A solemn dialogue begins. The three men who had followed Hadriel could only follow the events as they happened as intermediaries. They don't want to interrupt an important pre-planned chat.
This time, their goal is to track down the bandit group—Moneybags and uncover the involvement of the international syndicate—The Clowns. The church and empire wanted to discuss the matters behind closed doors to maintain their secrecy and not let unauthorized people know too much.
If the rumors about a traitor within the church spread widely, the public's trust might decrease. That way, a domino effect will occur, where the interests of the higher-ups are the main reason for preventing something like that from happening.
Making arrests is undoubtedly not easy, let alone facing a problematic group. Bringing in a large
"How? Is there something strange?”"There isn't any. The strange thing is, the atmosphere here seems too quiet, which gives me the creeps a little.”After traveling for nearly half a day on horseback, it had been quite a while, they—Zachary's personal bodyguard, were waiting and standing guard outside a building far away from their town. Apart from Zachary himself, no one is allowed into the building. So, they took the initiative to take precautions knowing that the party that had invited them was the church.“We didn't bring you all the way here just to be ambushed by the enemy. You should be able to think that far, right? This shows how important the discussion this time is.”Someone wearing a hood commented on the two bodyguards' behavior
The atmosphere wasn’t that different from the room where the previous discussion occurred. Zachary and his two bodyguards whipped up their horses after hearing the reports from the town. “At the times like this? Damn it! It's like the empire is deliberately using us as bait.” "Stop complaining! We've come this far, and we'll keep at it." Zachary spoke a light word but had deep meaning for those who heard them. He is the leader, and he also has to maintain the circumstances to keep getting better. “Yeah. Right. We've always made it so far. We just need to keep it up." While balancing on top of the galloping horse, the bodyguard drew his words more positively. The sun had already set when they were about to go home, resulting from their journey being quite far from the
Somewhere near the Wellstead border.Perhaps no one had noticed—no one could have witnessed—that someone had just fallen from a tree. It should be pretty dangerous from that high up and could easily break someone's arm. Oddly enough, that person didn't move at all after hitting the ground.It didn't take long for red liquid to start flowing from his body lying on his stomach. If you look closely, this person has died with a wound from an arrow that penetrated right into the back of his neck.It wasn't difficult to distinguish the arrow that pierced the neck from an ordinary arrow, one of which was that it disappeared not long after completing its task—killing the victim.With several tens of trees behind, a man walked closer to confirm the death of his
“Yeah, Young Master sure isn't getting enough rest. He even woke early in the morning and circled around the camp to pay attention to the refugees.”The uttering Slide then stretched his body on a wooden table.Zachary's entourage had just arrived, along with his two bodyguards and someone in full armor—Luca, The Crusader. The purplish mist immediately drew their attention which rose high and could be seen outside the city when the sun started rising. They knew it was from the Lenilf district, and the whole party turned their horses without much ado.Even though they were talking in whispers, Archie still felt the presence of an extra person and came to his senses like that.“Oh, Mister Zachary. Welcome," said Archie, who then tried to stand up, b
“Oi? Young master!?"“Get a ride and immediately bring Archie to my residence.”"Do it!" Two bodyguards ran away from the incident to obey Zachary's strict order."Do you think what I think, Master Zachary?" Luca asked as if he already knew what answer he would get. Combining all the information they had received so far, everyone who knew the world would naturally understand.Humans can't continuously use magic spells until their MP runs out. There is a limit to the minimum amount of MP needed to recover quickly. Just like human labor, they can slowly recover by resting as long as they don't work themselves to death on the spot.But still, the MP case is a bit different. Magic. An existence that unites with nature itself, a law that can change the legal basis and alternate between one and the other. With magic, one can do and get many benefits. The types and numbers are countless, making the law more varied, which can occur at any time.Holy magic or that belongs to the category of light magic, is a rare type of magic, primarily if one can raise its level to ascended level. The benefits will be mounting, from healing scratches to lifting a curse."Father, I'm coming."The door squeaked as Layla and her entourage entered the room Zachary had suggested."What took you so long, Layla?"If they count from when Zachary asked his bodyguard to call Layla, it had already passed more than thirty minutIsekai Grimoire System Ch. VII: The Ritual (II)
All the preparations were made immediately. They provided an empty area in the middle of the main room and put the fainted Archie on the floor with Layla accompanying him.“I will make the magic seal, and then you two concentrate on keeping your circulating mana in its orbit. I probably don't need to teach any further to the two of you who have already reached the ascended class level.”"All right, father.""Understood, Master Zachary."Watching this procession were the healers who had previously checked on Archie's condition and the professor who still had not had the chance to tell the details of what had happened in the Lenilf district. They seemed to form a circle filled with Zachary, Luca, Layla and Archie.&
"What's this? What happened?" Wuzz! The wind blew and was absorbed into the unconscious Archie's heart. “Don't tell me he absorbs natural-mana from just an empty air? But…how come?” The previously calm room atmosphere became chaotic due to the uncontrolled magical energy. Layla was trying to do something, but it didn't look like it would get any finer. This was a sporadic case. The patient had utterly lost control of the mana for the first time. The causal factor occurs because the mana path in Archie's heart reacts to the natural-mana type that is abundant and continuously flowing—namely, the wind itself. When Zachary cancels [Trigram] skill, it automatically closes the mana path, stopping the flowing mana energy. Because the only reason Archie could open his mana path was through his talents. At least, that was what Zachary, the skill owner, should think. “ARGH!” The gust of wind became more extensive, blowing away the previously neatly arranged items and causing everyone to c