The time when Enoch headed to the Wizard Tower.
Chesire was sitting alone in a daze, watching Lilith, who was asleep and didn’t wake up.
It’s like it’s stuck in that place endlessly.
***
I couldn’t believe it.
What didn’t I believe?
I definitely don’t remember falling asleep, but I was suddenly dragged into a dream?
! Error !
No mana
Powerless person.
Could it be that the starting point of this lucid dream was the moment when my class was revealed?
No, not all.
‘Why is it just me and Mom?’
The scenery is now tiring.
Capable People Training Center, Mana Formal Room
My mother was the only one who confirmed my class.
Without knowing what had happened, I came out of Mana Formal with an innocent smile.
However, my mother was trembling like an aspen tree, unlike me.
‘Why… is there no one?’
I got confused.
Many times, I imagined how I would have been captured by the Emperor.
If the Emperor personally confirmed my class.
At that time, of course, no one could have done anything.
Or, if the class is known to other researchers at the training center even if there is no emperor.
It was the same back then.
There was no way that people I had never met would have kept my identity secret while deceiving the scary emperor.
But the truth I faced was different.
A room as quiet as if a rat had died.
My mother is the only one who knows my class now.
‘I, if you do this…’
My heart was racing.
Obviously, I knew what the ending was like, but I was looking forward to it like a fool.
“Haa, haa.”
My mother finally collapsed on the floor, shaking as her legs gave out.
“…Are you okay, Mom?”
The original me approached with a worried expression.
“Baby, I…”
“I, I didn’t know. If I knew this would happen, y, you…”
My mother added, holding her chest out of fear.
“…Here, I wouldn’t have let you come here. I’m sorry. I’m sorry.”
I was scared and didn’t understand what my mother meant when she said sorry.
Of course I was.
What did the dashboard of the magic tool that said it was impossible to measure me at that time mean, and what was my identity?
Because I didn’t know anything.
“Did mom tell them to bring me?”
On the contrary, I blushed shyly when she shook her head.
Wiping away my crying mom’s tears.
“T, then it’s fine. Of course, can I live with my mom now?”
Ugh, I can’t watch it.
I turned my eyes away.
I felt a little sorry for myself at the time when I didn’t know anything.
My mother’s breathing became heavy. I was confused.
Now the emperor would be waiting for me, and my mother didn’t have time to think long.
To hide my identity.
It’s something she has to risk her life for.
There were too many risk factors if we didn’t get discovered until the end.
‘Just as I’m shaking every day now because I’m afraid I’ll get caught, my mom has to live in anxiety.’
Since I am a Primera, the next Primera will not come from the Imperia family.
Also, the emperor will reign for a long time, twice as long as others.
While my half-brother Kyle lived in this country after my mother died of old age, it continued…
‘How could my mother know that in the end, my father rebelled and the emperor would not live long before he died?’
I continued like that, rationalizing myself as trying to understand my mother.
‘You’re the mother who told me my location because you didn’t want to send Kyle to war, right? Kyle is very, very precious to my mother.’
Yeah, that’s why.
‘At this time, not only my mother’s life was at stake, but also Kyle’s life…’
But,
My brainwashing broke the moment my mother took my hand.
“Where are you going?”
I asked, but of course my mother didn’t answer because she couldn’t hear me.
My vision became blurry.
My mother held my hand and walked me through the quiet hallway without knowing anything.
“Where are you going!”
I cried and ran after her.
Why do I try to somehow understand my mother?
Because of me.
Because I don’t want to get hurt.
I thought I wouldn’t be able to stand it if I saw with my own eyes that my mother handed me over to the emperor herself.
“Don’t go!”
I stood in front of my mother, wiping my tears roughly.
Suddenly, my mother stopped.
“Mother?”
But she didn’t stop when she found me.
Just a final hesitation.
Even though I knew I was dreaming of a time that had already disappeared, and even though I knew my voice wouldn’t be heard, I desperately put my hands together and prayed.
“Mom, don’t go. I, If I go, I’ll die.”
A tear flowed from my mother’s eye. Watching that, I was expecting something like a fool again.
“I, I’m my mother’s daughter too…”
Tears continued to flow from my eyes as well.
“Please, please.”
But my mother passed me by as I begged.
“Y, you can’t.”
I quickly followed, trying to pull my hand away from my mother’s hand.
“Let go! Let go! Let me go!”
But I couldn’t do anything except pass through it as if I were touching an illusion.
“Let me go! Let me go! I’m going to see my dad!”
I screamed like a crazy person.
But before I know it, I’m at the end of the hallway.
The warp gate was visible.
Crossing over, the imperial family.
A demonic hell.
Where my tragedy and death are destined.
Mom crossed the gate.
“Aaaahhh!”
I cried and screamed.
It hurt like my heart was being torn apart.
* * *
At that time, the Wizard Tower.
“I…need your help.”
At Enoch’s words, Oscar went blank for a moment.
He hopes nothing happens.
But looking at Enoch’s expression, it seemed like it would be difficult to expect it.
“Hey, hey. Get out. Don’t come in until I call you.”
“Ah, yes!”
He waved his hand to calm his agitated mind, and Robert quickly left the office.
Oscar asked when there were just the two of them.
“What is it?”
“I need an A-Class detection magic formula. I want you to let me know.”
“What’s your reason for looking for it?
“….”
“Don’t leave out the most important thing, but start by telling me why you’re looking for it.”
Enoch hesitated.
He didn’t want to shock Oscar.
“Ah, quickly!”
“…The child, she is suffering from a holy fever.”
“What?”
Why is Primera suffering from holy fever?
Oscar, who frowned because he couldn’t understand, soon realized.
It’s the emperor’s doing.
“T, that crazy…”
Enoch sighed as he saw Oscar lose his reason quickly.
He knew this would happen.
“T, that…”
“….”
“Is she sick? That child, is she in pain now?”
“No. She hasn’t had a fever yet.”
As soon as Oscar was relieved, Enoch added
“But if we continue to delay, the emperor will not sit still. The fever may come soon.”
“Damn it! Then what did you come here for? You should go and ask him to wake her up right away!”
“I have no intention of negotiating with the Emperor.”
Oscar’s eyes were turned upside down by the firm answer.
“What kind of bullshit is this crazy person talking about? The child’s life is at stake, so why not negotiate again…!”
Enoch held Lilith’s letter close in front of Oscar’s face.
“If there was no other way, I would have done so.”
Oscar received a letter.
His narrow eyes quickly read the child’s handwriting.
Soon he laughed in despair.
A letter to help her father, even considering that she might be caught by the emperor.
‘She must have seen something.’
Oscar looked at Enoch.
A letter from a child who has been locked up all her life, but seems to look out for everything like a God.
There must have been a lot of questions.
“Have you talked to the child after reading this?”
“No. I didn’t have time for that. I saw it for the first time at dawn.”
“You must have a lot of questions.”
“Yes. But I don’t intend to ask you.”
It means he knows about Oscar’s ban.
“Right now, the first thing to do is wake the child up. Now that you’ve seen it, I need a magic formula. Because I don’t have time…”
“Do you know what the A-Class detection magic formula is? Do you think anyone can use it just because they know it? It takes ten full months to memorize it.”
Tsk, Oscar quickly clicked his tongue as he pulled his coat off the hanger and put it on.
“I will go.”
Enoch smiled happily.
“Then thank you. Let’s go together.”
“I don’t need it. I’m going alone.”
“You know there’s something there and you go there alone, putting yourself in danger?
Oscar was dumbfounded.
“You worked hard to raise your children, but now you treat everyone like a child.”
“Let’s go together.”
As if he wouldn’t accept any rebuttal, Enoch grabbed the handle of the office door.
“I don’t listen to dirty words.”
Oscar began to grumble and clean up the table and clutter in the middle of the room.
Enoch, who was about to step forward, frowned.
“I don’t have time. Why are you cleaning your room?”
“Does this look like cleaning the room?”
“Then what is it?”
“No, where are you going now? You’re not planning on going to the temple and riding the warp gate, are you?”
“Then?”
“Whoa. You go to a temple full of the emperor’s aides in the middle of a busy hour and, to everyone’s suspicion, take the warp gate and head south? With just the two of us?”
Oscar nagged Enoch, pushing aside a large table in the middle of the office.
“I know. But I can’t help it. Argonia is almost at the end of the continent. It’s urgent, but I can’t go by horseback.”
“Don’t be silly and come here.”
Is there some other way?
He hopes so. Enoch approached Oscar as he was told.
For some reason, Oscar was exposing the floor of his office.
“Whoa.”
He frowned as he tried to push the large sofa one last time.
It didn’t budge.
Enoch, who was watching, helped. When he pushed, the sofa was easily moved away.
“….”
“….”
Oscar looked at Enoch for a moment with a face that somehow hurt his pride.
“…Build up your muscles. Don’t just hold the pen all the time.”
“Don’t worry.”
Oscar took out the chalk from his pocket and laid down on the exposed floor.
Soon Enoch opened his mouth.
‘No…’
Complex formulas, letters, and shapes that he had never heard of were being drawn quickly and without a single mistake.
‘It would take me a full day to draw something like that myself.’
Thinking about it, Enoch was relieved.
How fortunate he is to have Oscar.
He completed a large magic circle in five minutes.
It was about two meters in diameter.
“Why are you standing there blankly? Why don’t you come in quickly?”
“Y, yeah.”
But what kind of magic circle is this?
While he was puzzled, Oscar poured mana into the magic circle.
The blue light erase the complicated magic formula—
“….?”
—In an instant, Enoch was standing in a completely different place.
It’s winter, but it’s quite warm.
The sea behind, the ridge that surrounds it.
After checking it out, the place looked familiar.
The destination was the southern Argonia territory, a remote, deserted corner.
“What is…? What is this?”
Movement magic?
As far as Enoch knows, no such magic formula exists.
Whether close or far.
Also, there was no other way than warp gates to instantly travel long distances.
“There was such a thing as movement magic?”
“….”
Enoch looked dumbfounded, but Oscar just looked around calmly.
“No, look. Lord of the Wizard Tower. Why aren’t these useful magic formulas made public?”
“What do you mean?”
Oscar frowned.
“Why would I share this? Who do you think I am? I’m busy, so just go quickly.”
Oscar, who snorted, walked ahead.
Enoch murmured, looking blankly at the back.
“His personality…”
The time when Enoch headed to the Wizard Tower.
Chesire was sitting alone in a daze, watching Lilith, who was asleep and didn’t wake up.
It’s like it’s stuck in that place endlessly.
***
I couldn’t believe it.
What didn’t I believe?
I definitely don’t remember falling asleep, but I was suddenly dragged into a dream?
! Error !
No mana
Powerless person.
Could it be that the starting point of this lucid dream was the moment when my class was revealed?
No, not all.
‘Why is it just me and Mom?’
The scenery is now tiring.
Capable People Training Center, Mana Formal Room
My mother was the only one who confirmed my class.
Without knowing what had happened, I came out of Mana Formal with an innocent smile.
However, my mother was trembling like an aspen tree, unlike me.
‘Why… is there no one?’
I got confused.
Many times, I imagined how I would have been captured by the Emperor.
If the Emperor personally confirmed my class.
At that time, of course, no one could have done anything.
Or, if the class is known to other researchers at the training center even if there is no emperor.
It was the same back then.
There was no way that people I had never met would have kept my identity secret while deceiving the scary emperor.
But the truth I faced was different.
A room as quiet as if a rat had died.
My mother is the only one who knows my class now.
‘I, if you do this…’
My heart was racing.
Obviously, I knew what the ending was like, but I was looking forward to it like a fool.
“Haa, haa.”
My mother finally collapsed on the floor, shaking as her legs gave out.
“…Are you okay, Mom?”
The original me approached with a worried expression.
“Baby, I…”
“I, I didn’t know. If I knew this would happen, y, you…”
My mother added, holding her chest out of fear.
“…Here, I wouldn’t have let you come here. I’m sorry. I’m sorry.”
I was scared and didn’t understand what my mother meant when she said sorry.
Of course I was.
What did the dashboard of the magic tool that said it was impossible to measure me at that time mean, and what was my identity?
Because I didn’t know anything.
“Did mom tell them to bring me?”
On the contrary, I blushed shyly when she shook her head.
Wiping away my crying mom’s tears.
“T, then it’s fine. Of course, can I live with my mom now?”
Ugh, I can’t watch it.
I turned my eyes away.
I felt a little sorry for myself at the time when I didn’t know anything.
My mother’s breathing became heavy. I was confused.
Now the emperor would be waiting for me, and my mother didn’t have time to think long.
To hide my identity.
It’s something she has to risk her life for.
There were too many risk factors if we didn’t get discovered until the end.
‘Just as I’m shaking every day now because I’m afraid I’ll get caught, my mom has to live in anxiety.’
Since I am a Primera, the next Primera will not come from the Imperia family.
Also, the emperor will reign for a long time, twice as long as others.
While my half-brother Kyle lived in this country after my mother died of old age, it continued…
‘How could my mother know that in the end, my father rebelled and the emperor would not live long before he died?’
I continued like that, rationalizing myself as trying to understand my mother.
‘You’re the mother who told me my location because you didn’t want to send Kyle to war, right? Kyle is very, very precious to my mother.’
Yeah, that’s why.
‘At this time, not only my mother’s life was at stake, but also Kyle’s life…’
But,
My brainwashing broke the moment my mother took my hand.
“Where are you going?”
I asked, but of course my mother didn’t answer because she couldn’t hear me.
My vision became blurry.
My mother held my hand and walked me through the quiet hallway without knowing anything.
“Where are you going!”
I cried and ran after her.
Why do I try to somehow understand my mother?
Because of me.
Because I don’t want to get hurt.
I thought I wouldn’t be able to stand it if I saw with my own eyes that my mother handed me over to the emperor herself.
“Don’t go!”
I stood in front of my mother, wiping my tears roughly.
Suddenly, my mother stopped.
“Mother?”
But she didn’t stop when she found me.
Just a final hesitation.
Even though I knew I was dreaming of a time that had already disappeared, and even though I knew my voice wouldn’t be heard, I desperately put my hands together and prayed.
“Mom, don’t go. I, If I go, I’ll die.”
A tear flowed from my mother’s eye. Watching that, I was expecting something like a fool again.
“I, I’m my mother’s daughter too…”
Tears continued to flow from my eyes as well.
“Please, please.”
But my mother passed me by as I begged.
“Y, you can’t.”
I quickly followed, trying to pull my hand away from my mother’s hand.
“Let go! Let go! Let me go!”
But I couldn’t do anything except pass through it as if I were touching an illusion.
“Let me go! Let me go! I’m going to see my dad!”
I screamed like a crazy person.
But before I know it, I’m at the end of the hallway.
The warp gate was visible.
Crossing over, the imperial family.
A demonic hell.
Where my tragedy and death are destined.
Mom crossed the gate.
“Aaaahhh!”
I cried and screamed.
It hurt like my heart was being torn apart.
* * *
At that time, the Wizard Tower.
“I…need your help.”
At Enoch’s words, Oscar went blank for a moment.
He hopes nothing happens.
But looking at Enoch’s expression, it seemed like it would be difficult to expect it.
“Hey, hey. Get out. Don’t come in until I call you.”
“Ah, yes!”
He waved his hand to calm his agitated mind, and Robert quickly left the office.
Oscar asked when there were just the two of them.
“What is it?”
“I need an A-Class detection magic formula. I want you to let me know.”
“What’s your reason for looking for it?
“….”
“Don’t leave out the most important thing, but start by telling me why you’re looking for it.”
Enoch hesitated.
He didn’t want to shock Oscar.
“Ah, quickly!”
“…The child, she is suffering from a holy fever.”
“What?”
Why is Primera suffering from holy fever?
Oscar, who frowned because he couldn’t understand, soon realized.
It’s the emperor’s doing.
“T, that crazy…”
Enoch sighed as he saw Oscar lose his reason quickly.
He knew this would happen.
“T, that…”
“….”
“Is she sick? That child, is she in pain now?”
“No. She hasn’t had a fever yet.”
As soon as Oscar was relieved, Enoch added
“But if we continue to delay, the emperor will not sit still. The fever may come soon.”
“Damn it! Then what did you come here for? You should go and ask him to wake her up right away!”
“I have no intention of negotiating with the Emperor.”
Oscar’s eyes were turned upside down by the firm answer.
“What kind of bullshit is this crazy person talking about? The child’s life is at stake, so why not negotiate again…!”
Enoch held Lilith’s letter close in front of Oscar’s face.
“If there was no other way, I would have done so.”
Oscar received a letter.
His narrow eyes quickly read the child’s handwriting.
Soon he laughed in despair.
A letter to help her father, even considering that she might be caught by the emperor.
‘She must have seen something.’
Oscar looked at Enoch.
A letter from a child who has been locked up all her life, but seems to look out for everything like a God.
There must have been a lot of questions.
“Have you talked to the child after reading this?”
“No. I didn’t have time for that. I saw it for the first time at dawn.”
“You must have a lot of questions.”
“Yes. But I don’t intend to ask you.”
It means he knows about Oscar’s ban.
“Right now, the first thing to do is wake the child up. Now that you’ve seen it, I need a magic formula. Because I don’t have time…”
“Do you know what the A-Class detection magic formula is? Do you think anyone can use it just because they know it? It takes ten full months to memorize it.”
Tsk, Oscar quickly clicked his tongue as he pulled his coat off the hanger and put it on.
“I will go.”
Enoch smiled happily.
“Then thank you. Let’s go together.”
“I don’t need it. I’m going alone.”
“You know there’s something there and you go there alone, putting yourself in danger?
Oscar was dumbfounded.
“You worked hard to raise your children, but now you treat everyone like a child.”
“Let’s go together.”
As if he wouldn’t accept any rebuttal, Enoch grabbed the handle of the office door.
“I don’t listen to dirty words.”
Oscar began to grumble and clean up the table and clutter in the middle of the room.
Enoch, who was about to step forward, frowned.
“I don’t have time. Why are you cleaning your room?”
“Does this look like cleaning the room?”
“Then what is it?”
“No, where are you going now? You’re not planning on going to the temple and riding the warp gate, are you?”
“Then?”
“Whoa. You go to a temple full of the emperor’s aides in the middle of a busy hour and, to everyone’s suspicion, take the warp gate and head south? With just the two of us?”
Oscar nagged Enoch, pushing aside a large table in the middle of the office.
“I know. But I can’t help it. Argonia is almost at the end of the continent. It’s urgent, but I can’t go by horseback.”
“Don’t be silly and come here.”
Is there some other way?
He hopes so. Enoch approached Oscar as he was told.
For some reason, Oscar was exposing the floor of his office.
“Whoa.”
He frowned as he tried to push the large sofa one last time.
It didn’t budge.
Enoch, who was watching, helped. When he pushed, the sofa was easily moved away.
“….”
“….”
Oscar looked at Enoch for a moment with a face that somehow hurt his pride.
“…Build up your muscles. Don’t just hold the pen all the time.”
“Don’t worry.”
Oscar took out the chalk from his pocket and laid down on the exposed floor.
Soon Enoch opened his mouth.
‘No…’
Complex formulas, letters, and shapes that he had never heard of were being drawn quickly and without a single mistake.
‘It would take me a full day to draw something like that myself.’
Thinking about it, Enoch was relieved.
How fortunate he is to have Oscar.
He completed a large magic circle in five minutes.
It was about two meters in diameter.
“Why are you standing there blankly? Why don’t you come in quickly?”
“Y, yeah.”
But what kind of magic circle is this?
While he was puzzled, Oscar poured mana into the magic circle.
The blue light erase the complicated magic formula—
“….?”
—In an instant, Enoch was standing in a completely different place.
It’s winter, but it’s quite warm.
The sea behind, the ridge that surrounds it.
After checking it out, the place looked familiar.
The destination was the southern Argonia territory, a remote, deserted corner.
“What is…? What is this?”
Movement magic?
As far as Enoch knows, no such magic formula exists.
Whether close or far.
Also, there was no other way than warp gates to instantly travel long distances.
“There was such a thing as movement magic?”
“….”
Enoch looked dumbfounded, but Oscar just looked around calmly.
“No, look. Lord of the Wizard Tower. Why aren’t these useful magic formulas made public?”
“What do you mean?”
Oscar frowned.
“Why would I share this? Who do you think I am? I’m busy, so just go quickly.”
Oscar, who snorted, walked ahead.
Enoch murmured, looking blankly at the back.
“His personality…”
