Chapter 393: Stories circulated, black magic in the book
In the guild, Kira sat in his seat, holding the newspaper and laughing.
"Hahahaha... I'm dying of laughter!!" He didn't know who this unlucky guy who went to interview for Witch's Sin was, but that didn't stop him from gloating, "How could there be such a funny person?"
He laughed until he couldn't laugh anymore. After a moment of silence, he sighed, "Ah~ It's exactly the same as me back then!"
"I don't remember ever giving you this kind of trouble when you came to the guild!"
A familiar old voice sounded from behind, which frightened Kira so much that he trembled: "President, don't worry about it! I'm talking about my previous experience in the Adventurer's Guild!"
Makarov asked in confusion: "That should have happened before you were ten years old? Why do you remember it so clearly?"
"…It's normal for children from poor families to mature early and remember more, right?"
"That's right...wait a minute!" Makarov nodded slightly in agreement, then jumped up and knocked Kira on the head after realizing what was happening. "That's not what I want to talk about! I want to ask you, you were the one who instigated the Witch's Sin, right?"
"Yeah?"
"I'm not saying it's bad, but for such an important matter, at least discuss it with me first, right?"
Facing the old man's rebuke, Kira could only nod his head in cooperation: "Yes, yes, yes... Weren't we too late this time? Next time if there is anything, I will report it in advance!"
"Do you want to do it again?! Do you know that I was scolded by the Council for this matter?!"
"Tsk! The Council is just a..."
"Um?!"
Sensing Makarov's unfriendly look, Kira swallowed the second half of his sentence and changed his words: "Well, I mean, those guys in the Council just love to make a fuss, take the opportunity to show off, and talk about face and status. Really, they are just some old guys with no skills, not Red Hair..."
Makarov didn't know what the relationship was with the red-haired boy, but that didn't stop him from hearing the disdain in Kira's words. He sighed deeply: "Ah~ How could I have brought up such rebellious children like you..."
"Huh? What are you talking about, President? Haven't you always ignored the Council's words?"
"Nonsense! I am the most law-abiding person! Otherwise, how can I be the president of Fiore's First Magic Guild?"
“President, it’s okay to say this to someone who doesn’t know the truth, but don’t let it fool you.”
After some communication, Kira understood Makarov's hint: We are now the undisputed number one guild, and we must be more careful in the future.
In order for the old man to retire with peace of mind in the future, Kira could only promise him that he would try not to do anything out of line in the future.
After watching Makarov leave, Kira took out a book from his arms and began to read it carefully.
If Jura or Princess Emerald were here, they would recognize that this was the culprit that almost caused unrest in the country of Bosk, the black magic book that transformed humans into orcs and controlled them.
After getting the book, Kira has read it several times and finally came to three conclusions:
The first point is that the black magic used by the finance minister of Bosk to transform and control orcs is only the first chapter in this magic book!
Probably due to the limitation of his knowledge and talent, the minister simply couldn't understand it, or couldn't use the more powerful black magic that came later, so he could only concentrate on building the orc army.
But this alone is enough for him to gain the power to control a country. One can imagine how terrifying this book is.
The second point was confirmed before, it was not written by Jellal.
Jellal's black magic is almost all about creating demons, but the black magic in this book is all about exchanging reason for power, which is a big difference between the two.
For this reason, Kira named it "The Book of Wisdom".
The last and most important point is that it may have existed even longer than Jellal’s era.
The reason for this conclusion is that the black magic recorded in this book reminded Kira of a fairy tale that has been circulating in Ishgar for who knows how long.
A fairy tale as old as the "Black and White Goddess".
The story takes place in a once prosperous magical kingdom, ruled by a king named Midas.
One day, for unknown reasons, Midas was corrupted by black magic and turned into a demon with donkey ears. This was discovered by his barber and spread widely.
Midas was furious and brutally killed everyone who knew the news.
After this, his sanity, which had been influenced by black magic, gradually collapsed, and his character began to become cruel, until he completely absorbed the black magic and turned into a demon.
Finally, Midas was overthrown from the throne by the earls in the country.
When Kira got the "Book of Wisdom", the fairy tale immediately came to his mind, and at the same time an immature idea popped up in his heart: If the finance minister of Bosk used transformation magic on his king brother, would the fate of their kingdom be the same as in the story?
Every fairy tale has its meaning that has been passed down: "The Black and White Goddess" seems to be praising love, but behind it is the struggle between gods and demons; "The Donkey-Eared King" seems to be teaching people not to talk big, but is there another story behind it?
Kira was very interested in this. Just like he had investigated the story of the 'Black and White Goddess' before, he looked up many similar stories and legends, and indeed found a clue!
This is another legend, a legend about the Black Forest.
According to legend, there is a forest in Ishgar that is infected by black magic, which is the Black Forest. All creatures that enter the Black Forest will be corrupted by black magic, become monsters, and gradually lose their sanity.
This situation continued until the emergence of the "Hope Clan". The wizards of this clan could not only purify the black magic from monsters, but also control the monsters that were corroded by black magic.
Later, the Hope family purified the black magic, saved the eroded Black Forest and monsters, and restored them to their original state.
Until this incident, Kira had always believed that this story was meant to show the world the wonder of magic, the evil of black magic, and to promote justice and light.
But now, he vaguely felt that the truth behind the story might be more than that.
"Dark magic, demons, manipulation, what familiar terms! Didn't the finance minister use this book to cast demonic magic and gain the ability to control orcs?"
Kira flipped through the "Book of Wisdom" in his hand over and over again. It has a total of seven chapters, and each chapter records a kind of magic. There is no progressive , but the magical knowledge contained in it is very ancient, obscure and diverse.
The magic recorded in the first chapter is the magic that transforms the human soul and body to enable it to acquire the power of other creatures - this is the kind of magic used by the Chancellor of the Exchequer .
After careful research, Kira discovered that the magic of "obtaining the power of other creatures" is very similar to the receiving magic. The difference is that the receiving magic is that the wizard receives the magic beast himself, while this magic is to let others receive the magic beast and control them.
The magic recorded in Chapter 2 is about transforming living things so that they gain powerful strength.
It is similar to the magic recorded in the first chapter, but it is more difficult to use because its targets are monsters , animals, plants and even soulless objects. They do not have the same high IQ as humans and cannot receive it - this situation is closer to additional magic.
If the legendary black forest was really created by the Hope clan, then the black magic they used was most likely the one recorded in the second chapter of this book.
The magic recorded in Chapter 3 is about controlling living creatures, and they are not the creatures transformed by the magic in Chapters 1 and 2.
This was also a magic that surprised Kira very much, because in this magic, he saw several familiar shadows, that was Sydney's puppet show, Zudel's human subordination, Huayuan's birth at the hour of Chou, Future Rogue's dragon-controlling magic, as well as Sera's command spell and Keith's necromancy!
