CHAPTER 858: CHAPTER 668: GRIMOIRE

As Reiger and the others returned to the surface and passed through the safe zone on the 18th floor, the mysterious magician they had entrusted with the abnormal situation on the 24th floor appeared.

He also received a detailed report of the entire affair from Reiger and the Hermes Clan, and handed two keys respectively to Reiger and Asafi.

Those were the keys to the goblin rental vault.

In many large cities, including Orario, a race known as the goblins had established various facilities with special roles, and one of these facilities was the rental vault—a guarded treasure keeping place, simply put.

Reiger took his share of the key and went to a rental vault located in the eastern district of the city, successfully using it to open a small vault.

Then, the reward for this commission fell into Reiger’s hands.

The vault was packed full of precious gems, gold and silver jewelry, and several magic guide books.

Reiger directly skipped over those gold and silver treasures, directing his gaze to the few magic guide books.

These were thick books with stone-like covers and textures, engraved all over with complex patterns.

"Are these the magic guide books he provided?"

Reiger picked up one of the magic guide books with curiosity, observed it closely, and discovered that it indeed had very subtle magical power fluctuations.

Magic guide books were naturally not ordinary books but extremely valuable items.

They are secret tomes that only magicians with the "Mystery" and "Magic Guide" development abilities can create, and are tools that can forcibly manifest magic.

Indeed.

These items can forcibly awaken and teach magic to those blessed by the gods.

People in the lower world blessed by the gods will inevitably have slots to learn magic, ranging from one to three.

Some people can awaken these slots, make magic manifest, and thus learn and use magic, just like Reiger did initially, but some, like Theona, fail to manifest magic throughout their lives.

Magic guide books can make the magic slots of those who still have vacancy, who haven’t awakened magic, manifest their magic, and even advanced magic guide books have a certain probability of expanding the number of magic slots, increasing the innate fixed number of magic usages for each individual.

One can imagine how precious and valuable these items are.

After all, magic is everyone’s trump card and ultimate weapon, and increasing the amount, awakening magic, is a clear boost to personal combat power.

Why are Revilia and Rephia so special?

One of the most important reasons is that they can use more than three magics.

Now Reiger is gradually becoming such a special existence, in the eyes of many has already prominently become a multi-magic user alongside Revilia and Rephia, causing many gods to openly and covertly curse Loki’s goddamn luck for being able to repeatedly obtain such special individuals, making them enviously jealous.

Because of this, Reiger also heard Loki say that he seems to have become a thorn in the side of the magic-powerful nation of Aertna.

The magic-powerful nation, Aertna.

This is a country at some distance from the Maze City Orario.

This country practices magic supremacy, possessing many magic guides, magicians, and magic swordsmen, and once publicly claimed that in this world, magic represents everything.

Thanks to this, in this country, whether they are local residents or foreign settled customers, all rely heavily on magic, you could say they maintain their livelihoods by magic.

They insist that the best magic guides and magicians are in their country, and their nation’s magic technology is the most outstanding in this world.

Also because of this attitude, the country unilaterally views the maze city Orario, which possesses many powerful magic guides, as a thorn in its side.

This tendency intensified after Revilia and Rephia became famous.

As naturally gifted magic races, being royal members and elites among them, Revilia and Rephia could not only use more than three magics but were also titled the [Nine Demon Princesses] and [Thousand Elves]; one was the strongest magic guide, the other its successor, yet these figures were not from the magic-powerful nation of Aertna but from the "arch-enemy" Orario, driving them to madness.

Especially since over half the country’s residents are elves, natural magic races, making them feel more dissatisfied, believing that Revilia, as a royal family, and her successor Rephia standing on the side of the "arch-enemy" is nothing short of betrayal.

Reiger’s appearance naturally made these people even more resentful.

Therefore, Reiger has already landed on the magic-powerful nation Aertna’s blacklist, and some within the country even claimed either to abduct him into their country or deal with him, anyone accomplishing either of the above conditions could receive a generous reward.

In other words, Reiger has been bounty hunted by others.

He indeed qualifies for being bounty hunted.

After all, now Reiger truly possesses the existence of a thousand magics compared to Rephia.