章節 295: Magic Squad
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After arriving at a castle in the Noble Realm, Edward saw someone that seemed to be waiting for him.
"Are you here for me?"
"Yes," replied Captain Deleon.
"Oh, what can I do for you?"
"I'm here to apologize."
"Having regret that you did not pick me up for your squad? Unfortunately, it's too late now."
Deleon shook his head: "Although I have regret, it is not for this reason. I've been thinking the past few days thinking what would happen if someone as talented and powerful as you left the Clover Kingdom because of the discrimination.
"This kingdom would lose such a powerful wizard. No, we would create a mighty enemy for ourselves."
Edward did not say anything but Deleon did not mind; he was lost in his thoughts as he spoke.
"I realize how the inequality between nobles and commoners almost ruined this kingdom. So, I wanted to change it. Unfortunately, this problem is so ingrained in this kingdom that even as royalty, there is nothing I can do."
"So, you're just going to give up?" asked Edward.
"I decided to tackle this problem through the next generation. I have two children, and I will ensure none of them share my outdated ideas. I hope they can influence the people around them to continue this change cycle."
Deleon looked directly at Edward's eyes.
"Plus, I feel that you will be the key to this change."
Edward looked at him up and down before laughing slightly.
"Maybe, you're right."
He patted his shoulder before heading to the castle. Soon, someone referred to themselves as the Wizard King's Aid led him to a meeting room where a middle-aged man dressed in a lavish robe waited.
The moment he walked into the room, he felt an intense mana pressure trying to intimidate him. With a calm look, he releases his mana, instantly destroying that pressure.
Additionally, all the tables in the room instantly shattered, and cracks appeared in the walls.
"How dare you?" said the aid with difficulty as he knelt on the ground. Edward ignored him before activating his grimoire. Then, using a Repair Spell, everything returned to normal.
"Hahaha, it is incredible how much magic power you have. It is unbelievable that you're a commoner."
"If you think about it rationally, it is not," replied Edward calmly.
"Oh, how so?"
"Well, at some point, weren't you nobles just commoners?"
"Don't you dare insult the nobility," said the aid. However, the 27th Wizard King, Spield Kira, waved his hand to calm him down. He then invited Edward to sit down while serving tea.
"So, what do you mean by that?"
"Nobility is nothing but a social concept. At the beginning of human civilization, such a thing did not exist. When our race first discovered magic, they probably used it as a tool to survive against dangerous magical beasts or other more powerful races.
"Back then, the people with higher magic power were hunters and protectors, so they had high status. At some point, humans discovered that by mating only with other people of higher magic power, their descendants could inherit their magic and their mana capacity. So, this practice was encouraged.
"After a few hundred years, all the people with high magic power in a specific area intermarried and formed families: the nobles. So, it is not wrong to say all of you are descendants of commoners.
"And it is not impossible for commoners to be as lucky as your ancestors and have high magic power. Unfortunately, all of you still ostracized or even killed them once they challenged your authority."
Spield was momentarily quiet before saying: "What an interesting theory. Unfortunately, there is no concrete evidence. Otherwise, this could be considered a great achievement in the field of magic history."
"If there were evidence, you people would have hidden or already destroyed it anyway," replied Edward.
"Anyway, let's talk about the issue at hand. The Magic Council disagrees with you to take over the Purple Pistol Shrimp Squad."
Spield remained quiet while Edward elegantly drank his tea.
"It seems that they do not care about the life of the Tarte family's heir. Mastering Mana Zone at a young age, he had a bright future."
Spield frowned after hearing this.
"You can enter any magic squads and slowly rise to the rank of Captain."
"All of you nobles control the rising ladder, and given your attitude towards commoner, how many years do you think it would take me to become "Captain" if at all?
"What you want is nothing but for me to sell my life to you while keeping me at the bottom of the food chain. This is not happening."
"So, what do you want?"
"I want my own magic squad. Anyway, I proved that I am powerful enough."
"And if we don't agree to your terms?"
"The other kingdoms are always a choice. I heard that the Heart Kingdom is ruled by a powerful and benevolent Queen who does not judge people by their birth."
In the past few days, he gathered basic research on the other kingdoms to find another way out for him. His current choice is either the Heart Kingdom or the Spade Kingdom. But he was leaning more toward the former.
However, for some reason, Edward was not willing to leave until the last minute.
After pondering for a while, Spield agreed to his terms. And in exchange, Edward had to nullify the contract. So, on that day, the Blue Ravenclaw Squad was created.
"Sir, why did you compromise with that peasant?"
"This kid is a monster. I'm afraid that even I'm no match for him," replied Spield with a sight, causing a great shock to the aid.
The news of the 10th Magic Squad soon spread throughout the entire kingdom. And commoners in both the Common Realm and the Forbidden Realm were very excited that a commoner became a captain.
And when Edward stated recruited commoners into his squad, people from all over the kingdom traveled very far to participate. And he was very strict in the process.
He understood that commoners did not have a large magic power pool nor could they increase their mana, so he lowered the value of such criteria. Instead, he focused on individuals with unique magic and who have the potential to train to use the Mana Zone.
He created training regiments for all the members of his squad based on what type of magic they had. He tried to make potions to increase magic power. However, he discovered that this was another taboo field in which he could not succeed.
Instead, he created special training with diets to ensure fast mana recovery in training and high physical stats. Although commoners had limits compared to nobles, with his method, he could bring out the maximum potential in all his squad members.
Additionally, all his squad members had Mana Recovery Potions to aid them in battles, so they still had some advantage. On top of everything, Edward created some Mana Skills to compensate for the gap in mana and increase their battle strength.
Of course, Edward did not only choose commoners for his squad: a few nobles were also selected. However, these nobles were usually ostracized by their own kind and were people whose ideologies had not been entirely twisted.
Edward did this to somewhat appease the nobles of the kingdom so that they gave his squad peace of mind to grow and develop. Although he could suppress the entire kingdom with his power, he felt that it was unwise to do so–at least not now.
Furthermore, he could still use the influence of the minor nobles in his squad to his advantage.
The second most important thing that he did was to create a newspaper. Newspaper existed in the kingdom, but it was a monthly thing. More importantly, it was controlled by the noble.
His newspaper was highly cheap, released every day, and exciting. It contained news regarding the kingdom–especially the gossip regarding the lives of the nobles.
All their dirty dealings were included in that newspaper. Additionally, Edward had a story section where he serialized a novel. He had a fashion section to give tips on beauty and clothes to both men and women.
There is a section where Edward would release tips on how to use magic or control mana better, educating the people or the commoner, to be precise.
More importantly, this newspaper can reveal all his legendary exploits and portray him in a better light. He did that to prevent the nobles from one slandering him or reducing his merit to this kingdom.
Some nobles tried to imitate his business model, but they all failed miserably. For one, their newspaper was never as interesting as Edward's.
Secondly, they could not print as fast as him, nor could they transport it all over the kingdom in a short time. Additionally, they could not make the price so cheap with how greedy most of them were.
In the end, a few of them decided to take his business for their own. Unfortunately, all the nobles who tried had a terrible curse placed on them that would make them suffer pain deep in their souls.
The Magic Council placed Edward on trial for what happened to these nobles, but they could not find any evidence. Even when they read his memories, they discover that he was innocent.
So, the nobles were forced to let him be and never interfered in his business again.
Just like that, many years passed by. And Edward finally regained his memories.
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Next Chapter Title: Curse
章節 296: Curse
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"Damn this Universe Will," muttered Edward as his eyes gained a certain level of clarity and wisdom.
"After so many years, I finally removed some of the restrictions."
In the past few decades, he has been fighting with this Universe Will to restore his memory and ability. During that time, he could only slowly influence his second self through hints and random ideas suddenly popping inside his head.
Edward then checked his body.
"My Higher Life Form Essence has been sealed," he frowned. In some ways, he now is considered a transcendent species or higher life form. And the main benefit of this evolution is the fact that he can live a very long life and is not so easy to kill.
However, now, Edward felt that he was aging like a normal person, and a few stabs in his heart could kill him if he did not protect it.
"Morgana is sealed in my Soul Dimension, I don't know where my World Gate is, and most of my mana is sealed. However, the good thing is that in the past few decades, I finished the purification process and reacher Tier 7."
In his seal state, he could still purify the mana inside his magic core. Unfortunately, he could not use most of his powers. With time, the seal in his mana slowly dissipated, but Edward could feel that there was a limit. To be precise, he could only use Tier 6 Mana.
'This Universe has a power sealing of Tier 6,' he concluded. Most of the universes he visited had high power sealing, so his intrusion did not matter much as the scope he could affect the universe was inconsequential.
However, the same could not be said for this world. Based on his analysis of the plot, he knew that only Lucifero could barely be considered Tier 6 and that he was only at his full power.
When he manifested in the Spade Kingdom in the mange, he was only Tier 5, and yet, he could still annihilate all the Magic Captains along with the main character, Asta.
And he–an outsider–suddenly entered this universe with power rival if not more powerful than the most powerful being of this universe. As such, the Will was not having it and used a lot of its power to place restrictions on him and even tried to assimilate him into this world.
"There is no way that Akashic Record should not warn me of this possibility, so that can only mean one thing: that damn old man intervened and hid that information."
He could not help but imagine that old geezer caressing his white beard while laughing at his misery. After gritting his teeth for a moment, he decided to forget this and place Merlin on his black list.
One day, in the far, far, far, far future, he would get his revenge.
Plus, he understood the reason behind this action. In all his years confronting the Universe Will, his Willpower was greatly tempered. He went from a scale of three to a four. He only has to go up by 1 more before he can use Conceptual Magic in some weak universes–like this one.
After thinking about this, some idea came to his mind on how he could increase his Willpower in this world–without going through all that trouble. If he could find a shortcut without any side-effect, he would take it.
Anyway, he was an Arcanist, not a Martial Artist that needed to use the hard way to temper his will. As the saying goes, "play smart, not hard."
Although he had a basic plan, this was not the time to execute them. Edward removed his clothes to see a black tattoo on his chest. He frowned as he looked at it before putting his clothes back on.
He opened a portal before teleporting to the border of the Clover and Diamond Kingdom. He floated less than a meter from the side of the Diamond Kingdom's side, and yet, he knew he could not cross it.
The tattoo on his chest was a powerful curse that the Universe Will placed on him as a restriction. Because of the curse, there were a few things he could not do,
First, he could not leave the Clover Kingdom. Second, he could not kill certain individuals. For example, as a magic knight, he is often on the battlefield and fighting against other kingdoms.
However, even with his power, he could not kill certain people; to be precise, certain people related to the main plot. The purpose of the curse seemed to prevent him from completely messing with the timeline and preventing certain characters from being born or preventing certain important events in these characters' lives.
The only exception to that is Julius Novachrono. To be exact, Edward had to play the role that Julius played in the Sacred Timeline. For example, he invited both Yami Sukehiro and William Vengeance to his Blue Ravenclaw Squad instead of them joining Julius' Grey Deer Squad.
The more Edward acted like Julius whether through interactions with unique characters or the way he helped a lot of people in the kingdom, the less restraint the curse had on him.
'This should be another way for the Universe Will to assimilate me into this world. Plus, this could have something to do with Julius' secret identity as the one the ruler of the underworld, the Time Devil, Astaroth.'
A lot of ideas flashed across Edward's mind. According to his calculation, the Universe Will has only the strength of the Tier 7 Star Level. Since he is in the same tier, it is no problem to forcibly remove the curse and directly confront it.
However, there is a major problem. This world has a multiverse, and the Universe Will is not only from this timeline but all the timelines. So, confronting it would be like confronting hundred or thousands of Tier 7, if not more.
Without his Floating City or World Gate, this was an arduous if not impossible task. Not to mention that there is an easier solution that it could use to deal with him: exile him from this universe.
So, using a strong approach is not the solution to the current problem. He can accomplish many great things in this world, and he does not want to leave yet.
Of course, Edward was not someone to suffer a loss. Although he decided to bare it, for now. He also decided to be more reckless when it comes to how to deal with this world.
So, he was prepared to go a little crazy and try things beyond his capability. If succeeded, he would benefit greatly. If not, he will run away with the people he cares for while leaving this world in chaos–if not destroyed.
So, after making a plan, he opened a portal and returned to the headquarters of his squad.
Edward then looked at his Grimoire, which was now different after awakening his memories: it had 6 Clover Leafs instead of the previous 4.
"The four-leaf grimoire is said to bring its owner luck, while the 5 leaf contains the devil. What about 6-leaf? The power of God? Does this world has God?"
Edward reviewed his memories of the entire plot of Black Clover. Gods are only mentioned on three occasions: one is the god that the sisters in the church worshipped. However, no real detail is mentioned.
The second is the Sea God that the Underwater Temple worshipped. Finally, the Dryad Spirit is considered the Guardian God of Elysia, a secluded village of elves.
Based on his analysis, he eliminated the Dryad Spirit, so his only chance at figuring out this mystery is through the churches or the Underwater Temple.
After making a preliminary plan, he began an in-depth review of the magical system of this universe. There was a lot to learn.
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Next Chapter Title: Grimoire Magic System
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