Magic Chronicles : Fallen Race

Demon Banishing Spell.

A very simple first-tier spell, its effect is to shield the residual magic power attached to the body from the outside world, so that subsequent spell learning and research can be smoother, eliminating external interference, similar to disinfecting before entering a laboratory.

Of course, in reality, no mage would actually do this.

The error brought by that little bit of weak external magic power was almost negligible. Only Malvin alone would have such a mandatory requirement for his students.

And Reji, who had followed Malvin for a long time in the game, this rule had become a natural habit.

"Teacher, you should have noticed too, the threat of the Demon race is approaching."

Reji got straight to the point after entering the room.

Malvin seemed to have already understood something tacitly. He nodded, without any concealment or hiding from Reji, and said seriously, "Yes, and the process of the Demon race's descent is still accelerating. I just communicated with the Great Elder of the Elven race a few days ago.

Nazha told me that it's because a figure that the Demon race feels threatened by has appeared in our world, which has led to their acceleration."

"For the sake of humanity and the world, and also to atone for my mistakes, I must find this last hope. But now it seems, hmm, the 'hope' has actively found me first. I'm really ashamed."

Malvin shook his head as if in reflection.

"I know you must have many doubts now, but before that, may I ask you a question first?"

"Of course."

Afterwards, Reji stood up and didn't ask directly, but looked around the room as if searching for something.

Soon, his eyes lit up as he found the target.

It was a black ball lazily lying on the balcony.

"Meow, come here, Meow, come over here."

With Reji's voice, the black ball on the balcony raised its head. It turned out to be a slightly fat black cat, now staring at Reji strangely.

It felt unfamiliar with Reji, but this stranger called its name.

After a few moments of hesitation, the big black cat still jumped down from the balcony and came to Reji's feet.

"Good kitty, let me borrow you for a bit."

Reji picked up the black cat and placed it on the lab table.

Then, he turned his head to look at Malvin again and began his question, "Teacher, let's assume a future where, when you're teaching me Gunfire Magic, I forget to cast the 'Demon Banishing Spell' before entering the room, resulting in that little bit of external magic impurities interfering with the spell, causing the Gunfire Magic to go out of control and blow up Meow."

"I know you are very fond of Meow and treat it as family. So if you were given a chance to go back to the past, how would you save Meow?"

Malvin didn't pay too much attention to this somewhat whimsical and abrupt question raised by Reji.

Instead, he began to ponder seriously, treating it as a lesson.

"I think the simplest way is to remind you before entering the room to properly cast the 'Demon Banishing Spell'. This way, history will be rewritten."

"But I guess... it's not that simple, right?"

"Yes, because I have another condition I didn't mention. In the future I assumed earlier, it was precisely because of Meow's death that I, as a disciple, felt immense remorse, which stimulated my potential and allowed me to repent from then on, being extremely rigorous in my future spell practice. It was this rigor that saved my life when facing a certain enemy in the future."

"If this condition is added, how would you modify history, Teacher?"

This time, Malvin's thinking time was obviously longer.

Even his brows furrowed a bit.

It was simple.

The previous future was very simple, just the student's mistake causing the black cat's death.

But now it was different.

The black cat's death made the student learn a lesson, and it was this lesson that allowed the student to be saved in the future.

In other words...

This had become a "choose one of two" dilemma.

If he really modified the future of the "black cat's death".

Then it would inevitably lead to the student not learning the lesson.

Indirectly, the student might die in the future battle with a powerful enemy because of lacking that bit of "caution".

This was the butterfly effect.

It seemed like modifying one history, but it would involve endless other future changes.

Malvin had to admit. This question was indeed very difficult.

However...

As a teacher, how could he be stumped by a student's question?

Malvin smiled.

The previous frown had long disappeared.

He already had a solution.

It wasn't difficult either.

Just let the black cat be both dead and not dead.

Malvin quickly found an empty cardboard box from the side.

Then... He covered the black cat with this cardboard box.

The cardboard box was not transparent.

Reji couldn't see the inside at all from the outside.

He could only judge that the black cat was inside from the "meow meow" sounds it made from inside the box.

Then, Malvin raised flames in his right hand and threw them at the box covering the black cat.

Boom!

The flames instantly devoured the cardboard box.

After the flames died down.

Only ashes were left on the scene.

It seemed that both the black cat and the cardboard box had been burned by the fierce flames.

In this way... The history of the black cat's death was achieved.

At least from the perspective of Reji, the "witness", it was so.

However.

"Meow meow?"

The black cat that should have been burned to death in the cardboard box now poked its head out from behind Malvin, making a confused sound.

It turned out that inside the cardboard box, Malvin had already set up a hidden teleportation in advance and sent the black cat out.

After doing all this, Malvin spread his hands to Reji.

"In this way, history has been modified. In the eyes of my disciple, the black cat is still dead. He will still learn the lesson and defeat the enemy in the future because of it. But at the same time, the black cat also survives, but..."

"But the black cat has to keep disappearing, maintaining its 'fake death' state in the witness's eyes, until its influence disappears before it can 'resurrect'."

"As expected of you, Teacher."

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Reji applauded and sighed from the bottom of his heart.

He had spent a long time exploring the rules of the Sage Stone to figure out this method, but Malvin here had quickly realized it after only thinking for a short while.

Unfortunately, the teacher was still a bit lacking.

"If the black cat is allowed to disappear like this, there will be a huge risk of it really being submerged in the long river of history, just like a person has two deaths. One is the death of the body, and the other is when everyone has forgotten you."

"So to be on the safe side, the black cat also needs its own witnesses, and the more the better."

While speaking, Reji cast a Transformation spell on the black cat.

Soon, this black ball turned into a white ball.

Not only did its fur turn white.

Its age also became younger.

Although the shadow of the grown-up black cat could still be vaguely seen, it was almost unrecognizable unless specifically investigated and identified.

"I will let this cute little white cat participate in a beauty contest, so that all the audience will remember that there was such a beautiful little cat."

"This way, history can be thoroughly modified."

"The original history was that the student accidentally blew up the black cat, felt guilty for life, and won against a powerful enemy in the future because of this lesson."

"The current history is that the student 'blew up' the black cat, felt guilty for life, and defeated the powerful enemy in the future because of it. However, one day, when he returned to the laboratory from back then, he discovered clues and realized that the black cat might not be dead."

"So he immediately followed the 'clues' to pursue the black cat and discovered that the white cat from the beauty contest back then was actually the black cat. In the end, he successfully found the white cat, removed the illusion on it, and had a grand reunion ending."

Finally, Reji walked to a world map hanging on the wall of the room.

"Teacher, I now want to borrow your power to leave clues for the student in the future."

Reji identified the location on the map.

He found a certain place a thousand years later.

Then, Reji looked at the pile of miscellaneous books beside the map, belonging to Malvin.

The teacher liked to read all kinds of books.

The 6 books stacked on top "Illuminating the Arcane" (reference book), "Legends of the Lost" (novel) "Incantations and Invocations" (spellbook), "Navigating the Numinous" (philosophy book), "Occult Rituals Revealed" (reference book), "Realms of Mystery" (novel)

Reji: "Teacher, I hope a country can appear in this location."

"As for the name of the country, you can decide."

Malvin nodded.

He also saw the three books closest to him beside the map.

So, Malvin simply combined the first letters from these 6 book titles.

"I understand. Then let's call it 'Ilinor'."