Rebirth Just Before The 10th Circle

Merlin quickly opened the hide again.

“Ah cha cha cha. wallet!”

The researcher, who rushed in, opened the door with the key and entered the laboratory.

After a while, he left the lab, locked the door and was about to run.

chin-

“Uh?”

The researcher caught in something fell forward.

“What is this Mr…?”

A researcher who stands up rubbing his knees.

He hurriedly left the place, making sure no one had seen him fall.

and after a while.

“Heh heh.”

Merlin appeared from one side of the lab with a strange laugh.

In his hand was the key that the researcher had a while ago.

“After all, if you learn something, it will remain. huh.”

A wizard is a handwriting profession.

Feeling stagnant in the past, Merlin even learned how to handle pickpockets.

Merlin, who tripped over the researcher’s leg a while ago,

He pulled the key out of the researcher’s pocket with his pickpocket technique and quickly opened the hide.

“What will it be?”

Click-

A doorknob that rotates to fit the keyhole.

He gently opened the door and looked inside the laboratory.

Confirming that no one was there once again, Merlin shoved his body into the lab.

Merlin began to carefully examine the inside of the laboratory with him.

Soon his face hardened.

“Huh?”

First of all, what surprised Merlin was none other than the Mana Stone.

Mana stones, which are so hard to find in the market, were casually rolling around on every desk in the lab.

‘What the hell are you doing with all these mana stones?’

To learn a little more, Merlin stepped deep into the lab.

In Merlin’s field of vision, various experimental instruments and piles of documents of unknown purpose came into view.

Merlin picked up a document.

Various complex symbols, arithmetic expressions, and formulas were written there.

Merlin’s eyes widened as he read this, and a voice of disappointment came out of his mouth.

“Ha… look at these?”

The various symbols and characters written on the documents were obviously used in mathematics and science.

During the last vacation, Merlin built up basic knowledge on her own.

So I could get a rough idea of ​​what it meant, even though I couldn’t figure out everything in the document.

But his surprise was elsewhere.

“these guys···.”

Something mixed between science and math symbols.

Those were the things Merlin knew best than anyone else in the world.

Right away···.

“…are you studying magic?”

It was a magic circle.

Merlin looked through other documents, just in case.

But everyone was the same.

A mixture of strange formulas and magic circles was written on every document in his hand.

Although the part about magic was too crude and there were holes to the extent that I did not understand it, it was definitely a magic circle.

“That’s what it was…”

It was then that Merlin could answer a question.

For what reason is the state managing mana stones as a management item.

They were doing research that combined science and magic.

As I thought about it, a question came to mind one after another.

‘Is the Empire and the Church hand in hand?’

A denomination that has rejected and eliminated wizards.

If their influence was as strong as Professor Galahad’s story, he could not have known that he was researching magic in the Empire.

“·················ogue.”

Merlin, with his sunken eyes, turned to him.

At that moment, a blackboard came into his sight.

“Huh?”

Merlin’s eyes lit up.

One long formula written on a blackboard.

It was also a combination of science and magic.

The difference from the formula on the document was that the magic circle applied to the formula written on the blackboard was quite plausible.

Merlin’s footsteps naturally turned to the blackboard.

Merlin recognized the magic circle written on the blackboard at once.(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

“…a magic circle about reversing gravity. Ummm… huh?”

An unfinished magic circle mixed with operator symbols.

Seeing this, Merlin’s face, which had a slightly vague expression on her face, hardened in an instant.

“Is this…?”

His hand picked up the chalk as if possessed.

Then he completed the unfinished magic circle.

As the magic circle was completed, Merlin’s face hardened even more.

Around the time he had just completed 70% of the magic circle.

“Who is there!”

Merlin put the chalk on someone’s voice.

At the door of the lab, a man who appeared to be a security guard was staring at Merlin.

To his appearance, Merlin responded by imitating Kay’s confused expression.

“Oh, I’m sorry. Woah, I was looking for the bathroom because I was curious… I didn’t even know.”

“How did you get in here?”

“Hey, was it open?”

“Hmm···.”

asked the guard, scanning Merlin up and down.

“Are you an academy cadet who came to visit this time?”

“Yeah.”

“You mustn’t come in here.”

“Sin, I’m sorry.”

“Go.”

“Yeah!”

Merlin, who left the lab with his head bowed,

The embarrassment that remained on his face immediately disappeared, leaving only the coolness of his face.

Merlin, walking slowly down the hallway, paused for a moment and looked back at the lab.

A soft murmur came out of his mouth.

“Certainly, that…”

At first, I wished

But when I drew it myself, I knew for sure.

The gravity reversal magic circle written on the blackboard.

that is···.

“…you’re my magic circle, aren’t you?”

***

The lab where Merlin escaped.

As time passed, the researchers began to return one by one after having their lunch.

The first was the deputy director, the de facto head of the laboratory.

“Hmmm…”

After eating, the deputy director returned to the laboratory with a glass of water.

As he was walking to his office on one side of his lab, he noticed something about him and stopped.

“Huh?”

His footsteps approached the blackboard as if possessed.

The deputy director, staring intently at the green blackboard, did not leave in front of it.

Soon his mouth was wide open.

“Hey, is this…?!”

Surprisingly, even though the spilled water soaked his pants, the deputy chief couldn’t move.

His gaze did not seem to fall from the magic circle that Merlin had drawn a moment ago.

These?!(2)

These?!(2)

Kei and Sasha’s eyes met and looked at each other.

The reason they looked at them was none other than Merlin sitting next to them.

‘What’s going on?’

At lunchtime, he hadn’t said a word since he had gone somewhere.

He couldn’t help but look at Merlin’s face so different from usual.

In the end, Sasha asked with her concerns.

“What happened?”

“not a big deal.”

The face was not a big deal, but when he said so, he had no choice but to back away once he knew it.

Merlin, who was so worried about his disciples, was deeply troubled.

‘Obviously… it was my magic circle.’

To be precise, it wasn’t his own original magic circle.

Even if you learn magic from a master, the magic circle changes little by little depending on the disciple’s personality and preferred rune combination.

The last time Merlin taught his magic circle to the Avalon Tower was thousands of years ago.

Even if the magic circle he conveyed had been crushed, it must have been crushed hundreds of times.

There, the magic circle on the blackboard was covered with strange symbols, so Merlin was skeptical at first.

Nevertheless, the reason he considered it his magic circle was because of familiarity.

It was clearly felt as he traced his magic circle.

‘Certainly, my magic circle is a familiar feeling…’

A remnant of his past he met in an era where magic was dead.

It gave Merlin a strange feeling.

‘Hmm···.’

Merlin stroked her chin.

Her thoughts were deep and he had a lot to reflect on.

Among them, the thing that bothered Merlin the most was by far the relationship between the Empire and magic.

‘How is the alternate empire researching magic?’

At first, he was skeptical of the cooperation between the institute and the denomination.

But looking back, it was also strange.

‘According to Professor Galahad, there are obviously wizards left in the church. …If the Church and the Empire really cooperated, there would be no way to study such a crude magic circle.’

The magic circles that Merlin saw in the lab were all sloppy and unfinished.

Obviously, the basic skeleton was the magic circle, but what occupied it were various symbols, formulas, and operators used in mathematics, chemistry, and physics.

At first glance, I wondered if this was really a magic circle.

In other words, it could be the sound of replacing the operation of the damaged runes of the magic circle with it.

‘Is that possible?’

This was something Merlin didn’t even think about.

No, in Merlin’s time, there was no way there was such a scientific symbol as it is now.

‘It’s not completely impossible. Runes were also created for magic calculations. If so, it means that it can be replaced with something else.’

Of course, Merlin didn’t know yet whether the magic would work fully in that way.

While Merlin was in trouble, the carriage carrying the senior class cadets stopped somewhere.

“Come on, it’s all over. Everyone get off.”

Even in the afternoon, Hurum, who was in charge of guiding the senior class, was the first to get off and shout.

After lunch, the field trip was scheduled to take place at a location other than the institute.

The afternoon tour is a 10-minute drive from the institute by horse-drawn carriage.

“It’s all here!”

“You are finally seeing this!”

“Originally, it wasn’t here on the field trip, but this time it’s a special show for our academy!”

Whether the afternoon course was the most important part of the tour, the cadets of the upper class got off the carriage with excitement.

Merlin and the others, who were seated in the backseat, also got out of the carriage.

And.

“Huh…”

A groan burst out of Merlin’s mouth the moment he looked at what appeared in front of him.

“crazy···.”

For that moment, all the troubles that had bothered Merlin for a long time disappeared.