“Huff, huff,” I gasped for breath as I walked weakly while sticking to the wall for support.
My forehead, no, my whole body was drenched in sweat and I was out of breath. I was feeling weakness all over my body, it felt like my bones were cracking, my muscles were tearing apart, and my skin was burning.
‘Sigh, finally!!!’ I thought when my eyes caught the sight of a familiar door; it was the door of my dorm room.
I somehow made my way there, and then shoved myself onto the door. I twisted the doorknob and then—
<strong>-Thlug!</strong>
The door opened all of a sudden since all my weight was on it and I fell to the ground. I was lying there on the ground for a while, and then I closed the door by pushing it with my feet and crawled to the bed.
I pulled myself up with all the strength I have left, as soon as I was on the bed I took a breath of relief.
I stared at the ceiling above me, and before I knew it or was able to become aware of my surroundings. My eyelids dropped and my eyes shut closed, soon after my consciousness drifted away and everything turned black.
𝑓𝘳ℯ𝒆w𝘦𝘣𝙣𝘰ѵ𝘦𝚕.c𝗼𝓶
***
I slowly opened my eyes, for the first few seconds my vision was blurry then it became clear. I still had this tingling feeling of pain spreading all over my body but it was better than before.
‘Damn, my head hurts!’
I was hearing a slight buzz sound in my ears and my head was spinning. It took me around a good 5 or so minutes to fully realize my senses.
I stretched my body and released a large yawn before I got up and sat on the bed. I roughly arranged my hair as I stared at the floor.
A green-colored book was lying there with a black pear attached to its side. This book, was the reason behind the state I was in.
The [Book of Sight], was a part of the collection of books created during an experiment performed by magicians and professors who practiced custom magic.
The books which were created during that experiment had weird powers. And this one which I borrowed from the library was capable of recording things in video format on its pages.
This was the same book I used against Seiren and the other two girls to threaten them by recording the proof of their bullying.
I knew about this book from the knowledge of loli_pop’s novel, Leon uses this book in a filler arc, later in the novel, and he also got it from the library. Hence the idea of using this occurred to me.
It was capable of recording video by using its black peal as a sort of eye, and the quality in which it records is also clear. And once something is recorded, you will be able to play and watch that video by opening that certain page.
But even after being this useful, this book, and the others from the same series were eating dust in the library of this academy. The higher-ups marked these books as useless and their mass production was never started. Because of that, only a handful of people knew about these books.
One would think these books are very good and useful, then why will someone say they as useless?
Well, while these books, and this book specifically, recorded videos and all and were so convenient, they did come at a cost.
The book sucks up your mana pool dry, and it does so in so much less time that you can even die if you are careless. The same was the reason behind the state I was in.
Even after having a C grade mana capacity, it sucked me dry when I recorded the video. Though I knew this beforehand hence I was keeping track of my mana and stopped before I was completely out of it.
But after creating that throne, the amount of mana I was left with was close to none.
I ran out of mana after many years, the last time it happened was before I breakthrough C rank, and it was 4 years ago I think.
I learned something new, being out of mana is really, really tiring and wears you out.
‘Well, whatever.’ I shrugged and took another yawn.
I got out of my bed, the first thing I did was put the [Book of Sight] on my desk and then I turned to look at the clock.
It was 8:50 pm right now; I realized that I slept for a good amount of time. But maybe it also recovered my mana as I was not feeling weak anymore and the body pain was also going away.
Opening the door I took a peek outside and saw that it was dark, there was no reason to do this but I did anyway. Closing the door again I changed into my indoor clothes—yes I was still in uniform since after classes I went to the rooftop and then I directly came and slept.
After I was done, I stepped inside the kitchen that was attached to the room and started to make a cup of coffee for myself.
My mind was still a mess and I needed a strong cup of coffee to concentrate-—I don’t care if I’ll have trouble in sleeping afterward.
As I was waiting for the milk to boil, I heard a knock on my door.
‘Guess it is time,’ I said inwardly and went to the door.
f𝚛e𝗲𝔀e𝚋𝑛o𝘃𝒆𝗹.c𝗼𝒎
I slowly opened the door and the person standing behind it came into sight. With long red hair going down her back, it was Ellyn standing before me.
I stepped outside and looked in both directions to check the grounds, no one was there; the corridor was empty.
“Come in,” I said softly and stepped aside.
Ellyn, making sure to not make any noise, got inside my room. I followed and then closed the door.
