Paper 189 True Magic
Lee Min-ho still had a bewildered look on his face, and Ji-hoo ordered him to think slowly without talking to him.
So it was time to close.
“president.”
“Yes, Minho.”
Jihoo didn’t bother asking.
I hoped that he would speak up after organizing his thoughts.
“What can I do?”
“What do you want to do?”
“… … .”
Jihoo quietly watched him.
He didn’t want a passive mercenary who could do only what he was told to do. He wanted a colleague who could think and move actively.
That’s why I wanted to give you enough time to think about it.
“There is no need to rush right now. We can go to the 12th floor by ourselves, so think slowly. In the meantime, don’t forget to take care of the grocery store, right?”
“… … Swing. All right.”
Lee Min-ho’s reaction was natural.
Jihoo understood.
It will take time right now.
* * *
Jihoo has been spending more time with Ifrin and Seprin. Jihoo asked questions about witches and dragons and the fire of Cerberus, but couldn’t find anything special.
Is it a fragment of memory? For the two of them, it was basic common sense (?) that was nothing special.
Then we came to one common interest.
“This is common magic.”
Jihoo gathered mana and manifested magic that omitted formulas. It was a public magic that became so natural now.
Hwareuk!
It seemed like a simple combustion magic, but it was a 7-star magic with the miracle of fire. It was the beginning of the 7th star, the minimum standard for the archmage, and it was also the basis for the miracles that could be imitated through the basic power of magic and formulas.
-and! This is something different.
-This is the same attribute as my strength, Chloride!
-really? I am? Why are you like my sister?
– Ahem, that’s because I’m an older sister.
Jihoo saw the two spirits and smiled at his father. It was a simple [flame], but this was a [flame] manifested purely by magic, not by Jihoo using an artifact.
A level of magic that could not be imitated before, now it was so easy.
‘Now it’s a real transfer area.’
Upon reaching this level, the artifacts and magic he had created so far felt like child’s play.
Hwareuk!
-look! Seprin. This is my chloride!
-Ah, it’s a little different?
-no it’s not! almost the same!
-‘Almost’ can’t be called ‘the same’! My sister told me about it yesterday!
-No, you can say that 99.9% equals 100%. As for how this works – look at this formula –
Jihoo is sometimes embarrassed by the intellectual level of the two. basic common sense. Of course, common sense by human standards is far from complete, but they are knowledgeable about magic and strange ancient information that is not easily known.
So it might help a lot.
“Would you like to see this? I used Seprin’s [Witch’s Power] for the magic of Alchemy, but it’s much duller and cruder than using normal magic. How can I deal with this in a little more detail?”
– Uh hmm! I know this well! My sister doesn’t know, but I can do it well. Unlike normal magic, this power must be moved by the power of will rather than formula.
-It’s the same with magic!
– No. Magical power is replaced with ‘formula’ if ‘will’ is insufficient, but the witch’s power must be ‘will’.
-that… … !
-And this ‘will’ is a concept and also a ‘story’ itself. If you want to use the magic that handles metal called alchemical ductility, you need to know how to make a story and engrave it on the world line like a ‘witch’ if you’re not a ‘dragon’ level.
Sometimes these discussions happen.
It doesn’t matter.
[Transfer setting] of [Setting Intervention] that Jihoo used to do. Or, it wasn’t too different from the [weak level setting].
The important thing was that [Witch’s Power] might not be very different from SP.
‘It’s still just speculation, though.’
anyway.
Jihoo began to build a solid foundation for magic that he skipped to [Talent] while talking with the two spirits.
I even made artifacts from time to time.
“We increased the absolute amount of magic circuits up to 2,000 times through phase division, rather than simply overlapping magic circuits, and added the Z-axis to the coordinates in absolute space for efficient synergy design-”
-no. It should be time rather than space, which is the Z axis.
– No. Wouldn’t it be better to leave the Z-axis as space and create another axis that overlaps every moment?
We had to make use of this exchange of opinions.
Then I met Kwon Ye-rim of [Used Magical Bookstore]. It was a visit to purchase a necessary book, but the existence of the spirit was discovered.
In fact, I was openly going.
“What! Are you a spirit?! Nonsense. Are you a real spirit? Wow- Mr.!”
She almost went mad.
It was to the extent that he occasionally said that seeing spirits had been his dream all his life. She was also a magician of the light-type space school who was in the master class, but [Spirit], a being of miracles beyond mere magic, was a being of fantasy in a different sense.
I was surprised at first.
And after saying a few words, I was blown away.
“No! All axes should be based on light. Why does light have a fixed speed in space, and space and time change relative to that light-”
-That is also true, but the power of ‘magic’ must be viewed from a more microscopic perspective. That is quantum mechanics, and the theory of relativity based on light is bound to have errors. If light is used as the reference point, the overlapping of the continuous space called phase division is-!
– No! In fact, the overlapping of continuous spaces is a story, and that story is time and history. It has to be the transfer itself.
In fact, from Jihoo’s point of view, it was there.
Kwon Ye-rim is a classical physicist.
Ifrin is now a believer in quantum physics.
Seprin is a literati with practical powers.
‘I’ve learned a lot from discussing like this. They all have very different fields.’
Somehow Kwon Ye-rim got involved in the discussion, but that also gave birth to not bad results.
‘Originally, since magic cannot control mana like the mind, the magic circle came out, and the formula came out to accurately draw the magic circle.’
The magic circuit is just a transformation process that makes the magic circle usable without the actual manifester.
‘The power of witches is, after all, the power of stories. And being able to use the witch’s power means being able to draw the story itself.’
Jihoo found the answer in their discussion.
I picked up a silver bracelet.
‘Let’s use the witch’s power to put a transfer here. Without using SP and omitting all kinds of formulas… … It’s to engrave a story into a magic circuit.’
What matters is what you will make.
In fact, artifacts with tolerable functions were possible with magic circuits. Even if it wasn’t that, it was possible to make it into a [magical tool] without engraving a circuit.
Jihoo in the past was an artifact of a level he could not have imagined, but now Jihoo was able to do it so easily.
Of course, that doesn’t mean that strong artifacts of high level will come out.
‘No matter how good your skills are and if you can do anything, if you put a shield in this bracelet- that’s the end.’
What you put in is important.
And Jihoo, who was over level 10 and was making a [Treasure] grade, needed something even more special.
‘Something special.’
In the meantime, I got a call from Anya Taylor after a long time. Jihoo got a hint from the artifact.
[Curse] is a negative power, but it is no different from a miracle. A miracle more powerful than any magic.
then… … .
‘It wasn’t simply that the formula wasn’t needed. Something that cannot be imitated by formulas. I thought it was a [transfer], but I saw even that transfer as an extension of magic.’
And what more?
Something that is not an extension of magic.
A purely creative output.
A result that is not bound by theory.
“system.”
That’s it.
Users among systems.
That’s why I needed something that could affect those who obtained the [Status Window] by acquiring the characteristics. Only then can you go beyond the limits of ordinary ‘magic’.
It’s more than just [miracles] and [treasures].
Flash-!
A ray of light flashed in Jihoo’s head, and that light leaked out as the purple witch’s power. It became a certain shape that was neither a magic circle nor a magic circuit.
It began to engrave a story on a relative world line that has continuous time in a certain space and constantly changes.
To put it simply, it was similar to [making a video by connecting thousands of photos]. Making the past in the present space and time.
story.
That would be a ‘book’.
An image appeared in Jihoo’s mind.
‘This is the way to use the witch’s power.’
-that’s right! Dad finally uses the witch’s power! wow – so good Do you think you are better than me?
-Quiet! Daddy’s focused.
immersion.
The [trance] of Jihoo’s [super sense] began. Lee Min-ho closed the general store at the opinion of Kwon Ye-rim and the spirits.
so that no one can interfere.
Kwon Ye-rim and Lee Min-ho took turns guarding the door of the general store, and the two spirits defended Jihoo’s body.
This is to prepare for any unforeseen accidents.
* * *
The day has passed.
To be exact, it was 27 hours, and during that time, the [General Store of Trust] was perfectly protected. Lee Hee-yeon and Kim Mi-ji, who heard the news, stood guard.
[Artisan’s Street] People saw it and passed by, but they just thought it was doing something important.
When 40 hours passed like that.
Flash-!
A faint light leaked from inside the general store.
and.
profit.
Jihoo opened the door and came out.
He looked tired as if he would collapse at any moment, but his expression was brighter than ever.
– Huh? What’s that?
The first to react was Seprin.
Was it because the witch’s power was mainly used? Seprin came running first, sniffing and excited.
-dad? Dad! How did you make this? How does it smell so strong?
Seprin was genuinely curious.
So did others. I wondered what this was, and whether it had been working while sitting for 40 hours.
“What did you make of that?”
Kwon Ye-rim, who was at the front, asked.
Since we discussed it together, I was curious as well.
Jihoo replied with a smile.
“This is a skill book.”
“… … ?”
Everyone’s reaction was the same.
Jihoo also thought about how to name it at first. But no name was as fitting as this one.
If someone reads this book, they automatically get a [special ability]. Of course, you have to read it thoroughly from beginning to end, but that alone will give you a power that is close to a miracle that is close to [characteristic].
‘A job that costs at least 100,000 even with SP.’
If it’s for Jihoo’s status window, it won’t cost 100,000. However, it costs more than 100,000 to plant a skill in the status window of someone other than Jihoo.
However, this production did not cost even 1 SP. With [Witch’s Power] as the main focus, it was a pure production made with only the experience and knowledge that Jihoo had gone through so far.
I didn’t know that this was possible.
And in the process, one achievement was achieved.
‘I didn’t know that [Legend] would come out now.’
It was unexpected.
No, it is true that I was expecting a little bit.
But I didn’t know it would happen right away. In particular, it is not a single semi-permanent artifact, but a consumable artifact.