Mage Manual

This is Dark Night Park.

Ash searched for a long time and finally found the un-faded image buried deep in his dusty memories—he had seen the exact same scenery when he traveled with his brother in his past life!

That means... Ash raised his head, the atmosphere could not hinder his sight in the slightest, and the myriad stars entered his pupils. He saw the moon, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, saw the Big Dipper, the Summer Triangle, and saw Halley’s Comet, completing its orbit around the sun every 76.1 years...

This world is not a product of nature but a perfectly recreated version of Earth’s world!

Within all the time in this dimension, only two people could complete this homesick work, one is Ash himself, the other is...

The Final Observer!

He actually came to the Initial World Line! But this place can only be entered by the Eight-winged. How did he get in? When did he come in? Why did he recreate an exact Earth world? Why has he never spoken of it?

Countless questions popped into Ash’s mind, like pearls spilling from a string.

Yet apart from the cold wind on the mountaintop and the shining stars, no one answered his questions. There were no Final Observer here, nor eight of them, only a world that Ash once dreamed of.

The excitement slowly cooled down, and a strange question emerged in Ash’s heart—

Why did he directly reach the position of Dark Night Park after passing through the Veil?

If it was a coincidence, then there’s no need to mention it, but if it’s not a coincidence... then it was a deliberate design by the Final Observer.

The Final Observer knew he would come.

Ash examined this world again carefully but still couldn’t find any traces, he began to doubt his judgment—if the Final Observer wanted to leave him information, there were plenty of ways, yet why couldn’t he find anything?

Could it really be just a coincidence? Ash couldn’t help but have a headache; the Initial World Line indeed harbor too many mysteries, and they’re almost impossible to solve, his only hope is the Observer. If the Observer really doesn’t leave him any clues, he definitely won’t be able to sleep tonight...

No.

There is another clue.

An obvious clue right in front of him.

Ash raised his head to look at this familiar world, when he wished for it, the world folded like a scroll.

Exactly, the Earth world specially recreated by the Observer itself is the biggest clue. No matter how he thinks, the Observer must be a Supreme of Magic before he could get here, even if the Observer had the ability to be sentimental, he couldn’t possibly go to such great lengths to recreate the Earth world—at least Ash wouldn’t waste this time over homesickness, better to indulge in the warmth of Queens and Princesses.

As expected, Ash found obvious "folds" left by the Observer in world building, when he folded the world along these creases, the Initial World Line returned to boundless darkness, leaving only a book familiar yet strange to Ash.

"Aurora’s Mage’s Handbook"

All these years have passed, Ash never expected that he still had the chance to see this name. He reached out to gently touch the text on the cover, his eyes for the first time showed the colors of what the Master of the Void Realm should have, as if meeting a white-haired friend after a millennia.

But now Ash’s questions were even more than before, he simultaneously realized that some long-standing confusions might get resolved.

Back then, when Ash became the Master of the Void Realm, he thought he had surpassed the Final Observer, and wanted to recreate the functions of "Aurora’s Mage’s Handbook", namely "Cross-domain Team Formation", "Forced Training", "Potion System", "Vehicle System", "Talent System", "Profession System", etc.

As a result, up until now, he hadn’t been able to perfectly recreate these functions.

The team formation function requires Mages to first form a physical team offline then enter the Void Realm together;

Forced training was implemented using the Wonder of Dominance, but its cost-effectiveness was too low;

Potions and vehicles are essentially incarnations of Miracles, barely achievable;

As for the Talent System and Profession System, there was no trace of them—the possibility of quantifying talents exists, but the Profession System was an anomaly to Ash.

He used to think the Profession System might be a permanent Wonder, but a Wonder has one effect on mortals, another effect on Demigods, another for Divine Lords, and even another for Supreme of Magic. For example, the same sensitivity-enhancing Wonder can drive mortals to ecstasy, but Vishi can only ignite some extra fun by using it on herself.

However, professional characteristics were different, for example, the Mad Dancer Profession effect of a Sword Maiden is "attacking the same target can increase attack speed by 2%, up to a maximum of 5 times, switching targets immediately nullifies," she could stack 10% attack speed as a mortal, and now she can still stack 10% attack as the ultimate swordsmanship supreme of this plane!

The energy level disparity between the former and latter is beyond words—were Sonia to now raise her attack speed limit by 10%, she would need to utilize Supreme Wonder, consuming tens of thousands of Source Crystals in a single use, yet triggering professional characteristics costs nothing!

He and Sonia had seriously researched the professional characteristics, trying to find its essence, but yielded nothing, the professional characteristics like light from outside a painting, regardless of how the people in the painting search, can never discover it’s not light from their own world.

When Ash lost "Aurora’s Mage’s Handbook" he felt little nostalgia, but later he realized what treasures he missed. Although they forged countless glorious achievements, they still haven’t fully unearthed the legacy left by the Final Observer.