Chapter 224

Poisoned Chalice (5)

The night of the festival continued.

As night fell, fireworks went off all over the campus and a camp fire rose high in the student plaza.

In the main party hall of Ofilis Hall, talented bands came and played, and it was filled with students chatting while enjoying refreshments prepared by maids. Faculty and staff also

hung out at street stalls at the long-awaited festival, mingling with students or working with lab assistants. enjoyed the meal

People from the academic headquarters and student members who were busy managing the festival also took shifts to see the sights, and among them, there were romantics who tried to make their love come to fruition thanks to the intense heat.

It’s a night when Aken Island is filled with the excitement of the festival.

– Sreuk sreuk.

– Tak.

Ayla, who had been going back and forth to the library for several days, looking through records about Sylvania, finally closed the book.

Since few students entered the library during the festival period, the library virtually had a monopoly on the reading room.

He flicked his chestnut hair upward once, then leaned back in his reading chair and sighed.

I couldn’t even respond properly to Taily who came to me with a worried face every time. A feeling of regret suddenly arose, but there were more important things to do right now.

After leaving the festival behind and spending days in the dark reading room just looking at records, I’m starting to lose my mind.

However, most of the records about Sylvania are already known. It is not possible to analyze Sylvania’s hidden intentions or eccentricities with only the information available in the corner of the student library on Aken Island.

Most of the records left by Sylvania are fragmentary and passed down orally.

Although he wrote several books, most of them were treated as national treasures and were stored in the imperial library or were lost.

If you try to follow Sylvania’s footsteps with the information available to regular students, you’ll end up feeling like you’re punching the air.

A book written by Sylvania herself.

Or, we need a record left by someone who has met Sylvania in person.

Sylvania Academy’s treasure ‘Sage’s Seal’ left in the Trix Hall Sylvania’s ‘

Aspect Science Research Diary’ left in the Imperial Library

‘Contemplations on Aspects and Magic Flow’ kept by the Central Archives of the Imperial Capital

The Archmage Glokt was alive during his lifetime. ‘Introduction to Astrophysics’, which he was said to have died without being able to finish writing it,

and numerous pieces of notes discovered in Sylvania’s laboratory.

I feel like I could get a lot of information if I could access them, but they are all valuable heritage items and cannot be accessed by ordinary students.

Ultimately, the information Ayla can access is information that is available to the general public.

Things like recordings of her remarks or officially published research records.

If something unusual or strange had been discovered in those things, historians, even if it wasn’t Ayla, would have pointed it out right away.

“It’s difficult...”

Ayla muttered and glanced at one of the piled up documents.

This was the content of her speech to the public gathered in front of the imperial palace when the decision was made to banish her to Aken Island.

– ‘everyone. I am a terrible, extreme fatalist. ‘I lived thinking that it was human duty to adapt to the given fate and find happiness in it.’

She is a girl who puts down everything she has accumulated and is exiled to a quiet place in the southwestern outskirts of the empire.

However, there is no feeling of pessimism, disappointment, or frustration in that speech.

– ‘But if the time comes to resist the cruel fate of the world... if the time comes to struggle somehow from the promised catastrophe... then I have no choice but to let go of all thoughts.’

– ‘I’m going to Aken Island. But I don’t think this is exile. It’s just a new step to struggle against the fate given to me. There will be times in your life when you feel like an evil fate is pressing down on you. There may be times when I feel frustrated, as if the world is trying to control me and life is walking at my feet. But don’t be too upset!’

– ‘Because I will fight against fate and win.’

The people of the imperial capital felt that the sight of the Great Sage leaving for Aken Island after leaving such meaningful words was like that of a general confidently leaving for battle.

Ayla frowned for a moment at that record. At that time, Sylvania had already become the world’s greatest magic master.

Ayla held her breath for a moment and then looked at her research records that had been released again.

After seeing a certain future through Aspect magic, she continued researching to resist that future for a long time.

– ‘The flow of time is variable. By twisting and breaking the flow of magical power, it may be possible to resist the flow of the promised future. However, it is not easy to define the laws of areas that cannot be observed directly. Above all, it is impossible to conduct verifiable experiments.’

– ‘But one thing is certain: Aspect magic has the power to twist and break the providence of the world. Of course it’s not easy. In order to break away from the defined flow of fate, it is necessary to create ‘variables’.’

– ‘By bringing in variables that are not subject to this world, the promised laws of the world and the flow toward the determined future are forcibly twisted and broken. We connect the broken future and forcefully revive the time that will no longer continue. To do that... it is also necessary.’

– ‘A prophet who knows the path the world will take and knows how to forcefully break the flow and twist the direction in which time moves.’

– ‘He who came from another world.’

*Greedy nobleman. And the daughter who is sold as a concubine to such a man.

It’s a story that’s so old that it doesn’t just feel like a classic anymore, it feels fresh all over again.

For Bel Maia, who is looking at the situation, it is not that far-fetched. My immediate past history is not far from such a classic story.

In an instant, the story that my daughter was winning by beating up a nobleman was replaced with the story that she was actually one of the playthings of a popular nobleman.

Additionally, the Palover couple does not really know the culture among the nobles. This is because he has lived his whole life stuck in a corner of the ranch in Toren Village.

“Well, basically, if you are a duke master, you can easily handle this much. Yes? Senior Ed?”

What Lortel said is not true.

No matter how powerful you are, you must be careful when it comes to relationships with women. Whom he associates with has a great influence on the power structure, so even if he has one or two mistresses, these writers take several layers of security for fear of being caught.

An aristocrat who enjoys a double-digit number of women and reigns supreme is something that can only be seen if we go back hundreds of years.

In short, Lortel’s ridiculous story is a check to make the Palover couple, who don’t know anything about the world, dumbfounded.

“are you kidding.”

Of course, there is no way Ed Rosstaylor would agree...!

When Edgar pressed the top of Lortel’s head, she laughed and held the mug tightly to prevent it from spilling.

“I’m sorry if you misunderstand, but I don’t do such grand things.”

‘Hmm...’

Lortel tilted his head as he watched the two people make up their minds. I tried to make the difference in class realistic, but instead, there is a hint of unreasonable hostility toward Lortel in Orte and Sayla’s eyes.

‘Maybe I should take a different approach.’

In any case, it is rare to meet Jenica Palover’s parents in person.

You need to structure the situation to your advantage in some way.

Lortel smiled and spoke to the two people.

“It’s late at night, so I’ll call a carriage. It’s quite a distance from the visitor’s accommodation. “Take the Elte Company’s carriage from the entrance to the forest.”

“No, it’s done.”

Orte and Sayla flatly rejected Lortel’s offer.

“afoot! “I’m going!”

After saying that firmly once more, I moved towards Yenika, who was stuck in a corner and lost in her own world.

Orte kneels down, makes eye contact with Jenica, and whispers to his lovely daughter.

‘Yenika. I knew everything about the situation. You’ve had a tough fight.’

‘Ah, Dad...’

‘I completely understand how you feel. Above all, that fiery fox-like merchant, Nari, is definitely too much for us. But... if all the villagers work together, the story is different...!’

‘no no! Please do me a favor and never tell the villagers!’

‘I know very well how pretty you are and don’t want to be a bother to the villagers... Yenika...! But please also understand the pain we feel as we watch...! We just wish you well...!’

‘I don’t mean to be such a kind-hearted person...! I just don’t want you to know. Please listen to me straight!’

‘Wow... honey... my daughter grew up so... so kindly...’

‘I’m about to cry too. ‘Honey...’

Yenika was about to burst into heat in her chest.

“Lortel sir. We are uneducated and have nothing, so we do not fit into this high-class world. So we will go our own way.”

As if he had decided on something, he looked straight at Ortega Lortel and spoke.

“I may not be able to see you with such a smile in the future. “Because we value our daughters.”

A solemn tone. Clenched fist. Sharp eyes.

Orte confidently declared to Lortel in a tone of manly passion that bloomed like a flame.

“No matter what harm they do, we will never give in!”

Lortel looked at Orte and smiled.

“Well... Lady Lortel might not be as bad a person as I thought...??”

“Sure, honey. I guess we were too prejudiced just because we were merchants. “Not all merchants are greedy and only think about money, right?!”

“After we talked, I realized my thoughts were much deeper?! You are thinking deeply about the geographical advantages of Toren Village and plans to improve the future livestock production structure. Also, he is very aware of the trends in the Pulan region. It is clear that he perceives his business partners not simply as workers who offer products or products, but as partners who accompany him on the business path...! Kahahahahahahaha!”

The next morning, while eating in the student cafeteria with Yenika, the Palover couple talked loudly.

“...mom and dad? “What happened?”

“huh? Nothing much happened? “Just in the morning, the chief secretary of the commercial association came to my dorm and gave me various gifts!”

“And I showed them around some of the facilities around Aken Island and also gave them a tour of the business building, I guess...?”

“yes. I thought Elte Trading Company was just a group of misers who only wanted money, but surprisingly, they were thinking about coexistence with academics in a healthy way. “It looks like they do a lot of charity work!”

“I felt sorry for everyone here because they treated the employees with such contempt!”

Orte’s boisterous laughter grew louder as he swiped the delicious soup into his mouth.

“Furthermore, I deeply understand how difficult and variable ranch work is, yet also full of romance. “Should I say that he is worthy of becoming the head of a hoeju at that age? His experience itself is different!”

“We maintained the trade agreement with Toren Village and even promised to expand trade as long as quality was maintained, I guess?!”

“Okay, everyone will be happy when we get back to the village. Hehehe. “I’m already feeling light on my feet as I return home with such good news...!”

“Mom... Dad... Aren’t you completely fooled by Lortel?!”

“Lortel! I should say it’s Lortel! “How much is the gold coins from the Elte Company that flow into Toren Village every year?”

“I can’t wait to go back and make a plan to expand the ranch...! “I never thought there would come a time when I would look forward to working this much!”

What Yenica Palover overlooked was that Lortel was an expert at bewitching people.

No matter how much you build a mental shield and grind your teeth to be hostile, it only takes Lortel’s showmanship and a few quick tongues to tear down the wall of your heart.

The eloquence of a first-class merchant is at that level.

When she imagined Lortel sitting by the bonfire, stroking a mug and smiling...

Yenica lost her mind.

*”oh.”

Lortel was sitting by the campfire, stroking his mug and smiling.

Just half a day was enough to win the hearts of a ranch couple from the outskirts of the countryside. If the original threat does not work, all you have to do is turn the handle in the opposite direction and appease them.

Controlling people’s hearts is not possible only in one direction. Lortel was a girl who fully understood that fact.

For the first time in a while, I had some free time from my work at the store, so I was thinking of taking Ed with me and enjoying the festival today.

Lortel sounded surprised.

A person who was thought to never appear in the northern forest... came through the grass with soldiers and visited Ed’s cabin camp.

“...Why are you here?”

“Iknow, right. “I never thought I’d see you in a place like this.”

Ed Rosstaylor was out on the river checking the fishing nets.

The person who appeared at the camp while he was away was someone who did not fit in at all with this lively camp.

The first princess of the Cloel Empire.

It was Selaha Einir Cloel.