Magic Academy Bans Harem

Chapter 200 The Birth of Star Mark

"In fact, Xiao Li would be happier if she could improve her star patterns, learn more magic, and become a great wizard before graduation."

Seeing that Merci was still full of longing and confusion about power, the Bathing Goddess gave her some advice.

“Eh? Eh? W-Why does the professor’s name appear here?!”

Merci's face immediately turned red and she waved her hands, trying to hide it.

"You really understand."

The Bathing Goddess couldn't help but sigh.

"In short, Xiao Li has always felt that the power of the star pattern is suspicious, so his attitude towards power is mainly observation. Haven't you noticed? He has been using magic to teach you how to control the star pattern. In other words, using this method, you are probably improving your magical ability, not the power of the star pattern. The same is true for the training that began in the summer vacation. What you are improving is your physical ability, not the star pattern."

These are also things that the Bathing Goddess has only recently discovered.

In fact, Ritas has always received a lot of information from the Bath Goddess.

Therefore, even though the game is different from reality, the Bathing Goddess believes that Ritas must have obtained a relatively fast theory for upgrading the Star Mark by organizing information. However, he never applied this theory to the members of the "Bath Seminar", but only used a relatively "stupid" method to let Mercy and others control the power of the Star Mark as freely as possible.

Judging from the fact that Ritas wanted to participate in the Latras family's artificial star pattern project, he might have the desire to put those theories into practice.

But the limiter called "Teacher" can always limit Ritas' bottom line well.

"Whether it's magic, star patterns, or weapons in your hands, they are just tools after all. So, if you really want to pursue power, make yourself stronger, Merci. As long as you have a strong body, strong skills, a strong mind, strong knowledge, and a strong soul, the things you pursue will naturally appear in your hands. Just like Xiao Li. I think he is very strong, even though he has been hospitalized for eight out of ten days. And precisely because of this, even if he is 'borrowing' the power of others, the effect presented is often only better."

"Um"

Merci nodded, not quite understanding what was said.

She didn't realize that she was in a dangerous state before, so the goddess of bathing told her these things earnestly. However, she also listened to these words.

After silently reviewing the words of the Bathing Goddess for a long time, Merci realized that the other party's voice seemed to have not been heard for a long time.

"Master Bathing Goddess?"

"Uh, cough, cough, here it comes."

I couldn't say that I seemed to have been infected with some habits by Professor Ritas and said some words that didn't suit my style, so the goddess of bathing rolled back and forth on the bed beside me in shame, coughed dryly, and changed the subject with a trembling voice.

"Ah, over there, Merci, let's go check out the boat in the bottle over there!"

Ship in a bottle.

In the impression of the Bathing Goddess, this seems to be a very popular ornament in the world where Ritas lives.

And since the ship in the bottle in front of her, or Mercy, appeared in this work storage room, it means that this ship in the bottle may have been made by Ann or Ann's mother.

"Isn't the style of this ship a bit strange? Has Merci seen one before?"

"No. But, but I've never been on a boat, so."

"Can't it be used as a reference? To be honest, I've never been on one, but I've seen ships running. This ship looks more like a submarine, right?"

The reason why the Bathing Goddess said this is because most of the ship's hull looks like a cylinder.

“Is that a wing?”

Pointing at the multiple wing-like parts distributed on both sides of the hull, Merci asked in confusion.

"It really does look a bit like wings. Could it be an airship? Oh, fish also have fins. Wait, look at this part, the part near the tail that looks a bit like a command cabin. Doesn't it look a bit like my disc?"

“Is it similar?”

Merci said uncertainly.

It’s better to say that all round things actually look like white disks.

"Oh, you probably don't know that my disk has accessories, so you can't see it. The disk can actually combine with something that looks like a duel disk. And I guess there should be a pair of such duel disks, and both sides can combine. Tsk, I think I have to explain what a duel disk is. How should I put it? The shape is a bit like a dragonfly wing?"

Listening to the description of the goddess of bathing, Mercy gradually made the shape of "oh" with her mouth.

The ship in the bottle in front of them was indeed partially a layered dome, and between the layers of the dome there extended thin, branch-like connecting parts that were connected to the dragonfly wing-like sheets that were separated by some distance on both sides.

"The color of the ship in the bottle is somewhat similar to the color of Ms. An's key."

"Indeed. It's more like the same color."

It was a color mixed between gray and dark blue. It was not that common, but it was not that special either.

"Is there a label or something in this bottle?"

"I'll look for it, Lady Bath Goddess. It seems to say on the label..."

"'Third Ark'."

As Mercy spoke the words on the label, the room seemed to be silent for a moment.

"I feel like I've heard it somewhere before."

Since "Ark" itself is a very common word in the gaming field, the Bathing Goddess was racking her brains to figure out where she had heard of this Ark.

Suddenly, the whole room began to shake violently.

Shortly after.

The Bathing Goddess shouted "What's going on?" and came to the outside of the hut with Merci.

Soon, the two saw a huge object slowly rising from the ground.

"Sorry, that made a bigger noise than I expected."

Looking at Merci from afar, An expressed his apologies.

"What the hell is this!?"

At this time, next to An was something that looked like a piece of purple ore.

However, it is certain that it is not a natural material, because it presents a standard cubic shape.

There seemed to be a light trembling slightly inside the giant object that was like amethyst, but it was very weak.

"This is."

"I don't know either."

Ann shook her head.
"But I think we will get the answer soon." As he spoke, An placed his palm on the huge amethyst. Then, the extremely faint light inside began to shine gradually.

Mercy and the Bathing Goddess just stared blankly at the light of the huge amethyst becoming more and more dazzling and gorgeous. They completely forgot that if An was doing something suspicious or threatening to them, their current situation would be very bad.

The next moment, the amethyst containing bright light inside actually floated up and flew towards the sky.

At a certain moment, the amethyst blocked the fairy-tale-style sun in the sky that seemed to be drawn by a child. However, it did not stay at the sun, but flew to a higher direction.

Just as everyone, including An, was looking at the amethyst flying farther and farther away with a puzzled look on their faces, the amethyst, which had already turned into a star at the other end of the sky, finally stopped.

The purple cube that stood up on one corner began to spin rapidly. As if attracted by the suction force of its rotation, the stars that kept lighting up around it began to gather in the direction of the purple cube.

In just a few minutes, a brilliant galaxy with a purple star as its center appeared in this fairy-tale space.

"install"

The voice that An's mother had recorded once again rang out in the sky.

However, unlike the previous girlish tone, this time the voice of "Mom" was very solemn.

"Seeing that you have finally returned here and chosen to inherit our family's heritage, I don't know whether I should be happy or worried."

An, who was looking at the sky before, lowered his head slightly.

Merci and the Bathing Goddess, although they did not quite understand the meaning of these words, could vaguely sense that An had made a choice. This time, while accepting the inheritance, he would give up many things.

"I actually let my daughter complete the mission for me. I am such an unqualified mother. But now that things have come to this, I can only wish you to go further on the path you have chosen."

"Remember our clan's mission."

"'Survive' and 'Reproduce'."

"Also keep in mind, under this false sky."

"Only the 'Forsaken' can become."

Suddenly, Mercy felt a sense of trance. She was very clear that she heard Ann's mother say something, but the word did not stay in her mind.

At the same time, the Bathing Goddess just felt terrified.

Because she had exactly the same feeling as Merce.

An's mother clearly said something, but she didn't remember it!
Until now, the Bathing Goddess, who was completely unaffected by the other world except for being occasionally dazzled by Ritas's strong light magic, was certain at this moment that she was "attacked" by the mysterious power of the other world.

Before Merci and the Bathing Goddess could recover from this strange phenomenon, a new round of threats was approaching.

I saw that the countless stars surrounding the purple star in the sky began to fall to the ground in large numbers.

Looking at the meteor shower that was obviously flying directly overhead, Merci and the Bathing Goddess were completely panicked.

"Anyway, get down first!"

The Bathing Goddess, who only felt that a galaxy was completely collapsing, gave instructions to Merci for the time being.

Merci, who had basically given up thinking, followed the instructions and lay on the ground.

"You kid, you really shouldn't be holding the disk in your arms at this time, but holding it on your head!"

Although the influence of An's mother's words still remained, the goddess of bathing felt uneasy about the other world that Mercie and others were in. However, after seeing Mercie's subconscious actions, she decided to "stand up".

Merci continued to follow the instructions and used a powerful "shield" to protect her head.

However.
The meteor showers that were falling rapidly did not hit where they were.

Merci, who had not yet welcomed the imagined "doomsday", timidly raised her eyes from under the disc.

Then, she realized that the falling stars were actually only the size of ice crystals. And without exception, they all rushed towards the direction where An was.

The silver wind mixed with tiny stars drew a magnificent spiral trace in the sky and finally reached the back of An's right shoulder.

As the silver wind continued to "carve", a circular array emitting silver light, like a magic circle, began to light up on the back of An's right shoulder.

The stars continued to fall, the patterns in the circle became more and more complex and rich, and the fluorescence it emitted became brighter and brighter.

Just as the patterns in the circle were completed and the brightness of the silver light reached its peak, a silver wing suddenly stretched out from the circle. As the silver wing spread out, the scattered silver feathers slowly fell to An's side.

「.」「.」

After confirming that there was no danger, Merci sat up, and along with the disk she was holding, she looked dazed and absent-minded.

If they understood correctly, this might be the scene when the "Star Mark Emblem" was born.

On the other side, An, who had successfully obtained the star pattern, did not seem to be happy at all. She just lowered her head and raised her right hand, looking at the feathers falling from her silver wing, which emitted a faint fluorescence in her palm.

The next moment, she turned towards Merci and blew gently into her palm, blowing the silver feather towards Merci.

Along with the slowly floating silver wings, half of the remaining stars in the sky began to fall rapidly towards Merci's position.

"Eh? Eh hey hey hey?"

Merci was completely caught off guard and didn't know how to deal with this situation. While she was at a loss, the silver wind blew again, injecting the starlight into the star pattern that appeared on Merci's chest.

Instantly, Merci felt the power in her body was extremely full and even uncontrollable, and she let out an uncontrollable cry.

Then, a large amount of azure flames that seemed to be covered with a layer of silver shell burst out in all directions with Merci as the center.

Completely different from the initial rampage of the Star Mark, Merci now had absolute control over the Star Mark. So, after only three or four eruptions of flame, Merci was able to control the power in her body.

However, just these three or four eruptions have already caused the surrounding area to fall into a state of blazing fire.

"Ah, this."

In the flames, looking at the burning hut and An flying towards her, Merci didn't know for a moment whether she should apologize or question what An had done.

And Ann passed by the silver-blue flames that seemed to be avoiding her, and gently placed her hand on Merci's head.
"Don't worry about it. This place is about to be destroyed."

As An spoke, Merci realized that the purple cube in the sky no longer radiated light. Countless large and small dark cracks appeared in the sky around it, showing a tendency to collapse.

"An. Our clan will never die in the true sense. So, mom has only returned to the real sky. Don't worry, don't be sad, mom will always watch over you."

The familiar words of An's mother, also her last words, rang out again.

This time, An responded with a soft "hmm", then pulled Merci, who was still in a state of confusion, together, flapping his silver wings and flew out of the fairy tale space that was about to collapse.

(End of this chapter)