Chapter 318 - Episode Eighteen - Attack of Penrath (9)(Side: Penrath)
Penrath Bonge was the most outstanding sage in the Riveras Kingdom.
He had a deep understanding of spirits, could control some of the ancient magic formulas, and was even able to recreate magic that had been lost in distant times.
When it comes to his knowledge of magic and the amount of magic power he possesses, he is at the top of the list of sorcerers in the Riveras Kingdom.
His achievements were supported by his overwhelming desire for knowledge.
Even though Penrath grew up in the Riveras Kingdom, where religious wars were constant, he did not recognize the divinity of his own god, Levi, nor did he recognize spirits as anything more than laws that caused magical phenomena.
He was a rare type of sorcerer in the Riveras Kingdom, where the word “Levi” has a great deal of meaning, let alone in other countries.
While the civil war was raging in Riveras Kingdom, Penrath was the only one who had taken his pupils with him to his research facility, where he continued his research without a care in the world.
Even when he was attacked by another sect, who called him a demon for his excessive research, he returned the favor tenfold with his own magic and the synthetic magical beasts he created.
As a matter of fact, there are many sects that have been driven into decline simply because of Penrath’s revenge.
However, even Penrath, an excellent sorcerer, got stuck in his research.
Beyond the analysis of magical phenomena, the analysis of the results of that analysis awaits.
As his understanding deepened and his horizons broadened, the unknowns, if anything, just kept growing and growing.
The image of the ideal sorcerer that Penrath had sought in his youth, the golden alchemist who could make everything come true for a price, was buried and drowned out in the vast array of magical formulas the deeper he dug into his knowledge.
Eventually, he realizes that the ideal image he had hoped for as a boy was never within his reach.
Even if he lived as long as the High Elves, he would never reach it.
The magic formulas that Penrath had spent his entire life trying to master, but which he was able to fully understand, were only the shallow end of a magic so profound.
The path I had taken was a waste of time.
By the time he realized this, Penrath was already wasting away in old age, his face was covered with ugly wrinkles, and his mind had lost its old luster.
His eyes were misty. The tips of his fingers trembled.
The theory of magic that I had spent my life developing would soon disappear in the fires of war in this country.
Even if it wasn’t, no one would be able to understand it or pass it on, and if it took several generations, it would have never existed in this world from the beginning.
“Was it pointless? My research, my whole life?”
In a room in his own research facility, Penrath asks himself…
“It was not pointless. I am amazed that you have explored so much magic in your short life. Penrath, you are on a par with the most famous sorcerers of the past in this country. I, Levi, God of Water, can vouch for your ability to deceive Kudor and survive for all time.”
There was a voice that interrupted Penrath’s monologue.
“I am old and foolish to allow a demon to interfere. How can you call yourself Levi of all people? This land of delusion, Riveras, is prone to demons like you. I’m used to dealing with guys like you. Don’t play cheap tricks. I’m not going to ask a lower demon to teach me anything now …… I don’t even believe Levi exists in the first place.”
“So you think I’m a low-rank demon, Interesting.”
Following what the self-proclaimed Levi’s voice said, a tilt of the magical earthquake in Penrath’s research facility happened.
(Magic interference ……!)
Penrath, alarmed, grabbed his wand and left his seat.
“Don’t be so afraid.”
In front of Penrath’s eyes, a magic formula was spelled out.
I don’t know what it is, and I don’t know what it’s intended to do, but it’s being spelled out slowly, and there’s no mechanism to protect it.
It was easy to drown them out and deactivate them.
However, it was too slow for a magic circle to be deployed for the activation of magic.
Sensing another intention, Penrath watched the magic formula being spelled out in the air.
A sphere of water floated above the completed magic circle.
“I was wondering what it was., just a euphemism for water magic ……?”
The magic circle that was making the sphere of water that floated up collapsed.
As the magic circle loses its effect, the water ball pops and disappears.
However, each of the collapsed magic circles transforms to form three completely different magic circles.
From each of the three magic circles, three spheres of water emerge, moving in a law-like manner.
The three spheres jumped around in an elliptical orbit.
“Thi, This is!?”
It was not difficult to perform the same magic from scratch.
However, transforming a magic circle and spelling out other magic circles based on it requires a broad knowledge and deep understanding of magic circles.
In other words, it was like a puzzle that required knowledge of magic as a weapon.
Three more magic circles were shattered, and the water spheres that had been created disappeared.
The magic formula was added to the incomplete magic circle, forming six magic circles.
The next water sphere that emerged mutated into a different color and spiraled around Penrath while glowing.
“No, no way ……! Each of them is simple magic, but …… they split up the magic circle and use different magic formulas …… You have to have a minimum understanding of the magic formula to be able to do something like this! It is said that the four great creator gods had complete control over the magic formula in the field of the four elements that they control ……”
For a change, Penrath’s eyes were filled with astonishment.
“Don’t, Don’t tell me that the God of Riveras Kingdom, Levi-sama, really appeared in front of me?”
Tears well up in Penrath’s eyes.
Penrath had realized that his lifelong research was pointless, and he had even considered committing suicide.
But now the god he had never believed in was speaking to his suffering self, and he was easily able to perform a part of Penrath’s ideal of the ultimate in magic.
“Penrath. Be one of the four great priests who will bring the order of me to the chaotic Riveras Kingdom.”
“Ah, yes! This, this Penrath …… will change my distrust and accept the great role!”
On this day, Penrath became the High Priest of the New Levi Faction and began to use the funds of the New Levi Faction to conduct magical research on a larger scale than before.
While focusing on the control and strengthening of large magical beasts as an important force for the new Levi faction, he even dabbled in the creation of spirits, which was considered forbidden.
With the help of Levi’s wise advice, he was able to conduct his research with unprecedented efficiency at his age.
I thought I had escaped the days of stagnation and confusion.
But in the end, what he had thought that he was drowning in was a pond, but it was actually the ocean.
Levi, who seemed to be omniscient, was beginning to realize that he could not freely control the smallest of magic formulas, even if it was only water magic.
The flow of the separation and transformation of the magic circle that he demonstrated to Penrath was not something that he spun on the spot, but something that he had developed over time.
At that time, Penrath had accepted the fact that there was no way he would be able to make any more changes.
He was not old enough to live another twenty years.
Even the divine Levi, when he looked at it again, was an extension of his own search for magic, not an absolute existence.
What Levi wanted was a convenient servant, and he only saw Penrath’s research as a tool to defeat Kudor, who would eventually revive, and protect his own kingdom.
In the end, his position would not change.
He would end up being used as Levi’s pawn.
Penrath realized this, but he pretended not to notice it and decided to keep on with his research.
He was a sorcerer who would eventually reach the truth.
Levi, the water god, is with me. I am in a much better position than other sorcerers.
I am the one who is closest to becoming a golden alchemist. One more step, and the haze would clear and he would be able to see the destination.
It was at this time that Levi ordered him to attack the fage territory and take down Abel.
“Because of the forced connection, Azhidhaka had become terribly unstable as a spirit. I used the magic wavelength to cause resonance and severed all the bonds in the spirit unit.”
Penrath’s last trump card, the evil spirit dragon Azhidhaka.
Artificial spirits are also a symbol of the alchemist’s taboo.
The man even had a bored expression on his face when he saw the artificial spirit, and he completely sealed it off with the ease of exterminating a pest.
There was no anger or sadness in Penrath, even though his last trump card had been kicked out for no reason.
From Penrath’s eyes, it was as if a halo was shining from Abel’s back.
Penrath, who had a deep understanding of magic, was well aware of Abel’s outrageousness.
At the same time, Penrath was beginning to think that Levi’s magic was only within the realm of what he could do.
In Penrath’s eyes, Abel was an existence that surpassed even God.