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A young man dressed in a black robe appeared in the middle of the circle. His appearance was extremely pale as if he was sick and on the verge of dying. His eyes scanned around as he looked at the magic circle on the ground with a frown.
Then, a smile appeared on his face as he looked at the group. Although he was surprised after landing his eyes on Edward, he did not show it.
"So, it is you guys who summoned me? To what I owe this pleasure?"
"Who are you?" asked Edward directly as he did not recognize this person. Most likely because he was a minor god not overtly known to the general population so not easily recognizable by certain traits.
"My name is Dolus."
"The Greek God of Lies and Deception?" muttered Edward. "How exactly did such a weak god like you manage to survive the War? From what I know, the Greek Pantheon was forced to change its names and reinvent itself to Roman in an attempt to survive. However, I doubt a minor good like would have such an opportunity."
The smile on Dolus' face remained the same, 'This Sorcerer is not only powerful but also quite knowledgeable of the past. This may be a little tricky.'
"I have my own methods," replied Dolus.
"Yes, as a god whose divinity revolves around trickery and cunningness, you should have your own method. Although you are no Loki, you should not be too bad."
As soon as the word Loki was mentioned, Dolus' smiling facade was almost broken. Obviously, that name was a sore spot for him.
And this slight change did not escape Edward's sight as he was closely observing this god in front of him. Additionally, he mentioned Loki on purpose to see his reaction.
After all, as both Gods of Trickery, as two people who share the same [Authorty], Edward did not think that these two would get along since they were competitors.
Adding to that the fact that Loki is way more popular and known than Dolus, this only showed that in their confrontation, the Greek God was at a disadvantage.
"So, for what reasons have you summoned me here?" asked Dolus who forced himself to regain his calm, collected, and trusted worthy smiling face.
"No, the question is, why did you accept our summon?" said Edward, a question which made Dolus frown as he realized that the situation was different than he expected.
He thought that some mortal had come across some summoning magic and was using it recklessly. So, he believed that this was an opportunity for him to leave his hiding place and used the situation to recuperate his power.
However, after seeing Edward and how powerful of an Internal Sorcerer he was, he did not change his plan. He just thought that it would only be slightly more difficult to trick this sorcerer and his companion.
Regrettably, based on the brief conversation, he knew that his opponent might also a master of negotiation and manipulation. Adding to their wariness and strength, a different approach was necessary.
So, Dolus removed his smiling face and became calm to the point of indifference.
"Let's not go around the bush. State your purpose directly."
"Fine," said Edward as he waved his hand to manifest a white crystal, which then floated to Dolus inside the magic circle.
"I want to exchange knowledge from you with this."
The greek god looked at the crystal for a few seconds before swallowing it. Then, he frowned before saying: "Crystallize Soul? However, the quality of the soul is terrible; although slightly better than animals, it's not even on par with ordinary humans."
Dolus was right since the crystal was made from clones.
"I can exchange with you but the souls used have to be made of ordinary people."
"No," replied Edward. "Only these. Plus, I can only give you 10 million, nothing more nothing less."
Dolus frowned after hearing this. With the quality of these souls, 10 million was enough to recover a lot of his injuries but not enough to recover to his peak. Obviously, this was a calculated number.
However, after thinking about it for a while, Dolus decided to accept the deal because he knew that if he did not, some other gods will.
"Fine."
Edward waved his hand and a magical contract flew to him. Dolus looked at it and the first thing he did was to remove all the beautiful designs on the paper that looked like nothing but decorations.
As a Trickster God, these were basic operations when tricking people into contracts. Then, he used a spell on the paper, then, the one-page contract suddenly turned into a long parchment the length of a football field.
These were all the hidden clauses of this contract that looked so simple. Then, Dolus read every single paragraph one by one while changing the clauses that he did not agree with while adding some of his.
Once he was done, he sent it back to Edward who also reviewed all the clauses. However, after the review, he only cares about two things.
The first one was the fact that Dolus refused to grant him all his knowledge for the price Edward was offering. Instead, he made a list of things he could exchange for. Edward did not hesitate to choose knowledge about the Soul, and how to cast the Divine Fire and Soul.
"Article 1567, clause c, is non-negotiable," said Edward.
"Then, you might as well cancel the deal," said Dolus with a sneer. "I manage to survive this war, do you think I would become enemy with Yahweh now?"
"I don't ask you to become enemies with him. Just attack him once at the right time."
"Same thing."
"In that case, how about I change the clause for simple information regarding his current state. I'm sure as cautious as you are, you have gathered a great deal of information about him."
Dolus remained quiet, seeming deep in thought.
"I'll add another million souls. However, that's all I can offer you."
"Deal."
After that, the two negotiated a few more things before they both signed the contract. Dolus was slightly surprised once everything was done. He thought that he could sacrifice a little bit of his power to break some clauses of the contract.
Unfortunately, he discovered that this contract was overseen by the Will of all the planets in the solar system. If he broke it, the backlash was enough to kill him.
So, after receiving his payment, he also gave Edward all the knowledge and information he promised. Then, he disappeared.
"I still think that we should have forcefully captured him," said Snape. "With how weak this guy is and with the Floating City, it should be quite easy."
"I think caution was the best approach," retorted Lily. "This world still has too many unknown to us."
"She's right," added Edward. "So far, we still do not know to what extent some of the gods have recovered. We do not even know how many of them have survived the war and how many have died."
After that, Edward began to review the knowledge that Dolus gave him. His eyes became bright as he muttered: "I think I found a shortcut to reaching Tier 7."
The eyes of the other became bright as they looked at him with excitement. As the most talented Arcanists in the Empire, these people knew how long it would take them to reach higher Tiers.
Hundreds of years. Even with a magical potion like the Divine Essense Potion, it would still take them dozens of years. And that's only Tier 6 not to mention Tier 7.
However, if there was a quicker way, that would be perfect.
Edward then explained the method he just thought of.
One of the information that Dolus gave him was regarding how gods lighted up their Divine Flame and its function. The Divine Flame is an application of the soul to condense it and form a Spiritual Flame.
However, that spiritual flame is not for fighting or other things; it is used to remove the impurities in faith. It is common knowledge to all the gods that faith is poisonous.
Over absorption of it can corrupt the soul and change the personality of the gods. The solution to this problem is to remove the impurities that faith contained with the Divine Flame and make it safer to absorb–or relatively safer.
After knowing this, Edward immediately thought of using the Divine Flame to purify the mana inside Arcanists to make it reach higher purity. His theory is that since crystalized mana–which was of higher quality–was enough to allow Arcanists to reach higher Tiers, then a high purity of mana could do the same.
"Let's go test this out right now," said Hermione.
"Alright."
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Next Chapter Title: Purification
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Edward immediately began to experiment with the Divine Flame and whether it can successfully purify mana and help him quickly achieve higher tiers.
After entering one of the experimental rooms, he began.
Immediately, after a few tests on many clones, he discovered that Tier 5 below individuals could not light up the Divine Fire; their souls were too weak to sustain it and would disintegrate.
So, Edward had to spend a lot of resources to quickly train Tier 6 clones for the experiment. Then, that clone used the method given by Dolus to light up the Divine Fire.
Looking at the bright golden flame in front of him, Edward nodded in satisfaction. Then, he began the next step of the experiment. He did not immediately begin with the Tier 6 clone but used a Tier 0 instead.
And the process was much easier than anticipated. The Divine Flame's sole purpose seemed to purify things. So, after coming into contact with the Tier 0 clone's mana, a reaction was quickly formed.
Mana is unseen to the naked-eyed and not easily detected. However, using a special method, it can be observed and studied. And based on the Empire's research, mana is usually manifested in blue color.
This is most obvious when a great deal of it is concentrated or mobilized by an individual. However, after the Divine Flame began to purify the clone's mana, it changed color from blue to orange, then yellow, then silver, before turning completely white. And each color represented a Tier.
Orange for Tier 1, yellow for Tier 2, silver for Tier 3, and white for Tier 4.
Edward realized that he was slowly discovering something. So, he quickly checked the liquid mana of Tier 4 Arcanists. Before, the concept of purity in mana was discussed in the Empire and studied, but there has been little to no result. However, now, with this recent discovery, Edward could identify the purity of mana.
After checking the liquid mana, he discovered that it was really made of both white and blue mana. And after purification, the blue mana also began to change color from blue to white.
When the blue part turned yellow, the clone entered Tier 5. And when all the mana turned white, it also reached Tier 6. After gathering enough data, Edward finally checked the crystallized mana.
"As expected, it's purple in color," muttered Edward underneath his breath. The reason he predicted the color of crystalized mana was because of one of the manhwa that Solomon gave him.
In of them called [The Beginning After the End], the concept of purifying mana was introduced. And the colors of purification were exactly the same with the exception that in that universe, the starting color of mana is not blue, but dark. And the next step after that is red, followed by orange and so on.
(AN: Slight spoiler for the manhwa if you ever plan to read it or do not read the light novel.)
In that universe, after the white purity mana, there is also the purple color which is also referred to as Aether that only the protagonist acquired. Thinking about this, Edward's eyes lit up as he made a somewhat major discovery.
"By that logic, the crystallized mana is a less purified form of aether. As for the Philosopher's Stone, it should be a more purified form of it."
Immediately, he quickly checked not only his magic core that was fused with a Perfect Philosopher's Stone but also other ones. And as expected, they were made most of the purple while the rest was blue.
Edward then became excited. From many novels he read from his past life, aether is either considered an advanced form of mana or magic power or better yet, the origin of magic.
It is believed that it was the fifth element, the reason that magic or anything supernatural occurred in a world where the laws of physics governed. Although these novels might not necessarily be right as they were essentially different universes, however, they can also be used as reference.
Additionally, there are minor pieces of evidence to support these theories. For example, why could the Philosopher's Stone (Aether) breaks the strict laws of Transmutation in both the magical world and when it comes to Gate Alchemy.
Why did the stone allow wizards to break Gumps' Law of Elemental Transfiguration and produce food out of thin air? Why could it grant immortality and many more?
All of these show that Aether was extraordinary, and studying it might lead Edward to the path of discovering the essence of magic.
He then looked at the stone in his hand and said: "From now on, you will be called Aether Stone."
Although he has not completely verified whether the stone was truly aether, he was 80% sure of his conjecture. Now, all he could think about was how to further purified the giant Aether Stone that is used as the Energy Core of the Floating City.
Once accomplished, he will raise the grade of the Floating City from a Pseudo Tier 9 Artifact to a Pseudo Tier 10, and even more.
Unfortunately, this problem was not so easy to deal with. Based on his calculation, it would take dozens of Tier 6 using their Divine Flame and many years to purify it until it completely turns purple. So far, he was the only Tier 6 Arcanist in the Empire, and you count the other 3 that will reach this stage in a few years, that's only 4 of them.
Unless he could find a way to create a Divine Flame using countless lesser Tiers.
"That's a good idea, so let's put it on the agenda for now," muttered Edward. Then, he frowned.
'I don't like the name Divine Flame, plus using it could bring some trouble.'
Edward knew if some of these gods knew that "mortals" were using their technique to benefit themselves, they would not be able to accept it and try to kill them. That's how petty these things are after being completely turned insane because of absorbing faith over a long period.
'In that case, let's call it Arcane Flame. No. that's too basic and unoriginal. How about Flame of Arcana or Arcana Flame; Yes, that's much better.'
He then updated his library using this new name. Then, after creating an Arcana Flame of his own, he began to purify his mana. After calculating the time it would take him to reach Tier 7, he nodded in satisfaction.
He then shared his discovery with the other three while encouraging them to hurry and enter Tier 6. Immediately afterward, Edward tried using the Arcana Flame to purify void energy.
And as expected, the flame was instantly extinguished. Knowing this, he began to test other energies. The flame was very effective. Regrettably, Edward did discover that it was more efficient to purify mana and then convert it into other energies than to directly purify other energy like solar energy.
The only exception was cosmic energy from the universe. However, Edward's understanding and use of this energy are very low or basic.
When testing the flame on soul energy, he also discovered that it could also be purified. With this method, it is possible to create better soul crystals, remove Soul Curses, and even increase the strength of the soul.
With this method, it will be easier for Arcanists to increase their soul and better control their mana, thus decreasing the time needed to reach higher Tiers. Plus, Edward has yet to fathom other benefits that a pure soul will bring to Arcanists as a whole.
This flame can also purify bloodlines so that in the future, Fleur's research can be successful. The path of Bloodline Arcanist will undergo a great boom after he returned to the Empire.
Finally, the purification can also be applied to [Aura] allowing Aura Master to also benefit. Not to mention other things like purifying magical herbs for potions, or ores for both magical artifacts and material development of technology.
"This world is truly my lucky break," muttered Edward who was a little worried that he would use all his luck in this world. However, after thinking about it for a moment, he realized he was being a little too ridiculous.
A lot of the benefit he received from this universe was because he was prepared and had extraordinary means. Another person who came here might not necessarily acquire as much benefit as him.
In the end, it all depended on his ability, ideas, and ability to execute his plans.'
"Alright, let's check the information that Dolus gave me."
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