Chapter 309 Repairing Titan Cliff
Zero didn’t know why every ti he saved soone or sothing everyone would take turns scolding him. It’s almost like a ritual at this point and the teen was very glad for the discovery of noise isolation magic. The one who chewed Zero out the most was without doubt Hua Tuo. The physician was frustrated at his graduated disciple for treating his vessel so lightly.
The teen knew that his shifu was worried but listening to the dicine God recite the book of rules for two hours really tested Zero’s patience. He didn’t want to be rude to his shifu but he really had pressing matters to attend to. After much deliberation, Zero raised his hand and caught Hua Tuo off guard.
\"Sorry shifu, I’ll listen to your lecture another ti but for now, won’t you let off? I have sothing urgent that has to be done now that both Trees are in top condition.\"
Hua Tuo looked at Zero and sighed, shaking his head in disappointnt. Children will one day leave the nest and even if he was reluctant, he knew he couldn’t keep Zero for too long. Still, the teen was entering his rebellious stage too quickly! It hasn’t even been a month since the teen left his wing and already he was learning all the bad things from rlin. He knew that the magician would be a bad influence!
Still, now that Zero was no longer under his care, Hua Tuo had no reason to hold the impatient brunet back. With a tired sigh, Hua Tuo left and returned to his hospital. The physician swore to not interfere with Zero’s magic training but now, he was beginning to regret making that promise. Between Zero and rlin, it was sotis difficult to tell who the child was. If it wasn’t for Bib managing the household affairs, Hua Tuo was willing to bet that the tower would be in a greater ss than it already was.
Zero gave the physician an apologetic look as he left. He really wasn’t in the best mood after hearing so many people scold him. The Demon Lords took turns to lecture him, the Great Gods had long calls with him, both his teacher yelled at him and all his mindscape assistants didn’t let him forget what he did for a few days even after the crisis was averted.
Now that Zero finally had peace and quiet, he decided to start gathering golem materials. As expected, despite the efforts of both trees, the crack at Titan Cliff wouldn’t hold for long with the ferocious attacks of the chaos energy. rlin already had a magic formation that was tested to work. The combination of mana and qi for the formation using infused golems tied to Arabesque and Nirvana’s planes will help to nourish the roots holding the plane up and create a deterring barrier to reduce the intensity of the chaos energy attacks.
\"Do we have everything we need?\" Zero asked Wii.
Mii was taking the day off after the hectic schedule. After a long ti, the mindscape assistants had finally completed syncing and reading everything. Wii was left in charge of reorganising the books in Zero’s eight-hundred floored library. Every hour or so there would be an update and Wii had no problem coping with that level of new information. Likewise, Zero no longer had to suffer an information overload flooding his mind after all the books in the reading device synced with his mind.
There was a very useful magic that duplicated things using the analysis skill. Thanks to Mii and Wii’s advanced Arithtic skills and understanding of philosophy, Zero unlocked a new ability that allowed him to inspect and appraise objects at insane levels. When he activated this appraisal skill to the maximum level, the entire structure and composition of the product will be translated into a ntal blueprint. Using this, Zero was able to replicate the product without much effort if he had all the materials.
This was also the basis for Zero’s recreation magic. Currently, about thirty Parallel Minds are used to activate the skill and more Parallel Minds were used to help with the actual process of replicating. It was a complicated multi-tiered spell that could only be accomplished if there was perfect coordination between a hundred magicians. Not everyone had more than a hundred Parallel Minds to spare with a vast mana reserve to use recreation magic freely.
Zero already had the blueprint of Robo Mike and gained rlin’s permission to borrow an empty floor in the tower for the assembly of eight more advanced golems. The body of the golem wasn’t difficult to craft but it was a very ti-consuming process that required a lot of precision and spell layering. Zero didn’t have everything in the blueprint initially so he redesigned the golems and suggested the changes to rlin. Master and student discussed it throughout an entire night to finalise the new golem guardians’ design. The improved version would be a lot sturdier and Zero was actually excited to see how much more intelligent they would be once he was done. The exterior of these golems was also designed differently. rlin gave Zero permission to go all out on the aesthetic departnt and Zero didn’t hold back. Zero modelled the eight golems after the great rulers of each Kingdom on Earth except for the human race simply because of his dislike for Count Carrrabas.
The process of making these guardian golems took Zero three full days. rlin had expected Zero to take longer. After all, it was understandable to take an entire day to assemble one golem. Zero’s speed impressed the wizard who took over from there. Lovina helped rlin to inscribe runes onto the golems according to the elents that Zero specified. Without the curse of the void guardian on her, Lovina was once again able to recover rlin’s blessing as his direct follower and prophet. The curse of the phoenix was suppressed with rlin’s reactivated mark and the witch was basically an immortal who could visit Arabesque at will.
Zero let them work on the golem guardians and visited the Spring of Vitality alone. He was going to ask for so crafting materials from both the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge now that they were both doing well. Raj and Tambolt were requesting for branches from both trees while Zero actually needed a lot of barks and leaves to create his grimoire.
The Tree of Life was very generous and Zero had to borrow the storage of his inventory to keep the materials she gave him. On the other hand, Ouroboros and the Tree of Knowledge were more cautious. Zero did receive a branch from the Tree of Knowledge but only after the serpent deed it the most useless branch. Also, the leaves were specially chosen by the fussy serpent who claid that only the leaves with yellowed edges could be given. The barks were also carefully shaved by the snake guardian and Zero spent a total of four hours in Garden Eden just to get his crafting materials.
The teen returned to the wizard’s tower just in ti for dinner that day. His to-do list was becoming shorter now that he was a lot closer to what he had to do. It was slightly amusing how he didn’t actually need his grimoire to seal the crack at Titan Cliff. If there was sothing Zero learnt from his training with both Hua Tuo and rlin, it was that plans should not be completely trusted to work perfectly. There were usually many strange turns of events along the way hindering Zero from his goal. Having a plan allowed the teen to prioritise what he wanted to do and kept his target in sight. He could only imagine how easy it was to forget his true objective without that small to-do list when complications occurred.
\"We can finish inscribing all the golems in a week,\" Lovina inford Zero who inquired about the progress.
\"Do I need to be there for the setup and sealing of Titan Cliff?\" he asked rlin who slurped his ran noodles ssily.
\"Yes, that would be most ideal. I assu that you should be done with your grimoire by the ti the inscriptions are complete. It’s a good ti for you to test the power of your grimoire while we are there. Buddha and Steve will also be there to witness it and standby just in case sothing goes awry.\"
Zero agreed and asked rlin if he had any tips about binding grimoires. \"Also, I still cannot think of what I want to bind the grimoire to...\" he admitted.
Lovina and rlin didn’t know what to tell Zero. After all, every magician valued their grimoires differently. So magicians were only interested in using their grimoires for regular spells and didn’t need them to be very powerful due to their lack of mana capacity. In cases like this, they would tie it to an arm or an eye. However, in so cases where a magician has a huge grudge and desire for vengeance, they would often sacrifice a greater thing in exchange for power beyond their control. So would tie it to their hearts, others to their souls.
Lovina rembered binding her grimoire to her mories because compared to body parts, she valued the proof of her struggles. rlin was similar when he bound his grimoire to his brain. The magician basically didn’t want to live anymore if he beca ruined as a mage. He would forgo his entire life and accomplishnts, taking all the knowledge he had accumulated along with his death. The grimoire was also cursed to self destruct when rlin died so that nobody could steal his research.
Zero listened to rlin and Lovina’s resolve and thanked them for sharing. That night, he turned in early but could not sleep. Zero’s mind was full of questions. What did he want to learn and use magic for? Recreation magic was not the sa as healing magic. It was the power used to defend against Solo’s power of creation. The grimoire was also sothing that could act as his shield against the chaos energy that threatened to enslave him in the void and put him to eternal sleep.
Magic was a way of life and life was what Zero wanted to protect and preserve at all costs. The reason why Zero wanted to beco a doctor to remove the sufferings of this world’s inhabitants. He loved what Solo has created and found it beautiful despite the flaws. Zero understood the way of life and the cycle of souls. The entire world was created on a delicate balance that cannot be tipped. Once it was tipped, it was very difficult to balance it again and often, the small tip in scales could result in a landslide towards destruction.
The young doctor frowned. He thought back about all the things he did till date and realised that the world might indeed co to an end. He had been tipping scales ever since his first arrival. Zero tossed to another side with a frown.
Rather than Solo, wasn’t he the most dangerous threat the world had?
That realisation made Zero queasy. The grimoire of recreation might just serve a second purpose other than battling Solo. Zero thought about it and nodded. That’s right, it was ant to be used to clean up Zero’s screw-ups.
\"What should I bind it to? I don’t have a body part that actually belongs to or a soul to bind it to. I’m afraid grimoires cannot tie themselves to unknown existences either... how troubling.\"
If only Zero could bet it on sothing else or soone else that was precious to him. The idea of a hostage situation was morbid but it sohow made Zero laugh. As a doctor, if there really was a hostage, he would be powerless to act against the enemy until he found a way to rescue them even if it ant having to let them die once to get rid of the enemy and reviving them when it was safe.
\"That’s it!\" Zero smiled widely. He did have a good hostage to bind the grimoire to.
Of course, now that he found a good hostage, Zero decided to put off the announcent for tomorrow. For now, he would rest. His ears would fall off if he heard any more protests and scolding so it wouldn’t be wise to do it tonight.
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