Chapter 216: The Cause and The Solution to All Problems (2)
“I was born as the son of an ordinary farmer, but coincidentally awakened my talent as a mage...”
“I don’t listen to stories longer than one minute,” Keter firmly said.
Disappointed, Denison continued, “I became a disciple of Macnosse and learned how to make scrolls. While making them, I thought I could simplify the scrolls even more, so I began to research, and what was born from that is sticker magic. I thought this was a great discovery like scrolls, but Macnosse’s opinion was different. He criticized my sticker magic as just a knock-off of scrolls.”
“Stickers and scrolls don’t resemble each other at all.”
“That’s exactly what I’m saying! It’s true I got the idea from scrolls, but stickers and scrolls are fundamentally different! However, my master publicly called me a plagiarizing mage, and the Mage Association, without listening to anything I said, expelled me! I survived, but was not given any chance to research sticker magic again. Hehehe...”
Denison laughed while crying, reminiscing about that time.
“My life was practically ruined. Once I was expelled from the Mage Association, no one would hire me. No matter how much I screamed that it was unfair and that it was a misunderstanding, it was no use. Once things reached that point, I truly felt resentful. So I stole it.”
Where they were right now was a remote area located on the border between the southern and the western regions of the kingdom. Not only was it empty, but the terrain was also rugged. It was practically impossible to build ruins underground in a place like this, but it was doable with money—a lot of it.
Denison clearly looked poor, so Keter wondered where he got the money to build these ruins.
“I stole and sold Master Macnosse’s scrolls—two eight-circle scrolls, of which there are only two in the world.”
“Eight-circle scrolls?!”
Hearing that, Keter, who usually wasn’t surprised by most things, was shocked. Eight-circle magic was a spell with power comparable to, or even exceeding, the Authority of a Prime. In theory, it could deal a critical blow even to an eight-star Irregular. The fact that such incredible magic existed in scroll form was new to Keter, but what was even more unbelievable was that Denison had stolen and sold it.