Taking the Mafia to the Magic World

Chapter 242 Solution to the Problem?

”Yellow,” Vicente responded.

Meanwhile, his men looked at Newton and saw him make a thoughtful expression and look at their leader.

”And what is your magical form? Are you going to tell me itʼs ordinary, too?” Newton asked before making conclusions about Vicenteʼs situation.

”No. Itʼs unusual. Iʼd say one of the most unusual you can imagine.” Vicente answered the first thing Newton had expected him to say.

But even though he knew that Viceʼs magical form was unusual, that alone wasnʼt enough to justify the fact that Vicente had been able to absorb a yellow pentagram.

ʼIs it an auxiliary characteristic of his magical form?ʼ Newton pondered. ʼNo. It canʼt be. In Professor Reidʼs words, Cesarʼs magical form has nothing to do with physical characteristics.

It might even be possible that one day Cesar will be able to change his physical characteristics depending on his luck with pentagrams. Still, at the moment, that shouldnʼt be possible.

Newton had heard all the accounts of the teachers who had arrived at Ironcrest hours before Vicente and his men. He knew how Viceʼs powers worked, and earlier, he had only asked the young man to show his pentagram to verify the truth of the teachersʼ words.

Now that he knew they hadnʼt made anything up, Newton felt he could trust their words and knew that Cesar shouldnʼt be able to change his physical features with his special powers.

Having come to this conclusion, he was faced with a problem.

”I donʼt believe.” He said, referring to Vicenteʼs talent. ”If everything about you, except for that yellow pentagram, is ʼordinary,ʼ how are you alive?

To do this without anything else special, youʼd have to have two or three bodies inside you to withstand the physical and mental demands of a pentagram of such a level.

Youʼd have to have at least twice the mana of an ordinary level 1 Acolyte. But thatʼs impossible. Even if more talented magicians have denser and more voluminous mana than those of the same level, someone with your characteristics shouldnʼt be like that.”

Vicenteʼs eyes sparkled under his mask when those sweet words came out of Newtonʼs mouth.

He said, trying to contain his excitement. ”Two or three bodies? That sounds strange, Professor Newton. It would be easier to consider that I have two or three Magic Gems.”

Hearing it, Vicenteʼs three men laughed along with their boss, knowing how impossible these words were, which indicated that their boss was making fun of this geniusʼ words.

Newton looked at Vicente strangely, but he didnʼt suspect anything. It really was impossible, and after a momentʼs thought, he couldnʼt help but laugh as well.

”Yeah, I guess I let my thoughts go further than they should have.” He sighed, seeing such a difficult case for the first time. ʼMaybe I still have a lot to learn. Iʼm only a Mage, after all.ʼ He clenched his fists. ʼI must become a Sovereign as soon as possible!ʼ

While Newton was thinking, Vicente asked a question. ”But Professor, your hypothesis is fascinating, even if itʼs difficult to explain or to realize. But if that were the case, wouldnʼt the magic base of someone like that be unstable? After all, if someone like that had the characteristics of two or three people, wouldnʼt they need double or triple the number of pentagrams to stay stable?”

Newton put his thoughts aside and looked at Cesar, seeing that this young man was also interested in absurd hypotheses, a good trait in scholars.

He thought for a moment and answered with the best he could think of. ”I donʼt think so.”

”No?” Vicente wondered.

”If it were possible for a body to have double or triple the normal characteristics of a magician at their level, as in the case of having two Magic Gems, then someone like that would have two pentagrams instead of one. Or rather, their first pentagram would be twice as strong as the others.

So, in that case, even if you had characteristics beyond normal that would make your magical base unstable, it wouldnʼt happen because you would have more essences than normal.

Vicente narrowed his eyes. ”I donʼt understand.”

”Sigh... Consider the case of a person with two Magic Gems. They would have two pentagrams in the 1st stage, right?” Newton used this impossible example to help Cesar understand his words.

”Yes.”

”So when they reached the 2nd stage, they would have the same two pentagrams before they tried to hunt down more of those essences. But two pentagrams are enough to keep the magical foundation stable even for someone who is up to ten times stronger than a level 1 Acolyte, equivalent to the mana power of a mid-level Mage.

That means that even if they had double or triple the characteristics of an ordinary person, they could not absorb their third pentagram until they were 3.3 to 5 times stronger than a level 1 Acolyte, i.e., a level 5 Acolyte.

In other words, this person could go up to level 5 without absorbing the third pentagram of one of their Magic Gems!ʼ Newton said this with a twinkle in his eye, imagining a magician with these characteristics.

”In other words, even if this magician didnʼt absorb double or triple pentagrams as you thought, they would still have a stable magical foundation.

If they only focused on completing the pentagrams of one of the Magic Gems, they shouldnʼt have any problems with instability.”

Vice secretly clenched his fists in excitement at hearing all this from a genius like Newton!

”Really?” He asked, still using his mana to distort his voice.

”That should be the case, according to what magic theory teaches us.” Newton sighed. ”But there are no guarantees. It could change if someone like this gets stronger. Besides, I could be wrong since there are no cases like this described in the literature.

I was just guessing what the situation would be like for such a person based on what happens to ordinary magicians.”

”I see...” Vicente wasnʼt unhappy about it.

If Newtonʼs theory were correct, then he wouldnʼt have to worry about his second gem in the short term.

ʼI wonʼt go hunting for pentagrams in the short term. Iʼll wait until I reach the 4th stage before I reconsider the situation.ʼ Vicente made up his mind, confident in following Newtonʼs words in the short term.

Newton knew much more than he did and was a genius who was respected even by the royal family, a high-level power who influenced even the Sovereigns.

With that, Vice felt a weight lifted from his shoulders, one less worry for the short term.

Newton looked at him again and said. ”As for your case, Cesar, you should...”