This Lich Requests More Remuneration

Chapter 124: Chapter 116: The Contract with Shael Chapter 124: Chapter 116: The Contract with Shael The Magic Web was by no means something new.

When Aeo created the world, everything contained the primal magic essence, which was the most fundamental magical power.

Utilizing this type of magical power was extremely difficult; even individuals with exceptional talent were easily affected by the chaotic magic power when using magic. So much so that you might try to light a cigarette for yourself and end up freezing yourself into an icicle.

For the vast majority of mediocrities, magic was something unattainable.

Therefore, for a very long time, only deities were capable of wielding magic.

After the appearance of the first generation Magic Goddess, to allow mortals to use magic, this benevolent goddess created the Magic Web.

The Magic Web could regulate magical power, significantly lowering the threshold and enabling mortals to wield magical power without uncontrolled backlash from chaotic magic.

From that time on, magical civilization began to develop rapidly.

Later, because the goddess was too kind, she handed over the rights to the Magic Web to the ambitious humans.

Then, a genius mage made a big move, attempting to completely take over the Magic Goddess’s control of the Magic Web and become the new god of magic.

As a result, the Magic Web exploded.

The former Magic Goddess died instantly, and the mortal who had tried to become a god was also completely obliterated in the moment the Magic Web was destroyed. Perhaps, in the moment before his death, he had a fleeting second as the god of magic, but regrettably, it was far too short.

A classic tale, where mortals aspiring to be gods end up doing harm to themselves and others.

It could be said that ninety-nine percent of the great disasters in this world were because some mortal wanted to be a god.

However, this was not the history that Amberser sought.

After the destruction of the Magic Web, the brilliant magical civilization suffered a devastating blow, and eventually, a new Magic Goddess was born from Chaos to repair the Magic Web.

The Second Generation Magic Goddess learned from her predecessor’s lesson, but from then on, mortals were stripped of high-level access to the Magic Web to prevent any lunatic from wanting to blow it up again.

At the height of magic civilization, Wishing Spells were not so rare; those proud and conceited mages altered the world at a whim, playing god too often.

After the reconstruction of the new Magic Web, all mages were cast down to mortality, restricting the highest spellcasting privileges, and many Legendary Spells were completely lost, never to be cast again.

Getting back to the main point, the Magic Web’s effect was to make the originally uncontrollable magical power controllable by mortals.

The Elf Tribe’s magic addiction is an ailment of the body, where the natural absorption of magic can’t keep up with the rate of dissipation, and they rely on drugs to compensate. But this gap grows larger and larger, until even drugs can’t keep up, and they’re reduced to a withered husk.

Then, before death, the mind is also greatly tormented, rapidly losing sanity.

But the question is, even if this elf lies in bed, their magical power continuously drained, where does all the disappearing magic go?

If it dissipates directly into the air, then that means magic addiction is a kind of alternative state of magic loss of control.

And the principle of the Magic Web could be just what is needed for these elves.

As long as we can help these elves control the uncontrollable magic, the increasingly severe problem of magic addiction can be resolved, and a reasonable supplement of magical power can maintain a normal life.

Although this was just Amberser’s conjecture, he knew he wasn’t wrong.

However, even though the Magic Web is such a common thing, familiar to every spellcaster, it remained a mystery. Even as a Legendary Mage, with all points allocated to intelligence, Amberser only knew of the existence of the Magic Web but not its principles.

After the first Magic Goddess was betrayed by her beloved spellcasters and killed, the Second Magic Goddess destroyed all the literature related to the Magic Web and prohibited all research about it. Mortals could only use the Magic Web under her supervision, and any who dared to touch the privileges of the Magic Web would be punished by her.

Therefore, although Amberser was not seeking to seize control of the Magic Web but instead to save the Elf Tribe, the benevolent Magic Goddess, considering the face of the Elven Gods, would most likely not care yet also not offer any help.

Unable to obtain information about the Magic Web from the Magic Goddess, Amberser had no choice but to seek help from another deity.

Dark Goddess Shael, one of the two goddesses born from the original Chaos, was once the most powerful and ancient deity but fell in the war against her twin sister, the Moon Goddess Selene, and was severely wounded.

This goddess, who once represented the primordial darkness, could not even protect her own temple, and it had become rare to hear of anyone in any kingdom on the mainland worshiping the Goddess Shael.

Perhaps some corners overseas might still hold some remnants of faith in Shael, but regardless, the deity had become so weak that she couldn’t even protect her own followers.

It was rumored that in her desire to regain strength, Shael had set her sights on the Magic Goddess.

The first catastrophic destruction of the Magic Web allowed Shael to acquire some of the fragments, which she then started researching in an attempt to seize the Magic Goddess’s power.

Looking deeply into the matter, it also carried an ethical tragedy.

Because the first Magic Goddess was born from Selene’s war, in the accounts of the gods’ epic, Selene tore a part of her own body and hurled it as a weapon at Shael, leaving her severely injured. The flesh of the Moon Goddess absorbed Shael’s power and then birthed the first Magic Goddess.