A Visitor at the Door

Don't be fooled by how simple Lev makes it sound. The sheer volume of work involved, including the completion of various tests, is incredibly complex. If it were translated into paperwork, it would pile up from the desk to the ceiling. Is Lev really going to handle this kind of research all by himself?

This left Rovey at a loss for words; he was genuinely afraid that this guy might suddenly die on his desk one day.

"Calm down. I've already verified the prototype of the fusion of Angel Summoning and Alchemy for you; it's indeed feasible. The subsequent refinement just needs to be done gradually. The revival of the mystical arts is not something that can be accomplished overnight; we can't expect to achieve everything at once. Let's work on Angel Magecraft together after I've finished resolving the Hallcraft and their subsequent extensions. Anyway, you should go out and rest now. Give yourself a few days off and travel around London, how about that?"

"... Hmm, what you said does seem to make some sense, but that will have to wait until I seal away my current research on demons and switch to research on angels. However, I think you're overthinking it. Compared to your reckless and extreme approach of Simulated God, I think my approach is already very safe."

"Anyway, I'll consider your suggestion. I'll go back and organize the data now. Oh, and don't forget to send me the data I asked for. But honestly, it's been so long, couldn't you find another helper? There are only two of us working here, of course it's not enough... Even if we work day and night, there's still so much to do."

"Damn it, the human body is still too limited after all... If only I could maintain my energy without sleep."

Lev scratched his head, then turned and went back to his room while grumbling.

Rovey looked in the direction Lev had left and shook his head.

He's more worried about Lev now.

An assistant?

Don't worry, we'll have new helpers soon.

Thinking of Aozaki Touko, a smile involuntarily appeared on his face.

Now that the third person is here, we can have Aoko create a few Einzbern Family -type androids to assist them, and the speed will double.

Thinking of this, Rovey turned around and looked at the four Pillars of Angels of different colors behind him, his eyes filled with excitement.

Regardless, his plan and ideas succeeded.

Although it is far from being complete, it is already a true prototype and can be called the "Miracle Egg".

As for the specific effects, we'll have to wait and see how things develop.

Previously, he would have worried about how to absorb the world's pure four elements. After all, extracting and refining a large amount of the world's four elements to meet the requirements and to nurture elemental spirits and mimic divine power was an extremely complex, troublesome, and time-consuming process.

But now...

He summoned his wand inlaid with the Philosopher's Stone, and the four ultimate elemental forces emanating from it began to cause the four surrounding pillars to burst into an even more dazzling light. The elemental force emanating from the Philosopher's Stone began to fill these pillars, which symbolized different angels.

"It's all thanks to the King of Heroes's generous gift. As long as this is left here, the spell will continue to improve on its own..."

Rovey planted his wand on the altar and then murmured softly.

Even disregarding angels, wands, and Avalon, his current Magecraft abilities, based solely on the Golden System and modern Western Magecraft and Alchemy, would place him at the level of Lord, also known as a Brand.

If you're just living in the Clock Tower, this is more than enough.

But only an ordinary Magus would be satisfied with that.

This is far from enough for him right now.

The whole world has changed. True Magic, Root Shiki, Counter Force, Grand Servant —so many top-tier beings have appeared, and they've all come to him because of his unique characteristics.

Even Rovey himself didn't know who the next monster would come after him. The Black and White Vampire Princess? The Root Princess? It couldn't possibly be UO or the manifestation of the Beast, could it?

Recalling the words of advice the Jewel Magician had given him, he once again thought about the ending of this world.

—Steel Earth, Moon Coral.

He didn't want to accept either of these two damned endings.

Since we can't go back to our own world, we can't escape the fate of facing these two damned endings, so we must start thinking of ways to make changes now.

Now he needs to get serious, continue to grow stronger, fully utilize his unique abilities, and change the fate of this hopeless world.

"—What you desire is your law."

At this moment, Rovey had a brand new goal ahead of him.

And whether for himself or for those who are closely related to him and live under the same blue sky, he has to work twice as hard.

His previous carefree attitude towards life is no longer acceptable. His target and enemy will no longer be a particular person or thing, but the future of a world. Therefore—

"The task is arduous and the road ahead is long."

However, Kenneth managed to survive the Fourth Holy Grail War, a feat comparable to humanity's conquest of the Steel Isles.

You can break through my mere steel-clad earth Moon Coral to show me.

After all, my very existence is the greatest miracle...

With a sigh of lament for this damned world, Rovey turned and left.

Only a sigh of endless regret and longing for the future lingered in the air before returning to calm.

However, halfway there, Rovey suddenly realized that he seemed to have forgotten to tell Lev about Sakura.

After all, he is considered one of the very few Magus with imaginary number attributes. To put it simply, he is a lurker who can insert his hand into dimensional rifts. Sakura also possesses an extremely rare Imaginary Numbers Constitution. Kenneth and himself will teach Sakura general mineral Magecraft and suitable modern Western Magecraft systems, while Lev will be responsible for guiding her to utilize her Imaginary Numbers Constitution's talents. This is a win-win situation.

I'm sure even Lev would be very happy to see a magical prodigy with the same physique as himself.

After all, it's not easy for the Imaginary Numbers Magic to find a successor.

Sakura, whom he brought back, is undoubtedly the best successor to Lev's magic.

Chapter 107 The Visitor

The Crowley Family's forbidden area.

Inside the Magic Workshop, hundreds of meters above the ground.

She ended her months-long reunion with her good partner, successfully impressing him with her talent. His initial anger and worry about her leaving without a word, accompanied by her angelic charm, transformed into surprise and delight. She even made him completely forget about seeking revenge against Rovey.

Lev is now obsessed with reviving mysticism, reviving the Age of Gods, and recreating that most glorious era.

After years of research in the Archaeology Department, his final solution was to recreate the miracles possessed by the Magic King. In simpler terms, this means, in modern times, just as God bestowed wisdom and divine power upon Solomon in the Age of Age of Gods, to cultivate a new Magic King worthy of being called God's Chosen King, leading the remaining Magus to reclaim mystery and past glory in this mysterious and barren era.

Therefore, he formulated the "Restoration Plan of the Age of Gods," also known as the "Summoning Plan of the 72 Demons" and the "Cultivation Plan for a New Generation of Magic King." He planned to use his accumulated knowledge and research on Solomon's magic to try to cultivate and replicate a new Magic King in this world.

The idea of recreating a Magic King is not just a pipe dream, it's downright fanciful.

One can imagine how much the Lord of the Archaeology Department twitched when he saw the proposal and funding application that Lev had submitted.

Magecraft and mystery have gradually declined from the Age of Gods to the golden age of the Renaissance, and now to a barren era. The power and mystery of Magecraft have been weakened countless times. Many Magecraft geniuses have indeed emerged during this period, but none have truly become a chosen one like the Magic King.

So when Lev proposed to re-select and cultivate a Magic King in this era, everyone in the know couldn't help but feel that the plan was really too abstract...

Putting aside the question of where to find the endless wisdom God bestowed upon them, the very foundation of Solomon's Demon Summoning Magecraft has long been lost. With the current level of Demon Summoning, let alone the 72 Demons, even ordinary demon summoning has become extremely difficult.

So how did you conjure up Solomon out of thin air? As a result, Lev was labeled a madman and began to be despised by all Magus. Later, he lost all support from the Clock Tower and could only gradually figure things out by relying on his vague inspiration.

In fact, not only those Lords, but even Lev himself didn't know why he thought this outrageous plan was feasible. But his soul kept telling him, and his intuition kept reminding him that he had to do it, that he had to revive the mystical, because that was his mission.

The foundation of Demon Summoning is indeed a major problem.

However, Lev himself found the whole thing somewhat surreal, but he never expected that his instinctive actions would actually come true.

It was all just fragmented information gathered from incomplete demon tomes and summoning disks around the world. Let alone replicating it, could these things even be used? Were they even authentic? These were all questions. Yet, without anyone knowing the full story, Lev spent years in his basement and actually managed to roughly replicate most of Solomon's demon summoning disk.

The so-called madman, a whimsical man, Lev, achieved, without anyone knowing, an astonishing feat comparable to Aozaki Touko's recreation of the Northern Europe Enki disc and the Puppet Magecraft of the medieval Golden Age.

This miracle, which even he himself didn't know how he had accomplished, successfully gave Lev a certain amount of confidence, making him believe that his plan might actually work.

After all, if you want to create Magic King, these iconic elements are indispensable.

But at this very moment, his funding completely dried up, forcing Lev to seek sponsorships and funding to support his research.

However, even when he claimed that he had indeed completed a replica of a part unique to the Magic King, and that his plan was feasible and would definitely succeed if given more time and money, the old sarcasm came back again.

All the Lord thought he had gone completely mad upon hearing what he said, so they ignored him and chose to shut him out, telling him to go back and fend for himself.

Although Lev wanted to prove that he wasn't crazy and wasn't lying, he simply couldn't afford such a large-scale Magecraft experiment as summoning demons and gods without the funds and space.

Lev was also well aware that he was not the chosen king and that it would be very difficult for him to succeed in this ritual.

Unable to prove himself and receiving no understanding, Lev gradually succumbed to the pressure, even contemplating giving up or ending his own life. However...

The timely appearance of that young man became a ray of light in his heart.

"I believe you, Mr. Lev. I look forward to the world you've described, and I'm willing to help you."

This is what the other person said when he was on the verge of despair. And it pulled him out of the mire of despair.

Rovey's timely appearance and recognition successfully revived Lev, who had been utterly despondent, and gave him new hope.

He scrutinized the young man before him. Although Rovey was only a teenager at the time, his talent yet to be revealed, merely a novice at the [Cause] of the magical path, Lev sensed something in him that set him apart from other Magus. From that moment on, he regarded this young man as a close friend despite their age difference, a true confidant. And he devised a bold plan.

That is, he decided on the Magic King in advance to be Rovey. He wanted to give Rovey everything he had and all his achievements. He wanted to help Rovey become the chosen Magic King and save the world. This was the greatest way he could repay the world.

The contract he signed was different from the one prepared for Aozaki Touko.

He imposed many constraints on himself, one of which was that of a king who would never betray him, namely Rovey Crowley, whom he would do everything in his power to help him become the true Magic King until the end of his life.

He could be said to have sold the rest of his life to Rovey, but he didn't regret it.

To be able to revive the mystery, to gain an understanding person, and to enable that understanding person to become the Magic King —this in itself is the greatest happiness for him.

Only...

Lev never expected that the new generation of King Solomon he was preparing to cultivate would actually be a descendant of that mad Magus from a hundred years ago, and would begin studying the terrifying tome "The Law Book" belonging to that madman.

Upon learning of this, Lev was initially worried and surprised, even fearing that Rovey would be harmed by the evil book. He offered to decipher it himself, arguing that Rovey, as the future Magic King, didn't need to risk his life. He also urged Rovey to abandon Aleister's possessions and focus on the path of his research Solomon, Roman, to become the new Magic King.

After all, how could Aleister compare to Solomon?

However, the impact of the Law Book on him was no less than that of King Solomon's wisdom. Only after deciphering it could he understand why Aleister was being hunted down by the Church and the Mage's Association.

The other party is a madman, a madman beyond genius, who fused the religious Magecraft foundation with the Western Magecraft foundation, and then almost negated both, creating his own unique Magecraft foundation. The more he studied it, the more alarmed he became, but Lev still helped Rovey extract an almost impossible spell from it, intending to use it to make Rovey give up and continue to replicate Solomon's miracle with him.

However...

He really didn't expect that Rovey would actually succeed. He really evolved his own sanctuary, compared himself to God, and summoned the prototype of an angel.

This result shocked and amazed Lev.

He couldn't fathom how this had succeeded.

How could the human soul possibly support a deity playing the role?

Belief, or rather self-suggestion, is indeed a prerequisite for Magecraft, but before that, you also need to have enough resources to support this performance...

The fact that Rovey personally played the role of God and emerged unscathed is itself extremely illogical.

However, the facts were undeniable, and even he had to admit it.

"This, and this... they all need to be sealed up."

In the workshop, looking at the densely packed interview papers in front of him, which contained various plans he had written over the past few months about training Rovey to become the Magic King, as well as the collected materials and drawings of the Demon God summoning ritual, Lev let out a long sigh.

"Sigh... do we really have to seal it away?"

At the last moment, he murmured a question to himself.

Although reluctant, Lev gritted his teeth and resolutely packed them all into the safe.

The fruits of so many years were all buried at once. This blow would be enough to drive an ordinary Magus crazy. However, Lev is Lev after all. He is not a person who conforms to common sense.

Even though he was still reluctant to give up summoning demons and training Magus, he had no reason to hesitate now that he had a better option.

Lev had already figured it out: Rovey's ambition wasn't just to become the new Magic King; he wanted to become—God!!

Yes, Rovey wanted to recreate the miracles of the gods in this mysterious and barren era and become a new god.

This plan was even more insane than the one he had proposed. He now understood why Rovey and he were so compatible: they were both people who were not understood by this era.

But this suited him perfectly, because to accomplish extraordinary feats, one needs this kind of momentum.

Becoming the Magic King was to lead the revival of mystery. But if Rovey truly becomes a god, then there's no need for revival, because he is a god. As long as gods exist, this era will be the Age of Gods, and mystery will naturally return to its former glory in an era with gods.

For him, the outcome is the same.

Isn't it just changing the Magus's target to the Holy Son?

It's just that they turned the "72 Demons" into the "Four Guardian Angel," right?

The Temple of Solomon will be transformed into a new artificial celestial realm.

It's not a big problem, not a big problem at all...

As long as I succeed, it doesn't matter what happens; it's just a different goal.

Revive the Age of Gods, and then help your friends become gods.

These two goals can be pursued simultaneously for Lev.

"Hmph, the 72 Demons?"