The Book Eating Magician (193+)

Chapter 200

Traces from the Age of Mythology #3

Despite being prepared, Theodore’s reading of the Fairy’s Book was never smooth.

Of course, the act of imprinting knowledge directly into his brain was familiar due to Gluttony. The ‘Primordial characters’ helped with comprehension while ‘predation’ increased proficiency, so the process of reaching the result wasn’t much different.

The simple problem was the amount of information.

Crack.

Theodore throbbed with pain. His head had become cluttered and fuzzy several times, but he gritted his teeth and accepted the knowledge. There were 36 characters, for a total of 1,800 pages.

This was a treasure written by an alchemist of the Age of Mythology, so the difficulty of the contents was a given. In addition to that, there was another variable which Theodore hadn’t expected.

‘The more difficult the contents, the worse the headache is…?’

Gluttony realized what Theodore meant and replied, –Of course. The more difficult the knowledge, the more burden is placed on User’s brain. It is possible that you wouldn’t be able to read half of this book if you didn’t have Myrdal’s knowledge.

‘Myrdal? Ah, since the elemental techniques is a common denominator?’

–No, because that guy is □□□□□ □□□… Gluttony’s voice became broken. –Hrmm, it still isn’t possible? It seems I can’t reveal the information at stage 4.

‘Does another lock need to be released?’

-That’s right. I thought it would be possible after you became a master, but it seems another seal needs to be released.

Theodore recalled some old memories. The first time he met Pride, it was Gluttony’s choice which had saved him. Theodore wasn’t qualified to argue with its choice. He would be able to find out about Myrdal once he unlocked the next seal.

Then Theodore focused on the next character. If he counted correctly, he had 15 characters remaining. Shortly after that, Theodore realized what that meant and couldn’t help letting out an admiring sound.

“I have already read 1,050 pages…”

It was common to take a few days to read theories properly, even if it wasn’t a different magic. Additionally, it was common for alchemy to require knowledge from various fields. When thinking about the difficulty of the book written by Paracelsus, it would’ve taken at least two months to read 1,800 pages. It might take a year for a complete understanding.

Yet Theodore had read more than half of the Fairy’s Book in just two hours. This absurd efficiency was due to the ‘primitive characters.’

Theodore once again started reading the Fairy’s Book. At this time, he didn’t know that Gluttony was watching his greed for magic.

It observed Theodore and spoke to itself, –Yes, this is a quality suitable for my user.

This was the reason why Gluttony had chosen Theodore as its master.

With cold eyes, Gluttony continued to talk, –Your brain will continue developing in the long run. Repeatedly doing the same task and learning difficult information will cause you to develop. This luck that keeps on bringing adversity… Theodore Miller, you are the right user to be responsible for my last…

I hope that you will be consistent like this until the end.

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By the time that the moon and stars started to tilt toward the horizon, Theodore achieved the goal he desired.