"Lord Roland, this is where the Undead Mage was recently discovered.
As you instructed, we brought him back here and recreated the circumstances of his capture."
A day later, Roland arrived in the Doran Kingdom through a Teleportation Magic Array.
The Battle Mages stationed there had received word and completed the preliminary preparations. Now, accompanied by their senior officers, he personally inspected the ruins.
Roland nodded, then recited the incantation under everyone's gaze and cast Qi Reading Spell.
With a strange tremor, the sensation he had once experienced under the amplification of Tronia's Magic Array surged through him-the feeling of communicating with nature and every living thing.
Once again, Roland entered a state that felt as though his soul had left his body and resonated directly with mana.
The difference was that far less mana responded to him. It was nowhere near the scale of his previous advancement.
As Roland understood it, this state could be called "Unity of Heaven and Humanity."
The term carried a distinctly Eastern philosophical and cultural flavor, and he was more accustomed to expressing it precisely in Seris.
However, Atrelin's magic world also had traces of traditions belonging to professions such as Druids.
They likewise revered nature, praying through their connection with the natural world to obtain divine magic.
In essence, the principles were the same.
Empowered by this strange ability to interact with nature, Roland's eyes seemed to fill with magical radiance. As he looked around, everything began to display different colors and textures, as though seen through a special filter.
At the very least, these differences allowed him to identify positive and negative energy, then distinguish various elemental forces and the properties of light and darkness.
Roland saw a funnel-shaped depression before him, resembling a mass of black smoke.
It did not have