A Visit at the Door

Punk had inherited the memories of Archmage Wedraxia, and Wedraxia had once been a member of the Duelist Alliance. Thus, Punk naturally possessed the core key needed to break the Magic Lock.

He even vaguely suspected that when the Duelist Alliance had so readily allowed a relatively peripheral member like Wedraxia to obtain the key, they might already have considered that this "asset," seemingly worthless near the end of the war, could influence the "Netheril Remnants" who inherited Netheril's spirit.

That was precisely why information as highly confidential as the key had appeared in Wedraxia's memories and been passed down as part of the inheritance alongside an enormous amount of knowledge.

Perhaps from the very moment of their defeat, countless former "nests" of Netheril spellcasters that had lost their masters had already been unilaterally deemed part of the "inheritance" by the Vengeance Faction.

However, the avengers who had arranged so many inheritances probably never expected that several powerful figures from the Hidden Faction—the group they had looked down upon and despised most—would survive. Whether the legacies they left behind had long since been thoroughly scavenged by their "peers" was actually hard to say...

In any case, these old affairs that had vanished with history had little to do with the Legendary Mage now. Perhaps they contained many moving stories and carried much little-known sincere emotion, but at this moment, to a "Netheril Remnant" trapped inside a Magic Lock, only this key was the most useful treasure handed down from that old secret.

"..."

After confirming that the ruin he occupied had been built by a newly promoted Morningstar mage from the late Netheril era, and that the Magic Lock before him was one of those "mass-produced" locks generously leased out by the Archmages of that time, Punk knew that he