The Most Important Thing to a Wizard

Perhaps love was not the only thing capable of unleashing limitless power.

The old man himself had been a genius one could not help but admire. Many of his theories, discoveries, and research findings struck directly at the essential core, leaving even Ian with much to gain.

"Just as I thought, gourmets are all secretly monstrous geniuses—well, that was also a compliment to myself." Just when Ian thought the core of these notes was time magic, he found something in the latter half of a particularly hefty notebook bound in black leather that made his gaze sharpen.

The title of that section had been written in a dark red ink—<Hypothesis on Tracing Spiritual Origins and Reconstructing Life Imprints>. Yes, these were not research findings concerning time. What the title revealed had clearly gone beyond the scope of time magic, touching upon the taboo domain of life and death!

"Wait, he researched this too?"

Ian's expression turned solemn.

He slowed down and carefully read through the contents. In these passages, Musa had explored in detail how one could begin with lingering imprints of intense emotion, bloodline connections, or specific soul beacons, then locate and "salvage" the essence of a deceased person's life from the vast river of time or spiritual dimensions.

Musa had proposed several theoretically possible methods of "reviving" the dead.

One method involved finding the exceedingly rare Stone of the Other Shore, said in legend to be capable of holding fragments of the soul. Combined with the positioning of a powerful temporal anchor, it could gather a dispersed soul together again and draw it back into the present world.

It was an ethereal method rooted in myth and legend. Still, since even the Deathly Hallows could exist, no one could say whether things mentioned in other stories might also