Chapter 4 (1/2)

You know what? Because I’m so excited I’ll post this now~ We’re nearing the exciting part of this arc~ Enjoy the chapter! And next up, the preparation for battle!

TL: clover

ED: clover

After that, I escaped from the pursuit of Klaus somehow and headed for the dinner party.

As soon as Klaus talked about the matter of the ruins during dinner, my father and Duke of Harvan stopped him very solemnly.

It couldn’t be helped. It was not a place where a 10-years-old child could go.

When the topic about the ruins came out, I found it secretly amusing that my older brother looked unruffled on the outside but feeling anxious inside.

It was a good thing that I forbid Klaus to speak about the matter of Edward-onii-sama went into the Ruins of Visitor~~.

When the dinner party was over, Edward-onii-sama was about to head to Leandez Magic Academy that was located in the central part of the continent by using the Spring Palace’s transferring gate.

Transferring gates were located in the basement of important buildings and provided warp function by magically connecting the gates at each sites.

My older brother received one key from father after the dinner party, and he would use the one-time-key to go to the academy.

I suddenly felt uneasy because of my conversation with Klaus.

I wanted to hear about the magic that was spelled in this star crystal, so I caught up with my older brother who was holding a baggage in his room.

“Onii-sama, I’m sorry to hold you up when you are in a hurry, but could I ask you something about this necklace?”

“Hm, what about the necklace, Erica?”

“Klaus was concerned about the magic inside this necklace. Very special magic.”

“Hee, a special magic, huh……Please lend it to me, Erica.”

With his eyebrows slightly furrowed, my older brother was staring at the star crystal.

Edward-onii-sama spread out his leather handbag on the floor while crouching on the spot.

“Is that Wunderkammer……?”

We sorted our reservoir of gathered alchemists’ prepared items into a miracle room, Wunderkammer.

The leather bag seemed to have an expanded interior space.

My older brother built a Wunderkammer inside it.

“Well, the magic for expanding space was very expensive…”

“That’s right…”

My older brother said that with distant eyes.

Incidentally, even the materials to create the kind of wands that were stored inside cost an enormous amount of money.

I guessed this was quite a splurge, Edward-onii-sama.

I didn’t know the specific price, but even if I just looked at it roughly, I believed that I could sell off one or two silver veins that my older brother would inherit in the future.

“Well, I will investigate it now.”

Edward-onii-sama picked out a piece of sugar maple wand from among the large number of short wands inside the Wunderkammer.

At the end of the wand was a piece of emerald.

On the part of the handle, there was a workmanship imitating a feather of a peacock with a spiralling part like a shellfish1.

Perhaps the core material was a feather of a peacock.

The length of the short wand was just the length of a conductor’s baton.

On such a small tool, more than 50 charges, or over 100 charges if it was the finest wand, of magic was put into it.

How convenient~ I thought, but each one could only contain one type of magic.

To deal with every situation, countless short wands were needed.

So preparation was important for the western alchemists.

Edward-onii-sama swung the wand like a conductor.

Green light spread around my older brother and converged on his eyes.

With this, Edward-onii-sama’s eyes temporarily turned into Glam Sight.

The magic of an alchemist in this world was all done manually.

“I see. This is amazing.”

“How is it?”

“Because I found it at the Ruins of Visitor, I thought that the magic was of that era. But in actuality, it is older. At least before Ignatia conquered the southern part of this continent.”

It was around 650 years ago that the founder of the western Aurelia arrived at this place.

When the invading Ignatia destroyed Cascadia and placed the southern part of this continent under their control, that was the story of about 150 years ago before that.

Together it would be 800 years ago.

Cascadia was a country of vampires.

It was a dark nation where the vampire royalty and aristocracy dominated human beings like a livestock—at least, that was how it was reported.

In other words, the magic put on this stone was likely to belong to the vampires of Cascadia.

It was not necessarily the truth, though.

“It means that it was the magic used by the vampires.”

“Aah, I see.”

On this continent, vampire was a phantom beast that had been extinct hundreds of years ago.

But, it seemed that vampires would come out in the scenario which I had not yet completed.

“Fortunately it is safe for us. Because us western human beings are all dense to the magic of this kind. But—I’m afraid that both East and North humans are sensitive and will be affected by it.”

“What kind of magic was put inside the stone?”

“I will say that it’s close to a fascination, but it’s more than that…Yes, it seems to be spelled to evoke desire…It seems better for me to hold on to this stone a bit longer.”

Magic that evoked desire, huh.