"Worthy of Jules Grand Mage. He had so many titles, and every one of them sounded so impressive!"
Emma looked admiring when she heard that. Perhaps only when facing a senior magician from Stephenson would this madwoman behave a little more normally.
Xu Nan merely chuckled.
"Maybe we should add one more."
"What?" Emma asked in surprise.
"Destroyer of High Pills," Xu Nan silently added in his heart. Of course, in reality, he only shook his head and motioned for her to keep listening.
As for Susan beside him, she wore that hesitant, wanting-to-speak expression for the Nth time. Xu Nan habitually ignored her.
The voice in the recording crystal continued in a calm, measured tone. Just as Xu Nan had expected, Jules Grand Mage recounted the entire story—
Many years ago, Jules Grand Mage, who claimed to have reached the pinnacle of the arcane arts and become invincible beneath the heavens, finally grew tired of searching for the vanished Arcane Empire. He began pouring more of his passion into travels through the Astral Realm.
Believing that his disciple Ansu Li was more than capable of managing the Red Windmill, he hastily handed over his affairs and headed alone into the Astral Realm to tour the multiverse.
To put it bluntly, he was slacking off. He wanted to become an Absentee Landlord.
During those years of travel, however, he encountered something that would change the rest of his life.
While passing through a universe that had nearly been completely destroyed, Jules happened upon a lone astral spirit.
The pitiful astral spirit told Jules that its world was threatened by an evil Great Devil and was now on the verge of destruction. From what Jules learned from the astral spirit, it was a secondary plane and a civilization with highly developed