Talent-Swallowing Magician - Chapter 17

Episode 17:

The first arranging

updraft was much more intense than what I felt above.

Not only was it so hard to get my balance right, but it was so cold that I could lose my mind if I tried.

Why is the wind noise so loud?

Mephisto shouted something behind me, but I couldn’t hear it at all.

But the biggest problem is.

‘This… isn’t easy.’

The point was that it was difficult to use words because it took a lot of mental energy just to hold on to one’s mind.

Concretizing an image requires a high degree of concentration.

This was because it was inevitable that it would be difficult in such an emergency situation.

“【Step… Ara】!”

Elric gritted his teeth and spread the magic field wide.

Instead, the magic activated this time was not the ‘levitation’ or ‘gliding’ that I had been using so far.

Those things could only hold you back in a place like this.

I wanted to replace it with an image captured on the spot.

Aerial stairs.

He thought of creating an invisible stepping stone from the point where he was falling to the halfway point where Mo-ok was and crossing it directly.

『If the martial arts practitioners of the past had seen it, they would have foamed at their mouths and called it a ‘step in the air’. Ha ha ha…!』

Leaving behind Mephisto’s sighing exclamation, which he still could not understand, Elric was able to reach the halfway point in one go.

“Whoa…!”

As soon as Elric stepped on the ground, the ground disappeared and he let out a sigh of relief.

“Ugh. “I really thought I was going to die.”

If I had just slipped, I would have been stuck and would have died.

It was as if I had reached the threshold of the underworld in a very short period of time.

My spine stood upright. Even though it was obviously cold, my clothes were soaked with cold sweat.

“Hehehehe.”

Still, for some reason, laughter came out naturally.

The feeling of pride and accomplishment that I did it. And the sound of laughter mixed with a complex sense of thrill.

『What an astounding guy.』

Mephisto only shook his head.

‘There is no one among the demons, or even the demon lord, who is this reckless.’

While I was thinking about that.

Elric stood up and slowly took a breath.

I approached Mo-ok, barely able to suppress my heart that was still pounding.

“On the outside… it just looks ordinary. hmm.”

It was the same when I saw it from the edge of the cliff.

Aside from the fact that it was located halfway up a cliff, Mook was not much different in appearance from the mountain cabins usually built for hunters to stay comfortably.

It’s not that big, has a triangular roof to prevent snow from accumulating, and has a small window. That was it.

As the ‘Blue Snowflake’ tribal leader said as he looked at us in astonishment from the top of the cliff, there wasn’t much snow on the roof, as they had managed it occasionally. Even though it was made hundreds of years ago, the wood didn’t look that old.

Elric used a mana scan to see if he could find anything else, but he couldn’t find anything particularly strange.

So, I tried to reach out to Mook’s door.

‘It’s locked.’

For a moment, Elric’s eyes narrowed.

Lock.

An ancient trick that can only be unlocked by inputting a set mana pattern.

The magic circle seemed to be installed inside, not outside.

‘What on earth is a password?’

Elric briefly thought about trying hacking, but eventually gave up the idea.

Even if it was made by our ancestors hundreds of years ago and the algorithm combination would be more monotonous than the modern one, I thought that it would not have been made in a way that descendants who did not reach the level of a mage could easily unlock it.

However, when I thought about it the other way around, it was clear that it would be a combination that descendants who forgot their passwords would come up with.

Elric tried entering mana patterns using words that came to mind.

Mervinger, a master of magic, a wizard, a demon king, a demon hunter…

But no matter how many combinations he tried, they all failed.

I asked Mephisto his name to see if it was related to the Yeti King, who was said to be his friend, but the lock still remained silent.

“…hmm.”

Elric was going to freeze to death in front of Mook if he stayed like this, so he kept racking his brain to see if there was something else going on.

But there was no answer for over an hour. Then suddenly, my mind wandered to something else.

‘What if what you need is not a mana pattern but a key?’

“…no way?”

Elric took out the magic sword hidden in his collar and held it near the door.

Moment.

Paaaat!

Clang –

A colorful light emanated from the door and it was thrown back.

Elric looked at the magic sword and the door in turn with an expression of exasperation.

If I had known it was this simple, I wouldn’t have had to be so nervous. It was a little unfair.

But now that it’s clear that this is the family’s safe house, I’m happy to go in with a smile.

“…?”

Elric remembered that Mephisto had not said anything so far and turned to face him.

『…I thought it felt familiar somehow. Was it the residence of the ‘Winter Sage’?』

Mephisto muttered very quietly to himself with a worried face.

“Winter Sage? “What is that?”

Elric asked without missing a point, but Mephisto kept his mouth shut and gave no answer.

Just like when he asked about the Yeti King, his face was full of stubbornness that he would never give an answer.

However, unless Elric was a fool, he could easily guess that the Winter Sage that Mephisto spoke of was his ancestor.

However, there was something else he was really curious about.

‘It seems like there is some connection between the Yeti King and his ancestor Mephisto. ‘What is it?’

Elric thought about using silence and charm to open Mephisto’s mouth, but he didn’t think that doing so would hurt his last remaining righteousness.

‘No matter how much I harass the other person, at least I must remain good.’

Elric slowly entered the room, thinking that if Mephisto had heard, he would have called something crazy.

and.

“and.”

I let out an exclamation without realizing it.

All questions related to Mephisto disappeared as the scene unfolded before my eyes.

The inside of the safe house was completely different from what it looked like from the outside.

A library with endless bookshelves tens of meters long.

The musty smell of hundreds of thousands of old books filled the room.

It was definitely not of a size that could be accommodated in a small prison.

‘Climate control patterns are detected in space overlap… In addition, it seems that automatic repair is involved in preventing damage. ‘Is this possible on this scale?’

At this rate, I could never say ‘I’m not going’. It was a library.

‘I think it has to be the Central Magic Library or the Imperial Library to be able to put it here…?’

Elric’s heart trembled as he felt like he had glimpsed just how great his family was and how the power of the magic clan was much deeper than what was known to the world.

And I happily walked around the library.

For Elric, who loved books to the point of being addicted to printing since he was young, this place was nothing short of heaven.

* * *

“The ‘fundamental doctrine of magic’ is here? I knew it had been put into practice for a while… but if it were brought out, the academic community would be in an uproar. ‘Hwarang Yogyeol’ and ‘Book of Law’ in ‘Matan Function Book’? Our ancestors also worked hard to collect the grimoires. Eh? Is there also a ‘Gospel of Satan’?”

Elric looked astonished as he looked at the titles of the books.

If you just look at it with your own eyes, most of it is amazing.

Starting with those known to have already been practiced, there were magic books that contained magic in the book itself, magic of fairies and beastmen that were largely unknown in the human world, and even black magic that was banned.

It seemed like almost all the books related to magic were found here.

However, there is one thing that is unfortunate.

“They’re all replicas… Hmm!”

The handwriting was the same throughout and the material of the paper was also contemporary.

Still, seeing as the contents are all great, it seems like they copied them with the original copy nearby…

‘Did someone called Winter Sage transcribe it all? ‘All these things?’

Elric let go of his regret and thought positively.

In fact, the things here alone were great enough to expand the horizon of his unconsciousness several times in the future.

For a wizard, he had acquired an unrivaled treasure.

‘Because there will be plenty of time to see these in the future. First, let’s start by looking for the magic sword, right?’

Elric searched for books related to the family’s history, especially the progenitor.

However, many of the booklets did not have titles written on them, so I had to go through them one by one to read at least a little bit of the content, which took a lot of time.

“….”

Meanwhile.

Mephisto stood in the middle of the library and just quietly looked inside.

* * *

One day, two days, three days passed.

It was around this time that I looked through each booklet for four days, almost completely abstaining from eating and drinking.

“…found.”

Elric was finally able to find the booklet he wanted.

An old, thin book stuck in one corner of a deep bookshelf.

but.

The content contained was absolutely not like that.

「…we were originally just a group of scholars who wanted to pursue the ultimate in magic.」

「But at some point, as we craved greater power, we became tainted by demons and caused great harm to the world, and we belatedly acknowledged our mistake. “I was able to enlighten you…”

“It’s the same…? “With the voice I heard back then.”

Elric muttered softly, slowly recalling the voice he heard when he first obtained the arrangement set up in the Magic Mirror Ceremony.

“We were created and our family was created to correct the wrongs and atone for the past.”

“We were created and our family was created to correct the wrongs and atone for the past.”

“The only mission left to our family is to eradicate demons.”

“The mission left to our family is to eradicate demons.” Even

though there was no panic at the time, it was such a strong shock that I clearly remembered every line and tone of voice.

However, the contents of the booklet were identical to the voice.

Elric turned the pages quickly, like someone possessed by something.

I was wondering if there was anything behind the voice.

and.

“If you catch and eat a yam, won’t it disappear someday? Then, true magic will be able to bloom in this land, and it can be said that it is a mission given by heaven to our family…” 「

…Then what is it that eats demons? It means that we take the lead in swallowing what is wrong, vain, and foolish. “If you can swallow and re-swallow and properly digest it, wouldn’t that also be said to be a new harmony of magic?” “

But in order to put it into practice, several requirements are absolutely necessary.”

“The first is a righteous will to stand upright, and the second is not to be shaken. It is an unmoving mind, and the third is a peaceful and quiet equanimity. “This is from all kinds of temptations and desires…”

At that moment, Elric felt as if his vision was spinning.

“Eat the yam.”

“Swallow the yam.”

“Drink the yam.”

It was as if the letters were jumping out one by one from a booklet. They danced around and around among themselves.

Elric thought it was a hallucination, but strangely, he seemed to know what was inside.

Then, all the letters shattered into pieces and my head rang loudly.

『Eat, swallow and drink. So, put all the yam into yourself and keep it again. So raise a new demon!』

At that moment, the magic sword light shined brilliantly.

『Reading this booklet means that you have passed all the conditions mentioned above, solved the test and arrangement of the Demonic Sutra, and successfully swallowed your first demon.』 『

Then it will begin completely from now on.』

As soon as those words ended.

“…!”

Elric suddenly came to his senses.

And then he looked down at the magic sword that was still sprinkling light.

Passu –

The rust that had been covering the magic sword until now had turned into powder and was falling off.

The necklace, with each and every eyelid peeled off, like a butterfly opening a cocoon to be born, looked completely different from the existing magic necklace.

A necklace in the shape of the character ‘卍(10,000)’.

The four parts that protrude to the outside are each tightly studded with emerald ruby sapphire diamonds in clockwise order, giving an elegant impression.

‘It seems like something has changed…what has changed?’

Elric touched the changed magical magic as if it were amazing, but tried to turn his magic on it, not knowing what the changes must have been in his body.

That moment.

Whoa!

The world surrounding Elric turned upside down.

and.

“It seems you are a descendant from the distant future who was promised to receive our arrangements.”

An elderly gentleman was standing in front of Elric, smiling warmly.

Wizard who swallowed talent