Regressor Of The Fallen Family [EN]: Chapter 310

“How could you just come in here like that?!” Clayton yelled.

He was rarely angry, even though he looked tough, but now he was furious at the King.

Logan said nothing, just hung his head. The servants and royal guards who saw this scene tried hard not to laugh.

Clayton’s brown hair and beard were burned. On his head, you could see a red, bald spot. It was funny to see the mage like this because he was usually serious and quiet. Everyone wanted to laugh.

Clayton kept yelling for a while. Then, he noticed what was happening around him.

He saw the servants blushing and bowing, and he felt the wind on his bald head. This made him angry again.

“This could have been a disaster! Even if you and I are okay, Victoria could have died! King, you need to think about what you did! Really!”

“…I am sorry. This will not happen again.”

Clayton’s appearance, with his bald head and angry face, was funny, but Logan couldn’t laugh.

Even the knight who had been outside the door, the one who had guided him, was badly hurt and getting help from the priests. Victoria could have died if Clayton hadn’t protected her quickly.

Logan knew he had done something very bad. Saying he didn’t expect such a big explosion from a simple experiment sounded weak, even to himself.

“Victoria is a genius! She will become famous in the magic world, maybe even in history! We almost lost someone so talented!”

Even though Clayton’s words seemed a bit much, Logan didn’t say anything.

“Lia, how is she?”

“She’s going to be alright physically, thankfully. But she’s very shaken up. It was a shock for her. Her magic inside her is shaken up. She needs to rest for now.”

“…Yes, that is probably best. I will go and apologize to Lia later.”

It wasn’t just because of Clayton’s angry face or the sharp look from Viktor next to him.

‘I almost lost one of the kingdom’s talents for no reason.’

He planned to say a sincere apology and give a lot of money to both the badly hurt knight and Victoria.

As Logan stayed humble, Clayton had to calm down.

But the feeling of his bald head made him annoyed.

“…I will tell everyone that my experiment failed. But, you need to know that this will make your plans take longer. We were close to succeeding if we could have just gotten past this…”

“No, that’s…!”

When Clayton said that, Logan looked up quickly.

“All the experiment stuff is gone too. It will take at least two weeks to get ready again.”

But after those obvious words, Logan had to look down again.

And there’s more.

“And Lia is in charge of this project, not me. So, until she feels better, we can’t even try anything.”

“Was she really that important?”

“Yes. More than you know.”

When Clayton said that, Logan felt curious even though he felt bad.

“I definitely saw it…”

The blue-haired girl, lying in bed, reached her hand toward the ceiling.

Her hand, lightly reaching for the air. But her eyes, one red and one blue, weren’t looking at her hand. She was thinking about the explosion from yesterday.

‘It wasn’t even proper magic.’

The explosion happened when pure magic mixed with the chemicals in a strange way. It was different from what she wanted to research, but Victoria got a new idea from it.

She had been staring at the scene, forgetting to use magic to protect herself.

Because of that, her teacher was hurt, and her own magic inside her was shaken up.

But because she paid the price, she remembered that amazing sight clearly.

‘A small amount. It wasn’t even enough magic to beat my teacher’s magical power.’

For a weaker power to beat a stronger power, it needs to have much more energy.

She still remembered seeing something that shouldn’t be possible.

‘The magic mixed with the chemicals and kept getting stronger. It’s different from normal magical power.’

At 19, she was talented enough to be at the end of the 5th Circle and thinking about going beyond her limits. She saw the path she needed to take in that strange sight.

‘Having magic of different types isn’t really needed.’

When a mage becomes an archmage, most Circle mages who only used one type of magic learn another type.

Like her teacher, Clayton, who had earth magic and added wind magic, so he could control many combat golems from far away.

There were more archmages than people who use Aura, who usually get stronger overall instead of learning new abilities. There were no exact numbers, but it seemed like ‘everyone’ did it.

And the archmages said that they did this because one type of magic wasn’t enough to handle powerful magic.

But by studying magic circles using notes from someone unknown that her teacher had, Victoria had another idea.

‘Magic circles work no matter what type of magic is used. You don’t need to have different types of magic to move powerful magic.’

Also, the stories of the great archmages in history made her more sure.

It had been over three hundred years since great archmages officially appeared. Most of the famous ones were from the Wizard group who used class magic, not just one type. That’s why Circle magic archmages might have thought that using different types of magic was the way to become a great archmage.

But only a few.

If you went back not three hundred years, but a thousand years, there were stories of archmages like the Pyromancer who turned a country into a desert just by moving his hand, or the Earth Dominator who made mountains appear.

Of course, the stories were probably exaggerated, but it was clear that those archmages beat the common Wizard group archmages who lived at the same time.

And Victoria had a feeling that those archmages in the stories had made one type of magic as strong as possible, instead of using different types, and had gone beyond what was thought possible.

And yesterday’s explosion showed her that her idea might be right.

“It’s definitely possible.”

As she said that confidently, yellow-brown magic started to move at her fingertips.

Her teacher told her to rest and not use magic for a while because her magic inside her was shaken up, but she forgot about that for now.

‘The proof only needs a little magic, so it’ll be fine.’

“Oooom.”

As if the earth heard her thoughts, a faint tremor ran through the ground, powered by the magical energy within it.

She focused her mind. The magical energy obeyed her, gathering together. She wanted to copy the explosion from yesterday. Yesterday, she learned something new. Now, she wanted to make her magic stronger in just one way. She had thought about this for a long time.

She didn’t even think about the danger if she failed and caused another explosion.

Victoria simply followed her inspiration, recalling the kingdom’s achievements made in that way, remembering the words of the benefactor who saved her and her brother’s lives, and who was also the monarch of the kingdom.

‘Just do it!’

And her expectation was immediately rewarded.

Oooom.

The moment Victoria saw the light brown earth magic turning into a rich, dark brown, like fertile soil, she felt her chest swell.

‘Finally!’

She realized that her magic was trying to overcome its limits, a feeling different from her teacher’s magic.

Inside her, the magical energy had been messy. Now, feeling this new power, it settled into place, like things clicking together.

The circles were changing, making a mockery of her teacher’s worries that she would need at least a few weeks of rest.

A huge smile spread across Victoria’s face. She had done it! Inside her, the magical energy, now settled and strong, was already starting to build even more power.

“Ria!”

The door burst open, and a familiar face popped in.

“I was just checking to see who came to visit…? Oh?”

“Th, this…….”

Victoria’s face twisted in anger.

The earth magic, which had been turning into power, lost its balance and shook uneasily again.

“Uh, surprise! Just checking on you, Ria! Everything okay?” Viktor said with a nervous laugh, realizing he had interrupted something important.

“Get out! You idiot!!”

Victoria didn’t even realize she had sworn at her brother for the first time in her life.

And from the finger she pointed at her brother.

Rumble.

Wham!

The light brown magic burst out and blew out a corner of the white stone wall of the two-story mansion, sending dust and pebbles flying.

Logan tried not to smile as he looked at Viktor kneeling there. It was hard to be serious when Viktor looked so silly.

Next to him, Clayton gestured wildly with his hands, his ridiculously wide-brimmed hat wobbling precariously, pouring out endless nagging.

“Do you know what you’ve done? Think of the lectures I’ll have to give! All ruined! By a brother! The youngest Archmage in the history of the continent was about to be born… You ruined history. History…….”

‘My ears are going to bleed.’

Logan, chuckling at the thought, turned back to Victoria.

“To be already at the realm of an Archmage at that age. Amazing, Ria.”

“Ah, no, Your Majesty. Because of that idiot brother of mine, I don’t know when such an opportunity will come again…….”

“Now that you’ve experienced it once, you’ll definitely have another chance. Don’t be too impatient.”

Unlike the siblings who looked close to tears, Logan felt a surge of hope. Victoria’s power could be a key to winning the war against the Empire. He smiled.

He had heard countless times from Clayton that Victoria was a magical genius rare in history. But because of her age and the coming war, he didn’t expect her to become so powerful so soon.

But didn’t it seem like she had already stepped halfway there?

The person in question didn’t seem to feel it because of her emotions, but Logan had a special sense for magic. He could feel that Victoria was very close to reaching a new level of power, what magicians called the ‘Sixth Circle’.

The research on the Great Magic Circle, the preparation to face the Empire, had created another powerful force, so how could he not be proud?

“And perhaps that time will come much faster than you think. So, forgive your brother already,” Logan said with a smile, “Unless you want me to make him kneel here all day?”

Victoria’s face, which had been about to soften at Logan’s words, flushed red again as if she had thought of something.

“I can’t forgive him!”

“Hmm?”

“Hiding his Aura, what kind of family is this? Tch…….”

Victoria’s grumbling, which he hadn’t seen in a long time.

It seemed that Viktor had shown his Aura when the mansion was blown up.

The small child he had first seen was now showing the appearance of a fine lady, but the traces of her old self that he encountered after a long time made Logan smile involuntarily.

“It was my order. So, if you’re going to be angry, you should be angry at me.”

“How dare I be angry at Your Majesty…….”

“If you can’t be angry at me, why don’t you forgive your brother?”

“……Yes.”

She still had a sulky pout on her face, but that was something Viktor would have to take care of.

Logan simply wore a satisfied smile, as if he had discovered an unexpected gem in a place he had visited to offer an apology.

And not many days after wearing such a pleasant smile.

– The research on the manifestation and application of the Great Magic Circle is nearing completion.

A broad smile once again appeared on Logan’s face upon hearing Clayton’s message.