[Comprehensive] God's blessing

"Why did it fail again... There is absolutely nothing wrong with the spell.  …"

In the dark room, the black-haired man paced back and forth irritably, the bottom of the dark blue robe swaying in almost black waves under his steps.

Manaka looked around calmly.

It doesn't seem to be the mage's tower that resembled a palace at the beginning-it looks more like a cave, dark and damp, and the sound of water dripping on the stones can be heard from time to time.

Just when Aika opened her eyes wide and wanted to see the picture more clearly, a burst of extremely strong light suddenly appeared beside her.

She had to close her eyes, and when she opened them again, Marlena appeared in front of her with an enchanting face.

"...Mother..."

After the previous shock and panic, Manaka was able to look at this face very calmly.

Malena had a bright smile on her face as always, she walked straight past Aika's transparent body, and walked briskly in front of the man.

"Hazlet."

"What's the matter?" Heslet looked very impatient and anxious. He glanced sideways at Marlena, and after a quick glance, he focused more on the parchment in his hand.

"Guess what I brought back?"

Marlena ignored his arrogant attitude, and the smile on her face remained unchanged. After saying something like a trick, she pretended to be digging something into the inner pocket of her robe.

"I didn't—" Heslett twitched the corners of his mouth in disdain first, but when the corner of his eye touched the object held in Marlena's hand, his eyes widened in disbelief and he froze. A few seconds followed by ecstasy: "You're crazy—how did you do it? This, this is their..."

"Of course, but it's a pity that the heart was not taken. I tried my best...you know, it's only their cub's—but many people died... a lot."

After finishing speaking, Marlena's eyes were fixed on Heslet's face, as if she wanted to see something from it.

"give it to me!!"

Heslet couldn't take his eyes off the bloody object anymore. For the first time, a childlike smile appeared on his usually arrogant and cold face: "They must be crazy, right? It makes me happy... It's been a headache for Alberich for a long time."

He snatched the piece from Marlena's hand, and put it on the workbench like a treasure, with a gentle voice as if treating a lover: "This time it will definitely succeed... Marlena...you know what, when I do this—really, the whole wizarding world will be calling my name!!"

"Of course, Heslet." Malena stared at his profile and smiled, then took out another object from the inner pocket.

"What is this?" Heslet looked at her, momentarily getting out of his ecstasy.

Marlena looked up at him, her beautiful eyes seemed to be filled with a river of stars all over the sky.

"My ribs."

A suffocating squeeze.

Manika breathed the air like a dehydrated fish, coughed a few times, and then looked at the person in front of her in confusion.

"【who is he?"

The chess player didn't answer her, but just stared at the black and white chessboard silently, as if caught in some kind of memory.

"Flesh and bones—what can be made?"

she asked persistently again.

He finally raised his eyes to look at her, his eyes were cold, and seemed to have a thorn in his eyes: "I don't know, I'll let you think about it, my lord."

He spoke very fast, but Aika didn't think about the reason for his tone, she just took a few quick breaths, and her inner anxiety and thirst for knowledge made her quickly plunge into the chessboard.

Mage Tower.

Aika opened her eyes, looked at the resplendent buildings around her, and gathered herself together.

The place is empty.

Aihua looked around, and when she was about to move forward, there was a low voice of arguing behind her.

"What did you bring it here for?"

Manaka turned her head and saw Heslet and Marlena who were hurriedly walking towards her.

Heslet lowered his head and said something very fast to Marlena, with an anxious and impatient expression on his face, and a touch of fear.

"[It]? Heslet, he is my child!" Unlike the coquettishness that Aihua saw in the previous scene, Malena's expression had completely cooled down, and she looked at Heslet very indifferently. face: "In some ways, you are still his father."

"Father? I didn't cut off my own flesh." Heslet sneered, and had to say that this expression suits him very well. Junmei showed it vividly: "That monster? I don't even want to admit that I..."

In the middle of speaking, his words stopped abruptly, Heslet frowned, and changed the subject with his head held high: "In short, it can't appear in the Mage Tower - it will be discovered by the damned Alberich! ! I will also be expelled from the Mage Association!!"

I don't know how much time has passed since the last scene - the respect he had for the old man named [Alberich] has disappeared.

"But you should look at him!!" Malena tugged at the hem of his loose robe, pulling him back from the brink of rage just right: "I put him in a place where no one would find him ——you just have to look at him, just one..."

When she said these words, her eyes were as gentle as the warmest handful of light in spring.

"We just failed once... But in a way, we also succeeded, didn't we? ... Next time, maybe we can think differently..."

Heslet's mood seemed to calm down gradually, he stared at Marlena expressionlessly, his dark eyes looked extremely indifferent.

After some time, he seemed to give in.

"where is it?"

"...I'll take you to see him." Marlena finally laughed. She was really beautiful, but she seemed a little different from Aihua's memory of her mother.

But when she smiled like that—there seemed to be some unexplained emotions mixed in that smile, like a mother's kindness, then it overlapped with the figure in her memory.

Aihua stood there in a daze for a long while before she suddenly woke up and followed them.

The two finally stopped in front of a gate covered with unknown gems.

Heslet glanced at the door, frowned and looked at Marlena: "Are you crazy? You don't know where—"

"I'm not crazy," Malena interrupted him quickly: "You won't understand, this is the safest place... Come in and see him... What a cute little monster, if you don't look carefully If you read his words, you will regret it..."

After finishing speaking, she never looked at Heslet again, chanted an obscure incantation, and walked into the door in a flash.

Heslet carefully looked around and followed her in.

Aika watched their interaction quietly, and when Marlena recited the spell, she took a few quick steps forward and slid into the door.

"Look - Heslet -" Marlena's surprised and proud voice came from beside her ear.

Aika didn't have time to react, she closed and opened her eyes, but in such a short moment, her vision was already occupied by the dazzling rays like light.

"I named him..."

At the end of consciousness, she vaguely heard Malena's voice.

"— Cecil."

The familiar squeeze.

Aika had already gotten used to this discomfort a little bit, she rubbed her slightly dizzy head, and when she looked up, she realized that the chess player was not standing opposite her as usual.

She stood up from the chair and was about to look for him when the roar and faint screams from afar caught her attention just right.

Aika ran to the window, watching the fire from the building in the distance, her pupils shrank.

"what happened?"

She murmured, then quickly picked up the safe she had put in the corner, and when she rushed out the door, she was blocked.

"Mr. Chess Player?!" She looked at the chess player standing at the door and reflexively took a few steps back.

The chess player was wearing that pure black robe, as if he didn't hear her words, his eyes were staring straight at the fiery sky in the distance.

He seemed to be muttering something, but Manika didn't hear it clearly.

But for some reason, the sense of threat he gave her seemed to intensify.

"...Mr. Chess Player, I suspect that there are enemies creating chaos, we should—"

"It's so beautiful..."

The faint screams were getting closer and closer, but at this moment the chess player suddenly laughed softly.

"...what did you say?"

Aihua froze for a moment, the alarm bell in her brain rang in an instant, and her body involuntarily moved away from the figure in black robe.

"Looking at the crushing of life like ants...Ah--it's a beautiful sight..."

【Chess Player】Finally, he took his eyes back from afar and turned to her.

"Do you like chaos?"

Aika looked into his eyes, pursed her lips, and took a few steps back in the outward direction.

"...you are not a chess player."

Her brain cleared up in an instant, her mind ached with tingling pain, and her whole body woke up at this moment.

"...not hopelessly stupid."

After a brief silence, the other party suddenly laughed, and all the black cloth tightly wrapped around his body fell off at that moment.

The moment her shining hair fell down, Manika looked into his golden eyes, and the safe in her hand fell to the ground involuntarily.

【I gave him a name...】

"— Cecil."

The man laughed, with a little indescribable sadness: "That's right."

Can't fight him.

She took a few steps back, but in the next moment she was bound by the faint light all over her body.

"You're afraid of me...why?" Cecil approached her with slow steps, barely stopping when Manaka could see the golden eyelashes on his eyelids that were the same color as his hair.

Manaka trembled uncontrollably, the closer he got, the more frightened she became, and the soul screamed to escape the area.

Cecil stretched out his hand, caressed her pale cheek slowly, and whispered in her ear: "You want to go to the void...Really, don't you?"

"The method is very simple... as long as you obediently..."

He looked down at her with a look like a god pitying a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.

"...just die."

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