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Alice, Fran’s immediate disciple.
She was looking at herself in the mirror. There were piles of clothes around her that she had taken off and put on.
“Umm······.”
Alice in the mirror looked completely different from her usual self, wearing loose-fitting robes.
A pure white blouse, a skirt that goes just above the knees, and black stockings that make her long, slender legs stand out.
It was a sight that would shake the hearts of many boys, but her expression was not pleasant.
‘I don’t like it.’
Alice, a Toin, has large, fluffy ears like cotton candy.
Unlike other Toin people who proudly display their ears, she feels a terrible fear when her ears are seen by others.
I don’t know why.
Master Fran seems to know, but he won’t tell me at all.
anyway.
That’s why you have to wear a hat······.
The old witch’s hat that had been with me since I was a child no longer suited my fashion.
Alice, who kept taking off and putting on her hat, eventually pulled it down low.
Alice’s quarters were a single room in the Royal Academy’s Magic Engineering Department dormitory. She opened the door slightly and looked around the hallway.
There was no one.
‘Well, it’s final exam period.’
It was a time when everyone was busy studying frantically at their desks. She smiled brightly and quickly left the building…
“Assistant Alice! You’re so pretty!”
“You’re dating!”
“With who? Hey, maybe······”
···I ended up running into the three mischievous boys from the Department of Magic Engineering.
“Oh, no. Not that!”
That’s true, actually.
The private lessons that taught Jaryan the basics of magic engineering ended this week. I was heading out to celebrate.
If you eat, go to a cafe, and take a walk, wouldn’t that be a date?
“That’s right, that’s right!”
“It’s a date!”
“I’m jealous! We’ll probably stay up all night studying for our exams this weekend!”
“No, that’s not true!”
Alice, her face red, screamed and ran away.
As a Toin, she had strong legs. Although she looked delicate, her muscle density was different from that of humans.
She grabbed her hat with both hands to keep it from flying away and ran out of the trio’s sight at a frightening speed.
“Good luck, Assistant Professor!”
“I’ll cheer you on!”
“I won’t spread rumors!”
Alice bit her lip as she heard their laughter behind her.
‘If I get caught, it has to be those women!’
I barely managed to avoid failing last semester because I studied like that. Studying is something you do alone.
I can’t believe at all that he said he wouldn’t spread rumors.
She knew that every undergraduate she encountered next week would ask her how her date went. She cursed herself for not leaving ten minutes earlier.
After leaving the Royal Military Academy, she headed to the Barona Square.
“You must stand in a straight line!”
“Hey, kid! If you keep swindling, you’ll end up with no soup!”
On the way, priests and believers were seen distributing free food to the slum people.
The Julian Order and the Danar Order.
I could tell at a glance which denomination it was. A young lady who looked to be no older than ten was walking around in a priest’s uniform, holding a donation box.
It was the saint, Marie, of the Danar Order.
Four months ago, she made headlines when she saved the life of a dying child in the middle of a market.
The number of residents of the royal capital who believed in Danar, the god who appeared as an apostle and a divine beast during the Western Expedition, increased explosively as a result of that incident.
Alice took a crumpled bill out of her pocket and approached Marie, who was holding the donation box.
“You’ve worked hard, Saint Marie.”
“Thank you! Danar-nim will always be watching over you, Unnie! If you work hard at something, it will be wonderful······ wonderful······ what was it······.”
Marie’s face became sad as if she couldn’t remember the words she had memorized. Alice quickly opened her mouth.
“Yes. I’m sure you’ll see great results.”
“Ah! That’s right. Fruit, fruit, fruit······.”
Marie was repeating the words softly so as not to forget them. Alice felt like pinching her cheek.
at that time.
“Wow! There you are!”
“Go that way!”
“Don’t move!”
A group of children suddenly rushed out from the alley.
“Meow! Meow! Meow!”
A running cat caught Alice’s eye.
It was no ordinary cat.
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It was twice as big and had six legs.
‘Shin Soo Harrion.’
Alice immediately remembered the identity.
The Temple of Danar, which was completed about two months ago, is home to two divine beasts.
Harrion and Jiryong.
Ji-ryong creates exciting play facilities for children with his own body, and Harrion is rumored to be cute.
The gardens of the Temple of Danar are famously always bustling with children who visit to play with them.
It seemed like only Harley was present at the free cafeteria.
“Meow!”
“Sisters! Brothers! Don’t bully Harry!”
Marie ran quickly to Harrion’s cry for help. Alice watched her with a smiling face.
Dang~ Dang~ Dang~
The bell ringing at noon rang out.
‘ah!’
Alice came to her senses. Now was not the time to be doing this. She was late for her appointment. She hurried her steps.
Alice arrived at Barona Square and approached the fountain, the meeting place.
The boy I was looking for appeared.
Jaryan.
The younger brother of the second queen who recently got married.
Alice knew that her uncle, Shurgal, and Evan’s older sister, Annette Lionel, had something to do with each other. She overheard Fran and Evan talking.
Fran had strongly urged her not to go around talking too much, even though she was confident she could keep her mouth shut to that extent.
‘Master still treats me like a child.’
Alice, who had imagined Fran’s stern face, shook her head to erase her and looked at Jarjan.
He was lost in his own world, reading a thick book. Alice felt a little annoyed at the sight of him being two or three hours late, as if it had been no problem at all.
But that was also Jaryan’s charm.
‘Jarjan is a genius.’
Alice knows a lot of geniuses.
Evan, Fran, Jeoktapju, Isabelle······.
Alice doesn’t admit it, but others think she’s a genius.
anyway.
Alice, who had taught Jaryan herself, thought that he might be a genius who surpassed them all.
‘That guy, if only his mana sensitivity wasn’t so terrible.’
If Jaryan’s mana sensitivity had been excellent, the history of magic might have changed.
“hey!”
Alice made her presence known by hitting Jaryan on the back.
“Oh! You’re here?”
“I’m a little late. Sorry.”
“okay?”
Jaryan, who doesn’t even know how long he’s been waiting.
“Didn’t you hear the bell ringing earlier?”
“Oh, I was just reading this.”
Alice looked at the cover of the book he was reading.
『Introduction to New Materials Science – Isabelle Ronelli』
Two weeks ago.
Something happened that shocked the world.
At the World Horsepower Superconductor Association seminar, a horsepower superconductor comparable to iron, Lark K, was announced.
Alice knew why there was a K.
It was Isabelle’s token to honor her father, Cameo, who first created Lark.
anyway.
The utility of the Lark K was endless.
Even for trains, if you replace some parts with Lark K, the maximum speed increases dramatically. Needless to say, the airspeed is also high.
Among the examples of Lark K’s use that Isabelle presented at the seminar, the one that caught the eyes of the world’s powers by surprise was the magic cannon.
Even before Lark K appeared in the world, there were attempts to use magic cannons using magic superconductors, but the magic superconductors could not withstand the explosion.
Then, Lark K appeared.
The magic gun demonstrated at the seminar had nearly twice the range and explosive power of existing guns.
Everyone watching the demonstration of the magic cannon could see how powerful it would be on the battlefield, especially in situations where knights would have difficulty moving, such as naval battles.
Just as the Bronze Age ended and the Iron Age began, the Iron Age was ending and the Age of Superconductors was beginning.
“It won’t be long before Lady Isabelle becomes a professor at the Department of Magic Engineering. I was looking at the textbooks she’ll be using yesterday, which you sent me.”
“Wow······ When did you make the textbook while studying Lark K?”
“Yeah. I’m worried about whether I can do well under such a great person.”
“Don’t worry! You can do it. I, who taught you, guarantee it.”
“Thank you, Alice.”
“I’m hungry. Let’s go eat.”
“Oh yeah.”
Alice grabbed Jaryan’s hand and headed to the restaurant she had been meaning to go to with him. There was a rumor that if you ate there, you would definitely fall in love.
Alice, who was called the witch of brainwashing in ‘The Future’ and fell on the battlefield.
Her first love also began on a summer day when Prince Ian Lionel of the Lionel Kingdom succeeded in turning things around.
Alice was one of those whose fates were completely different because of Evan.
***
South of the Kingdom of Arya.
Deep sea, huge caves.
The giant crouching thing opened its eyes.
It was the fourth head of Etrim, who had the power to see the future.
Knock knock, knock knock.
The man recalled the dream he had just had in his dazed state.
A sea stained with blood and a sky filled with human screams. A tremendous roar was heard from all directions. That was······.
‘Is it a magic cannon?’
He tilted his head. The sound of the magic gun in his dream was much louder than he had expected.
‘How long were you asleep?’
I could tell how long it had been since I fell asleep just from where I was sitting. The eyes of the fourth head, which had been closing and opening repeatedly, gradually became clearer.
‘It’s been 4 years and 2 months.’
It was a strange thing.
Looking into the future is a huge burden to Etrim, so he does not do it without tribute.
I ended up doing that unconsciously.
‘why?’
No matter how much I think about it, I can’t figure out why.
I immediately wanted to eat the priestesses’ blood and flesh and see more of the future I had seen in my dreams.
The fourth head closed his eyes and glanced at the seven sleeping heads.
Everyone was sleeping soundly.
‘A price for seeing the future.’
The heads that should have woken up at the same time, ended up waking up alone.
If you woke it up prematurely, it would attack you. Especially if it was the vicious second head, it would probably bite you in your sleep.
As a memory of the fourth head, I was eaten by the second head twice. Even if it was regenerated, I wondered if the newly growing head could be considered the same person.
He gave up on waking up the other heads and closed his eyes, determined to figure out what had happened while he was sleeping.
The place that I was most concerned about was the Kingdom of Lionel.
Before falling asleep, I saw a scene where the morning star was born from the shatter of a jewel in the west, catching a shooting star that fell from the sky and illuminating the kingdom of Arya.
That was clearly an ominous sign for the Kingdom of Arya.
He couldn’t help but wonder how the Kingdom of Arya would react to his revelations after he fell asleep.
Evan Lionel.
Death of Amika Arya.
The split between the royalists and the aristocrats.
The emergence of the royal serial killer.
A lot of information seeped into the bastard’s head. The fourth head had a hard time suppressing the anger that was rising.
The decline of the Arya kingdom meant that his own power would soon diminish.
A few more pieces of information entered the mind of the man who wanted to devour the head of the stupid King Arya right away.
Danar, god of fate and time.
Shinsoo Harion and Jiryong.
Startle.
The fourth head’s pupils trembled slightly.
‘Why?’
The guy pondered for a long time over why he felt the emotion called ‘fear’.
