The Convergence of Two

"Are you Viscount Rost?!"

Wild Mage Adrift looked at the viscount before him, his eyes filled with complicated emotions. "You are truly willing to invest in my Self-Charging Magic Array? Although that array already looks quite complete, it is undeniably still only a half-finished product."

A few days later, Roger's earliest follower, Viscount Rost, found the Wild Mage.

Faced with the Wild Mage's candor, Viscount Rost nodded with a smile. "I know, but it has enormous potential, does it not? You are a mage worthy of respect, a bold pioneer. I believe you are very much worth investing in! Get in the carriage first. We can talk on the road!"

Thinking back to yesterday's divine revelation and the task the god had assigned him, he became incomparably excited. His gaze toward this mage, who had been unwelcome in the royal capital, also became especially gentle.

"My experiments are very costly, and there is no certainty when they will bear results. There is not even any certainty that there will be results before my life comes to an end!" Wild Mage Adrift took a deep breath.

"You already said that on the Magic Web." Viscount Rost noticed how cautious this Wild Mage was, so he stressed it again. "I am a Mid-Order Mage. You need not emphasize it so much."

After finally dispelling the Wild Mage's concerns, he invited him into the carriage.

Viscount Rost did not rush into things. Instead, he took out a sheet of parchment. "Take a look, Mr. Wild Mage."

Wild Mage Adrift gave Viscount Rost a suspicious glance, unsure what it meant, but still accepted the parchment.

Before long, his gaze began to burn.

His gaunt face was filled with excitement, even a touch of... obsession.

Viscount Rost did not interrupt him. He simply sat there quietly, watching this Wild Mage, who was not particularly old yet already showed signs of age, with a complicated expression. He did not know much about the Wild Mage, but he knew that the man had to absorb mana continuously to stay alive. He knew that he was the inventor of the Self-Charging Magic Array. He knew that he was destined to become his companion...

No one understood the value of the Self-Charging Magic Array better than he did!

During the production of Mana Bombs, the most time-consuming part was the charging process.

Mana Bombs had already become wildly popular on the Magic Web. The recent war had surely made every nation aware of their value. Before long, the major nations—at the very least the Dawn Kingdom and the Graycastle Empire—would enter an arms race.

The Graycastle Empire had a Mage Legion, giving it an unmatched advantage in this regard. It was almost impossible for the Dawn Kingdom to compete.

The Self-Charging Magic Array would become their only hope!

Before long, his Rost Territory would undergo unprecedented development.

He would become the kingdom's newest rising noble!

Of course, that was only the first step. Next, he would use this opportunity to thoroughly spread the name of the Technology God and promote magical devices! He would make more people in the kingdom take notice of the Technology God!

He would make more people worship and believe in the Technology God, and run toward a perfect future!

At some point, Rost had come to believe more and more firmly that only by following the Technology God could this world become more perfect and cast off its rotten past...

Putting away his thoughts, Viscount Rost looked at Wild Mage Adrift with the same burning gaze.

This was someone personally mentioned by the god. What an honor that was?!

"Amazing, truly amazing! The gathered mana has been made more stable, and these flexible interfaces allow the accumulated mana to be controlled at will. A work of genius, a work of genius! Viscount Rost, I never expected you to deduce such a perfect Self-Charging Magic Array from the scattered information I posted in the Magic Web space."

After an unknown amount of time, Wild Mage Adrift finally lowered the parchment in his hands. "My previous doubts were disrespectful. You truly are a great mage, far greater than those rotten people in the royal capital."

"No, no, Mr. Wild Mage, I was not the one who completed this Self-Charging Magic Array. I merely received a divine revelation." Viscount Rost hurriedly waved his hands in explanation. "It was the god who told me everything about the Self-Charging Magic Array. It was also the god who told me of a person as exceptionally gifted as you. That is why I wished to invite you to join our Rost Territory, and why I wished to invite you to join my cause!"

"A god?! The Magic Goddess?!" Wild Mage Adrift stared blankly at Viscount Rost. He truly had not expected such an answer. "I never thought you were one of the chosen! No, you are practically a living saint. Ordinary chosen ones cannot receive knowledge."

"No, not the Magic Goddess. It is the Technology God! The Technology God who created the Magic Internet alongside the Magic Goddess, and who created Mana Bombs!" Viscount Rost's expression was extremely serious. "This is a new system, independent from the established magical system."

Under Viscount Rost's explanation, Wild Mage Adrift gradually came to understand.

So Mana Bombs were unlike ordinary magical items. They were that special...

"Wait, are you saying that the Self-Charging Magic Array can directly charge the storage runes of Mana Bombs?" Wild Mage Adrift reacted quickly. "No wonder! No wonder the god noticed my Self-Charging Magic Array. For magical devices, the Self-Charging Magic Array is even more powerful than a mana anomaly zone."

"Mr. Wild Mage, do you resent the god for modifying your Self-Charging Magic Array?" Viscount Rost raised an eyebrow slightly.

"No! How could I?!" On the contrary, I admire this Technology God greatly. The problems that had troubled me for so long have all been solved. Even many problems I had not noticed have been optimized. Compared with those stubborn mages, the god... is truly worthy of the name of deity!"

For a moment, Wild Mage Adrift realized he did not know how to describe it. Ever since he began researching this field of knowledge, he had been excluded at every turn. Almost no traditional mage had ever given him so much as a second glance.

Even in the age of the Magic Internet, when tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of mages gathered online, hardly anyone could understand him.

The knowledge and research he shared were met almost entirely with criticism and ridicule.

Yet just when he had already fallen into despair, the Technology God had appeared, perfected and strengthened his array. Honestly, he did not even think he had contributed much in this regard.

The improved Self-Charging Magic Array had become simpler and more powerful. If the foundational runes it used had not still been similar, he would not even have believed it was an upgraded, optimized version...

Moreover, the god's follower, Viscount Rost, was now providing him with funds, allowing him to construct a massive Self-Charging Magic Array and survive this crisis of life and death.

Even if this Self-Charging Magic Array was mainly intended to produce Mana Bombs for Rost Territory, it was still genuinely helping him. This was a win-win situation.

How could he possibly resent it?

For a moment, he even considered whether he should convert to the Technology God...

The carriage moved quickly. Viscount Rost had never been far from the royal capital, and before long, they returned to Rost Territory.

Looking at the scene outside, Wild Mage Adrift could not help but freeze slightly. With his sharp senses, he noticed that this place seemed different from the rest of the kingdom!

"Mr. Wild Mage, do you feel that my Rost Territory is somewhat different from the other noble territories?" Viscount Rost seemed to notice the Wild Mage's expression and asked with a smile.