I'm really not a top magician

But whether it's relationships, family missions, or magic,

For Luna, it was just a matter of coping.

But she always thought these things were troublesome...

She got a headache when she thought about having to worry about various factions like her father in the future.

The reason he became a magician was simply to fulfill his father's expectations of him.

Then, I managed to pay off the family's debts of more than 20 years.

Raise the Nalandril family to become the richest family and let my father experience the feeling of being upper class.

But in the final analysis, becoming a magician was just a way to bring honor to his father.

She loved not the name Nelandriel, but simply his family.

of course,

This workshop incident was not just about protecting my father's property.

It was also because of the prophecy of the half-nightmare ghost,

Suddenly he ran up to him and said that Sajo Aika was the chosen one, then left without saying a word.

This pervert always leaves without saying goodbye.

This weird habit still can't be changed...

Just then, there was a bang and someone knocked on the door.

"Who?"

Luna asked casually but didn't reply.

Luna didn't even frown, she got out of bed immediately, projecting a short knife in her hand.

He leaned against the door, holding a knife in one hand and the door handle in the other, and slowly opened the door.

But after a long time, no one came in.

"Who on earth is it?"

Luna walked cautiously to the door, but saw a piece of paper on the ground.

Pick up the paper, check it front and back,

But Luna found a line of secret code written on the back of the paper.

This is the Elvish code unique to the Nalandril family.

Who wrote this?

Luna didn't translate immediately. Instead, she stuck her head out the door, checked that no one was eavesdropping, and closed the door again before starting to translate.

After a while, Luna deciphered the content of the code:

I will wait for you in the crypts below the study, and I will tell you the whole story. - Celeborn Nelandril

Seeing the decrypted content, Luna was shocked.

This is my father's handwriting.

After repeatedly reading and comparing her father's manuscript, Luna finally confirmed that this was the code written by her father himself.

Moreover, on the piece of paper, there were fluctuations of magic power unique to my father.

"Aren't you dead? What's going on, father?"

Luna didn't think twice and rushed out of the room.

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Chapter 24

Aozaki Touko used magic to place the old butler's body on the table.

The body had been reduced to pulp, and it was difficult to tell what it looked like before.

But Orange doesn't care about these.

To a magician, neither howdunit nor whodunit has any meaning.

Because magic itself is a distortion of normal phenomena,

Therefore, even if you have determined an anomaly, there are countless possibilities in magic.

However, the so-called criminal motive is an eternal truth.

The moment she saw the old man's body, Aozaki Touko felt that it was very similar to the bodies in the catacombs.

But Orange couldn't remember what it was yet.

But there is definitely something wrong with this body.

And when Aika Sajo came to him to perform an autopsy, Orange also made a judgment.

That was the person who killed the old butler, definitely not Fareus.

Phareus himself was a famous assassin.

The principle of assassins is stealth.

Head-on combat is not stealth at all, and is even less in line with the original intention of assassination.

As a top assassin, Fareus also follows this rule.

Then,

According to this logic, Aozaki Touko can completely judge that

Fareus had only met the old butler before he died.

"Then if it wasn't Phareus who did it, who wanted to kill you? Or, why did you die?"

Aozaki Touko muttered to the minced meat.

She put on gloves and began the autopsy.

After a while,

Luna suddenly pushed the door open and asked anxiously, "Have you found out anything?"

"Not yet." Aozaki Touko said, "But one thing is certain, this body is dead."

"So Alfu is dead?" Luna asked anxiously.

Aozaki Touko nodded.

Orange felt strange. Even when Luna saw the body, she showed the sadness that a normal person would have, as well as anger towards the murderer.

But the only emotion that is not there is anxiety.

However, Aozaki Touko didn't think much about it. Maybe Luna still had some thoughts in her heart.

"Is there really no possibility of faking death?" Luna suddenly asked.

"suspended animation?"

Aozaki Touko was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at Luna, "Why do you say that?"

"My father once taught Ah Fu a kind of magic called the spirit summoning technique, which could temporarily separate the soul from the body. So when I was little, Ah Fu often used this method to trick me."

"Soul transfer?"

"It can't be called a soul transfer," Luna reminded him. "It's just the soul leaving the body. If he could really achieve the former, then Father would have taken the first step towards the third law. But the latter is just a little thing unknown to outsiders."

This magic trick is a bit like the third method - soul materialization.

But from Luna's description, it is only the first step on the road to the third law.

However, compared to the stubborn puppet family in the snow and ice, Nalandril's research direction seems more practical.

Luna then chatted with Orange for a while, but the topic was all about the tomb.

Afterwards, Luna said goodbye to Orange and ran towards the study crypt.

……

After sending Luna away, Aozaki Touko once again turned her gaze towards the corpse on the table.

Then he drew a spell of necromancy around him, trying to summon the remaining soul in the body.

Because according to Luna's description, the time that this butler can be away from his body is only one hour.

But now that the incident has been going on for more than two hours,

The butler's soul should have dissipated long ago.

In other words, there should be some remnant of the soul in this body.

As Orange's technique was activated, there was no change on the corpse.

"It's true. Once there's no soul left, it's exactly like the corpses in the catacombs!"

The necromancy of the dead is to call forth the lingering thoughts of the deceased. However, not all deceased can be summoned. If the remaining thoughts have been depleted greatly over the past four years—like the complete disappearance of the deceased in the present case—then the necromancy will fail.

But any action will leave traces.

Even if the lingering thoughts are eliminated, corresponding traces will be left on the body. This may be the reason why the murderer destroyed the body.

But even if that's the case, there should be traces.

But the fact is that all traces have disappeared.

The erasure of traces is like the fingerprints erased by the murderer in a criminal investigation.

This was like irrefutable evidence, telling Aozaki Touko that there was something wrong with the matter itself.

"Though it's not just necromancers who can do this kind of thing."

There are many people like Aozaki Touko who, in addition to their own magic, also have some knowledge of other magics.

But through Luna's description just now, Aozaki Touko was able to roughly determine the target.

only,

Some strong inferences are still lacking.

"What else is missing?"

"Thunder, Demon's Eye, Tomb, Wild Hunt, and a workshop that can stimulate Nelandril's magic seal... Wait, could it be that!"

Aozaki Touko figured it all out.

But when she wanted to find Luna, she found that Luna was gone.

"hateful!"

Orange quickly ran out of the room, looking for Luna.

"Idiot, their target is you!"

……

Luna came to the catacombs,

In order to prevent the magic seal from being activated by the spiritual veins here and causing loss of mobility,

Before entering, Luna simply sealed the magic seal.

But to be honest, calling it a seal is just a simple way of reducing the intensity of the incident.

So, Luna also prepared the flower petals that the dead man gave her.

He said that as long as he crushed the petals when he was in danger,

He will step forward like a hero.

Really, what era is it now? You are still using the hero saving the beauty routine. And why are you so proficient in it?

When I catch you one day, I will beat you up.