Little Anvis of his previous life had never been particularly keen on making friends or cultivating his own network of connections.
Compared to those things, he had been more passionate about studying.
Yes, studying made him happy.
Even so, he had still heard of Olbins's great reputation.
The founder and pioneer of the Arcane School, discoverer of the Third Law of Space-Time, multiple recipient of the Orvanni Truth Medal, and sole Direct Disciple of His Eminence Veronica, the Ring of Space-Time and one of the Magic Council's three Speakers...
The accomplishments this man of humble origins would achieve in the future could not be described even by the word "brilliant."
If compared to the famous figures of Anvis's previous life, Olbins was the magical equivalent of Einstein and Tesla.
In just a few decades, he would push the development of the entire magical world forward by a step... Olbins's most renowned achievement was successfully reconstructing the structural model of the Eternal Core—the energy core of a Floating City.
One had to know that Floating Cities spanned dozens of kilometers in diameter. Keeping such an enormous object suspended in the air without falling consumed a truly astronomical amount of magic power every second.
Absorbing the free energy in the surrounding space alone was nowhere near enough to support such immense magical consumption. Therefore, there had to be an independent, super-powered source of magic.
The Eternal Core was the central magic source of an entire Floating City, as well as the foundation of its terrifying power.
It could output an almost limitless supply of magic power at all times, and its upper output limit was constrained only by the material of the Magic Circuits! It was a truly miraculous creation!
Although the council later discovered that even Ninth Rank Limit powerhouses could