' was written on top of the book. This book piqued the interst of Evan and he started to read the first page.

Evan always wanted to know more about this world. He always wanted to find out the distance between this world and their homeland, Eternal Moon world. Evan kept reading the book with interest. It took less than one hour to finish the book. He was blessed with eidetic memory. So, every information was remembered by him accurately.

This world was known as Grand rox world.World was vast and it had three enormous continents. Northpeak empire was a part of Greencloud continent. Southern part of this world was covered with a endless water body. It was called Choatic ocean. Among the three continents,only one continent was located at the southern part of world. It was also the largest continent of Grandrox world. The name of largest continent was Clearsky continent.In the northern part of Grandrox world, there were two continents. One was Greencloud continent and another one was Whitemist continent. Whitemist continent took the western part of continent. All the westernmost part of world was completely covered by the enormous Choatic Ocean.

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Meanwhile, inside a room of grade one students, two students were sitting on wooden chairs. There was a bed infront of them and they were currently sitting while facing the wooden bed. A young man was lying on top of the bed. His whole body was covered with wooden bamboo sticks except his face and legs.

"Roland, you don't need to worry. I have already send messages to my mother.In two months, there will be the annual hunting competition. Every students will go to the forest surrounding the Northeast mountain.So, let that bastard be happy for another two months", one of the student spoke. His voice was sinister. "Has my grand uncle got the message?", the youth who was lying on top of the bed asked.