Battle for the Sage’s Seal (3)
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[Status Abnormality: Exhaustion]
High fever due to overwork, indigestion, chronic fatigue, migraine headache, periodic coma, shortness of breath, blurred vision, magic maladaptation, and muscle relaxation.
Get plenty of rest to get out of the abnormal state!
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I am well aware that there are limits to the human body.
It’s good to work hard to survive and train until the day you graduate, but you know that it’s meaningless if you don’t take care of your health.
So, I constantly checked my body condition, tried to live as regularly as possible, and tried to eat a variety of nutrients. However, the fact that the absolute amount of labor was large was unavoidable.
It is said that the symptoms of overwork are very individual, but I did not know that fatigue would come in so quickly like a tide. He seemed to have passed out before he even tried to calm himself down, so he couldn’t even resist.
In our lifetime, we all experience a high fever that is hard to bear.
When you lie down moaning, it’s hard to breathe even when you’re not doing anything.
Even if he tries to control his hazy mind, he gets caught up in the feeling of floating in outer space again.
You come to your senses and then you lose, and you lose your mind and then you come back to your senses.
When my vision returns for a moment and I look at the landscape with blurry eyes, I feel as if Yenika or Lortel, who has a seriously hardened face, are talking to each other.
Even then, if you lose your mind again and fall into a hazy world, memories of the past come to mind.
I remember when I was playing Sylvania’s Failed Sword Castle, Act 2, Chapter 10, The Battle for the Sage’s Seal and the Battle for Glast.
The final chapter of Act 2, which got caught up in Taylor’s position… obviously begins when Professor Glast kidnaps Taylor’s companion, Isla.
The story of the final chapter, which I blankly watched on the screen, is chewed in my vague mind.
A rare scholar who was gifted with academic talent more than anyone in history, and has made magical progress dozens of times that no one can easily achieve. Its name is Sylvania the Great Sage.
I clearly remember Glast’s story of trying to resurrect Sylvania by studying the power of the Aspect Magic to twist and break the providence of the world.
It was a story of a madman who tried to open up the era of progress once again by injecting the spirit of Sylvania into Ayla’s body, who was born with the talent of a scholar.
A person who fails to achieve his dream in the end and dies by falling from the top of the magic tower he has embodied.
What the heck is his academia, what is the progress of the times… Why did he make such a ridiculous choice, throwing away his research ethics and his career? Even among the players at the time, there were many question marks about Glast’s actions.
Well, if it could be understood so easily, it wouldn’t have been possible to call it a madman’s narrative.
Above all, the will he had made before falling from the top of the magic tower, who had all his plans thwarted, was a bit out of place.
The last line he uttered before he died, who dreamed of progress in academics and the progress of the times, and devoted his life only to discovering talented people.
At the top of the magic tower embodied by Holy Spirit magic, spreading both arms, discussing the world, and finally dying just before he died, the will…
“Zzz…”
The eyelids fluttered and went up. It’s like telling me it’s time to wake up, regardless of my will.
The whole body is heavy, especially in the lower abdomen. Asking what this piece of meat covering the lower abdomen was, I found it difficult to raise her upper body to find a girl lying on her stomach with a witch hat the size of her head on her face.
“…”
“Umm… too salty… salt… a little…”
How can this bastard be so sarcastic about his sleep talk???
As usual, I lifted the whole thing up and threw it away, so I gave my arm strength, but somehow Lucy couldn’t hear it.
Lucy is as light as the exterior. To the extent that I wonder if this is even a human… It’s so loud that it’s loud enough to be lifted up.
Lucy seems to be in the same state as usual, so the reason I can’t lift Lucy is probably because of my physical condition.
completely debilitated There was a lot of work to do, but my body was pressed to the limit. I took a deep breath and lay down again.
The scenery is familiar. It’s my hut, and seeing that this blanket is new… it’s probably the equipment of Elte. I don’t know exactly what happened, but I’m guessing.
Yenika and Lortel, who were making a fuss, were drawn without difficulty.
“Umm…”
Perhaps in response to my movements, Lucy opened her blank eyes.
Then, after rubbing her puffy eyes a few times, she sat down on my lower belly and raised her upper body to meet my eyes.
Then, after staring into the air with a blank face, the words he uttered…
“…I’m hungry.”
“Aren’t you really talking about eating and sleeping?”
“congratulation. I’m sober.”
Then, he swung his hand in the air to roll up the surplus sleeve, and put his index finger under my chin and pressed it down.
Then, in a low voice, as if in a whisper, he continued to speak slowly.
“The magic was very twisted. This is what happened after forcibly training mana, mastering spirits, and not resting the body, repeating it for several months.”
“…”
“The flow of magic power goes away little by little while you are asleep, and it is re-established so that you can efficiently rotate your body again by taking advantage of that gap. Didn’t you learn that in magic science class? This is what happens because I practice my magic to the limit right before I go to sleep, and then sleep for a while, as if I were sleeping.”
“You, in class, only sleep every day, and secretly know everything about the class.”
“I just don’t listen because I know everything.”
Around Lucy’s finger, which was holding my chin, a flow of magic began to swirl.
Lucy just stood still with a blank expression on her face as if it was nothing special, but then the collar and brim of her hat started to flutter.
“I was holding down the pressure so that the magic flow wouldn’t be further twisted. It seems to be getting better now.”
“Did you keep doing this while I was sleeping?”
“It’s not that difficult, but I fell asleep a few times because I was so bored.”
It feels like the refreshing sensation of the body is spreading again around Lucy’s fingers. While I was fainting, I felt as if my body had returned intermittently, but it must have been Lucy’s merit.
“I saw it too.”
“sense?”
“Umm… there are people who keep an eye on you when you’re next to me. it’s annoying Well, they didn’t say anything because it was necessary.”
A feeling of comfort seeped through my body again, and I felt more comfortable. Take a slow, deep breath, and now you feel your body regain some strength.
“There is no direct answer to physical decline other than taking a break, but the magical part must have been somewhat resolved.”
“hey.”
When I openly call Lucy, Lucy looks down at me with an expressionless expression on her face.
The light gray eyes are like Myeonggyeong Jisoo, who doesn’t really move, and that dry feeling made me more comfortable.
“…thank you.”
“Do not hurt. It’s hard when you’re sick. Some people get sick and die.”
That line, if you know about Lucy Meiryl’s past, you can’t easily listen to it.
Archmage Glockt gave her the blessing of the stars.
Rainy night.
Lucy was watching right next to him as Gloct, who was like his grandfather, was lying in bed and dying.
I don’t know how many days I had been in a coma, but it was clear that it wasn’t a short time.
Considering the fact that I was holding down my twisted magic all the time… It must have been a hardship that she couldn’t easily overcome to have someone around her get sick.
Even if he is a jerky thief, a stray cat who breaks into the house whenever he has time, and behaves as he pleases… And even if he doesn’t change his expression at all, he can’t really understand what’s inside…
As a result, I had no choice but to say thank you.
– Kick.
“Oh, senpai. You’re sober. I don’t know if it’s okay to use the hut stove, so let’s start a fire outside…”
At that moment, the door to the hut opened and an unexpected human entered.
Ziggs Eiffel Stein, who came in with a lively greeting, wiping his long hair hanging down to the neck, stiffened for a moment.
Lucy, who had climbed on my belly and pressed her chin, quickly turned her head to look at Ziggs.
He stood still with no change in his expression on his dazed face, then grabbed his hat and swished it away in an instant. Only the afterimage of the wind that remained for a while was proof that the lazy genius had been here before.
“…”
Ziggs ruffled his bangs once, then came in with a look of disbelief and sat cross-legged on a wooden chair.
“Senior, how many people are there… Ha, really. It would not have been unusual for a strong male to have several females.”
“…”
“Is this… the sense of openness of civilization… Maybe I was looking at civilization with a very stereotypical view…”
If you leave it as it is, and if Ziggs moves around with several women, Elka will foam up.
I had to clear up the misunderstanding first.
*
“Yenika-senpai has a lot of sickness at the beginning of the semester, but if she misses more classes, she is in a dangerous situation. Lortel procrastinated and procrastinated, and then went to the living quarters because he couldn’t put it off any longer.”
“okay. But how did you end up taking care of me in the hut?”
“Lortel came and asked. But I’m a bit blunt about delicate tasks like nursing. Women are more dexterous and delicate than men, aren’t they? So, I asked a woman like Elka, Anise, or Clara to ask for a favor, but I never risked my life to sing a song saying no, so this is how it came to be.”
Ziggs scooped out the crude soup from the pot and handed it to me.
Still, the bowl and spoon were strong enough to lift, so I took a bite. It wasn’t very tasty.
It felt like it was made by hitting all these and other materials with crude skills.
“At first, you said that your college life is My Way. I don’t know many people with seniors, and I came to me because I was looking for someone to cooperate with.”
“okay. It must have been annoying, but thank you.”
“Is there anything? I’m just going to rest and train in my room, just what I did here at camp. Seniors, please take good care of yourself. At first, when I saw Yenika-senpai’s face, I thought she was coming to a funeral.”
Ziggs took a deep breath and tapped the fire with a poker.
“Well, you don’t have a chronic illness, you’re just overdoing it, so there won’t be any fuss. Just take a few days off and you’ll get better. You won’t be feeling well for a while, so let’s just take this opportunity to take a break from class.”
“okay. I’ve been taking care of my body a bit too easy. It’s okay, I feel bad because it seems like I’m only causing concern to the people around me.”
“Well, it’s something I love to do, so there’s no need to worry too much about it. You can focus on recovering your health or your mind.”
To be honest, the soup was tasteless, but as Ziggs said, I had to push even a little more nutrients into my body, so I forced the spoon to keep moving.
In the meantime, it would be good to check the things that need to be checked.
“Come to think of it… I heard that the students of the Pensions Department had an accident while secretly mass-producing Mandragora.”
“Ah, Elvira, that naughty bastard… Eventually, Taylor and Clevius got it done before it got too big. The work didn’t go all the way to the bachelor’s degree.”
Act 2, Chapter 5, ‘Explore the Society of Pensioners,’ seems to have ended well.
“I heard rumors that a monster treated by the Telos Church had sneaked into the Bachelor’s Underground Waterway.”
“It was taken care of by me and Taylor. Ayla accidentally dropped the pendant into the underground waterway and went in to find it, but accidentally met a monster and took care of it. But have there been such rumors?”
The episode 2, Chapter 7, ‘The Devil in the Underground Waterway’ seems to have passed without any problems.
At that time, I could infer that these incidents must have been resolved due to the rumors or external changes in the situation… But I was relieved to hear it directly from the person concerned.
Then, I wondered if the only big thing left was the battle for the sage’s seal.
As I got to this point, I suddenly remembered that I hadn’t checked the facts that I should have checked first.
“By the way, how many days have I been in a coma?”
I thought it would be about a day or two, so I lightly asked a question,
Ziggs gave an answer so lightly that he wondered if this was okay.
“Today is the tenth day. When I see you all awake, you will fall asleep.”
“What?”
“Still, I won’t be able to see your face today. Yenika-senpai has to be in the bachelor’s at this time, and Lortel… has an important negotiation to prepare for tomorrow. ”
Negotiation for the purchase of the Sage’s Seal.
That would be tomorrow.
I held my breath for a while.
A proper understanding of the situation has not yet been completed.
I have no way of knowing how the plates went while I was in a coma.
“Hey, Ziggs. Can you speak to Lortel?”
“Yes? Are you in a hurry?”
“Yeah… that might sound a bit odd…”
If we had enough time, we would consider everything and try to come up with a stable method as much as possible.
“That… I… have something I want to have. With that one thing… I think I can grant any request… really anything…”
“…suddenly?”
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convening of the negotiating party.
luncheon.
Check the status of the sage’s seal.
Confirm the purchase method.
Each person writes their respective bids (呼價) on parchment paper and collects them, and the person with the highest price buys them.
‘Sensitors’ transfer work in progress.
disbanded thereafter.
After reading all the papers on the sage’s purchase of the sage’s letter, the report on the order of progress, the paper in Princess Fenia’s hand was burned and disappeared.
In any case, the fact that the sage’s seal is being sold is not something we want to make public yet.
“…”
Princess Fenia asked the bachelor to allow her to participate in the negotiations as an observer.
There was no need for the princess to join the purchase negotiations between groups that had nothing to do with the imperial family, but as it was the royal family’s request, the bachelor’s degree was accepted. It was created when a cause was created.
After all, negotiations in which this amount of money came and went were often accompanied by the observation of a witness with public credibility. As much as he is an imperial family, his public confidence is as heavy as the weight of his bloodline.
The number of people participating in the negotiation to purchase the sage’s seal was not large. In the first place, there are not many groups that are willing to pay that much money.
In the end, the only places left are the Elte Sanghoe and the Roth Taylor family.
I imagined a fierce purchase negotiation between the two, but unexpectedly, the conclusion seemed to be instantaneous.
The young headmaster Obel Forsius came up with a pretty clever solution. It was meant to be sold at a price like an auction.
However, it does not disclose the appropriate line of the purchase price.
The Elte Company and the Roth Taylor family. When two bidders write their bids on paper and submit, they will sell to the one with the higher price.
“It’s likely to bid for… Crepin.”
That was the reason why Princess Fenia is now paying attention.
Basically, Elte Sanghoe is engaged in this negotiation with the concept of purchasing ‘products’ in order to make a greater profit.
However, the Roth Taylors seem to have a greater purpose and want to obtain the Sage’s Seal. If the purpose is not to make a profit, there is a possibility of calling a large sum of money.
Even if he loses in this purchase negotiation, he will be prepared to negotiate one more time with Elte Sanghoe, who has become the owner of Bongseo.
Of course, we don’t know what the fair price is, and we can’t spend a large sum haphazardly.
“You told me this way the day before. By now the Elte Company and the Roth Taylor family must have a headache.”
“Of course, Claire. If you let them know in advance, they can meet each other and negotiate how much to pay.”
In order for a bachelor to make a profit, he must indulge in the feeling that the company and his family are fighting an ‘unknown enemy’.
The pressure of not knowing how much your opponent will spend. You should not have a sense of how high you will have to raise it to stably get the bongseo.
“Hey, Principal Obell has done a little bit of brainstorming. You don’t want to drag the negotiations around and spread strange rumors, so it would be nice to end the bid so quickly. There is less chance of losing money. But… no matter how much I think about it, if it goes this way, Crepin will get the seal.”
It is unlikely that the Elte Chamber would give the sage’s seal of value more than necessary.
“Yeah, I’m worried…”
What the hell is Crepin trying to do after getting the Sage’s Seal?
I am also very anxious that there is no information about crepins. Even if we can only know what the unidentified housekeeper is acting… It seems that the situation will become clearer.
Unfortunately, Ed, who will serve as a clue, has also been in a coma for nearly ten days, so it feels like he is in a thick fog right now.
If you can’t ask Ed directly, why don’t you ask someone around him? I used to think like that.
Anyone who has been close to Ed may have heard of Ed’s inner story and behind-the-scenes words.
However, according to rumors, Ed was always reticent even during his bachelor’s life, focusing only on classes and practice, so his personal relationships were not very wide. It is said that he was always busy, and he seemed to be frantic trying to live faithfully day by day.
Princess Fenia still sighed as she sat on the corner of the bachelor’s bench.
“When I inquired about the bachelor’s degree, they said that the only people who could be close to Ed Roth-Taylor were the sophomore Elementalist Yenica Palerover.”
Claire, who was standing still next to him, made a mantra.
“I could try calling her, but I don’t know if I’ll get any meaningful information.”
“no. You don’t have to. I had already met him once while walking around the university.”
In Sylvania, if you don’t know the Chief Spirit Officer Yenica Palerover, you’re a spy.
They were involved once in the Glaskan case, but after that, Princess Fenia helped once during the disciplinary committee.
The girl with pink hair, who sent a heartfelt thank-you letter and came to the front of the royal residence to say thank you, was deeply impressed.
Seeing that girl who was loved by everyone and gave love to everyone… On the one hand, I thought I was envious.
It seems that flowers are blooming everywhere she walks. When I talk to her, everyone smiles brightly.
They all lived happily.
She was a girl who was like the main character of a fairy tale ending with such a comment.
“About a week ago, I was asked about Ed Roth-Taylor in a joint elemental science class.”
However, after Ed Horn.
Yenika, whom she met at the bachelor’s degree… was looking at Fenia with her cold eyes.
I don’t know what kind of change of heart there was.
As usual, it was Yenika who was playing with a bright and lively appearance as a bachelor, but she did not show a kind attitude towards Princess Fenia. He tried not to show it on the outside, but to Princess Fenia, he was clearly visible.
What could be said to be the cause… It was obvious in the end. It must have been the same with Lortel.
Even that innocent girl who loved all of the bachelors wasn’t on the side of Princess Fenia anyway.
At that fact, Princess Fenia took a deep breath.
The autumn sky was high and clear.
“anything?”
It was an insanely busy time. I wanted to go to the hut to see Ed’s condition at least once, but the pile of work piled up in the store was pressing Lortel’s shoulders.
Lortel, who had her hair tied to one side and took a deep breath, offered a cup of tea to an unexpected visitor.
“Anything, I didn’t know that Ed-senpai would say such a dangerous thing.”
“That’s what I mean, Lortel. Someone who knows your true nature.”
Ziggs, who was sitting on the reception sofa and drinking tea, sighed deeply at the same time.
Lortel, who was still crushed by the heavy workload, straightened her shoulders and let out that bewitching smile.
“Anything. You’re talking about doing anything for a merchant… you’ve made a mistake that doesn’t suit you, Ed.”
In the drawing room where darkness fell calmly, Lortel lowered the corners of her lips that were about to go up insidiously.
I wonder what the big joint is imagining… The laughter that leaked out even when he tried to stay still was quite terrifying to Ziggs, who was watching. The face that was worried about Ed, who had just stood up from his bed just a moment ago, was clear.
‘I’m so glad that Elka is pure.’
The civilized world was both incomprehensible and terrifying.
The time for negotiation comes.
Sadly, no one realized at this point that it was a boy lying in the hut who held all the keys.
Ziggs can’t even imagine 🤣