episode_0496

Let’s assume that there are 10,000 geniuses and only one genius.

Assuming that they are given a certain task and devote themselves to it, which of the two groups will be more efficient?

If you were to stop people passing by in the middle of the street and ask them a question like this, they would probably choose the former out of a hundred.

This is because it is common to think that no matter how geniuses fly and crawl, they will never be able to overcome the efficiency that a number of 10,000 people can achieve.

Yes, as the saying goes, even those who are called geniuses have limits.

In fact, this has to be the case, isn’t it because a genius has four arms and three eyes?

Just like the other 10,000 people, they were just ‘humans’ with two arms and two legs, two eyes, and a nose and mouth.

Therefore, there were clear limitations even for those who were called geniuses… but there was only one field where the term did not apply, and that was none other than ‘magic’.

In fact, that is the biggest misconception that many people have about the study of magic.

What about ordinary people who aren’t wizards?

I often think of the study of magic as a study of sedimentation.

It is believed that the knowledge that accumulates within the school over time leads to the development of magic.

However, this is a very wrong perception.

Because the study of magic… was not for ordinary people from the time it was born on this earth.

‘In the first place, the essence of the science of magic is close to being stolen by seeing the devil’s abilities.’

Magic is not called magic for nothing.

It is called magic because its source is the devil.

Tell me what to do.

In some ways, the wizards of the beginning were all like dark wizards.

Having realized the existence of devils early on, they were fascinated by the sight of them boasting power so powerful that they could not even be imitated by the human body, and they sought wisdom against the devils by sacrificing everything they possessed.

Those who were born in this way are the ‘first’ wizards.

However, in any era, there are cunning geniuses who refuse to follow the trend.

A strange man’s attempt, which began with a very selfish feeling of not wanting to give up his precious things to the devil, ended in success, contrary to many people’s expectations.

Just as Prometheus stole fire from Olympus, he succeeded in stealing ‘magic’, which until then had been a gift from the devils, from the devils.

‘That is ‘Roen’, who is called the first wise man.’

He succeeded in stealing magic from the devil, but he was only mortal.

A mortal who cannot be confident in the face of the passage of time.

Feeling fearful of such facts, he left his enlightenment in the form of writing while wandering the world, finding talented children and accepting them as his disciples.

This is how the seven disciples who became the beginning of the first grimoire and magic tower union were born.

Likewise, since the study of magic was the exclusive domain of one genius from the beginning, it was an extremely unfriendly study for ordinary people who did not become geniuses.

In contrast, what about geniuses?

It was also an incredibly kind discipline.

And Helena… clearly belonged to the ‘genius’ category.

Many geniuses who have passed through the field of magic have invested their time generously in the development of the field of magic.

In order to popularize magic, magic, which was the study of geniuses, was ‘downgraded’ to the point where even ordinary people could learn it, improving the efficiency of magic, and inventing the concepts of spells, beasts, magic circles, and wands to help cast magic, etc. It was safe to say that the current magic was a monument built through the sacrifices of countless geniuses.

Therefore… Helena decided not to sacrifice her time in such a useless place.

In any case, it was unlikely that modern magic, which had already been improved to the point of being close to optimal, would be greatly improved by sacrificing one more girl.

Of course, she doesn’t know what happens to people, so after sticking to it all her life, she could have discovered something in her later years that would make the science of magic take another big leap forward… but she only looked at that faint possibility and found it there. The person named Helena was too realistic for Eda to hang herself.

So, instead of throwing her life into something that seemed unlikely, she focused on the other side.

What caught her eye was the existence of ‘demons’, the so-called ‘mainstream’ of magic.

Past magic and modern magic are so completely different that they can be considered different concepts.

Therefore, there must be a significant gap between the power of the devils, which is called the main stream of magic, and modern magic… Nevertheless, being interested in it could be said to be, in a way, like a destiny as a magician.

After all, isn’t everyone curious and longing for their roots?

And considering that there are quite a few people in the union who view wizards as creatures completely separate from ordinary people… the roots of wizards may not be the place where they were born as humans, but ‘demons’.

Helena’s research, which began with such thoughts, was literally like navigating a path in the middle of the desert, relying only on the stars.

What if it’s normal?

I would have given up at that point.

Finding your way in the middle of the desert by relying only on the stars is impossible with ordinary will.

However, she had something that could be called motivation.

This was inevitable because her parents were caught up in a terrorist attack committed by warlocks and died when she was young.

Therefore, there was always a curiosity in a corner of her heart about warlocks and the demons they revered.

In a way, it was fate that it blossomed in conjunction with the overwhelming genius she possessed from the beginning.

Of course… researching demons was not as easy as it sounds.

No matter how much she is cherished by the magic tower she belongs to and is the future of the magic tower itself, the magic tower is basically more of an interest group.

Are researchers pouring as much budget as they want into research with no way of knowing when or how the results will come out?

This was close to impossible due to the nature of the organization called Magic Tower.

It is true that Helena is the future of the Magic Tower, but if they, the leadership, behave that way, there is a high possibility that other magicians except Helena will rebel against the leadership’s policy.

‘At least by insisting that it was research related to black magic, we were able to meet the basic budget…’

The rest had to be made up somehow on her own.

In a way, it could be said that the fact that she formed a partnership with something like the Sichuan Group, a force outside the Magic Tower, was the result of that snowball rolling.

‘As a result, I was able to meet Su-hyeon.’

A mysterious being who succeeded in coexisting magic and internal energy, which was previously known to be impossible.

As I began researching Soo-hyeon, her research on ‘the devil’, which had been at a standstill at some point, also made rapid progress.

Through the process of converting the mana absorbed into Su-hyeon’s body into ‘magic power’ and ‘inner energy’ respectively, the secrets of the ‘demons’ can be glimpsed, albeit vaguely.

According to the ancient texts she consulted in her research?

It is said that unlike wizards or warlocks, demons do not need any special procedures to cast magic.

They say this is because the devil’s body is made of magic itself…

When she first heard that sentence, she thought it was some kind of metaphor.

I thought it was an analogy to express that, unlike the human body, which is composed of flesh and blood, the bodies of demons are composed of magical power itself…

‘It wasn’t.’

That wasn’t it.

That was not a metaphor, but a literal meaning.

This is why demons were able to cast magic just by breathing, unlike humans who had to go through extremely cumbersome processes such as magic circles, seals, and spells to cast magic.

The reason why the power of demons was considered ‘power’ rather than magic.

‘I think I understand now.’

That was because demons were living magic circles, spells, and beasts.

The first wise man who gave humans the power of magic discovered this fact and stole the ‘magic’.

A realization that can only be described as a truly stellar moment.

This came to fruition in the mind of Helena, who was meditating for a quick recovery…

‘···Let me try it out.’

From that moment on, the plan that someone had spent decades putting together began to move in an unknown direction.