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"What is Master Valerie talking to them about...? My voice is low and I can't hear it very well..."

Mayka was looking softly from the shadows.

Fearing the intruder's fearful power before him for once, he escaped.

But you can't just abandon your dear Valerie like this and leave her running.

If he's fighting the intruders, he's got to step up.

I came back with that thought.

From another entrance into the Sage compartment, hiding himself in the countless shelves on the right side of the room......

(Oh dear Valerie......)

Myka dyes her cheeks hot and stares at her beloved master.

Exactly unlike Myka and the other disciples, Valerie was tarnished even in front of the intruder.

No trembling in fear, no barometric pressure, it's grand.

(The enemy has the ability to be afraid... but if it's Valerie, he'll do something about it...)

He is the best wizard in the world and a part of a brave party that took on the Demon King.

It was also Valerie who created the Sacred Sword of the True Brave (Archweiss), held by the brave Yuno, in its secret secrets.

Admired.

Intensely.

Vibrant.

to its strength.

to that knowledge.

I want to be a wizard like Valerie one day.

The vision became a similar admiration to the heart of love while I was a mentor.

So Valerie invited me to the bedroom, and there was no disgust or humiliation at all when I was held.

There was only the joy required of an admired being.

I stretched out my hair more than before and tried to get closer by the look he preferred.

Nowadays, I am more confident than the other disciples that I am most in his favor.

The appearance, the interior, and even the maneuvers at the...

Myka thought of Valerie and kept polishing her.

"Oh dear Valerie...... let me see. Where you can defeat an unholy intruder with your help."

I lost my fear and ran away, but Valerie would be fine.

I'm sure you'll succeed and defeat that enemy.

What the hell is [Darkness]?

To my inquiry, Valerie was often silent,

"I'm still working on it, too. There is no definite answer. We also look around the ruins of prehistoric civilization (Remseria), which was much more familiar with [darkness] and [light] than we are..."

"Well, as far as I know."

"Simply put, something with enormous energy to sleep in a space different from this world."

Answer Valerie.

"Is it just energy? Is it some kind of willed superexistence? We haven't been able to pinpoint the area yet..."

Different spaces?

Huge amounts of energy sleeping there?

They were all the first stories I heard.

"Naturally. I figured it out on my own."

As you read my insides, Valerie gives me a good grin.

"The power of magic is also, in the end, just drawing on some of the power of [darkness] and [light]. Or maybe beings like God and the Devil are the embodiment of that... I can't say for sure either."

It was a magnificent story.

"I have continued my research into [darkness]. Only those with 'holy attributes' like brave men can manipulate [light]. But [Darkness] can also be used by me, the wizard. Theoretically."

Valerie spread her hands with a playful trick.

"Show up, the commandment of Remseria..."

The wall behind it cracks to the left and right.

What emerged was a magical formation colored in two colors: black and gold.

"Come on, now's the time to get it. Your [darkness]..."

The next moment, a black lightning bolt was released from the magic formation.

"Ku...!?"

Lightning intertwines all over me.

"This is..."

My whole body is heavy......!

Even a weak body was such a shock that it was likely to fall apart.

"Yikes...!?"

Shea is screaming next door.

If it's "Attack Against Me," whether it's physical or magical, it deals 9999 damage to everything.

Curse, poison, paralysis... everything else that harms me.

But is this...?

Doesn't "fixed damage" mean it doesn't work like "attack"?

The pain ran on my limbs.

[Fixed damage] doesn't work......?

It's a powerful spell that does 9999 damage and still doesn't extinguish its effects?

Can there be such a thing?

"No, or..."

"It is a magic device that interferes with the Remseria commandment - [darkness] itself. excavated from ancient ruins."

Valerie pointed to the magic formation behind it.

Speaking of which, only Yulin doesn't look the same.

[Darkness] only affects me and Shea, who was granted that power, or

"Seeing the battle of the disciples made me grasp your skills. [Annihilation] Systems or their evolutionary systems, I guess. Range is probably about ten meters. Your daughter used [amputation]. None of them are scared if they keep a certain distance. With this device from a safe position, I win."

"What the hell, that device..."

"Interfering in [darkness], something like that, right? Your source of power is [Darkness]. If you seal it, your skills will not be activated. You're just a human being - no, you've lost your magic and strength by the Chain of Darkness, you're the rest of us!

Valerie laughs like she won.

"Oh my...!

Shea tried to run out.

"[Acceleration]"

Her movement reaches the subsonic speed.

That, a moment ago,

"'Wind', 'Prison'"

"Ahhh!?"

Jumped by the wind magic that Valerie chanted, limbs are fixed and restrained in the air by even more invisible energy.

That's just what I call the best wizard in the world, and it's a magic activation speed to the point of snoozing.

I didn't know Shea would even give her time to use her skills.

"My daughter, who gained some of the power of [Darkness] - you will be a good experimental material. Be quiet there."

Say, Valerie reached out to me this time.

"'Prison'"

"Huh...!

Just like Shea, invisible energy binds my limbs.

His hands and feet as thin as dead trees screamed.

Shit, I can't move...

"Even though I can still interfere in [darkness] now, I can't incorporate that power myself. But in any case, let's develop such a technique and take away your [darkness]."

"Valerie......!

"Ha ha, two years ago, as far as your talent was concerned, I banished you... but when this happened, you were the most useful apprentice for me! Better than the useless disciples who were lightly murdered!

"What, those guys weren't important apprentices?

While in captivity, I snorted at him.

"Hmm, poison me in that situation?

Valerie's eyes add radiance.

"Gu......!

Limb restraints intensified and further pressure was exerted on the hands and feet.

The more it seems to break now, the more it hurts.

─ ─ But I don't really care about this kind of pain.

"Compared to the pain of despair I received from you two years ago, hey......!

If you're going to win this, it's a big mistake, Valerie.

My final victory is unshakeable.

With certainty, I looked to Valerie.