Arcane Academy: The Divine Extraction Legacy

Chapter 2 Activation

After noticing that Kyleʼs life force disappeared, Lesley bitterly smiled.

”Itʼs a waste of another potion… Dex, collect the token and add this body to the third chamber.” She spoke as if this had happened most of the time and called for someoneʼs assistance.

Soon, a hooded man silently appeared… His lips are stitched with black strings and couldnʼt utter any words. There are plenty of bruises and patches on his body like a zombie but he moves flawlessly like an experienced laborer.

Aside from this unusual appearance, he still appears clean as he wasnʼt emitting any foul smell.

As Dex carried the body, Lesley recalled something and changed her instruction.

”I forgot that this man has no affinity to any elements or any talent of sorts. I donʼt think Wexor would eat this thing. Just store his body in the mortuary… He can still be used as fuel or something…”

Dex paused for a moment after hearing Lesleyʼs new instructions. He didnʼt show any form of acknowledgment but instead of going to the basement, he continued to exit through the backdoor where the airship is waiting.

All the recruitment buildings have an airship owned by the Academy to transport all the enrollees to their academy grounds.

Lesley stayed in the recruitment building for another hour before shaking her head.

After staying here for a week, she had only successfully recruited two students for this academic year.

”No wonder no one wants to take this mission… Itʼs impossible to recruit five people in this region. Tsk.” Lesley muttered in annoyance.

She previously thought that she can earn easy contribution points after accepting this mission but she didnʼt expect the people around this area to be so pathetic…

After scanning the people outside one last time, she decided to leave the recruitment site and headed back to the academy together with the two newly recruit students and the corpses she collected.

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Thud…

Kyleʼs body was placed in a cold storage room filled with other dead bodies.

Kyle didnʼt know how much time had passed but as soon as he regained consciousness, he felt like he was being suffocated. He tried moving his body and realized that he was in an awkward position.

ʼW-whatʼs going on?ʼ

He canʼt see anything. It was completely dark and he wasnʼt sure if he went blind or something. Nevertheless, he can still fill the coldness of his surroundings and the stiff corpses he was piled into.

He extracted himself from the piled-up bodies before being able to breathe properly. He was cold and starving but it was good to be alive…

Suddenly, before he can even understand his situation, he was welcomed by several panels with messages like notifications in some games he had played before.

[ Congratulations! You have activated the Divine Extraction System. ]

[ You can now extract and obtain mystical properties of this world. ]

This was the first message he saw followed by a different panel.

[ You have died. ]

[ Your soul does not belong in this world. ]

[ Your soul has been rejected. ]

[ Restarting life. ]

[ You have come back from the dead. ]

[ Remarks: You have to use the system and absorb the mystical properties of this world so you can belong to this world and die the next time your life ceased. ]

”Huh? Rejected?”

Kyle was dumbfounded after reading the message.

”Whatʼs going on here?” He rubbed his eyes vigorously but the message in the panel was still there. He wasnʼt seeing an illusion.

Then, he saw a few more notifications after brushing away the earlier ones with his hands.

[ Human corpse has been discovered. Would you like to extract it? ]

”Hmm? Extract what?”

At this time, Kyleʼs eyes had already gotten used to the darkness and he can now see the cold room he was sent into…

He confirmed that there are other bodies within the room and the thing that is giving him some bit of light was the glowing necklace of a dead person close to him.

Kyle didnʼt answer the message that appeared in his vision and was heard in his mind. He needed to consider this very carefully.

First of all, he didnʼt know what will he extract… Is it the bodily fluids of the dead?

”Urgh…”

Kyle shudder at the thought of this but he immediately recalled the first message.

”No, I can extract and obtain mystical properties… but does it mean that Iʼll belong to this world once I used the system?” Kyle muttered.

The reason he was still alive was that his soul was rejected, probably by someone who was managing the souls of the dead in this world.

Once he started using his system, he will belong to this world and heʼll certainly die if he met another unfortunate situation…

”Tsk… Where am I anyway?” Kyle muttered to himself as he only knows that he was in a cold and large room filled with dead bodies.

Other than that, he can tell that the bodies here are also around his age, twelve to fifteen years old, and they seem to have died similar to how he died. Blood was oozing out in all of their orifices.

Surprisingly, he didnʼt feel too nervous or shocked after seeing the dead… It was weird. He still recalled his past life that he canʼt even muster enough courage to take a glance at his uncle inside his casket.

He doesnʼt feel comfortable seeing a dead body…

”Is it because of the potion?” Kyle muttered before shaking his head.

Anyway, after seeing the dead, he immediately connected the dots and learned about his situation.

They were thrown in this cold storage room and theyʼll probably be sent soon to the crematorium or worse, become a cadaver in Vermont Academy.

He believes that this suspicious academy that kills their applicants would certainly have a use for dead bodies aside from burying them.

Thud… Thud… Thud…

Suddenly, he heard the sound of turning gears and in a few moments, he felt that their room was ascending.

Kyleʼs eyes lit up after noticing this. It seems that he was really inside the Academyʼs airship!