A Fortuitous Encounter in the Game Becomes Reality – Prologue
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A Fortuitous Encounter in the Game Becomes Reality – Episode 1
Prologue
Skyscrapers rising so high they seem to touch the sky.
Teleport Gates linking every corner of the city.
Sky fortresses watching over the cities on the ground.
Supersonic magic-levitation trains and airships transporting all kinds of supplies.
A world where magic has developed to the extreme, no different from SF: **Rondel**.
In Rondel, which has 4 continents and 20 nations, humans, elves, dwarves, and various other races form their own powers and live together.
Having passed the Mythic Age and the Age of the Sword, the present era is called the **Age of Magic Tools**, and humans refer to this Age of Magic Tools as the Golden Age.
– December 29th, Year 1999 of the Magic Tool Era.
On the eve of the coming of a new century.
When the will of a great mage was made public, the world was turned upside down.
"Power, knowledge, wealth. I have hidden all that I possess somewhere in this world."
"Yearn for it. The one to seize this masterless fortuitous encounter could very well be you."
The name of that mage was **Manuel Lucas**.
He was the pioneer who led the Golden Age of the Magic Tool Era, Grand Duke of the Bringham Empire, and one of only three people in all of history to ever achieve the rank of **9th Class**, a truly great mage.
Consumed by magic, he lived his entire life single and died without children, and in his endless pursuit of research he did not even take on disciples.
"In other words, the one who finds the wealth he hid somewhere will become his official successor."
The estimated wealth of Grand Duke Lucas was on par with the national budget of the Bringham Empire.
However, more important than the wealth was the **fortuitous encounter** imbued with his knowledge and power.
It was thanks to Grand Duke Lucas's influence that the Bringham Empire had come to be known as the strongest nation in the world and was revered as the frontrunner of magic engineering.
Because of that, regardless of race, not only the intelligence agencies of every nation but also numerous private organizations set out to search for Grand Duke Lucas's fortuitous encounter.
"Manuel Lucas's dungeon exists in the wasteland known as Dragon Land."
"Manuel Lucas's assets are hidden in the Elysia Union, famous as a tax haven."
"A sky fortress owned by Manuel Lucas is anchored in the Sea of Storms, the center of the world."
People poured out all sorts of rumors about the fortuitous encounter.
But most of these were nothing more than stories born of speculation; nowhere was the fortuitous encounter ever found, and even though countless people investigated Manuel Lucas, not even a single clue was discovered.
Thus time flowed by, and twenty years passed.
[You have acquired Manuel Lucas's fortuitous encounter.]
"At last...."
When the treasure hunters who had been combing the entire world down to the last grain of sand had grown weary and fallen away.
A single young man obtained the fortuitous encounter of the great mage.