A mage? A spell engineer!

Chapter 218 The Missing Persons Case

Luo Xia returned to his dormitory and stared blankly at the control panel.

He recalled what had happened at the hospital yesterday. Unlike Varon, who passively allowed two forces to wrestle within his body and survived in a daze, Rorschach remembered the details of yesterday very clearly.

When Cano banished the will within the donkey skin, the second vessel of this power, the frail young man, was "activated," and the ever-changing, tiny fragments rapidly merged into his ailing body.

From the perspective of Rorschach, Cano, and others, the wall plaster inside the room was falling off in pieces and cracking in a regular pattern, with the cracks forming countless ancient hieroglyphs that could not be deciphered.

The room, decorated in beige tones, and the swirling, scorching sandstorm create the feeling of being in a desert ruin.

"It's the remnant soul of the God of Transformation! Use your Dispersion spell, Rorschach. The most powerful one!" Kano could see that Rorschach had kept something to himself and hadn't revealed the most complete spell to the Senate, but he didn't criticize him. He simply reminded Rorschach that he had to go all out now.

A beam of red light condensed from Luo Xia's hand and rushed into Valen's brow. Unexpectedly, the two seemed to have established a connection.

Rorschach's consciousness looked down into the endless quicksand and saw a broken god. It had no fixed shape, and its vague form was barely sculpted by the surging sand.

The three "I curse you" that Varan heard seemed to be directed at Rorschach, because the eyes of the gods had already passed over Varan and were confronting him.

What follows is known only to Rorschach and the God of Change.

"My deal with Varon was fair! I gave him everything he wanted! Rorschach, don't you want to know why He chose you?"

"Who is He?"

The remnant spirit of the deity did not answer; it spoke rapidly, as if seizing its last moments: "Think about why you were able to dispel my divinity! Think about what you used to replace miracles and wonders bestowed upon this world! This disgusting and blasphemous magic is unprecedented."

As Valen ascended to his final destination, Rorschach saw a familiar scene flash by in the almost transparent soul.

Rorschach wavered for a moment and wanted to stop the spell.

"Let's make a deal! Spare me. I can let Varon live; a man and a god can coexist in one body, allowing him to live a long time. No, no!"

Balan is portrayed negatively, and in other mythologies, the god of change is often also a cunning god with malevolent intentions. Unlike Dryaz, who initially showed good intentions, Rorschach dared not gamble on the consequences of such a deity's remnant soul returning to the world.

Rorschach gritted his teeth and completed the spell. The combined effect of [God's Expulsion] and Reverse Ray was achieved, and [Rorschach's Reverse Ray] completely freed Varon.

The deity was indeed in extremely poor condition. Archmage Cano's confidence was not blind. Although He did not lower Himself in the end, Roscia could hear that He was almost begging Roscia to stop.

"What did it bring? Perhaps among all of us, only I have ever seen a world without magic and gods." He lay on the bed, holding a crystal bead in his hand. It was a clear, transparent dark green color, with a small golden feather sealed inside.

"Isn't this just a glass marble?"

Rorschach played with it for a while, then found a wooden box and wrote "Yes" on the left side of the bottom inside, "No" on the right side, and drew a dividing line in the middle.

"Are you still conscious?"

The marble is thrown out, bounces a few times, and lands perfectly on the line.

"Isn't that a fact?" "The only answer is yes or no." With that, Rorschach began to gather his strength to prepare for the exorcism spell.

The marble sensed the threat and rolled to the bottom left corner without any external force.

"Baran, Chulimo, and Tote are all you?" He dropped another marble.

It bounced twice on the left side, then stopped on the center line again.

"The first two are definitely right, and the third is only half right?" Luo Xia felt that he was not good at reading comprehension, so he thought of another way.

"I'll have to make do with this." He found a book on mythology, opened it, turned to the page with Thoth, and ground a charcoal pencil into powder, then rolled a marble around in it.

The marbles fall, landing on a few specific words, then bounce off the pages, and then bounce again in a different order before stopping.

Fortunately, the impact points were few, and Rorschach understood the meaning: "I am Thoth, Thoth is not me?"

Now the marble is covered in carbon dust, looking pathetic, and the golden feathers inside have become dull and lifeless compared to when they were first made.

Rorschach was impressed by the Marble God's cooperative attitude: "Thank you for your hard work! One last question: Who is the 'He' you mentioned in Varon's consciousness? Is it the Lord of Order?"

He tossed the marble into the wooden box again, but this time it hit the edge and bounced away, disappearing under the bed.

The Mage's Hand fumbled around for a while before finally "retrieving" the marble from under the bed; its feathers were completely dull. Rorschach, not wanting to further torment the marble, wiped it clean and said, "I've helped a god return to the world. If you can stay quietly in the wooden box for a while, I'll consider whether to make a deal with you again." Rorschach didn't know how to resurrect Him, so he used this "deal intention" to keep Balan in line, hoping to make Him behave.

After saying that, he put the marble back into the wooden box. The marble quickly rolled into the lower left corner, waiting for Rorschach to close the lid.

After messing around with marbles, Rorschach will now mess around with magic.

As he destroyed the donkey hide, he combined the three most powerful spells he possessed, lasting for an extremely brief moment. The panel now displays [Rorschach's Great Disintegration (Gray)].

Why is it still unusable? Luo Xia looked at the panel, eager to try. However, when he actually entered the practice room of the Tower of Stars, he was unable to reproduce it no matter what he did.

Recalling the feeling at the time, Rorschach remembered that he really wanted to destroy the donkey skin. When the banishment spell was resisted, he added new spells. The combination of banishment, reversal, and minor disintegration interrupted the infinite changes of divine power. But it was precisely the resistance of divine power that gave Rorschach enough time to force him to combine the three spells with his will.

Now, he was facing the enchanted target, cold sweat pouring down his face, but he hadn't achieved the expected effect. *Thud!* The target shattered, but Rorschach knew it was just the final effect of the Minor Disintegrate spell.

"Does it require the cooperation of the God of Change?" Rorschach chuckled self-deprecatingly. Having exhausted his willpower and magic power, he didn't rush to absorb ether to restore himself, but instead left the practice room.

It was already evening, and Luo Xia planned to head straight to the cafeteria.

"Rorschach? Rorschach!" The senior's voice echoed throughout the Tower of Stars, attracting onlookers in the lobby and cafeteria.

However, Pascal completely ignored the strange looks and rushed towards Rorschach after finding him. He was in a very disheveled state, and as he approached, Rorschach noticed his senior's flustered expression and that he was covered in sweat.

"Senior brother? Shouldn't you be at the textile factory right now?" He ran into Pascal at night school two nights ago, so according to the schedule, senior brother should still be involved in night school management today.

Pascal gripped Rorschach's arms tightly: "Rorschach, Andrei is missing! He didn't come today, and I asked the workshop owner; he wasn't here yesterday either. I even went to his house and the alchemy department, but he wasn't there!"

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