The Return of the Legendary All-Master - Chapter 46

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Chapter 46

‘Another day with no news at all.’

In front of Sander, the Edenhark Magic Tower Master, a crystal orb was set up.

That crystal orb was showing the Magic Tower’s library.

The reason it was specifically showing the library among all those many places.

It was because of a legend passed down through generations.

‘A book written by Richel herself, someone who can unravel the secrets of that book will appear.’

Richel was someone from 600 years ago who had the natural talent to use both mana and divine power simultaneously.

Though she was a tragic genius who couldn’t bloom her talents due to being ostracized by the mages and priests of her time.

The ‘Contemplations on Growth’ left behind by such a genius.

It’s said that previous Magic Tower Masters lived with that book, wondering what secrets it held.

Of course, the conditions were quickly solved.

However, those secrets still remained unsolved to this day.

‘One must know how to use both mana and divine power simultaneously to solve it.’

In other words, one must be born with talent equal to Richel’s.

That’s why that book had to remain stuck in a corner of the library for 600 years.

Probably no one with the qualifications for that book would appear in this generation either.

When all humans awaken divine power, their mana disappears and divine power takes its place.

They were fundamentally incompatible natures from the start.

Then, some foreigner entered the Ancient Books Section.

And then he took out the book written by Richel!

‘Oh?’

Sander gazed at the crystal orb with curious eyes.

He seemed to want to borrow the book, but since he wasn’t a mage registered with the Magic Tower, borrowing was impossible.

‘Was it just a coincidence?’

His curiosity instantly cooled down.

But he didn’t give up and entered the corner, beginning to open the book.

‘Wait a moment…’

Sander’s eyes began to gradually widen.

The place where the foreigner stopped after turning pages was identical to the page where previous Magic Tower Masters had solved the conditions.

Then, not long after, the book glowed faintly and a magic circle was drawn.

“This is impossible!”

Sander couldn’t contain himself and shot up from his seat.

“Tower Master! What’s the matter?”

When the Tower Master’s Office became noisy, Deputy Tower Master Rowan, who was outside, burst open the door without even knocking.

There, a chair was rolling on the floor, and beside it stood Sander with a shocked expression.

Rowan’s eyes widened at the sight.

Usually, Sander showed almost no change in expression.

Even when something surprising happened, he would only be slightly startled at most.

For such a Magic Tower Master to be this shocked was a first in all his years as Deputy Tower Master.

“Tower Master? Are you alright…?”

At Rowan’s words, Sander’s gaze slowly turned toward him.

Then he slowly opened his mouth and spoke in a trembling voice.

“Tell the librarian. Lock the library doors right now.”

“Pardon?”

“Lock the library doors! Especially don’t let the foreigner inside leave! Tell them they’ll be fired the moment they let him out!”

Sander shouted loudly and then rushed out of the Tower Master’s Office in a hurry.

“What… what’s really going on?”

Deputy Tower Master Rowan tried to understand the current situation, but he couldn’t comprehend it at all.

For now, he had no choice but to follow the Tower Master’s instructions and send telepathy magic to the librarian to lock the library doors.

* * *

Having finished his business, Jung Hoon put the book back in its original position.

‘If I’m going to drink the potion, it’s better to go to the Magic Tower’s training room.’

The training room inside the Magic Tower.

The training room was a space that only the Tower Master could use, and it was the place most abundant with mana in the Magic Tower, where training would accumulate mana about 1.2 times faster.

And this potion reacted to surrounding mana and increased performance by 10%.

It meant drinking 10 would give the efficiency of an additional 1.

However, entering the training room wasn’t an easy task.

First, the Magic Tower Master’s permission had to be granted, but the Edenhark Magic Tower Master rarely showed his face.

Even in the second job advancement, the Magic Tower Master couldn’t be met unless epic-grade or higher conditions were fulfilled.

Of course, this didn’t apply to Jung Hoon.

“Why are you locking the door?”

Jung Hoon casually asked the librarian who was struggling to organize the library.

“Ahaha, sorry, but I need to lock the door for a moment. So could you please sit over there and wait?”

The librarian smiled awkwardly and pointed to a table.

From that behavior, he could tell that instructions had come down from the Magic Tower Master.

‘It seems they were watching everything.’

From the beginning, Jung Hoon had planned to solve Richel’s book and then go find the Magic Tower Master.

Lewis Verdant had said that’s how he managed to obtain even a training room.

“Oh, it’s fine. If you’re going to lock up, I’ll leave now.”

“No! We’ll reopen soon, so please finish your business.”

“My business is finished. I’m leaving, so please move aside.”

“No… wait a moment!”

The librarian was sweating profusely in panic as he blocked the door.

“Why?”

Jung Hoon barely held back his laughter as he tilted his head.

“Ahem… Don’t do that, and have a little chat with me instead. I have some delicious tea I’ve been hiding for myself.”

Should I stop around here?

Seeing the face that looked ready to burst into tears, his revenge felt sufficient.

However, he couldn’t drink tea.

“Open the door!”

Because the Magic Tower Master had just arrived at the library.

Only then did the librarian open the locked door.

‘So that’s the Edenhark Magic Tower Master.’

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[NPC Information]

-Nickname: Sander

-Level: 300

-Class: Edenhark Magic Tower Master

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A whopping level 300.

It was the highest level you could see in the Beginner Zone.

That Magic Tower Master urgently grabbed Jung Hoon’s shoulders and shook him.

“You solved the secret of the book?! How did you do it! You’re not even a priest, so how did you use divine power?!”

He spoke so fast it was difficult to understand properly.

“Please speak slowly. And let go of this.”

Jung Hoon said as he removed Sander’s hands from his shoulders.

Only then did Sander seem to realize, clearing his throat with a slightly reddened face.

“Ah, hmm. Sorry. I was so surprised I was rude.”

“It’s fine. But what do you mean by the secret of the book?”

“…Would you come to the Tower Master’s Office first? I’d like to have a little conversation.”

“Understood.”

Jung Hoon smiled inwardly.

Things were going more smoothly than expected.

* * *

Tower Master’s Office.

Jung Hoon’s gaze lingered on the crystal orb set on the table.

‘So he saw it with that.’

Now I understand how the Tower Master could notice immediately.

“Ahem, let me apologize once more first. I was in such a hurry earlier.”

“It’s fine.”

“…Then can you tell me? How did you solve the secret of the book?”

He was curious.

As the Magic Tower Master, Sander had inherited everything from the previous Magic Tower Master and knew the secret of the book, but he found it puzzling that this outsider knew the secret of the book.

“I have the ability to decode things.”

A lie spilled from Jung Hoon’s mouth.

“The ability to decode…?”

“Yes. Thanks to that, I was able to decode the book.”

“…Ho, then it would be safe to say you possess both mana and divine power.”

“Yes.”

“Then won’t you tell me? What was inside it?”

He was curious.

What the genius from 600 years ago had researched his entire life.

Previous Magic Tower Masters had wanted to somehow discover Richel’s research results, but ultimately failed as their lifespans ended.

But Sander was different.

There was an outsider right in front of him who had solved the secret of the book.

Of course, Jung Hoon wasn’t one to easily comply.

“I’m sorry, but I cannot tell you.”

“What…?”

Sander’s face crumpled with a frown.

Seeing that expression, Jung Hoon leisurely spoke his next words.

“Couldn’t even the Magic Tower Master’s power solve the book?”

“…”

The fact that such an important book was stuck in a corner of the Magic Tower’s library, gathering dust, was practically the same as abandoning it because no one could solve it.

The active recruitment of outsiders into the Magic Tower also stems from a glimmer of hope that someone who possesses both mana and divine power might appear.

Honestly, no matter how unsolvable it is, leaving it abandoned in a corner of the library is rather ridiculous.

‘This is also New World’s mischief.’

Opportunities given to users.

The fact that they store such important books in the library without giving it any thought is also because New World has set it up that way.

Then I should make very active use of that.

“I solved that, so asking me to just tell you with my bare mouth is a bit much, isn’t it?”

“It sounds like you’re saying you’ll tell me if I pay a price… Is that right?”

Jung Hoon nodded his head.

Then Sander flicked his finger.

At that moment, the left wall slid smoothly to the side, revealing gold and treasures before them.

Not just gold and treasures.

Epic to Rare grade items were lined up in a row.

“10,000 Gold. And I’ll give you 10 items from here. How about it?”

An incredible reward that was hard to believe for the Beginner Zone.

However, that wasn’t what Jung Hoon wanted.

“The training room. Please allow me to use the training room that the Tower Master uses.”

“Training room…?”

A question mark appeared above Sander’s head.

[General Quest: Edenhark Magic Tower Master’s Training Room]

-Restriction: User who possesses Richel’s Research Journal

-Reward: Sander’s Recognition + Massive Favorability Increase

-Description: Use the training room to prove Richel’s research achievements.

Jung Hoon immediately accepted the quest.

“Yes.”

“…What’s your reason for wanting to use the training room?”

“I’ll show you what Richel left behind.”

With those words, he took out the research journal and showed it to him.

“This is…?”

“A research journal.”

[Richel’s Research Journal]

It was the journal that came with the secret medicine.

Sander’s eyes widened to the point they seemed ready to pop out after checking the journal.

“Wa, wait a moment please.”

Sander urgently summoned the Vice Tower Master and instructed him to bring Richel’s books.

And after a while, Vice Tower Master Rowan brought several books that Richel had written.

The handwriting in those books and the handwriting in the research journal were identical without a single discrepancy.

‘How on earth…’

Sander read through the research journal with confused eyes.

The Growth Potion that Richel had researched throughout her lifetime.

‘It’s definitely what Richel researched.’

Through the research journal, he learned that Richel was obsessed with growth.

To accumulate more mana and divine power within her body.

There was only one reason she had no choice.

Richel possessed both mana and divine power, but was constitutionally unable to build circles from birth.

So perhaps that’s why she clung even more desperately to growth?

Sander, who had closed the journal, guided Jung Hoon to the training room.

* * *

The training room was located on the top floor of the Magic Tower.

The entire top floor was the training room, and the ceiling was open.

Above this sky was a Mana Zone, a place where mana was far more abundant than other regions.

‘Shall I begin?’

Jung Hoon, sitting in the center, took out the secret medicine.

First was the experience potion.

[Superior Experience Potion]

-Type: Consumable

-Grade: Epic

-Gain a certain amount of experience according to the user’s level.

-When used within a Mana Zone, gain an additional 10% of the acquired experience.

Right.

This is why it must be consumed within a Mana Zone.

If you consume 10, you get 1 as a bonus, so there’s no reason to consume it outside a Mana Zone.

Jung Hoon gulped down one potion.

[You have gained experience!]

[You have gained experience!]

Each time the thin liquid passed down his throat, his experience increased.

[Your level has increased.]

[All stats have increased by +1.]

[Bonus stats +1 have been granted.]

And after emptying half the bottle, he leveled up to 52.

[You have gained experience!]

[You have gained experience!]

[You have leveled up.]

[All stats have increased by +1.]

[Bonus Stats +1 have been granted.]

When he had completely emptied 1 bottle, he had risen from 52 to 53.

“Does 1 bottle give 2 levels?”

Jung Hoon quickly emptied the remaining 28 potions.

[You have gained experience!]

[You have gained experience!]

[You have leveled up.]

[All stats have increased by +1.]

[Bonus Stats +1 have been granted.]

Countless experience gain messages kept appearing.

When he had emptied all 28 bottles, he had reached level 91.

With 29 potions, he had gained a whopping 40 levels.

Additionally, an Achievement.

[Achievement completed! ‘Good Things Should Be Savored (3)’ has been completed! 10,000 Achievement points have been granted.]

[‘Mark of Ultimate Endurance’ has been granted.]

Perfect!

The 10,000 Achievement points were important, but what mattered more was this emblem.

‘Good. Now I have 2 of them.’

8 emblems remaining.

It was still a long, long road ahead, but since he had experience obtaining them all before, time would solve it.

“Then shall I try drinking the rest?”

[Superior Mana Potion x35]

[Superior Divine Power Potion x35]

He was curious to see how much these 2 types would increase his stats.

The Return of the Greatest All Master (Serial)

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