Edward - Known as one of the strongest archmages in the continent.

As for his actual age, no one knows.

Perhaps even Edward himself had long forgotten the exact age.

What's more, the name Edward itself is just a pseudonym.

The earliest names have been buried in the torrent of time.

Even he can't even remember whether he was a man or a woman at the beginning.

Originally, the average life expectancy of the human race was only 60 years.

If you live in a safe big city, you may live longer.

And some of the wealthy nobles can live to be over eighty years old.

In conclusion, in any case, Edward's lifespan as a human is abnormal.

If you want to ask why, it can only be said that Edward was a good magician.

Not all magicians can use magic to prolong their lives.

Only a very small number of great magicians, known as "sages" by the world, who are enough to go down in history, can achieve a lifespan far beyond ordinary people.

It's just that life extension magic in the popular sense doesn't exist at all.

Therefore, the great magicians who have dedicated their lives to the study of magic have their own set of original magic to prolong their lives.

Edward's answer was "necromancy".

Originally, ordinary necromancy could not extend the life of a person, and it would never bring the dead back to life.

Undead creatures summoned from corpses do not have real life, they are just simple puppets.

These undead creatures don't have a lot of intelligence, as the souls of the dead deteriorate quickly with the loss of their magical power.

In the process of deterioration, the memories of life will become mutilated, and at the same time, they will lose their own sanity.

All that is left is the most primitive instinct. Such a monster, of course, cannot be defined as a "living person".

Therefore, the magic created by Edward is not a simple "necromancy", but a more complex magic that integrates multiple systems, and only a highly accomplished magician like him can achieve - [Soul Reincarnation].

[Séance] uses the principle of a magic technique that extracts souls from necromancy and lodges them on corpses, allowing him to constantly replace his healthier and younger body, so that he can survive endlessly.

Today is the day when Edward abandons his aging body and is given a new lease of life.

However, although [Séance Reincarnation] can be called a miracle, it is essentially an evil necromancy.

To perform it, it takes at least the souls of hundreds of people.

Of course, Edward's was not bothered by this.

The vicissitudes of age had long since worn out his humanity, and the worldly conscience, the life and death of others, which Edward did not care about at all.

In the eyes of the insensitive "sage", human life is nothing more than a consumable product for his eternal life.

But despite this, he can't ignore the world's theories, and the study of magic also needs the Empire's funding.

After all, on the surface, he also plays the role of the chief magician of the imperial court.

From a standpoint, he was not allowed to blatantly slaughter a large number of innocent citizens.

Therefore, he needs a cover.

For example - play as an "unknown necromancer" who "coincidentally" assists local bandits, killing a large number of people in their raids.

Once the ritual of reincarnation is completed, he intends to burn the bandits to ashes and bury the truth forever, and he will definitely not be burned because of this.

From the very beginning, they would choose to perform the ceremony in this small suburban town, on the one hand, it was also for the sake of concealing people's ears.

In addition to this, another more important factor is that he has found a suitable "container" for rebirth in this city.

Edward had a strict set of screening criteria for the container of his reincarnation.

The first is age, which must be between five and ten years old.

Children under the age of five are too fragile to bear the burden of reincarnation magic, which may cause sequelae.

Once you are over 10 years old, the attachment of the original soul will be greatly enhanced, and it is easy to cause a deep personality disorder after rebirth.

The second is the capacity of the mana.

Edward survived for hundreds of years and accumulated a huge amount of mana, and the upper limit of mana capacity, everyone is born fixed.

If you choose the wrong target, you may waste a lot of spilled magic, and at the same time, it will also have an impact on the research results of "this life".

Finally, Edward hopes to find the wielder of the Intrinsic Skill.

[Intrinsic Skill] is also called [God-given Strength] by some races.

As the name suggests, this is like a gift from the gods, and only the darling of ten thousand can obtain this unique special ability.

Edward, on the other hand, can usurp the [Innate Skill] through reincarnation, and continue to inherit it in future reincarnations.

[Intrinsic skills] are quite rare, and for hundreds of years, Edward has only mastered two of them.

Therefore, this last screening criterion is only his "expectation", not a mandatory.

This time, very lucky, Edward found the darling of the heavens in this small city called Celia.

- Eliezer El Crusnell.

A little girl who is only eight years old, she is the daughter of the lord of the city of Celeria.

The lord had a total of three children, triplet daughters, and Alize was the second daughter of the triplet sisters.

This girl was born with an ability called [Magical Resonance].

The reason why Edward was able to perceive this was due to one of his own [Innate Skills] - [Exploration of Everything].

"Exploring Everything" is a convenient ability to explain what Edward saw.

The fly in the ointment is that what Edward himself does not know can only get a "name", but cannot understand its contents.

Therefore, what kind of ability [Magical Resonance] is, Edward does not know for the time being.

However, Ed is not in a hurry to find out what it does, because the treasure will always be in his pocket.

For him, there is still an inexhaustible amount of time to explore.

The immediate priority is to complete the reincarnation ritual as soon as possible.

As Edward had planned, he managed to follow the bandits into the lord's mansion.

The [Transparency] and [Floating] magic that had been unfolded in advance allowed him to quietly bypass the bandits' sight and enter the second floor.

The exit of the staircase on the east side of the second floor, facing the room of the staircase, is the boudoir of the lord's daughter, the destination of Edward's trip.

There was a lot of noise downstairs, and it seemed that the bandits had begun to loot impatiently.

Most of the soldiers were attracted by the riots at the city gates, and only a few remained in the palace today.

I'm afraid it won't be long before the bandits will be wiped out.

The rest is only about a maid who is incapable of fighting.

Legend has it that the lord of Celestia was a very good female dissolute nobleman, and since the death of his wife, he did not take in a wife, but took in many young girls in the name of hired "maids".

The maids who served the nobility generally had an extraordinary purple color, and it is not difficult to imagine the "content of their work".

As for the fate of these beautiful maidens after encountering the boorish bandits, Edward did not care, and to him it was nothing more than an insignificant trifle.

Because, from the very beginning, he didn't intend to let go of any of the living people in this building.

Whether it's a bandit or a resident of the house.

Rather than that, Edward began to work on his true purpose.

On the back of the room, there is a large bed with beautiful workmanship.

Leather bed rest, silk sheets, soft mattresses and warm bedding.

It's just spring, and there's still a chill in the night, but there's no doubt that this bed brings warmth.

Under the quilt, you can see a slight bulge.

Three small heads, sleeping side by side in a dream.

The young girls have very similar faces, snuggling up to each other, like three cute cats.

Unfortunately, even the angelic sleeping position was not enough to awaken Edward's humanity.

Without hesitation, Edward raised his wand and pointed the ominous gem at the three sisters in their sleep.

What he casts is a high-level necromantic magic called [Soul Eater].

This kind of magic has an extremely vicious instant death effect, which is enough to cause ordinary people with weak mental resistance to die suddenly on the spot.

Of course, the young three sisters immediately stopped their heartbeats.

Perhaps, it was Edward's only remaining mercy that allowed them to die peacefully in their sleep.

Edward held his wand in his hand and swung his arms.

He pointed the gem at the top of his wand in the direction of the bedroom door, creating a sturdy barrier that the bandits would never breach.

He didn't want to be ruined by a bunch of rude bandits during an important reincarnation ritual.

"Next ......"

The old man's voice couldn't hide a little excitement, and finally, the long-lost ceremony began.

Edward let go of his fingers gripping his wand, but instead of falling to the ground by gravity, the wand floated wonderfully in its original position.

At the same time, he raised his head high, straightened his neck, stared at the empty ceiling with his cloudy pupils, and slowly chanted a deep incantation.

“――，――，――，――，――，――，――，――，――，――，――，――，――，――，――，――，............”

The spell itself doesn't mean much, but when it comes to magic, the act of chanting a spell can play a vital role in channeling the magic in the body.

In the chanting of the incantation, the magic condensed in the blood vessels and nerves will build up a series of cyclic circuits with magical significance.

The loops intersected and combined with each other, eventually forming a huge circle.

From small to large, from low to high, from shallow to deep, the layers of magic circles formed a brilliant three-dimensional light curtain, which flew away from Edward's body and was engraved into the air.

Immediately after that, the second, third, and fourth groups of circles.

The number of light curtains of the circle continued to increase, until Edward's body, from head to toe, was wrapped in intricate light arrays layer by layer, forming an entire sphere.

At the moment when the dazzling orb engulfed Edward's entire body, it suddenly exploded.

The light broke through the outer wall of the bedroom in one breath, not destroying the building, but only "penetrating" the past, and the huge sphere formed by the magic circle enveloped the entire building.

A brilliant light pierced the night, illuminating the sky over Celia in an eerie color.

The sudden strange scene made the bandits who were busy looting downstairs couldn't help but be taken aback and stunned in place.

"Liberate it...... My soul ......"

As soon as Edward's words fell, he fell to his knees like puppets with broken strings.

The black robe burst into flames, and the purple tongue of fire instantly spread throughout the body.

This is not an ordinary flame, there is no heat, only a strange color, and it does not even raise a little smoke, and the human body instantly turns into dust.

Extract the soul and destroy the body.

It was a step that Edward had repeated many times, and he no longer had a trace of attachment to the flesh he had used.

For him, the body is just a replaceable part, and then, as he has done several times before, as he has done in the past, he can simply fix his soul to the body of the little girl, Eliza.

That's right...... If nothing "accidents" happen.