Emerald Tablet (Faust)

The **Emerald Tablet**, is the tablet of arcane knowledge gained by the "Black Alchemist", Faust, during his time as a Ranker within the early days of the Obelisk.

## Overview

The Emerald Tablet created by the legendary Ranker, Faust was stated to have been created centuries ago during the early days of the Tower when Players had only begun entering into the Obelisk. Faust, one of the earliest and most powerful Rankers in the Tower's history, had managed to create the Emerald Tablet using all of his magical knowledge and research combined with the knowledge granted to him after making a deal with an Outer God.

After his death, the Tablet would remain hidden and secured inside his laboratory centuries later. Eventually, Faust's old lab would soon be located by the joint efforts of Cheonghwado and Walpurgisnacht, particularly by the combined efforts of Viera Dune and Leonte. After bypassing all of the traps and defenses set up by Faust, the Tablet would first be acquired by Viera Dune, would then translate the entire text and copy the knowledge for herself and her clan Walpurgisnacht, before then altering and erasing portions of the Tablet knowledge and handing it over to Cheonghwdo. Leonte, having gained the whatever knowledge he could from the stone, proceeded to break the Tablet to stop anyone else from using it before presenting the knowledge it contained to Sword God.

Using this knowledge gained rom the Tablet, both Walpurgisnacht and Cheonghwado begun researching the tablet's magics. Particularly, the instructions on how to create a "**Philosopher's Stone**".

After her Dragon Heart was destroyed by Cha Jeong-woo, the Summer Queen would also pursue the Emerald Tablet to make her own Philosopher's Stone to replace her dragon heart and have her subordinates of Red Dragon go after it.

## Knowledge and Information

The Emerald Tablet was stated to have contained a gigantic bulk of the magics learned by Faust and was considered a pool of revolutionary information that could have brought several new possibilities within the fields of magic. As stated by Veira Dune, the Tablet itself contained information regarding Black Magic, Soul Magic, Alchemy and Necromancy.

From this magic, Walpurgisnacht was able to create its new multilayered barriers around the **Brocken Castle** that essentially allowed them to trap Intruders inside pocket dimensions designed to kill them. These Barriers were stated to be the **Ghost World Formation, Monster World Formation, Disaster World Formation, Underworld Formation** and **Calamity World Formation.**

Whoever, the most valuable information found within this version of the Tablet was stated to be its instructions on how to create a "**Philosopher's Stone**" that effectively granted whoever uses it an unlimited and infinite pool of Mana that never ran dry and never runs out. The sheer volume of the energy produced by this stone was stated to easily made it equivalent to the power and mana produced by the **Dragon Hearts** of the immensely powerful Dragon species.

The Tablet itself also contained extensive knowledge on the extraction and usage of souls, with one of the main requirements of creating a Philosopher's Stone being that it requires a gigantic amount of souls to create. The Tablet itself was able to give whoever it uses the knowledge to acquire the energy drain skill "**[Cannibal]**", that allows its user to extract and absorb the souls and power of its victims into the user by eating their hearts.

As noted by Persephone and the other transcendent beings within the 98th Floor of the Obelisk, the Philosopher's Stone itself was a object originating from another universe altogether and was something that not even they could create due to the fact that the information on how to create one came from an Outer God that originates outside of their native universe.

As stated by Crawling Chaos, the Text he gave Bayluk and the Text Faust received, was nothing more than a small fragment of knowledge of the "Great Revelation", the universal knowledge containing the entirety of Space, Time and Creation.