“Violet. Begin a wide search on the files you copied. Keywords: Unique Magic.”[Processing Search. This will take a while so you should go do something productive while I look everything up.]On the central console in Bahamut's living room, Magi had begun his quest to look for the truth about Izumi's origin of power. He was completely restless as the rest of the group huddled up in a corner, watching Magi begin his work.“I know that it could be dangerous but, why does he feel like he is just burdened with the whole responsibility of it? If push comes to shove, we can just get out of here with the remaining money have left.”Although Bahamut had agreed to help Magi, seeing as how desperate he was made the think that he might not be thinking rationally. “Yeah. He isn't like this. He wouldn't care about anything except for gaining money. He would never do something like that without gaining anything from it.”Even Cian agreed with Bahamut's sentiment, but Sabrine who was supposedly th
***——Locked away in a dark room, Magi was left with nothing but tied hands and feet. He couldn't see anything at this instance, but he could feel that this room had nothing but walls and a bit of breeze that came from somewhere. The bottom of the door had a faint light escape through as Magi quickly crawled to it, breathing in the cold air that came through. This room was closed, and there was no proper ventilation. It was hard to breathe inside and so he decided to breathe in intervals. “Damn it. How did it come to this?”A few moments earlier, after Magi had shown the woman Violet's AI, he had thought that he could convince her but soon enough after that, he was stripped of his weapon and Digitalizer. Sumire, the boss of the Violet Hex, took away the digitalizer where Violet spoke along with Bahamut, all the while leaving Magi in the hands of her men as they told them to bring them. Magi was blindfolded, and as he attempted to use magic, he could feel interference around the
——A few moments before Magi had gone back, he was granted one request for today as the deal was shaken on. “You said you've wanted to put magic on those Magic Cores. From their quality, I doubt that they'd last any longer. They're nearing the last of their durability.”Just by looking at the Magic Cores of the sword that Magi intended to imbue with magic, Sumire was able to tell that it was about to break. Its appearance showed no signs of breaking or cracks on its surface. However, on the inside, the flow of magic was unstable, and with but only one use left of it, those Magic Cores were ready to disperse. “It's fine. I intend to use them when it's necessary. As a last resort.”Looking at it closely, Sumire leaned back and gestured at the two girls, Kalina and Marina. “Alright then. Escort him to the area. This two have good magic, you can check if it's up to your liking.”***As Magi was escorted to the area, he was beginning to realize how large their base was. The arena was
——Moonblight, the City of Lights.As for the reason why such a city has a name, Moonblight is a city that is always bathing in the light of the still moon in the night sky. The Blue Cresent Moon would illuminate a sky-blue color to the city, a light that would be unhealthy for the eyes of those who saw it every night. Soon, as the city developed, lights were invented to counter such light. They would be made in different colors, yellow, red and green, etc. They were invented to fight against the plaguing light of the moon at night, and so, it was granted their famous name.Not only that, Moonblight was famous for its festivities. One of them is the Mixed Magic Arts Fighting Tournament, also known as MMA Fighting Tournament. It was an annual official tournament that is founded by the mayor of the city.In such an event, candidates are to fight round by round, and by elimination, the winner will step forward towards the bracket and fight their next opponent until the finals. Certai
——After agreeing to move to Moonblight, Magi, Cian, and Sabrine departed through the station first thing the next morning.Leonis had sent them off with a wave of a hand and as for Bahamut, he was left back in his base, alone, pondering when will Violet come back to greet him on the screen. “Whoa. I've never ridden a train before. I only see it in games and stuff but why is it empty?”Looking around at the train as they sped up, there was no one that Cian could see. There was no one but them at that time, and even the train was on autopilot by AIs. “Don't be too excited. We will be riding a lot of this in Moonblight. It's the main method of traveling there.”As Sabrine giggled at Cian's childlike behavior, she pulled him down to sit as the train began to curve. Cian would easily fall if he were to be caught off guard by the sudden curves that the train will make.“Do you think Unique Magic is stronger than Elemental Magic?”Out of nowhere, Magi would ask a question as the two looke
“C-Candidates? We're here to lay low and find answers from a safe distance, and now you're telling us to fight?”Scanning her from top to bottom, Magi went face-to-face with Kira she only grinned widely before him. Her face was completely amused by his reaction.Saeko would also come back to her consciousness as the first thing she sees Kira, immediately going to her side. “Of course. Besides, you don't have a choice even. You may think Moonblight is peaceful, but we just fight differently here than in Newyark.”She leaned her face closer to his as Magi steps back, constituting the impression that Magi couldn't hold his ground before her. It felt like it was his defeat, but he didn't want to accept that just because they had a favor. “Tch. Let's leave. We can find answers on our own.”Magi would turn around to leave with the two, but as they tried, shackles appeared right on their wrists and ankles, prohibiting them from moving. “——?!”“Na-uh. You can't leave now.”Kira, who walke
“——Damn it! Where are our scouts? Were they caught?”“T-Their vitals are gone! They were killed!”“Tell them to retreat! Abort the reconnaissance!”“I-It's too late, boss! Their vitals... it's all gone! They're all dead!”In the central network of Violet Hex, Sumire commandeered everything. The scouting party she had sent to a Viper's base outside of Moonblight was eliminated and killed without mercy. “What killed them...?”After slamming her hand into a console, she sighed in frustration and guilt as she asked. “They were Brainless, Boss. They cast some magic that kept them in, and there they...”Trailing off of their words, the man who operated on the consoles that were connected to their scouts looked at Sumire. She had her head down into the console, feeling a sense of defeat. Everyone else was in silence as she stood back up. “Retrieve all the footage.”She sighed after she tried to calm herself down, and as soon as the footage was recovered and displayed, they could see but
“——The Black Skulls are here.”Arriving in haste, Magi had come back to the Red Tracker's office, delivering the news. However, Kira only stood there unsurprised by it. “We knew that.”“——Since when!?”Magi walked up to her, breathing and out as he tried to catch his breath.“Did you run from the marketplace to here?”Seeing as how parched and exhausted he was Kira asked Magi out of concern. “Never mind that!”Disregarding that, Magi wanted answers right now.“You probably know that the Black Skulls are participating this year. They're bound to be here.”Magi couldn't believe it at first, but he only needed to hear someone confirm it for him. The ones that they were trying to lay low from were them. They know that the twins know about the Unique Integration. They would do anything to eliminate them before a competition for power began between them. “——What is happening?”As Cian heard the commotion, he went downstairs to check, and as soon as he saw Magi in new clothes, he admir