First Legendary Dragon: Starting With The Limitless System novel Chapter 375

Chapter 375: House Delmire’s Plight

’She could not conjure spears,’ the text said, ’but her wards never failed. Villages sheltered under a "Dawn Canopy," a hemispherical lattice that filtered demonic miasma to dust.’

’She burned no demons outright; she unmade the filth that birthed them, and in the clean air, human steel did the rest.’ When the book showed a sketch of farmers laughing as a field’s blight turned to dew, Orion felt his chest loosen. Light’s truest violence was mercy.

[She sounds amazing,]

Lumi breathed a sigh of respect.

"She knew where to cut," he agreed softly. "At the root."

The text did not shy from warnings. Light was not an element just anyone could bear. Light misaligned to pride would scour the self first, stripping nuance until the world became a theater of villains.

Orion committed the margin notes to memory as carefully as the spells he engraved in his SoC.

And then, the prize he’d hoped for: the Affinity Rune of Light.

A complicated blend of mana circuits and runic inscriptions it was.

[Do you want me to project a map of this?]

Lumi offered, trying to be helpful and adorable at once.

"No need for that." He traced in the air, not daring to try it on a parchment yet, letting muscle memory learn the ratios.

Hours passed; his mental slate filled with repetition, failure, correction. The Light Affinity Rune proved to be much harder than the rest he had learned.

He laughed under his breath and read on.

He read until the moon dragged itself across the window and hid behind the walls, until the mana lamps seemed to dim down.

He read until the shape of Light felt less like a stranger at his table and more like a principled guest he knew for quite a bit.

When the last pane of the crystal dimmed, he sat back, closed his eyes, and breathed out everything he’d taken in.

For an hour, he let Basic Mana Breathing rake through the fatigue, smoothing thought and muscle both.

The knock came just after dawn.

"Master?" Rina’s voice, soft but bright through the field’s glamour. "Are you up yet or not? It’s morning already."

He stood up and went towards the cube before deactivating it. He also deactivated the Limitless Ascension Field and went to open the door.

Rina’s blond hair was braided with blooms; Fiora’s eyes were keen, looking at Orion with the same adorable gaze as always.

They both smiled toward Orion.

"Morning," he said with a warm smile. "You two really come at the right time always."

Fiora blushed a little at his compliment while Rina smirked, "Then let us refresh you from your night’s tiredness."

Orion smiled and nodded as the two of them picked up towels from his room and got him to the bathroom.

***

The luxurious obsidian carriage rolled on the polished roads of the royal capital.

"Back to Magi already, Young Master?" Edgar asked once they were past the second ring and into the third, curiosity filling his usual calm face.

"Yes," Orion said, looking back at him. "There are some things I want to discuss with him, and increase his work a little as well. Maybe this will keep him from drinking too much alcohol."

Edgar nodded his head thoughtfully. The wheels hummed over cobbles, the city’s layers peeling by, from the second ring’s quiet environment to the market’s loud heart.

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