Chapter 198 – How to Use It (4)

Heinkel stared ahead blankly.

The scenery filling her vision was.

A temple where everything was dyed in red light. And.

‘A red… moon?’

An ominous moon was floating in the sky.

A red moon that illuminated this whole world in red.

[Specter.]

“!”

A girl appeared before she knew it.

The girl spat out each syllable as if chewing them.

[It would be better to take it easy, wouldn’t it?]

A black sacred robe.

Red eyes.

Looking at that appearance, Heinkel rolled her head quickly.

The thought circuit in her head ran in an instant, establishing, discarding, and deriving various hypotheses.

It was not to find out who the girl in front of her was.

The reason she was thinking.

It was to define this non-standard space spread out in front of her.

And Heinkel’s very brilliant mind grasped the situation in a short time and.

“!”

She immediately awakened her mana.

She was a mass of mana, perhaps magic itself.

But paradoxically.

Therefore, originally she should not have been able to use magic.

No matter how much she was worshipped by all mages, she was eventually just a specter.

Unless she even touched black magic.

In the state of a spirit, magic manifestation is practically impossible unless it is a simple type.

However.

Kwagagagak!

As if ignoring such a law.

Heinkel deployed magic in an instant.

Because she realized that magic could be implemented inside this space.

No.

It was not even a realization.

Because she had already experienced this space before.

Three magic circles were manifested by overlapping around her.

From three magic circles, nine magic circles.

Then twenty-seven magic circles were manifested from nine magic circles.

In a short moment of less than ten seconds.

The magic created by Heinkel, who stood at the peak of all mages in the past and now, called the Primordial Cup.

The sight was so spectacular that everyone would bow their heads and express awe just by looking at it.

In the sky here where only red light existed.

Ku-geu-geu-geu-geu-geuk!

Because the massive meteor shower she created.

It was falling down.

Heinkel’s magic fell down while tearing the air and even the red light.

However.

“Heh.”

Yutia’s reaction while looking at the meteorites rushing aggressively was.

It was too light.

As if she were watching a fun spectacle.

It was just a reaction of that degree.

Also, the girl did not seem to have any intention of stopping the falling meteorites, just looking at them.

The meteorites that slammed into the floor without any disturbance.

…!!!

They took everything away.

The roof of the temple.

The pillars.

The trees.

The floor.

The girl in front of her.

And even Heinkel herself, who had deployed the magic.

And so.

Snap!

“!”

Heinkel returned to the beginning.

The situation was the same as a moment ago.

She was staring ahead blankly, and everything existed as it was.

The red temple.

The red trees.

The red marble floor.

The red moon.

Everything was as it was.

As if time had been turned back.

And.

The girl was also still in that place.

“Mmm… I was only going to warn you, but your reaction is more intense than expected, isn’t it?”

At that, Heinkel frowned.

“Why are you here? Clearly the Abyss.”

She tried to open her mouth, but.

“Shh.”

“!”

She could not continue her words.

Because the index finger of the girl, no, Yutia Bloodia.

It pressed Heinkel’s mouth, which could not move properly, firmly.

“You have never revealed your true self before… as expected, you are smart. But, no more than this.”

She smiled at Heinkel as if praising her, but.

Shiver.

Contrary to that relaxed attitude.

Heinkel trembled all over from the moment she recognized her identity.

Heinkel’s eyes where reason disappeared and only fear was placed.

Yutia, who was staring at those two eyes, gently stroked Heinkel’s face.

Once.

Twice.

Then.

Tap.

She tapped her cheek with her index finger.

“Listen carefully, specter. I will tell you only once.”

“……”

Soon.

“If he wants help, give him help.”

“If he does something, give that to him.”

“If he tells you to offer your heart, offer it.”

“That is all you can do for him. Understood?”

The girl’s voice poured down.

Like the meteor shower Heinkel had created just before.

“If you understand, will you try nodding your head?”

Heinkel barely managed to nod her head.

Because she knew well.

The fact that there was no other choice.

“It is good that you listen well now, just as in the past. And.”

At Heinkel’s obedience, Yutia stroked Heinkel’s head once more.

“If you are smart, you would know, wouldn’t you? About me.”

Soon she put her index finger on her lips and gave a smiling look as if she were pleased.

With that as the end.

[Gasp!]

“?”

“?”

Heinkel let out a rough breath while breaking into a cold sweat.

“……Are you okay?”

Alon asked with an expressionless face.

At that, Heinkel calmed her thumping heart and looked at Alon with an expression that she could not understand at all.

“……?”

Alon was slightly tilting his head as if flustered by the sudden gaze.

[You.]

At that, Heinkel tried to throw a question.

She had many things she was curious about.

More overwhelmingly than when she first saw the black things on his back.

She wanted to ask right now.

If he knew the girl who had come out a moment ago.

If he knew that girl, what on earth was their relationship.

Who on earth was he that she, that the ‘Abyss’ was following him.

What the hell was he.

She wanted to ask.

But.

[No, it is nothing.]

“?”

[……The request, the request is… to teach that woman magic, right?]

Heinkel could not take the words out of her mouth.

Because the moment she asked that.

She clearly recognized that she could never survive.

Therefore.

“Correct.”

Alon nodded with a slightly bewildered expression.

[Good, I will accept it.]

“Yes? But just a moment ago.”

[……That was a joke. I was a bit miffed.]

No, more accurately, while looking at the red jewel on Alon’s brooch.

She awkwardly pulled up the corners of her lips.

“Kyau-oo-oot!”

Penia, who had seemed like she would crumble as white ash until a moment ago, let out a shriek like an eagle.

[……Come starting from tomorrow right away.]

Alon could not know exactly what happened, but.

He nodded his head for now.

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“Thank you so much!”

“There is no need for that. As much as you paid the price to me, I am doing the same.”

“Still, thank you!”

Penia bowed her head several times with twinkling eyes and then moved away as if she were flying with very happy steps.

…It was a feeling as if watching a Shiba Inu walking clumsily on Nutube in the past.

Looking at her back for a moment.

Alon recalled the earlier event.

‘……What was it? Clearly the feeling was different in the middle.’

Clearly it was no different from usual until the middle.

Starting from some point, her behavior had changed completely.

‘Furthermore, those eyes.’

Alon was not the type to be sharp enough to catch emotions just by looking at a person’s eyes.

But even he could clearly detect it.

That was clearly.

‘A look as if she were afraid of something.’

“Marquis.”

At that time.

Evan’s voice was heard.

“……What is that?”

There was a lot of something in his hands.

“Ah, this? They are gifts for me.”

Gifts were piled up like a tower.

To the point where he could not see the front without turning his body sideways.

“Gifts?”

“Yes, do I not look quite handsome even like this. Female mages were giving me a lot of interest. Hahat!”

“……?”

“……Marquis, no matter what, that look of incomprehension is a bit disappointing. Especially from someone whose emotions do not show well on their face anyway.”

“Did I do that?”

“Yes.”

Evan let out a sigh.

“Well, the gifts came to me, but actually they are sent to the Marquis.”

“……I think I roughly know the feeling.”

[Hmph… no need to explain, I understand as soon as I see it.]

Basiliora, who had not even shown its tail until they went to meet Heinkel.

It revealed its appearance after a long time as if waiting and intervened.

“Marquis, why did you not bring this snake-headed guy to that person in the library? Then he could have been corrected once more.”

[Hmph! Do not talk nonsense! Such a thing.]

Basiliora, who had been shouting confidently, hurriedly lowered its voice.

It stretched its body like a meerkat and looked around once.

[Do you think I will succumb to a demon like that!!]

It shouted the rest.

“……What a clown.”

[You are more of a clown!]

With the voices of the two bickering as if each thought the other was pathetic as background music.

Alon’s group arrived at the temporarily assigned lodging.

“Marquis, come to think of it, I have something to report.”

“What is it?”

“It is about the rumors. Did you not tell me to listen if there were any useful stories earlier?”

“Were there many?”

“Mmm… since we have not stopped by the Information Guild recently, quite a lot of rumors have been created.”

Soon Evan began to convey the rumors piled up in the meantime.

“Mmm… this much seems to be all.”

After the report ended, Alon tried to organize the rumors.

Among several rumors, there were about three that Alon had to care about.

First was that Elivan is clearing aberrant gates while taking the Shutalian Kingdom route.

Second was that a big accident occurred in the capital of the Duchy of Varnos.

And the last was.

The rumor about the Principality of Luxible to visit this time… no, accurately about the Mystic Jungle of Ronovelli.

Rumors about the Duchy of Varnos and Ronovelli.

These two seemed worth looking into.

‘Monsters raided and devoured the capital of Varnos, and black mana is being scattered in Ronovelli.’

Among them, what was particularly bothering him was Varnos.

The reason was.

‘The fall of Varnos. This is clearly the start of the Four Great Powers episode.’

Because the fall of Varnos was the starting point of the Four Great Powers episode that only occurs in the middle part of Psychedelia.

Of course, Alon was also aware to some extent.

The fact that the narrative of Psychedelia he knew had become useless for the most part.

However, even considering that.

The appearance of Agtido was too fast.

“……Evan.”

“Yes, Marquis.”

“Stop by the Information Guild soon and find out the story of the Duchy of Varnos in detail.”

“I understand.”

Alon asked Evan for a detailed investigation.

A few days later.

“Have a good trip!”

“……See you next time.”

Leaving behind Penia, whose face was glowing with happiness.

Alon set out on the road to Ronovelli to meet the Thunder Serpent tribe.

At that point.

Inside the royal palace of Ashtalon.

“I meet Your Majesty.”

“Where did Kurak go?”

“As for him, he headed elsewhere, saying he had a place to stop by for a while in the middle. He asked to tell Your Majesty that he would visit a place where he must be for a while.”

At Duke Merkillan’s report, Shutalian V frowned for a moment.

“It cannot be helped.”

Soon he let out a sigh and asked Duke Merkillan.

“So, did you find out about what I asked to verify?”

“Yes. That is right.”

“How was it?”

“……To tell you the conclusion, Marquis Palladio’s identity is.”

Duke Merkillan hesitated for a moment as if trying to say something hard to say.

“…it seems to be the god of the other races.”

He reported calmly.

“What?”

Shutalian V’s voice trembled slightly.