Mage Manual

"If this is all you have."

The Dazzling Star shattered the chains of the Blood Moon and unfolded the Void Wings. Her Void Wings were a splendid Star Blue, magically transforming the others into the color of Supreme Tail Wings:

"Then let your death start the collapse of the Void Realm."

The Star River began to flow faster, Ash clearly felt six streams of magic stirring within the Dazzling Star, even his Technique Spirit was affected. In an instant, all the Star Radiance turned into swords, with a billion beams simultaneously locking onto Ash!

Supreme Wonder · Billion Radiance!

They had speculated before whether the Dazzling Star had set traps at the entrance, not realizing the entire seven layers of the Void Realm were already her weapon!

Besides the Star Ocean, the Dazzling Star simultaneously wielded six six-winged Divine Beings. Even though Ash had overestimated her, his heart still sank—without Seven-winged Divine Beings in the current scenario, the six-winged were the strongest casting units they could use, and the strength of Wonders was built on the casting unit’s basis.

Ash could only borrow the six-winged Divine Being Silver Lamp, while the Dazzling Star had six and possibly more, meaning in Wonders and Miracles, Ash found it difficult to compete with her.

But it didn’t matter!

The billion Star Radiance swept through Ash without any obstruction; however, when the starlight faded, the Dazzling Star saw Ash drawing a black circle clockwise with his twin swords, catching all the Star Radiance in it with nearly no harm. Now his twin swords rotated counterclockwise, turning the black circle silver, which kept shrinking until it became a point, filled with terrifying magic disturbance, distorting even space-time.

Black Silver · Silver Death Line!

The silver line approached the speed of light, instantly piercing through the thirty-three barriers set by the Dazzling Star, crushing all of them, but it deviated slightly, refracting onto the nearest planet, which instantly disintegrated into dust, appearing like a black fog under the immense gravity of the Constant Star.

"Time, Space, Truth," the Dazzling Star suddenly said, "This is not your Wonder, nor is it that of any of them."

"True," Ash didn’t care about revealing his trump card, "The last one was a Wonder of me, Sonia, and Vishi, now it’s a Wonder of me, Diya, and Weiser."

These days Ash wasn’t idle, besides increasing the Bonds Level of the Witch Silver Lamp Vishi to level 5, he spent all his time figuring out better ways to utilize the Bonds System. Through many adjustments and practice, he finally found a new approach—Mixed Color Wonder!

Combine the Wonders of any number of people into an even stronger Wonder!

The key lay in Ash, who needed a clear aim of the desired outcome, then randomly adjusted the color ratio of Wonders based on intuition—was it more of the Sword Maiden or Vishi, should the Witch start first or Silver Lamp be the base. Ash could hardly replicate a Mixed Color Wonder he used, so each one was likely different, with high Source Power consumption.

But even he didn’t know the details of his own Mixed Color Wonders, making it naturally harder for enemies to counter. A calculative measure!

After several exchanges, the Dazzling Star gradually fell behind. Admittedly, her foundation was astonishing, and even though Ash had Mixed Color Wonders, he could barely compete with her dazzling array of Wonders and Miracles. If Ash were alone, he probably couldn’t have been her match.

But Ash was never alone.

With three Six-winged Divine Lords and one six-winged Divine Being, all their Void Wings overlapped on Ash; the boost to magic from just the Void Wings surpassed the Dazzling Star, not to mention the various World Secret Domains enhancing Ash. The Dazzling Star might be fighting solo in the middle lane, how could she match the gold content of Ash being protected by four others?

"Dazzling Star!" Ash shouted, "Do you see, your plan can’t succeed... you can’t even beat me! Even if you destroy the Void Realm, as long as you can’t defeat me, you’ll never become the one and only Mage! All you’ve done is handed the Eight Wings over to me!"

"Then let me give it to you." The Dazzling Star remained indifferent, "Didn’t you always say I owed you? Consider it repaid."

"Work with me to find a way to suppress gravity," Ash sincerely suggested, "Isn’t this your world? Didn’t you once fight Uroboros to protect it? How can you so easily decide to destroy it?"

"What is the world compared to the Eight Wings?"

The Dazzling Star raised her chin proudly, "I protect the world not because I’m its caretaker, but because it belongs to me! I can fight Uroboros to protect it, or I can crush it for my ascension to Eight Wings!"

"I won’t pretend to remember their sacrifices, nor will I believe I owe them any duty, and certainly won’t think I owe them gratitude. I protect them, not needing their applause, and destroying them, I care not for their reprimands."

"Besides," she gazed at Ash, "you don’t care about this world either, do you? You just care about those you love. If you could hide safely with your loved ones—"

"I would still stop you."

Ash crossed his twin swords in an X, speaking slowly, "Sure, I could live selfishly, without any progress, but..."

He closed his eyes, recalling Death Mad’s final kiss...

The joy felt when Sonia pulled him out from Hell...

Tamasi’s expectations for him...

Igula and Harvey helplessly following him recklessly...

And so many others...

From the Shattered Lake to the Level Six of Hell, Ash was forced along the path of justice. Often, he wanted to abandon it, but for those he cared about, he had no choice but to brave the risks. He still didn’t consider himself a good person, considering he could veer into the Observer’s path with just a bit of darkness—how good could his nature truly be?

Ash just thought that if he fell into corruption as the Observer, then the Sword Maiden and others might also turn dark, after all, laziness tends to spread. He felt the current Sword Maiden was already very good, and if she became as violent as the Death Mad, he wouldn’t be able to stand it, plus he didn’t like the smell of smoke...

More importantly...

Ash took a deep breath, opened his eyes, and gazed at the sky full of Dazzling Stars.

This is my world.

Also their world.

"I didn’t fight this far for mere survival," Ash stated word by word, "but for rebirth."

"Dazzling Star, since you are so determined, I will no longer spare you due to your contribution in the last battle in Hell," his eyes gleamed with molten gold light, "count your sins."

"Just as I wish." Dazzling Star calmly said, "Supreme of Magic should be reserved for only one."

Red and black, vermilion Fairy Tale Paradise!

As Ash wielded the Sword Light, countless bursts of blood-colored brilliance exploded in the Star Sea, dyeing the entire world in blood red, causing a large-scale collapse of space-time, even light couldn’t escape, forming a bizarre absolute domain, black inside and red outside!

A cheerful, mysterious laugh came from within the blood-colored fairy tale.

However, Ash’s hair stood on end, a strong Death Intuition pierced his soul, prompting him to deploy a Defense Miracle at near-limits speed—

Purple Silver, Silver Lamp!

Bang!

The magnificent and resplendent Sword Light shattered the Silver Lamp instantly, the radiance it unleashed was a billion times brighter than the sun, continuously releasing for several dozen seconds, enough to vaporize nearby planets into cosmic dust, forcing even the Drama Poet to cover their eyes.

After the burst subsided, Ash, curled up, dared to unfold his Void Wings; the previous wave of attacks had evaporated about a third of his Source Power, which was a third of the total Source Power combined from him and the other four!

Dazzling Star’s Wonder’s magic intensity was at least twice as strong as the strongest Wonder of his, but how could this be possible, in terms of Void Wings foundation, Ash, who fused the Void Wings of four people, ought to be much stronger than Dazzling Star—

"Ash, are you alright?"

Ash’s body momentarily halted, and he slowly looked up to see an unbelievable scene.

Dazzling Star, entwined with Starlight, was rushing over. She was clad in a gown woven from the Galaxy, stepping on flowing light, draped in star fragments, yet her face bore none of the arrogance of a Supreme of Magic, instead, she looked like a girl who had committed a mistake, gazing at him with both unease and worry.

Apart from the Heaven Secret Wings, all her other Void Wings had become double-layered.

Double-layered silver,

Double-layered Gold,

Double-layered iridescent,

Star Blue and Sword-colored,

Double-layered Prison Wings,

Single-layer Secret Wings,

And...

Ash gazed at the two swaying tail feathers behind Dazzling Star, a chill piercing through his spine, eroding his soul.

Variegated tail feather!

Star Blue tail feather!

Dazzling Star simultaneously had two Supreme Void Wings, no wonder her magic could amplify to a level Ash couldn’t resist—she was now equivalent to possessing 90% of the Supreme Holy Grail, very close to perfect Supreme of Magic!

Dazzling Star... just like Sonia and others, had borrowed his Void Wings!

Ash looked at Dazzling Star, his lips slightly trembling: "Filly?"

Dazzling Star blinked, her face was glowing with vitality, the cuteness of a girl and the indifference of a Divine Lord reached perfect harmony. She lightly stroked Ash’s cheek, biting her lips, tears in her eyes, sweetly smiled and said, "I knew you would remember me."

PS: Back from travel and the cycle begins again...