The ancestor

— They finally showed up, I don't know what time it is, but I think it must have been a week.

I got up and took a long time to stretch my body, I spent most of the time meditating, sleeping hundreds of years made me a little nervous and I couldn't sleep.

* Looks more comfortable than normal for an old monster that has been stuck in a statue for hundreds of years * — Feels good?

I looked at the duke on the left, unlike last time, he wore a long overcoat with red tones and his shirt was black, gray pants and well-made leather boots — * After my departure, Larissa established as a tradition for her descendants to wear clothes like this ? *

I looked at the center, if I am not mistaken he is a descendant of Karin, there was not much resemblance to her ancestor, Karin was as distant from her children and grandchildren as any high level wizard.

The last one was called Lians, he wore simple and even ordinary clothes for his status, his blond hair was alive and flashy, probably if he walked on the street, people would think he was a hunter from some noble family.

*Emanuela's descendants have very striking blonde hair, I remember that at the beginning we had to force her to darken her hair so as not to attract attention*

— Let's get to the point, we need to know your plans and Who are you, really?

I made a face, wondering if the secret laboratory had not been enough, my companions did not know about that laboratory, I had taken advantage of some secret points to build it, if they found out about my plan they would want to help.

I even used our agreement so that our descendants could get into critical situations if they found the laboratory.

— You are direct, much like Karin. I'm a little lost, the memories of my descendant make it clear that there are no mages in the Kingdom.

— Whoever you are, what you say is true, in fact the historical records say that the last sorcerer in the Kingdom simply disappeared more than four hundred years ago.

* More than four hundred ... * — How did you find the laboratory? Were the cabinets empty?

— No, they were full of bottles. The equipment was also there and the books were also there.

* It looks like the time has come to find out how the complex is doing. *

— Come on, we need to see what conditions the complex is in.

* What complex ?! * — Where is this complex?

* As I imagined, they don't know * — So you really don't know, but that's okay, the housing estate of the mages of the Kingdom Martins is under the castle, descendants of Emanuela.

*On here?! Right under our noses and we never found anything? * — WHERE?!

We left the chamber and closed the entrance, when I received the sunlight I had the reflex of blocking and breathing the pure air made my lungs scream with joy — *I am alive!*

— Where exactly is the entrance to this complex?

I walked to the center of the throne room and turned to them smiling — The entrance is down here.

I stepped right in the center while smiling ... — *Wait a minute* — I stepped again, but nothing happened, something is wrong this was not supposed to happen — *Wait, I feel like I'm forgetting something ...*

— Ah, I forgot that I have no magic, sorry, but you will have to lend me your blood.

*He doesn't have the behavior of a millennial* — Do you need our blood to open the lock? Just a moment .

After each one of them cut the palm of the hand, I asked them to place it right in the center of the rug. It was where the entrance was, I started to feel sick, I went through tragedies, deaths and massacre and after a thousand years I thought I would not find a new situation, but losing all my power is doing me harm.

*So be it, but it is only temporary! * — you could lend me your dagger.

— Sure here it is.

I took the dagger from Larissa's descendant and cut my own blood, after that I made a small circle by drawing the letter Omega in the center, then I drew the initial letter of Diego's name and the last of his surname positioned well above the circle.

The whole floor was lit up at the end, the magic circle next to the letter became a large circle that covered the entire floor of the throne room and on top of the blood circle a white circle appeared.

After that the ground around began to descend, I was impressed that the Dukes would not be unbalanced, but I smiled when I noticed a slight tremor in his legs.

*How did Arthur not find this place before? We looked in secret rooms, not only in the castle, but in the whole capital, so many questions and no answers * — What was that circle for?

— Drake right? The magic blood circle is necessary if you want to have access to all floors of this complex.

We were already on the ground after that, when we all left the platform the ground returned to its original position and if we want to go up, just pull the lever.

— My companions and I were very detail-oriented, every wizard is detail-oriented, after all, we created several prevention mechanisms, one example is that to enter this complex it is necessary to carefully insert the mana in a certain sequence.

* I understand why you couldn't do it the first time * — What's in our blood to be able to activate the entrance?

— After reaching the fifth circle, we create a cursed spell in our DNA, so that your blood can access this complex, but there is a limit, for example, if you only have the blood of the three of you, you could only access the first fifty floors.

— Fifty?! This place has fifty floors, how is that possible?

— It took years to build everything, we wanted it to be as impressive as possible, continuing, if it were just the blood of you three plus mine we would have access to the sixty-fifth floor, we would need Nascimento's blood to continue. We created a contingency plan in case one of our descendants betrayed the others and happened to find a magician from the sixth circle to break the curse, that magic blood circle was our plan so that the others could have access if any were missing.

They looked around trying to look across the first floor, but there was nothing there but darkness and stone, the first floor was organized to be a maze of illusions, curses and attacks of all kinds, it took us a while to get to elevator.

— We don't need to see anything on the sixty-five floors, our goal is the sixty-six, the floor where the magic accumulation room is located, it is also the room that keeps the whole capital alive.

It took us almost twenty minutes to reach sixty-six, it was a nuisance to take the elevator, I missed the teleportation.

*remember, just temporary*

I turned to look at the descendants of my companions, against my expectations they seemed amazed by the elevator. — *Wow, ashamed, they are like country hens, my God.*

*This place is huge, Drake must be in euphoria and Lians is certainly more excited than I can imagine.* — How big is this place exactly? It is huge .

— The entire complex has a standard km, width and length, each floor is fourteen meters. But the right height would be one kilometer and one hundred and sixty-eight meters.

*Amazing.*

— And here we are, your ancestors' laboratory is just below this floor, but it is this gate that will define the scope of our actions.

I pushed the door and ... Nothing happened? — *I need to be a wizard again and Fast!*

After making the same blood circle, but this was different from the first, we managed to enter the room and the words would not be enough to describe the beauty of such a vision, even for me who saw worlds and stars in space.

Heaps of magic stones that reached the ceiling covered the hall, even a real Overlord could not remove so many raw magic stones, the fact is that this treasure room covered five hundred meters and fourteen in height.

*I'm fucking rich! Finally good news since I came back to life.*

To feel the impulse to jump on top of the magic stones, but I would die if I was crushed by so many stones, I was still very excited, and it was not just the number of magic stones, the magical energy was so dense that I could see with the eyes the particles in the environment.

I sighed to calm down, noticed that they were amazed at the sight, Drake in particular knelt and was analyzing the stones carefully. — *Now they must be sure that I am me.*

— These magic stones will accelerate our recovery to power, I imagine that even an average apprentice can enter meditation here in three days. Maybe in two.

They still couldn't say anything, I was surprised and very excited, that means that in addition to having incomparable money, the magic vein recovered, after hundreds of years the magic vein finally recovered.

In reality it is worrying, if the magic vein is recovered it means that monsters and areas of great magic density will form and magical animals of up to third circle will appear, but none of this happened and this may be thanks to the architecture of the capital that sucks the magic from the environment so that a magic vein is not necessary and now that the magic vein is recovered the capital's power is on high.

— Enough, we need to plan our steps, much to do. Fortunately the resources will not be lacking.

We had left the complex and were now on the top floor of the castle, the Dukes were enjoying coffee and pastries and I was eating a cheese snack with beautiful citrus juice.

*A fifth-circle magician doesn't have to eat, but it's good to enjoy well-made foods like this.*

*The view from up here remains incredible, there may be wars and massacres, but humanity will persist as well as the wind that spreads everywhere.*

*The capital of the Kingdom that we built was magnificent and immense, the outer wall covered thirty kilometers in length, to form a giant magic circle we made connections that connected the outer wall to the inner wall.*

— Rei, what are your plans? What strategies do you have for the Kingdom.

I sighed and turned my attention back to the Dukes, after showing the complex below, there was a greater respect for me and they started calling me King.

In reality I did not use the title of King and none called me by that name, my children were already adults and on the same day that I was proclaimed King I passed the throne to the second, I was only called King only once.

My companions called me brother or Martinus, my children only called me lord and the allies called me the Overlord of two elements and my enemies only of unpleasant things, but never King.

— Everything is already on track, within three weeks the Duchess must be here, however we will not be showing off, she will enter my room with you Dukes, I will leave with her at most one day later or the same day.

*The King sent Era to get Hiracy, but if it was really serious, the most practical thing would be to send the crows, and send the deputy commander of the Royal guard, even if he was careful, he would be seen at one time or another ... the King plans what the enemies notice Hiracy's arrival, but what would be the strategy?*

— Looks thoughtful Lucas, share your thoughts with everyone if it is not a nuisance.

*Ready, damn it "— Like the others, I think the king plans to turn the war into a race, while the king and Hiracy go back to the east, here the dukes will act as if they are preparing several soldiers to reach the East, the enemies will try using this chance to reach the walls and without the Duchess the morale will drop a lot, it is likely that a group of rebels will try to attack our squad during our trip and they may even attack the city, but it is unlikely, since the Commander or Commander Darcy will be here.

*A little different than I thought, but Lucas is right, Drake must agree.*

— I think everyone thought of a similar line of thought.

I took the glass of juice and ate it, I was chewing it while Larissa's descendant said all that.

— Go ahead, I think it's not over yet.

— Yes, the important thing would be that without the Duchess or the King in the East, theoretically, maybe they will not send the wizard, but as the King and Duchess are there I imagine that the plan is to form an ambush using gunpowder and trebuchet and considering the limitations of a first-round wizard that the King said earlier, it would be possible to overcome.

Everyone was silent waiting for my answer, but I confess I am proud, now I know why this Kingdom prevailed even without a wizard for more than four hundred years, the guys are good strategists, unfortunately a strategist is only worth something when he is in possession of information, if if they knew of the wizard's weakness they would have won without a doubt.

The former King, father of this body, must have tried a head-on attack wanting to use a greater decimation to frighten enemies for a few more years, that would not stop them, but it would give time and considering the current situation, they needed time even though if the strategy was risky it would be worth it.

— You surprised me, your ancestors would be upset if they knew how the Kingdom fell, but you prove that the Kingdom still has good materials for a promising future.

*After all, I won't be here forever.*

— Actually, you don't have to worry about the city at all, even if two hundred level one wizards attacked the wall it wouldn't be smashed, only if a level four magician came it would be scratched, but how many of those would have today?

— Whatif the plan is to attack from within with rebels?

— It won't work, the three of you will stay here protecting the capital with the commander of the royal guard. You guessed right that I will pretend to be in the carriage, but the plan involves sending an empty carriage.

— The plan also has no ambush, I will use one of my Relics to create a magic that will exterminate that entire army, probably nobody will attack the city after the fruits would not be equivalent to the gains since whoever comes will die, the death of rebels without any gain will decrease their morale.

*Rudimentary, but who would think of plans if he had supreme strength?*

— The empty carriage is just an appetizing attraction, they will attack, but considering the number of soldiers including Ace, and we who are supposed to be there, the rebels are not going to send many so we will capture some and torture to get information. Right?!

— We will not torture to get any information, there is no need to keep useless rebels alive.

I smile after finishing drawing up the plan for the Dukes, but by now the enemies must know that we have a card up their sleeve. However, it is not as if they could do anything but die like an insect that they are.