Chapter 696 - Rudolf’s Stratagem 1 (2/2)
However, they soon regained their calm and greeted him.
“Your Majesty, you came here.”
The assistant Meister and Count Rolex of the Imperial Magic Tower, who was responsible for restoring the ruins of Time, ran over to greet Rudolf.
To him, Rudolf spoke arrogantly.
“Do you have any results?”
“We do.”
Rudolf’s eyes went wide at the answer from Count Rolex.
He thought that their answer would be the same, ‘I need more time and money’ with their gloomy expressions.
“I don’t really like those who joke around. So be honest.”
Said Rudolf with sternness in his voice.
Even then, Count Rolex replied with a calm face.
“I will tell you this honestly, Your Majesty. The destruction of the ruins and the battles which happened here was a blessing in disguise.”
It was real. It really looked like they managed to get something.
Rudolf who was interested hurriedly grabbed Rolex’s shoulders and asked.
“Tell me, how did that become a blessing in disguise? What were the achievements you made?”
“Well, that is what I am going to tell you, so please let me go…”
When Count Rolex seemed to try and release him from Rudolf’s grasp, Rudolf let go of him.
Wiping off the sweat from his head, he guided the Emperor to a dome structure.
Inside the dome, the original ruins were almost restored.
“To be honest, when this was destroyed, we thought we lost everything. I didn’t know what to do and how to restore it back.”
However, in the process of recovering the ruins, it was said that a large bronze chest was found at the lower level of the ruins.
The chest was sealed with layers of ancient magic, and contained research materials and drawing related to the ruins.
“Oh oh! There were such things?!”
“Yes, Your majesty. Perhaps they were left behind in case a problem occurred with the ruins.”
The data was instrumental in advancing the research. Even with the Aether which Rolex found was very hard to tackle.
“I am sure that Meister reported it before. To run his ruins we need Aether.”
“Yes, the power which existed when the world was created? However, I know that it isn’t a power we can gather at this time.”
“Yes, that was what we know…”
Count Rolex smiled and presented a research note to the Emperor.
The research note was filled with magic circles and formulas which Rudolf couldn’t understand.
“What is this?”
“When the ruins were destroyed, the invaders who took Count Ferrero or the traitor Ferrero, made a tunnel of light outside the capital and escaped. The runnel of light was similar to a teleport gate, but entirely different.”
“It doesn’t only connect to the present, but also the past and the future?”
“Yes, right. The ancient wizards called it Warp.”
During that time, there were two warp gates right outside the capital.
One, used by the intruders who took Ferrero, and the other was an old Southern continent man with a child in his arms.
Count Rolex even tried to fight the man.
“I did a thorough investigation into the Fist Master right away. As a result, we found out from our merchants, priests, and warriors of the Southern continent in our Empire—that it was a martial arts user who was a Fist Master. That Fist Master used similar skill as the Trinity martial arts, which is passed down to those in the Hwang Bo clan, in the Song Empire.”
“Then, that old man is from the Song Empire?”
“No, it isn’t that simple. It was because no one in the family has even completely mastered the Trinity Martial arts.”
It was said that the only warrior, who died 300 years back, did it, and only recently—a man who appeared during the civil war of the Song Empire was able to do it.
Shockingly, he ended up becoming the limb of Luke de Rakan, the Symphonia King.
“He is very young. He was different from the old man I saw.”
“If so… that man must have come from the past or the future.”
“With that thought, we investigated into the mana waves which were open during the warp.”
As a result of it, they found out that the waves were quite different.
Probably, without the research data left behind by the ancient wizards, the waves would have been hard for Rolex to assess.
“Thanks to the research, we found out that the mana got converted into Aether to open the warp gate. That was why the waves seemed different.”
“Oh, mana got converted into Aether…?”
Rudolf was expecting something.
Count Rolex gave an answer without failing his expectations.
“Aether was already being lost under the ancient times, so the wizards of that time were working on it to solve that problem. Based on that research in the bronze chest, we were able to create Aether by combining advanced magic engineering.”
The complex magic circles and the formulas in the notebook were what needed to be gone into the device to make aether.
Rudolf, who understood what was being said, asked with anticipation.
“Then can the artificial Aether be made?”
“Yes, there is a very difficult and tricky way to react to the large amount of magic stones in a specific manner, but…”
“Hahah! Is that possible?! Ugh! Hahahah!”
The Emperor’s laughter resounded in the dome.
He was so thrilled that Rudolf couldn’t hold back his calmness anymore.
“It is possible, right? Making Aether and using the ruins and turning back the time to past…?!”
Everything can be turned back.
The Empire was torn down, and his family was dead in the hands of a monster that would never die.
‘The God’s and the Devil too have abandoned me. But I will transcend all that and achieve what I want!’
A mad smile came on Rudolf’s lips, and a spark of hope rose in his eyes.