Chapter 838 – Defined Answer

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As blood continues to pour from the large hole on the side of her face, Amelia manages to provide first aid by using her healing spell.

After confirming that they had succeeded in stopping the bleeding, the group resumed their walking steps, picked up the two unconscious adult males, and moved to one of the mansions within the same Dark Dragon Company where Yeongcha and Aisha were staying.

In the case of the two people who were recovered, considering that they had been treated roughly in many ways, it was clear that the bones in their arms and legs were broken, so it was clear that if they did not treat those parts before they woke up, they would be in quite a bit of pain.

And… Aisha may be anemic, or her face may be a little pale.

＂First of all… First… ＂

Amelia was trying to figure out what to do with the patients in front of her.

The power of her recovery spell is not that strong.

Really, enough power to provide first aid.

If you want to completely heal all three people, you will need the power of a cleric like Kuon who can use more healing spells.

However, Kuon is currently unable to leave the temple to perform a purification ritual.

Even in a dizzy situation, Aisha sits on the bed and looks around her.

＂… Lilim is…?＂

“We went to our accommodation. It would be difficult if Darwin came over here through space transfer, so we would install a barrier… If there is a barrier stone, you can create a barrier even if you don’t have magic power right now.”

When Amelia says something to reassure her, Aisha nods her head as if she understands and answers her.

＂Well, the reward for the request is… Definitely…＂

“Yes? No. That’s…”

In the end, since it was the painting that was ultimately saved by Aisha, would it be right for her to receive her compensation?

Amelia had intended to help her with her good intentions from the beginning, so she tried to refuse her, but ─

“I wouldn’t have been able to save those two people on my own. If Lilim and Amelia hadn’t helped…”

When Aisha said that, Ameria could not refute and quietly nodded.

Of course, the opposite would have been true as well.

Darwin – The power and research of the top executives of the regressors were far beyond Lilim’s expectations.

And she was not a good match for Amelia’s power, so being able to rescue her hostage while preserving his life was quite a miraculous achievement.

“Uh, anyway. Please rest for now. Because I will find someone who can heal three people!”

If you think about it, since it is the period of the Five Elements Festival, many foreigners, including the kingdom, came to visit.

If so, there must be at least one priest among them.

… It may be looking for a needle in a sandy beach.

After a while, I heard the front door open and after waiting a moment, Lilim came in with a bundle in her hand.

Didn’t you go to get the barrier stone? Amelia thought, but after a while, she laid out her bundle on the ground.

Inside, there were not only barrier stones, but also various potions and various magic tools.

“Amelia. A barrier.”

＂Ah, yes…!＂

When Lilim says so and hands over her barrier stone, Amelia places it in the center of the room and infuses it with her magic.

Then, the magic engraved on the barrier stone was activated, forming a magic shield around the area, which gradually grew to surround the entire mansion.

Meanwhile, Lilim brought the potion she had brought with her and directly handed over the potion bottle containing the red liquid to Aisha.

＂The blood that has disappeared from the body can be resolved with a healing potion that restores stamina. And… The two people there have broken bones…”

Unlike potions, Lillim uses something in the form of ointment.

The light beige ointment had a really ‘medicine’-like smell that irritated the nose.

If you find a fractured area such as an arm or leg of two people and apply it there, Lilim will talk.

“If it stays like this for an hour or two, the ointment will seep in and heal your broken limb. It might hurt a little… A lot.”

Lilim goes on to advise that she might wake up from the pain at that time, and then looks back at Aisha.

＂And… Finally, that mask.＂

“… Oh, now that I think about it. I didn’t pick up what I dropped when I left there…!”

When Aisha tried to get up, thinking that it would be a big problem if someone else used it, Lilim took the mask out of her arms, telling her not to worry.

＂Lilim took care of it.＂

“Because I couldn’t leave dangerous items unattended.”

Saying so, Lilim hands her mask and speaks at the same time.

＂It’s not something I can say after having the experience of escaping safely thanks to the power of that mask… But since it is an item with a fairly strong curse, it may be better to destroy or seal it. ＂

When Amelia nodded her head in agreement with Lilim’s words, Aisha looked down at the mask.

Certainly, when she put on that mask a little while ago, it seemed like it might have sucked all of Aisha’s blood.

However, it was also true that thanks to that, she was able to use the power she had when she was a noblewoman.

It was Aisha’s choice whether to keep this as a secret trick or to treat it as a dangerous object and seal it away.

Aisha thinks for a moment, then speaks to the two.

“… It’s not over yet.”

At her words, Amelia tilted her head for a moment, and Lilim looked at her with her quiet, sunken eyes.

“Darwin hasn’t given up yet… There are still people threatening this city.”

The latter refers to the Exiled Church, Lilim nods her head, thinking.

“So… I want to keep that mask with me, so I can fight them just in case. That’s what it says.”

“Right now, that’s the only means.”

It would be a separate story if I were to train some kind of martial art, but I don’t have enough time for that.

“… All right. Then, make sure you don’t abuse it. Because it’s not always possible for someone to solve your anemia.”

As she said that, when Lilim got up from her seat, Aisha quietly called to Lilim.

“Wait a minute, Lilim.”

＂What is it…?＂

Lilim, whose body was on the verge of powering off due to exhaustion due to the depletion of her magical power, looked back at her, calling to herself to stop.

＂… It’s about compensation…”

When Aisha says that, Lilim closes her mouth for a moment, and then she sighs.

“It’s okay if it’s not right now. I wouldn’t use such force to tell someone who is so sick to ‘pay with your body’.”

＂With your body!?＂

Amelia let out a surprised voice as if she was hearing it for the first time and her face blushed, and Aisha nodded her head.

And then Lillim tells her.

＂If there is a will to pay compensation, the effect of the oath will not be activated. So… It’s okay when you’re okay with it. Because it wasn’t a covenant with such strict conditions from the beginning.”

If you think about it, the pledge includes things like how long compensation will be paid, what kind of compensation and how much compensation will be paid.

There was not a single detailed condition for that feeling.

＂Thank you.＂

Aisha lowered her head, feeling once again that the contract might actually have been in her favor.

＂If you can really thank me… Think about it when you pay compensation.＂

But Lilim was there, warning her with the same meaningful smile as the devil before her.

＂Eeh…＂

As Amelia looked at Lilim like that, it seemed like the shock of her words, “She told me to pay with her body,” Would not easily leave her mind.

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＂No~!! If you calculate this too, the mass of the target is too much to handle the magic consumption!”

Ugh-! Beatrix looked at Lila with her bewildered eyes as she hit her head on her desk.

Previously, when the two of us were doing research together, Lila would get irritated and show aggression towards objects around her, but somehow, as she was with Cleon, the direction of her violence seemed to turn and turn towards herself. 〉

“Ji, calm down, Lila, if you approach the other side’s theory, you will definitely find the answer.”

“But since both of us are good at fire magic, magic of other attributes actually consumes more magic power… If I had been a user of ice attribute magic, I wouldn’t have had to worry like this…!”

Lila and Beatrix continued their research even after Cleon left the mansion.

What was needed to block the fortress that would appear in the skies of Asteris was a ‘holding spell’ that prevented the fortress from moving for a moment so that Kuon and Tokoyo could time it.

Originally, I had planned to check the movement and send a signal to set the timing, but it became impossible to determine the movement time and path of those who had hidden through the gap in the other dimension.

Both of them are geniuses and geniuses when it comes to magic.

However, the problem was that the attribute of the two people was ‘fire magic’, which was not compatible with the ‘holding magic’.

Basically, flame is a ‘moving property’. Fire means high temperature, and high temperature appears when the particles that make up the world are accelerated.

If you want to stop something – on the other hand, you need freezing magic to lower the temperature, because they were two people who mastered fire magic, so they would have known better than anyone else.

When Lila looked to the side while crying, there was Anatis, who looked like a director, quietly watching the two people’s research.

Remembering that she said she would only give them advice, she wouldn’t tell them if they asked her to.

＂… For your information, Bea. What freezing magic can I use? “

“Only the basics… It’s about ‘instant freezing’, which I learned to make iced tea in the summer.”

＂Ugh…＂

For reference, instant freeze was a magic that Lila could not use.

It was a kind of side effect because Lila had such good compatibility with the fire attribute.

＂Lila…?＂

“There is no special freezing magic that I can use… But I recently invented a magic that freezes by somehow applying fire magic.”

When Lila said that, Beatrix thought it was great, but she could see from Lila’s expression that she was thinking that she wouldn’t be able to use it this time.

“I have to touch it directly with my hands, and because I am forced to freeze it, it consumes a lot of magical power…”

She said that she didn’t want to use it if possible, and that it wouldn’t be able to be used to freeze the entire fortress.
Lila seemed like she had given up.

＂…＂

Anatis listened quietly to the two people’s story, then opened his mouth.

“A method has been presented.”

＂Huh?＂

As she spoke, Lila and Beatrix turned to look at her at the same time, as if she were a detective who had figured out a trick of her criminal that ordinary people had not noticed.

“You are mistaken about one thing. Illusion about the object of freezing magic.”

When Anatis raised her hand as she spoke, a beautiful piece of ice appeared on her hand.

It was a daily routine for her – no, it was as natural to her as breathing, but creating ice out of thin air without chanting or preliminary movements was not that easy.

“Freezing magic does not create ice from scratch. ‘Ice’ is created by changing from ‘water’. It is a little different from your flame-manipulating wizard who creates fire by rubbing molecules together.”

“… In other words? So, if there is no moisture in the target, it is impossible to specify and freeze the target…?”

When Lila listened to Anatis and answered like that, she nodded her head.

＂Of course, appropriate magical power is needed to freeze an object with enormous mass. Considering the size of that fortress, it goes without saying that you alone will not be able to provide such magical energy. But…”

“However, if the object of freezing is not the ‘fortress itself’ but the moisture in the atmosphere…”

As Beatrix continued to read Anatis’ thoughts and speak, her eyes met Lyla’s.

“You can get as much moisture in the air as you want. First, let’s create a water prison in the sky. It may be quite a mass, but it won’t be heavier than the fortress…”

“Cloud! Clouds are made of moisture, and Lila’s magic is to manipulate the movement of the air at her fingertips to create a lot of clouds and cover the sky of Asteris.”

“If that’s not enough, you can use the magic of the dimension door to connect it to the sea and have the water pour in indefinitely…!”

After getting a hint, the two people’s heads started to spin.

Looking at those two people, Anatis sighed and then smiled slightly.

He thought that the reason he made a contract with humans to create the academy was to meet humans like these two who could properly use knowledge.

“Good! This is possible! It may be a little scary, but if you use all the magic potions!”

“Yes, Lila! It will definitely succeed!”

And the two magicians, motivated by the answer they found, immediately begin to devise the necessary magic techniques to realize the theory they came up with.

Both of them felt with their magician’s instinct that the time of decisive battle was not far away.