Chapter 226 – The First Mage (2)

[Six times.]

[Nine times!]

[……You should not be too greedy, Seollang? Six times is appropriate.]

[Still, nine times!]

[Think about it, Seollang. As I told you, this is not just a tool for peeking at Teacher, but it was given to you for Teacher’s safety, after all. But you should not use it simply for peeking, right?]

[But Yutia saw him!]

[……When did I?]

Yutia feigned ignorance as if asking what she was talking about.

Watching that appearance, Seollang puffed out both her cheeks and shouted.

[I saw you always watching when Master was sleeping! I can now catch mana movement no matter how minute it is!]

[Um? That is Seollang’s misunderstanding?]

The two continued to bicker.

Hidan, who was caught between them, felt a bit of discomfort.

No, I will correct it.

Right now, he was feeling a very great discomfort.

It was a natural thing.

Because the two people who were heated up were not aware at all that Hidan was participating in this meeting.

As that happened, Hidan wanted to get out of this place even now.

He did not have a hobby of eavesdropping on such conversations.

Moreover, if he was caught by Yutia even if not Seollang, he knew that handling the aftermath would not be easy.

If it was her, who was secretly embarrassed to show such an appearance, he might even have to risk his life……

Hidan thought so while trembling.

Apart from that, he could not think of leaving this meeting.

Strangely, in this video conference, only the screen turns on without any sound when entering.

In other words, there is no sound.

But unfortunately, when leaving this video conference, the sound of the mana’s characteristic activation tone gradually lowering and turning off is caught toward the end of the meeting.

And that, to some extent loudly.

That means.

If Hidan arbitrarily cut off his mana to get out of here right now.

It was effectively no different from confessing that he was eavesdropping on this situation himself.

Hidan slowly lowered his body without even making a sound of breathing and erased his appearance.

In the midst of that, Yutia and Seollang’s story did not end and continued.

[I know all about Yutia peeking when Master was sleeping.]

[It is a misunderstanding.]

[I also saw Yutia smirking when she heard Evan praising Yutia to Master.]

[It is, a misunderstanding.]

[I know all about Yutia staring intently at Master using magic!]

[……It is a misunderstanding.]

Hidan, who was still listening to the conversation while hiding his body, began to have a strange expression instead of a terrified one before he knew it.

That was because.

If one assumed that everything the Gold Moon said was true.

‘……Isn’t that, a stalker……?’

A single word crept into his head.

Hidan raised his eyeballs and stole a look at the Red Moon, who was denying all of the Gold Moon’s words as “It is a misunderstanding.”

[Hmph, when Alon went to wash, Yutia-]

[……Let’s make it eight times.]

When the Red Moon finally took a step back at the Gold Moon’s last words.

‘……!’

He quietly covered his mouth.

Hidan knows better than anyone.

How much the Red Moon, that is, Yutia, adores the Great Moon.

But based on the conversation so far, if he inferred the Gold Moon’s next words that were cut off at the end……

Wow, this is a bit- because he thought so.

Hidan, who found out the shocking truth of that faithful Red Moon, could not help but be appalled.

‘So right now, are the Moons gathered and trading the opportunity to steal, no, peek at the Great Moon.’

He was blankly opening his mouth and then soon came to his senses with an “Oops.”

Because he continued his thoughts while being absent-minded.

The mana he was injecting into the crystal ball, which had to have a precise amount of mana flowed in, scattered slightly.

Seeing the crystal ball about to turn off like a lie, Hidan hurriedly normalized the mana.

Wuuu-!

The magic tool that had its mana cut once and then restored reactivated while making its characteristic strange noise.

At that sound.

[Hm?]

[!]

The gazes of Seollang, who had been soaked in a sense of victory until just a moment ago, and Yutia, who was letting out a sigh as if she were tired.

“……!!”

Turned toward where Hidan was.

Hidan, who immediately lowered his body and lamented.

He closed his eyes tightly, conflicted whether he should beg for forgiveness even now.

Which side has a higher survival rate-

At that moment.

[It is rare for Seollang to be in first.]

[Hello!]

[……It is Lene.]

Lene entered and greeted at a really good timing.

Yutia and Seollang’s gazes also naturally moved to her.

Subsequently, Deus also entered.

[……I am late.]

[Welcome, Deus! But your expression is not good today? Did something happen?]

[It is not that something happened……]

[Really? For saying that, your expression looks bad?]

[It is so. Did something happen?]

[……Something sad happened.]

Hidan let out a sigh of relief.

About 30 minutes after that.

[……I am sorry, I am a bit late.]

Hidan, who had been watching for an opportunity, greeted as if he had just entered.

[Uhh, welcome Hidan, so? What is it?]

[It is a bit strange to see Deus being depressed as expected of him.]

The Moons, who simply accepted his greeting, turned their attention to the Purple Moon, Deus, once more.

[I have arrived too- huh? Deus. Why is your expression so bad?]

The Purple Moon, who even received the concern of the Silver Moon who entered next, soon let out a long sigh.

[……First, to start this story, I must speak from what happened in the forest by going back several months.]

He set the stage.

[!]

[!]

[!]

At that moment.

Everyone except for the Red Moon.

Erased the light of concern from their faces and froze.

They realized it only now.

The fact that they had set the stage for Deus themselves.

[Uh- just the main point-]

At that, Radan instinctively tried to block Deus’s mouth.

[The start was…… yes. It was that morning. When I woke up as usual, my lovely and cute younger sister Silly was not visible-]

[Ah-]

[Ah……]

[……]

It was already late.

At the story that had opened its floodgates, the Moons lamented all at once.

‘If the Purple Moon starts from his own story rather than immediately telling the Great Moon’s story…… at least five hours…… no, is it six hours.’

At the moment Hidan also felt regret and murmured inwardly.

“……?”

Hidan suddenly felt a gaze and turned his head, and encountered them there.

Lene’s two eyes looking at him.

And.

He saw.

Lene spoke only with the shape of her mouth without making a sound.

<Tell me what Seollang and Yutia said earlier.>

“……”

Hidan realized that Lene’s intrusion earlier was not a coincidence.

Nod.

Soon, he nodded his head while containing gratitude.

The meeting continued.

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The next day.

Alon was able to realize why Callanon’s faith had filled up so rapidly.

“So, it means Reinhardt used Callanon’s power on the northern front?”

“That is right.”

“……Doesn’t it lack a bit of probability with just that?”

“In which part?”

“Even if Reinhardt is strong, it is a bit strange that knights would haphazardly adore Callanon as the god of knights just because he used the power.”

Evan nodded as if he fully understood.

“Certainly, it is so if you only listen to this story. Because I was also a bit puzzled at first.”

“Is there more to the story?”

“Rather than that, I heard the explanation of the situation.”

Subsequently, when Evan delivered the situation of that time, Alon thought for a moment and then said.

“To sum it up in one word, the power of Callanon that Silly used did not hit home, but the power Reinhardt used hit home for the knights, is that it?”

“Yes. To be honest, no matter how nicely I put it, that person Reinhardt engaged in faith activities by force.”

In other words.

‘Huh? Sir Reinhardt, who I don’t even know if he did it properly, uses divine power?? Maybe I can too?’ – It became a situation like that, Evan added.

Alon was convinced before he knew it.

‘Was it like that.’

Well, from Alon’s perspective, there was nothing particularly problematic.

Rather, it was good if the knights adored him.

Because the more the knights accumulated faith, Alon also accumulated divinity.

‘However, for this phenomenon to be maintained, I have to pass the power by using faith……’

Alon fiddled with his chin.

Naturally, spreading the power of faith was not such a difficult thing.

However, the problem was that he had to decide well on the person to pass that power to.

“Hmm-”

If Alon were a god who ‘does not exist as a physical body’ in this world, he would not need to have such worries.

Unfortunately, his physical body existed.

‘Of course, right now attention is focused on the One Who Receives Lightning, Callanon, and that Marquis Palatio is that god is regarded as a great false rumor or accepted with uncertainty.’

Anyway, even if there were many more gains to be had by spreading power to anyone right now, it was not so later on.

If by any chance the person who received the god’s power used the power strangely.

In the end, Alon would have to take that ill effect entirely.

Therefore.

‘I would like to consult with Callanon a bit on this part…… Divine power is also filling up, so isn’t it time to come out?’

Alon looked at Callanon’s horns, where Kkamangi was sleeping like a cat tower while making a purring sound.

After a moment of thought, Alon soon stood up from his seat.

Because he effectively did not know the way to meet Callanon unless there was contact from that side anyway.

‘Well, she will come out sooner or later.’

After organizing his thoughts like that, Alon moved his steps toward the second office where Fenia was.

Because he had to process the work to do with Fenia right today.

“Ah, you came?”

“Yes.”

“Since preparations are finished, please sit!”

As soon as Alon came, Fenia treated him more warmly than usual and recommended a seat.

Alon spoke at the sight of her dark circles having become a bit darker.

“……It seems the Linked Round Dance was quite interesting.”

What Alon had to do today, that was exactly.

It was to restore Fenia’s mana to Alon’s mana to fill the mana of ‘The Step that Runs Through the Past’.

Right now, Alon needed almost a month to fill ‘The Step that Runs Through the Past’ alone.

Even if he did not research magic at all and only put in mana, it took one to two weeks.

But Fenia Crysinne, the great mage of the future recognized even in Psychedelia-

“Yes, it was really amazing! Where did you get this artifact?!”

She had a vast amount of mana enough to fill all of ‘The Step that Runs Through the Past’ just by using a part of her mana.

‘……I am envious, talent.’

While Alon was freshly envious as he looked at Fenia putting on the ring.

“……Hm?”

Suddenly, he slightly lowered his gaze at the feeling that the red brooch was letting out a red light with a “pop,” but.

Soon he shrugged his shoulders and raised his head again.

In the first place, there was no way a jewel would let out light on its own.

“Now, then, I will start.”

“Yes, please.”

A little later.

Fenia, who put the ring on the middle finger of her left hand just like Alon, began to emit mana just like that.

Wuuu-!

The vast mana that flowed out in all directions as if being scattered.

It instantly went through the ring on Fenia’s hand and flowed into Alon’s ring.

Soon, it began to be absorbed into ‘The Step that Runs Through the Past’.

‘The Step that Runs Through the Past’ began to take on a blue light from a gray light in an instant.

When about one minute had passed like that.

“It is all done.”

“Ah, is it all done?”

“Yes.”

Seeing that the work he had to do diligently for a month was completed in just one minute.

Alon realized the difference in talent again.

“T-Then- can I- research this- a little bit more……!”

Fenia, whose face had become flushed before he knew it, shouted while looking at the ring as if she had been waiting.

“You can continue. Anyway, there is no place to utilize this greatly at this point except for this.”

“Thank you!”

“Instead, I look forward to your continued support in the future.”

“Yes!”

Alon, who gave a light nod, lifted ‘The Step that Runs Through the Past’ filled with mana.

Flash-!

Soon his vision became pure white-

“You are late.”

He encountered Kailus, who was backing a black dragon.

“……”

He was overwhelmed by the appearance of the very huge dragon whenever he saw it, but.

Alon soon came to his senses and looked at him.

“I have something to ask for a moment before starting training, can we talk a bit?”

“What is it?”

“I have been to the Horizon.”

“……What do you want to ask?”

At Kailus’s counter-question, Alon delivered what had happened at the Horizon by summarizing it shortly.

“Just what is the identity of that place?”

Reaching the end, he asked sincerely.

At that, Kailus, who was silent for a moment.

“Palaon’s friend.”

“……What?”

“That place is a place created by the one who is the friend of the great human Palaon and who spread the first sorcery in this world. And-”

He continued speaking calmly.

“He was the mage who used the formula called ‘Reverse Heaven’ uniquely.”