Signs of Life and Death Emerge

"Zeref truly deserved it... I'd call you the magic encyclopedia of the Fairy Tail world."

The first thing Adam examined was naturally Zeref's memories concerning magic.

From Script Magic to God Slayer Magic, whether it was commonplace magic or magic lost to history, Zeref's magical knowledge was comprehensive enough to be called exhaustive.

He even possessed knowledge of magic involving external magic power sources.

Though they might not have been as effective as Hades's external magic power sources—after all, Hades had researched them for his own use, while Zeref had not pursued that field further—the knowledge in Zeref's hands was already sufficient for Adam.

He was not going to simply take that knowledge and use it as-is. He would adapt it into a version suited to himself. As supplementary foundational knowledge, Zeref's research was more than enough.

Adam could actually create external magic power sources himself. The reason he needed someone else's research materials was simply that he did not want to waste time and effort reinventing something that already existed in a world whose rules he did not yet understand.

"This thing really gives you what you pay for. If I want to make a high-capacity flagship version, I couldn't buy these materials even if I had the money."

Adam quickly grasped the principles behind creating an external magic power source in this world. It was a converter for Magic Particles, capable of converting the Magic Particles scattered throughout the world into magic power that wizards could use directly. It could also store magic power.

Its effectiveness involved multiple factors:

For example, attributes. Different magic required magic power with different attributes. Law required dark magic power, while Fairy Law required light magic power.

Then there was conversion speed, which included two aspects. One was the speed of converting external