Chapter 629
“Is that a door heading to…?”
“Yes.”
“Hmmm…”
Thud.
Inside Eli Academy, Lasty was sitting in the Magic Professor’s Office, contemplating as she closed a copied book and looked at me.
While settling rewards, I encountered a phrase that I couldn’t just overlook, and since I originally had a purpose for coming, I decided to visit Lasty as well.
After all, she’s the only one related to the ‘Demon Race’ deep within my soul.
‘Sre is an exception since he didn’t realize it.’
[Oh]
[Lasty da Lasty]
[Shihah~]
[Progenitor da Progenitor]
[So doll-like, lololol]
“So… isn’t it a door leading ‘up’? Who knows what will happen if it opens.”
“It’s not impossible.”
The body of Deoen, the pinnacle of Nutrian, being connected to the Eight Seats or the Six Demon Kings is a given fact.
Right away, they’re accomplishing things that should be impossible without that level of power and rank.
In that sense, enduring the ‘pressure’ above shouldn’t be hard at all.
Is Lasty pondering that? She tilted her head cutely.
“What do you think, sis?”
“Well, the reason the door will open is that the progress of the World Quest ‘Truth of Light and Darkness’ has increased.”
“Right.”
“Here, light and darkness obviously mean the Celestial Race and the Demon Race. And the truth is…”
Obviously.
“The reason the war of the past ended. Or maybe it refers to their origins?”
Surely they wouldn’t just throw in any random story and say, ‘This was an amazing truth~’.
[Is that so?]
[No way]
[Lily mentioned?]
[But didn’t you come to ask about it, lol?]
“It might not reach the center, but it could feel like a separated Heavenly Realm like Loreliess or the Demon Realm of the corpse demon Kofus, right?”
‘Of course, it’s completely out of reach right now.’
Users are struggling against the Demon World Boss as it is. There are countless beings like grains of sand in the Celestial and Demon Realms.
It could truly be described as a nightmarish space.
“Well, even if I could go there right now, I wouldn’t want to.”
“Why not?”
“There’s too much to do without going there. Like the New Continent.”
I haven’t even explored all five worlds of the New Continent yet.
So far, I’ve only progressed in Ertarn and Teshiniria, and those places haven’t been fully completed either.
‘In Ertarn, I just cleared the first episode. I did clear Teshiniria twice, but there are still other sects left.’
Ertarn is somewhat settled as I stably awakened the Celestial Being, but Teshiniria is just beginning.
To find the seven children presumed to possess the power of dragons and gather and organize those fragments…
“…Is that really necessary?”
[Why]
[?]
[Where?]
“It’s Teshiniria. I was just thinking of leaving it alone.”
The New Continent isn’t a dungeon.
As an open world, the users who’ve achieved level 121, along with the residents, will manage without my interference.
“There are some things worrying me about Teshiniria… but I don’t think it’ll be a major issue.”
It’s related to my blunt techniques, but they’re just the dragon race.
No matter how strong they get, the New Continent is filled with titans like Ertarn.
‘Even the raccoons are there.’
In a situation where the Administrator is classified as a ‘race,’ even if issues arise in Teshiniria, it can be managed easily.
It’s not like I have to rush to be a fixer like before.
[Ah]
[What’s going on in Teshina-something?]
[ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]
[You gotta try it out once in a while]
[Main Temple ㄱㄱㄱㄱ]
[Are you not going to learn more blunt techniques?]
[Let’s go to the Land of Vampires]
[Yena said she’s going to the New Continent soon, wanna go together?]
[But does Lily have a Holy Seal?]
“So, here’s the thing. There’s a dimension in the New Continent called Erbenus Blodia.”
“Yeah?”
The Blood Noble. Commonly known as the Land of Vampires.
According to Nokju, the strongest at the Main Temple, he and Teshiniria’s strongest rank among the top 4-5 in the five worlds.
Excluding Ertarn, who is rank one, and the raccoon, who has exceptional combat power, the vampire king is basically rank three.
Considering Ertarn is Kraken-level, being the rank three vampire king is quite strong, but it really doesn’t matter how strong.
“I mentioned it before. Yeah, I know.”
Over there, there’s a ‘Progenitor.’
The Master of Blood, who was born first by the Top-Class Demon.
Not every vampire originates from her, but fundamentally, vampires can’t escape the ‘control’ of the Progenitor.
‘That is a powerful law that encompasses all vampires.’
The Progenitor, Lasty ‘Erbenus,’ blinked her eyes as if filled with dark blood.
“By any chance, have you seen a Holy Seal or something?”
“A Holy Seal?”
“To enter the New Continent, you need the Holy Seal of each dimension.”
Ertarn and Teshiniria obtained theirs through job advancements, but I have no idea where to find the other three.
I think the ‘Golden Sky,’ which belongs to the raccoons, can be accessed using an item, the ‘Golden Seal of the Dawn,’ obtained from the ancient island’s treasure vault, but the other two are a mystery.
‘Other users probably don’t know anything beyond job advancement rewards, either.’
Lasty shook her head with eyes like rubies.
“I haven’t seen one.”
“Anything that feels particularly related to blood?”
“There’s plenty of blood. There’s a group of light-blooded vampires, but I don’t know anything special.”
“I don’t really know about that.”
“[Isn’t there a lot of Bloodsucker Dungeons?]”
“[?]”
“[Luna caught a Vampire before.]”
“[Boy Progenitor]”
“[Silver?]”
“[Isn’t that Silver Purifier the one that caught a vampire?]”
“[Wasn’t it Mikael who caught it in the dungeon?]”
“[Is it related to the Progenitor?]”
“I’ll look into it when I have time later. But more importantly, check this out, sis.”
Lasty floated over the copied Book of Magia.
I asked her to annotate the Book of Magia for decoding and spell usage.
‘Because Lasty is much better at magic than me.’
“I did some decoding as you asked. Thanks to that, I really had to think hard.”
“It got super thick, huh?”
While the original was thin enough to hold in one hand, the annotated copy was packed enough to fill one hand.
It probably surpassed hundreds of pages…
“That’s the equivalent of three pages.”
“What?”
“I was able to perfectly decode up to three pages. I analyzed and understood the Fake Sister’s formula, then transformed it into a blood magic formula that you and I could comprehend. The rest was converted back into a common magic formula.”
“…That’s still a lot, though?”
It wasn’t just hundreds of pages; it was a magical convenience-filled book.
Though the amount varied by page, it was a magical book with ten to dozens of pages worth on each page.
In other words, this copied book contained a vast amount of thousands of pages.
Lasty nodded nonchalantly.
“Additionally, there are unique powers that can’t be transformed. I wrote it down like an interpretation because no matter what I tried, it wouldn’t work. If you don’t have at least intermediate demon level magical knowledge, you won’t be able to use that part.”
“[?]”
“[LMAO]”
“[This is dizzying.]”
“[Is it really that hard?]”
“[Big Lily]”
“[Check out how thick that book is.]”
“[As expected of Black Lily.]”
“[If three pages are that much, how hard is the rest? LMAO]”
“[Are we really going to learn that?]”
“Well, it’s more like we’ll skim through it?”
These are users who found it difficult to independently use even Fireball.
Of course, now they’re familiar enough, and with a lot of guidance from Lasty, users like Leo and Candy Star are handling magic pretty well.
‘They can use quite complex spells without relying on skills.’
Though their skills have risen to the level of past royal mages, Black Lily’s magic was on a whole different ‘rank.’
“That’s magic even a high mage can’t do. That’s why I asked Lasty for decoding and annotations.”
“I wrote it in detail to the level of an academy student, so you’ll be able to grasp the basics. Yeah, over there.”
“I wrote it down, so I should be able to handle the basics. Yeah, right there.”
I opened a thick book.
Pages filled with dozens of explanations just to interpret a single sentence.
The sentences looked dizzying at first glance, but they seemed easy to understand now.
Ugh…!
A blue mana, not holy power, flowed through my heart.
“First, create the framework and design 26 mana lines in a stacked structure…”
Clack! Clack! Clack!
The lines made of mana interlock to control the subordinates and amplification.
At first glance, it looked precariously unstable, ready to collapse at any moment, but the flow of mana was surprisingly calm.
“Connect seven auxiliary modified mana lines in a parallel structure…”
Cha-ra-ra-rak!
As the modified mana lines were inscribed over the 26 lines, the once calm mana surged rapidly.
In response, the lines that prevented mana overload emitted light and all the lines forming the spell began to rotate slowly, achieving harmony.
Book of Magia, First Chapter, First Line.
“Foundation (sŏlum).”
Ugh-
A rotating blue circle emerged.
[Wow]
[Huh?]
[That looks crazy complicated]
[W-w-w-w]
[We’re supposed to do this?]
[???]
[Eh?]
[Looks really tough]
[At a glance, it seems super hard lol]
[What kind of magic is this?]
“This isn’t magic, you know?”
Rather than being some special magic, it was quite literally ‘foundation.’
It was like creating a ‘canvas’ to paint the picture of magic; it wasn’t magic that realized something.
Now, I needed to create multiple canvases, layer them, or add additional structural spells on top to implement the magic.
As I said this, Lasty nodded as if it was obvious.
“Right. Now we have to use this as one formula. After that, the writing and load of magic will have to be handled on its own.”
[?hahaha]
[No way, this is super hard, and this is just the beginning?]
[Professor;;;]
[This is dizzying]
[Professor, move on, please]
“…Um, sis. Do you think the students can grasp this?”
“We should at least expect them to create the foundation.”
If they could handle just this foundation, I was confident that the efficiency of the magic would increase tenfold.
The magic of the Demon Race, known as the god of magic, is worth that much.