Shadow Monarch in Tensura

Chapter 54: Chapter 54: Sacred Texts

A lot of time passed, with me doing basically nothing besides working on my castle.

My shadow expanded the castle, so it's about three times its original size, with the sub-islands being almost double the size.

Besides the changes, nothing special happened. Ultima has returned to the underworld a couple of times but returned quickly each time. With how good she has become at concealing her true self and her new looks, it would be hard, if not impossible, for even demons from her own lineage to recognize her.

It would be fun for her to keep it a secret from the other primordials and then reveal it later when they are together. Something like hey, by the way, I'm also Violet or something similar.

Oh, something important that happened was that Leon Cromwell and Chloe O'Bell were summoned. Well, Cloe was summoned here before being resummoned again but in the future.

Why do I know this even if I spend most of my time in the castle? Simple. Ramiris had visited me, annoyed by a rude blonde-haired guy who got the blessing of a Light Elemental.

I didn't pay much attention to it, but I still had a shadow report his movements to me. I actually have shadows in many kingdoms that gather information for me, except the Eastern Empire.

If Guy is able to notice my shadows even if they are in my shadow, then Rudra or Micheal would probably too, and that's not even speaking about Velgrynd.

"Now that I started thinking about dragons," I looked over to my desk, where a stack of books was, "I should maybe give them to him."

It was the first volumes of dragon ball, or how I remembered it, at least. I felt bad for him being sealed alone in a cave, so I visited him a few times over the years and made this a gift for him.

I wasn't the biggest dragon ball fan, but this should at least be 80% accurate to the original.

I teleported into the cave Veldora was sealed in, and he instantly noticed me, "My rival, you're back again!"

"Oh, so you missed me?" I asked with a chuckle going closer to the seal.

"Of course not. I'm the Storm Dragon Veldora. I don't miss people. The people miss me!" He said with an arrogant voice.

"Oh really?" I asked, raising my eyebrow, "Then I probably shouldn't visit you anymore."

"Wait! No, no! You are my rival. You can't just leave me here alone!"

"So the mighty Storm Dragon is a tsundere," I chuckled.

"Hmpf! I'm not a tsundere!" He huffed like a tsundere.

"Well, I thought you would be bored here, spending most of your time here alone, so I brought you books," I said, giving him the books that somehow traveled through the infinity prison. I don't know how, but I should maybe study it later.

"Books? You think I, the Storm Dragon need books?" He asked but still took the first volume and inspected it.

"They aren't normal books," I said in a disappointed tone, "I thought the mighty Storm Dragon would see the difference between a normal book and the sacred texts."

"What? Humpf!" He huffed again, "Of course, I knew what there were. If you knew what they were, I was just testing you, my rival!"

"..." Yeah, sure, buddy...

"Anyways, I'll be going now. I have some stuff to do, but I will bring you more sacred texts if I find them."

"Hey! Remember to visit me again! To give me more sacred texts, of course!"

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Having left Veldora with the 'sacred texts,' I returned to my office and started to think about what I should do during the 200+ years before Rimuru is born.

He will probably find out that I'm an Otherworlder due to me giving Veldora the 'sacred texts,' but it's not like it's something I would need to keep secret. I could say I found them or someone gave me them.

And if Mom finds out about it, I will just tell her that I was too scared to tell her the truth in the beginning or that my memories returned slowly over the years.

If I remember correctly, there were other reincarnated otherworlders besides Rimuru in the
novel. But the only one I could remember was that Rosso kid. I don't remember her name, but I know she had the Greed Unique Skill.

But the fact that I'm not the typical Otherworlder will remain secret.

Just the fact that I was reincarnated into a world I previously thought was just fiction was hard to believe for myself, so how would they react if they knew? They could have a mental breakdown or just think that Veldanava created a universe where everything that happens here is written down as a story in my previous world.

But for now, there is something I want to do. I have read countless books over the years studying magic and creating my own spells in order to do this.

While for the couple of decades that this castle was suspended in the air, I used magic to do it, now I think I should be able to manipulate the law of the world around this castle to do it instead.

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Basically, I want to achieve the pinnacle of magic by manipulating of the laws of the world from either a magical or scientific perspective.

To do it, I need to possess a sufficient affinity for the respective laws and enough knowledge about the scientific or magical laws and the way they operate.

Thankfully I have both of those due to all the studying I did in my past life and this life.

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Author's Note:

Thank you for reading this chapter.

I don't know the exact date Leon was summoned, but the wiki says he is three hundred years old, and he should have been summoned after Veldora was sealed.

There was something that he summoned Shizue after 200 years. Shizu was four when summoned and 72-74 when she died. So I'm guessing he was summoned somewhere between 270-300 years before the start of the canon.

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