Masteria Online: Shattering the Dark God's Grand Scheme-Chapter 139 - Convergence

The books were just a way to organize the information that Rena had given him. Previously, he had been unsure as to the true nature of this information. Was it from Rena’s mind, off the top of her head? Was it some sort of knowledge transfer magic?

What was it, specifically?

While he was still unsure on the specifics, there was one thing he understood clearly now.

The words were straight from Alton. "Convergence" was not a clean fundamentals book. It read like the words of a madman. The entire time, Lumi had felt like he was reading straight from the diary of a mental patient.

He did not dismiss it because of that. He kept reading, doing his best to understand the contents. After his first run through the information, he could confidently say that he had more questions than answers.

It felt like reading a conspiracy theory. Certain parts made sense, sure, but to take facts to the premise that was promised required you to throw away everything you knew and shift to assume an amorphous premise that you couldn’t even explain.

It was not even professionally written madness. One of the lines was the following.

"Delusion. To be deluded is to be alive. No, it is to exist. The very dirt beneath your ground is deluded. It believes a false premise.

How can a rock believe a false premise if it cannot think, a deluded man may question. I pose this question instead. A rock has properties, does it not? It is a solid, has a certain weight, has a certain volume, and will break when struck.

Why?

The rock believes a false premise, and thus has those properties."

Lumi had no idea what it meant. It was not related to magic. It was not a metaphor about magic, either. Yet there is was, a random insane tangent with no explainable reason.

He did not dare dismiss it.

If Rena, the Axe of Justice, one of Masteria’s heroes, had given him this information, how could he dare dismiss it?

If she had added it herself, there must be a reason. If she was accurately relaying Alton’s words, then Alton must have had a reason to say so.

Until he properly understood what was being conveyed, he pushed the thoughts to the side. More importantly, the text proposed light and dark as two sides of the same coin.

It had defined light as creation, and darkness as destruction.

Did Light Shift not teleport by using the creation of light as a metaphysical anchor in reality? Did Light Shower not create light? Did Lance of Light not create lances, a physical object made of light, in order to attack?

Alton had contrasted this with dark magic. Dark spells operated by destruction. Dark Drop, for example, saturated an area with an immense pressure, carrying along with it crystals. These crystals would impact a target physically, but once the spell was complete, they would not linger. They were vectors of destruction, not an object that would linger on the floor past its purpose.

Although it may seem like something was being created, that only further proved his point that light and dark were intermixed.

For destruction to occur, a vessel must be created to carry it in some form or another.

Likewise, to create, destruction must occur. When you materialized a lance of light, it was easy to imagine that you made it from nothing. However, did you not consume mana? And perhaps more importantly, what happened to the air where the lance was created?

It was easy to imagine that it was simply displaced.

Most mages did that.

"Lazy." Alton had called them. Upon close inspection of the spell, the air had been entirely destroyed upon creation of the lance. Upon the dissipation of the lance, the air that no longer existed came back once more.

It was a small detail most magicians would dismiss. "It’s simply how the spell is."

What Alton had specifically noted was that this was not just the property of that spell. He was entirely unable to create a light spell that did not result in some form of destruction.

Therefore, Alton claims that light and dark, representing creation and destruction, were fundamentally mixed.

Whether the explanation was valid or not, Lumi would leave it for others to speculate. What Lumi was interested in was more important.

Alton had written it.

Alton had grown strong enough to have been one of the ancient heroes to seal the Dark One.

Therefore, his path was valid enough to carry him to such heights. Why, then, would he ever doubt Alton’s words? Even if they were wrong, they were right enough to make him that strong.

Lumi could read through it countless times and still find new insights. For now, he had already read it once, and that was enough.

Regardless, he couldn’t spend any longer, given that his time ran out. He logged out of Masteria.

...

He had already gotten the community ready for a raid. Now it was time to officialize the details. He went to the forums and sent a follow up post.

It confirmed the date and time, which would be in a week. The location, which was in Elenora. The party would gather in the city, then march through the trees until they reached the Witches Stump. It was located to the north east, and approximately four hundred feet above the city.

He had appointed several officers for the raid.

They consisted of Lena, Gabriel, Ryan, Tora, Vice, and Hazy. Just as they had previously expressed, they had gone and changed their names to shorter versions. 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

ToraX had simplified to Tora. HazyNova had cut the Nova out.

Lumi still did not understand this. It made logical sense. It was one thing when your username was just words on a screen, but when it was a name everyone would call you, it grew tiring to hear something like longer than necessary.

The biggest offender was Ryan, who had originally given himself the name TrueKnightRyan.

However, he did not remember this happening in his last life. That was the contradiction he could not explain. So he moved on.

Lumi went over the rules and rewards again, and sent the post.