Chapter 548:
I intertwined my fingers and pushed my arms out, stretching as I had been sitting down for a while. It's funny, I remember before my memories flooded back in my youth, reading stories, watching shows, and how they made Magic look so wondrous and fantastical. Those settings seemed to skip over the rather….boring parts.
That is to say, I spent the last four or so hours doing nothing but calculations and a bit of research. And frankly, this isn't even an uncommon occurrence for the vast majority of Magi.
In a lot of situations, I can put the backend calculations to Mirage to handle, but in this particular case, I'm forced to do the majority of them by hand.
I had the Harp and Avalon on the floor, both of them surrounded by a ritual circle containing about nearly every origin of Magical Ability I had acquired in my life. And while Mirage wasn't able to just compute everything without me, it was still handling a heavy workload that I could shunt off to it.
Right now, I was basically just gathering the needed data on how these objects interact with my origins. From there, I was going to partition off the effects and trace back their origins to see if I can't get a proverbial foot in the door to the Fae Realms. I admit, I wasn't entirely optimistic about this plan, but if it did work, it would save me a considerable amount of time over doing it the 'proper way'.
Essentially, I was throwing things at what these objects connected with to see if I couldn't find the 'door'. Otherwise, I would have to manually search for it.
I basically just stabbed Mirage into the ground while it handled the rather mundane portions that didn't require my specific input.
Thankfully, I could multitask, and there was something I had been putting off because things just continued to pile up on me. I probably should have done this sooner, my tendency to continuously push things off is not something I want to indulge intentionally. That already bit me in the ass rather recently.
I took out my Goblin made Sword.