Progenitor Vampire: I Have Many Skills!

Alice opened her eyes gently to see what had happened. She was sure she had made it but doubted whether she had succeeded.

"Did I?" she asked doubtfully, trying to understand what she had just felt.

Being the first time she had felt it, she was naturally unfamiliar with the feeling of casting magic.

Matt nodded at her. "You did pretty well. Two bolts of lightning came out, and while they didn't have too much power, they had a lot of lethality. So you did well."

Alice beamed as she heard him say this. "Really!?" She looked at the item in her hand, feeling it was amazing that she could use it and cast magic.

The current world belief is that vampires cannot use magic and rely entirely on their vampiric powers. A few manage to mutate in some way to gain abilities, and others belong to an exalted group of Heirs with Destiny who have potent skills. However, there are only 14 who arrive every few years.

Among billions of vampires, that number is too small. People like 'The Ruin' who managed to mutate and gain some helpful ability tend to be very rare. It's not that mutated people are scarce; many mutate in the right way, but most of them get useless skills.

That's why, for Alice, this is not only a strange joy but also an astonishing surprise.

If such knowledge were to reach the Vampire World, it would be transformed in a few years, becoming once again the most dominant power in this world with no possibility that anyone could threaten it.

Even the humans and devourers couldn't do anything because the vampire race could compensate for one of their shortcomings.

While Alice was deep in thought, some devices in the room lit up and beeped, telling them that it was morning and time to go to class.

So Matt and Alice went to get ready, dressed in the uniform that teacher Robert had given them, and a while later, they went to the classroom where they would be studying from today onwards.

The Spiritual Academy was divided into External, Inner, and Alignment Halls. The latter were only two Main Halls.

For now, Matt and Alice were in one of the External Halls, but their uniform was quite special and different, as it was governed by the aptitude grade (or color) they had in the first test.

That is to say, if someone's aptitude grade in the first test was red and then they managed to pass in the second or third test, the color of their school uniform would be red. This is done to distinguish them.

In this case, Matt and Alice get a blue uniform, so as they walk around the academy, many students look at them with admiration.

Still, the first-year badge said they were only newcomers, so the students from other years ignored them.

In the classroom where they had been placed, they were all using Magical Artifacts, and there were two other people in blue uniforms. Most wore green uniforms, but there were a few in uniforms of the other two colors.

When Matt and Alice arrived, there were murmurs from side to side, especially about Alice, since most of the people in the room were men, and Alice's beauty left them slightly stunned.

Still, soon after, a teacher arrived and introduced himself in a brisk manner.

"Master Robert should be teaching you today, but he had an emergency and is not at the academy. Therefore, the welcome class will be my turn," he said, pulling crosier magic from his ring.

"Like all of you, I am a holder of Magical Artifacts, and this is mine. Perhaps some of you will know me as the Master of the Illusionary Crosier, for the spirits I summon are spirits of illusions."

"But the first class will not be about that. It is just a welcome to all of you and a demonstration of what is to come next; plus, I will explain the basics of spirit summoning."

After this, the teacher wrote several things on the blackboard and began a long explanation of the academy and everything they needed to know.

The Spiritual Academy investigates the secrets of the Spirit World and the way to use spirits, so it focuses all its studies on that area. This is done to strengthen human beings against possible external threats, such as the vampire race.

On many occasions, the Spirit Academy has worked with the empire's forces to launch an attack against the vampires or to infiltrate, so it has a much higher status than what is talked about on the outside. What's more, it receives the protection of the Grand Sorcerers and works closely with the Divine Mages, further increasing the academy's status.

Everything he said was valuable information that Matt and Alice listened to attentively. After a long while of talking, he looked at all the students.

"As new students, you should know that spiritual invocation is a subject associated with your spirit and your mind. You must be in perfect harmony when you want to invoke a spirit. The spirits that will come to your invocation will depend entirely on your abilities and compatibility.

Spirit ranks will be explained during the Summoning Class, but for now, you need to know that you cannot summon spirits left and right."

"If you are lucky and compatible enough to be touched by a talking spirit, you may not be able to summon any more spirits, as they tend to take up the entire 'being' of a human. Still, that is not a problem, and that is why I said it would be your luck to summon one. That's because the talking spirits are the wisest and also have great potential for growth."

"But it is normal for the vast majority of you to invoke non-speaking spirits, and in those cases, you may have 2, 3, or even 5 spirits. Non-talking spirits can be even better than talking spirits, so you should not feel bad if you get one."