A few moments later, as the morning sun began to shine, its slanted rays illuminated the dorm room. The shattered glass of the window lay scattered across the floor. The table and chairs looked as if they had been scraped by an invisible blade, now just a pile of wood chips. Amidst the cracked walls and drifting dust, a youth with medium-length, smooth black hair sat on one of the only two remaining chairs, staring in horror at his friend of the same age.
"You're telling me you just awakened a new 'Crest' and 'Circuits'?"
"A second awakening?!?!"
Lu Kang, sitting in the other chair, felt his ears were about to go deaf from the guy's shouting. It was no wonder Waver was so shocked, even horrified. In the world of magi, where lineage and bloodline were paramount, all talent was decided at the moment of birth and revealed during the initial 'awakening' into the world of mystery. This was true for one's aptitude for learning magecraft, as well as the quality and quantity of the Magic Circuits used to draw magical energy.
And now, Lu Kang, whose talent had supposedly already been determined... had awakened a second time?
It's not like he wanted this to happen either. He thought to himself that he never expected it to manifest so directly. But feeling the number of Magic Circuits in his body instantly double, and the Magic Crest now inscribed upon him, he suddenly felt it wasn't so bad. It was called an 'awakening', but this power had always been a part of him. The simulation, using his dreams as a bridge, meant that the self within the simulation was a projection of his real self. The same body, so naturally, there was no sense of alienation.
That was why he was able to rein it in the moment he 'awakened'. Even though it was sudden, he relied on his practiced control to suppress the burst of magical energy at the first possible moment. If not for that, what would have been destroyed now wouldn't be just one room, but this entire student dormitory...
"Unbelievable, unbelievable, this is too unbelievable!" Waver was still muttering to himself, as if questioning his very reality. He had thought he had a fellow commoner for a friend, only to find out in the blink of an eye that his friend was the descendant of an incredibly powerful ancestor, a genuine heir to an esteemed lineage. Witnessing such a thing, it was only normal for him to question reality.
But there was no doubt about it—Waver Velvet had a heart with an extremely high tolerance for shock! He took a deep breath and looked up. "So... the Magic Crest you've awakened, what family is it from? If it's a branch of a family that's been recorded in the old texts, even if only in passing, maybe I can help you trace its origin, help you get familiar with this mystery faster."
"You've accepted this fact already?" Lu Kang raised an eyebrow, joking, "I thought you'd be questioning reality so hard you'd jump out the window!"
"Cut the crap, I'm not that fragile. Besides, so what if you awakened new circuits and a crest? It's rare, but not unheard of." Waver had completely calmed down. "An organism's genes are divided into dominant and recessive. It's normal for descendants with recessive genes to occasionally appear. After all, even magi can't maintain a perfectly straight line of inheritance. As for the 'Magic Crest', as long as it's embedded in the embryo beforehand, it can also achieve this kind of innate, awakening-like effect with perfect compatibility from birth."
What a good theorist, Lu Kang thought. The current Waver already had the demeanor of a master of theory. He knew very well that the path this youth would walk in the future was indeed one that would lead to the pinnacle of magical theory.
He said, "The Crest magecraft I've mastered... is like this." He raised his hand. The next second, a flame appeared in his palm.
Waver's eyes widened. "And then?" Manifesting fire was a very common form of magecraft. Flowing fire, scorching fire... fire was the origin of human civilization, and because of this, magi with an affinity for the fire attribute were the most numerous. This was nothing strange.
But Lu Kang ignored him, his gaze fixed on the flame in his palm. 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.' With a thought, the flickering flame instantly—froze.
Waver's eyes widened slowly. He realized what Lu Kang was displaying was not purely fire magecraft. Or rather, this flame was just a tool for him to display his true magecraft.
"Stagnate."
"Flow."
"Catalyze."
"Bloom."
"Suffocate!"
The flame, deprived of air, instantly withered, and a wisp of black smoke curled up in the room. Lu Kang gently blew it away. The 'Magecraft of the Mind' had successfully been inherited and had taken root in reality.
Lu Kang was seemingly showing Waver the principles of his Magic Crest, but he was also experimenting himself. The facts proved that his seventy-six years in the simulated life had not been in vain. When using the Magecraft of the Mind, he could feel the 'god' deep within his soul shining brightly. The soul of Lu Kang as a 'god' was responding to the call of Lu Kang's body as a magus. And so, Lu Kang displayed 'mystery'.
Although limited by the age of his body and the insufficient magical energy stored within it, he couldn't be as powerful or as effortless as his simulated self. But once he truly familiarized himself with it... displaying a mystery that could rival the highest-level magi of the Clock Tower would not be difficult. If he could retrieve the 103,000 books he had left in Fuyuki in the Far East, he could speed up this process even more...
"I know!" Just as Lu Kang was lost in thought, Waver suddenly shouted. "This is the 'Magecraft of the Mind' that was once all the rage, pursued by countless people! It's from the Luvest version of The Book of the Law!"
Lu Kang was slightly surprised. This guy is really that knowledgeable? He can even recognize this?
Meeting Lu Kang's astonished gaze, Waver grinned, a little smugly. "Don't look at me like that. My theory courses are all full marks. I've read even the most obscure books, let alone the Luvest version of The Book of the Law. It's not obscure at all. After he died, the book found by the Lord of the Department of Astronomy once fascinated countless people. Unfortunately, it seems that because Luvest was dead, no one could reproduce the mystery from the book."
"But I never thought that you would actually have Luvest's bloodline. Speaking of which, besides your surname, the pronunciation of your given name is also very similar to his. How did I not notice that before?" No longer just smug, but excited—Waver danced around in the still-messy room, stirring up the dust into a frenzy.
Lu Kang suddenly had a strange feeling. "You're not... a 'fan' of Luvest, are you?"
"To say I'm a fan would be an insult!" Realizing he was a bit too excited, Waver coughed lightly. He shook his medium-length hair and said solemnly, "I am merely a follower of his in the realm of mystery! Although many people say he was the most ferocious and evil man of his time, a heretic of mystery, I believe he was a pioneer. Compared to those old-fashioned magi who cling to conventions, I believe he represents the future path of magi! To achieve in one generation what countless magus families take many generations to accomplish—doesn't that make him more representative than those old geezers?"
Waver, who had just calmed down, became more and more excited as he spoke. Listening to him, Lu Kang, who had just gained a fan in his only friend at the Clock Tower through a single simulation, couldn't help but dig his toes into the floor. He was a little embarrassed.
But... changing history. This feeling was also not bad. To have a chance to meet Anastasia again. Even better. Thinking this, he couldn't help but smile.
This is good, he said in his heart.
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