Became the Emperor in the Hero Game

73 – Part 2, Episode 29

I was immediately moved to the master’s room.

There, unlike the appearance of a girl, an old demon who lived hundreds of years, maybe even longer than that, Viola, the owner of the mage tower, was waiting for me.

“It’s too bad.”

“… ?”

That was the first word the Master of the Magic Tower uttered as soon as he saw me.

“What do you mean?”

“I expected that you too would see the magic at its finest. There was also an expectation that maybe in the distant future, you might be able to surpass me with magic.”

“You seem to have already overcome it.”

“Isn’t that method magic?”

“Well, that’s right.”

Certainly, the owner of the Magic Tower is not a normal person either.

I thought the magicians who trained in the Mage Tower, as well as Crowl, the head of the Imperial Magic Corps, had a screw missing somewhere, but the Mage Tower Master was the beginning.

Unlike when we met the other day, I also didn’t pay attention to the Master of the Magic Tower, even though I was also in the middle of the day.

I was just sorry that I didn’t advance as a wizard.

“… How was the end of Edelwein?”

“Wow, it went quite splendidly. He died as the king of Edelwein until the very end.”

“I see.”

Edelwein came to kill the lord of the mage tower, and the lord of the mage sent him away after playing with him, but he sincerely mourned Edelbein’s death with a silent prayer.

It was only then that I realized that jewels were scattered all over the master’s room.

“Did you learn jewel magic?”

At this, the tower master shook his head and said.

“I learned jewel magic hundreds of years ago. I tried to imitate Edelwein. I couldn’t. If you have enough jewels, you can achieve similar power, but it was too much to create jewels that can be used as a medium for jewel magic.”

“Well, then I can’t use it. If I imitate his magic with real jewels, I’ll be bankrupt before long.”

“I was about to give up because the disciples were too loud. Ah, the emperor. Couldn’t you give me a little support?”

“Give up. In the last battle with Edelwein, even the jewels he wore would be more than all the jewels of the empire’s people combined. In the first place, it was more like power than magic.”

Because so many jewels were used that I wondered if it would have been difficult to recreate the fight even if all the rich people of the continent gathered all the jewels in the continent in one place.

“I know that. If I had a little more time, I could have imitated him too, which is a pity.”

“Imitation?”

“Yeah, imitation. In the first place, magic itself began with imitation.”

Hmm?

“That’s another interesting point of view. The beginning of magic is imitation.”

“Opinion? This is not an opinion. It’s a truth I realized a long time ago. I thought you would know too.”

“Jug? Unfortunately, Jim has little interest in the origins of magic.”

I chose magic because I could become stronger much faster than wielding a sword, not because I was very interested in magic from the beginning.

After I started learning magic, I got interested in it, but I never tried to find its origins.

“I don’t know why I thought Jim knew that in the first place. Because Jim is a great mage?”

“No. Because you are a descendant of the dragon.”

“Um… ?”

“When I was young, I crossed the continent to learn more. The continent then was different from the continent now. There were many traces of the Transcendentalists, and the descendants of those who experienced the great war were alive and breathing. The temples of various gods and the priests who enshrined them were also continuing the tradition. There were many records of the old times and scholars who studied them.

I have learned and learned many things. Most of it was magic, but other knowledge was slowly built up. Well, there were things like simple magic or something like that, but most of them were knowledge about the old things.

Among them, the ones that interested me the most were magic and dragons.”

“Anyway, it’s magic, why a dragon? Does the origin of magic have anything to do with mimicry? There’s a hypothesis that pops into Jim’s head, and I don’t know if it’s true.”

“Could you tell me?”

“The dragon was the first to create magic, and it was to imitate other powers.”

Pair. Match. Match.

As soon as I finished my words, the tower master clapped his hands with a happy expression and said,

“Exactly. After all, it’s fun to talk to someone you can talk to.”

“It’s such a simple reasoning that even your disciples can guess it.”

“Anyone can infer the answer by finding evidence from my words. But how many people understand what that means? Authority, magic, and even a dragon. You and I are probably the only humans on this continent who have a deep understanding of all of this.”

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For some reason, the words of the Master of the Magic Tower made me feel very lonely, so I was curious and asked.

“Has anyone been with you for that long time?”

“She often interacted with the White Dragon of the Empire, but I didn’t visit her often because she didn’t like me very much. She is often shut out of the door, and sometimes, when she is in a good mood, we come over for a cup of tea.”

A white dragon? Grand Duke of the North?

Sometimes, whenever I visit, I think I get lonely because I am so glad to see you, but isn’t that the case again?

“… Other than that?”

“I also visited the Great Forest from time to time. Thankfully, Green Dragon didn’t throw me away, so we had a conversation like this. I knew the world map then.”

“Somehow. That’s why when you joined the hero’s party, the Daesurim side tolerated it. Even if the elven queen cheated, the world tree or the green dragon would have known it.”

“That’s how it is.”

“What else? Was there no great mage other than you?”

“At least not among my students. It’s unfortunate. The disciples who learned something from me always regarded me as the sky and tried to imitate me. You can never transcend the law by doing that.”

“Have you ever directly told me how to do it?”

“Of course there is. But maybe it wasn’t the realization I gained on my own, or if it was simply not enough to know the method. No one has been successful Few people understood the law properly in the first place.

Ah. About five hundred years ago, a very talented mage appeared on the continent. He had met the wall I had faced a long time ago. At that time, I gave him this and that advice, and he eventually crossed the wall and reached the level of a great mage.”

“Oh? Where is he now?”

“Not long after he became a great mage, he invaded the empire alone and died.”

“… “

“However, at that time the empire was almost half destroyed. The fact that I was treated like that by a single individual must have been very disgraceful, so the Empire tried to erase the record with great energy. I also had some success.”

“That’s why I didn’t even know Jim.”

“Yes. Anyway. At first, I was just a hypothesis. What is the magic I have learned? It started out of simple curiosity. After searching through the old records and meeting and talking with the two dragons, I was able to convince myself.”

“Think of the elemental magic you use most. Above all else, isn’t it a power that resembles the power of the gods?”

“… Right.”

To be honest, I have never really thought about this.

As a gamer who played ‘Chien Chronicles.’ As a wizard Laios.

It’s only natural to shoot fire and throw lightning with magic. Because it was common sense.

“Surely the master of the Magic Tower. It’s an insight worthy of his reputation as a master of all magic. Then, is the first wizard a dragon lord?”

“Maybe.”

The origin of magic is the imitation of authority.

Honestly, this was quite helpful information.

Sometimes, there are certain kinds of knowledge that improve one’s skills just by knowing them, and this is also that kind of knowledge.

If I were a pure mage, I could call it enlightenment.

However, since I had no intention of seeing the end of magic in the first place, knowing a little more about the Dragon Lord was more important than the fact that magic helped.

In my opinion, one of the most important variables on the continent is the Dragon Lord.

“It would be fun to have a long talk about magic with you someday, but I’m not here to talk about that today.”

“… ? What? Aren’t you curious after hearing this story? How could that be? Incredible patience.”

No, I’m just not interested.

“Because that’s not what’s important right now. Did you hear about the meeting Jim had with the princes? That’s why I didn’t put on that common barrier.”

“Of course I heard. That was also quite interesting. Beasts reign over the demon kings, and they will wake up soon. Let alone devils, they must have completely disappeared long ago.”

“Did you know about death?”

“To some extent. I was also interested in the disaster that happened a thousand years ago. It’s a thousand years ago now, but back then it wasn’t that distant past. Warlocks appeared often at that time, but none were so powerful. What was its origin? Just great talent? I couldn’t explain it with that. To be honest, I don’t have the confidence to host the entire continent. Eventually you’ll get tired and defeated. I still do, but in the past I wasn’t more confident. So I didn’t want to think that the warlock’s talents were superior to mine. I believed there must have been some other way and investigated.”

After saying that, the magic tower owner smiled brightly and said.

“After all, he was a chess piece for the old god of death. All right There was no way I could be worse than a warlock.”