Those features were distinctly Korean, yet paired with an English name. The contradiction alone was enough to catch Vanitas off guard.
Now that he thought about it, it made sense.
Back then, when he had first heard their voices while trapped in that loop to save Margaret, they had been speaking in Korean. And yet, the names they used had been distinctly English.
The inconsistency had been there from the start.
"...."
Archmage Zen.
A figure recorded only through epics, credited as the origin of mana and the first to wield it.
If Vanitas had to describe it, it was no different from the Epic of Gilgamesh, a tale of a king said to have ruled Uruk, preserved through history yet lacking any direct contemporary evidence of his existence.
The same applied here.
The only proof of Archmage Zen lay in texts written long after he was gone. Most of what was known was likely exaggerated, shaped by interpretation rather than fact.
None of it could be taken as reliable evidence.
