One-Page Book

All these Grimoires were semi-finished products. Their covers varied in color, thickness, and size, but in truth, there was little difference between them.

Among all Grimoires, the three-leaf clover representing "honesty, hope, and love" was inherent to every book. It was also the fundamental requirement a Grimoire had to possess upon completion.

Otherwise, those who did not meet those three criteria simply were not qualified to receive a Grimoire, or they would receive a blank, one-leaf, or two-leaf Grimoire instead—which was actually preferable.

Built upon the three-leaf clover, what truly filled a Grimoire, gave it pages, changed its form, and granted it magic was the mage who received it—or, more precisely, the mage's soul. The current Grimoire was merely a temporary support.

To use an analogy, the current support was a disposable jack, while the mage's soul was the tire. A jack could hold up a car, but it could not make it move.

Once the Grimoire had been bestowed, that disposable jack would become useless. If it lost its support again, the Grimoire's structure would collapse.

That was why a mage could still use his original Grimoire after undergoing soul reincarnation magic, while a Grimoire would collapse and disappear after its mage died.

On that basis, a mage's soul might possess special qualities that caused the Grimoire to undergo further changes.

For instance, the luck represented by the fourth leaf, and the devil represented by the fifth leaf.

Licht's Four-Leaf Clover Grimoire had become a Five-Leaf Clover Grimoire due to the influence of the Word Soul Devil, proving that this transformation occurred in real time. The reason it had not been recorded in the past was simply because such changes were too rare—

In this world, only an extremely small number of people could possess a Four-Leaf Clover Grimoire.