Chapter 91 – Back to the Academy (3)

Does a lie beget a lie?

The lies I had told to hide the fact that I came from another world were piling up and growing.

… The problem is that it’s pretty plausible.

Suspiciously large amounts of gold, blind hostility towards cultists, secret information that is not usually known.

In addition, Karla’s testimony that she seems to have been born with a dragon’s heart through atavism.

Isn’t this completely out of whack?

Even I would have been convinced of the theory of ‘Yandel, the last survivor of an unknown organization’.

However, I denied it once.

“Yes. It’s okay. If the master said so, then so be it. Yes.”

“Somehow, there is a corner that is not like a normal commoner… Oh, but I will respect you if you don’t want to reveal it.”

“Huh… So, even when I did a background investigation at Elisha’s request, it appeared suddenly as if it had fallen from the sky.”

I couldn’t even eat the seeds.

Women who send strangely soft eyes, perhaps because they thought they knew about the past that they had never even thought of.

It took a while to receive that gaze with a mixed heart.

A thought suddenly came to my mind and I stopped involuntarily.

What? This… Isn’t it bad?

It’s going in a different direction than the scenario I knew, but it’s certain that it’s not just one or two things that will happen in the future.

Whenever that happens, I will act based on H&A’s strategy knowledge.

The people in this seat are my slaves, so I can just force them to do it.

However, the efficiency itself is different between doing what you are told while having doubts and moving after you convince yourself.

In addition, this setting would be helpful when receiving help from others, not my slaves.

Of course, real dragons will find out right away that it’s a lie.

At that time, the war against evil spirits is already in full swing. I borrowed my name for a good cause, but who will say anything?

By the time I’ve finished thinking this far. The meal I ordered just arrived, so I changed the subject in a somewhat awkward voice.

“First, let’s eat and then talk.”

My conscience is still pricked, but… Maintaining the current illusion was a better option than I thought.

***

In the carriage back to the academy after finishing the meal.

“Hmmmm. Now that the semi-important talk is over, I want to talk about something a little different.”

“Another story? Do you have something to say?”

“Of course, it is about the basics of the element combination that the master decided to learn. Weren’t you supposed to teach me later?”

“Ah.”

Right. It was.

“… Those eyes are the owner of something. Could it be that he forgot?”

“Little?”

“That is too much. Still, it’s a vision that contains the essence of the Sylvan Magic Tower.”

Iris, a little sullen. Seeing that, Elisha sends a glance asking her to do something quickly.

Your master’s love is overwhelming.

I stood up for a moment and lifted the grunting Iris.

Then I sat her on my lap facing her like a child and gave her a pat on the back.

“I had a lot to think about, so I just forgot about it for a moment. Of course I was looking forward to it.”

“… My master Do you know how old I am?”

“Iris, do you know what the design on this neck means?”

The vine pattern engraved on the slender neck… Iris becomes quiet as she gently strokes the slave mark.

That’s why you shouldn’t have touched things like summoning spirits.

As I was giggling alone, I felt a strong gaze from Karla’s side this time.

“Envy… I know how to sit on my master’s lap….”

“Hmmmm. My master I think it is unacceptable for a superior to turn a blind eye to the earnestness of the most faithful slave.”

“At this time, I want to change places with Carla, but I can’t do it. Your seat for today is here.”

“Then… !”

After lightly patting Iris on the buttock, she turned her head to Karla’s side.

“Instead, Carla, you are leaning your head on her shoulder while I learn from Iris. If you’re bored, I’ll let you play with her hair.”

“Ugh… Really?!”

Carla clinks her ruby ​​eyes, and she quickly clings to her side.

It looks like I’m in a hurry to make up for it.

With an expression of happiness in the world, he gently stroked my hair or started playing with my ear between my hair.

Hehe….”

“…….”

Sometimes it feels weird when Carla treats me like this.

Understanding goes.

From Karla’s point of view, I would look 4 years younger than her.

Whether it’s just me or not, other people’s expressions also started to change subtly.

It was as if I read one after another that the platypus sleeps for 14 hours on average, and the other says that it spends 12 hours wandering along the riverside to hunt.

If you put the two together, a day would be 26 hours.

This is right… ?

Anyway, at this rate, the dignity of the owner would fall to the ground.

She reached out her other arm and beckoned to Elisha.

“You come here too.”

“Yes?”

“It’s your teacher’s class, are you just going to watch it? We should listen together.”

“… Even though the combination of elements is the vision of the Sylvan Magic Tower, it’s a bit different from mine, isn’t it?”

Know.

Even if I raised Elisha to the end in H&A, I couldn’t get the characteristic of elemental combination.

“Sit still. There’s nothing wrong with knowing.”

“No, I really….”

“Write.”

Elisha flinched as she slightly frowned.

“… Are you disciplining that this is a bit embarrassing, Yandel?”

“Not really? Are you just trying to touch my thighs?”

“I’ll just go, so please touch me in moderation. There are others.”

Elisha let out a deep sigh and clung to my side.

Carla and Elisha were on either side of her, and Iris was sitting on her lap.

The faces of the elf family, who could not bear to intervene and quietly watched this, were distorted.

… Yes. Looking at it now, it’s kind of like that.

However, it is also out of shape to come and soften it now.

“O master. Are you really going to continue like this?”

“Uh. There’s nothing wrong with using magic at this level. It’s the first time you’re learning anyway, so aren’t you just going to learn the basics?”

“What… If the owner is okay, I will.”

After Iris nodded her head and cleared her throat a couple of times, she continued.

“Hmmmm. First of all, I will explain the uniqueness of the Sylvan Magic Tower. As the owner knows, the purpose of establishing the Sylvan Magic Tower is to research elemental magic to replace the discarded elemental magic.”

“Now that I’m talking about it, is there any reason to insist on elemental magic? If it’s simply to make up for lost strength, there are many other ways.”

“Of course there is. The first is that summoning spirits is an elven instinct. It’s because I’m attracted to them subconsciously… This can be solved to some extent with elemental magic, so it can be said that it is essential for elves these days.”

When someone who became a slave while summoning a spirit spoke, the weight is different.

“Secondly, as I said before, elves have a good affinity with the elements, so they can aim for high levels with elemental magic. Isn’t it natural to make use of one’s aptitude?”

“That’s right.”

“The last one is a bit more realistic, but… Elves before the Great War depended heavily on spirits.”

“I heard that.”

“It was probably much worse than the owner thought. I know because I lived in that era. Identity proof, currency, city infrastructure and more. The entire elven society was based on spiritism.”

In such a situation, if spiritism suddenly disappeared, it was obvious that society would be paralyzed.

In a situation where the entire Great Forest was set ablaze because of the Great War, the paralysis of the social system must have been fatal to the elves.

“So I decided to replace elemental magic with elemental magic. It’s less efficient because someone has to use the magic themselves, but at least it’ll work like before.”

For the Earth, for example, it feels like one day suddenly petroleum is banned and replaced with liquefied coal.

I don’t know if it’s an accurate analogy, but I get a rough idea.

“For that reason, everything in the Sylvan Tower is focused on elemental magic.”

“I know because I ran into Elisha a few times during sparring classes at the academy. Is that her elemental figure near her head too?”

“Right. It is called the shadow of the elements, and it is the unique ability of the Elementus Core, the vision of the Sylvan Magic Tower. By imprinting certain attributes into the core, it has the effect of assisting the power and speed when using that attribute magic.”

It was something I already knew, but Iris explained it to me when I sneaked up on it.

“All visions of the Sylvan Magic Tower are premised on the Elementus Core. That’s why most masters won’t be able to learn it.”

“Because I’m not supported by the shadows of the elements?”

“That is correct. However, there are a few things whose elemental affinity is more important than the elemental shadow. One of them is….”

“It’s a combination of elements.”

“Did I remember correctly?”

“What is it? I will learn.”

Above all, I was curious because it was a magic that did not appear in H&A.

At my answer, Iris nodded her head with a satisfied expression.

“That’s a good attitude. Now let’s explain what element combinations are… To put it simply, it is magic that combines desired properties and concepts from two or more attributes.”

“… You said it was easy?”

“Ugh. It would be better to show this once. Take a good look.”

A small ember lit up as Iris stretched out her index finger.

Tinder is the basic magic that I am familiar with.

However, when Iris twirled her finger, the burning flame stopped and hardened like a crystal.

“I’ve adjusted it so it’s not hot, so try touching it.”

As Iris told her to, she held the hardened tinder in her hand.

“Uh?”

Stiff as expected. Feels like touching a pebble.

At the same time, it was intuitively clear.

That this is still Tinder, the flame-type basic magic.

“It was combined with Terra, the basic earth type magic. It also has meaning in that it is simply a solid flame, but… You can write like this.”

Iris, who flicked her finger and sent her flame crystal out the window.

Then Iris lightly snapped her fingers.

Chaeeng!

Fragments of flame that suddenly explode and scatter in all directions.

The crystallization was soon released and it became an ordinary flame and scattered into the air… That’s not what’s important.

It’s just that there wasn’t much mana used in the previous explosion.

What this means is that you can produce much more power with less magic power.

Oh my gosh. What is this

Looking at me with a dumbfounded expression, Iris raised the corner of her mouth with a smirk.

“How is it? Don’t you think it would be quite useful?”

“Yes… That’s great.”

As a compliment, he stroked Iris’ ear.

“Huh?! Go, suddenly what… Ah… I can’t… In front of the disciple and her subordinates watching… Hee-yang!”