Ascendance of a Bookworm

Woke up in the middle of the night. My sweat is cold and my waking is awful. I should have dreamed something, but I can’t remember. When I was frowning on the frustration that the unconnected memory seems to be connected and not connected, Leonore, who seemed to have been sleeping, opened the tent and looked into the face.

“Rosemine, your face color isn’t good. Do you have a sacred item? When you woke up, you asked the lyzer that the discomfort would be reduced if you applied magic to the sacred item. I use all my magic. ”

According to Leonore, the escort knights bothered us to empty the magical power of the samurai after dinner. I’m happy with that thought, and I’ll have my sacred items.

…… I’m hungry, waking up is the worst, and my body is dull …

Sitting at the end of the bed as if holding a heavy head, pour magical power into the ritual brought by Leonore. Gratia entered the room quickly with her hair loosely bundled. I think it was caused by Leonore. Greater tears are inevitable because I can’t touch me without the silver cloth that I gave my name.

Gretier noticed that my night sweats were terrible, and immediately began preparing to change clothes.

“You don’t have to prepare a bath, a baschen is enough, Gretier. Please use the magic stones around it.”

There are a lot of magic stones with my power. While granting permission to Greetia, I pour magical power into the priest that Leonore presents.

I felt refreshed with the Greatia Vaschen, and Leonore offered Szeria’s shield when I changed into another sleepwear. This is the last ritual. I will also pour magical power into it. I suddenly felt something and touched the shield of Szeria, and I looked around.

“Could you please, Rosemine?”

“Lower …. In the direction, there seems to be something around the dining room or living room. It seems like Gervasio came out from the back of the altar. I don’t think it’s Gervasio … Speaking of which, I haven’t received any reports of what he did after that … “

When I said that while looking for a direction that was attentive, Leonore whispered as if there were some points. After turning his gaze upwards to think a little, he smiled a little.

“Because this is a Rosemine-like beast, I don’t think anyone without permission can invade. Perhaps Ferdinand said you worked in the living room. “It may be better to have a look because the complexion is still not good even if magic power is supplied to the sacred item.”

Leonore looks back on Greater while saying so.

“Greater. It ’s bad, but I ’m going to take Rosemaine ’s dressing. It ’s good to wear a loosely-tightened room that you can lie down. It ’s okay to go down into the room. ”

“I’m sorry”

I was dressed in a room, and my hair was put together, although it wasn’t tight. I wore a silver cloak, and when I left the room with Leonore, Angelica ran up and said, “I’m late,” and suddenly hugged me.

“Rose Mine, please wait until I arrive in my room. I have been commanded not to walk as much as possible.”

Angelica was cautioned with a clean face, and I gently entrusted Angelica with a small laugh.

Light is leaking from the living room on the first floor. When approached, Eckhart brother appeared.

“Please enter, Ferdinand says”

“Did you know I’m here?”

“Those who have released the power of the gods will not move and cannot be understood”

… Does the power of the gods look like a cat bell?

When I entered the living room, the space where I usually drank tea after meals was completely like a office. Ferdinand seems to be doing the work he brought from the castle in his living room because his room only has enough space for sleeping and changing clothes.

“What’s wrong? Can’t sleep?”

“I don’t remember it anymore, but it seems like I woke up with a bad dream. If I put my magical power on a sacred item, I felt something …”

Responds that Gervagio felt like there was something, even though it was not visible, like when it came out from the back of the altar.

“I thought it was something, but it seems that Ferdinand-sama felt this time”

“Wow …”

Pointed to an empty part of the sofa so that Ferdinand sat next to him. Take me down where Angelica is directed. Perhaps because of the strange signs that I had never felt before, it’s a bit calm.

“What happened to Ferdinand, Gervasio?”

“Egrantine-sama captured and looked into the memory. Among them, there would be an announcement about formal punishment”

I exhaled relievedly at the report that I was caught.

“I thought what to do if I had escaped, so if I was caught safely, I would be relieved.”

“Egrantine and Prince Anastazius seem to have lost half of the escort knights headed together, so I can’t say safely …”

“What? What does half mean?”

I blinked my eyes, but Ferdinand began to take out a number of papers out of materials piled up with an uninteresting face.

“It’s a problem for New Zent and her supporting husband to get over. You don’t have to think about it. Rather, I want to talk about Alexandria’s design that needs to be done as soon as possible.”

When I realized that the lined paper was a new Alexandria blueprint, Gervasio flew from my head.

“I wanted to capture the ideal city you were talking about, but the library is too central”

“If you say something like this, if you don’t focus on the library, what do you focus on?”

What should I do if there is no library at the center of the cityscape I build? When I complained, Ferdinand became a disgusting face.

“The center of the aristocratic city seems to have no problem with the castle, library, and research facility. It is a library where you frequently come and go and aim to secure your own room. It seems that you intend to connect the castle’s own room and the library’s own room with a transfer team, but if the escort knight does not get on the transfer team, it is also a distance for the escort knight I think it ’s too far away. ”

It seems that it is impossible to allow too many unspecified people to come in and out due to security. However, unlike Ehrenfest, where the status varies from north to south, in Alexandria the distance between each family and the library is as close as possible by increasing the status toward the center of the city, and the library room of the castle It seems that the creation of a separate library makes it easier for children who have completed apprenticeship and baptismal ceremony to make it easier to enter.

“But I want a library that anyone can use …. Uh, I’m a territory of me. It’s important that anyone can read a book in Alexandria.”

“It’s not wrong with the future direction of the city, but I have to say that it’s premature considering the literacy rate of the common people. The aristocratic backlash will also be great.”

I feel like I’m out of the ideal city. In my appeal, Ferdinand shook his hand, “Listen to the end of others”.

“Alexandria is a new territory of the goddess’s incarnation, so if you consider the whole city, including the commoner, you should focus on the temple.”

It seems that it is better to take in the good points of the temple of Ehrenfest because it is rebuilt from scratch. It is said that a temple with a workshop, an orphanage, a place for the life of the blue priests, and a worship room for praying to the gods and performing rituals is placed between the downtown area and the noble town.

“And if you go to a millionaire with a temple classroom that you were talking about, it will be natural for the commoner to come and go. At first, it will be only for users of the temple classroom, but you will also enter the commoner. It ’s possible to set up a library where you can do it, do n’t rush, it ’s important how you accept the first step. ”

Like the Aristocracy Library, Ferdinand said that a deposit system would be required to prevent book theft, and it would become a membership-based library for some time. However, the same was true when looking back at the history of the library during the Reino period. I want to advance the era, but I feel a bit ugly, but I know that it will be difficult if the printing industry is thriving and the price of books does not go down.

“I think it’s very good to open the temple classroom and temple library of the millionaire”

If a wealthy child makes a connection with an aristocrat and opens a temple classroom as a place to learn how to live, the richest child goes to the temple classroom. Merchants who are trying to grow up and craftsmen who are looking for patrons of nobility will also enter. These movements are obvious if you look at Gutenberg.

“Then, the perspective you were talking about was really interesting, but if you sort out, the function of the city is too biased towards the library and the printing industry. We need a little more realistic arrangement. First, Lanzenave How about building a central building for commoners, such as harbors, aristocrats, temples, commercial guilds, and associations that were damaged by the city, and reorganizing them while listening to the opinion of the commoners? ”

Ferdinand smiles, saying that it would be a good place to train civilians who had only given orders until now.

“If you do a large Envyckelung in the whole city, it will be a burden on the commoner, so it would be nice to have a place to talk with the commoner and change it sequentially. Take a look at Bach’s things, the climate alone is different from Ehrenfest because the style that best suits the land is the best. ”

“For the Printemps and Gilberta firms, did you plan to use the store layout that was submitted at Greschel’s Entoviceln?”

“Send this style and leave it to their discretion.”

Although it is better to adapt to the climate, the user-friendly layout is completely different for each individual. I think that the people should choose what to focus on.

“We can’t move without a house or a store, so we’re going to create a new Gutenberg store and workshop in Entwickeln in the center of the downtown area where commercial guilds are lined up”

“I’m fine, so there’s no problem, but have you secured a place for craftsmen’s families to live?”

“… Oh, of course”

After Ferdinand turned his eyes a little, he began to quickly clear the paper he had spread.

“I wanted to see you a little more, it’s terrible, Ferdinand-sama, please spread it again”

“Because you are too excited and it will be difficult, let’s go to here today …. A bell will sound soon. It seems better to sleep once. “Is it possible to sleep?”

When asked by Ferdinand, I shook my head.

“… I don’t want to sleep much now because I’ll increase my magic when I sleep. I sleep when I really want to sleep”

“How are you feeling hungry? Even though you were complaining of hunger, you didn’t seem to be able to eat dinner too much, but you still feel hungry?

When asked by Ferdinand, I whispered. I feel hungry after dinner and now I’m more hungry.

“… As Ferdinand said, do you have any idea?”

Ferdinand said, “It’s not completely impossible”, then look around. After showing something as if he was looking for something, he wasted his hand.

“Ferdinand-sama?”

Ferdinand drew a little red medicine on his fingertips and pressed his fingertips onto my lips. As soon as he saw his fingertips wiped away with a handkerchief, Ferdinand asked “Is it bitter?”

I try to lick my lips a little while imagining a bitter and stimulating taste. There is almost no bitterness compared to the expected taste. The tongue is still tingling.

“No … not that much”

“If so, then it’s good. If you feel hungry, it’s probably because your magical power is too low. Your body is complaining of a crisis because it’s too low.” It can be said that it is approaching the depletion of magic. “

Ordinarily, use recovery drugs when the magical power is reduced. The magical power will continue to decrease for a long period of time, and although it should have recovered by sleeping, it seems unlikely that it will rarely be prolonged for a long time to not recover using magical power.

“I felt hunger during the supply of Ahrensbach. I don’t think I’d use it all at once, but I think it feels as it is being scraped off little by little … but from here It will be very painful over time, and after this I want to reduce it as quickly as possible. “

“Are you more painful?”

I thought I didn’t like it anymore, but I decided to leave Ferdinand a bit.

“I want to bring it to a depleted state at once. I can confirm that if the power of the gods decreases, the pain will be less to re-dye.”

“… Is that so”

Ferdinand is somewhat motivated, but when I think that this pain is still going on, I myself become irritated.

“Did you tell me to draw a number of healing magic circles? Can you do that at the same time with copy and paste?”

Ferdinand said that it would not be necessary to cast the names of the gods in the copy and paste. I tilt my head with a little thought.

“Surely the names of the gods are not necessary, and if only the healing magic circle is copied, unlike the case of Vaschen, etc., it is unlikely that a natural disaster like a tsunami will occur, and it is unlikely that a tsunami-like failure will occur. But I don’t have that much magic paper, and copy and paste can only be copied where there is magic. “

“If you can copy it in a place where magic power is full, you can imagine a land containing magic power as magic paper, though it is a little scarce.”

As Ferdinand says, the ground certainly contains magical power. Even in the aristocratic gathering ground, the magic team is embedded in the ground, so it is not impossible.

“I’ve never experimented outside, but I don’t think there’s anything I can’t do. But I don’t know how much the magic circle can be expanded even if I can copy and paste on the ground. I can’t do it because I don’t have time. “

Because there was no time, it was Ferdinand, the only one who said that I would postpone the enlargement and reduction experiments. Perhaps I remembered that Ferdinand also broke a little eyebrows.

“Yes … I thought I could cover the whole of Alexandria with a healing magic circle with a huge magic circle like the magic circle that covered the entire aristocracy. Even common-sense copy and paste seems impossible ”

“Be aware that my copy and paste is insane, be aware of the insaneness of your ideas. Isn’t it a large-scale magic that the gods and others made together? “

I don’t want to be called insane by Ferdinand trying to do it in Alexandria. It is a magic team where the ancient Zent attached the cooperation of the gods through Air Vermeen, and the Noble House was formed by combining several magic teams based on the Magic Stone of Air Vermein.

“That ’s why you can do something like that in this era …”

I stopped talking there. Something flashed in my head now.

“There may be”

“Wait! It’s a dismissal to go with the cooperation of Airvermeen and the gods. Think of another way. Spread the magic stone of this cavalry as much as possible and heal magic there. Isn’t it more certain to copy the team and expand the range as much as possible with the auxiliary magic of Clarissa’s wide area magic? “

Ferdinand immediately dismissed, though he wanted to say it himself. After thinking of me, I search for “Glutrice Height” and Mestionola.

“… No, you don’t have to go ask for help from Airvermeen and the gods. Ferdinand has a piece of Airvermeen-like, and the power of the gods is here.”

When I showed my hand as a nigiri, Ferdinand raised one eyebrow.

“Since I feel so painful, why don’t you just use the power of the gods for yourself?” And restoration of ancient large-scale magic, Ferdinand is interested. Is there? “

When she laughed, Ferdinand said, “There is no time for the chief to study.” However, it seems to be very interesting because it takes out new paper while saying something.

“I don’t think it’s too difficult if you just spread the healing magic circles instead of setting up multiple magical circles with multiple attributes like the ones in the aristocracy. Look at Ferdinand-sama. “

I showed Ferdinand my Mestionola’s book about ancient large-scale magic. Ferdinand will not be able to write his own Mestionola in this place with his aides.

Ferdinand peeks in with a little head and stares at the magic team.

“Fum. If you decide the range, you can cover the whole Alexandria by setting the starting point on the foundation and setting the magic circle with all the boundary gates as the end points. Air to be installed at the base point Isn’t Vermine’s magic stone a substitute … ”

“Constancy or durability will be reduced, but I think that there will be no problem if it is turned into a magic stone by the power of the gods.”

“No, if you only need it once, you should follow the way written here rather than investing another power. As long as there is no time or material to repeat the experiment, it is as original as possible It would be better to reproduce it in a form that is faithful to the magic circle. You can’t fail. “

As Ferdinand said, he began to write on the paper at great speed. I think it is close to the memorandum because the words are lined up. Ferdinand moves his mouth without stopping writing.

“Rose Mine, after the breakfast is over, go back to the castle with the beast away. I’d like you to copy and paste the magic circle to the Ervermein fragment, which is the starting point in the hidden castle room. Tell my civilian to send a notice to all the ghives, then let Haltomut return the shrine to the temple, and let Clarissa and Rhoderich know to the noblemen in the noble town. “

“I understand”

“Leonore, Eckhart. The guards will be watching the border gates. Make a selection of them and think about the assignment of work. Then, familiarize and prepare to return to the castle after breakfast to the aides.

“Huh!”

Ferdinand’s voice, giving instructions one after another, was distant for a moment. Feeling the heat spread, I hurriedly close the book of Mestionola. It seems to have used too much for a long time.

Ferdinand peeked into my face with worries and touched the forehead and wrist.

“I’m going to do the part where I actually go to the border gate and set up the magic team, but I’m very prepared for the magic team unless you have the power of the gods and can shorten the time with copy and paste It will take time. It will be at night that you can activate the magic team, no matter how fast … Can you withstand one more day? “

“It’s much easier than when you didn’t know how long it would last”

laughing and laughing, Ferdinand engraves a deep fold between his eyebrows, saying “Please stop the strange toughness”. But I think that it will be somehow in about a day.

“At least, rest in the room for breakfast and preparation after breakfast. I want to rest a little.”

Ferdinand quickly began to clear up the materials. Eckhart brother begins to help. I was sleeping after dinner and I wasn’t conscious because I wasn’t sleepy, but Ferdinand was almost all night. Is this going to move around again after breakfast?

…… I said, “Even as fast as possible at night,” so I’m worried I’m not going to take a break.

After breakfast, I returned to the castle. Each moves as instructed. I was in Ferdinand’s hidden room. He asks Ferdinand to flatten the white branches of Ervermin with a Lanzenave knife, and then engrave the healing magic team with a copy and paste.

“Because the magic team will not be able to enter the branch unless it shrinks quite a bit, you must start with a study of reduction.”

“Isn’t you stupid? There is no such time. I should give up and draw the original magic circle in small size.”

When trying to scale down and scale up on magic paper, Ferdinand was struck by cold eyes. Such Ferdinand is making something by throwing in a lot of magic stones, gold dust and other precious materials one after another. When I thought it was an atmosphere that I couldn’t say “I’m not good at drawing finely, please draw”, a piece of magic paper flew.

“Try to see this magic circle”

I will copy and paste the magic circle that Ferdinand drew. We prepared for the healing magic circle and the magic circle to use the branches as the starting point of the magic circle. Since the magical power is hardly reduced in the current state, the copy and paste of the magic team ends immediately.

“It’s over, Ferdinand-sama”

“Now prepare the magic stone with the power of the gods.”

I gathered all the magic stones of all attributes and rolled them together to form a cylinder. I pierced the branches of Airvermin. Originally, a magic stone is placed on this, but as a result of searching for a stable shape because it is a branch, I decided to pierce it. There is a sense of stability unexpectedly. This magic stone becomes a saucer that receives the power of the gods.

The smaller one shows the end of the boundary gate. The rainbow-colored lesser magic stone has already been crushed and shaped like a large tray, and the branches of Airvermin are stuck.

When the magic circle is engraved on the bottom, it is completed.

“I did it. I tried to fix it by piercing a branch of the magic stone of the power of the gods. How about?”

“It’s easy to think that you’re trying to recreate a very ancient large-scale witchcraft, and your insane way. I can’t really think of it.”

“I am sorry to keep you complimented.”

I’ll leave you praised. That is the best mental health.

“If you’re ready, take a break. I don’t know if you are aware or not, but the look isn’t good. If you can, return to your room and rest on the bed. Are you close enough? ”

â € ¢ I work in a hidden room at Ferdinand, giving me a brief break for my aides.If they are together in a hidden room, the rest can rest as long as there is a minimal escort knight guarding the front of the door.

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“I think Ferdinand needs a break”

“If you think you have to be ready after your magical power is exhausted, you can’t rest now.

…… I think there is no problem.

“Why Ferdinand-sama is there for me?”

When I was looking at Ferdinand, I was wondering about it.

“… What does it mean?”

“Because, unlike Hartmut, Ferdinand-sama wasn’t as enthusiastic about me as the Lord, nor did he choose the Lord to escape execution, like Matias. This is a situation like this: Ferdinand-sama wouldn’t tell me to return my name once, when I was told to return it, but I did all this to Ferdinand. I don’t know what it means “

フ ェ ル Ferdinand thinks a bit, “Meaning…”

“I don’t want to ask the meaning. Isn’t it natural that I’m like your family? Do you need more reasons?”

“Eh, but I don’t think that even the real family will do that. The father of the Knights is for foster fathers and Eckhart is likely to do anything for Ferdinand.” But for me, I won’t go that far, and my brother Cornelius and my mother will be kind, but there are many things I can’t do as a nobleman? “

貴 That’s what aristocratic families do. Don’t give a name that you can’t touch it with the power of the gods, or sell quarrels to the gods. Ferdinand is a guardian, so I think he is quite far from his family, even if he is a family. When I tilted my head, Ferdinand became a terribly bitter face.

“Rosemine, your family …”

“What is it?”

“… No, I’m fine now”

フ ェ ル Ferdinand, who said something, swallowed his word and swung his head. The profile appears to be badly hurt.

“That Ferdinand-sama?”

“I have been watching your magical power consumption and recovery for the last couple of days, but if you activate the magic circle that covers Alexandria, you will definitely run out. Don’t be afraid to rest. Rest in your room. “

フ ェ ル Ferdinand uses magical equipment to contact the escort knight in his room and call Angelica. And he ordered me to take me to the room. I don’t know why Ferdinand looks hurt. I wanted to reach for Ferdinand, who was returning to the hidden room, but I closed my eyes without knowing what was wrong and not reaching for it.

I am in front of the foundation of Ahrensbach. I came from the room used by Aube through a small room that I could use with the key that Aube had. Held by Ferdinand.

“You shouldn’t enter anything other than aub, right?”

“… Well, yes, but you can’t be alone now that you know that your magical power will be exhausted, and this key was taken up by Dietrinde It ’s me, if I add, the foundation of the present is magically recognizing me as an aub. ”

“I don’t think Ferdinand himself is going to be Aube Alexandria, not me …. and you can make it as much as you like.”

‘When I said in front of the white branch that was already installed, Ferdinand sat next to me and laughed at her nose while preparing the medicines.

“If you don’t make it yourself, will you make it? I don’t need to be an aub”

“I really don’t want Ferdinand-sama? If you look only at greed, I’m more like a demon king.”

“Is that right? I think I’ve become much more greedy these days.”

言 っ They are smiling like a demon king, but I don’t think so.

“Ferdinand has built a library city, puts all the books printed in his library, and then copies and prints the library collection of any territory to be my book. Will you have any ambitions? “

“You will have such ambitions.”

…… I think that conquering all libraries is a human dream.

I don’t intend to give up my ambitions, so I’m going to ask Egrantine to start with a copy of the book that will be moved from the Royal Palace Library to the Aristocracy Library.

“To get ambition, you have to erase the power of the gods. Let’s get started.”

“Yes”

I touch the rainbow-shaped magic stone that shines in rainbow colors. As magical power was poured, water accumulated in the basin-shaped magic stone, becoming like a water mirror. The water stops just before it overflows, and this time, the white branches of Airvermeen begin to stain iridescent.

光 Light of all attributes rises straight up from the branches of Airvermin. I can’t see the outside from me. I thought so, but as soon as all the attributes of light penetrated the building and went out, the water mirror started to appear.

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“Ferdinand-sama, this …”

“Pour out magic as it is. The magic team is not yet complete.”

“Yes”

は The scene reflected in the water mirror moves from a place where a large number of nobles shine with staps, to the towns of ordinary people through a noble town with many lights, and to capture the dark sea Became. Even though it is completely dark, you can see that the water surface is swayed by rainbow-colored light. The figure of Stral and other knights guarding at the border gate in front of the border gate was shown. Looking up with a surprised expression.

“You’re seeing a magic circle drawn in the night sky. It’s a goofy expression.”

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“If I was there, I think it would be a much more foolish face.”

“There’s a problem”

…… I wanted you to deny that.

The spectacle reflected in the water mirror turned into an airvermeen branch at the border gate from the surprised faces of the knights. After that, we headed up again.

Magic power is gradually being absorbed by the magic circle. I felt a little fever.

“Where is this time?”

“It will be a boundary gate with Dunkel Ferger. The land is near”

The brothers Eckhart and several knights looked up at the sky at the border of Dunkelferger. The knights of Dunkelferger in the blue cloak packed in the border gate somehow look up at the sky with excitement and make a noise. You can see that Eckhart brothers are desperately protecting the Dunkelfelgar knights from touching the Ervermin branch.

…… It may be the most difficult to protect here.

間 に Go to the next boundary gate while laughing.

魔 I feel that my magical power has been sucked up and the hungry state has become starved. I started to feel a little dull.

ラ ウ Only Laurenz and a few knights were at the next boundary gate. It is the border gate with the old Berkestock. It seems that Ferdinand closed when he left the branch of Ervermin, and after the lord meeting, Traokvar was appointed as an aub and opened with the power of both aubs.

I arrived at the border gate with Frabel Turk when I thought that my body was getting cold because I couldn’t make it in my body.

マ Here are Matthias and the Knights. There were also Fleber Turk knights, but it wasn’t a festive affair like Dunkel Felger, just looking up at the sky with an overwhelming look.

フ レ The border gate of Freibertak is quite close to the border gate of Ehrenfest. The scene of Ehrenfest’s border gate began to appear in no time. The Cornelius brother should be at the border of Ehrenfest.

“… Grandfather?”

«I could see why the grandfather was at the border gate and was waving his brother Cornelius.

“When I contacted Gilvester in the daytime, I couldn’t go to see the succession ceremony of the Aristocratic House, so it seemed that I would definitely go to the border gate and jumped out. I didn’t expect it, but it was correct when I turned Cornelius. Others couldn’t do it. “

I laugh a little at Ferdinand’s amazed voice. I was a little dizzy, and my breathing became so shallow that I had to consciously breathe slowly.

“It’s a little more, Rosemine”

フ ェ ル I can hear the voice of Ferdinand, who should be right next to me. You have to endure until the scenery reflected in the water mirror through the dark sea returns to this castle. I’ve answered “Okay” several times However, power does not enter into the voice, and power comes out of the hand holding the magic stone that is in the shape of a tray.

“Rose Mine, don’t let go of your hands because you don’t mind leaning on me”

フ ェ ル Ferdinand sitting next to me holds down my hand from the top holding my hand from above. Ferdinand’s hand, which usually feels cold, was so hot.

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“The Goddess of Water Bringing Healing and Change, Twelve Goddesses Serving to the Side, Listen to My Prayer, Give Holy Power…”

Ferdinand started singing congratulatory words. The magic team seems to have been successfully completed. The power of the gods does not move even when Ferdinand’s congratulations are heard. The magical power is almost depleted. Even though my body is cold, I can feel a sense of security that “I’m finally done”.

…… Ferdinand-sama, thank you.

♪ I closed my eyes slowly while listening to the congratulatory words.