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“Huh!”
Thanks to coming to my senses in time, I avoided kissing the floor.
Was it five days ago that I last had a proper rest?
I guess I should log out and take a rest around here.
Dojin, who had been raising his head in thought, froze in place.
“What? I can’t come here right now… … ?”
Because the place he was standing was an area he could never enter.
Each of the storage items is protected by a separate dimensional severing technique, and all of them are clearly at least relic-grade or higher.
There’s no way a 1-star wizard can come to this floor.
Dojin walked around blankly.
Then I stopped in front of a familiar, old, ominous-looking book.
“It’s an ancient book of curses.”
‘Book of Ancient Curses’, an item that allows you to learn powerful ancient curse magic.
The reason Dojin was familiar with this book was simple.
Because I saw it once when I visited here in my previous life.
Of course, I didn’t touch this book even then.
‘Who was that that got f*cked over?’
Knowing that one of the rankers literally became disabled because all of his circuits were destroyed while using the curse magic they learned from the ancient curse, how could they do something so crazy as to touch that?
Of all the professions that deal with magic, wizards are the most neutral.
That is why wizards are the most versatile sorcerers.
However, the most neutral wizards were like blank sheets of paper, easily dyed with any color.
At first, it may not seem like much, but as you learn and use more magic, the circuits will change, and as a result, you will have areas of specialization and areas of vulnerability.
If this goes to extremes, you could become disabled because you learned the ancient curse magic incorrectly and your magic circuits were damaged, or you could become a semi-disabled person who can only use destruction magic due to a circuit distortion like Dojin in his previous life.
Of course, Dojin had already seen, heard, and experienced this, so he didn’t have to struggle in this area.
“Anyway, the fact that it’s there means that this place is above the 5th floor.”
Yes. The important thing is not the Book of Ancient Curses itself.
What’s important is that the 5th floor is where this ancient magic book is stored.
The 5th floor of Manri Library was a place where you had to have basic wizard skills and, in addition, solve all kinds of quests that were given to you to give you everything you needed to get to Eltomagia.
But now Dojin is standing here as a 1-star wizard.
What is the reason?
The worries were short.
“Is it because of this ring?”
A wooden ring given directly by Zion.
Perhaps this ring served as a master key.
‘… … .’
But to Dojin now, all this is useless.
It’s the same here, and it’s the same even higher up, so you can’t touch anything anyway.
Dojin, just in case, brought a wooden ring to the magic circle that sealed the sword, which seemed the safest.
‘… … .’
Just in case, I tried rubbing it hard.
“Hmm. I guess it won’t work.”
The result was, again, a failure.
It seemed that the wooden ring only removed restrictions on location.
Dojin licked his lips and looked at the incredibly valuable grimoires, magic materials, and weapons scattered around him.
It’s just a pie in the sky, but I can’t take my eyes off of it because I know that each of them is more expensive than a castle.
However, it was not something I could just waste time here.
“But since opportunities like this don’t come often… Should I try to climb as high as I can?”
What’s regrettable is regrettable.
It’s not often that you get the chance to get your hands on a master key like this.
The limit I could go to in my previous life was the 7th floor.
Even the highest floor that a user can see is only the 8th floor.
I didn’t want to waste the opportunity to see something that might have been even higher.
‘It might help you later if you look at what’s there in advance.’
Dojin, who had made up his mind, took a step forward.
The image that comes to mind when receiving guidance is a memory that I want to forget.
The place changes in an instant.
Treasures of inestimable value pass by amidst the quickly changing background.
The place where the steps stopped was a corner on the 7th floor of the Manri Library. It was a space with a desolate city as the background.
It was a place where the ‘spirit of destruction’ was stored, where the entire space at the time was cut out and stored because it was impossible to bring in just the items separately.
This was also the midpoint of the hidden quest that Dojin had challenged in his previous life by pouring in luck, money, and effort.
Dojin looked at the evil spirits sealed by dozens of dimensional barriers in the middle of the ruins.
It was a sight that made me feel dirty just looking at it.
It couldn’t be helped, because Dojin was finished as a wizard because he absorbed that guy and got his hands on a half-hidden piece.
Beyond feeling bad, it wouldn’t be strange to be suffering from PTSD.
‘I honestly thought I was going crazy back then.’
When he opened his eyes and checked the skill window, he saw that all magic skills except for pure attack magic had disappeared. Dojin felt as if his eyes were going dark.
It’s not a joke, but I felt like I should risk everything and dive into the Han River to find a reset button for my life.
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anyway.
That’s a hidden piece, but it’s defective and half-baked.
If I had only known the backstory of how the destruction maniac wizard who created the spirit of destruction died screaming from circuit distortion and backflow while trying to create perfect destruction magic, and was swallowed up by the magic he was creating, ending up like that, I would have run away with all my might as soon as I saw it, let alone thought of absorbing it.
No, I would have thrown away the hidden quest in the first place.
‘… I didn’t know that it was actually the starting point of the main quest, not a quest completion reward.’
I’m not some crazy piracy-crazy guy from X-Piece.
I was so dumbfounded when I saw the quest window with crazy things written on it like, ‘Hahaha, look for it if you can! I cut off your limbs and hid them somewhere in the world!’
In the end, Dojin was unable to find any way to solve the continuing quests, and his magic circuits were frozen in place, so he could only use attack magic, but his fuel efficiency was miserable, and he had to live as a magician who would collapse one by one after using a few spells because his magic circuits would overload.
But not anymore.
“We were so f*cked up together, let’s never see each other again. If we’re going to do it, it’d be better if we went to one of the guys I hate.”
Dojin showed his stop to the nightmare from the past.
And I walked away without any hesitation.
Up higher. As high as possible.
Eltomagia, no… the secrets hidden by Sion Grace, one of the greatest wizards in the history of Rostania.
Manri Seogo, who had read Dojin’s mind, began to guide him.
However, from the 8th floor onwards, the sealing was so strong that it was impossible to tell what the sealed object was because of the colorful energies that filled the dimensional barrier.
However, it is not possible to blame the seal itself.
Without it, I would be caught up in the violent torrent of mana those things spew, and I would literally be turned to dust and driven out of this place.
“Then there’s no point in going up any further anyway?”
Dojin thought about it for a moment.
I was thinking of going back down and reading some books that a 1-star wizard could handle until I ran out of food.
But it felt a bit regretful to go back like this.
But I thought that since it was an opportunity, I should skip the middle part and just get to the last point.
“Okay, I’ll just take a quick look and then go down and read.”
Dojin, who had made up his mind, walked again.
The image I had this time was very simple.
The end of this space.
The last place from which there is nowhere else to go.
This time too, Manri Seogo kindly guided Dojin, who was holding his master’s ring.
The place we arrived at like that.
“… This is.”
It was a place that looked like a large room in some ancient ruins.
The walls on all sides were engraved with geometric patterns, but there was nothing else.
Do you have anything stored?
Dojin, feeling curious, turned his head here and there.
But no matter how much I looked around, nothing caught my eye in the heterogeneous space.
‘Is there a door or something leading to another room?’
It was the moment when I took a step forward, thinking, ‘Should I at least feel for the wall?’
Wheeing-
Hundreds and thousands of magic circles appeared in the middle of the room.
No, can you call that a magic circle?
Something so intricately entangled and moving around like crazy?
Before I could even gather my thoughts, a pitch-black cube appeared in the center of the magic circle, like an abyss.
Then a mechanical voice was heard.
【New intelligent life detected.】
【Initiate identification and exploration of detected objects.】
【Search results for ‘fate’. No information on the object.】
【Recognized as a new Book of Truth accessible entity.】
The black cube draws its own conclusions.
and.
Pakang.
The magic circles surrounding the black cube began to break and expand one by one.
Light particles scatter like a welcome light and geometric patterns fill the room.
And a torrent of explosive power engulfed Dojin.
* * *
In fact, the Ten Thousand Li Library was a result of magic created to seal a dungeon.
An unidentified dungeon that began encroaching on the surrounding space and infinitely expanding its territory from the moment it was discovered.
Zion took advantage of the dungeon’s ability to infinitely expand space by sealing it and using the resulting space to create the Ten Thousand Li Library.
However, the true identity of the dungeon was never discovered.
Is it a legacy of an ancient civilization or something that flowed in from another world?
Even what secrets are held at the center of the absolute seal that does not even allow access to certain areas?
But the secret was revealed in vain.
‘… … .’
Standing in the center of a dungeon he had never entered before, Zion recalled the sights he had seen indirectly.
“Why… … .”
Why was the seal broken?
No, that wasn’t unsealed either.
Even at the moment that Regenian set foot here, the seal still protected this place perfectly.
‘It felt like only that Regenian wasn’t blocked.’
That means that the Regenian has met the conditions to pass through the seal that was protecting this place.
What is that?
‘It’s highly likely that this isn’t an exceptional condition that applies only to a single entity. It’s probably a more comprehensive condition.’
If we investigate that regenian now, wouldn’t we get some answers?
He was swept away by the mana storm that erupted here and turned to dust, but as a Regenian, he will come back to life in a few days.
If you want to investigate, there is nothing you cannot do… … .
A moment when the eyes of the great wizard, who was expanding his thoughts, became filled with excessive curiosity.
Saaaa-
A golden ripple appeared before her eyes.
AKA the light of the world rate.
It was a light that appeared and adjusted when the plausibility of the LOST worldview was seriously damaged for any reason.
A light that NPCs could neither see nor perceive enveloped Zion Grace.
And her memories begin to change.
First of all, the process of creating the Ten Thousand Li Library was revised.
It was not created to seal the mysterious dungeon, but rather to prevent the aftermath of its destruction.
The memory of Regenian reaching the innermost part of the Manri Library was also erased.
Instead, memories are carved fresh as I sip wine that doesn’t suit my taste while reminiscing about my colleagues.
In this way, the world completely erased the link between Dojin and the ancient relics.
