The Emperor Who Was Chapter 49 : Chapter 49

Chapter . 49

"The preparation process is unnecessary. Because the mana is overflowing, the effect becos even greater, and that's not all. My mana is overflowing to the point where my fingertips are tingling, yet that is... just a single layer of wall......."

With mana surging far beyond when I first drank Lasilex—no, incomparably more—I was completely excited.

"Beyond that wall, there is a greater... river of mana, and I am rely accepting mana that exceeds my maximum capacity until now. Furthermore, even if I use up all that mana, that river might flow in again! Of course, everything might just be my imagination, nothing more than hope, but—"

"Isn't that obvious?"

Cut off by Michelon's reaction, I just blinked my eyes.

"I am a dragon. An aggregate of mana. The contract we ford becos a bridge, carrying my mana to you."

"...If that was possible, why haven't successive emperors done so until now?"

Instead of risking death drinking Lasilex, which might be poison, despite being of imperial blood?

"Instead of receiving this much mana, every ti I'm stabbed, you have to feel the pain too. Who would want that?"

Michelon smiled, revealing his sharp teeth.

"Unless they are a crazy wizard like you."

***

Originally, we planned to do it a few days later, but we went back to the Throne Magic Circle that very night.

"Even if successful, you won't beco human permanently, but since it's better not to attempt it again before growth, you cannot return to dragon form before then. So think carefully. Above all, it is a magic that Father and Ilaves also failed. We have to be careful. Many wizards died too. So be careful and careful—"

"Stop repeating to be careful and start quickly."

"...I understand now that I've tried raising you. Just as I am not a good nurturer like my nanny, you are by no ans an obedient child like . I could even swear on my nanny's grave. Nanny would understand. How much I tried my best."

"Ah, is that so, Prince? Oh, your heart must be greatly hurt. Ha, I am so sorry. Sob, it's so sad."

"Rather than such transparent words, curses would be more honest."

Even for a kid, he was too cheeky, so I scolded him nicely, but Michelon burst into laughter. Getting angry when praised as cute, laughing when scolded... is he a dragon or a tree frog?

(TL Note: 'Tree frog' in Korean folklore represents soone who does the opposite of what they are told.)

"Finally showing your true colors. So are you going to do it or not?"

Just yesterday when we stamped the token replacing the brand, Michelon didn't show it but seed afraid, yet today he was overflowing with confidence. I was also overflowing with mana, but the thought that he might die drained my energy.

However, if he trusts

and isn't afraid, I could gladly hide my fear.

"In the middle of the magic circle, Ilaves must have been standing there."

I pointed to the brightest center of the magic circle where I had already issued commands.

"The Emperor's many wizards surrounding the edge of the magic circle."

"Then where was the Emperor?"

Asked Michelon, who received the scene of Ilaves dying but not the entire mory.

"My prediction is over there."

Michelon followed my pointing fingertip and nodded. At the throne.

"Can't you use it because you aren't the Emperor yet?"

"For soone not the Emperor to sit on the throne and try to use the Throne Magic Circle, it's not just trying hard to get caught, but the thought alone is chilling."

"Did you even have a liver? I thought you already threw it away?"

(TL Note: 'Having a liver' relates to having guts/courage. 'Small liver' ans timid.)

I smiled at Michelon, who was making unfunny jokes. Thinking it was the baby dragon's way of trying to relax, it seed kinda cute.

"I must act as both the wizard surrounding the Throne Magic Circle and the imperial blood at the sa ti. So I start from the outside."

Michelon nodded and entered the center of the magic circle alone. I went with him, helped him get settled, and said.

"Now just stay like this. Wait for

in the center, and don't be shaken no matter what happens outside."

"Why aren't you talking about that part again?"

Michelon glared. Such a suspicious child, it was pitiable as if seeing myself when I lost my nanny.

"I am doing it now. You must beco the central axis of the magic I perform. You must not be shaken."

"Doing what? You're glossing over what exactly will happen outside without saying a word!"

The baby dragon grew another horn of anger, but I had already co out of the magic circle and started walking. Starting right from the place where the spell of the magic that Father failed to transform Ilaves into a human was engraved and erased.

I manifested Tess with one arm extended toward the magic circle. In that state, I circled the Throne Magic Circle.

The golden tower on my hand grew larger and water flowed out. It flowed down into the Throne Magic Circle.

The water flowed towards Michelon but couldn't reach him.

"Michelon, transformation magic has had fundantal limitations until now. However, the change of the world is ultimately the circulation of elents, and that circulation was possible because of elental fusion. Just as fire doesn't burn without wind—"

"Not that! Tell

what will happen outside the magic circle now!"

"And I thought. Without circulation or fusion, which are the fundantals of change, how can one perform correct transformation magic? It wasn't about drifting further away with transformation magic applying spatial magic started from basic elental magic, but going back to the origin, elental magic, and starting from there."

"Driving

crazy, not that... wait, so when you changed Tess into a sword and a bridge last ti, were you already attempting that?"

"Of course. Ah, I will shut my mouth now. Because I have to concentrate as much as possible from now on."

As soon as I finished speaking, the water that couldn't reach Michelon whipped back like a water snake and struck, but it was as expected.

Absorbing the shock and infusing mana, it flowed back into the magic circle. I also took a step inside the magic circle.

Another round from that position. And next was earth. Because it mixes well with water and has stability, making it good as the first harmony.

Earth, too, couldn't reach Michelon and returned, but it filled the magic circle.

'Ugh.......'

But wind wasn't that simple. The harmony of water and earth wasn't compatible with wind, and the reaction was large. However, I pushed through with force.

Michelon, who hadn't taken his eyes off

every ti I circled, shouted sothing, but fortunately, the wind erased the sound. Being a child, his concentration seed weak. Still, he didn't leave his spot.

Fire matched well with wind, but the compatibility between the harmony of fire and wind versus the harmony of water and earth wasn't satisfactory. The greatest repulsion so far. The form of Tess also distorted.

'Nevertheless.......'

I had to follow the procedure I established. I sent fire towards Michelon again. This ti, Michelon reached out his hand trying to touch that fire. No need for that, it just needs to touch his space.

'What if he gets burned doing that... he hasn't even grown yet.......'

Still, perhaps thanks to Michelon, the fire approached a bit closer. Though the recoil was just as great.

I staggered for a mont.

"XXXXX!!!"

Michelon shouted sothing, but I couldn't hear. I should have cast a silence spell. He looked as if he would co to

right away, but I looked straight into his eyes, and at that, he stopped in his tracks. How cute he is when he listens well.

This recoil was tough. I glanced at Tess. Tess had grown much larger than at the start. But it wasn't the transformation I desired yet.

'Is the directionality lacking.'

I moved my body, which had stopped for a mont, and circled the Throne Magic Circle. The four elents trapped inside went wild. Was the primordial state of the world, the universe just before creation, like that...

A tornado of flas surged as if to swallow Michelon in the center at any mont, and the abyss of chaos tried to drag Michelon down, further down.......

He must be terrified, but it's okay. Because I'm diverting the shock he would receive to myself.

Looking up, Michelon was enduring well. Though his eyes were clearly full of shock.

'Admirable...'

Gaining strength from such Michelon, I circled the Throne Magic Circle again.

Although my feet sank deep into the abyss and my upper body was getting scorched, it was fortunate that the orbit decreased as I went further inside. The starting point, the place where Father's failed spell that killed Ilaves was, gradually beca distant.

Even so, the shattered characters of that spell shimred like a mirage before my eyes, driving . Not allowing

to stop.

The further I got from the broken spell, the closer I was getting to Michelon, but honestly, he felt the furthest. With each round, he felt more distant. When on earth will I reach him.

'If only I could receive Michelon's mana.......'

But I had to minimize unpredictable possibilities as much as possible.

Although buried up to my waist, after circling like that, Tess finally changed as I desired. Without growing sideways, it grew higher and higher, changing the tower shape. Like a spear with an incredibly sharp tip.

That spear drew in the collision of the four elents pushed towards

every ti it failed to reach Michelon. I explained earlier that Michelon should be the central axis, but.......

'Actually, the central axis is .'

What had risen to my chest surged to my neck in an instant, and finally above my head.......

"Leontes!!!!!!!"

Getting closer, Michelon's shout rang clearly, hitting my eardrums. He must be surprised, but it was a necessary process. Even if my circles achieve the fusion of the four elents, a certain limit must be maintained; if that limit is exceeded, the fusion explodes.

But if I beco that center, I can prevent the explosion. If I settle as the center and remain unshaken.

'Just as I told Michelon. Because my words weren't entirely lies.'

To do that, I must beco sothing smaller than the four elents. Before water, fire, earth, and wind beco water, fire, earth, and wind, before they take on such properties, as the commonality of them all and the starting point of them all.

"Leontes!!! Leontes!!!!"

...It felt like water, fire, earth, and wind were dismantling

piece by piece. into smithereens... into powder... even smaller than that... erasing

entirely, eliminating .......

Suddenly, fear arose. Because it was a pain greater than I expected, but also a power greater.

So, I almost lost my footing and fell. Missing the point that was the answer to all these complex calculations. The point where our two nas, like a school of fish, drove and gathered all transformation magic and contracts with dragons that had occurred in the Throne Magic Circle until now into one place. Which I had designated by calculating the distance with Michelon exactly.......

"Leontes!!!! Wait!!!!!!!"

If it weren't for Michelon.

Barely opening my eyes, I saw Michelon trying to rush towards . He was already throwing his upper body forward.

But his feet didn't move. Because I had cast magic beforehand.

Since he's a young dragon, no matter how great he is, I couldn't proceed with a massive magic experint trusting only his self-control.

"!!!"

Michelon's eyes t mine. Is he really looking at ? Devoured by chaos, when even my body is invisible to my own eyes?

There was no ti to be amazed. Michelon threw his head back and roared, his eyes flashing as he began to move. Good heavens, I bound him lightly because he's a child, but to think he would break my magic with force and charge here!

At that mont, fortunately, the fusion was completed and harmony began. The harmony of all four elents, a new circle.

The greatest pain so far rushes in, but it also brings equivalent euphoria. Growing and growing, advancing and advancing—

I brought down the spear that had soared upwards and thrust it forward. Right into Michelon's token.

"KYAAAAAAK!"

The scream of Michelon, who was rushing but got stabbed by the spear and nailed to the spot, was not a human sound but closer to a beast. Co to think of it, he is a dragon; since when did I think of him like a human? Perhaps, from before he said he wanted to be human?

The next mont, a sharp blade stabbed my token. As soon as the spear tip stabbed Michelon, the spear shaft I was holding also turned into a spear tip.

I didn't scream. I didn't have the strength to. I just held on tight and didn't let go. Afraid I might drop it while struggling.

"Leontes!!!!!!!!"

Chaos filled up to my neck, feeling like it was overflowing past my throat and leaking out of my eyes and ears. My breath stopped.

At the dizzying mont, finally, the spear transford back into a bridge. The fusion-harmony-fusion I achieved t Michelon's mana, and thus wrapped around him. I was swept up too.

I held on with all my might.

'Until Michelon's transformation is complete.......'

I had to endure this reaction. Not ending at fusion but going towards harmony again. Michelon explained how Ilaves and Father failed.

-Mother's face had changed into a human's.

-Only the face?

-You would guess well enough.

It ant not simply changing to a human face on a dragon's body. Then it must have been terrible. As if forcibly fusing a dragon and a human. No, not fusion, but rging them together.

At the last mont, Michelon had to achieve harmony himself. Since I would bear the reaction, there was enough hope.

The storm of mana enveloping Michelon grew uncontrollably large.