THE FOUR PATHS OF MAGIC

THE FOUR PATHS OF MAGIC

"Nearer? Do I have to suffer more bouts of life and death like this again?" I asked the cat god.

"Yes, you have only received the Dark Angel's soul and heart. You are yet to receive his bone and his blood", he told me.

"Damn, so I'll become the Dark Angel when I got all his body parts?" I asked.

"Almost. Once you have obtained all his magic paths, you shall awaken his Mind or your Mind. Your Mind shall integrate all the magic of the Dark Angel and resurrect the Dark Angel of Revelations", Delirium explained to me.

"All these are incomprehensible to me", I said to him before adding, "Is my magic still templar magic? Did I lose all my magic?" I asked Delirium.

"You are no longer constrained by the system that determines templar magic or bone magic. You have been freed from the crutches of magic", Delirium said to me, but I didn't understand him.

My Black Heart gave me almost endless magic although now I don't have the means to use them efficiently.

"I've lost all my magic skills, what is the use of having unlimited magic in my heart if I couldn't use them", I asked Delirium.

Delirium pondered for a moment before he smiled.

"What is it?" I asked him.

"You may ask the Dark Angel in your soul to help you. He can do wonders with the magic of the Black Heart", he told me.

"Erm.. asking for his help is the last thing on my mind. He'll become stronger the more I rely on him", I told him about my suspicion.

"You are absolutely correct. You shall grow without your past interfering", he replied.

"Are there some other ways for me to gain magic without using the Dark Angel's magic?" I asked Delirium.

"You are truly a fortunate one. There is", Delirium told me.

"Really, what is it?" I asked him.

"When you augmented your body with the Seeds of Chaos, initially I was trying to inject chaos magic from the Realm of Chaos to temper the ferocity of your Dark Magic. But your body retained a small link to this chaos", Delirium told me.

"The Seed of Chaos left a tap to its magic inside of my body", I asked.

"You can describe it in this way although the process is a little more complicated than that", he replied to me.

"How do I call on this chaos magic?" I asked.

"Remember how you called upon the magic of your D'Ammur. You can do the same with this chaos, chaos will respond to you because it is already within you", Delirium told me.

I thought about what Delirium told me and focused on the chaos in my being. After a while, I managed to reach that chaos source and even use it.

"Upheaval", I said when suddenly the entire Castle Delirium turned upside down.

"Upheaval of Greater Chaos"

"What the hell happened?" Melroy asked me as his wives fell over him.

"My Chaos magic has improved so much although it is not the same magic as before", I replied to them.

"This chaos magic doesn't belong to you. You channeled it from the Chaos Realm", Delirium told me.

"Damn this magic is strong", I told him.

"You are only managing to scrape at the surface of this magic. If you awaken the magic path of your Mind, there will be endless opportunities with the chaos path in you", Delirium told me.

"How do I awaken the path to the Mind?" I asked him.

"For humans, to awaken the Mind, you'll have to reach the apex of magic in the path to your heart, bone, soul and blood. The heart path is templar magic, the bone path is what is practiced by the Mages of Prolis, they call it Cakra magic. The saints of the Nine Nirvanas practices magic of the blood and they call it Meridien magic. As to soul magic, you are already familiar with it- individuals must be born to the magic", Delirium explained to me.

"Wow, becoming the strongest Templar, Mage and Saints, is too difficult. Is there a shorter way?" I asked him.

"The Ayen gods do have a way of achieving the path of the Mind without satisfying the conditions. Their mastery of Mind magic was the reason they are called Ayen gods but their method is inferior to the true Mind", he said.

"How? How did they achieve it?" I asked him.

"You will have to ask them yourself about it", he replied to me.

"Are there any other way to achieve the path of the Mind for me?" I asked again.

"There is. If you receive the heart, bone, blood and soul of the Dark Angel, that is the equivalent of achieving the apex of the four magic paths", he said.

"Damn, that means I'll have to depend on the Dark Angel again", I complained.

Then doubts about my Dark magic returned again. There were many unknown dangers that I wasn't aware of with the use of such divine magic.

"What do you know about the Dark Angel and the Revelations? I am starting to have doubts about this arrangement. Attempting the trials almost got me killed several times", I asked Delirium.

"The Revelations is a cycle of Acts that will run its course. There is a beginning and an end and a new beginning again", Delirium told me.

"What will happen to me in the end?" I asked Delirium.

"I can't tell you what that hasn't happened yet?" he replied to me.

"Then can you tell me about what happened to the other Incarnates who became Dark Angels in the past? The Revelations have happened before many times?" I asked Delirium.

"Well, all the Incarnate's soul eventually becomes a part of the Dark Angel in a union", Delirium told me to my shock and horror.

"Damnit, I was told about the exact same thing. Is there a way to break from the Revelations? Although this Dark magic is good for me, it will eventually ruin me and my loved ones", I asked the Delirium god.

The experience of almost dying and losing Rinna awakened me to the fact that my Dark Angel magic was too good to be true. Reckoning would come someday if I continued the path to greed over its magic.