◈ Episode 192: Dream Camouflage (2)
– Heathcliff?
Hearing that name, Julia put her index finger to her chin as if trying to remember something.
“Does anyone come to mind?”
-at all.
Julia shook her head.
-It’s not a very common name, but there’s no way you can immediately think of a person just by its name. In the first place, he is the person in your memory, but I don’t know.
“Ah, yes.”
– Do you have a strangely blind corner?
“lol.”
Julia sighed at Line’s shy smile.
– It’s not a compliment.
Julia got up from the bed.
“ah. let’s go?”
– I have to go. Look at my condition in the first place.
At Julia’s words, Line was able to notice the change in her.
“Is your body blurring?”
-I guess that name was the catalyst. Until now, you were on the border between dreams and reality, but now you are about to wake up from your dreams.
It was all through dream magic that we were able to talk like this. As long as her party, Rene, awoke from her dream, Julia could no longer maintain this state.
A person who wakes up from a dream cannot have a dream conversation.
– I’ll go and see. It was a pretty interesting story. It has nothing to do with me, but I hope to find your memories someday.
“Ah, over there. Mr. Julia Plumheart.”
-Just call me by name. I don’t like being called by my last name. so why?
“later… … Can we talk again?”
At that, Julia put on a slightly absurd expression and smiled.
-no.
“why?”
– The conversation today is purely on my whim. I don’t really want to be friends with anyone.
“that… … .”
-Jung If you want to talk to me, try to interest me with your dream. Then maybe I’ll come back to you like today.
Julia added an afterword, of course that wouldn’t happen.
As for her, she didn’t want Line to talk to her in class.
-Then you just have to work hard.
With those words, Julia disappeared like a mirage.
At the same time, Line’s hazy energy disappeared and she regained her complete sanity.
The conversation with Julia a moment ago seemed like a dream.
‘no. It’s not a dream.’
Clearly, the memory of the conversation with Julia remained clear.
And even what Julia said.
‘That name in my dream.’
Heathcliff.
Could that person have something to do with his lost memories?
‘but… … Where and how do I find that person?’
The night went deeper and deeper as I groaned over the unfulfilled worries.
* * *
“I’ll turn.”
No matter how much Alex thought it was too much beyond imagination, he grabbed his head.
“Sung Hwang’s blood and blood. leader. How did you eat it?”
“I was curious about that too.”
“Is it because of your innate ability that you sometimes get headaches?”
The members know that Rudger has a chronic disease.
At that, Rudger nodded.
“I have a constitution that is extremely easy to get excited about. I’ve always been listening to the voices of the strange. Not even other blood relatives could do that.”
“… … And in a country that believes in God, there is no greater talent than that. And great talent sometimes becomes too much poison.”
“I tried to hide it as much as I could, but in the end it came out.”
It was understandable why another member of the royal family wanted to kill Ludger.
Sheridan asked.
“If this gets caught, what will happen?”
“They will send an assassin again. Or take other means.”
“Another means?”
“The Kingdom of Bretus has been closed for the past 20 years. What do you think could be the reason?”
“What’s wrong with your family?”
“My biological father, Seonghwang at the time was in poor health. Since then, there has been an internal conflict over the right of succession.”
However, he did not want to publicize it, so he closed the country and took care of the matter.
With the intention of avoiding damaging the image of the country at all costs.
“But the Holy Kingdom of Bretus has started its activities again.”
The door that had been locked for the past 20 years has been opened.
That means only one thing.
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“The end of the succession battle. The next success is decided.”
And one day, when Ludger’s true identity is known.
What happened to him depended entirely on the choice of the successor.
So, I had to prepare.
don’t let anyone touch you
* * *
The weekend has passed and the weekdays have returned.
Seorn’s morning started early.
Employees who came out early in the morning come out to sweep the fallen leaves on the floor, clean the streets, and organize their luggage.
It was now that early summer had passed and summer had fully entered, and sweat ran down the foreheads of the workers.
As soon as the sun rises in the morning, Seorn’s day begins.
Students sleeping in the dormitories wake up and teachers prepare to go to work.
It was the same with Ludger.
Rudger, who went to the teachers’ office early in the morning even though there were no classes, was perusing the thesis on magic while wearing rimless glasses.
Privileges given to Seorn teachers.
One of them was a reading ticket that allowed you to see the Tower of Exorcism, Tower of Gods, and magic papers from various academic societies more quickly.
‘It’s nice to be able to quickly subscribe to the magic treatise every month.’
The Mage Tower and the Society have widely publicized the results of their research to the world through monthly journals.
Previously, papers in journals were just to show off their knowledge, but recently the aspect has changed a lot.
‘They’re trying to compete with each other.’
This pattern started after the Mage Towers were separated from each other and divided into the Old and New Mage Towers.
The Shin Magic Tower has published numerous papers for the discovery and development of new magic.
Conversely, the Old Magic Tower was too drunk on the glories of the past, so they laughed at the actions of the New Magic Tower.
No matter what anyone says, the old mage tower is still an object of envy among wizards.
The new mage tower thought they couldn’t even reach their own feet.
‘But that is a thing of the past now.’
The fire started to fall on the feet of the old mage tower at the action of the new mage tower that came out quickly.
Newspapers in each country were also busy praising the actions of the new magic tower and criticizing the actions of the old magic tower.
Especially from the moment when most of the artifacts and magics that have been heating up the conference recently came from the New Mage Tower, and most countries started to support them.
The Kuma Tower was treated as the setting sun rather than a great legacy of the past.
‘The chicken race of the wizards that led the Kuma Tower to participate in the war with a heavy body.’
An unexpected participant emerges from the confrontation that was expected to be made up of only two organizations.
It was the small and medium schools that responded to the competition between the Old and New Magic Towers.
The Bondi schools were like a point organization in the world of magic.
own field. Because they were sharpening and polishing their own magic, they had little interaction and sometimes treated each other as if they were enemies.
Then, the schools formed a coalition because they didn’t want to be affected by the mage tower’s progress.
As a result, the <School Association> was born.
The magic world was divided into three large organizations: <Old Mage Tower>, <New Mage Tower> and <School Association>.
‘Unlike in the past when the Mage Tower almost monopolized it, it’s nice to be able to compete and improve a lot now.’
So, all kinds of strange papers come out through journals like this.
In the past, we would have been busy hiding from each other, but now that we are competing, we can’t.
Of course, most of these papers seem difficult to apply to reality.
But where does this even come from?
A challenge is to start with not being afraid of failure.
‘That’s probably why letters keep piling up on my desk.’
One side of the desk in the office was full of letters from Rudger.
Especially after the festival, people who saw the [source code] magic used by Rudgar were the result of rolling their eyes.
‘It’s annoying to read all of this.’
Just then, the door opened and Sedina, an assistant, entered.
“teacher. Here is today’s letter.”
Sedina puts a bunch of letters on the desk in her arms.
“… … .”
When the amount of letters already piled up nearly tripled, Rudger took off his glasses and rubbed his forehead.
“Sedina Rosshen.”
“yes. Why?”
“Didn’t I tell you to filter out everything except for the letters that seem important?”
“yes. You did.”
“But what is this sheep?”
“I filter it out and that’s about it.”
How much did you filter out?
Rudger skimmed through the letters that were only visible on the surface.
The seals enclosed in the letter stood out, and included not only the imperial nobility but also invitations from other kingdoms.
‘I’ll turn.’
It seems that the image he showed in Dalian that day left a deep impression on him.
The contents of the invitation were mostly aristocratic and long-winded, with a party going on, so please visit us.
“ah. And here are a few letters that deserve special attention.”
“i get it.”
Rudger examined the seal enclosed in the letter.
‘This is an invitation from the Mage Tower.’
Even the invitations for the Old and New Magic Towers came at the same time.
“This is a headache like this again.”
“Is this an invitation to 「Mystical Night」?
“okay.”
<Mysterious Night (GeheimnisNacht)>
It is an annual event where magicians from all over the world gather in one place every year.
It’s like a kind of festival, but it’s difficult to think of Ceorn’s magic festival.
Even though the family of wizards is much better than before, there are still many geeks.
Those who go beyond their desire for magic and even have madness.
Such people gather in one place.
Of course, fighting in the mysterious night is a normal thing, and secret struggles to obtain magic occur frequently.
“It seems that my name value has risen as well. The invitations are all coming.”
“It’s not like that. If the invitation doesn’t come from the teacher, who are you talking to?”
Sedina spoke in defense, but it was just a nuisance to Ludger.
‘It’s true that I like magic.’
It is said that the job as a magic teacher is just a superficial job in terms of status, but in fact, Ludger is a true wizard who deeply explores magic.
Of course, he had been steadily reading the Magic Papers for a long time, and he was also very interested in the groundbreaking magic developed by other wizards.
‘But this invitation is a problem.’
The invitations came from the <Old Magic Tower>, the <New Magic Tower>, and the <School Association> respectively.
Besides that, even small schools were asking to come.
This was the problem.
‘The result depends on who accepts the invitation.’
In a situation where there are currently three separate towers, the old mage tower, the new mage tower, and the school association meeting, it would be a fool’s errand to choose one.
The moment you choose one, you will be treated as a guest of honor.
‘At the same time, on the other side, the enemy will turn around and try to bite.’
Sending invitations so early is to somehow preoccupy people in advance.
And on the contrary, it was to quickly recognize that he was our enemy.
Sedina said to Rudger who was worried.
“Oh. A gift came with the letter.”
“Is it a gift?”
also.
If you simply send an invitation, that’s how you feel.
For those who have achieved great power, how to do their best to recruit talented people.
Sedina entered the teaching room and soon brought presents.
The first thing Rudger checked was a gift from the Kuma Tower.
‘This is true.’
Inside the small box was a bracelet.
But Rudger knew at once what kind of bracelet it was.
‘It’s an artifact created by Gehenner, a Meister belonging to the Mage Tower, [Gehenna’s Golden Bracelet].’
I remember it because it was so famous in the artifact industry.
Meisters do their best to engrave a single imprint, so the speed of creating artifacts is remarkably slow.
The same is true of Gehenner’s golden bracelet.
A special artifact made by Meister after a month of painstaking work.
It was a valuable item among the valuables that only 12 came out for a year.
‘Even if it were released on the market, it would boast a considerable price.’
He gave it as a great gift.
‘Seeing that it even has a unique number, it’s genuine.’
The effect of the golden bracelet is several.
First of all, it has defense magic and attack magic built in, and it helps to spread magic more easily by increasing the cohesion of mana as a substitute when there is no staff.
However, the biggest effect is that it is possible to ‘track the location’ in case of an unexpected situation.
Rudger laughed.
‘It’s obvious. You’re trying to get a leash under the pretext of a gift.’
I already knew that I had a bad relationship with the elders there because I hated them, but I never thought they would send me such an outright gift.
‘It’s like a gift from the Kuma Tower, which symbolizes oppression.’
Conversely, the gift sent by the God Magic Tower was a bit unusual.
They sent prototypes of various artifacts they had newly developed.
Rather than a gift for this side, the intention of wanting to be evaluated for the things they made was clearly conveyed.
‘It’s a place full of freedom, but it’s a gift worthy of a new mage tower that is not restrained beyond that.’
Rudger examined several artifacts.
Of course, instructions for each artifact were enclosed, so there was no need to worry about what kind of artifact it was.
Among them, there was one artifact that caught Ludger’s attention.
‘Is it an artifact using the memory storming effect?’
One of the interesting papers Rudger recently came across was about mana and memory.
Mana has memories, and by reading that mana, you can find out the wizard’s past.
All in all, it was a really interesting story.
‘It’s amazing that it didn’t just stop at nonsense, but raised it to the level where it can actually be commercialized.’
Since ancient times, there has been great difficulty in finding out the culprits because there is no clear evidence left in cases caused by magic.
However, if you have this artifact, it will be of great help in dealing with such an unsolved case.
‘Does this make me a bit dangerous?’
In addition, there were quite a few subtle uses of artifacts, such as ‘artifacts that peel fruit well’ or ‘artifacts that make steel soft’.
‘I made all sorts of things.’
I don’t know what geeks think.
Rudger shook his head and checked the next present.
School Association.
It is an association formed by combining large and small groups of dots that do not belong to the Mage Tower.
Although the gifts they sent were very simple compared to the previous ones.
It was also effective.
‘Is it an elixir?’
A translucent pill contained in a small box.
In a way, it looked like a beautiful bead, and it was definitely a miracle.
Unlike magic potion, which restores depleted mana, an item that increases the total amount of mana.
‘It’s the best present for me right now.’
Ludgar had always struggled with things related to magic, so an elixir that increased magic was always welcome.
However, since the elixir was not an item that could be obtained with money, I had given up halfway through.
I hope you can get it from a place like this.
‘It’s nice to be famous again.’
At that time, Sedina, who had been watching the situation, cautiously opened her mouth.
“I am, teacher. So what are you going to do?”
“What do you mean?”
“A gift.”
“ah. Right.”
Sedina was now asking Rudger which one to choose.
These are letters and gifts sent simultaneously from three organizations with equal power.
In this situation, you will have no choice but to worry about which one to choose.
“Sedina. What do you think?”
“I-you mean that? How dare I express my opinion… … .”
“Can’t you just listen to your opinion?”
“You listen to the opinions of your subordinates. W, as expected, First Order-sama… … .”
I just asked a question, but the look of Sedina who is thrilled.
Having seen it so many times, Rudger thought he would now.
“I still wonder if the Kuma Tower would be better. They still have great authority. I think it’s good to use.”
“indeed. Is it good to use?”
Rudgar nodded as if he understood Sedina’s opinion.
“But Sedina. That alone is not enough.”
“yes? So, is the gift from the new mage tower better? Looking at the recent trend of rapid growth, it is definitely possible to surpass Kuma Tower in the future… … .”
“no. That’s not what I’m talking about. Why do you think you should only accept one gift?”
At that moment, Sedina opened her eyes wide as if she had heard something wrong.
But she hadn’t heard wrong.
“Can’t we just get everything?”
