Episode 43
Invitation from the Neresta family
“A guest has arrived?”
Gai, the matriarch of Neresta, stopped looking carefully at the payment documents and looked up at the news brought by the chamberlain.
Through the glasses hanging on the tip of his nose, I could see his narrowed eyes.
“yes. That’s right.”
“But? “Why don’t we just bring him here?”
“There is a problem.”
“problem?”
Guy tilted his head.
He was personally invited by the head of the family. By title alone, he was one of the four dukes of his time, and privately he was Sean’s friend.
But who is causing the problem?
“The ‘true palace of blue smoke’ has been opened.”
Only then did Guy’s eyes widen slightly.
“The little old man came forward?”
“yes.”
“her!”
Guy let out a laugh as if he was shocked.
Although it is not well known to the outside world, there were numerous beings who could be called ‘monsters’ in the Neresta family’s senate.
However, the reason why these monsters, who had extremely eccentric temperaments, did not make much of a fuss was because there was a bigger monster holding them tightly.
Augustine Neresta.
He became a personal little grandfather to Guy.
Guy turned fifty-six this year, so he was already a hundred years old.
No one who knew him treated him like an old man in the backroom.
No, it was correct to say that I couldn’t do it.
Despite his age, he is still carrying out active research activities, and the results he produces from time to time have been evaluated as advancing the home appliance magic system.
However, he has an eccentric personality and doesn’t like dealing with people, so he rarely goes out in public.
You suddenly became interested in Elric?
Guy burst out laughing as if he was dumbfounded.
“It looks like you’ve recovered from your illness again.”
“What should I do? If something goes wrong… .”
The chamberlain stopped talking and stopped mid-sentence.
There was nothing more shameful for a noble family than for a formally invited guest to get hurt within the family.
Moreover, he is the grandson of Usden Mervinger, who is considered a hero in magic.
“Isn’t that your own fault?”
While the chamberlain’s eyes widen slightly.
Click!
Guy narrowed his eyes as he closed the cap of the fountain pen he had finished paying.
“The new Mervinger has arrived. “Don’t you think it would be a good idea to try it out now?”
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Do you see it knowingly or do you see it without knowing it?
Elric thought about the question the old man asked for a moment.
Because I had no idea what that meant.
‘wait for a sec. this… ?’
It certainly seems like he noticed the mind’s eye. Could it be that you don’t know exactly what you are looking at?
A thought suddenly occurred to me.
‘Then there’s no reason to answer, right? No matter what I say, it will only end up giving away information about me.’
Elric narrowed his eyes.
‘If I were to be honest, I didn’t really do anything wrong. There is absolutely no reason to be interrogated. There is absolutely no need to be intimidated.’
I only felt pressured by the old man’s voice because I was confused and trapped in a strange turmoil.
If we were to judge the fault, the problem was actually with Neresta Street, which did not provide proper guidance.
Even if you ask them if they didn’t spy on their home appliance magic, wouldn’t the problem be primarily the one who made them go astray?
Even if this is raised as an issue, they cannot be immediately held accountable.
He is the head of the Mervinger family. If you were to ask me, I was on par with Guy Neresta.
‘Let’s just ignore it.’
So Elric pretended not to hear and started walking.
[hmm! Could it be that you can’t hear me? That can’t be possible, right? It’s clearly running at the right frequency… There is nothing wrong with the fog. iced coffee. Can’t you hear me? Is it a child?]
The voice of an unknown old man continued to ring, but Elric decided to put an iron plate on his face.
And he brought a lot of magical power to his eyes.
Hwii!
[It’s not. It certainly seemed like he was reacting to what he said… Are you just ignoring this old man’s words? If it’s the Mervinger guys’ bloodline, it might be possible… hmm?]
The world seen through the mind’s eye began to become more concrete. The grain became darker, and finer grains appeared one by one.
[Hoo! Are you making your vision more specific? It takes quite a bit of force on the eyes… !]
“… [Cover it].”
[Yes?]
In an instant, the fog surrounding Elric suddenly moved and covered his body.
The owner of the voice was embarrassed for the first time.
Apparently, all of the fog that spread here was driven by a magical power machine that he had personally installed, but it suddenly carried out a command that he had not even given.
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This is why you can’t observe Elric.
So I decided to check what happened.
[Do it, hacking?]
Then, I was very surprised when I detected traces of an external intrusion into the magic power machine.
[no way… ?]
The owner of the voice spoke in a tone of complete disbelief.
No matter how much one’s mind’s eye was opened, it was not possible for just anyone to not only see through the components so accurately and thoroughly, but also quickly analyze them to find weaknesses and even attempt a reverse invasion.
Of course, the modified part was very minor, so it would be very weak to call it a ‘hacking.’ Not even one of the eight-layered defense systems was disarmed.
But the problem was that this was a magic circle created by the Neresta family’s highest wizard himself.
Cheongyeon’s Jinggung was clearly the result of long research by the master of the voice.
So, for a moment, I thought that the owner of the voice was not Elric, but that there was another guest who destroyed Cheongyeon’s Jinggung.
And according to common sense, that was more likely.
but.
[Interesting… It looks like a child came in.]
The owner of the voice somehow thought that Elric had done it.
I’ll have to look for more evidence, but I’m pretty sure that’s the case.
[Usden. You walked away so easily, but were you actually peeling such clever pumpkin seeds behind me? haha. Well then.]
While the owner of the voice was somehow happily laughing.
Jeez.
Jeez.
Elric was walking quickly through the fog.
‘see.’
There was no way to see ahead.
But I saw a way.
This unidentifiable magic circle had tangled textures flowing like a proud river.
All he had to do was step into the empty space between the rivers.
At some point, I could no longer hear the old man’s voice laughing.
‘Here, magical power does not simply have one characteristic.’
And there, Elric was able to catch a glimpse of a new side of Ki Hwan-jin’s magic.
‘Wind is tied to one attribute, but changes are so free-spirited.’
‘In addition to controlling the concentration, we are also drawing out the change in entropy due to the drop and the resulting flow of other elements. ‘It’s part of the butterfly effect.’
‘The hot wind dries up the moisture on the ground and gathers water vapor.’
‘The breeze gathers water vapor together to form fog.’
‘Cold winds make the fog thicker, and strong winds blow through it, making the roads dizzy.’
‘Depending on the intention of the caster, these fogs can become typhoons and sweep away everything.’
‘Wind becomes an infinite source of natural power depending on how it is used, so it also leads to the recirculation of magical power. Various magics are naturally interlocking like cogs according to this flow.’
‘then.’
‘Couldn’t I combine it with the ice magic I have?’
‘This magic circle uses the attribute of wind to manipulate water vapor and create a maze. Then, on the other hand, wouldn’t I also be able to manipulate other properties such as wind or flame depending on the use of the ice world?’
‘No, even if you don’t go to the property… If only we could rearrange the magical energy cycle from word of mouth to seal. If only we could reduce wasted entropy by doing so.’
‘First, rearrange the coding in this order… .’
Elric didn’t know it, but Blue Yeon’s True Palace was one of the most powerful magic circles in the Neresta family.
There were endless ideas that could be derived from there.
The flow of magical power flowing within Cheongyeon’s Jinggung is compared to a mana road.
The change in wind was replaced with ice magic, and the sequential magics were replaced with words and seals.
The structural circuit was copied exactly and improved to suit it.
It is as if Cheongyeon’s Jinggung, which had become much smaller in scale, was completely transplanted.
Of course, if you copy the same thing, problems may arise in the future, so I added Yong’s knowledge and made corrections in a way that was not noticeable.
Changes were made to the formula and unnecessary parts were removed.
So, wouldn’t it be possible to call it a ‘relentless palace’?
Hwaaa!
Thanks to that, Elric didn’t know.
The Relentless Seal was undergoing a new change.
The mana rod, which had been inefficient until now, became efficient as it was reallocated, allowing more magical energy to smoothly permeate into the seal than before.
As magic seeped into every nook and cranny where magic had not yet reached, dormant functions awakened one by one.
The cruel seal vomited out a halo of light. A white light that shines so coldly. Then, the seal showed little changes.
Tsutsutsu-
The shape of the river became clearer, and what appeared to be ice caps gradually took shape over the three mountains.
5 stars.
After the arrangement was completed, it was the first time that the Relentless Seal developed even though I had not personally collected the seal.
Of course, it couldn’t be called a full 5 star yet.
Just clearing a path like this could be said to be sufficient progress.
Whihwihwi!
As the seal of cruelty glowed brilliantly, an icy cold air blew around him.
A hazy vapor rose like a haze.
“… .”
How long did it take to walk like that?
『… Binger! big… uh… as … what!”
Mephisto’s voice began to be heard little by little.
Damn it!
The fog that seemed like it would never end suddenly disappeared in an instant.
“this guy! Where on earth did you come from?』
Mephisto spotted Elric suddenly appearing and jumped in place.
Elric also stopped implanting the Relentless True Palace at that point and returned to reality.
‘ha!’
He, too, couldn’t help but notice the changes in his body, so a smile spread across his face.
‘I feel good.’
Then I saw Mephisto with a bunch of horns.
I couldn’t help but laugh.
[Are you worried?]
『Well, why worry! If you disappear completely, won’t there be no way for the original king to be resurrected? So, I found it!』
Mephisto’s face turned red and he shouted, but then he noticed the change in Elric and opened his eyes wide.
『But you… ?』
[yes. It got 5 stars. I heard it’s a complete bonanza here, isn’t it?]
“does not make sense… !』
Mephisto was also quite surprised as he saw several high-level magic circles surrounding the Neresta family.
I never would have thought that I would develop so suddenly just by stealing one of them.
Even for Mervinger, this was too much.
I also wondered how absurd it would be for the original owner, who had been deprived of the essence of Holadang, to learn this fact.
“Where did you go on the way… !”
Then, Sean also found Elric too late, and came towards him with a very upset face, but had to stop midway.
Patter!
This was because a lot of ice crystals suddenly rained down around Elric.
The water vapor in the fog had frozen in the cold emanating from the seal.
and.
Whihwihwi!
Sean’s expression hardened as he saw the pure white light rising above Elric’s body.
“you… “Have you achieved the 6th circle?”
Wizard who swallowed talent
