Two weeks later
Karl looked at the sky estimating how much ti of sunlight they still had, maybe one hour, hopefully, two. The bags under his eyes betrayed his attempt to hide his tiredness, working through practically all of his waked ti would have this effect. This ti, only Oliver accompanied him, Wein and Anya were tied in testing the special scouting units equipnt.
Because of their tight schedule, they barely had ti to do anything else, but in his free ti (when he should be sleeping), Karl tried to think of a way of exploring the Mages wind core before they left.
He had also shared this task with his most creative (delusional) disciple, Oliver. And after two long weeks, they finally co up with sothing that could give them a little more information about the situation. From quite so distance from the place where the Mage was being held, they could already hear him laughing.
Youre too much Just too much Hey, we finally have so other visitors. Its the magic expert, Karl isnt it? Do you have more information about my new abilities? You wont believe it, but this girl refuses to tell her na, even after we talked all morning for two weeks
The changes in the Mages mood and personality almost looked forced, he was being oddly friendly with soone they would usually consider filthy and below them. Either way, Karl decided to ignore it and capitalize on his goodwill.
Yes We have an idea to understand your condition better. Take this Now, can you press on the red mark and push your spiritual energy?
Karl didnt reveal much about the tool, but it was useless to try hiding the fact they could use magic energy differently. The Mage wasnt dumb and he could probably notice that the marks in the ground kept the barrier active.
Wow
When he pushed his energy into the tool, its tip started emitting a grey glow. Still confused, Johann passed the tool back to Karl through the barrier and waited for an explanation.
This is an ancient artifact used to analyze types of energy This is the result of a LQ wind crystal Now, a MQ wind crystal And a common persons energy.
The glow in the tool change colors as Karl put the different crystals and in the end, pushed his own spiritual energy. The LQ crystal gave a faint grey glow, the MQ a much darker grey and his energy emitted a white-yellowish glow.
Mine is of a person that doesnt have affinity. However, a wind Mage should have a glow similar to mine but with a greyish tone instead. Yours, on the other hand, has a stronger grey than the LQ crystal and weaker than a MQ wind crystal So we can conclude that
The incident changed my soul!
Exactly But this also ans that this isnt a wind core The beasts naturally form elental cores, which gives them elental traits and sotis the ability to use elental magic, but it doesnt change their souls, at least not enough to make their energy so similar to elental energy
How can you be sure?
I tested it But lets not talk about how We should focus on what this ans From a practical perspective, I finally understand how the crystals fused or ford as a part of your body. Your energy signature, for the lack of a better word, is so similar to the wind energy that your body doesnt reject the crystal
I still dont understand how this happened, but I can at least comprehend how Im capable of manipulating the wind so easily My spiritual energy beca practically wind energy itself.
Unfortunately, this is just a small piece of information and I dont have ti to look more into it But this reminds of sothing about Elental Mages. Although you have five levels of advancent, the Evokers are considered your pinnacle of power
Thats because nobody was ever capable of advancing to the fifth level, many believe that this level doesnt even exist. They say that to advance further the Mage would have to fuse completely with the elent, which would be impos
The Mage stopped speaking as soon as he realized what Karl was implying, he stared at the Alchemist like he had unveiled the biggest mystery in the world. Johann gulped a few tis before turning to his own body. Was it possible? Could he be? Karl still had a lot of things to do and looked like the sun was about to retire for the today, so he turned around while saying:
You should think about it, after all, you probably understand more about elental magic than
Please, wait! I I know youre leaving this place Even from here, the movent is clear and I also noticed my watchers are becoming more anxious each day I dont know if you really plan to let leave alive I wouldnt if I was in your place But, you know a lot. Youre not a Mage, yet you know so much and the way they look at you, like youre a representative of the Origin I just feel you could help beco Sothing all Mages dream to be
Maybe, but we dont have ti and cant promise you anything Dont forget youre our enemy.
No! I an, I ca after you but I was just following orders from soone that I despise right now I wasnt lying when I said that I dont care if you escape Cant you help ?
Karl was still facing the camp with his back turned to Johann, but sohow the Mage could see that he was considering it.
Maybe I dont know if I could. With more ti, I probably could analyze and comprehend the situation better, but I cant say for sure if this hypothesis is right or if I could help further And either way, we dont have ti. Im sorry..
Johann saw Karl leaving and the excitent for the wonderful possibility started to turn into regret, just like how he felt from leaving his family.
Wait So let go with you!
***
One week before
The Councilors all had stern expressions on their faces, but Karls was a little more complicated. Oro was the one to break the strange silence.
So, do you think this could make him work with us? Without the risk of him betraying us later?
Karl sighed deeply.
Im not sure if he would buy it But either way, I dont know if I could do this
Diana placed a hand on his shoulders and said:
You would be doing it for all of us And also for him, the other option would be Silencing him
But
Karls words died down when he saw his father's sorrowful expression. They couldnt let him leave and risk telling the Kingdom their secrets.
Ill do it
***
Two figures t inside of a tent in a dark corner of the camp. One of them took out the lighting tool and activated it after covering it with a cloth to lower its intense brightness.
The Alchemy Departnts creations cant stop amusing
Hmm Do you think that Karls solution to restrain the Mage will be enough?
Oro didnt have to think before answering.
We can never be sure Anyway, you should arrange to place one of ours always close to him. If he tries to make anything suspicious we have to eliminate him imdiately
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