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For the next few days, Edward spent his time in class, after-school tutoring, and the library. And today, after a week, he finished all the books in the library.
Then, he began to summarize his understanding of the Onmyou Magic System of this continent. It is a magic system that combines summoning magic, spells, ceremony, hand-to-hand combat, and rituals.
In fact, back in the Empire, Onmyou Magic exists in its early stages. Many countries, races, ethnicities, and cultures have tried to create magic systems based on their regions' lore, customs, or myths.
For example, Martial Arts have become popular in the Chinese Region because of the discovery of [Aura]. Secondly, they developed pills instead of potions after Edward brought back Alkahestry.
In the India Region, magic systems or spells based on Buddhism, Hinduism, and other religions have been developed.
In Norway, Sweden, and Denmark Region, Viking Warriors were now a new magic system that involved [Engraving] magic circles on Arcanists' bodies. The magic circles preferred by the Vikings are the ones that enhanced their physical bodies to monstrous levels, not to mention they can also enter Berserk Mode, where they feel no pain and no fatigue for a certain period.
And the way they fight usually involved temporarily engraving their spells on their weapons or different parts of their bodies. The Viking Legion is one of the most fierce and mighty Space Marine Squads of the Empire.
In the European Regions, there are things like knights and Dragon Riders.
In the African and Caribbean Region, there is the Loa Spirit Magic System that involves creating artificial Nature Gods or Spirit. These two regions can use Ancestral Summoning Magic like the indigenous people. However, they wanted something more.
They wanted to create artificial Spirits called Loas linked to nature to give them different types of blessings and even make contracts with them similar to Shikigamis.
This particular project did not yield any result until Lily's Druid Magic was created, and these regions took inspiration from her research to make the first Loa.
However, the following plan they submitted to the Empire was to use Faith to nurture these spirits, essentially granting them some essence of Godhood to increase their power.
Edward agreed with the idea of creating artificial Gods controlled by the Empire. However, he had to delay this aspect of the project since he felt it was too early. After all, they had just created the Artificial Spirit, and it was only one of them.
As for the Japanese Region, they tried to recreate the Onmyou Magic System. Things like Talismans exist in the Empire. However, these talismans are mostly called Magic Scrolls because of the overall European ambiance and influence.
As for Shikigamis, a few Japanese tried to create artificial ones like the Loas, while the majority believed that a specific dimension exists with Eastern Shikigamis and are trying to find it.
After analyzing this continent's magic system and comparing it to back home, Edward picked another book titled "The Diary of Onizuka."
Onizuka was a commoner born in the Yamato Country long ago before they conquered the eastern continent. Although he did not have the talent for Samurai or Onmyou Mage, he was recorded in history as a wise man.
All the modern influences that Edward noticed in this place, like the Academy or the school uniform, were created by him. The man had many inventions or ideas that led to the development of the Yamato Clan and could be credited for why they are so powerful today.
Nevertheless, in his later years, he began to talk about a Utopian World where commoners and nobles were equal and lived in harmony. Honestly, Edward suspects he was killed since he died not long after he began publishing these types of things.
And he was more surprised that these ideas were not erased from history by the Yamato Clan.
'This Onizuka was most definitely someone from Primordial Earth who was unlucky to reincarnate in this world but did not have any talent for magic. So, he spent his life spreading discoveries and ideas from there to gather wealth and live a comfortable life.'
Edward knew the low probability of not having any innate talent, gifts, or cheat-like abilities after reincarnating from Primordial Earth. He can only say that Onizuka was truly unlucky.
According to Merlin, 99.99% of people who can reincarnate from Primordial Earth will be granted a talent from the Dimension Will of Primordial Earth. Some skills are extraordinary and beyond reason–hence the name Cheat Abilities. And some are mediocre to the point of being almost useless unless the owner can find a way to make them work.
Nevertheless, most of them will receive something.
Unfortunately, Onizuka was one of the 0.01%. Of course, there is the possibility that he has one of those rare talents with the condition that it will only activate after he dies.
Edward placed the books back on their shelf and left the library. Now that he has enough knowledge, he can modify his mana's frequency to fit more with this continent and better his actions from all the enchantments he sensed all over the Academy.
Meaning he could now start snooping around to get the answers he wanted.
As he walked out, he saw someone waiting for him: Princess Matsumoto. Based on the personality trait he created for the character 'Kozuki Akimitsu,' he should have cold brushed her while making insensitive remarks about how corrupt her family was and ignoring her.
However, he sensed something odd about this girl. So he was intrigued, so he stopped and looked at her.
"Akimitsu-senpai," she bowed politely.
"We are not familiar with each other, princess. So, please call me by my family name."
The princess squinted her eyes slightly before regaining her bearing.
"I'm sorry for my rude behavior, Kozuki-senpai."
"It's fine, as long as you don't repeat the same mistake. So, to what do I owe this visit?"
"I came to warn you."
"Oh, of what?"
"Three months from now, the Academy will organize a Spirit Disaster Purification Practice for the first-year students. So, you should be careful of the nobles and royals."
Matsumoto had a warm and caring look as she said these things to him; it was like she was genuinely afraid that something would happen to him.
"Is that so? Well, thank you for the warning. Now, if you would excuse me," he said before bowing as a salute and walking away. He only needed a few seconds to secretly place a Spirit Mark on her, and now that he had accomplished that, there was no point in continuing this conversation.
He could see her tactics from a mile away. Nothing but warning him to get her trust, she would then offer the Yamato Clan's protection when the time arrived.
As the princess watched him leave, her face turned into a calm and composed one, with a dangerous light in her eyes.
Meanwhile, Edward returned to his single dorm and waited until it was night. He took out a talisman in the shape of a paper doll. After injecting his spirit energy into it, a person dressed in ninja clothes appeared before him.
It turns out this place has Ninja as one of the magical classes. People who awaken short knives or shuriken during their ceremony can become ninjas. However, only one family that served under the Yamato Clan had the proper training methods to train ninjas. Officially, that is. The other royal clans and nobles must have their own training methods.
Additionally, since they are beings of shadows, knowledge of them is rare and not easily available to the public.
Lucking at the puppet before him, Edward used his finger to write the Character Runes for an Invisible Talisman to bless him.
'These Character Runes will be a great asset to the Arcane Rune System.'
Edward liked collecting runes from different universes and incorporating them into his Arcane Rune System. So far, he has learned three different types of runes: The Array Runes from the Heart Kingdom, the one from the Dwarves, and the Character Runes from the eastern continent.
After entering the Invisible State, the ninja began to investigate some sensitive places of the Academy while avoiding the Detecting Enchantments or Talismans in these places.
After a few hours of searching, the puppet found an enormous door in an underground room underneath the Academy. The door had at least a thousand talismans to seal it, and a strange circle was drawn on it.
'Sealing Art?' thought Edward as he saw the circle on the door. Sealing Art was a class taught in the second year. Many Yokais are too powerful to deal with, so Sealing Art is used to seal them away in magical items.
Sealing Art is also used to seal and protect extraordinary items or secrets.
As Edward looked at the seal, countless thoughts flashed across his mind. He soon realized this seal was the core of the enormous magic formations he sensed that covered the royal palace, the Academy, and the Onmyou Protection Hall.
'Why do they need such a level of protection for the Origin Grimoire?' thought Edward. The map the Wizard Sage left for him pointed to behind this door. Additionally, he also could sense the power of the Universe's Will.
By now, he had some conjectures on what was going on. But he needed more proof.
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Many of you need to stop telling me you don't like this arc without giving me valid reasons or criticism; it's annoying to read these comments. So, either stalk chapters and wait until this world is finished or stop reading altogether.
Thank you for your time.
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Through the eyes of the puppet, Edward looked at the seal and analyzed the situation. An idea came to mind, so he controlled the puppet to write a talisman in the air. However, a strange wave emanated from the door before he finished, and the puppet disappeared.
"This is…outside of the Academy," he muttered as he looked around through the puppet's eyes. "One of the defensive mechanisms of the door is to exile people it deems dangerous?"
Edward retrieved the puppet and decided to try again, but not tonight as he guessed many influential people like the headmaster, the Shogun, and even the Emperor would be alerted by tonight's attempt.
And as expected, Edward detected many powerful mages coming to the library for the next few days. And even the students could feel a strange tension throughout the school.
Then, after these people left, he created another talisman puppet, and this time, he instilled 90% of his mana in this one. After infiltrating the basement again, Edward saw two Onmyou Mages guarding the door, so he made them faint with the Sleeping Mantra.
After that, he approached the door intending to use his overwhelming power to open the seal. Unfortunately for him, he discovered this door could react faster than him because of the slight power of the Universe Will.
So, the puppet once again disappeared.
Inside his bedroom, Edward frowned as he could not see through the puppet's eyes. He could feel the connection, but it was vague and seemed far away. So, he closed his eyes to locate the thing.
He opened his eyes more than half an hour later with a strange look.
'The puppet was exiled to another parallel dimension?'
In his last voyage, he developed a spell to travel the multiverse. So, he had some knowledge of parallel dimensions or timelines. So, he could sense that the puppet was not in the same space-time continuum as the main body.
"Well, I can at least use the puppet to get the coordination of that parallel dimension."
Edward planned to travel to parallel universes to gather the resources needed to rebuild the World Gate. So, he could start with where the puppet was.
'Nevertheless, this is one of the situations where overwhelming strength cannot deal with the problem. So, I need other methods.'
Numerous thoughts flashed across his mind. Then, he remembered the information Princess Matsumoto gave him. Three months from now, the school will organize a Spirit Disaster Purification.
'I can use this opportunity to get to Zuriel and gather some more information about Elysium.'
Edward knew Zuriel never left the school ground after monitoring him since school started. However, the Spirit Disaster was the perfect opportunity to get his hand on him.
For the next few days, Edward went to school as usual while ignoring the increased security in the Academy and pretending the chaos had nothing to do with him.
A month later, when the situation calmed down, he went to see headmaster Hirano as an excuse to thank her for giving her access to the library. His real purpose was to hypnotize her to assign Zuriel as one of the teachers responsible for the Spirit Disaster outing; he did not want to take the chance that other teachers would be assigned.
While leaving the headmaster's office, she warned him to be careful during the outing, and Edward smiled at her. For the remaining two months, he acted normally while removing the contractual restraints from reading all the books in the library.
The Yamato Dynasty has strict control of knowledge. So, any book related to magic read in the library required signing a contract, which also contained the power of Universe Will.
Edward wanted to learn this level of contracts to use back in the Empire since it is much better than Soul Contracts. Additionally, he felt understanding more about the Universe Will would benefit him and the Empire besides allowing him to use Conceptual Magic.
Then, the day of the outing arrived. Edward stood as the leader of the commoner students, which displayed a level of confidence never seen since the inception of the Academy.
Usually, during these outings, the commoners were usually scared and worried they would perform poorly. But, after three months of training, the weakest of them had caught up with some middle noble households.
Furthermore, their senpai taught them how to work together to fill the gap between high nobles and royals.
Three teachers were leading the students: Kisuke-sensei, Kuruna-sensei, and Zuriel.
"Is everyone here?" asked Kisuke. After the students nodded, he looked at one student and said: "Prince Yuji, if you don't mind."
"It's my pleasure," said the prince before taking out a talisman.
"Order."
The talisman floated in the air before shining brightly. Then, a portal appeared in front of everyone. The teachers then instructed the students to enter one by one.
Everyone soon found themselves in front of a small village where the clouds above were utterly dark. Additionally, an eerie aura could be felt just by looking at the village.
"Go deal with the Spirit Disaster," said Kisuke calmly. The students waited for further explanation, but the middle-aged man ignored him. So, they realized they were on their own for this outing.
Edward led his group closer to the village, and the nobles–led by Princess Matsumoto–followed him. A few meters away, he looked at the village and saw a bunch of deformed creatures with horns and black spots covering all their bodies.
He observed for a moment with a frown. "Don't kill the creatures," he said to the commoners before looking at the nobles. "That goes for all of you as well."
"Why?" asked the princess.
"Because these creatures are the villagers."
Everyone frowned as they realized the seriousness of the situation. With a little determination, they can kill these creatures. But knowing they were once humans made things more complicated.
"But these villagers are already contaminated by the energy from the Spiritual World," said Gojo Tsuchimikado.
"I know, but I can revert then back to normal."
"Impossible. No one can do such a thing. Even if you purify them, their soul can only enter the Wheel of Reincarnation and not suffer."
"Because others cannot do it does not mean I cannot."
Everyone became quiet for a moment before some noble yelled: "Why should we listen to you?"
"Because I'm stronger than you," replied Edward casually before looking at the person who spoke, almost making the person pee his pants as he remembered how Edward was undefeated in all the Combat Practices in the past three months.
"Do you have a plan?" asked Princess Matsumoto, and Edward told the group their plan. Without any choice, the group had to follow his order.
Most of the students divided into four groups before positioning themselves in the village's four corners.
Then, they began to chant a long mantra, creating a transparent rectangular barrier to surround the village. With this barrier, the contaminated energy from the Spiritual World will no longer spread.
The second group of student of students began to confront the demonized villagers. The samurai were responsible for containing the villagers, while the Onmyou Mages used Binding Talismans to capture and immobilize these villagers.
Miko led a third group consisting of all the royal clan heirs. Her familiar–the Three-eyes Raven–rested on her shoulder as she searched different houses while the rest immobilized the attacking demonized villagers.
Soon, she stopped before one of the houses and pointed at it.
"Thank you for your hard work," said Princess Matsumoto as she appeared genuinely excited. "It's always great to have a Seer in our midst. Otherwise, there would be great casualties if the Yokai attacked us when we were unprepared."
Miko bowed and smiled politely, despite being on guard. In the past three months, too many nobles have tried to get on her good grace. And with Akimitsu-senpai telling her all the strategies they were using, she was always on guard when one of them was polite to her.
"Yokai, there is no need to hide. We know you're in here," yelled Yuji before looking at Miko. "Miss Satoru, stay behind us to not get hurt."
She nodded to him before moving a little far away from the house. Not long after she did that, the house began to tremble before an enormous creature with red skin, horns, and holding a gigantic mace appeared from the rumbles of this house.
He looked at these children with his red eyes before saying: "Humans, do not stand in my way or suffer my wrath."
As the royal children looked at this enormous creature, their legs trembled for a few seconds. Nevertheless, they were all well-trained by their clans, so they composed themselves before preparing for battle.
Meanwhile, Edward floated above the village, looking at everything calmly, waiting for his opportunity.
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I will say, much of the criticism about this arc is valid. For example, the bad time skips, leaving many unexplained aspects. And most importantly was the nerf. I regretted making Edward return to his peak so quickly. Otherwise, the story would have made more sense logic-wise.
I understand why some people might find it vexing reading him going through so much trouble when he could logically bully the entire world with his strength. I tried to justify the reason he could not do this, but it appeared it was not good enough. I will take this as a learning experience.
Finally, in a few chapters, I decided to change the story and focus on the other group that went to the Konosuba Universe. If this world is not to your liking, maybe you will find that one more enjoyable.
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