After sending Moberon and his daughter off, Lie Yi and Blaise approached and asked curiously, "Are you going to immortalize your student in a magic card?"
Roland said, "I have little choice. It's a solution when there's no real solution."
The two understood.
High Mages did not take this path. Even some ordinary people had the option of believing in a deity and having their souls enter a Divine Kingdom.
That was where people went after death in this magical world.
If Diego's soul had entered the realm of the God of Light or another benevolent, righteous deity in keeping with his beliefs in life, rather than scattering into oblivion, Roland certainly would not have gone to such lengths.
Birth, aging, sickness, and death were ordinary parts of life, and vastly different from a violent death.
The two reminded Roland, "Perhaps you could establish a research project for this and apply for state funding.
"Considering Diego's contributions, the Arcane Committee would surely approve."
"True. Some resources are much easier to obtain through Atrelin."
Roland nodded, readily accepting their advice.
After their conversation, Roland, Lie Yi, Blaise, and the other faculty members returned to the Mage Tower ahead of the others.
Someone else would handle the aftermath at the scene.
Roland immediately began preparing to summon the soul of his student, Diego.
He had already thought it through and decided to achieve his goal using the power of wishes associated with Wish and Dream Spell.
That was the principle. In practice, however, he would use emotion to elicit a response from the Seris Divine Runes, connecting with the power of souls within the Divine Kingdom and that mysterious resonance spanning universes.
This could not be accomplished overnight, but he could already begin the preliminary preparations and the crucial work of making