บท 318: Magic Parliament
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Edward looked at nine different mirror clones in front of him.
"Number 1, you're in charge of studying Zagred's Word Soul Magic and the Reincarnation Spell he used.
"Number 2, you're in charge of studying the Karma Empowerment of Positive and Negative Mana. You're also in charge of studying Forbidden Spells; you can also work with Number 1.
"Number 3, you're responsible for Anti-Magic.
"Number 4 has to help Morgana continue to recreate the Arcane Rune System.
"Number 5, you can begin to prep Megicula to become potion ingredient.
"Number 6, you're in charge of keeping a tab on the training session and teaching Sally.
"Number 7, you're in charge of [Project World Stealing]. Morgana will lend you half of her calculating powers. And once she finishes her work, she will help you. Your project might be extremely dangerous, so be extremely careful."
"Don't worry. I am you, after all, how can I not be cautious?" replied Number 7, to which Edward nodded before continuing:
"Number 8, you're responsible for fixing the World Gate. On my way to the Land of the Sun, I will try to find some resources that can help with the process. However, if it is not enough, prepare to travel the multiverse to find the things we need.
"Number 9, you're in charge of Wizard King duty and watching over the Spade Kingdom."
"Why does it have to be me again?" asked Number 9. "Wizard King duty is so boring."
"You can help with any of these projects if you have time," replied Edward.
"We don't want your help," said the others in succession.
"Come on, guys. You should understand how terrible it is to deal with these papers all day."
The others ignored him before going to do their task.
"Don't mind them; they're just joking."
"I know," said Number 9 before walking away.
Tap! Tap!
"Come in," said Edward, who was preparing to leave.
"Sir Edward, the Magic Parliament Chairman, Sir Damnatio, is waiting for you outside," said Edward's assistant, Marx. Edward frowned at this news before indicating to let him in. Soon afterward, a man with dark hair and a long green robe entered the office.
"Damnatio, what can I do for you?" asked Edward while reading a book.
"I'm here for a few things," replied the green robe noble with a somewhat indifferent tone.
"Despite how you fixed everything, the citizens still remember the destruction that occurred at the hands of the magic knights. So, I insist on my previous judgment that someone should take the blame to ensure the good image of the magic knights.
"The devil host is a perfect scape-goat. We can tell the people he controlled the magic knights to make them act this way."
"Didn't the newspaper already release the news about Zagred?"
"This is not enough; it would be best if the people believed a traitor was responsible for this incident. It is a better excuse as for the reason the magic knights could not respond on time."
"My answer is still no."
"Among the people whose body the elves took over were many prominent noble families; their reputation has to be saved."
"Do these people care about their reputation?" asked Edward back.
'Of course, they don't care. You have brainwashed them to ignore their nobility status, to treat commoners and peasants alike,' thought Damnatio as he clenched his hand.
"They may not care, but their families do."
"That's their problem, not mine."
Damnatio had the urge to use his Scale Magic to judge this man. However, thinking how it was useless, he controlled the impulse.
"The second reason I'm here is Zora Ideale, the Captain of the Punishment Hall, has arrested too many nobles in the past week."
"What were their crimes?" asked Edward as he flipped the book's page in his hand.
"You know this is not the point."
"They took the opportunity to kill, pillage, and other horrible things when the kingdom faced catastrophe. They deserve to be executed for their crimes."
"We are the backbones of this kingdom; do not forget this."
"You used to be, but not anymore."
"So, that's how you're going to behave? Using your overwhelming strength to act like a tyrant."
"For over 500 years, you nobles used your overwhelming force to do what you pleased. So, why can't I do the same?"
"I would like to remind you," said Damnatio, steeling his resolve. "You're the Wizard King; your duty involves jurisdiction over this kingdom's military power; nothing more. But yet, you have involved yourself in our economy, politics, social life, and everything in between.
"You went as far as banning the king from leaving his castle. Your actions are above your authority."
Bam!
Edward closed the book in his hand, generating a sound that made Damnatio's heart skip a beat. Edward slowly placed the book on the desk before walking in front of Damnation.
He ignored the fear in the latter's eyes as he fixed the wrinkles on his collar. Then, with a very composed tone, he said:
"I could have ousted you, the nobles of the Magic Parliament, and even the king. And I would not need to use force to do so. With my prestige amount the citizens, I could have led a coup to overthrow this entire kingdom, and it would have been extremely easy.
"So, I want you to remember. Your status as nobility, your wealth, social, economic, and political standings; I can take all these things away with a snap of my finger."
He then gently taps Damnatio's face.
"So, remember this. Better yet, remind the other nobles of this fact. Because, so far, I have been playing nice. As long as you stay out of my way, all of you can live in your fantasy bubble where you think you still matter while enjoying the generational wealth that you have plundered from the corpses of this kingdom's citizens.
"Is that understood?... Well, I'll take your silence as a sign of acknowledgment. Now, do you have anything else you want to talk about?"
Damnatio shook his head despite wanting to discuss this problematic mission with Elysium. So, he walked out of the office blankly, eyes full of confusion and fear.
"Do you think this was too much, Sir?" asked Marx.
"Marx, what did I tell you about eavesdropping?"
"I was not eavesdropping; the walls of this office are simply too thin. Back to the topic, is it really wise to offend the Magic Parliament?"
"The only reason the Magic Parliament still exist is because of my previous curse and because my workload would increase after eliminating them."
The Magic Parliament is a collective of nobles and royals who act as the Clover Kingdom's legislature and judiciary. However, when Edward created the Punishment Squad and gave them so much power, he took most of the parliament's judiciary powers.
Regrettably, he could not take their other power because of the curse. And now that he was free, he no longer cared enough to continue playing political games with them.
"Has everything settled before my departure?"
"Yes, but are you sure nothing will happen again to the kingdom in your absence?"
"Well, according to the future I saw, the Spade Kingdom should not attack us."
"Should?"
"Yes, should." with his present self, he could only see a few minutes in the future with absolute certainty. However, beyond that, he has to see different timelines and possibilities. And so far, he can only see ten different timelines.
His ability was nothing compared to Doctor Strange, who could see fourteen million six hundred and five. However, he can see the future on his own, while Strange has to rely on the Time Stone, so he is still better.
"Don't worry. One of my Mirror Clones has at least 60% of my power, which is more than enough for most situations. And if something did happen, I could just open a portal and instantly return.
"Plus, you should have more faith in the Captains and their squads–especially once they finished my training."
Marx nodded in relief before reporting a few more things before leaving. Then, Edward also left, using an Invisible Spell on himself before flying eastward toward the sea; he did not want anyone else to know of his departure to prevent possible trouble.
Once he arrived at the sea, he tried opening a portal to the Land of the Sun since he saw where the continent was located when he retrieved the World Gate.
However, he discovered a strong spatial disturbance that kept affecting the portal. So, he decided to fly there inside. Anyway, he wanted to check out some of the islands he saw on the map.
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บท 319: Dwarves
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The further Edward flew toward the east, the more difficult it was. The entire eastern ocean was an enormous Grand Magic Zone. The intense concentration of mana not only made it difficult for an average mage to breathe and caused natural disasters like tsunamis, water tornadoes, thunderstorms, etc.
So, as he flew to his destination, Edward had to use Mana Zone to control the ambient mana in the surroundings and calm down these natural phenomena.
"It's a miracle Yami managed to survive the voyage from the east," muttered Edward as he flew. Based on how horrible the sea was, he could not imagine how a kid of fewer than ten years could survive in a small boat for days.
The only way to describe his survival was fate favored him; that's the only explanation that made sense. At the same time, Edward also understood why there had been no contact between the Eastern and Western Continent.
No ships or flying apparatus would work as a form of transportation connecting them. Even teleportation was useless as only an extremely powerful mage could survive the journey.
While thinking about these things, Edward began to build a space passage between the Western and Eastern Continent. He wanted to be able to open a portal back home and instantly return in case of an emergency.
So, he would create Relay Zones, places enchanted not to be affected by the Grand Magic Zone. That way, he could teleport to these places without resistance, and if he wanted to go back home, he only needed a few consecutive teleportation spells and returned in a few seconds.
At the same time, he would use a Detection Spell to see if he could find unknown ores deep in the ocean, and once he found some, he would dive down to get them and place them inside his pocket dimension so clone number 9 could test if they can be used to repair the World Gate.
After two hours of flight, Edward saw an island not far away, so he landed. He first noticed the abnormal number of mountain ranges in the distance, followed by the forest all around.
He then used a Life Detecting Spell before discovering something a few dozens of meters away from him.
"Interesting," he muttered before disappearing and reappearing. A small child less than 1.2 meters was walking with a boar at least six times his size on his right shoulder and a massive ax in his left hand.
The small child suddenly felt a shadow looming over him, so he slowly turned around, expecting to see a tall magical animal staring at him like prey.
However, what he saw made the pipe in his mouth fall to the ground as he stood gasping.
"Y-Y-You're a human."
"And you're a dwarf," replied Edward as he looked at this tiny little man and his long breaded red beard.
"Human," yelled the dwarf before dropping his lunch and weapons on the ground and running into the forest, screaming there was a human. A few minutes later, hundreds of dwarves showed up to surround Edward, looking at him like he was a valuable piece of art.
"It really is a human; I've never seen one before; he's so tall."
"Me too."
"Not me. I once saved a fisherman 300 years ago, so this is not my first time."
"I'm so envious."
"That's nothing. I heard Pappitson from the Golden Pick Village saved a human woman and eventually fell in love and married her."
"He's lucky, then."
"Maybe not. I heard he left the village."
Meanwhile, Edward was baffled by these dwarves' overenthusiasm for meeting humans. Then, one of them, who had a bronze headband on his head, walked toward him and said:
"My name is Duril Warmbrand, the chief of the Brown Bear Village. I'm sorry about their behavior; It is the first time a human has formally visited this island in a long time."
"My name is Edward Bones, the Clover Kingdom's Wizard King, and I don't mind."
"That's good. So, you're royalty?"
"Something similar. I'm more the military leader of the kingdom."
"That is is still a man of authority," replied Duril as he invented Edward back to his village. On his way, Edward noticed the village chief kept staring at the ring in his hand, but he did not say anything–at least, not yet.
Then, the dwarves had a large banquet to welcome him. All these dwarves were drunkards, so they drank alcohol like it was water: whether it was women, children, or the elderly, all of them were heavy drinkers.
Edward had to use mana to remove the alcohol from his system while enjoying the taste of the alcohol, which was incredibly delicious. Most of the wines were made from magical fruits, so the fruity taste suited his palate.
In the middle of this banquet, other dwarves from different villages came to join the party and to see the human. So, the feast became grander over time. Then, a fighting tournament began.
The dwarves summoned their Grimoires and began to fight. Upon closer observation, Edward noticed they had more mana than humans but not as much as elves.
Their body was naturally strong and had high physical and magical resistance. Fire was the main attribute the majority of them had, occupying 90% of the population.
Moreover, they primarily relied on magical artifacts to fight and boost their strengths.
Edward sat on a slightly elevated podium, allowing him to observe the fighting tournament. Around him were the different chiefs of the island, who were drinking and commenting on the battles while also chatting with Edward.
He squinted his eyes as he noticed something. The magical artifacts of these dwarves were 50-70% similar to the ancient magical artifact he took from Lucius.
As such, he concluded that the dwarves were probably responsible for most of the world's magical artifacts in ancient times. And once they hid in this place, humans had no choice but to develop their own magical artifacts.
"How about it, Edward? Do you want to fight? Since you are the head of the military, you should be very powerful?" asked one of the chiefs.
"Why not?" he replied before his Grimoire floated in front of him.
Gasp!
They all look at it him incredulously.
"The Origin Grimoire!" said Duril as he looked at the 6-leaf.
"Is he the Sage's Successor?" asked the Golden Pick Chief.
"No, it seemed to be missing something. Look at it closer," said the Luscious Tree Chieftess. So, they all focused on Edward's Grimoire for a moment before Duril said: "Come with me; I'll show you something."
Edward followed the chiefs to a mountain a few dozen miles away, where there was the entrance to a cave. After entering, he saw a statue of a middle-aged man wearing a crown and holding a Grimoire.
What was unique to that statue was the Grimoire. On the cover, it had four symbols: a 6-leaf Clover, a golden diamond, a heart with a queen inside, and a spade with a king inside.
"Who is this?" asked Edward.
"The Wizard Sage, Alan. He is the creator of Grimoires and the hero who saved the world."
"Can you give me more detail?" asked Edward.
"We don't know much," said Duril, "but according to our records, an enormous war once enveloped the entire world. The war was catastrophic, almost destroying the world."
"Indeed. The records even said the world used to be one big piece of land where many races lived together. However, in the middle of the war, the land was divided into five continents. And by the end of the war, three of these continents were destroyed, and many races like dragons, merfolk, orcs, etc., became extinct," added the Golden Pick Chief.
'Are they referring to the Devil-Angel War?' thought Edward without interrupting them.
"As the war was about to destroy the world, a human named Alan suddenly appeared out of nowhere to save the world. After that, he was called the Wizard Sage and memorialized throughout history," added the Luscious Tree Chieftess.
"How exactly did he save the world?" asked Edward.
"Of course, with Grimoires. Most races were treated as slaves in ancient times because of the small amount of magic power they possessed; this was more evident for humans with the lowest status," replied Duril.
"Not only had humans had small Mana Pools, but they also could not use Advanced Spells, so their situation was terrible."
"Then, everything changed when the Wizard Sage created Grimoires. He was not selfish and shared his creation with all the weak races before creating a coalition of different races."
"Finally, we work together to end the war and save the world."
"Do you know who the war was against? Or for what reason it started?" asked Edward.
"Most of the records have been lost, mistranslated, or destroyed over time, so not much information from that era remains," explained Duril. "But we do know it was a battle between 'two beings of extreme evil and extreme virtue.'"
Edward nodded as he confirmed that the Wizard Sage was probably the one who ended the Devil-Angel War. Additionally, he might be why these two races are now stuck in another dimension and unable to enter or interfere in the material world easily.
However, he is still confused about how "God" is related to all of this and the overall role of the Universal Will. So, he pondered a moment to come up with a few possibilities.
Then, he focused on the statue since he noticed it was not a normal one.
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AN: I feel like I should give a disclaimer. The entire Elysium Plot, Wizard Sage, and Origin Grimoire are not part of the Black Clover manga or anime. I created them based on the lore of the story.
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