The die has been casted it seems.

Standing at the balcony of the room as I let my hair flutters from the cold air. I wanted to try something out and it seems that it went well.  Two dolls returned to my room and was kneeling down by the piano.

I’m afraid of creating clones of myself. I’m not 100% sure to trust my clones, I’m quite scared that they will regain consciousness of their own. Hence, using dolls is much better. By giving them mana while continuously changing the mana lines on the mana channel. I am able to control them continuously.

Of course, to what they do and what they know. I am able to know it as well. Two dolls, their body was created by Magus Craft and alchemist craft. I still have to be careful, because it seems in this world, the highest number of dolls that can be controlled at the same time is 5 and I am able to control at least a thousand of them. Of course, if it has a numerology craft as a sub.

Instead of having my class as a Summoner, I was thinking of making the dolls as my class and debut. Reasons are, the dolls aren’t really rare and unique because if a body is made, one can control it by simply giving it mana. However, if the mana line formula is only walk, the doll’s action is only walk.

Be at ease, because the dolls only accepts mana to the first user that gives them, hence there is no one can control someone’s doll. You can say it can be used for wars, but you cannot sustain your mana if you bring your dolls.

There is even doll users in this world that can maintain for an hour.

Well, the plan is to send dolls and act as if it’s the original one, and if it dies, I plan to make one and send it to the location immediately. Hence, the other party’s perspective is that, I can control a doll for a long time and send them out away from me.

And since it’s not special and unique, I may be able to avoid standing out. Even if they came to contact me through my dolls, I can make my dolls to explode to reject their offers. I nodded to myself…

If I really will manage a fief, I plan to make my clones be under the Covenant rule and force them to act as me. Hence I am able to continue reading books from other worlds and also do research!

I came inside the messy room of mine. Many books have scattered everywhere, those books are knowledge about dolls. I just studied their facts and about them. There are many of our library, hence I took them, and a few are from my archives that I know about their number.

With this, I may be able to avoid standing out unlike my siblings!

In any case, I want to clean my room. Even clothes were tattered here and there. Headless dolls laid down at the corners of the room, doll heads waiting to be modified are scattered here and there on the floor. Prosthetic limbs scattered along my bed.

I was somehow motivated to make dolls when afternoon came, hence I did so and wasn’t able to escape it.

In any case, I decided not to clean my room and sat at the rim of the bed while taking out the grimoire. The time has come! I’m excited about this!

I opened the grimoire and immediately hear a voice from the grimoire.

[Brief scan for holder… Completed… Holder is the correct owner]

Even though I heard it earlier, I couldn’t stop getting excited about it.

[Origin Grimoire activated… A finite amount of Spell book activated… Hidden deactivated… Shadow spell book deactivated… 54 spell books had been deactivated…]

Now onto the experiment, I calmed myself before asking.

“Can you talk?”

I asked as usual with the help of the title. Well, the title works even if you’re not aware about it.

“Yes” It answered nonchalantly as if it was me.

Is it mirroring me perhaps? Over the past years, I became stoic and nonchalant. I don’t know if it copied me or perhaps it was conscious ever since I paired with this grimoire. Not actually paired, more like I was chosen by it. Since every disciple has their own individual grimoires.

Grimoires are only like a storage for magic circle so you can’t forget about it, or you can manifest the magic circle stored at an instant. However, after using the stored magic circle, it will automatically disappear from your grimoire along with the page. But for me, it does not. It automatically refreshes the magic circle I stored in exchange for a huge amount of mana.

The stored magic circle can be deleted by simply ripping the page off from the grimoire.

I often faint as well from using large-scale magic. I shake my head and try to not think about my past.

“Can you take form of something else?” I asked nonchalantly.

If an object or a being took form of something else, there’s a possibility that it’s really an intellectual being.  Just like Secrea, the cat I never knew was the queen of spirits.

“Yes” Just like I expected, it replied nonchalantly.

Then that means there is a possibility that this grimoire is an intellectual being. I have never known such thing when it was my past. After all, there is no knowledge about it, and only a general concept of it. That only leads me that this is the first discovery!?

Déjà vu? What is this feeling? Right, it reminded me again when I first founded the Mystic craft. I shouldn’t get my expectation high. I shake my head again to forget about the past. Even though, there is a seal magic, I’m afraid of losing myself.

If I seal myself, I don’t know what will happen in the future, I might even become a madman after sealing my memories or even kills herself because of the pressure of the society. Well, I’m really stoic and used about it, so I don’t really care.

“Can you reply something other than yes?” I asked again with a nonchalant manner as I stared at the grimoire.

“Yeah”

Somehow, that nonchalant reply made my veins bulge out on my head and grip hardly as I can to the grimoire. It seems it does not feel pain. I didn’t make it a big deal and continued the conversation.

“Can you tell me more about yourself?”

If it was an intellectual being, it should at least reply something longer

While staring at the book, I listen to it.

“Yes. I am Origin Grimoire, the first ever grimoire born.”

Born? Not created? That only means that he have been conscious for a long time and have experience many things that I haven’t, which means!

“Do you still have other magic circles stored from the past owners before me?” Though this time my voice was a bit loud and fast.

My heart skips a beat. It was racing from no one or perhaps I’m getting my hopes to it. It then replied.

“No, you are my first owner. You are the one that made me”

Made you born? I’m flabbergasted to its answer, did I do it unconsciously? I’m confused. Although, I was born in the early Era before modern. Does that mean I was the first to create the grimoire? Wasn’t that a thing in the mage?

No. Perhaps I created them, and give them to the others how to create it. I’m still confused, Grimoires are a thing before I was born…

“Huh? How? I’m confused…” I ask.

Though, I didn’t give any specific about why I’m confused, but it answered. “I am the first ever born grimoire, I was born through the Akashic records.”

Akashic records, a record of fate, information, details and everything is listed on the Akashic records. No one can rewrite the Akashic records when it has already been written. But if you avoid everything that happens in the Akashic records. You are basically a conscious gear on a watch, like me.

Everything you move changes everything. That is how the Akashic records rewritten. No one had heard about its location nor even know it exists. I too, don’t know where it is.

“When you were listed on the Akashic record, I was born. And slowly, you created the existence of the grimoire before you were born.”

If that was the case, I had completely forgotten how to create grimoires. Speaking of which, was my past family have an archive? I hardly see one opening, let alone someone used it in front of my eyes.

The only thing I remember was my parents using spatial magic in order to get the stored books from them. Once again, I shook my head in order to forget I was thinking about my past again.

I asked “Do you know about the details of how I created grimoires?”

Creating grimoires may help me proceed to another section of unknown magic.

“No.”

It seems that he doesn’t know either. Should I cast the complete [Recall] to myself in order to remember everything? I don’t want to… Like the discussion about the clones earlier, I don’t trust it.

If that is the case, I shall follow to what I feel. I will not cast the [Recall] on myself, even if it wastes another section of knowledge. Or I might even encounter some magic in order to create grimoire. After all, grimoire only comes to you whenever they like it.

Starting from now on, I’m going to call the grimoire ‘Origin’. No, how about Grim? Yeah, I like it. Let’s call the grimoire that and about its gender. Let’s perhaps assume that his a boy, for now. While deciding to what his name is, I talk to him. Anti-social me vs a book that seems to be anti-social, who would win I wonder?

“About your dialogue earlier, what do you mean ’54 spell books deactivated’?” I asked as I decided to lay down on my bed while putting the grimoire atop my-seem-to-be-flat-chest.

It’s none of my concern anyway. He then replied with a loud voice than before as if delighted about it. Geez, even though you’re a book, you’re still a pervert. Wait, what!? Does that mean the grimoire has a lewd knowledge about something!?

I shook my head lightly, and not think further about it.

“Yes. It seems that the demons in the World of archives has completely invaded the other archive worlds.”

It pinned my interest when he said that. World of archives? Archive worlds? Both of them have the same words, but different meanings. World of archives? Does that mean the world were archives get together in a single spot?

And, Archive worlds are worlds that the books are stored. Wait what!? Am I really right!? A world full of archive worlds!?

“What do you mean?” I asked. I completely don’t know a single thing about my archive too. Well, I assumed that I’m the only one that has an archive.

“Your archive, the world of archives. A universe filled with other archives world.” He said. I somehow don’t get it, does it have a connection why the spell book is deactivated. But still he continued.

“Does that mean, my archive, the world of Archives, has a many archive worlds stored!?”