Limit Breaking Genius Mage Chapter 513

Episode 513: The Conversation Chapter (2)

The head Dahit brought had a distorted expression, as if it had suffered terrible pain just before death, but there were no signs of external damage.

But that face wasn't unfamiliar.

Within the calm walls of Verden, memories of the past flashed quickly through my mind.

'… …Horace?'

A third-tier high-ranking wizard from the Bohemian Tower.

A member of an ordinary magic tower who did not participate in the unofficial experiment led by Baloch──that is, one without a forced magic circle or call sign engraved on it.

However, he was one of the malicious characters who belonged to a group that mocked and ignored Verden as soon as he was noticed.

'I heard that Baloch started a war with Dahit after discovering that there was a spy from Black Hour within the Tower.'

Was that spy Horace?

It appears that he took advantage of the chaos to escape the pursuit of Black Hour and Bohemian Tower, miraculously escaping, but was eventually caught and executed.

Verden raised his gaze without showing any emotion.

“What are you going to do with a severed head all of a sudden? You have bad taste.”

“…….”

Dahit furrowed his eyebrows.

However, no matter how much you increase your power, it is not easy to discern the mind of a transcendent being.

Moreover, Dahit's insight is specialized in external intuition.

“Well, I guess it doesn’t matter.”

Hururuk.

Pitch-black flames engulfed the neckless corpse as it burned.

In the blink of an eye, Horace's remains were erased from the world, leaving behind not even a speck of ashes.

“You’re the one who destroyed the power source of the Bohemian Tower anyway. Isn’t that right?”

“…….”

This time, Verden was silent.

I wondered what clues Dahit Westroel had used to arrive at that conclusion.

'Is this the Diamun Tower?'

I haven't had a chance to check it out myself, but I heard that the power sources installed on each of the 10 magic towers are identical.

Dahit, who had previously confirmed the power source at the Diamun Tower, likely compared it with Verden's magical power and found similarities.

The sense of transcendence can soon become a strong basis.

At that moment, Dahit said.

“Let me make a suggestion.”

“I'm listening.”

“Don’t you think it’s pointless to just sit here and hide your true feelings from each other? You’re just wasting precious time. So let’s proceed efficiently as a transcendent being. You must also want to find out something from me.”

The negotiation style that Dahit spoke of was as follows.

First, the questioner who takes the initiative in the conversation asks a number of questions, and the respondent answers them, but has the right to refuse.

Afterwards, when the roles are reversed, the new questioner can demand answers from the new answerer, depending on the number of questions and vetoes.

For example, if the questioner asked four questions and the respondent rejected two and answered two───this meant that a new questioner could ask up to four questions, and a new respondent could reject only two of them.

Of course, it is impossible to mix lies into the answer.

The same goes for completely ruining the meeting during the meeting.

However, the only thing that limited each other was their reputation as transcendent beings.

'It's in order.'

Dahit Westroel is a being who pursues extreme efficiency, but is not one to take actions that would lower his own status.

I won't break a promise I made.

So, is it better to ask the question first or to answer first?

The worries were short.

Squeak.

Verden sat opposite Dahit.

“Don’t give up your turn.”

Instead of letting Dahit decide the number of questions to ask, he intended to use his veto power as little as possible to secure answers that could be heard with certainty.

The rules are set.

The conversation resumed.

The two magical transcendent beings who had been waging a fierce magical battle deep in the Great Hall concentrated their consciousness in a quiet atmosphere as if nothing had happened.

For now, we have put aside various issues including the Black Hour and prioritized magical questions.

“Then let me ask again. In the Great Hall, we confirmed that your magical power is very similar to the power source of the Magic Tower. Are you really the cause of the power source going out of control?”

Are you really looking for a clear answer?

There is no element to reject.

“As expected.”

Anyway, Dahit doesn't even know who Verden is.

"so?"

“So that’s why? Seeing you acting so shameless makes me want to kill you right now.”

Despite the daunting threats, Verden paid no attention.

To be honest, there is nothing wrong with it.

It was entirely Dahit's fault that he infiltrated the Bohemian Tower with a spy from Black Hour and was misunderstood, leading to this situation.

"hmm."

But, despite having found the real culprit that started the war… … Contrary to his words, Dahit did not seem particularly angry.

“How on earth did you do that?”

“Isn’t the scope of the question too broad?”

“You were very well planned. You did this on the day of the four-yearly magic festival, after the Bohemirn Tower’s seniors, including Balok and the elders, had gone out. Judging from the circumstances, you must be someone who can understand the internal affairs of the Bohemirn Tower in detail. Although I couldn’t find any clues from Horace.”

Dahit tried to recall all the memories of the spy he had stolen from Horace's head over and over again, but the results were almost nonexistent.

The third and fourth disciples of Baloch.

The wizard of the magic tower.

Worker of the Tower.

Even though he was a researcher at the Magic Tower despite being a 1st-tier researcher, he was caught stealing a paper on the theory of multiple continuities, and he was just a talentless piece of trash.

Of all the people Horace encountered, there was not a single one worth noting.

“But even if he was related, it wouldn’t have been very meaningful considering that Baloch and that bastard didn’t suspect him of being the culprit behind the power source incident…. So he succeeded in interfering with the power source’s magical power? Something that even I, a transcendent being, couldn’t do?”

“Is the question asking for a definite answer to that success?”

“What I’m asking is how.”

Dahit stroked his short beard.

“No matter what the case may be, it is impossible to arbitrarily manipulate the infinite magical power of the external power source. There is absolutely no way to conquer that perfection. The only solution is to become assimilated into that perfection…….”

Their eyes crossed.

“Did you just put the power source connector into your heart?”

“I almost died.”

“I was hesitant in the Great Hall, but now I’m sure. You are definitely a more insane person than Ignacia.”

Dahit shook his head at Verden's answer to the second question.

“That’s why I don’t understand it anymore. It would have been normal for the body to have been torn apart because it couldn’t handle the infinite magical power. Even if it had endured it, there would have been no way to control the power source. What did they do?”

“If the body can’t withstand it, why don’t we just reconstruct it to fit it?”

“……Reconstruction?”

Dahit furrowed his brows.

In a split second, he drew on all his knowledge to interpret the meaning of that word.

Soon, his pupils shook violently. It was an extremely rare case of his emotions becoming very agitated.

“Is that possible?”

“Your knowledge is not everything.”

Verden revealed his true colors.

A difficult magic circle appeared in Dahit's vision, who was able to partially destroy the <Veil> with the ancient artifact [Mahram's Pupil].

Strong intuition.

Dahit understood that the magic circle was the key to interfering with the magical power of the power source.

Verden has reaped his magic.

“That’s all I can tell you. I’d need dozens of questions to properly explain this, so let’s move on.”

When asked how he handled the power source's magical power, he said that he reconstructed his body, and when asked about the possibility of reconstructing his body, he answered by showing a magic circle that reversed the flow of time.

The third and fourth questions are over.

It was a fairly short answer, but Dahit didn't raise any objections.

“…….”

A quiet cabin.

Dahit tapped his wrists and tapped his fingertips on the table. He came out of his thoughts and lowered his voice as he continued.

“As I mentioned earlier, you were definitely not a transcendent being at the time of the power source failure. You probably weren’t that strong either. Otherwise, you would have easily erased those who sent you to find Harkan Digest without leaving any trace.”

The Duchy of Liviant, the Bard Mountains.

In order to convey accurate information, Dahit made the human he sacrifice see the place where the Black Hour wizard disappeared and stole his memories.

There, a trace of magic similar to <Meteor>, but less powerful, remained───a huge crater.

I can understand if it was Harkan's tantrum because his magic circuit was broken, but it was too much for the transcendent being in front of me to do.

In other words, it means that his level was low enough that he needed to do that against two 4th-tier wizards and one 3rd-tier wizard.

“No matter how quickly you’ve leveled up since then, it’s only been about two years since you’ve reached the state of transcendence. And you’ve achieved unity with me in that amount of time?”

Verden tilted his head.

“Is there a problem? Since we are both transcendent beings, there shouldn’t be anything strange.”

“As expected of a newly born Transcendent, you have little experience. Considering how you don’t know much about your own realm. Think about it carefully. Even if the wall between humans and Transcendents is thick, do you think you can immediately obtain the strength that matches it just by awakening? Not at all. It’s even more so for those of us who walk the path of magic.”

A transcendent being who handles qi acquires a realm through physical instinct and senses, and trains and perfects his transcendent qi accordingly.

That is why, like the Sword of Arnak, there are rare beings who acquire transcendence skills immediately after awakening without any special process.

And the transcendent beings of the Ruas religion are only chosen by the four great divine beings to awaken and transcend───and bloom into divine beings in terms of doctrine.

Among them, the saintess revives even the dead with the supreme faith she received from the God of Light.

On the other hand, a magical transcendent being must focus on reason and adapt to the realm through knowledge.

You must find information about the seven tiers of magic known to the magical world, understand them, and through much trial and error, directly conceive and create your own unique magic and super-tier magic.

Even if you have a high rank, if you don't know the magic that matches it… … Excluding elements such as the status of a transcendental wizard, your basic magical abilities are simply superior to those of a 6th-rank magician.

“Adapting to the transcendent realm is not something that can be accomplished in just a few months. Time is essential for a wizard. That is why I waited for the right time.”

Since the transcendent being has a clear mental ideal, there is no reason to worry about direction.

Yet Dahit hid his power.

It was judged that the immature Transcendent One would not be able to handle all of the original members.

“It took me a whopping seven years to become a being completely different from the sixth-class beings. Even though I focused only on adapting as much as possible.”

Dahit narrowed his eyes.

“But what are you? As if you were born with the status of transcendence from the beginning… Are you saying that you acquired some kind of acquired trait through the process of reconstructing your body and absorbing the power source’s magical power?”

* * *

Dahit's explanation of the Transcendent's adaptation was quite interesting and surprising, since I had never had the opportunity to come across such information.

That's all.

To be honest, to some extent, this was expected.

Differentiating factors.

Verden, unlike other transcendent beings, chose to transcend on his own.

but.

“I don’t know either.”

It's not that the answer is refused, but in fact the causal relationship is still unknown.

Among the results of the physical reconstruction were the completely unexpected ashen hair, blue eyes, and infinite magical power within his heart───the secret of the power source of the Magic Tower has yet to be revealed.

For that reason, there is no way to give a clear answer to the question raised by Dahit.

“I can’t tell you. I guess it’s a secret you want to keep hidden.”

Of course, Dahit seemed to have no intention of understanding Verden's true feelings at all.

This concludes the fifth question.

“I’ll stop here. It’s your turn.”

Dahit seemed satisfied, as if his curiosity had been somewhat resolved.

There are five questions in total.

As a result, Verden is able to hear answers to four of them, while Dahit is only able to reject one.

I've already decided what questions to ask first.

“I saw some interesting things in the experiments you were researching. Even the one about that frozen ancient wizard.”

Dahit twisted the corners of his mouth slightly.

“So you opened the [Eternal Hourglass] with the pure magic power of the power source? I guess I only found a part of the research records, but there must have been quite a lot, so you did a good job finding them. I wonder if you were lucky or foolish. So what’s the point?”

“You questioned the natural nature of the magic circuits from the ancient wizard in the ice. Why do you doubt ‘natural’ here?”

“Is it the core from the beginning? Well, that’s good. But to explain it, we need to presuppose the concept of hierarchy.”

Dahit crossed his arms.

“Aren’t wizards too stable?”

"what?"

“You can measure your future potential in numbers with the limit rank, and your magic circuit only allows magic of a rank that your body can handle. And unless you are prepared to commit suicide and try too hard, you will almost never die, and even if you try to cast a higher rank magic, it will end in failure halfway through. Isn’t that strange?”

Then Verden retorted.

“The magic hierarchy is a system that the first magic tower created based on magic circuits. Isn’t it natural that it is magically stable?”

“Stability is protection and confinement. On the other hand, it can be seen as being locked in a frame and being free from danger. In fact, by suppressing the hierarchy, magicians have gradually become stronger and their survival rate has increased dramatically.”

Dahit nodded his chin outside the cabin, pointing out to the world.

“Look. How many more magicians there are now than in the old days. Of course, that’s because the magic world has developed to that extent… But during my research, I suddenly had this thought. How is this any different from keeping a flock of sheep in a pasture and counting their numbers?”

Limit, grow, increase.

“Isn’t it like a pen?

Dahit shrugged.