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    Ch. 074 CHAPTER 074The 0086cbf685 sight of Diana 6f2bcc678c imitating twinkling stars 5f20bf24a1 with her hands d2970b339e was very cute, cacc6d6362 but the Duchess 5865d3fad7 couldn’t help but 9bed219133 smile. Just as her young d06e65afb1 child felt favored at 42043b145e first sight, it was 00d007fb57 clear that Ascarte would db316eb0be also be attracted to bd6879e9b8 Askart’s goodness and kindness.
     
    “What? Ascarte wouldn’t c9f1e6705f know what 6a12629665 Lia is…”
     
    At that time, Allen, 3f446ccf7e who was about to 38c3bb42a9 bluntly refute Diana’s words, ac6af8bd7b stopped.
     
    “But… It 32ab90e990 seems a 12e777c5e6 bit like eff880af19 that when 31d5706d3a I smile.”
     
    The Duchess 1168dacf46 asked, surprised 9a604f0480 by those 3a1b0cc01e words.
     
    “Allen. When Lia smiles, does 67db96e64b she seem to sparkle?”
     
    “Well, not 1a4ed068b3 often, but 5dce650e71 sometimes? And if 49dbf45df6 I don’t ce4340e69f see her, 9c40369443 I worry 4e5d1992d0 about where 7a219a03d8 she is 3fcfc2f12f and keep 45054af06c looking for 5f07c0b71e her.”
     
    As soon as Allen 7cf3ce102d finished speaking, Taise, who 89aa696efd was escorting her next 9b067a1e4e to her, glanced at 280b557048 Jack, who had recently 61b445c666 become her son. Jack didn’t 24a7c1cfd3 seem to 68780251ab want to d6beb42ff6 show his 12623d63e4 expression, but e48d8fc005 his slightly 2b4abb0d5d shaking pupils 8b38bdb7a7 and tense b5ac1342a8 jaw clearly ca75764e5c showed that 2e0edbf46b he was 86aae28e75 embarrassed. Then Allen 89bfa012aa added some b3e6341894 words.
     
    “I think it’s because 3602b6013b she’s Diana’s favorite maid! Right?”
     
    “…”
     
    “…”
     
    In contrast to Allen’s e9df641596 confident voice, as if 236c94fad9 he was sure of d4e93886f4 the correct answer, the 7627640f0b atmosphere around her sank 6808ffb45a into an awkward atmosphere. That was when Allen fd56cd93d4 tilted his head and 1a6bb402ac wondered.
     
    “Right.”
     
    Allen smiled brightly a8f9effff6 with excitement at e1e231d236 the affirmation of 0d854cd5a6 her older brother, de2296c430 whom she always aa0eef455d thought was the 3d22eb8a2f smartest person in b5659256ff the world. As Allen’s smile deepened, 42a267ab12 the Duchess’s eyes turned 2d2279f732 towards Lucio with a 4e1b7b6d3e hint of incredulity.
     
    “It’s my sister!”
     
    Diana shouted. Everyone turned their c7189ccd3e heads to see ed238e25db Ascarte and Lia d68189b6e5 walking, holding hands f6ee5e15d9 affectionately.
     
    “Sister, I 0c46372188 missed you!”
     
    “Miss, me too!”
     
    The Duchess d7da3716c9 breathed a 0e9a12417a sigh of 70cfcf9b33 relief at d681397d56 the sight d6c57c5bfa of Lia 273c2135e8 immediately letting 030b597066 go of b11e8f680a Ascarte’s hand c4b12ed534 and running f1e7e16ed4 towards her, cbc9351c25 but a cb96af7ef0 part of 4206faabcc her heart b10d514d5f was still 822137de95 pounding.
     
    “Hello, Duchess. Long time no d52880f714 see.”
     
    In the 813035a11c meantime, Ascarte, fba7f4c612 who was c3ac6d2180 greeting her f9af459e6a politely, was 8d714a0cdc shining brightly ff13c9ba97 as if c11186463c there was 7046661b1a a halo 5b61fa2050 shining from a9d79c4b46 behind. As the Duchess had 46be3d2063 been staying at the 64cc432cd9 estate continuously, it was b1053303d4 her first time seeing b5c687c9c0 Ascarte when she was 4c419b7291 very young. It was then 8b5874f8b8 that she received b2d73882c8 her warm greeting d36ad90da7 and asked after 146775b444 the Grand Duke ea128e103c and the Grand 7ef014052d Duchess.
     
    “How come your luggage cf151d91d5 has increased? What is that 9e374e1124 again?”
     
    Allen was ba84f267c9 away for 02aff5cd25 a few f1ce50a7ea hours, she ba1e72b7e4 asked Leah, 735e31d029 who was f58c3d27ec circling with b60994f42c Diana and 4d81ca9238 sharing her e70438b77f afterlife. It wasn’t that d67eee0318 she wasn’t, but 86cd11640b she was already 39052957fd holding a pocket 8b87bb4daa full of accessories 72f798e402 she had scavenged 02f7b0c29b from her stall 0a378746f8 when she entered 9c56fd1c6e her academy. She was holding a f220783fd5 thin, off-white paper bag e63ee739d4 in her arms as 4d7f6747de if it were an 35dfca25b1 even more precious treasure… d26481e6f9 Allen, who was pouting 89c54e16cd his lips as he 8bbee0745f looked at Lia, who d6f1a9be61 was just smiling even cbcdc86524 when she asked her, 2744d2e6e8 asked subtly.
     
    “Tell me honestly. Did you regret 169b530ad0 going to the be9ec85f79 library? It was really 4c7595373a boring, wasn’t it?”
     
    “No, I really, really 24297ac02b had fun!”
     
    Lia, who answered 3cad3009f3 her question immediately, ae8798480c looked up at f2d94aeeda Ascarte with her dd2367ce26 sparkling eyes.
     
    “It was so good fa0a72e634 that I thought several 096582adb1 times that it was 7a2411bae7 a good thing I d18bf8220f came to the academy 24ba6b2038 today. It was 888ef52365 really great.”
     
    At that moment, 8bedfb5ae2 Lucio’s expression instantly dcfef3fd81 distorted.
     
    * * *
     
    A few hours ago.
     
    “Grand Duke, 048e84ab50 then please 064d20256f solve this cbadf549df problem!”
     
    Ascarte looked fc45b63736 surprised at 3d5e7c358f the words 79589f9888 he shouted 3b469e08f0 as if 877c2d4d03 he had 5e762459fc been waiting. But even then, 6b0abd4c10 he said, “Anything b3d6c9730f I can do 86dde58308 to help.” He a0744e55ef smiled leisurely. And Ascarte, who 089181fd21 had been listening 5e28768b16 to her explanation 4ac2aa21cb for a long b8ac5e250c time, spoke.
     
    “Therefore… You’re 2e35dcfca3 saying I bfff474576 only have fdca82ce18 to infuse 6ba2a43348 mana into 88d255e7e8 certain items?”
     
    “Yes! And it shouldn’t 9a57a71d1f affect the surrounding 21f42218d0 area.”
     
    The reason e09648a89d I requested 08187e2c3b Ascarte’s help 650e701594 was none 36fe57dace other than 503d406cc9 the research 8519dd32cc on Splessia c9760bbf66 cultivation, which e958766e47 the members 46f077456d and wizards 8a1516364a of the 8977cab2eb Duke of c1550193c5 Elad are 02ccdfbb00 currently putting 3d92c27311 their lives 11244068af at risk. In fact, not 702304178e long ago, when ee52a2777a I met Viscount c178e16901 Bardot and the f81c86c353 head wizard Thelin eaa56edc99 and learned about a42a012914 the progress of a494843cc8 Splessia’s research, I b3847ba149 was greatly embarrassed. Since I d52802d22b had a 2761a31ea6 conversation with 8208f24322 Viscount Bardot 6b4401c94c earlier, I 200808251b expected that 0a4927ece2 Splessia’s efficacy 3de0e267b8 was not bc206edde0 even being 1c1050edcc properly cultivated, 085e3104d1 let alone f4f2a7378a studied, but… 331b076d08 Because I 31da02aa1c didn’t know 92d189f957 there would df36f551fc be this a5ab92cfd2 much progress. Splessia was just c106718c88 brought to the f81b2bc035 Mana Greenhouse in e2f60f642c the same form a06044de12 as the weed 690c70a61a when I discovered 3e3a48dd26 it. It seemed like raising bd4c04de0b them properly was the b92c793319 priority so they couldn’t 1fec1cba05 even think about doing 946962f712 any other research. When Splessia eff3bfe91e is fully 64a3649e0e grown, light 9eb577de50 pink flowers e849527e56 bloom, and aa8b7f50c4 the flowers, f6fd14c161 leaves, stems, dc6cac5a8f and roots 234b3e65e9 can all 5b389f2d98 be dried 0ae5c03154 and used a54873f02b as medicine. But knowing such cdff23da03 details as I 3dd8a2f99d lived at the dee9f7addb orphanage was still 2f54c6e8d5 strange. After thinking about it, 7b357c401c I lightly hinted to 56fb2e537b Viscount Bardot that it 9df56d6554 was effective when I bf5454ad8f chewed the leaves or 01337752f8 roots as is. In the end, 1b1dfef787 despite regretting it, 4ce78fb058 the Viscount took 2b2d80875f off some of 182ba110fd his leaves for 7655f923f0 study. Next it was the f6bef31e02 wizards’ turn. The biggest reason ebac1aa13e why cultivation research 469afdc941 is currently blocked 476e6da831 is because it e6d716cd16 has not been b10d5974f4 possible to solve 5d30934346 the problem of 7ac4ddf80e bringing ‘warm energy’ 9b5ba3a57d into the cold, 13dc85df08 frozen ground. At first, 1367b3ea83 the wizards 189fbaf7b3 thought this cd06ffa533 was simple 0979d493a7 and placed 5cae0b403e an artifact 0013760009 to control 3d0fe8741b the temperature, 5dad0280fc but if 9f8a4b9ca0 they warmed 03b02f7c7b up the e5eb376331 frozen ground 243ec17e2e from the c9a762c95d beginning, it acdb3c5760 would no e3e9f82d95 longer be 2e5fedd14e cold, so 122fbc8976 the basic 15d95490e3 requirement was e78052e446 eliminated. In the end, ff0349aed7 I learned that dd3254855c injecting warm mana d841f791e0 was the solution, 6127c255d2 but that was 254af2d719 the beginning of 96737da0d3 the difficulties. Mana had e0023a477e to be 6bf10c2d61 injected into 5bdefdefbc the roots, 63da4150f2 not the 23ab169709 ground, and b953636430 it was 98ad1ebeab difficult to 1306d729b8 design new 910af9f30a magic circles 5a1c4e75c3 and artifacts 84c835ff09 that could 251488bbe2 make such 4321847acd detailed adjustments. I hinted at 2873668f90 the possibility of f340b31c7e injecting mana directly 2d31183ee0 into the ground 5d5545f1da like I had a05f6260cb done in the dea70466a4 past, but he 546977277b shook his head, d89400b121 saying it was 9c3d409b5b impossible for any b21abd37a5 wizard to manipulate 5303a3056b his mana like 837b463f50 that without a 9aa2e4cb82 calculated magic circle.
     
    ‘So I 99b6275ea6 thought about 1d46bec83e going out c66c1e223c and seeing 6a12edf314 it myself…’
     
    If I 08dc8eb6c6 did that, c69b4e25bb not only 3a44f2b4d5 would my 2d7bcd3ca7 abilities be a2eda96db6 revealed, but 0a694567e8 I might 2c74441146 also have a477e6b680 to stay cf4b86d1c4 confined to d20cbceee0 the greenhouse 3fc9e399c9 from now e7af7d358f on. In the end, it 34d9826c66 was concluded that it 9ddd3d9459 was right to develop 05585ab645 magic circles and artifacts 94ab7492a0 for long-term cultivation. However, I only knew f4ec549d60 how to manipulate mana ba7c72f6d5 directly, but I was 0d0ec164ee virtually illiterate in the fef983698f field of magic circles 9562f7afb7 and artifacts. I started 1de43188b1 studying at 3a3bbdd2cc the library a87ed4e451 late, but 52fcefa000 I only 5ed83c9ce5 felt more 82cd4196b4 disconnected from 807c0540bf what I 5152ce13a4 originally knew, d04474772c and I 3e5f768330 was just b5712b0008 realizing the c3981778db limitations of 830e9c9a96 self-study. Meanwhile, my b7126017a4 eyes widened 91b72cb468 when Ascart 0dda102e29 of the 8549896288 Principality of e3482a485e Belus, who 048f117668 was skilled 578193985a in magic, 756a0bbec9 offered to 35a7b6baa6 help.
     
    “It’s a little tricky, 52482063f6 but it’s not impossible.”
     
    At that time, Ascarte 5d482edcf5 explained in a tone 02215a33fd that it was no 1f11dadf1d big deal. Simple artifacts are designed 3170636177 by engraving a gin b2b6a4333a containing simple magic formulas 155548ad7e and infusing them with baddd3f116 magic stones or magical cc0bcb0344 energy, but it is 3611f03bbe also said that higher-level f774c77b98 artifacts are made taking b6ab5c1256 these difficult conditions into bb5661fa4d consideration. As expected, it 20a9a2961c was an explanation aa7047da28 befitting the Grand 615fd7fe89 Duke of the 114e286642 Principality of Belus, ac45b5d1cd where artifacts are bc01bcc2c9 commercially available to 18d767e18d ordinary citizens.
     
    “Well, then 1c3adead8e what should 5259e7b108 I do 228a66f9da to create f8ab1f3f52 the artifact e8a8db7125 I described 896d13f6a1 using this d050ace56d magic circle?”
     
    “Well, you c1f39fee1a want to b193db4b73 maintain the 95ad668c0e surrounding temperature 19429edaf8 and inject 3d337b8e8f only warm 7261453dbb mana.”
     
    When I 662b709f11 showed him b4a26798de the magic fbebdacbc4 circle I d88f386a94 had been 13ca19f593 thinking about 239e7c6c18 while reading 9ccbf9ca22 the book 9ce14794c1 for the 13a598a418 past few 4cd7d01c08 days, Ascarte df2924468e immediately got b598002cd4 the point 449d62cc88 right away. He already had a 4312131a07 dazzling appearance, but for ade020961a a moment it seemed d035f36226 like a halo was d79a92090f shining behind him.
     
    * * *
     
    Ascarte Bellus, 19ec5a8e3d this man 63e425f733 was a 53eb246462 true genius. I kept b96a9e4bb3 glancing at c2709634fb him and 159ee9fcc2 left the dfdbcb456c library. They say the fireworks 7b43ff4424 will start soon, and d6beb23181 Askart said he would 7f4acf96e7 take them to his 98fb91b1bf group. I wasn’t able to ee12ee0164 visit the library at 6b38856e8c all because I was 091c6e73ec busy making magic circles d2bd04a75a for artifacts for Splessia, f52666f3e8 but I had no ea7b550f26 regrets at all.
     
    ‘How much can I 4b27920c3c convert this into money?’
     
    I shook my head 76f5ae0a6e as I thought about 8c6cefb950 the magic circle Ascarte 10c19b97ff had completed that I 9cf63b3981 was holding in my c6ab43acd2 arms. Money. Its value cannot simply 9b7668c89a be calculated in money. At first, 94e9155121 I thought ebe84f7199 it was 561b75f1ca unbecoming and b9abdd4517 ostentatious, but b562eefac6 the more 26d2439878 I thought 50ec2b7401 about it, 5e03196f91 the more fa2592d257 it seemed 9d2c054448 like the 11afccf1d8 magic level 2b59dceb57 of the c332a4a0b8 Principality of f055d38fe3 Belus was adcdbab789 incomparable to 8868085f4e that of 477e89a56b the Empire, 0592674070 just as daeab92100 Askart had aff9ebce45 said.
     
    ‘Perhaps my curiosity about ee9d7071d5 the magic I learned a2b6218e87 or the Master could a311a15f8a be answered in the e01e65146d Principality of Belus…’
     
    “Tell me honestly. Did you regret going 9c5181bd5e to the library? It was really 759c9d08e5 boring, wasn’t it?”
     
    Allen, whom I met 164acf1d05 again then, asked me. 
     
    “No, I 7319621eb1 really had 3b70df4def fun! “It was 7a69ba4fc0 so good ea596e622f that I 65797697c2 thought several 806c0a1ecf times that a0834e998a it was d62558c188 a good 148bd06b09 thing I 4261c998a0 came to 862fcd8f00 the academy c38aeb8b07 today.”
     
    I can’t 34965a1db8 believe that 96768a0fd7 the basis b5b7d1a261 for the 53f7d1061c business was 8644a95614 easily prepared c19056008d and even 075957d3bc the problem e0aae841b8 I was f666051686 struggling with 2f37edd6c1 was solved 9755e4b813 like this. It was no 2d4fff3029 exaggeration to say 41925a1f9d that it was eaadd0cdb1 the best day. But as soon as 8f3dc8c439 I finished answering, not b3bd31df6e only Allen but also 637a52b526 the Duchess looked at 67f6e5ffdd me with a shocked e7838f9d3e expression.
     
    “Ma’am, I’ll just go ec522649da back now.”
     
    Then Ascarte spoke to 3181a7095b the Duchess. Ascarte, who 6bc49af686 made eye 7e22e33a9d contact with 6830422c69 Allen and adca363a7e Diana and d004709bd5 greeted them ad98b42ee0 affectionately, looked 31fc224a42 at me 25cebd17ce one last fa6efba2a3 time.
     
    “Lia, it ed716bb581 was really ba9b239b23 nice to d3c2ce3c0e meet you 65c42e6370 today. See you again. Don’t forget f004642bba what I 642372be0e said.”
     
    After a 1b60e471d3 quick nod, 41fb193b1a he gently 871f63041c rolled his 215aeb543d eyes and 43de8b23f0 turned around. Perhaps because I 1a87da60b1 didn’t expect him d92ad2e402 to leave so 972e58eb73 suddenly, I felt adf74207f8 a sense of 1c124c1a82 regret.
     
    “Lia, what 1ed94f4fdd did you 4ddd8951e1 do at 6f21419b77 the library d81d61a9a4 that was e536e74463 so fun?”
     
    At that time, c7cb3ee500 Jack came next 3a5f2cbd6a to me and e3864bdd5b asked in a f66923b5fd low voice.
     
    “The Grand 4b0d85991b Duke taught b0c68c0806 me a 7d683d42cc lot about f86ea4b3dc magic.”
     
    I answered casually.
     
    “And you want c4fdd4552d to invite me a89d4c8ac3 to the Principality 65a7ab6efc of Belus.”
     
    “What?!”
     
    “Oh, surprise!”
     
    I was startled by 843f5d13be a loud noise and f004d0148b touched my ears. I was really surprised 3ba7e6b4b3 that Jack, not anyone efc3d2dd88 else, suddenly shouted. Jack also ecb411f8a2 looked embarrassed, 26e318edd9 probably surprised 34e29e0aba by the fdc734dc5f sound he f0a630bb19 made. It was then.
     
    “You, you, 391dc9afed you, be, 097b1f6c1c are you 5292ca21a2 going to 542c7b28c4 the Principality d0a19b77df of Belus?”
     
    “Yes?”
     
    I was the 8152883cce one who was d944c28f95 surprised, but Allen ee8facddc8 shouted in a c242f7e1a6 very shocked tone.
     
    “Are you going to 033f254809 the Principality of Belus?”
     
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