A Spiritual Computer

Anyone born on modern-day Earth knew how important a computer was, they were simply too important to daily life. The same applied to magic. If Microsoft and Apple were the giants of computers on modern-day earth, then the Medici Matrix was the ultimate computer matrix in existence. It had countless uses and applications that allowed someone to turn their knowledge into power. To first understand its value, one must know its history.

Gianluigi Medici was a famous Magic Theorist of the Coiling Dragon Empire. An empire on a world far away from Earth on another planet. A world which had no technology at all and relied solely on cultivators to survive. But some tried to break the mould like Medici.

He had created many spells and techniques, resulting in many theories, papers and the like, but none more well-known, or perhaps it would be more accurate to say none were more infamous than the Medici Conundrum.

What Medici proposed was simple to explain. Certain magical abilities put a strain on the mental and spiritual processing abilities that warriors and mages had. Hence his idea was to have the burden of knowledge processing, storage and transfer passed on to an intermediary spell. He was well respected due to his previous works, but alas this theory was disregarded.

Not only did Medici fail to create such a spell, but he also wasted too many years trying to complete it while neglecting his cultivation. He created four powerful magics meant to work with the computer matrix but without completing the core matrix it was all pointless. Medici had hoped that someone in future generations would complete his life's work, but the task proved to be too difficult. Medici himself disappeared toward the end of the Coiling Dragon Empire. The Medici Matrix, as the spell was known, gradually sunk into the annals of history.

The four powerful subsidiary spells were still quite useful, but the missing core matrix made them unusable, hence many theorists tried to create another matrix while some dared to improve upon what Medici left behind. But there was little success in this regard. Nevertheless, Magic Theorists did not give up and broke the Four Great Medici Spells down into smaller parts that resulted in thousands of weaker variations that still influenced modern magic. This is why The Medici Matrix is so valuable.

Four earth-shattering spells were rendered useless because of a lacking core matrix that could store, process and transfer large amounts of data. This was the Medici Conundrum.

Earth had five powerful protectors who stood above the others, but two were especially well known. The Solitary Sword Sovereign and The King of Titans. The King of Titans had the opportunity to traverse to the world were Medici was born. After he came across the Medici Conundrum he sought to solve it, by using Earth's knowledge of mathematics and programming and fusing it with the matrix.

The King of Titans looked at the Medici Matrix and realized a core aspect. The mathematics of that world was far too simple and crude. Not to mention that there was nothing that came even close to a computer. But on Earth things were different. Although The history of The King of Titans was somewhat unclear, he proclaimed Earth as his home and was a self-proclaimed theoretical physicist despite him being thousands of years old. Rumour had it that he could travel in time but there was no proof of this as time magic still bordered on the realm of fiction. Yet many had claimed that The King of Titans had solved the conundrum centuries before Tertullian was even born. This was one of the great mysteries surrounding that man. Time traveller or not, Integrating 21st-century knowledge from programming and maths with ancient spell matrices was as simple as pie for him. It might have been a great undertaking for others, but he had a habit of doing the impossible.

What was a great conundrum to others only required him to research and fuse two different systems. The Titan King proclaimed that he was able to accomplish this in a few hundred hours of research and effort. He used this spell to learn modify and use hundreds of thousands of spells. He was knowable as the Infinite Mage, because of his near-infinite collection of spells. Most of which he had either created or modified in some way.

The other hero of Earth, The Solitary Sword Sovereign, took the Medici Matrix in another direction. He used it more for martial arts techniques and this resulted in him being a powerhouse with multiple attributes. Hestia had shocked Artillian with how many elemental attributes she had, but the number of attributes, abilities and skills the Solitary Sword Sovereign had in his arsenal could even make Immortals freeze.

Hestia had revealed a crucial piece of news to Artillian, one which made him even more interested in using the Medici Matrix.

'The Solitary Sword Sovereign is a godslayer.'

The term good slayer was a popular phrase for beings who could use Anti-Divinity. According to Hestia, the Sovereign's ability to use swords, mental power, Anti divinity and water-type abilities were unmatched.

"Sword Born Soul, Peak level Water, Spirit, Metal and Space Attributes, Mastery of four of the five higher senses, countless custom techniques created for himself, anti divinity. These are merely some of his skills. The immortal path allows for one to have many attributes, while true freaks of that path are able to become jacks of all trades and masters of most. But he was only able to collectively use and train these families by using the Medici Matrix as the core." said an unusually solemn Hestia.

Becoming a jack of all trades and master of all was Artillian's current objective, so how could he refuse this? An opportunity to be like the Solitary Sword Sovereign? Who would say no to that?

Once the matrix was done embedding itself, the Medici Symbol appeared on his palm. Bastian smiled as he activated the Matrix. The three shapes of the Medici Symbol started to move. The circle and square rotated in opposite directions while the triangle vibrated in place. An orange light with a red tint spread from Bastian's hand and slowly encompassed the whole room.

Book after book within the various bookshelves started to burn, turning into small motes of light that entered the symbol on Bastian's palm. Bastian had his eyes closed during the process but he could not help but snicker. If he did not have the confidence to survive Ambevilius' death game before, he now had the confidence to destroy it, so long as he could reach the Fusion Realm. This was the confidence gained from possessing a Spiritual Computer.