[Brian POV]1just because there technically was a POV change between the chapters.
Once all seven of us were in the mory Palace, I brought up my mories of just before I made the jump back. From there, we let the mories play out.
After I finished chanting the Ti Magic spell, I felt the world shift around . It didn’t feel bad since I blocked those feelings with Phantom Magic.
The shift in ti took a long ti. Well, it felt like a long ti. Ti doesn’t really have a solid aning when you travel through it.
Once the shifting ti ca to an end, I took a look around myself.
I was in the middle of nowhere. Just a small clearing in a forest. That was strange as I was supposed to be on the outskirts of the city that would eventually beco the Ruiso capital. It was one of the landmarks I could have used to orientate myself and head to the small town where I’d actually et with the Hero. But clearly sothing had gone wrong with the ti travel since I ended up in the wrong location.
(Laura. Do you know when we are? And where as well.) I asked.
(Not yet. I can’t access the System records without them realizing we are here and investigating the rogue Perfect level System Support.) She answered. (We should find a city or a town to orient ourselves.)
(Alright. I’m on it.)
(Rember to change your appearance before you undo Invisibility and Intangibility.) Laura reminded . (While you appearing in this ti shouldn’t be a problem, we shouldn’t take the chance.)
(Yeah, I’ll start with that.) I told her, but before I could get to it, I felt a massive surge of mana.
Feeling mana while I was intangible was a bit strange, as in theory I don’t interact with it at all. But at the sa ti, I do. I can cast spells, use Telekinesis and anything else I want. Even if no one else can realize that I’m there. But I don’t question the Nuron Code.
Instead, I focused on the massive mana surge. It didn’t rival things like dinsional fissures, but a surge like that would likely an that a large spell was cast nearby. I wondered if I had arrived too late and the Hero and his party were already fighting so world-ending threat, but if that was the case, I’ll just have to jump a bit further in ti.
But as I felt the mana signature, I realized two things. One, the spell wasn’t cast by a person, but instead it was a spell produced by a magic circle. There is a clear difference between the two, as a magic circle spell lacks individuality. Not the best word, but you get the point. A magic circle spell is like a fingerprint without any actual detail. Like comparing soone touching sothing with their bare hand and then with a rubber glove on. In both cases, you might notice that soone touched it, but with one, you can start isolating more details about the person.
The second thing I realized was that the spell was a Ti Magic spell. And because it was, I assud for a second that it was so sort of an echo of my spell. I an, it was a powerful spell and it took more than 25,000 mana to cast, so in theory it could have a magical echo. But as I said, the spell I felt was cast by a magic circle, not myself, so there is no way it was mine.
All of that pondering took just two seconds, so I observed as Ti and Space shifted in the clearing I had appeared in. I flew just a bit away using the Nuron Code, just in case that was so sort of ti based attack that was aid at .
But it wasn’t. Because as ti and space solidified again, a person was standing in the clearing. Soone I ‘knew’. I had never actually spoken a word with them, but I’ve been spying on them and their friends for a while.
Sohow the Power Structure 1 Magical Elf was here, in the past.
I quickly used Appraisal on him, using a good 30,000 mana on it. I wasn’t going to hold back now. I might have to kill him since he is here, so him knowing that soone appraised him would be worth it.
Besides, he doesn’t, or at least he didn’t, have Ti or Space Magic as a skill, so he might be disorientated from the ti travel.
As I appraised him, I got his information. And he seemingly didn’t react, so maybe he was still confused by being in the center of the spell that brought him here.
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Na: Haji MaōRace: Magic High Elf (artificial) ?Level: 570HP: ???Mana: ???Strength: ???Defense: ???Magic: ???Unique Skills:
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Matter Manipulation (unique)First of Magic (unique)Truth of Magic (unique)etc.
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Extra Skills:
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Survivor (extra)Inventory (extra)etc.
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Normal Skills:
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Light MagicDark MagicWater Magic Wind MagicEarth MagicFire MagicMana Controletc.
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Titles:
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Every Attribute MagicianOne that Manipulates their own RaceOne who traveled through Ti Power Structure 1etc.
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… okay. Yeah. It is him. And holy fuck, what happened to his stats!?
He was level 223 the last ti I saw him. And while so growth is to be expected, this isn’t what I had in mind. I didn’t even get all of his skills, never mind the level of them or his actual stat numbers. He also has more unique skills. He only had Matter Manipulation and now he has at least two more. Likely even more since there is that etc. in the status nu. I only saw those three.
And how does he have a System Support? Sure it is only Basic, the lowest level, but still. Just how much further from the future is he compared to ? It sounded like the States were quite close to starting their plan.
Sure the Support might have just been given to him. He did just ti travel to this ti, and the ‘All-Mighty’, if I rember his na correctly, should be keeping an eye on a high leveled ti traveler. You might think that includes , but rember that I’m hiding with two skills that can hide from the System Gods, and Laura is masking her presence, so the System Gods shouldn’t know that we are here.
Also, his na. I’ll admit that I’m not the greatest at Japanese, which seems to be the base for elven nas, but I’ve been studying since it is better for enchanting than English. … well, this world’s common language that auto translates to English.
So his na would an sothing like ‘first’ or ‘the first’ for Haji, while Maō, depending on how it is written in Kanji, would an Magic King. But it could also an Demon King or Demon Ruler. Or if we match it to this world, a demon lord.
So his na, in full, would be ‘The First Demon Lord’.
“WHAT!?” Was the reaction of Alice, Unika and Lua.
“That can’t be true, right?” Unika asked.
“Yes. How could the demon lord be soone from our ti?” Alice asked.
“Yeah, it is.” I confird. “Not that I believed it right at that mont either.”
“How did you figure it out? Did you just follow him or ..?” Wilma asked.
“Let’s just keep watching.” I told them.
(... Laura. This isn’t what I think it is, right?) I asked.
(We cannot be sure, yet. But his unique skill does match the historic records. It isn’t called Matter Manipulation in the records, but the skill should do the sa thing as the Demon Lord’s unique skill.)
(... the ability to alter the physical properties of anything he touched. To reshape the world around him.) I recalled how the Goddess, actually Tamaki specifically, described the skill of the demon lord.
(Yes. So it is likely that he is, or will beco, the demon lord. Or his unique skill will be stolen by the demon lord.) Laura said. (And now that he has a System Support, he can change the na of the skill to match the records.)
(... we can’t even fricking kill him.) I complained.
(We likely shouldn’t.) Laura agreed. (We should follow him and be ready to kill him if it turns out we are wrong.)
(Yeah.) I agreed. (I’ll need to level myself up. Just in case. I can’t use my God monsters here, and he is strong enough where he might be able to go against 5000 attack monsters.)
(Yes. Especially since you can’t use Reverse Union, Synchro Union or Spirit Synchros in this ti.) Laura reminded .
“Oh right, you can’t.” Unika realized. “Varuna and Pele are in this ti, as are all of your tad monsters. And the ones you can summon.”
“Yeah. I couldn’t bring any of my tad friends in the past, so I had to leave them. And while I can reverse union with my card monsters, that isn’t nearly as stat efficient as my tad monsters are. The 5000/5000/5000 boost I get from doing a union with one of them just won’t cut it.”
I began following Haji, still keeping my Nuron Code cheats active. Luckily I stockpiled enough points to keep myself unseen and unfelt for a few years before I ca here. A ‘just in case’ thing. And it didn’t take that long.
Haji moved with purpose, almost like he knew where he was going. I didn’t exactly know how he would know, but he knew. Maybe soone in the States could see a map of the past and guide Haji on where to go. Or maybe he has that ntal Map unique skill Power Structure 7 had.
That gave ti to wonder why I ended up now. In this ti. If Haji really becos the demon lord, why did I travel back to the sa ti as he did? There should be a wait between him getting to the Castle Dungeon, taking it over, and the world eventually figuring out that he is big enough of a threat to declare him an enemy of the world and summon the Hero to stand against him.
I had two theories. One, the world wanted here. It wanted to see him coming here, and that I’d realize what happened. Which could be the truth. I an, by doing this, they basically guarantee that I won’t stop the States from bringing him to this ti. Because if I stop them, no demon lord, no Hero, no Hero’s sword and so on. Just an entirely different tiline.
Theory two is that his ti travel sohow caused a ‘ti stream’ that I was caught in, and that brought to this ti, and the sa place as him. It could in theory be a thing, but there is nothing about anything like that available in the System archives.
It could always be a combination of both of those things.
“Did you ever figure out which one it was?” Alice asked.
“It is a bit of both. Ti ti stream theory is correct, but it wouldn’t fully explain what happened to . The ti stream causes it to be so that two people cannot travel from the sa place in space and ti to different places in space and ti. Basically, if both of us cast a ti spell at the sa ti, we’d end up in the sa ti, even if we tried to get to different tis.” I explained. “Unless one of us is going to the future while the other goes to the past.”
“Ah. Alright. But because you two didn’t cast your spells at the sa ti …”
“It could still be the case. The States used the nuclear option, forcing the tiline open, while I used a scalpel. They may have left a hole so large that I had to follow it, even if it wasn’t even there yet when I did my ti travel.”
“... this is why ti travel is confusing.” Lua noted.
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