Noelia's Point of View


　They arrived at the ruins of the camp where their mother Florina, a great sorceress who had died without ever seeing her face, was said to have spent her last night.

　The trenches were so deep and wide that three adults could barely get over them by standing, and the walls, made of stone, were of such fine work that it was hard to believe they had been hastily built.

　Myth, who had joined the raiding party, told me that my mother had magically created the wide and deep trench and stone wall in front of us.


　It made sense that this was said to be the legacy of the great magician Florina.

　The 'Great Raid' had completely disrupted the culture of magic that sorcerers had connected through oral tradition and hearsay within the framework of the master-disciple system.


　This master and apprentice system was a system that prevented the kingdom from allowing sorcerers to misuse magic for their own purposes.

　The master would teach his magic to his prospective pupil, but he would also be held fully accountable for his pupil's actions.


　If an apprentice scandalized by magic, the master would be held accountable, and vice versa.

　It was in such an environment that magic in this country has always been passed on.


　Partly, only the magicians whose research was approved by the kingdom were able to write down the books that were said to be magical instructions, but other magicians had no choice but to pass them on to their students.

　The master and apprentice system still functioned to keep the culture of magic alive, but the magicians who were capable of fighting in the Great Raid had to be mobilized, and many, like my mother, had never returned.


　It's a good idea to have a good idea of what you're going to do with your money.

　I grew up listening to my mother's magical prowess from an early age, and when I learned that I had a lot of magical power, my interest in magic grew, so I became an apprentice to a veteran magician who survived the Great Attack and collected the magic that was on the verge of becoming obsolete.

　And he had been communicating his findings in reports to the kingdom's researchers as well as presenting them in the field.

　Because of this achievement, last spring the kingdom recognized him as a 'kingdom magic researcher' and he was able to get permission to leave his instruction book.


　The magic culture of the kingdom is still in a critical situation even after 20 years.

　I've got to say, I'm not going to be able to get a job.

　I've been learning magic from Linus, the wise and wise sage who was dispatched from the royal capital to Ygghanotes.


　What Flick-sama discovered earlier may have been commonly used by the previous sorcerers, and the adventurers who were working with them may have known about it.

　However, lightening magic was on the verge of becoming obsolete, and there were only a handful of sorcerers who could use it.

　That's why there were a number of magics that have been buried until today because their use like the one I just mentioned didn't connect to the future generations.


''Noelia, you'll lose your footing if you're in a daze.


　I was walking along, pondering the future of magic culture, when Master Flick approached me.

　I guess I had walked up to the edge of the ditch without realizing it.


'Excuse me, I was just thinking.


　After collecting the materials and placing the dragonet I had brought for dinner at the camp, I remembered that the two of us had been on alert for the surroundings until we were ready to camp.

　When I told him that he and Master Flick would take the vigil alone, his father made some noise, but I kept my mouth shut with silence (silence).


　When I was apprenticed to a sorcerer to study magic, he would give me noisy orders if he was a man, so I naturally did that to silence him more often than not.

　I'm sure you'll be happy to know that I'm not the only one who's interested in this, but I'd like to see you take responsibility for the things you say.


　I've been working hard to revive the magic culture of the kingdom, which is on the verge of collapse, and that's my mission.

　I'm sure your father is just pretending to understand that I lost my mother soon after I was born, so he's trying to atone for it.


　It is true that many times while studying and accumulating magic, I wished my mother, Florina, had been there.

　The veteran sorcerers who apprenticed with me respected my mother, calling her the poster child for magic, and told me of her many feats.

　Thanks to them, my mother in me was a great magician.


　I've always felt a pang of unforgiveness towards my father for causing my mother's death in The Great Raid, and that's a part of my unspoken truth.


I'm a stranger and I don't have parents. I don't think it's right for me to say that I'm a stranger and I don't have my parents here, but ...... I think you should listen to your father a little bit.

'You're very kind, Master Fricke: ....... But I've done it that way before, so it's not a problem.

Is that how it works?

Yes, that's the kind of relationship we have with our father and daughter, so don't worry.


　In reality, as the daughter of a frontier county family, she should have to do a lot of extra things, such as etiquette and court etiquette.

　However, although she is fussy about the opposite s*x, she does not interfere in other matters at all.

　So, although I have some thoughts about my mother's case, I am grateful to your father.


'Well, ...... I'm sorry for interrupting you in an unnecessary way. Forget what I said.

No, thank you for your advice. Some of the men at home were getting tired of me and my relationship with you. ......


　There was already no one in the house who would complain about the way I had been dealing with your father who had spoken out about the opposite s*x for so many years.

　That response has become the norm in my family.

　Starting with Knight Captain Mais, your father's vassals, including the Knight Captain Mais, were in an atmosphere where they would not talk about their family affairs.


'Yeah, it seems that Mais-san and the knights in his escort were also concerned about it. I was a bit curious too, so I interrupted them, but if it's not a problem, just listen to them.


　Lately, I've been getting more small talk, especially from your father, because I've been working with Master Flick.

　It's true that we've been spending more and more time together in magical practices and lectures.


　I'll admit that Master Flick is an attractive man, but I've never forgotten how badly I treated him during our first meeting.

　So there is no chance of anything happening that would concern your father ...... maybe.


'Thank you for your concern,'

No, I'm sorry to interfere in your family affairs. That's right, no sign of the enemy. Just to give you an idea, if you put a sanctuary over the entire camp, you can at least prevent a surprise attack, right?


　While I was absentmindedly thinking, he had finished scouting the surroundings.

　He asked me if I should put up a sanctuary, a wide area protective wall magic to protect the camp from a surprise attack by demons, over the entire camp, which is quite large.


''That would be too large and consume too much magic power ......


　Basically, a sanctuary (sanctuary) that consumes a lot of magic power will run out of magic power for ordinary sorcerers just by stretching it around the tent.

　I, too, can't help but feel that the magic power is about to run out in the range proposed by Flick-sama.

　However, Flick-sama doesn't seem to run out of magic, even if it's just that large.


I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that," he said, "but I have a feeling that Flick-sama will be able to do it. And the wider the area, the more time we have to intercept them after they break through. And since we won't be investigating any more today, we'll be able to recover our magic power. Shall we try it?

'Agreed. I only used this magic once when Noelia taught me about it, so I wanted to try to use it as much as possible so I wouldn't forget it.


　Once Master Flick learned how to regulate the power of attack magic, he was learning magic at an amazingly fast rate.

　In about half a month, I had finished teaching him most of the offensive magic I had been taught by an experienced magician, and I was now teaching him supportive magic.


　His understanding of magic effects is astounding.

　Once you show it to him and explain it to him, he will activate it.


　Such a thing would not be possible for a magician who had received normal instruction.

　Because, ''Why does it happen?'' This is because he often fails to imagine and fix the right effect, because the question arises.


　But he's imagining and immobilizing the effect as I described it.

　He can learn it so quickly that when I asked him how he could fixate it so quickly, he gave me a straightforward answer, 'Because that's the kind of effect you're talking about'.


　He is not familiar with magic, so he has a 'why?' for magic effects. Apparently there is no question of

　magic is like that, so he imagined and fixed the effect as I said it would be and activated it.


　I had to admit that it was a genius to be able to reliably invoke magic with just that.

　They say that magic is imagination, but watching him made me think that magic might be a creative force, creating the effects I envisioned.


I will create a space of tranquility and peace in this place. Sanctuary.


　When he activated his magic, the entire camp was wrapped in a thin membrane.

　This would give him some time to buy some time to break through if the demons were to surprise him.


''Is your magic power okay?''

'Yeah, I'm still quite comfortable with the experience: ......


　As expected, his magic power is so much greater than mine.

　He was even a skilled swordsman that your father would approve of, but he was a genius at learning magic, and he also had a ridiculous amount of magic power.


　He's still amazing .......

　With him, ...... is the path I lost through my own stupidity.


　The more I admired him, the more I was going to be devastated by the foolishness I had done.


'Noelia, what's wrong with you?　It's time to get back to the tent. Are you feeling bad today?


　I was in a daze again when Master Fricke called out to me.


'Sorry, I wasn't thinking straight.

Are you nervous about visiting your mother's grave for the first time?


　Master Frick looked at me with a worried look on his face.


'No, that's not what I meant. Now, let's go back to the tent.


　I tightened my expression so that he wouldn't realize our concerns, and decided to return to the tent with him.