The goddesses attempted to gain my salvation.

But no matter how much he planned, he didn't foresee this.

Ryan would take his mentors and students to the Misty Forest for hands-on training.

Chapter 41 The Truth Gradually Becomes Clear

Ryan only has one class today.

After finishing his lecture, Ryan went straight to the library.

The library is the largest and most magnificent building in the entire college.

Large areas of stained glass, bluestone walls, and a towering spire at the top.

From the outside, it looks like a huge medieval castle.

Once inside, you can see students coming and going.

The library is one of the few public areas in the college where students and faculty of all years can borrow books.

I went up the stairs to the fifth floor, and then, relying on my memory, I walked to the history section in the corner.

There are two main categories in the classification of history.

One is related to history, and the other is related to magic.

History records more about the history, culture, customs, and dynastic changes of the four countries.

Magic, on the other hand, records the development and research of magic, its impact on people, and the exceptionally talented magicians of each era.

Using the index on the bookshelf, Ryan quickly found the historical record he wanted.

I found a quiet place, opened a book, and began to read.

Time flowed quietly by by the sound of pages turning...

After a long time, Ryan finally found the record of the extraterrestrial meteorite.

As Victor said, the book does not record specific times, but it does contain vague time periods.

The event took place a hundred years before the Four Kingdoms War, which is six hundred years ago.

According to the magic calendar, this period is from the year 1600 to 1700 of the magic calendar.

Records about the meteorite are scarce; all that is known is that it landed west of the Duchy of Ferrante, near the Desolate Mountains.

The clue ends here.

However, Ryan has his own unique way of finding clues.

Nothing can exist independently.

The emergence of something new will inevitably have an impact on its surroundings.

Since this meteorite has the effect of absorbing all magical power, whether intentionally or unintentionally, it will surely leave a trace in the history of magic.

So, following this line of thought, Ryan began searching for the magical history of that time.

After searching, Ryan indeed found some clues in the magical figures' records.

Legendary mage Engdahl, while developing a new spell, suffered a violent explosion due to uncontrolled magic. This incident resulted in the deaths of 177 people. This was the only stain on Engdahl's magical career.

[According to Engdahl's account, everything was stable in the early stages of the magic condensation. However, just as the condensation was about to be completed, the magic circuits within his body suddenly dried up, causing the magic to go out of control.]

Location: Principality of Ferrante, City of Birudo.

Time: April 4th, Magic Calendar 1644.

Magic depleted...

This led to the magic going out of control...

It matches the situation I encountered before.

Then, using April 4th, 1644 in the Magical Calendar as an index, Ryan continued his search for clues in the sea of ​​books.

After a long while, Ryan found a second clue in the vast sea of ​​history.

The Auguston Empire, located in the far north, has clashed with the Duchy of Ferrante on its border. The Third Prince of the Auguston Empire claims that the empire lost three Archmages with six circuits each in this conflict.

According to eyewitnesses, the three mages' magical circuits suddenly dried up, rendering them unable to cast spells, which allowed them to be killed by a small group of cavalry from the Duchy of Ferrante.

This conflict later became the catalyst for a full-scale war between the Auguston Empire and the Duchy of Ferrante.

Location: The border between the Auguston Empire and the Duchy of Ferrante.

Time: April 4th, Magic Calendar 1644.

Ryan retrieved a map and marked the locations of the two incidents.

One is a city-state in the easternmost part of the Duchy of Ferrante, and the other is in the northernmost part. The straight-line distance between the two places is roughly estimated to be at least seven hundred kilometers.

At the same time, a bizarre phenomenon of magic depletion occurred simultaneously in two locations spanning 700 kilometers.

This indicates that the magic-suppressing effect of the meteorite has begun to spread.

If the effect range of a meteorite were expanded, it's impossible that it wouldn't be recorded in the history of magic.

Therefore, there is only one possibility...

That means the meteorite was broken into countless small pieces and spread out.

At least that was the case on April 4th, in the year 1644 of the Magic Calendar.

Therefore, the search scope should not be limited to the Duchy of Ferrante, but should be broadened to the entire continent.

So, Ryan continued searching for content using "magic out of control" and "magic depletion" as search terms.

But as Ryan uncovered more and more information, he felt a chill run down his spine, and even had a vague feeling that he was being watched by something.

At first, it was just an accident caused by the magic going out of control.

However, since 1689, large-scale disappearances and deaths have occurred one after another across the continent.

At the same time, some magical prodigies suddenly emerged.

[In the land of yellow sands—the Pennsylvania Federation—a large-scale magical outage occurred in the city of Misel. Subsequently, all the city's residents mysteriously disappeared. Overnight, the once prosperous city became a ghost town. This incident caused incalculable losses to the Pennsylvania Federation.]

Time: October 1689, 7.

[The legendary mage Milenda set a record for the fastest consecutive breakthroughs in the history of magic. In just three months, he awakened from three circuits to seven circuits, becoming an Elementalist.]

Time: October 1689, 10.

[In the capital of the Auguston Empire, the city-state of Gruansen, a magical vacuum lasting half an hour occurred. Following this, a series of bizarre mass deaths took place. Investigations revealed that all the deceased exhibited the strange phenomenon of partial bodily loss.]

Time: October 1693, 9.

[Chobis, born into a farming family, awakened astonishing magical talent after being rejected by a magic academy. Within two months, she transformed from an ordinary person unable to cast spells into a Grand Magus with six magic circuits—a true miracle.]

Time: October 1693, 11.

[The Duchy of Ferrante, the village of Gruya—the entire village vanished from the map overnight. Investigations revealed that members of the Duchy's Magic Guard, dispatched on a mission, were in the village at the time. These members disappeared along with the village; no one knows where they went. Despite Phoenix Dunbar's best efforts to conceal the truth, it was eventually exposed.]

Time: October 1705, 6.

[A magical genius, one in a century, has emerged from a small fishing village! With his extraordinary talent, Calvin has broken through several barriers within six months, becoming a Grand Magus with six magic circuits!]

Time: October 1705, 12.

......

There was so much information like this that Ryan even developed a kind of illusion.

It seems like anyone can become a genius.

The theory of innate talent, which is considered the truth in the magical world, seems to become a joke in the face of these facts.

And there is an even more important point.

Each time a large-scale magic depletion or magic out of control occurs, it is accompanied by the disappearance and death of a large number of people.

Then, not long after, a magical genius will appear.

If it only happened once, it could perhaps be explained as a coincidence.

However, Ryan collected more than ten cases in just half a day.

Can this still be explained by chance?

In addition to the information Freya had previously deciphered.

Offerings are presented to welcome the arrival...

An extremely audacious, yet chilling, idea gradually took shape in Ryan's mind.

If this speculation is true, then the magic academy of the Basmah Church...

It may become the next Georgian village.

Chapter 42 Entering the Next Stage

Ryan found a piece of paper and began writing down his deductions as his pen moved across it.

Without a doubt, the source of everything is that meteorite from outer space.

No one knows where this thing came from; there's no explanation for it even in history books.

However, for now, finding out the origin of the meteorite is not the priority.

The key question is the impact of the meteorite on the continent after it appeared.

Initially, people's understanding of meteorites was limited to them as stones with a special material.

However, at some point, people discovered that meteorites retained their properties even after being broken up.

Therefore, people divided the meteorite into countless small pieces and stored them separately.

However, the properties of meteorites are difficult to control, and during their storage, there have been some cases of magic going out of control.

The most representative of these is the legendary magician Engdahl.

Later, as time went on, people gradually discovered the capabilities of meteorites and how to control their properties.

Ryan made a bold guess.