The Trickster Mage and the Singing Warrior 1: Illusions

Story by Leonard Draculius on SoFurry

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#1 of The Trickster Mage and the Singing Warrior

And here it is, my second history on the site... But not only that! It's a history series o/

The history is about my fursona and another character that I created, this chapter is clean. But if you paid attention, I uploaded two chapters, the second chapter is a continuation of this chapter, but it have only a NSFW scene, you don't need to read it to understand the history, it does not have any plot in it, the whole plot is here. And I will keep doing it, the NSFW scenes will be separated from the main history.

Why I'm doing it? to give people option, if you don't like porn histories but likes the clean ones, you will not need to read it

And I almost forgot! All the spells here are from the RPG Dungeons and Dragons and I will use some rules of D&D in my history. And yeah, I know that minotaurs and chimeras are not playable characters ^^


Veritas Academy, gladiatoria & magicus was known worldwide for its great heroes and researchers who have studied there, the swordsman Leonard Russell who killed the dragon that ravaged the city of Rosdrom with a single arrow studied here, Howie Vincentas general who led the siege of Herman castle which provided a large domain against the kingdom of the demons that now lies extinct was one of the greatest teachers here, and I can not fail to mention the creator of arcane abjuration school Cornelio Kirill who focused all their research here because the amount of volunteers warriors who helped him. And the greatest illusionist of the story, Bradley Helmold, who not only won the stage and audiences around the world and killed by himself 50 barbarians of the Coatl tribe that wanted to destroy the school, he used illusions that made the barbarians get so confused to the point of them kill each other.

If you read that well, I told you about warriors and magicians who have studied at the university, and that was the main point over all other schools. It have on the campus a martial and a magic school making it the largest campus in the world. The creator was Dracnar the biggest arcane warrior in history, who created the kingdom that has the same name as him and where is Veritas. Despite being built for this purpose, no one was able to learn spells and military arts as he, and so the school did not form any more magic warrior since a long time ago.

But we will not talk about the past dear reader, we will talk about the present. We'll talk about two people in particular. Leonard Draculius and Desmond Ragnarr.

Leonard Draculius nicknamed himself as Leodrac. He is a humanoid chimera, chimeras are monsters that are part lion, dragon and goat. He at age 20 entered without any problems in the magic school, since it accepts any race and anyone who proves to be able to learn complex magic. He is seen as a monster because of their appearance. He has a face that loooks like a lion and have a man's body covered by golden fur, his eyes are silver and his pupils have a slit form. The top of his nose, shoulders a part of the legs, back and chest instead of furs have scales due to its draconic heritage, which also provides the ability to breathe fire that he rarely uses and their membranous wings, on top of his head he own its unique characteristics of a goat, a pair of horns.

Desmond Ragnarr is a minotaur, however, his mother was human, he has a human face with a pinkish tone but with a brown spot around his left eye, his ears are cone-shaped with a pair of horns between them, the body also is brown spotted with the same tone as his face, the back is covered by a long brown fur and only with a closer look you realize that they are not part of his hair. Due to daily practice with multiple weapons and different techniques together with weightlifting he is an extremely muscular person. He too entered the academy at age 20, but in a different way, Desmond entered because of a sword combat teacher that had recently been hired saw him fight 5 other students alone. The boy after entering the academy drew everyone's attention because he was able to beat veteran students very easily and moreover he won three consecutive tournaments involving several schools in the kingdom. They say he drew attention even of the current king.

The story begins when both Leodrac and Desmond met in a shared training yard for both military and magic school. This field was shared because of the exorbitant price of certain equipment such as swords that could fight by themselves, golems that can recover no matter what damage is dealt to them and so were used in testing destruction spells, or weapons techniques. Areas where the time moved quickier for those who were in, among other fantastic things.

Leodrac was within one of these areas studying an ancient book that he carried everywhere when Desmond, using a full armor entered this area with his helmet under his arm. Hearing the noise of the armor, the young chimera turned his head in his direction under the hood that covered his entire body, except the wings with two meters wide that was impossible to hide and saw the big half minotaur with two meter tall entering the area. He immediately became surprised with that action because Leonard was sure his time reserved was not over, and before he could question why the intrusion he heard a loud imposing voice from the other man.

"Hey! You there! Get out!"

"You should not be here. I booked the area." said the hooded one with a similar tone.

Yes, the magician knew who he was talking to. But you see... I said he was not well seen by anyone except for the magic teachers at the school, and to avoid being beaten and attacked by their own colleagues he acted in a way that matched his form. Although he never actually attacked anyone, he himself unleashed rumors that he had, and cleverly, previously told the teachers that he would spread those rumors.

Angry, the bull man breathed irritably and said, "It does not Matter! I want to use the golems here and I will use them!"

The magician took a deep breath and stood up, despite being extremely thin, he was tall, and to his surprise, was a little higher than the bull if he disregard the great bull horns. "I do not want to cause confusion with you, then I suggest we do the following, I will be in this chair here." And then he turned and pointed with his hand to the chair "Studying as I am already doing, and you" He turned back to the Minotaur "can use the 10 meters remaining in this area, shall we? "

"You'll distract me, get out right now," howled the warrior like a battle cry. Causing people outside to turn their faces to see what was happening without success because to the active spell on the place, what happened out there could be seen from the inside but people outside couldn't see what was inside.

The rightful owner of that space at that time breathed even deeper than he had to calm down, and he was smart enough to realize that fighting the Minotaur would be a bad idea and said "Okay, you can stay here, I'm going now" and he started walking toward the exit.

But as he passed by Desmond, the person on their side began to say "You know what? Wait a minute" the chimera stopped walking and turned to him "Clean the mess you did "

Leodrac looked at the area and saw nothing out of place or dirty, which made him become even more confused since he did not remember doing nothing but entering there and sitting down in the chair. "Cleaning what?" He finally asked.

The Minotaur then took a punching bag that was there, stood it with only his right hand while the left one went to its sword sheath, with a single movement he drew his sword to cut the bag in half causing sand to spread on the floor and if not enough he throw the bag into the air spreading even more dirt. "That" he said sheathing his sword.

Outraged and angrier, the tall fragile creature shouted loudly "If you think I'll lose my time cleaning it you're wrong!"

By the time he finished speaking, the bull clearly much stronger than the other, run an onslaught that hit the mage. But the punch passed trough his body like a mirage, after a few seconds wondering what happened, he looking in the corner of his eye Desmond saw a pair of wings from the area toward the courtyard. He did not even tried to run after him because he knew that the other would just fly. So, succeeding in what he wanted, he prepared the area to start training his new moves.

What he did not know was that the chimera was invisible a few meters away sitting in the same chair he was before. Confused? Well he was well-regarded by teachers with a reason, the reason is that he is able to cast a spell instantly. First when he saw the other coming in his direction, he launched _ silent __ image _ spell accelerated in the same position he was, while activating an invisibility spell previously cast in his ring in a finger in the right hand, and he took two steps to the side away from the onslaught, after that, he focused on making the illusion disappear and reappear at the door, very close to the maximum range of it. Despite this ability seems to be absurd, he needs to spend almost triple the magical power in order to cast any spell that is accelerated, so much that the student was already tired and sat down heavily but silently.

The bull then activated three stone golems that surrounded him. And in sync attacked him. Due to the swords noise, the invisible person looked up from his book and saw the fighting warrior. He's really good, he thought, realizing that despite the blows being firm and strong, they were graceful and precise, hitting exactly where needed without lowering any time his guard.

When the last golem fell to the ground, he heard the sound of a bell from the right arm of the seated spectator, a warning that his time there was over. Accustomed to battles, Desmond began observing its surroundings looking for a bell, when couldn't see it, he ran into the sand bag and threw toward the source of the noise, Leodrac impulsively protected himself with the cloak, the bag was almost empty so when he was hit, he felt a small pain in his shoulder. Realizing that the cloak was dirty with dust, he immediately removed it along with the special clock that according to the rules all people that went there had to wear. The minotaur could only see a hood he immediately recognized emerging from nothing with a clock ringing on the table, he was feeling so angry, but so angry that he did not even realize the quick steps that run towards the exit.

But he was not angry because he was fooled. No, he respected all or any type of tactic that was used against him and always tried to learn how to handle it. He was furious at being disobeyed.

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A while later at his home, near the forest, Leodrac landed, opened the front door, entered, went to his room and lay down on the bed exhausted. Every muscle in his back and wings were sore thanks to the speed he flew. Now he is lying he realized that such a hurry was not necessary, as for what he knows, warriors in school do not learn the magic of flight. Angry he opened his grimoire.

This book, in appearance, it was no big deal, it was just old. Of course, this book was special. And contain difficult spells too much to be understood by the magician, but the most important thing about the book is: It was able to identify certain spells only by the aura the spells emanated, and it only worked when it was opened, that was the ability the chimera wanted for himself.

It is usually only possible to identify spells according to their conjuration made by a magician or sorcerer at moment he cast the magic, the other way is to analyze the effect of the spell. But if you came into contact with a spell previously cast and the effects was hidden, you could not know what magic was.

Leonard wanted to absorb that magic into himself so he could cast it anywhere, he wanted it at any cost. But when looking at the last page, he noticed something strange... He's completely sure that he only opened the grimoire in the temporal area, and on the last page he saw that there were three spells, but he had only conjured two spells, accelerated _ lesser image _ and_ lesser invisibility _ from the ring, where the third spell came from?

The third spell he unfortunately could not understand because it was not a known magic to him, but he was sure that it was also from the illusionist school and it was not a very high circle of magic. Was Desmond using an illusion? But for what? He thought.

Hours later, in the city. A heavy person walked into a wood floor of a pension. This person was a female half minotaur, with delicate face and a brownish spot around the left eye, she had long horns and long curly dark brown hair that went down to the muscular shoulders of a person who did heavy work, his ears were conic and long as their cattle relatives, also thanks to its heritage she had large breasts, which were firm and tried to hide behind a heavy sweater that seemed to only increase its size, more closely you would see that all her muscles are well-crafted, firm and delineated but not exaggerated. On her back she carried something metallic that made noise every time she took a step.

She walked to the last door of the hall and opened the door using her key, when she entered, she heard a voice from the floor saying "Hello Master Bianca, I have prepared your bath in your room and your dinner is ready as you asked me"

At that moment Bianca, who had a bad day at the gym almost exploded with rage, he didn't scream because she had compassion for her maid who grew up with her since the age of 12, many people thought this strange because her maid was a kobold, it was much smaller in comparison to her boss as it measured only 50 cm, and kobolds was considered an inferior being by everyone else.

Kobolds were a small humanoid race that had dragon blood cursing trough their veins, their hands were a little smaller than their legs, they have a muzzle that was like a alligator, but more thin and their pupils were in a slit form. The maid had green scale with yellow stripes and was using a simple dress.

"Marleen, please, I had a bad day today, I have asked you a thousand times to not call me master when we are alone"

"Excuse me, it's just force of habit because the last visit of you parents" apologized the female Kobold. "Would you like to tell me what happened or...?"

"Yes, but on the way here, I realized what happened before was actually funny" said the tall woman pulling up a chair to sit that barely fit the wide hips and the strong muscles of her buttocks "Today I went to train in a random temporal area before my meeting with Raimonds, it was not empty, of course, because I had not booked, so I went and saw a hooded man with wings on his back reading a book. We started discussing and I for some reason, exaggerated a little in performance and wanted him to clear a dirt that I did on purpose. When he denied it with an angry scream I ran to punch him"

The Kobold then sat in a smaller chair "But Lady Bianca, why you did such a thing? This person did not deserve it"

"Yes, I know, I overdid, sorry. In the end I ended up being screwed up because he was a mage, he used an illusion magic to appear that he ran out of the room, when I noticed the damned bastard had completed the total time he had booked invisible in the same position that he was"

"Let me get this straight, he created an illusion to deceive you, was invisible and was all the time in the room reading his book while you trained... How did you find him?"

"It was precisely because the time was over, his watch bell issued the alert, when I couldn't see anything I threw the punch bag that I used to dirty the room against him, the dust caught in his coat but before I could do anything he took off his coat and fled. And to make things worse. Soon after I went to have a meeting with Professor Raimonds and in the middle of it. I felt the illusion magic was almost over, then I got out there with an excuse, thank the gods that I had time to get out of school and into an alley, or Desmond would be seen turning into a woman and all my reputation would go down the drain"

Yes my dear readers, excuse me for having deceived you, but a surprise is always a good thing, is not it? Desmond actually never existed. Bianca tired of being a victim of prejudice for being a woman decided to do something, she bought a scroll with the a special _ Alter self _ spell that lasted much longer, from just a few minutes to a six whole hours and beyond just changing the shape of the person it changes the voice as well.

Even tough she only trained herself to be a warrior, she was able to use that scroll after taking two full years devoting himself body and soul at the work, when she could use it, she ended up in a bar fight against five students of the biggest university in the world. She won the fight easily, and then saw a new academy teacher called Raimonds clapping, fear rose up to his ears at that moment but happiness swept over his entire being when the conversation was progressing and the teacher offered a place at the academy. He then never regretted having done it, but he never knew the truth. The only people who know are Marleen and her family, who were rich and influential in the city. They were against the situation of their child, but after so many victories and glories they ended up being proud of her, so much that they gave this apartment she now lives as a present.

Bianca them was thinking about the bath Marleen said and decided to take it now.