Transmigrated as a Ghost

With the meeting with the adventurers guild and the subsequent debrief with the king finished, it was time for Marcus to head back home so that he could tell Lilia the good news.

"I really wish that you could stay for longer." Mrazivý said with a sigh.

She wanted to spend more time with Marcus, but he had some things that he needed to take care of, and the sooner the better.

"I promise to come back to see you once I finished up making sure Algernon never tries messing with Lilia again."

"I understand, just do not do anything too rash." Mrazivý said with a stern tone.

The two of them then parted ways as Marcus got into a carriage, already having taken his form as Irene since he was heading back home.

When he arrived, he was promptly let inside and made his way to find Lilia who had holed up in the bookroom and was reading an old looking book Marcus had never seen before.

"What do you have there, Lilia?" Marcus asked wondering what the unfamiliar book was.

A bit startled by his appearance Lilia fumbled with the book, but once she regained her composure, she smiled towards him.

"Oh this, it is a book that Alaric lent me that is by the author we both like. It is one of his earlier works and few were ever made so it is a real treasure." Lilia said with a bright smile.

She began telling the tale to Marcus and he listened intently to his little sister's impassioned speech.

Though eventually she seemed to remember something and abruptly put the book down.

"I nearly forgot. Ardea came by yesterday and was looking for you, she said that she had finally gotten together the payment for the repairs you did on her gauntlet."

'Oh, she went out of her way to do that even after what recently happened.' Marcus thought as excitement had started to well up inside him.

He had asked for materials he would not normally be able to gather on his own, and with them he would be able to make a very impressive weapon.

"Here they are, she said that they are all in this bag." Lilia said as she handed Marcus a high-capacity magic bag.

As soon as it was in his hands, he had to resist the urge to open it up and empty its contents all over the floor of the bookroom and begin examining them.

'These materials are not going anywhere. First, I need to tell Lilia about what I discussed with the king.'

Holding back on opening the bag of goodies he had just received; Marcus turned his head back towards Lilia with a serious glint in his eyes.

Naturally Lilia picked up on this and her back straightened and her expressions stiffened to match the change in the atmosphere.

"Lilia, I talked to the king about the problem you had at the academy, and he said that he would take care of it. Your suspension will be voided, and Professor Rathin will be terminated. It will probably take about a week from what the king said, but after that everything will be back to normal."

Tears began to flow down Lilia's face as she heard this. While she had been trying to hide it, she had been really worried that she might not be able to go back to school.

"Thank you, I knew I could count on you." Lilia said as she hugged Marcus with back breaking power.

"No, I am the one who should be apologizing, you only ended up in this mess because of me." Marcus said with a regretful expression.

He then explained why Professor Rathin had been so hard on her and eventually challenged her to a fight that he lost.

"Though I doubt that he had actually planned to lose that fight and just wanted to hurt you in order to hut me. But I will be putting a stop to that soon so you should not have to worry about anything else."

With that Marcus told her that he was going to go and give Algernon a good scare and make sure that he never thought about lashing out again.

"Okay, just do not get yourself hurt." Lilia said with concern.

"Do not worry, I will be careful." Marcus said as he lovingly patted Lilia on the head.

After that he left her to her reading and moved to his workshop to look at the items that Ardea had left for him.

As soon as he opened the bag, he held it upside down and allowed everything to fall out.

A big smile appeared on his face as he watched everything fall out and saw the high-end materials from powerful creatures with the elements he had requested.

'Yes, these will do nicely.' Marcus thought as he picked up the two cores that had been left in the bag.

One of the cores was from a beast with a light elemental affinity, while the other came from a monster with a darkness elemental affinity.

They were both very high quality as Marcus had asked for them to be from creatures at least level seventy-five. However, Ardea went above and beyond and actually acquired them from a level eighty-one beast and eighty-two monster respectively as she detailed the letter she had left in the bag.

'So, the beast with the light element was called an archon shedu, and the monster with the darkness element was called a nightskitter which was a giant spider wreathed in darkness.'

Reading this Marcus shuddered as he thought about the giant spider and looking at the materials from its body made him feel a chill through his soul.

He still had an aversion to spiders, and even just thinking about running into the monster that Ardea described in the letter made him want to curl up somewhere and never go out again.

'I mean its fangs are longer than my body.' Marcus thought as he picked up one of the nightskitter's sharp pitch-black fangs.

Still good materials like these did not come by easily or often, and even if he did not like spiders, he was not going to let the high tier materials go to waste.

The Shedu on the other hand was actually a virtuous beast, and Marcus kind of felt bad that Andrea had killed it. Unfortunately, not many creatures wielding the light element were totally bad, so she did what was necessary to complete Marcus' request.

It was a noble creature with the body of a bull and the wings of an eagle, and its two large and powerful horns could pierce through just about anything weaker than enchanted adamantine.

'At the legendary grade it certainly must have been powerful, but I guess for Ardea it probably did not put up much of a fight.'

Once he was finished going over the items he had gotten from Ardea as payment for fixing her gauntlets, Marcus pulled out the other materials he would need to make a new scythe.

Though one of the items in particular he was still on the fence about using.

'Do I use it or not? I already have the two cores that Ardea got for me, but there is no doubt that the Dread Burrowers is the strongest one I have.'