Episode 125 Time Magic
Jude Rayvan is a former aristocrat of the Sbarokian Empire.
He was not blessed with children, and finally got his first son five years after getting married. When his eldest son was old enough to get married, Jude decided to take over the headship of his family and retire.
Two years after I retired, I unexpectedly had another child.
That was Luto Rayvan.
(Ruto can finally take revenge...)
After getting older, I found a girl who is so cute that it doesn't hurt to look at her.
For him, Ruto was like his purpose in life.
After becoming a magician, I was worried every day, but I was also proud.
However, Ruto was killed by Shu Arclight, the ``God of Death'' and the King of Hades. This makes Jude so sad that he goes crazy. And he decided to use the rest of his life for his revenge.
After retiring, he continued to study natural science and magic, which became his hobbies, and continued to collect information in order to kill the ``God of Death''. Due to his retirement and being away from the imperial capital, Jude is spared from being involved in the collapse of the great empire. This seemed like fate to him.
Jude was researching for revenge for his daughter, but he also started thinking about revenge for his son, grandson, and the fallen empire.
(...Even with all this preparation, my magical power is barely enough.)
The room itself in his laboratory is a magic ceremonial hall.
Various magic circles are set up throughout the room. With them, he activated the magic of time travel. It is difficult to rewind time against a being with as much magical power as Shu. Also, if Shuu were to cast magic on himself, the magical power would be erased by death magic.
So Jude thought of activating magic in the world of the past.
He went back in time to the moment when a hybrid weed-like ghost named Shu Arklight was born, and put that environmental information into the magic circle. In other words, he performed a mental retracement on Shu, who was weak in the past.
It would be unrealistic to go back a long time, and it would also be difficult from the perspective of the amount of magical power.
However, if you just try to make a small mental state relapse on a ghost that has just been born, it will work out.
"From the moment you entered this room, the magical calculation formula to obtain information about your past began. Soon, you will return to your pre-birth spirit."
"Is it a technique that interferes with the mind? My memory is still intact, though?"
"Of course. My magic interferes with your past. Your current memories are irrelevant. However, once my magic that I am trying to activate in the past is completed, all memories will disappear."
"I see"
Shu looks around in agreement.
I know that this room is a magic ceremonial hall, but it is only a ceremonial hall to find out information about Shu's past. The mental state retrograde magic is already in the past and in preparation for activation. Although it cannot be seen visually, it is probably in the stage of forming a magic circle.
Shuu, who cannot interfere with the past itself, can't do anything about it.
(Will I be able to break through the timeline if I use death magic? But there is no point in erasing my past if I make a mistake. If my past disappears, then the present me will also disappear.)
Shu, who has reached Apocalypse-level strength, is almost invincible. There are limited ways to kill them.
Jude brilliantly demonstrated one of those limited means.
Even though it was brought about by a desire for revenge, he must have researched everything about Hades. He must have invested all of his assets to create a way to defeat it. And until he lured him into this room, he completely hid his hatred and pretended to be a kind old man. It's an amazing amount of willpower.
"It's over, Hades."
Jude, who has used up all his magical power, speaks slowly.
He was out of breath and sweat was dripping from his forehead.
His prediction that even Hades could not do it was correct, and Shu fell under the spell of retracing his mental state. Just now, magic is activated against Shu from the past.
Shu felt as if multiple flashes were blinking in his head and collapsed.
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Gray sky.
A group of collapsed buildings are on the ground. and numerous weapons.
A huge object fills the area, and explosive flames rain down.
Lights continued to fly from the ground, but they were all shot down.
Before long, the ground is covered in mysterious patterns.
After that, a huge explosion occurred instantly. Buildings that had collapsed from the beginning were completely destroyed, and the weapons that had been packed together were ignited by the gunpowder on board and exploded.
There was no way humans could survive.
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A crowd is gathering in front of the man.
And the crowd just kept blaming the man.
Water, food, clothing, shelter, and above all safety. The crowd asks the man for them.
However, the man could only make excuses.
We are proceeding with the plan.
The man kept saying that until the end.
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A white room with various equipment.
No, the hospital room.
Next to the bed was the figure of a man who was being accused by the crowd.
The man sheds tears and nods.
Then, I immediately called somewhere.
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Why?
Why did the "enemy" come this far?
My chest hurts.
My heart hurts.
However, that will end today.
Throw away your tattered body and be reborn.
I'll put my life on the line, or even gamble it, to fight back. I decided to destroy the ``enemy.''
A little more.
If only there was a little more time. If the ``enemy'' discovered ``this place'' a little later...
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"'--I might have succeeded'...?"
Shu muttered that and woke himself up from the collapse.
On the other hand, Jude is on his butt and trembling as he points. Her expression was one of astonishment, as if she had seen something impossible.
"Idiot...my, my magic has failed...Gofu! Goho!"
“No, it was successful.”
"I could feel it! The magic circle activated in the past was suddenly rewritten! No, it was added to it... forcibly sucking out my life force... Gohogoho..."
Jude spent most of his magic on mental state retrograde magic. The monster Shu, who was born before he was born through the magic of retracing his mental state, was supposed to be unable to maintain his magical power and scatter. In other words, Shu was killed in the world of the past, and as a result, the present Shu was also supposed to die.
However, in the magic circle formed in the past, an additional magic formula was constructed against Jude's will.
What's more, he forcibly absorbed Jude's magical power and supplemented the missing amount with his life force.
Jude, who was already old, ends up using up almost all of his life force.
I was already on the verge of death.
"Hah...gu...ono, le...Haiouaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"
Jude finally cried out, exhausted. Then his body collapses and disappears into dust. Only his clothes remained, crushed to pieces.
On the other hand, Shu is also quite exhausted.
There was a reason for that.
"I never expected that my memories of my previous life would be completely restored thanks to magic like this..."
Shu was exhausted from the overwhelming amount of information.
The moment Shu was born as a ghost, his spirit was not formed. Shu still has the spirit he had before he was born.
In other words, it is a memory of my previous life as Osamu Takamitsu Takamitsu. His spirituality has faded considerably, and he has almost no memory of it. However, through the magic of mental status retrogression, all of that was instantly restored.
"I remember everything. I don't want to, but it's thanks to Jude..."
Originally, his mental state would have become null and his magical power would have dispersed and disappeared.
However, Shu has a state before he was born as a monster. In other words, his mental state was returned to a past stage, and Shu remembered everything about his previous life at the same time he was born as a monster.
In other words, the past where he barely remembered his previous life has been replaced with the past where he was reincarnated remembering everything. As a result, the current Shu also remembers everything.
This is a present modification accompanying a past modification.
"Professor Jude! Professor! What did you do!"
There was a loud bang on the door and a voice calling out to me.
As expected, if you make that much noise, people outside will notice. What's more, it's the laboratory of Jude, the tower's caretaker. Even the magicians who didn't show much interest in other people were careful to address them in this way.
However, from Shu's point of view, this is a troublesome situation.
I don't really feel like fighting because I'm mentally fatigued.
"Teacher! I'm coming in."
However, I cannot say that it is troublesome.
Shu used death magic to dispose of the magician who opened the door and came in. Then, I kicked the fallen magician away and left the room with unsteady steps.
It felt like getting off a rocking ship, and my head felt light-headed.
If Shu's thought process had not been formed by magical power, he might have died from shock. That was the amount of information. After all, Shu's memories from his previous life were condensed into an instant.
(I want to go home and rest quickly)
Shuu leaves Jude's laboratory and instantly kills everyone in sight. Everything was cleared up with death magic, and all witnesses were erased.
After killing all the magicians in the basement of the tower, he sat leaning against the wall.
"Summon, collect materials."
Shu uses magic to summon the shadow spirit. Shadow spirits have their own shadow space, and can store quite a few things there. Since Shu doesn't have the energy to discern the materials right now, he decides to take everything away anyway. Leaving that work to the shadow spirits, Shuu can rest.
It was true that I was taken in by the ``hawk's eyes,'' but I was reluctant to leave without gaining anything.
And while I was resting, I sorted out the memories I remembered.
(Hmph. I never expected that I risked my life in my previous life, failed, and was reborn in such a different world. But this is how it turned out, and that world...)
In his previous life, Shu was certain to die due to illness.
However, because his death was certain, he decided to take a gamble. He tried to make his wish come true at the cost of his life. Shu, who remembered everything, has that memory.
(Now I wonder what the meaning of this memory is.)
It's like a different world here.
There is no longer any meaning in reincarnation.
"Let's go home. Iris is my reason for living now."
In anticipation of the return of the shadow spirit that swallowed the materials, Shu also transformed into a spirit and escaped from the tower.
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