Inside an inn , Seak was sitting on a bed reading the collected memories he obtained .
' A goblin mage can use magic without any help from spirits or receiving any inheritance . What a surprise . ' Seak inspects the memories of the goblin mage .
" Fire again ? Do they only know how to cast fire but not water or anything else there is too much for fire mages no wonder they had more inheritance than any other magic . " moving to the next and important issue a book of memories flipped through his mind .
The book contained the memories of the guild master as he talked to the king about the irregularities of the goblin cave . They talked about the unusual number of goblins and there was a billboard that showed drawings of fire .
" They were trying to teach magic to the other goblins but since they're illiterate they could only draw didn't work well for them , though it looks like a child's drawing of how fire burns . " the books in his mind closed and arranged themselves on the shelves .
He leaves the inn and goes back to the dungeon they raided . There were still corpses around so Seak retrieved them and placed them in his space pouch , hoping to use them with alchemy . He enters the throne room and excavates the wall behind the throne ' According to a book a vast amount of goblins or any magic-related monsters mean a large amount of mana gathering but to think I finally found a mana stone . '
He mines the walls with a pickaxe , at one point the wall cracked open and a sparkling light appeared he felt magic gather and concealed the flow ' This thing attracts too much mana I should hurry before the investigation party arrives . '
He mines the surrounding rocks of the intersection and opens up a mana stone . ' And now to keep it inside my pouch . ' the space pouch was enhanced by his seal keeping the mana from spilling out .
He hears footsteps coming ' They're earlier than scheduled but too late . ' he takes another route he discovered while trying to kill the escaping goblin mage . He leaves through a covered hole beside a hill and stretches his arms .
' Time for training . ' he releases a concealment barrier preventing mana from escaping and attracting any intelligent species . He placed the goblin mage's corpse and draws a magic circle . It had two circles and arcs connecting them .
At the big circle , he placed the goblin mage and at the smaller one , he placed some of his mana Seak stood in the middle . The light dimmed and the circle flickered sending mana to the corpse . The corpse withered turning into a skeleton while the ashes surrounded Seak .
Seak entered a state of reexperience of the goblin . Right now he would experience the life of the mage but he was more interested in how the goblin would circulate his mana to cast a spell but the circulation was sloppier than Seak's .
This is the only training method Seak would use because if he uses a spell that sends out his mana it would attract forces . And when he made a fireball the fire spirits ran away with fear and when the fire subsided it became a land perfect for them . So now Seak would train by experiencing other mages' spell casting which can help him find flaws or more ways to control mana .
Mages familiar with casting can prevent mana from leaking when they cast spells . An inexperienced mage would leak mana because they can't control it properly so even when they wanted a supply of it to leave through their hand some of the mana would end up flowing through another end .
Seak's mana sense was so high but due to a curse , his mana disappears if he doesn't absorb more so when it was gone he would imagine the feeling and the concept to create a mana core . A mana core is only something that can be obtained by birth or by letting a mage send their mana to an inheritor .
The inheritor would get the same affinity as the mage . But Seak's method was different he drank anything that contains mana and forcefully absorbed it .
But thanks to the curse Seak kept losing his mana core , but thanks to that he could recreate a mana core without absorbing the mana sadly it mutated the curse which allowed him to control it and use it as a seal .
Now he was reaching the end of the goblin's life experiencing death . Now back to a normal state of mind he looks around hoping he didn't attract any spirit .
There wasn't any even after he spread his mana like a dense web , he puts on a mask and disappeared without a trace . Even though he check no one was around he remained cautious .
He was approaching the town and saw fire at the inn he stayed in . They were carrying buckets trying to extinguish the fire
' Oh no . ' when Seak left the inn he used an illusion to create a fake body to avoid the suspicion that he took the mana stone . Luckily no one noticed that he was gone and assumed his fake body was burned to death .
Seeing that his fake body was dead he change the illusion he placed on his body and took the face of another fake identity . He avoided the town like it was the plague and ran as quickly as possible .
' Since I have a mana stone, maybe I can use it on that . ' he stopped in his tracks and chanted a spell sending himself away into another city undetected .
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" ID sir " Seak showed his fake ID and entered blending in with the crowd and entering the labyrinth without notice .
A labyrinth is a bigger dungeon where magic beasts spawn it can gather people who are interested in it forming a big city called a labyrinth city . While a dungeon is called a dungeon because the last boss room has been cleared and the settlement around it is called a dungeon town .
The first floor was nothing interesting just a newbie floor . Seak dives through the labyrinth as fast as he can . Because he practices illusion magic he can bypass monsters without alerting them of his presence .
He reaches the last boss room and in the middle was a magic crystal golem waiting ' This type of golem is a golem that would react once it senses any magic force or life . ' he ignored the golem and look for a room .
Sending a small amount of mana through his hands he touched the walls till he found the hollowed wall . Intending to break through it he removed the concealment and allowed the golem to detect him .
The golem stood up and charged right at Seak . He jumps back letting the golem hit the wall and cast a concealment spell . Once the golem returned to its position , Seak entered the hallway and walked to the end , finding a dungeon core .
A dungeon core is similar to a command room but it only operates when someone is in control and right now it functions by instincts to keep growing . Seak wasn't interested in controlling it as he treats it the same way he treated the goblin mage .
He drew the magic circle in his mind and projected it through his body . This spell became stronger than the previous spell because it had the supply of the mana stone he obtained .
The spell activated and sent Seak into the same state of mind . Seak felt countless small mana veins the core used to supply mana to the whole labyrinth allowing more monsters to spawn .
After experiencing the core's long life he had a slight headache which he rarely got . ' This is expected this core solidified from mana a few hundred years ago but to think I get to learn how a core condenses my mana limit just got bigger . ' the dungeon core was black indicating it will be inactive for a long time and the mana stone is now dust ' Looks like this city is gonna lack money but that's not my problem . '
He leaves the hallway and finds the magic golem ' Been a while since I got some exercise . ' Seak allowed his circulation to flow faster . His body radiated more light than he anticipated of course he did just experience the hundreds of years of mana circulation .
Seak slowed down the flow but when he opened his eyes the golem charged at him . He dashes out of his position allowing the golem to go through the hallway . Seeing this chance he put two fingers close to his mouth and whispered inconceivable chants . Two mixed-colored squares appeared between his fingers .
He snapped his fingers initiating the spell the two squares disappeared and on their space were two encircling orbs of black and blue . The blue ball surrounded the magic crystals first and made them teleport to the entrance and then the black ball wrapped the golem's mana stone and the crystal fell from the air .
Holding on to the black ball he walks to the crystals and picked them up " I should cast that spell sometime later , my head hurts but this much is bearable . "
He sealed away the hallway and walked out of the labyrinth wearing an enchanted necklace . He blended in and bought a room inside the inn ' The labyrinth is too big and too old ... ' he laid down on the bed and sorted the memories properly after a while his headache subsided .
" There are a lot of people who challenged the labyrinth but they never thought the labyrinth grows as time passes . " he laid back and heard a commotion outside " Healer ! We need a healer the crown prince is injured . "
' Crown prince ? Another noble that wanted adventure ? Starting a war against the magic kingdom would be great I just obtained all of the tome's pages together . ' he sent an illusion of the prince's body burning into nothing , retrieved his body and placed it into a coma .
" Let's see how the kingdom of magic plans to fight against a framed murder . " he threw an emblem of the magic kingdom beside the ashes . And to avoid suspicions he stayed inside the inn and sorted the memories of the labyrinth .
' Adventurers , nobles , monsters this will take a while . ' he created a stimulation of the labyrinth and watched it grow from a little mana . He started the stimulation for when it was still a small little mana that followed an instinct to continuously absorb mana .
The little mana slowly works its way into absorbing more mana eventually evolving into a more superior version . Once the mana reached a limit it slowly turned into magic stone , forming runes .
Runes are incantations or symbols derived from the users understanding if the rune of a spiral symbol means hypnosis to someone it might be defined as a spiral-shaped spell to others .
And when the rune reaches a certain level it can manifest laws inside it so a rune could contain knowledge and understanding which is derived from its chronicles over time . One rune may even have more than one type of law .
" A second stimulation without the subject is very difficult . " getting a light headache he heals it and proceeds to check the golem core and mana crystals " Using this thing will give me take a while and the knights are having a problem seeing that their prince was burned to ashes .
He needs to prepare to avoid suspicion ' First I need to change my magic nature to prevent any notice . ' . Knights walk to every building looking for the killer and so they entered to inspect the rooms .
" Open the door " Seak opened the door while the knights proceeded and ask for his magic nature "It's ice-type " " Then hold the ball and insert your mana . " Seak followed the procedure and proved that his nature was Ice-type . Mana nature is like affinity if the nature is an ice-type the mage can cast ice-related magic .
There was no reason to suspect Seak to be the murderer using fire so they completed inspection and suspected the pyromancers but all of them had alibies and couldn't be suspected . Fire mages are always at a disadvantage in labyrinths because of the enclosed space so they have no choice but to stay out of the labyrinth and defend the entrance in case of a monster raid .
Ice mages are very rare because reducing the temperature is harder than making it warm so when the innkeeper heard about Seak she came to ask for ice " Yes but I need water to make ice . "
Freezing the water Seak listened to the gossip around the inn " Have you heard the killer beside the church they are actually from the magic kingdom . " " That's bad should we just leave the border in case of a war ? " " No , the king will probably close the borders when there's war . "
" If the king wants to fight the magic kingdom , they will probably use as many supplies as possible . " ' Hopefully this time the war will distract the magic kingdom long enough . '
Seak has caused countless wars against the magic kingdom so he could enter their forbidden library when the troops are distracted . But the security was tight and most importantly the seals are too powerful ' Good thing last time I found out about the keys that were spread across the kingdoms . '
The key wasn't solid but a method . There was information from a cult that the method was separated and found by many fractions of the same cult . Allowing Seak to find all the records of the method .
' Now I need some time before I get the forbidden library . ' he was about to leave when the son of the innkeeper came to him " Wait mister mage can you teach me magic . " ' Another kid that wants to learn . '
" Here read , understand and perform " he handed the kid a book and also inspected his magic nature . The innkeeper came in after hearing her son asking for learning " Andri what are you doing ? " " Mom you said that ice mages are rare so I came to ask him to teach me . "
" That doesn't mean you can learn to do magic it's something people have to inherit . " she faced Seak and bowed down " Sorry for his manners " " It's okay , in the first place magic is learned not inherited or taught . But the mana problem will be a great obstacle for him if he wants to use magic . "
Andri stared at Seak with gleaming eyes " Really " " Yes and because mana nature is something that remains inactive unless activated by mana you can activate it by feeling mana the best way is to feel the coldness of the air or water because your magic nature is ice-type . "
" Then can I learn to make ice ? " " Andri " Seak laughed at Andri's lack of knowledge " No , but you can freeze water into ice and blow cold air . " Seak had to lower his language settings to talk to children " Then teach me " " I told you to read , understand and perform . Magic is learned not taught or inherited . "
" Mister mage you don't have to . " the innkeeper was making a pleading and saddening expression ' Of course if her son was found to have good magic talent he would have to serve the kingdom in case of a war . ' " Don't worry innkeeper your son won't go to war because his talent is low he could only create ice for drinks and preservation of food but not fighting . "
The innkeeper's expression grew calmer adding to it Seak proceeded with another statement " If mages found him they wouldn't force him to inherit their magic because ice mages are rare . If another kind of magic nature enters the boy's body it will fight against the current nature if they don't relate . And the laws don't allow a forced inheritance . "
Seak cough a bit leaving the mother assured " So let him keep the book it has nothing special other than words . " he received some money for the ice and book then walked back to his room .
' Hopefully , this ideology would spread . Planted a few seeds but not all can grow without the sowed seeds . ' he got the tome of seals and inspected it ' Quite old and deteriorated but I'll fix it . '
The tome of seals has deteriorated from the passage of time . The dust gathered , making the writings faded and restoration was not possible . " This better have a spell to renew the seals ? " he turned the pages with boredom finding that no matter which page he couldn't find any trace of writings to read or residual laws to comprehend .
Sigh , he laid his hands down on the bed holding the tome at one hand ' This sucks , the tome is useless right now . ' he sat in a lotus position and took out papers and eyedropper from his space pouch .
" First I need to make sure I can see what I am doing . " he put his mouth above the eyedropper and silently chanted some words and the eyedropper was filled with water and dust as he chanted . He stopped and drop the liquids onto his eyes giving them color and quickly started the spell .
Seak laid down the papers and threw a concealment barrier . " With this , no one would notice my work . " stretching and conditioning his body and joints .
The stacked spells separated from the paper and each other . The spells radiated a bright light and as it glowed an illusion of pillars surrounding Seak and a platform rose under him .
Seak's hair was paling signifying the magic output increasing . He quickly used his cognition magic and found the time when the book is in a perfect state . Seizing that moment he created a stimulation of the book and sent it back into his space pouch .
The formation dispelled but the concealment barrier stayed . Seak dropped down taking a deep breath and his hair turned black again and his eyes got their pale gray colors back " A success despite the lack of materials . " he peaked at his space pouch and found the tome inside .
Flipping it around it seemed to be the perfect copy of its perfect state ' It has no mana but the existence of the laws imbued inside the runes in a stimulated state means I just need to add mana to it I'll let the magic crystals soak the tome . '
He also reviewed his looks and turned himself back to his disguise " Now all I need is for a time to find the time to infiltrate the castle . "
The plans have been laid out the kingdom is going to attack the magic kingdom that sealed countless powerful magus , shamans , enchanters , magical creatures under their land .
Now he has to wait and comprehend the tome to make a quick end . And finally , the crown prince's body in his pouch would end the war stopping the war anytime he wants .
[ Cognition magic ] - can be used to detect surroundings , acquire memories or experiences of the target through the history of the objects .
[ miscellaneous magics ] - [ Illusion , space , alchemic ]
{ space pouch } - stores items into a larger space enchanted with a seal to prevent mana from leaking , time flows the same speed outside .
{ enchanted necklace } - enchanted with { concealment }
{ miscellaneous items } - { golem core , magic crystals , eyedropper }
{ tome of seals } - the book that contains the method of sealing and unsealing the seals of the forbidden library
{ Anti-magic seals } - A seal that contaminates magic with lower-class mana .
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