Great Wizard Transcending with Mythology - chapter 45

Episode 45

“Long time no see.”

When I saw the ego ‘A’ of the workshop, who finally revealed himself, old memories came to mind involuntarily.

It was a long time ago.

But still, I remember it vividly as if it were yesterday.

I don’t know if it’s because my soul’s power has surpassed the limits of humanity or simply because my memory is good.

One thing was clear, though.

I remember ther girl.

And unlike the memory from back then, I intend to save ther girl.

Losing just needs to go back to before.

Now I have to recover it.

Whatever it may be.

“What are you saying?”

El, who emerged from the workshop, frowned at my words.

“Saving me? Just a human, daring to save the ego created by the great alchemist Pramel? That’s an unpleasant thing to say… don’t you think?”

“I think it’s pleasant.”

“What nonsense, really!”

A shouted, twitching.

“Even so, I have an awareness that I was created by Pramel. Do you even know who Pramel is? You probably don’t! If you did, you wouldn’t dare say such arrogant words!”

“I know.”

I said, taking a step forward.

“Pramel, the Brilliants alchemist. He was a pioneer who created the first ‘ego’ unit of a workshop and sought to save humanity with her alchemy.”

“…!”

“But her efforts failed. Right? As a result, you’re here.”

“… .”

El seemed to be at a loss for words, unable to refute my words.

After a while, she finally spoke hesitantly.

“Well… do you know?”

“I know that your current state is not normal.”

“…!”

Now, whether shocked or startled, El stepped back.

she must have her reasons.

“How did you…?”

“I just happened to find out.”

With that, I took another step forward.

“E-ek!”

el stepped back again.

“You, you, you…!”

el reached out with a bewildered expression.

“Huh, huh! Look, look!”

At that moment.

Keiiing!

The magic circles were filled to the brim.

Just a glance showed dozens of them, each with a power of 4th rank or higher.

“No way?”

Lepentier seemed surprised.

Well, that’s understandable. Ther is a level even a 7th rank senior mage would find difficult.

It might be possible to deploy magic circles of that magnitude through massive calculations.

But what’s important is mana.

The huge mana required to implement magic circles of such scale simultaneously.

“Hmm.”

Indeed, impressive.

Before the regression, those magic circles were nothing short of disaster itself. How many knights were torn apart by those magic circles…?

“I guess you could say it’s fortunate.”

It seems we haven’t reached the point of no return yet.

If so, it can be reversed.

It was a problem I eventually found the answer to after constant pondering.

“Let’s cool our heads for a moment.”

Let’s figure out what to do with ther magic circle that’s currently floating above my head.

With that thought, I lightly flicked my finger.

A’s shoulders twitched as he looked at me.

“Hah! You think you can stop my magic circle with just that?! Huh, huh! Even so, my magic circle is… .”

“I didn’t flick my finger to stop your magic circle.”

“…Huh?”

“What I’m trying to do is… .”

I chuckled and pointed at the ‘core’ embedded in A’s body with my hand.

“There, that’s your core.”

“What?”

As El didn’t understand my words and tilted her head in confusion.

Tung!

A mana fragment the size of a fingernail hit El’s core cleanly.

It was a very light tap.

No one would think it would cause any problems.
However.

“Right now, let’s… keep it at the level of <circuit interference>.”

There’s no way it could be light.

It might look like a simple lump of mana, but it’s actually a magic designed to interfere with the structure of the ego called el.

It’s literally a sniper magic tailored for the ego.

“Huh?”

Soon, el lost the power floating in the air and fell straight down.

Even as she fell, her expression showed she couldn’t understand why she was falling.

“Knight Lepentier .”

“Yes, Your Highness!”

Whether he understood my words immediately or not, Lepentier quickly moved towards the falling El and safely caught her.

Of course, El couldn’t move for a moment because she was hit in the core.

She looked at me with trembling eyes while being held by Lepentier .

How? Her eyes seemed to ask.

Yes, it would be hard to understand.

Within the domain where the workshop exists, A is almost invincible.

Moreover, A’s core is neither simple nor weak.

Logically, being hit by a magical bullet the size of a fingernail would be beyond comprehension.

Yes, logically.

“But I’m a being that goes beyond that logic.”

Just the fact that I have regressed means I’m already beyond logic, and being a user of mythic magic puts me even further beyond logic.

Thanks to that, I already have a way to solve El’s problem.

That is, I can explain the reason, but…

“Don’t tell her.”

I don’t feel the need to explain her.

Haha.

—

After a while, El struggled to lift her head.

Naturally, she was restrained.

How did we manage to restrain El, an ego?

I don’t know.

It was made by Rachel.

“Eeek!”

With a bizarre roar, El shook her body.

But it was no use.

A was bound in a way that she could never escape.

“W-What’s going on! Why won’t it come off! W-Wait, could it be…?”

“What are you thinking.”

“I saw it in the book left by Pramel! It says when someone tries to do something bad to a girl who can’t resist like me they do bad thing!”

What nonsense.

Was she always like this?

When I saw her, she seemed completely out of it, so honestly, I didn’t know exactly what kind of existence El was.

“Doing something bad, huh.”

“T-That, that thing!”

Shaking her body, she couldn’t say anything.

But after hesitating between us for a while, she finally opened her mouth.

“L-Like, using my XX on my XX, and doing XX to the place where I XX!”

“….”

No, seriously.

Can’t you filter a bit?

But the mouth of disaster didn’t stop.

“And then, I-I tie myself up and use XX, and after XX on XX, I…”

“Wow!”

At that moment, Rachel, who had been listening quietly, intervened.

Her eyes were sparkling violently.

No, it was more than just sparkling.

The starlight around her body was sparkling.

Rachel said, “What is XX?!”

“Ee, well…”

“Using XX on XX, I’m curious! What exactly is it…?!”

“W-Well, that’s… uh…”

Although she was loud and saying something, she seemed to think that explaining it wouldn’t be right.

“….X… X is that man’s… well, that thing, and…”

“What does it mean to do XX?! I’m curious about that too!”

“W-Well, that is… uh…”

Unable to properly answer Rachel’s question, El began to sob.

“Ee, ugh… ugh.”

“Why are you making her cry, Rachel.”

I approached El, who was sobbing, with a small sigh.

“Calm down. I didn’t grab you like this to harm you.”

“W-What is it then… why!”

“As I said, it’s to save you. I told you, I already know your ‘problem.'”

“….!”

At my words, El looked at me with a start, trembling.

“T-Then… how do you…?”

“I just know. But more importantly, isn’t the problem you’re facing right now more important?”

Yes, the problem El is facing.

El is a creation of the legendary alchemist, Pramel.

Not just a simple weapon, but the highest ego responsible for the entire workshop.

“Of course, but due to the tremendous scale of the workshop, the pressure on El surpasses imagination.

So, thousands of years passed, and El managed to endure those long years.

It’s clearly a remarkable feat, but even so, there are limits.

El is no exception.

“Lately, little by little, don’t you feel your memory fading? The clear scenery is becoming blurry, and there are occasional feelings of memory loss.”

“…!”

“It seems so.”

I nodded slightly, exhaling softly. It seemed that symptoms were gradually appearing.

“There’s a problem with the core.”

“…What?”

“The information terminal inside the core, which should have naturally flowed, has caused an error.”

The information terminal inside the core.

A rift occurred in the vessel that stores Ego’s memories and mind.

If ther were applied to a human.

“It’s what’s known as ‘Erasure Symptoms.'”

“…!”

At that remark, Lepentier and Rachel, who were quietly listening from behind, trembled.

“Ordinary people would simply cause problems on their own. However… if it were ‘Ego,’ the legendary alchemist’s workshop itself, the situation would be different.”

“Uh…”

“If these symptoms completely consume you, you won’t be able to distinguish reality.”

In that case, what would happen?

The answer is simple.

A rampage similar to the regression would occur.

“There was a timing before the regression that could be reversed.”

The problem was that the first person to notice El in an unstable state was Viscount Philéon.

Viscount Philéon rashly disturbed El and tried to exploit El unilaterally.

And the result was.

“El rampage.”

she, who was already unstable, turned into a complete disaster.

It was terribly unbearable.

Philéon and her companions were annihilated, and the Viscount’s territory was also destroyed.

And thus, she, who unwittingly reduced the Viscount’s territory to rubble.

– Oh, thank you… very much.

Disappeared from my hands.

“….”

Remembering that time, my appetite disappeared.

“I think you understand how dangerous your symptoms are.”

“…I do.”

A nodded with a gloomy expression.

“But there’s no solution. Only Pramel, who created me, can repair my defect.”

“….”

“If there’s no Pramel, there’s no one to fix my defect. There’s no one in the world who can understand Pramel’s knowledge.”

“If there is?”

I asked her, before she became more pessimistic.

“What if there is someone who understands Pramel’s knowledge?”

“There… is?! Who on earth?!”

Perhaps due to the erasure symptoms, she didn’t seem to remember what I had said earlier…

she pointed at me with her finger.

“I’m right here.”

Don’t underestimate a genius who has reached the realm of mythical magic.

“I’ll fix you.”

By the way, the success rate is 100%.”