It is possible to move to the top floor of the Wizard’s Tower.
Once that was confirmed, there was no reason to hesitate.
[Moving to Wizard’s Tower Floor 150 – ‘Tower Lord Abelar Pavlenko’s Room’.]
I moved straight to Abelar’s room.
When I opened my eyes as the bright light faded, this is what I saw.
“Th-this is the Tower Lord’s room…”
A vast white space, exactly as it appeared in my memories.
“Hmm… it’s not as much as I thought, is it?”
‘Did he expect some grand secret?’ I wondered, noting the deep sense of disappointment in Furnel’s voice.
“Oh my… this is a book that was designated as forbidden hundreds of years ago… no, wait, considering the current time, it was banned over one thousand years ago…”
Despite his disappointment, he seemed busy enough, scurrying around to scan the magic tomes displayed on the wall.
“Watching forbidden books is certainly interesting, but is this it? If this were the case, why did they block anyone from entering the Tower Lord’s floor? Such a shame, it’s truly a shame…!”
“Ghost, be quiet. You’re bothering Hio.”
“My goodness! You say that because you don’t know how many rumors surrounded this place among the wizards…”
Leaving the boisterous Furnel alone, Hio walked toward the desk placed in the center.
In the Divine Space of Beltesia, Abelar had come here in his final moments.
After meeting Len Hank and failing to persuade him, just before he encountered Kreutzvalt, he had written something down here alone.
‘What could it have been?’
‘Did the traces still remain?’
With such thoughts, I arrived at the central desk.
And there, a single note lay upon it.
[The name of the God of Patience is ‘Kisses’. The name of the God of Magic is ‘Drisella’.]
A faint smile curled at the corner of Hio’s lips as he lifted it to his eyes.
Isn’t the information most helpful to Hio right now written down right here?
Among the countless gods, aren’t exactly those two names written precisely?
“This… perhaps…”
That is why he is certain.
[Please, do arrive.]
As he put the note down, he wore a smile mixed with hope.
[Pavlenko.]
For it was not only Kreutzvalt who had seen the future.
– So, you have become the God of Patience and Magic.
The three of us sat in a circle, putting our heads together to talk.
– “And Kreutzvalt has become the Master of the Abyss.”
When Furnel spoke, Hio nodded.
Then, Airlights nodded along as well.
– “Are you saying you are preparing to go catch Kreutzvalt now?”
“That’s right. You understood surprisingly well.”
-“Dang it!”
At Hio’s praise, Furnel shouted and flew off into the distance.
‘Is he telling me to believe that now?’
Then, he quickly flew back and spilled out words rapidly.
-“A god? Patience, I suppose I can understand, but the God of Magic? Blast it, human. I may look like this, but I am a terrifying ghost who has lived for over 1,000 years. Do you expect me to believe that?”
“Didn’t you spend most of those 1,000 years having lost your mind?”
-“Begone! Is that the point! When I last saw you, your level was 5th Circle. Of course, the 7th Circle level you have achieved now is indeed impressive. Even Abelar, who was called a genius without precedent in my era, could not grow like you.”
“I feel embarrassed when you praise me so much.”
At Hio, who was scratching his head, Furnel’s body inflated like a balloon.
-“Of course I would praise you! If only you didn’t talk about being the God of Magic and such! Heavens, if you had even reached the 8th Circle, I wouldn’t be saying this. But the 7th Circle? It is certainly impressive, but it is merely the 7th Circle. And you claim to be the God of Magic with a 7th Circle of empty shells?”
“I know. But, it’s not like I became this because I wanted to.”
Hio himself doesn’t know why it turned out this way.
It is not the 8th Circle, nor the 9th Circle—the existence of which is unknown—but the 7th Circle.
And it is a wizard of the 7th Circle, an empty shell without a single Circle Inscription, claiming to be the God of Magic.
‘Who would believe that?’
It’s just that the Divine Status left behind by Liphyue defined Hio as such, and that is what he became.
-“I am so dumbfounded… If you are a god, then is that woman, what, a goddess now?”
“Oh, I was just about to tell you… Yes, she is.”
– …
-“Huh.”
Furnel’s mouth finally hung wide open.
It wasn’t that he couldn’t understand.
Although Hio joked around with Furnel a lot, he wouldn’t make a joke like this, so it meant it was the truth.
Giving way a hundred times, he could at least understand that Hio had obtained Divine Status.
Because he knew that Hio had met Liphyue and received power from a goddess.
He didn’t understand how that identity was the God of Magic, but he could at least force himself to understand it.
“But that wasn’t the case for Airlights, was it?”
From Furnel’s perspective, the Airlights he met first was merely a stalker, a villain, and after dying, a pitiful human.
***
After being revived by necromancy, she was just a human who appropriately stabilized Hio’s wavering mind.
In the current era, she possessed quite powerful strength through the abilities of her skills, but that was exactly where it ended.
A human with clear growth limits.
‘Yet, a goddess?’
It was natural that it was hard to believe.
Of course, he couldn’t wait for the shocked Furnel forever.
“We are in a situation where we don’t know when Kreutzvalt might do something. That is why we must go to the Abyss as soon as possible, and why we must scrape together as much power as we can before then.”
-“If you have obtained Divine Status… are you saying even the power of a god is not enough?”
“It is not enough.”
I can assert this because I have faced him directly.
Divine Status is a powerful force, but it cannot be used often.
Unless I stay in Beltesia’s Divine Space for a long time to further strengthen my soul and body, it would be different.
As of now, Hio cannot use the Divine Status itself as easily as magic.
“Kreutzvalt, who has taken over the Abyss, is a being whose very birth was bizarre.”
The Abyss, which was born even before the gods.
The shadow, created before the light.
A being who has prepared extremely methodically for more than 1,000 years.
It is clear that the strength of Hio and Airlights, who have just been born, will be overwhelmed.
“For now, we must gather more Divine Status.”
Thanks to the note Abelar left behind, things related to Divine Status have become much easier.
I don’t have to gamble, and I just have to gather the Divinity Points that are accumulating rapidly.
-“Divine Status, huh… I don’t understand that. I don’t know much about divinity, but I think I have heard of the God of Patience somewhere. But the God of Magic, ‘Drisella’? Weren’t wizards beings who opposed the gods from the beginning? Weren’t they beings who challenged the most ultimate magic by twisting the laws? I can’t believe a god existed for such wizards.”
Furnel now has a hollow expression, as if he no longer has the strength to be surprised.
It was the expression of a person whose common sense, which he had believed in his entire life, had been shattered.
“I didn’t know that either… so I am planning to purchase the power of Drisella, the former God of Magic, as soon as my points accumulate.”
– …When you use that, make sure to do it in front of me. I am curious.
“I will.”
Strictly speaking, the unique power Hio possesses is skewed toward Patience.
The power to store an abstract thing like flashiness and burst it all at once.
Therefore, the conversation about Divine Status was settled with the decision to prioritize purchasing the Magic God’s power as soon as Divinity Points were gathered.
If so, now only one thing remains.
“I have to learn more magic.”
I must learn half-baked 6th Circle and 7th Circle magic.
Even though I have become a god and learned Divine Status, the powers I will use as my main force will eventually be magic and skills.
Divine Status will be used one by one at decisive moments, and magic and skills will create the path to those decisive opportunities.
As I said that and looked at Furnel.
– “I knew it.”
Furnel, as if he hadn’t been soul-less a moment ago, began to perk up and move.
-“Follow me to the 115th floor.”
As he said, I rode the portal to move, and I could see over a dozen books lined up straight in front of me.
-“These are all 6th Circle magic books. I prepared them in advance, knowing that one day you would break through the wall of the 6th Circle and return.”
It was a scene that allowed me to glimpse his careful consideration.
Even though we had parted ways suddenly, he had prepared these things, believing that Hio would return and that he would reach the 6th Circle.
-“I didn’t imagine you had already inscribed quite a lot of the 6th Circle’s pattern… then you won’t be able to use four or five of these.”
At the World’s End, Kreutzvalt had told me to doubt Furnel.
I didn’t believe those words entirely, but that didn’t mean I didn’t doubt Furnel completely either.
As Kreutzvalt said, there were quite a few strange aspects about Furnel.
Judging by their conversations, his level when he was alive seemed to be around the 5th Circle, but he never properly revealed his own level, and the suspicion was that it was strange that he was only a vice-branch manager with that level of ability, not a branch manager.
But now, I felt like I understood somewhat.
-“And I truly never imagined that you would have created seven rings. So I couldn’t prepare 7th Circle magic books and reference materials. I am sorry.”
From the beginning, Furnel’s level was not that high.
His words that he was a vice-branch manager were not a lie.
-“While you are mastering these, I will visit the newly opened floors and look around. The private research laboratories of renowned wizards have opened, so it will be of great help.”
Furnel had just tried his best.
To be of help to Hio.
He had lived alone in the Wizard’s Tower without ever leaving, researching and studying, and he had taught the knowledge he obtained that way to Hio.
Yes.
That was why he knew a lot and had a lot of useless knowledge.
-“For now, master these first. I will look around, and if there is anything helpful, I will come back to tell you.”
Without even listening for an answer, Furnel disappeared, wiggling his translucent white body.
The emotion he emitted was clear joy and relief.
The joy of being able to be of help.
The joy of having met Hio again.
The feeling of relief that he no longer had to live alone in this vast Wizard’s Tower where no one came.
“I am receiving things that are too much for me…”
‘Shouldn’t I move forward even harder to repay him?’
To do that, I must master everything laid out neatly at my feet.
A dozen magic books prepared according to Hio’s ability characteristics and magical tendencies.
[Book of Silent Death]
[Frost’s Memorandum]
[Book of Divine Punishment]
[Book of Nature’s Apostle]
[Book of Time]
[Mantra of Flame]
[Book of the Heavens]
[Book of Earth’s Seal]
Starting from the titles of the magic books, I started to feel the reality that I have entered the realm of high-level mages.
A mage is a person whose magic system and path as a mage are firm enough to create an entire school on their own.
Therefore, even in a simple magic book, their spirit or habits toward magic should be permeated within.
However, learning them would not be difficult.
Hio is already one who has awakened his own Ideation as a wizard.
‘Since he handles Ideation, a higher concept, wouldn’t he be able to learn lower-level magic quickly?’
With such thoughts, I picked up the first magic book.
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