Chapter 57 - Underground Vault (2)

Until the letter came from Norieum, Acel wasn't particularly expecting compensation from the Academy. It was a state where it would be nice if they gave something, but it didn't matter much if they didn't. However, after hearing about the Academy's underground vault from Irina, he instantly reversed his attitude.

— If you go down the Academy waterway, there's a shabby-looking prison door. Beyond that, all kinds of magic tools and scrolls remain in their original state. If I remember correctly, there's even a magic tool used by Cromwell, the first lightning mage.

Those words awakened all of Acel's senses.

Cromwell, the first lightning mage. A transcendent being who established a new myth of destruction formulas and a cruel grand master. Acel had read her autobiography written by herself, so he knew quite a bit about Cromwell.

She was born in a storage for sacrifices for devil worshippers. The place where her memory first began was not in her mother and father's arms, but inside a corpse with organs cleanly cut out, forming a pool of blood. There, she drank the blood of her own kind to become an excellent sacrifice.

It was a series of disgusting days. Fortunately, it didn't go as far as cannibalism, but starting with killing her parents with her own hands, she continued to commit murders repeatedly.

It was a process to corrupt the soul and make it a sacrifice to manifest the moon devil. Cromwell endured it all with a heart vomiting blood.

This continued for 5 years. The year she turned 7.

She accidentally saw magic used by one of the devil worshippers. And she immediately copied it and made it her own. It took about 1 second to construct the magic core, and the manifestation of magic occurred simultaneously with thinking about it. Moreover, she didn't stop there, but rose to the level of immediately understanding and applying the characteristics of the magic used.

That was how she shattered the devil worshippers' hideout. With a huge explosion, the cave collapsed, and she, the only survivor, came out through the broken rocks. After that, there was a description of how she wandered the continent...