"The amount of danger this time is high. The chances of my death are apparent if I'm not careful"
Cael expressed his opinion on going to Atlantis.
"Then why are you risking your life"
"I'm an adventurer at heart, still it's not decided that I will go there. I may go to another place, I just can't be sure about anything. So, It's best to do some changes"
"let's just terminate the contract, I trust you won't abandon me"
"You are still my first choice for some spells. I have some spells with tantric magecraft, it can improve your health, think of it like "
"Tantric magecraft?"
"It's a magecraft that uses sexual force to heal or regenerate the bodies. It's a body-related magecraft, its scope is low but it can potentially extend lifespan according to myths"
"That's intriguing. Let's give it a try"
Cael and Breanna drowned in lust for the coming days and the results didn't disappoint both of them.
Breanna felt better than ever, in fact, some wrinkles even healed showing signs of de-aging, although Cael told her, it was just an increase in beauty factor and nothing more. She's just physically better as her health improved significantly.
Cael on the hand is surprised because Nixie summoned herself.
"Cael, what did you just do?"
Seeing Nixie is surprising but he asked her what happened through telepathy.
Nixie replied "Your life force increased a lot, You have gained 6 years of lifespan "
'That's a decent result but too bad, the scope is low for this magecraft. No, it's just not my path, Alchemy provides better results in my opinion '
He just used this magecraft as a gift for Breanna.
After returning to his cottage. Cael began to drown in his experiments and alchemy. His life is peaceful for a while after the war.
He treated Sakura in the meanwhile completely removing the Matou bloodline and changing her into her perfect old self.
He also focused on alchemy and began creating items using some important materials and the 'Human potion', which is the soul of the reincarnated person.
It took less than 3 months to completely heal Sakura. This changed her hair back to Brown color and her eyes changed to blue.
He helped her learn magecraft in a more refined way, exploring her potential.
Zouken forcibly changed Sakura's element from imaginary numbers to water which reduced her potential but now that, Cael is letting her explore her element.
Sakura can become one of the top 100 magus.
'Imaginary numbers' is an element that gives users access to imaginary number space that can be used in various ways.
Sakura can learn many things from Cael, she's not a genius but she got the potential and talent. Also, Cael is the best teacher she could get after true magicians.
After Sakura Tapped into the imaginary number space, Cael used his creations he managed to gain access with the help of Sakura.
----Timeskip 6 months-----
Returning to the cottage, Cael decided to test some things before going through a major experiment that will change his life.
"Alpha, Gamma, bring the material-12A and Item-7E from the workshop"
The Homunculi did as ordered.
Material-12A is a metal cube that has extremely high density.
Despite its size being 1 meter in height, length, and width, the metal cube weighs 100 tonnes.
"Okay, Let's see if I can lift it with Reinforcement magecraft, enhancement rune, and Mana burst combined"
After using enhancement mage-craft with his extreme amount of prana, Cael lifted the cube and it appeared to be the maximum he can lift. 90 tonnes is easy to lift, and 100 tonnes is the maximum effort.
"That's ...amazing"
"What If I used Logic Magecraft?"
Logic magecraft, It's a magecraft Cael has come up with after he got 'closer' to his origin.
It deals with applying personal logic to the world by creating a mini-domain but the applied logic should still make some sense.
He can't just apply an impossible logic as he could move at the speed of light.
He uses the Aria 'Enchant' to cast the spells, not that he needs to but he felt it is cool.
He used this magecraft in the Holy Grail war, first when Rin, Shirou, and Illya gathered. He simply applied the logic of Inverse, simply 'Moving means stopping, stopping means moving ', he used it a second time with Gilgamesh who throws his Noble phantasms like arrows.
The 'Inverse' spell is specifically created to deal with Gilgamesh.
Once again, Cael used Logic Magecraft to lift the Cube.
"Enchant: Skip"
It's a spell that will 'Removes' the cause of doing something and 'brings' the direct effect as long as the body and mind can do that task.
It's like asking him the answer to a complex question, the result will just pop into his head as long as he's capable of solving it even without the magecraft.
"It's working, can I lift even more weight?"
He found his limit to be 100 tonnes which is a lot for a human body.
"It's still too weak"
Cael then began to focus on destroying the cubes and he managed to do it after 10 hits.
"Offensively, my strength is not bad. It's best to create a magecraft that combines all forms of enhancements to the body. I will do it when I'm free in future"
Cael then ordered his homunculi to record his speed with Item-7E.
He ran with everything and found that he crossed the mach speed.
"Mach 4, not bad. With my powerful reflexes and mind's eye combined with this and speed, I can feel somewhat safe against heroic spirits"
For a human, these stats are top tier but for Heroic spirits, These are nothing.
"Alright, let's see the drastic changes after this experiment"
Cael went back to his workshop. On the table, there are 2 things.
One is a red stone.
The other is a blue staff.
The Red stone is the fabled 'philosopher stone' Cael created with the Soul of Reincarnater who has a magic core of sorts.
After extracting the Ether, Cael used the Ethernano core of the soul to create this philosopher's stone.
"The legendary Philosopher stone, let's see how well you can transmute everything. You are my proof of reaching the pinnacle in Alchemy"
Alchemy at its core is aiming at the study and manipulation of the flow of matter.
There are two schools.
The alchemy that delves into the conversion of phenomena, applying it to the future.
The alchemy that is concerned with the "transformation of matter", not just minerals, but states of matter like liquid or gas, or even a conceptual form that doesn't exist in this world, it's all within the grasp of alchemy.
Philosopher Stone is the pinnacle of the second school. It doesn't mean, the path of Alchemy is complete but, it is just the ultimate achievement that is closest to magic and farthest from Magecraft.
The Philosopher stone generates Ichor, the power of gods, humans call it the Elixer of life, it's the purest form of Prana and its final function is Trasmuting without the degradation part.
In a way, after he merges with it, Cael becomes immortal although, he can still die in many ways.
Cael learned and succeeded in both ways but he personally liked Alchemy which is the 'transmutation of matter' and decided to reach the peak in it.
Cael focused all of his magic circuits into the Philosopher's stone as he held it.
The Red Stone flew and entered his 'heart'. Cael combined all of his High-class magic circuits into the Philosopher stone as they merged but he felt it is not enough, the philosopher stone sucked his 'brain' and Cael let it be, the divine organ merged with the philosopher stone, and the stone turned into ethereal Red liquid flowing through his being merging the body, soul, and consciousness.
His body has undergone a Change as he doesn't have a 'brain'. The Red Ethereal liquid began to regenerate him.
In that brief moment
He got the feeling of Enlightenment, like something beyond the 'wall' that can't be reached by his mind alone, something beyond 'common sense'.
This feeling was engraved into his being.
Cael lost his Magic circuit and divine organ but the undeniable power flowing through his being is not wrong.
"I...I did it, I DID IT!!!!!!"
Cael jumped and shouted like a madman in excitement.
"I FOUND THE PATH TO THE SWIRL OF ROOT!!!"