Completely Insane!

He hoped this ruin held a way to lift the curse on him!

With that hope in mind, Zeref used his magic to sense the direction with the strongest reaction within the ruins and made his way toward it.

As for Adam's initial concern—whether Zeref would realize these ruins were fake... it never happened at all.

On one hand, Adam's preparations had indeed been exceptionally thorough. At the very least, there was nothing that would make Zeref immediately think it looked fake.

On the other hand, Adam's methods, which differed greatly from this world's magical conventions, were themselves extremely effective at confusing Zeref.

It was probably something akin to a cognitive blind spot. Zeref was confident that even if there were spells created during the past four hundred years that he did not know, they could never fall outside the scope of his knowledge.

In other words, there might be newly developed magic he had not learned if one got into the finer details, but when it came to broad categories, he was confident that he knew all magic.

For a system he could not understand to suddenly appear under such circumstances, it obviously could not have emerged during this period.

Because his trust in himself ran so deep, he had absolute faith in his own conclusions and would even subconsciously come up with reasonable explanations for everything he discovered.

Though Zeref was curious about his surroundings, he had little interest in stopping to admire them. Compared to that, the intense magical reaction drew him in far more.

After making his way purposefully through the palace within the ruins, Zeref found the target he had sensed in a room that looked like an altar.

It was a book placed upon a stone platform as an offering.

Yet the moment he