“I heard you found it.”
When the magic signal was sent, Vikram in the north arrived at the capital’s office.
Daniel passed Carlton’s magic scroll and brooch to him.
“Vikram. Let’s investigate this.”
“Minerals aside, this scroll is…”
Upon receiving the item from Daniel, Vikram reacted immediately.
He looked a bit tired just now. His eyes opened sharply and carefully looked at the scroll.
“I don’t think the scroll contains ordinary magic, is that right?”
Daniel answered him calmly.
“What’s inside is the power of the transcendent Lydia Obelir. If you use it, you will be able to freely manipulate undead monsters and people as well as objects.”
“Oh…”
Vikram let out an incomprehensible exclamation and began to use analysis magic on the scroll.
Indeed, the flow of magic was stable, as if he were the youngest elder of the tower.
“Vikram. Do you think you can figure out how the Transcendent’s abilities were captured in the scroll?”
“If your Highness, the Grand Duchess, orders an investigation—”
He narrowly opened his eyes and focused.
“I think I know this!”
“What? Already?”
“It would be strange not to know, considering how hard I’ve been studying the Fog of Fall…!”
Vikram said that he had tried everything except eating the fog of Fall, and told him to read his 45th thesis for details.
Then he took out an empty scroll from his bag.
“A blank scroll? Was it issued by the Magic Tower?” Daniel asked.
Vikram rummaged through his bag again and answered as if possessed.
“Yes. The Magic Tower engraves magic on these scrolls and sells them. It’s a pretty expensive item, so I told Baron and bought it.”
“That, you didn’t buy it with your own money, it came along with the research materials you took from the Magic Tower the other day.”
“Did I? Oh, my memory isn’t what it used to be.”
Vikram, who was caught trying to embezzle Daniel’s gold in real time, naturally escaped the crisis and took something out of his bag.
Even Daniel, who had been trying to nag Vikram with a sullen face, looked at the object and shut up.
“It’s the Fog of Fall.”
“Yes. It’s twice as concentrated as the naturally occurring Fog of Fall.”
It seemed that the report that he had done all sorts of research with the Fog of Fall under the watchful eye of the holy knights was true.
“Originally, transcendent people’s abilities were not included in the scroll. However, it is different if you use the fog of Fall as a medium.”
“What do you mean?”
“Using the concentrated Fog of Fall, we’ll be able to force the ability of the transcendent to the scroll.”
Vikram held out an empty magic scroll and the Fog of Fall to Daniel.
“As a test, how about putting your Highness’s ability to see the future into a scroll?”
“….”
Daniel seemed to think for a moment, then said.
“I’ll need an observer when I use the Fog of Fall, so summon the Holy knights in the Prause’s laboratory.”
Daniel swallowed dry saliva in tension.
If Vikram’s assumption is correct and Daniel’s ability is contained in the blank scroll, it is advantageous for them.
Transcendental beings are divine beings who are born after receiving a prophecy from God.
But if, according to God’s will, he tried to take away the power given to the children at will.
The biggest problem was that this ability might be used where transcendent people didn’t intend it. Just like Gelon is trying to use Lydia, who is still young, to achieve their will.
‘Until now, it was difficult to ask for guilt because there was no physical evidence, but–’
‘It is wrong to extract the transcendent people’s abilities using the ‘Fog of Fall, an unclean power.’
The act of putting this ability into a scroll not only left physical evidence but also had enough potential to violate imperial law.
Daniel seemed to be thinking the same thing, and he spoke up.
“If my ability to see the future is well contained in the scroll, things will be easier.”
Fushh!
Soon, his magical power passed through the vial containing the Fog of Fall and began to be engraved on the scroll little by little.
The Holy Knights who were urgently called in to observe were all distracted by the sight they were seeing for the first time.
“I never thought I would see His Highness Grand Duke Prause use this ability…”
“It’s stable magic that doesn’t get disturbed in the slightest.”
As they said, Daniel was at his best concentration.
He sometimes bit his lips slightly, maybe because he is not used to using the fog of Fall.
As Frey glanced at his lips, which were softer and warmer than expected, she met Daniel’s eyes.
The corners of his eyes crinkled, as if satisfied that Frey was looking at him.
“It’s over.”
“Give it to me. I’ll try using it. Even if the Fog of Fall causes trouble, it can be cleansed immediately.”
Frey accepted the finished scroll.
The power Daniel felt every time he saw her future was trapped inside the scroll.
‘If I use this, an ordinary person like me can see the future of others?’
She activated the scroll after slightly raising the divine power just in case.
As she held Daniel’s arm lightly, her vision blurred and she heard his voice first.
[“Frey. How does it feel? Do you like it?”]
“…?!”
As soon as she heard Daniel’s languid and sensual voice, her breath stopped.
Her reflection in the window was exactly the same as when Daniel saw her future.
‘What the hell is this? Could it be that Grand Duke Prause’s powers only allow him to see a strange future?’
‘And if you’re in a position to say this…..Video, when is the video coming out?’
‘I became very curious about what kind of facial expression and outfit future Daniel was wearing and whispered to me like this.’
Normally, the right outfit to say such a flirty thing would be…!
‘Huh?’
Jiing-!
Her vision suddenly changed, perhaps because she was too focused on a different point.
She saw Daniel’s figure inside her tightly closed eyelids.
[“Frey. Sorry.”]
‘He was apologizing to me.
And me in the future–’
[“Daniel, don’t go. huh? please….”]
She was begging him. As if she no longer had the strength to hold him, she lay face down on the floor.
But the future Daniel shook his head.
[“Sorry. This is my decision.”]
“…..”
The future Daniel opened the magic circle and headed somewhere.
Seeing him leave after looking back just once made her heart throb even though she knew it was an illusion.
‘Is he leaving me? Or is there something else going on?’
She couldn’t sort it out because she couldn’t figure out the context, so she felt depressed in an instant.
‘What the hell will happen between the two of us in the future?’
As she let go of the scroll, Daniel asked cautiously.
“Frey, are you okay?”
In reality, he asked in a friendly voice as always.
“I feel a little dizzy trying to use your ability. But I can see the future clearly.”
Daniel didn’t ask what future she saw.
As a Transcendent of Time, he seems to know better than anyone that it is taboo to reveal the future she has glimpsed.
So she couldn’t say she saw both the seductive version and the heartless version of him.
‘Then again, the future changes.’
‘I’m just curious what the situation was.’
“Vikram.”
“Yes, Your Highness the Grand Duchess.”
“It’s logically possible to summarize that Gelon used the Fog of Fall to capture Lydia’s power in the scroll, right?”
“Yes. Then I’ll get it done as soon as I can and show you the first draft since I get paid generously for overtime.”
Frey said thank you to him and thought to herself.
‘Of course, I’ll have to wait until the right time to explode Vikram’s material.’
* * *
It was two days after Grand Duchess Prause’s charity party.
The Prause Mansion in the capital was busy welcoming guests from early morning.
“Your lodging is over there, in the villa. You’d better unpack first, right?”
The butler of the grand duke’s residence was guiding the ‘scholarship students’, who looked quite smart to their appearance, to the villa.
However, one of them, Sergey, who seemed to be particularly intelligent, suggested it.
“First of all, I would like to say hello to Grand Duke and Grand Duchess Prause for inviting us.”
As he spoke, the other student agreed, saying that it would be better to be polite first.
As the butler turned to leave, he smiled and turned back.
‘Her Highness Grand Duchess was right. She said his name was Sergey.’
‘All the people invited today were outstanding, but that guy named Sergey didn’t seem to be the type to excel only in studies.’
The butler thought it was interesting and took them into the grand duke’s mansion.
The moment he entered the main building of the Grand Duke’s residence, Sergey thought to himself.
‘When will I be able to see the young masters and the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess?’
An unknown light shone in his eyes.
* * *
