The Replica Magic Starting from Black Four

Chapter 8 The Grimoire Conferment Ceremony Begins, Mogi's Guesses!
After a simple dinner.

With a relaxed smile, Miki accompanied several younger children in the church, telling them fairy tales about past lives. When she got to the exciting parts, they exclaimed in amazement.

The children all carried small stools and gathered around the log, listening attentively.

They were all orphans adopted by the church.

Yuno kept his head down, helping Sister Lily wash the dishes.

As for Asta, he ran out immediately after finishing his meal and hid in some corner to train.

The three of them were doing their usual things, and they didn't seem to be any different from each other.

Only Sister Lily and the priest would occasionally exchange a glance and smile slightly.

"These two children..."

The priest muttered something under his breath.

Hasn't Miki noticed that he often repeats himself when telling stories? This has never happened before.

Yuno was the same; her movements while washing the dishes were sometimes slow and sometimes fast, and it was unclear what she was thinking.

Asta was not in the church, and the priest did not know that.

However, thinking about it, it's probably the same as with Yuki and Yuno, perhaps even going too far.

"Are you nervous about tomorrow...?"

The priest settled into a comfortable position, leaned back in his chair, and thought to himself.

This is perhaps a process that every 15-year-old boy has to go through.

He wasn't really worried about Yuki and Yuno; what really worried him was Asta. Thinking of this, the priest couldn't help but sigh.

"996!"

"997!"

"998!"

"999!"

"1000!!"

On the lawn outside the village.

"Huff huff..."

Asta braced himself with his hands on the ground, head down and feet up. After completing the last movement, he collapsed to the ground with a "thud," panting heavily.

"I will become the Magic Emperor, and that's the only thing I will never admit defeat on, Yoru! Yuno!"

After taking a few deep breaths, Asta got up from the ground with a determined look and continued his training.

March.

The season when fireflies and dandelion fluff fly.

It is also an annual event where boys aged 15 and above are gathered from all over the Clover Kingdom to hold a ceremony to bestow "magic books" that can enhance the magic power of the holder.

The teenagers, their faces filled with excitement, followed the somewhat mottled steps, which were overgrown with shrubs and bushes on both sides, toward the Magic Book Tower above.

The weather is great today, with blue skies and white clouds, and it's very sunny, which seems to reflect everyone's mood.

Yuki, Yuno, and Asta stood in the crowd and moved forward as well.

"A lot of people."

Asta's eyes widened, and he let out a sigh.

"This is the only magic book tower in this area. People from all the surrounding villages who reach the required age come here, so of course there are a lot of people."

When Mumu spoke, he was also somewhat surprised.

I just glanced around and there were probably fifty or sixty of them who were 15 years old.

"Don't be late, let's hurry up."

Yuno's expression was indifferent, and he seemed to have no interest in the people around him.

Yuki glanced at Yuno, finding it amusing, but still nodded. The grimoire conferment ceremony started uniformly; arriving a little early or late didn't make much difference. Yuno appeared calm on the surface, but was actually quite nervous inside.

soon.

A tall, massive building came into view.

It's less like a building and more like an enlarged chimney, because it doesn't even have windows; it's just a straight cylinder.

The walls were covered in dust, with peeling plaster, and the cracks between the bricks and the surface were covered with moss.

This was completely different from the noble mage tower that Mumu had imagined.

Mogi was somewhat disappointed, but he also knew that there was a big difference between the mages in this world and the so-called magicians.

Enter the Magic Book Tower.

The first thing you see is the bookshelves that cover the walls, filled with magic books of various colors and sizes.

At the very top of the book tower is a hollowed-out "plum blossom" symbol of the Clover Kingdom. Sunlight shines directly down through this symbol, and combined with the bookshelves that line the surrounding walls, it creates a unique and awe-inspiring effect without any apparent magic.

"Wow!!"

Asta let out a shocked exclamation, his eyes shining as he looked at the magic books displayed on the shelves.

At this moment, not only Asta was shocked, but most people were also shocked, and no one paid any attention to Asta's shouting.

Looking at everything before him, Yumu's previously calm heart inexplicably began to feel tense.

Unlike Sister Lily and the priest, who were confident that he would obtain the grimoire, Mugi was still somewhat uncertain about his own chances of getting it.

In this world, magic comes in two forms: one is inherited through bloodlines like those of nobles, and the other is related to the human soul.

He was, after all, a time traveler; he wasn't actually from this world.

Even if he gains magic power, it doesn't necessarily mean he can obtain a magic book.

in fact.

Even back when she was watching the anime, Miki had been curious about where the magic books in the Magic Book Tower came from.

The book tower in front of us alone contains at least several thousand magical books, if not tens of thousands. And this is just one book tower. You have to know that there are countless book towers in various regions of the Clover Kingdom. How did such a large number of magical books come about?
and.

Not only the Clover Kingdom, but the other three kingdoms are the same.

Unfortunately, it's not mentioned at all in the anime or manga; it's more like a background story.

If you're just watching it as an anime, then it doesn't matter.

It can be considered a setting, but in the real world, it is a problem that cannot be ignored!

This is also what he is worried about.

Miki had made similar speculations before.

First of all, this couldn't possibly be man-made!
Neither anime nor manga can depict the power of mages in this way, because each magic book represents a mage.

If someone could actually create a grimoire, that person would be a god!

If there were such a god, then the people of the Clover Kingdom would not be worshipping a magic emperor, but this god.

The same applies to other countries.

Because a large number of people acquire magic books every year, a portion of them will inevitably be consumed. Since they need to be replenished, this so-called god must frequently appear before the world and deliver the magic books he creates to various kingdoms.

Therefore, the church organization could not have fallen into such a state of disrepair.

The church organizations in this world are more like relief societies than churches.

Miki guessed that this was more like the rule of this world, just as magic existed in this world, and all that was needed was to fill the magic book tower with ordinary books.

As for the transformation process, even Mugi himself didn't quite understand it.

He guessed it was related to this "acquisition ritual," but he wasn't sure.

After all, the two elves who were killed in the White Night Eyes organization were resurrected and went directly to the Spellbook Tower, where they immediately obtained the spellbook. This did not seem to have much to do with the "acquisition ritual".

(End of this chapter)