It was a strange feeling. Both handbooks referred to the same person, yet neither revealed her name.

Sonya and Dia had no idea either. Still, it was only a trivial detail. Ashe mentioned it to Sonya simply because the coincidence felt too striking to ignore. He wasn't particularly curious about it. The owners of those handbooks had lived long ago, and the "her" and "the woman" mentioned inside might already be dead. If fate allowed, perhaps they would even stumble upon her corpse.

That was the allure of the Virtual World. It served both as the resting place of knowledge and the graveyard of sorcerers.

Every Sorcerer's Handbook recorded a life from thousands of years ago, preserving stories that might no...