PROLOGUE

When Riftan Calyps entered the banquet hall, people who chattered like parrots shut
their mouths at once. In the mids of tension flowing in the int estine, the lord of Anatol streaked
acr oss the hall, exuding a terrifyingly ove rwhelming sense or pressure.
A complex mixture of intense curio sity, fear, and admiration was on the faces of the
ladies who were starig at his cold face. They half-covered their red, recalled faces wih fans and
meditated on something in each other’s ears, abd the men quietly held their breath in fear and
awe.
When he first entered Drakium castle, the nobles had no intention of tolerating that beast,
who dered to invade their territory. However, nowadays those who rejected him and insulted him
openly are in a position to buy themselves.
In a few years, Riftan Calyps rose to the forefront of Whedon, building a solid alliance
with the lords of the south, and is now expanding its territory to the west and north. No matter
how great the momentum, the eastern nobles who kept him in check until the end had also reised
their hands.
However, the Riftan were indifferent to their reaction. He left me and walked straight to
the arched door at the end of the hall, without paying attentionn to those who wandered around
looking for a chance to flatter or pound me. Then he stood by the door and said ain a dry voice
to the attention.
“I came to see Your Majesty. Raise the blue”
Upon receiving the instructions the attendant ran inti the room. After a while when
permission to come inside was granted, Riftan fluttered his red-broown cloak and headed into the
room. Ruben III, sitting comfortably on a vulvet chair, greeted him with a croked smile.
“It’s late. I don’t even need to be happy anymore. Is this it?”
Riftan cynically twisted his bid as he glanced over the heaps of congratulatory gifts piled
up next to his chair.
“even if I din’t help me, it seems that other vassals have built up the royal prestige
enough…”
” that doesn’t make your duty lighter”
 The king grumbled with an uneven face and chin-jaked toward the opposite seat as if to
sit down. As he sat down the weiter waited and quickly brought a glass of wine. Ruben firtts
scoped up the wie from my glass and spoke like a childsh childs.
“today is the last day of the event. I thought you weren’t coming, and I was about to give
up”
“I thought it would be better if I didn’t come”
In reply, Ruben raised one everybrow. Riftan looked down at the glass and added calmy.
“ I wanted to avoid meeting him as much asa possible. Shouldn’t there not be enough
bloodshed to celebrate the borth of King Se-son?”
The king shook his head at a bloody remark.
‘This is one. Didn’t all of the Duke’s teeth be pulled out of the Duke Crois so’s castl?”
He leaned againts the back of his chair and sighed.
“Hansn’t he broken his flag enough already? Your influence now threatens the Duke of
Croiso. On the other hand, the momentum of the Duke is not the same as a before. He was older,
he became more obssive and nervous. My health was also hurt a lot. It was unfortunate enough
to look at. You won’t admit it if you get a knife in your neck, but Duke Croiso is terribly afraid
of you. It’s not unreasonable considering the pressure you’ve put on him in the meantime.
Recenlty, you sent the Duke of Croiso a box with a neck as a gift, right”
“All were assassins from him?”
Riftan replied camly with a voice that excluded emotions.
“I just returned what I received”
“you are going to slowly dry his blood too kill him”
The king filled the glass again, with a deep smile around his mouth.
“I’d rather let you take your breath away two years ago, and it would have been a more
compassionate dicision for the Duke of Croisso”
The king’s sarcams, a challing flame fluttering over Riftan’s insensitive eyes. It wasn’t a
joke that could be tajen lighlty for Riftan, who had a stubborn repercussion for the roya;
detention of Anatol’s propaganda. As if he supperesed the simmering emotions, he squeezed the
glass and spit out violently.
“I din’t know your Majesty was so sorry for him. In the last decades, haven’t you been
mobilizing all sorts of tricks to defea the dominance of the duke? Even my wife, who had
returned from a big deal from the battlefield, used it as a weapo to hurt his pride. It that your
Majesty, now showing compassion to him?”
“Aren’t you going to leave it behind and push your luggage?”
The smile dissappared from king Ruben’s mouth. He stiffened his face and laid the glass
roughly to make a bang.
“Would Jim be relieved when he kneels in front of you?”
“there is only one thing I want from Your Majesty”
Riftan said as if chewing’
”don’t get in between me and the Duke of Croiso. I can’t stand it as much as your
Majesty’s willing to inteverne again with me”
“now, are you threatening me?”
“I ask you sincerely”
Ruben, staring at him with his beaked eyes, suddenly exhald a long singh.
“even if you don’t growl to be a seccond time that Jim getsstucks betweenn the two. I
don’t want to do such annoance anymore. if you sayyou’re going to war again or that you’re
going to have a trial and don’t bother with your luggage, I don’t inted to interfere with whatever
you do behind the scenes”
Then, after taking the wine at once, I looked at as iif searching for a cold face like a stone
statue of Riftan.
“But If you neglect your duty as a veteran because of your hostility toward the duke, the
history will change. You are now the lord of the southernn regions. If you neglect the royal
family, the loyalty of other nobles will also be shaken. Not to mention the ranks of knights
worshiping the incarnation of Uyghur.”
“… …”
“in the future, many will attach great significance to your words an actions. I am very
worried about what messagge your reluctance to appear in the celebration of the birth of King
Se-son will give the nobles”
“… You’re serious abaout having ine percecption”
Riftan cynically twisted his bid.
 “ I have no intention of truggling with the royal family. If tahts’s what you’re worried
about. I’ii take this opportunity to tell you. No matter how great my influence may be, I am Your
Majesty’s Veteran and a knight of yor own. Thiis fact will not change”
The king’s golden eyes stuck to his face tenaciously as if trying to read the inside out. For
a moment for the tense silence to flow, the king returned to a relaxed position and laughed dry.
“if so, let everyone know that. Show that you are sincerely congrutulationg the birt of
King Se-son.
“… I will try”
The king, who had raised one eyebrow, as if he did not like the profane answer, shook his
hand, kicking his tongue and shaking his hand.
“Good. I’ll go back.”
Riftan bowed his head to show his politeness and then walked out of the banquet hall
again. Then, the people who were making noise in the middle shut their mouths all at once.
Riftan disregarded those who glanced at him and stepped into the arched entrance on the left side
of the banquet hall.
In the circular hall covered with colorful patterned carpets, nobles dressed in silk and fur
were gathering together and chatting. Princess Agnes, who was leading the conversation at the
center, smiled brightly when she found him.
“You are here, Sir Calyps.”
“It’s been a while, Majesty Princess.”
After she pleaded with her relatives for patience, she approached him with graceful steps.
Riftan looked unfamiliarly at the princess in a frizzy dress, and then turned to the person
standing next to her. A young man with vivid golden eyes and a face resembling Agnes was
looking up at him with a curious glance. I was able to guess the identify of the young man
without having to hear the name. Riftan leaned lightly and took an example.
“Long time no see. His Majesty the Crown”
“It’s been a while, Sir Calyps”
The young prince opened one hand in a welcome sign.
“It’s the first time I saw it when I was younger? Thank you for coming this long way.”
“forgive me for not seeing you sooner. As a congratulatory gift, I brought four pieces of
Gunma from Rakashim. I hope you like your Majesty’s heart.”
 “In Laccasim?”
A bright smile hung on the crown of the prince’s mouth. Riftan looked down at the boy-
like young face with a strange glance. Elias Ruben, with a slender physique and smooth, marble-
like skin, looked so young and innocent that he could not think that he had just become the father
of a child. He exlaimed in a heated tone.
“what is the variety? What is the color of the fur? In the eyes of Lord Calyps, they must
be great guys, right?”
Agnes, standing next to him, shook his head as if it were absurd.
“You seem more delighted to be given a horse than Abel was born.”
“Abel is cute too. Because she looks like my mother, she is already beautiful.”
The price said in a tone that seemed to be proud of the puppy he had received as a gift
and smiled.
“But it’s too small to ride.”
“I can’t live”
The princess glanced at her younger brother and then turned her gaze back at Riftan.
“Thank you for coming like this. The child is in the room over there. Would you like to
meet?”
Riftan nooded slowly. The prince seemed to want to run to see the horse at once, but he
couldn’t overcome my sister’s dictation, and he took the lead and started walking.
He etered the room at the end of the hall and removed the thick veil from the entrance.
Then I saw Rosetal Ruben sitting on a bench with thick cushions and being served by the maids.
She lifted her head and looked at them with an indifferent glance. Dressed up in a rose-
colored dress elegantly, the silvery, pale blondes were gathere together and put up neatly, and the
Crown Princess looked absolutely noble and dignified. The Prince approached her and shouted
cherrfully.
“Rosetta, Sir Calyps, came to celebrate Abel’s birth.”
Princess’s serene turquoise eyes turned towards him. Riftan hardened her face as she left
her eyes wandering around me as if looking for someone. Rosetal’s lips smacked as if he was
trying to say something, but soon turned his head towards my husband to see if he had changed
his mind.
“Now I have barely fallen asleep. Evryone, please lower your voice.”
 Rosetal, who gave attention in a cold tone, received the newborn baby from the maid and
held it in her arms. Despite the cold attitude of his wife, the Crown Prince shrugged once and
smiled like a bad boy toward Riftan.
“Abel is like the devil when he is a wake. His voice is so loud, and when he grows up, he
must becom ea treamendous tyrant”
Then he leaned over and stared into the face of my son, who had slept. Contrary to light
words and actions, there was a deep affection in his gaze looking down at his young son. The
prince smiled happily, tickling the baby’s chubby chin.
A sigh of relief flowed out of Agnes’s mouth watcing him. My younger brother, who
reunited after a few years, had grown up to be the same as his father. Seeing that he hides his true
intentions behind the usual humorous attitude, and if he adopts such and attitude to Abel, he was
worried about himself, so he was relieved quite a bit.
‘It looks like he’s quite in love with Rosetal…’
Contrary to rumors that the relation ship between the Crown Prince and his wife was not
very good, the two seemed to have somehow anaged to be in a friendly relationship. Agnes
smiled as he watched them look good together like a painting.
At that moment, Riftan’s shady face stood at the entrance. Agnes, who tried to come
close to him and invite him to meet his nephew, suddenly held his breath. Riftan;s eyes, as he
looked at the Crown Orince, the Crown Prince, and their younger son from a distance, had a
sensational pain. It was as if their appreance became a dagger and even mumbled him. Agnes.
Amazed at the gruesome expression, reached out over his arm.
“Riftan, are you okay?”
The Riftan groaned and shook her hand. In a somewhat violent action, everyone’s eyes
flew towards them. Agnes smiled, as if nothing, and said softly to the Riftan.
“You look tired, Sir. You must have been exhausted from running a long way, but go to
the 20,000 room and take a break.”
Riftan lowered his eyes as if trying to hide his feelings and nodded slowly.
“It’s too late, so I’ll excuse me.”
As if sensing a strange atmosphere, the Crown prince nodded without saying anything.
Riftan leaned down lightly to express his politeness, then turned around and left the room. Agnes
quickly followed him.
 “Are you really okay?”
“What are you talking about?”
Riftan replied with a dry tone with his gaze in front. Agnes shut his mouth at that brisk
attitude. How long would it be to walk without saying anything like that, and when I reached the
uninhabited corridor, the princess spoke again.
“recently, it seems that there is an exchange between the world tower and he temple. I
don’t know exatly what’s being said, but it seems like they are exchanging information about the
monsters that have started to multiply again”
The Riftan stopped high. Agnes, looking at this stiff face, coutiosly spoke back.
“if the world tower and the temple begin to actively exchange, the restrictions on hhe
tower will also loosen. The you will be able to freely contact the trainees. If you want, I’ll tell
Maximilian sooner or later…”
“ di not be useless tempering”
The Riftan turned towars her and spit out violently, and she couldn’t say a word anymore
and shut her mouth thight. Riftan turned around and walked out the hallway. Agnes sighed
deeply at the stubborn appearance.
After Maximilian Calyps left for the world tower, Riftan began to focus on gaining
power. The means he mobilized to gain the loyalty of the southern lords was astounding.
The Riftan was intimidated by subtle political maneuvers, intimidation, and economic
pressure, and as a result, both the southern and western nobles were held in ine hand. With that
terrifyig momentum, the Draquim Palaces was swaying.
She bite her lips gently. It was datermined that he would abolish his antagonism by
sending Maximilian to the world towet to prevent the trial. However, he may have thought that it
would naturally soften over time.
Agnes threw his gaze at his back one last time, and then turned back without force.

Chapter 2
At the sound of a fierce knock, Maxraised Boot’s head. I was very tired because I had
reviewed the magic formula last night so that my eyes werebloody. She lay down like a pupa in a
blanket and procrastinated, then pulled up the thick curtain.
 The sharp sunlight pierced the retin a sharply. The sun was floating in the iddle of
nowhere, they vimited a grunt and rubbed their throbbing eyes, but the visitor knocked even
harder at the door, unable to bear the bird. She raised her body up and stutterd.
“now, wait a minnute!”
However, I din’t know that the raging sound would fade. Max took out the slippers from
under the bed, put it on and quickly opened the door. Then Miriam’s nerveous face came inti
view.
“ I warned you that if this damn beast crawled into my lab one more time, it would peel it
off?”
She growled and shook the back cat into the face, Max screamed as he felt his sleep
fleening.
“Roy!”
Miriam grabbed the cat’s back and raised her arm to avoid her hand and raised her arm to
avoid her hand. Roy womited a sharp cry, but the evil witch didn’t blink.
“there is no away. This time, you know how to stew this ugly bundle of hair!”
“oh, don’t do that!”
Max jumped to rescue his poor cat.
“Wolf…Give! Mo, don’t be pushy!”
“What about the damn thing that pushed me? Do you know what my lab is like?”
Miriam raised her claws and pressed her other hand firmly against her head. Max bluhsed
with insult. Miriam who is tall and has long limbs, used to photograph her like that every time.
Max lifted Miriam’s hand and started at her rebeliously.
“Mi, it’s because the fairy that Miriam raises keeps putting on Roy! those little flying
bugs put our Roy first…’
“So? Are you saying you did a good job that this bundle of hair an wild in my lab?”
At Miriam’s glaring gaze, Mc immadiently lowyerd his tail. She said sarcastically, with a
contemptuous expression”
“Isn’t it first to apologize first? Don’t you know how to say sorry for a noble lady?or, is
my lab nothing compared to s noble lady’s pet?”
In a bitter reprimand, Max blushed
 “Of mine.. I’m sorry for the damage caused by the cat. All, next tim, we will crack down
on never leaving the room secretly. Only once.. please look”
Miriam squeezed her thick lips as if she was about to swell moore, then kicked her
tongue and threw the cat into herr arms.
“This is the last tim. I know that if that terrible monster smacks my room one more time,
then I’ll really peel it off and turn it into slippers.
She shot her wildly, and then she blew her loose bangs and turned orround.
“Get rid of my lab right now!”
Then, strides away. Max looked down at Roy with a sigh as she looked away form behind
her. Roy with a sigh as she looked a way from behind her. Roy buried her head im her side.
Growling and shivering. She sat down on the bed, patting her soft fyr as if to appease her.
On the day she left Anatol, Roy hidin a bag of chlothes and finally came to the top of the
word. When I first found this cat on a boat. I don’t know how absurd it was. However , I was
delighted with in a strange place, but I din’t know that this guy would be like this. She touched
Rooy’s bak and said as if signhing.
“I… My sister said you shouldn’t go to that girl’s room. That wicked witch really eats
you and stays away.
The cat groaned saly with his ears drooping. Max , who was naging, made an impression
when he noticed that Roy’s tail hair was slightly scorched. When Roy was released, the curtains
were swept away, and a half-bent claps was rolling over the windowsill.
She sharpened her teeth. After all, Miriam’s Fairy must have sneaked n and lured Roy.
As I thought, I wanted to run right away and shoo him up to keep you or the family well, but I
almost heard ridicule or mocking in the opposite direction when I ran into it without vlear
evidance.
Eventually, Max exhaled a sigh of regisnation, roughly fixed the window with a fork and
started preparing to go out. We need to hurry ro clean up Mirim’s lab before going to class.
She simply washed her face with water in a basin, changed clothes, and tied her grabbed
a broom and a mop and tried to step outside, but suddenly a mirror stood by the desk came into
my eyes.
 Pale face, sulky eyes, and shabby clothes oozing tiredness… it looked like a young maid.
Looking at this figure, what would Riftan say? Max, wh stared at my face with dark eyes,
touched his neck uncosiously.
When I left Anatol, a small copper coin made into a necklace was caught in my
fingertips. A corner of my was stiff. When I remembered the Riftan fro some time ago, a sharp
pain followed. Max who was fiddling with the scorched and scorhed surface of the coin, bite his
lips and erased him from his mind. Without that, I couldn’t bear it.
She tightlly held her hearthh and waked out the door virgorusly. There was no time to
feel depressed. Even if you want to return to Anatol as soon as possible, you have do your best
every day.

***
The world tower consisted of a oal of live towers. In the center of the island. There was a
conical tower of Urd, the tower of fire Kabala in the west Undaim, the tower of water in the
south, Sigru, the tower of wind in the east, and the tower of the earth tower in the north, there
was.
In principle, non-property wizards could freely take any class they wanted form any
tower, bu it was literally just a nominal principle. Since most of the wizards have implicitly
decided on their own tower from he time they were trainees, it was not an atmosphere where they
could learn various magical properties freely as they thought,
Max sighed deeply, recalling his recent class at Kavala. The Wizards of each tower had a
strong sense of competition with each other, and in particular, the wizards of kabbalas and
gnome Halla were anxious to eat each others. That’s why Max feels he’s sitting on a from
cushion throughout the class.
‘I haven’t decided to become a wizard of gnome Hall yet…’
For some reason, she was alread being treated as a land property wizard. Max looked up
at the ower of the earth towering over the lush olive grove ad made a gloom expression.
Gnome hall was more like a giant fotress rather than a toower. The dinggycastle tower
was sppread wide to the siide as if someone pressed it down from above, and next to the wide
open arched iron gate, a oulley installed to go up to the high floors and a huge cage with a height
of about 6 kvets (about 180 cm). iit was laid.
 Countless iron chimneys protruding like fluff on the walls of the tower, all emanating
cloud like smoke. The were many other starnge devices in the dark castle tower.
Iron piper tangled of he towet, a clock work device that makes squeaks and grunts, large
and small pulleys used to transport objects, and a giant wind mill spinngingg round and round
from the top of the tower… Roy, who was in hher arms, began to wrestle as if he was looking att
the cluuttered and crude exterior.
“Oh, no. You hae to sticks with me for one day
She hugged the cat tightly to her chest to step. As I steepped across the forest patj wih
beautuifull I tressd at once and enterred the enterance to the tower the sound of a loud hammer
pierced my ears.
Perhaps frightened by the noise from all over the place, Roy struggling harder and
vomited a sharp cry. Max moved quickly, trying to appease Roy. I wanted to leave it ini may
room if possible, but Miriam won’t be there on the day Roy gets out of her way and has an
accident. Max muttered almost begging.
“I can’t help it until I put a fairy extinguishing device on the window. I’ll give you
something delicious later, so let’s be patient, huh?”
“whatt are you muttering alone?”
The moment she was about to enter the lab, a cheerful voice came from behind her back.
Max groaned and turned his head. Two boys with a tall, reddish round face, less than 5 kbet
(about 150 cm). were looking up at her from a distance, carriying large sacks on their shouldrers.
Max quickly hid the cat in his cloak and smiled awkwardhy.
“Ah, hi, Alec., Dean…”
The twin brothers off the umli tribe asked, tilting their hads at the same time. Max
stepped back a little and laughed baguely.
“that…”
Looking for a horse to look around in moderation, Roy jumped out of her cloak and ran
toward the door like a fleeting shot. Max urgently cried our Roy’s name. without pretending to
hear. The cat ran across the hall and out of the door at once, at that moment, annette Godric, who
had stapped into the tower after the twin brothers, snatched the back of the caat.
“Roy!”
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