Chapter 86

Unwavering, Luciel fired a Magic Arrow right the next second. Arzeon lightly raised his hand and blocked it with shield magic.

As he approached, Luciel pointed at his neck with the wand she had summoned and bit her lips with strength.

“Don’t come.”

“…I have no intention of fighting, so put that down first, child.”

Arzeon said to Luciel, brushing his long, flowing hair.

“How can I believe that? You know who I am.”

“…I’ve known who you were since the first time I saw you.”

“Did you know who I was from the beginning and try to be by my side?”

Luciel remembered that the snow deer had followed her particularly well. Was that all intentional?

“Remove your anger and try to calm down. I will not be greedy for your jewels.”

Arzeon spoke in a softer tone, but Luciel slowly shook her head.

What did those who knew Luciel’s true identity in her previous life do? The terrible memories made Luciel’s eyes glow with anger once again.

“Everyone who knew my power exploited and oppressed me. How can I trust you when I’m meeting you for the first time now?”

“…I just want to release my sealed power. It can only be unsealed with pure mana.”

“What if that power is released and you attack me?”

“…Very well. If you don’t trust me that much, I’ll give you this.”

He handed Luciel a silver bracelet. His own arm was stuffed with the same thing.

“If you wear this bracelet, I can’t attack you.”

Luciel still had distrustful eyes, the moment she wore the bracelet, Arzeon reached out to hit her with his hand. The bracelet flashed red, and he was thrown to the floor with a dull sound.

“…Ugh.”

He frowned at the pain, and Luciel flinched.

“W-What? You…are you okay?”

Arzeon, who barely raised his body from the floor, stood up and raised his hand.

“I’m okay. Will you trust me now?”

After confirming the bracelet’s effectiveness, Luciel believed in the man.

“How did you, who was strong enough to be the previous master of the Tower, have your power sealed? Who did it?”

“It’s a long story. I will tell you when you release the power of my seal.”

“…”

Luciel nodded her head. Now other things were more important than that.

“I heard that I need your approval to purchase a tool to measure the strength of my jewels.”

“It is not difficult. Will you release my seal instead?”

“Okay. But that schedule has to be pushed back a bit.”

“I understand. Let’s first get the approval from the administrative office in the southern branch of the Tower.”

“…No, I think you can just approve and not come back here anymore.”

“I need your magic, and I like it here.”

He smiled brightly.

“Excuse me…this is not my territory. I’ll tell the other adults in the Duchy first and…”

Arzeon, who was listening to Luciel, shook his head.

“It will be difficult if Gillard finds out.”

“…What?”

“He will hand over the ownership of the Tower to me again.”

“…Why is the Tower a place who no one wants to be responsible for?”

“It’s best to just eat, sleep, and play here without thinking about complicated stuff. I’ve been working so hard all this time. That’s why I will rest for a while until I find my strength back.”

Luciel was at a loss for words.

After a while, Arzeon appeared in the southern branch of the tower, and disappeared like a ghost after handling all pending approval requests. And the news reached Gillard through the Northern branch of the Tower.

“That Arzeon punk, he must have lost his duel with me on purpose and disappeared.”

“…”

When Luciel heard her grandfather’s indignant voice filled with resentment, she felt very guilty.

As a result, a new building to be used as a research institute was built next to her villa in Luciel’s little fief, and various measuring tools were installed there, providing a top-of-the-line research environment.

Luciel showed Erika the lab building.

“Miss Luciel. You’re really lucky. Master Arzeon, who had been missing for a while, appeared and dealt with all the approval cases before disappearing again!” (Erika)

“Yeah, I know. I was really lucky.”

Luciel smiled awkwardly as she looked at Arzeon, who was quietly taking a nap in the back.

* * *

This time Hamel’s workshop sent a clear and transparent glass bowl. But Luciel was still not satisfied.

“…Is there anything other than a decorative glass bottle?”

Luciel lifted a blue glass bottle and shined it in the light. Then the dark and dull blue looked much prettier.

‘How about making decorations that can be put in a sunny place instead?’

Luciel, who was worried, came to enlightenment in an unexpected place.

“Child, Luciel. What are you worrying so much about?”

“No, it’s nothing.”

“If you have any concerns, tell me.”

“It’s just because I have something to think about.”

Luciel replied with a small smile. Evelyn hugged the child’s shoulder and said.

“I see. So shall we go to pray to the goddess? Humans often go to pray when they have concerns.”

The moment she entered the small cathedral in the Bellstein estate led by Evelyn’s hand, the image of a goddess was beautifully expressed in a large arched window, it was sacred and holy.

“Grandma, what do you call that?”

“It’s called stained glass.”

The shadows created by the stained glass reflected in the sunlight were beautiful. Unable to take her eyes off it, she asked again.

“What is it made of?”

“It’s made of glass.”

“Glass?”

“That’s right. If you express God in such a way on the windows of the church, the holiness and grandeur are conveyed as it is.”

“…I see.”

“It’s amazing to think that it was made only by attaching pieces of colored glass to each other.”

At that moment, Luciel’s head swirled with a change of thoughts. Glass has the property of transmitting light, so if you use the stained glass technique as a craft…

“Grandma, is glass like that only used in architecture?”

“Yes, I’ve never seen it anywhere else.”

Luciel thought with a face that had found the light.

‘Yes, this is it. Stained glass. If it is made by attaching colored glass like that, we can get the attention of the Empress with a new design.’

I was already looking forward to what kind of crafts would be born.

“Grandma! Thank you so much, my problem has been solved.”

“What, before you even prayed?”

Luciel nodded her head and gave Evelyn a tight hug.

“I’m sorry, but I have somewhere to go!”

“I’m glad that your troubles have been resolved. Then let’s go back.”

“Yes!”

Returning to the castle in the carriage, Luciel immediately ran to the library. She looked up in the books and found that it was really only used as an architectural technique.

<Stained glass is one of the architectural techniques of bonding glass to window frames and is often used in religious paintings in churches.>

Luciel immediately called for Ellington.

“Ellington, I have something to show you.”

Luciel took the piece of glass to the window and set it up. Beautifully colored shadows were created under the colored glass that passed through the sunlight.

“Look at this. Like stained glass, when light passes through the colored glass, the shadows also come out with a pretty color.”

Ellington also opened his eyes.

“What do you mean to use stained glass for? Are you talking about the one mostly used for church windows?”

Luciel nodded her head.

“Yes, those stained glasses.”

Luciel was embarrassed because she just found out about them, but she had just come back from studying so she could speak with confidence.

“It is a technique mainly used for architecture, but I think that it can be used to make crafts. The glass can be made a little smaller and more delicate.”

“If it is possible to be made accordingly with Little Madam’s suggestion, a beautiful work of art might be born. It’s something no one ever thought of.”

“I feel the same way.”

“Madam, how about I go to the glass workshop right now and show this to Max Hamel?”

“Yes. No, I’d rather show him in person.”

Luciel wanted to give Max Hamel this idea and inspiration as soon as possible. If so, he might be able to recreate it into a wonderful work.

In the past, the glass vault that Max Hamel made was a truly beautiful piece of art, except for its malefic purpose.

Luciel’s heart began to pound.

“Ah…”

Max, who visited the church with Luciel, blinked his eyes in shock.

The shining figure of the goddess, delicately expressed in colorful pieces of glass, was sublime and beautiful. He had never visited the church before. He had seen a small chapel on the streets, but he never dreamed that there would be a feast of glass art in the interior windows.

He realized how short his learning was and how inexperienced he was.

Max’s attitude as he gazed at the church window with enchanted eyes, said it all. Luciel smiled and walked over to him.

“What do you think?”

“It seems that what I have created is nothing more than a child’s toy, to imagine that glass can be such a wonderful piece of art.”

Luciel nodded her head.

“That’s not true. Because the areas were different, it was just something you hadn’t encountered yet. How lucky we are to know this now. Now, the key will be how much you make that art yours.”

“What? But…”

Max’s expression turned pale.

“As you said, stained glass is an architectural technique, so it’s completely different from glass crafts.”

“You have to change your perspective. It’s an architectural technique if you make it that big, but if we make it small we can use it for glass crafts.”

“……!”

“It will definitely be noticed as an unprecedented craft.”