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Away from Sol Empire's training grounds, A micro church of some sort can be seen in the distance
Inside, was Saint Elysia, who has been praying in front of her Goddess every day
Alongside with her are her followers, who never abandon Saint Elysia even the amidst of what everything happened
"..."
With her hands csped, she prayed deeply
"Goddess Judicara..."
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...Half an hour had passed, there was no sign of divination for today as well
"Nothing today as well..."
Divinations from the Goddess Judicara often comes randomly. No one knows when the Goddess herself will give another divination, yet her devout follower, Elysia, eagerly awaits for it
"Saint Elysia, you must be tired, why don't you take a rest for the day?"
One of her followers said with worries on their faces
"Thank you for your concerns everyone, but I'm fine. Please bring me the concentrated water here"
"Are you sure? We still have plenty of various potions in stock"
"This is nothing compared to what the Soldiers, Adventurers, Pilrs, and the Residents had to go through. Its the least I could do"
She said with a genuine smile
"Saint Elysia..."
"Everyone! Bring the concentrated water over to Saint Elysia! She's about to make another batch of potions!"
Right as they were about to get into the next phase, the statue of the Goddess herself started to glow
"! Saint Elysia!"
She looked back, to see that the day has finally come
"! A Divination from Goddess Judicara!"
The Goddess' figure cannot be seen, although her voice was crystal clear for all people present inside to be heard
"A man with a mysterious aura"
"...?"
"A man with a sense of duty...a man with a powerful companions...a powerful man capable of destruction and chaos"
"Destruction...and chaos...?"
"...Do not disobey that man..."
"...!"
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...A few seconds after, the bright glow from the statue started to disappear slowly...
"Who's the person Goddess Judicara's referring to...?"
"Saint Elysia...what does the Goddess mean when she said to not disobey that man...?"
"I don't know..."
A friend...or a foe...
...if we don't give in to his commands...he will bring 'destruction' and 'chaos'...?
"Is this the end for us...?"
Her followers started to crumble, yet Elysia showed a different reaction
"Everyone! What Goddess Judicara said just now isn't a divination that will lead us to our demise! I believe that its something that will help us in this predicament!"
"! Saint Elysia!"
Hope can be seen on their eyes, as Elysia gave a new interpretation to Judicara's message
"Its just a matter of time on when we will meet this man..."
We shall not disappoint him!
She said to herself, as they then prepared for their next phase...
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"..."
I don't get it...
Mana flow directly linked to that girl's mana...
...Just how am I going to cut the link off without cutting her mana?
Another week had passed, yet I've not found a way to set her free from that crystal
I sat down on our table with that thought in mind
"*Sigh*..."
It was then that Mashiro started to get my attention
"Rui sama? Rui sama!"
"H-Huh? Oh, what is it?"
"You're distracted tely, is there something bothering you?"
"Its nothing, really. You two are heading off now right?"
"Mm! You should come with us! Right, Lura?"
"I think so too Leader. Lura would be overjoyed"
"Why are you talking to yourself in third person? Anyways, I can't go with you girls. I need to do something important"
"There you go again with that same reason! Is there anything more important that us Rui sama?!"
"Um..."
"Is there? Leader?"
Why are you in on this too?!
"..."
Seems like if I avoided their question, they will never stop bothering me...
Yet...I felt like this wasn't the right time to introduce her yet to these two...
I've steeled my resolve to come up with the most believable answer
"I-Its something that you shouldn't know for now! That's why I can't tell you!"
With this, I'm not straying too far from the truth as well...
...but somehow, they seemed to accept that answer...? They're quiet right now
"I-I see...s-so that's what it is...*chuckles*"
"I-I guess it can't be helped then, r-right, Mashiro?"
"Y-Yes!"
Shortly after, they left quickly, passing towards Hikari, who just came in
"Why are they in a hurry?"
"I don't know either"
But I felt like they misunderstood what I said...
"What brings you here by the way?"
"Right, I was actually going to invite you over to our headquarters on Your Highness' orders"
"Elena? Is there something she needs me for?"
"She wanted to discuss over some security and routing pns in mind. Thought that you might have some good insights about it"
"I see, but can it be another time instead? I needed to go somewhere for now"
"That's fine, but it would be nice if you can come over sooner, especially we need some guidance on how to use other things like that"
Hikari refers to the lights that I set up within the area
"Really? I thought you have the technology for that"
"The way we do it is using a lot of coal to lighten up a certain area. Since we don't have coal stocked up, light source at night is very scarce"
"You could use the wood in repcement, given that wood is abundant here"
"But over time..."
"Right..."
"Actually, I was the one who brought up that idea to Your Highness, seeing that you don't use any material to light up the pce. Seems like you use mana to light up the area with your fire element"
"Well...that's actually a good deduction from you, but not quite"
"Is that so?"
Since in the first pce, I never really used mana at all
"But that also means you're burning quite a mana every day"
"That is true, but the fire usually goes off when I'm not around"
"Is it because they're linked to you in some way?"
"You could say that, yeah"
"I see. Is it possible to rewire it?"
"Rewire?"
"Directing the source of mana to someone or something else. Casa has the ability to transfer her mana to other pilrs when needed"
"I think I remember doing that one time..."
When I was treating Lura...
"The reason why we couldn't do the same is because applying mana directly to something doesn't mean anything"
"By that you mean...?"
"You need to state the applications, methods, and technique to a particur object as well as the element for it. Doing a light source in one object is one thing...but doing it to multiple objects..."
"Needs a different method, application, and technique for it?"
"Yes. We were hoping you could help us out on that"
That's bad...all I did at that time was imagining it...
"Alright, I'll come over once I'm done with something"
"Thank you, Rui. I must head back now..."
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"Rewiring..."
How did I not even think of that?
Instead of cutting the main flow directly, I could just redirect its flow to something else!
and to be able to redirect the flow...
"I think I know what I should do..."
Thanks to Hikari, I have found a new idea to try on in that cave, in that crystal
That might be the key to setting that girl free...
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