Vol 1 Chapter 3 (1/2)
The Leonard house where Kail lives in located in the outskirts of the town of Rimaze.
A few stories high with a wide garden, in the neighborhood it’s known as something like a mansion.
I was tempted to go into the town to see the state of affairs but I headed towards my destination, a detached dwelling in the corner of the garden.
A st.u.r.dy one-story stone house with only one window and a low height.
Immediately after opening the door there was a steep staircase going downward.
After going down one level there was an opened st.u.r.dy door with an unique nostalgic smell.
In the room stood a bookshelf where books were tightly packed and crammed in.
Without any windows in the room, there was a magic tool with the property of [Light] hung onto the wall illuminating the room. .
By the way, in order not to damage the books this building has a special magic infused product which is able to adjust the temperature, humidity and the brightness.
The archive of books in this semi-underground place was made in order to eliminate all great enemies of books like humidity, sunlight, temperature, etc.
Taking everything into account this cost an unimaginable amount of magic and gold.
Many different books were aligned widely, from picture books for children to books about ancient magic banned by the kingdom.
And on the table in the center of the room was a giant pile of books.
There as if buried by the mountain of books was a woman who was reading.
After noticing Kail, the woman raised her head and smiled sweetly.
“Oh, Kail-chan. It’s unusual for you to come here. Certainly at this time.”
Is what she said to me.
I knew she would be here but actually meeting her made my chest tighten up.
While hiding his feelings Kail spoke up.
“It’s already morning. Did you stay up to read books all night again, Mother?”
“Oh? it’s already morning?….. As I thought I can’t tell what time it is when staying here.”
Kail’s mother Seraia responded while yawning.
She should have pa.s.sed thirty a long time ago, but she has short trimmed hair with a baby face and is also pet.i.te so she looks much younger than her actual age.
If Kail stood next to her instead of being parent and child they’d look more like siblings at best.
Lise absolutely insisted that the texture of her smooth skin was because of some magic drug or dubious ritual.
“I have a quick question actually.”
Because of Kail’s words Seraia looked at her son’s face with interest.
“It just keeps getting more unusual, that you’d have something to ask me…. Ah, if it’s about my encounter with your dad than I can tell you all you want. That was twenty years ago….”
“That’s for another time.”
Kail stops his mother who tried to tell a dangerous story,
The story about her meeting with his father. Once she begins she’ll continue hours, this caused a trauma for the once small Kail.
“I want to know something about magic.”
“About magic? Well if I actually know about.”
“Finding someone more knowledgeable than mother would be quite hard….”
Magic is divided into three large systems of magic.
Sacred magic to perform miracles with the help of the G.o.ds.
Elemental magic that uses spirits to control earth, water, wind and fire.
And ancient magic that uses ancient language for control, with the help of academic development in the time of the ancient magic kingdoms.
Among these, humans use the sacred magic and ancient magic, Seraia is an user of ancient magic.
Ancient magic is divided into five cla.s.ses, lowest cla.s.s magic, low cla.s.s magic, mid cla.s.s magic, high cla.s.s magic and highest cla.s.s magic, if you can roughly understand ancient magic then you’re at the lowest level.
Also if you can use a higher level of magic you’ll receive a t.i.tle.
Those who use lowest cla.s.s magic are a ‘Magician’, low cla.s.s magic users are a ‘Sorcerer’, mid cla.s.s magic users are a ‘Wizard’, high cla.s.s magic users are a ‘Mage’ and highest cla.s.s magic users are an ‘Archmage’.
Those who hold the t.i.tle of Archmage in the human race are countable and here is one of them.
The famous Seurat St. kingdoms capital Glorious has the princess Sakira.
And Selaia is one of the few famous Archmage´s of the capital.
Not knowing whether it’s a lie or the truth, but I heard she was nominated to be the youngest court magician in the Garugan empire.
Kail’s grandfather who pa.s.sed away before he was born had a considerable amount of wealth, using the inheritance she was living comfortably while gathering books.
Why they chose to live in such a frontier instead of living in retirement in the city, Kail doesn’t know anything nor has heard anything about it.
However there’s no one more fit to ask about magic than her.
“Well… Is there a magic that sends you go back into the past?”
“There is.”
Selaia said it frankly as if it was nothing.
“Ah, there is?!”
“Yeah, there isn’t much known about it, but there certainly is a magic that interferes with time.”
“But I never heard of anything like it. Such a handy, no, cheat like magic.”
“If you think about it it’s obvious. Just because it exists doesn’t mean everyone can use it.
Explaining the finer details, it’s something that’d take years of time, also the magic theory behind it has already been found. The reason it hasn’t been used would be the amount of magic power.”
Magic power is the is like an energy source for magic, magic users always have magic power.
If someone has a large amount of magic power even the lowest cla.s.s magic becomes an attack with powerful force.
“If you gave time magic a rank it’d be ten times more than highest cla.s.s magic. A human or even a dragon or a G.o.d wouldn’t be able to use it. Simply put imagine that the flow of time is a giant flowing river and humans are ants, do you think the ants could change the flow of the river?”
“That’s…… impossible.”
“Even if we summoned the greatest magicians of this world and they would use all their magic power it would still be impossible to change the flow of history.”
That’s why only a few people know about it, so says Seraia.
“I see… What if someone wanted to go back a few years into the past?”
“Years? Something like that would need an tremendous amount of magic power. Gathering so much magic power in one place…. that would be impossible.”
Well I wouldn’t have to think about that, I denied the thought in my head.
“And if you had a Magic item?”
To Kail’s words she raised her voice with an ‘Ah’ sound.
“I see, that’s interesting, if it’s a magic item then the magic power can be gathered. Since there isn’t a need to gather it all at once…. Since it’s a matter of time collecting something like magic would be better if there weren’t any time restraints.”
Seraia shakes her head in denial after thinking about it a little.
“Well I thought a little about it, but there are many problems concerning it. First would be the gathering of magic power. Even if there was the time you’d need to be able to get it ready, even if an Archmage spent a thousand years it still wouldn’t be possible.”
“Then…. what if the forbidden ritual was used?”
After hearing about the forbidden ritual Seraia frowned.
“Certainly using that ‘outside the rules’ method you’d be able to collect a large amount of magic power…. How do you know about it?”
The forbidden ritual is a sacrificial ritual where the life of someone gets converted into magic power, this way you’d be able to attain an enormous amount of magic power.