The delicate circle shimmered with a blue-purple fluorescence.

The light flickered on and off.

Standing in the middle of the circle, John Goth closed his eyes.

And his sleeping memories...... At this time, the recovery is also slowly starting to begin.

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That was more than a decade ago.

Before he became a Star of the Stars, John Goeth was the brightest kid of his age.

When his father, a businessman, moved his family from the Empire to the French Powers, John Jr. soon became interested in the art of arcane spellcasting.

His talent was tapped.

And everything that follows is just a matter of course.

……

Goth's ability to sense the sea of clouds shocked even the legendary mages.

In the end, the lord of the Black Floating City, Palamedes, personally came forward and accepted Goth as a disciple. The Black Lord's students are all temperamental, but Goth gets along well with them. The relationship between him and Palamedes' daughter, Melia, has also become delicate.

During a failed spell experiment, Goth's hair turned a striking silver. At the age of fourteen, he became a Blue Sky class, and his fame began to spread, and he was hailed as "the brightest star of the stars".

However, the Lord of Darkness's worries about his favorite disciple are also growing day by day. Goth's thirst for knowledge led him to become arrogant due to his growing power.

So the Lord of Darkness made a deal with him.

The Lord of Darkness incorporated the knowledge from the artifact "Book of a Thousand Laws" into his soul, and in return, the Lord of Darkness took a part of Goth's "concept" with the spell of "Concept Transfer".

This spell changed Goth forever. He was temporarily incapacitated, and he couldn't remember exactly what his teacher had done to him: in his memory, the teacher had cast a spell on him that had been incorporated into the Book of a Thousand Spells, and then the experiment failed...... His memory was interrupted.

The Lord of the Dark imprisoned his disciples. He believed that the hard life would temper Goth's will.

Until the end of the Battle of the Black Floating City, Goth took advantage of the chaos to return home, but he still didn't know what he had lost. His personality is still intact and more sleek. Both of his parents died in the war, and he lived peacefully as a small businessman. The dazzling silver hair that he was once proud of was also dyed an ordinary tan by him.

Until one day......

He sensed that his spellcasting ability was beginning to revival.

This time, he had all the knowledge in the Book of a Thousand Laws - he didn't need to learn additional spells, he just needed to improve his mental power. The time when he couldn't cultivate didn't affect his progress, but instead made his breakthrough speed even more incredible.

It's just one thing that Goth has changed forever.

He is no longer the empty-eyed teenager he used to be. He was no longer the maverick black floating city mage, but more like a traditional, orderly, white-robed mage of Elrios.

No one realizes that "something" is missing from him.

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The light was shining, and there was a faint sound of thunder.

"Perfect." "The Emperor of the Eternal Night" muttered to himself.

Master Sappho, who had followed the Lord of the Black for many years, knew the young and frivolous "Star of the Stars" very well. On the contrary, she had no knowledge of the mild-mannered little merchant Goth.

Just as the Mystic Ritual Warrior can directly break through from the Blue Ocean Level to the Legend after practicing the "Deity Arrival", once the mage masters the Legendary Spell, the road from the Blue Ocean Level to the Legend will also be unimpeded.

John Goth, a Blue Ocean mage who was unable to fully use the legendary spell of "Concept Transfer", partially surrendered his existence as a "mage". And when the mage's talent and the shadow of his previous experience came back to him, all his memories were awakened together.

The "Emperor of the Eternal Night" has no legendary spells to use, and even his transfer of talent and the transfer of Goth-related memories in Master Sappho's heart are all carried out by using the broken magic circle in the ruins, divided into two blue ocean high-level spells.

The gods are above, and the powerful mages who were not on the main material plane when Goth made that decision, except for himself and those who could not move himself, were only Sappho. She also still has memories related to Goth.

In the eyes of the "Emperor of the Eternal Night", Goth's recovery of his talent for spellcasting is a certainty, and retrieving knowledge and memories with the help of other people's impressions is only half assured. After all, Master Sappho was familiar with Goth, and her memories were not Goth's own.

If Goth had used the "Truly Complete" "Concept Transfer" to return his mage status to the world, then Goth would at most regain his ability to cast spells and would not be able to recover his original memory.

But since Goth's spells failed to affect people who were not on the main material plane......

"Incomplete, a legendary spell that has been downgraded to the blue ocean level...... I can reverse it too. ”

As long as Goth's memories have not completely disappeared from the world, there is always a chance that he will recover his knowledge and memories directly under the stimulus of his past experiences.

Now it seems......

The effect is better than expected.

It's just that the movement of the circle is a little bigger than expected......

……

The youth opened his eyes.

It's true...... I had a long, long dream.

Silver hair, pale golden pupils as if a flame was burning, a smile on his face, and a black robe fluttering without wind.

The "Emperor of the Eternal Night" smiled.

He is not afraid of any competitor. Elrios' authority has been shattered, and now, he needs more careerists to join forces against Okad.

"Welcome back, Star of the Stars." "The Emperor of the Eternal Night" said calmly.

……

And John Gort held out his hand. He just looked at his hands, feeling the arcane energy flowing from his fingertips.

…… Even if you use a blue ocean level spell to convert the casting talent efficiency, it is not very efficient.

"It's mediocre...... Master Sappho's talent. Goth muttered.

In this way, she is also considered the former "golden generation"?

But...... That's fine.

What he recovered was not just memories that had disappeared because of his spells.

The teacher made a deal with himself and let his soul merge into the "Book of a Thousand Laws" while losing his memory...... It was also restored.

As the teacher said, as long as he is still a "Black Apostle", he will never be able to get rid of his legendary spells.

And now...... Everything went smoothly. The bald man was right, after completely losing his identity as the "Black Apostle", the "concept" that the teacher had taken away from himself was also restored.

The soul, the knowledge, and even the deeper essence are now truly whole.

And even more important...... Although there is a suspicion of opportunism, he did overcome the shackles set by his teacher, vetoed and surpassed a legendary spell. As long as this part of the experience is summed up well, Goth has a great chance of creating his own original legendary spells, and from the blue ocean advanced to the legendary, it will also be unimpeded.

The plan was achieved.

The only fly in the ointment is that it is this guy who wakes himself up.

What you find yourself...... Never reveal it to him.

"The 'Emperor of the Eternal Night'......" Goth narrowed his eyes, "Senior brother." ”