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Status: 5/week mon-fri
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After safely returning from the dinner invitation, Ian ca back to the university with his new staff.
"Oh. Ian. That staff. Looks a bit different from before?"
Eredith was the first to notice the strange mystery's presence.
Having wandered the continent experiencing mysteries her whole life, it wasn't difficult for her to recognize unfamiliar ones.
"You've imbued so magic into it!"
Mysteries could attach themselves to objects too.
Wizards commonly called this 'imbuing magic'.
This imbuing usually happened by chance, though so wizards spent their whole lives studying just this.
Eredith hopefully looked at her beloved disciple.
Could Ian have experienced magic imbuing!
"No? It's not magic imbuing?"
"Then why..."
Eredith naturally thought Ian's familiar mystery of darkness had attached to the staff.
"Co out for a mont."
But when Ian spoke casually.
Shhhh!
"?!"
The staff suddenly started turning into a snake!
'C-creepy!'
Though Eredith was a middle-aged woman, her sensibilities were eternally girlish.
Like many won, she disliked snakes.
The snake coiled around Ian's arm and flicked its tongue at Eredith.
[I am a great djin-]
"Want to die? Who told you to stick your tongue out at Master?"
Ian grabbed the snake's neck and shook it.
Asu made choking sounds.
"As you can see, it's a bit of an arrogant djinni."
"..."
Eredith was dumbfounded.
The staff had been normal just yesterday, so this mystery must have co from visiting the count...
But how did he catch a djinni that lived far away in the desert?!
"You've found quite a rare mystery?"
"Rare but useless."
[Master! How can you say I'm useless! I have so many talents...]
"Hey. Staff."
When Ian spoke once, Asu dejectedly transford into a staff.
Eredith watched carefully how Ian handled mysteries.
'Indeed. Ian's skills have improved incomparably from before.'
Eredith was the one who had introduced Ian to all sorts of magic.
But while introducing various magics, she hadn't had high expectations.
After all, learning multiple magics simultaneously was truly difficult.
Though she hadn't expected much, Ian had mastered diverse magics with surprising skill.
Honestly, it defied Eredith's common sense.
To improve magical ability, you first had to encounter mysteries.
Generally, mysteries were so rare that ordinary people might encounter one once in their lifeti, if at all.
But Ian seed to be solving the problem of eting mysteries sohow.
Did he have so hidden mystery-farm sowhere?
'His growth is incredibly fast.'
Though Eredith was proud of her disciple's rapid growth.
On the other hand, she felt an inexplicable foreboding.
'I hope nothing goes wrong.'
"Is your research going well?"
"Yes. No problems so far."
Her disciple was currently focused on uncovering an archwizard's mories.
No one could predict what results would co.
But if proper results erged...
It would surely shock the imperial magic world.
"Don't push yourself too hard. You're still young, so there's plenty of ti, right?"
Ian nodded for show.
Though Ian was young, he didn't have much ti.
He wasn't planning to spend his whole life just researching.
...And in reality, Ian's remaining ti was slowly but surely decreasing.
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"Oh? Elia?"
"Ian. Do you have a mont?"
Elia ca to Ian's research room.
Ian stopped preparing magic and made space.
After brief greetings, Elia got straight to the point.
"I'm planning to go to Roxlan."
"..."
The reason Elia was heading to Roxlan was crystal clear.
Elia's father.
The imperial emperor, Eugen Shakraine Hastria's palace was in Roxlan.
The emperor had moved his palace to diate the conflict between Fargar and Roxlan.
Elia planned to et her father in Roxlan.
"I'll ask just once."
Elia looked at Ian with serious eyes and asked.
"Ian Eredith Raven. Won't you co to Roxlan with and work for the empire?"
It was an incredible offer that would have made any ordinary wizard applaud in joy.
A chance to work for the empire alongside imperial blood!
"Ian. Actually, I'm ambitious for power. You might already know."
"I didn't."
Ian lied.
He'd noticed sowhat but wanted to save Elia's face.
"It might seem materialistic, but this is my chance, Ian."
"..."
"I want to make a na for myself through achievents. And..."
Elia took a breath and said.
"If possible... I want to compete for the next throne too."
The imperial throne wasn't hereditary.
But if the current emperor did well and their child earned recognition, there was no reason they couldn't continue the line.
The current Emperor Shakraine II had succeeded Shakraine I after all.
"Ah. So that's why you didn't study well."
"...Isn't that conclusion too strange?!"
Elia shouted in genuine indignation, but Ian ignored her.
No wonder she'd neglected her studies and focused on politicking with nobles.
She was clearly trying to build connections early.
Definitely disqualified as a wizard, Elia.
When Ian gave that look, Elia shook her head.
Ian. Just how devoted to magic was he...
"The conflict between Fargar and Roxlan is a really serious problem."
"..."
"The empire could truly split apart."
Elia spoke seriously.
"The Holy Empire could vanish from the world."
Ian was slightly surprised at how indifferent he felt.
But soon rembered why.
He recalled the prophecy from Gerard, the inscrutable space-ti wizard.
'He said the empire would fall.'
"Ian. If we help father resolve this situation well... we could definitely beco imperial officials."
"You an getting positions?"
"Yes! We start from there and advance step by step. You and together."
With an outstanding wizard alongside her, Elia would fear nothing.
And she wanted that wizard to be Ian.
She'd thought so since first eting him.
And still thought the sa now.
No matter how many tis she saw it, Ian's magic was the best.
Ian thought briefly.
If instead of choosing to travel, he'd gone straight to the university to focus on study...
Might there have been a future where he t Elia and beca an imperial court wizard?
But Ian smirked.
Only a space-ti wizard would know that.
"Thanks for the offer, but I'll decline."
"...It's so boring because it's exactly what I expected. Can you tell why?"
It wasn't difficult.
"My research isn't finished yet."
"..."
"If you wait a bit, I could drop by and give advice."
Elia smiled like she'd expected this.
"It's such a you-like reason that I'm relieved."
"?"
Ian almost shouted 'What do you an you-like!' but stopped. If he were 5 years younger he might have.
"Alright Ian. Let's do this. I'll go down first, and if you get interested later, co find ."
Unlike Ian, Elia seed to have no plans to stay at the university.
Now that Fargar had put forward the Silverwind heir, military movent was just a matter of ti.
She wanted to help her father as soon as possible.
"Alright."
Ian readily agreed.
It was an offer with no downsides for Ian. Creating a debt with the imperial family would make his future journey much easier.
"Then Ian... see you later."
Elia gave a polite farewell.
A few days later, she left the university with many others.
Most people could easily guess why she was leaving school.
"...Well, they say a huge war might break out."
"No way! Would dukes really fight? Fellow imperials?"
"But if war really breaks out..."
"His Majesty the Emperor won't stand idle! Needless worry!"
While fights between barons were just skirmishes.
Fights between dukes were dangerous enough to shake the empire.
As news spread that war would break out soon, noble students requested leaves of absence and returned ho one by one.
Of course, commoners and magic professors didn't care about surrounding events at all.
Yeah~ not my business~ I'm just a commoner with no territory to manage~
Though so ambitious commoners left school hoping to achieve rit in the war, most were just treated as crazy.
Having the mindset to achieve rit was good and all.
But could they actually use magic properly?
When they t 'real' wizards on the battlefield they obviously wouldn't be able to do anything. Their ambition was running ahead of their ability.
Imperial University just beca a bit quieter, everything else stayed the sa.
The sa life of praying, studying, eating and sleeping.
Though Ian was sliiiightly worried about Lucy in Talian, he settled for sending one letter checking on her.
The sparks of war were burning in the south, the north was fine right? Obviously nothing would happen.
...He just wanted to send a letter. Really.
The three commoners gathered in Ian's research room thought similarly.
"War, huh. Big trouble."
"Well... as long as we don't go there it's fine."
"Might have to go down later. Battlefields need wizards."
Ian, Kira, and Maria.
This crazy commoner party of a serf, jester, and maid... didn't worry about the war at all!
War was just high lords fighting over profits.
As long as they weren't conscripted, it had little to do with commoners.
"People might co looking for wizards from the south."
"Ian, whose side will you take?"
"? I'm thinking the emperor's side for now."
Fargar, Roxlan, and the emperor would send people to the university to recruit wizard forces.
Until then, Ian decided to focus on his research.
"Well then, ready?"
"Hehe. Of course."
"I'm ready too."
Ian set off into the mory world once again to et Maronius's soul.
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