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(Blade of Dawn)

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What happened?

My lord, our apologies.

That thief knows shapeshifting and she got away.

Shapeshifting?

She almost broke the Magic Network.

That druid over there, gather some force of nature.

Force of nature?

For healing.

This thing will work better.

Druids cannot heal injury of this nature.

It's her again.

Who?

Bathia.

She is a dangerous and corrupted follower of the evil cult.

A wound like this is clearly her style.

As for the details,

that knight from your House over there would know better.

(Two days later) Holy Light would not let me linger.

Lord Galway, we shall meet again.

Holy Light cannot hear what I say next. I will only say it once.

Develop your domain well.

There may be many gods

but only God of Holy Light encompasses everything.

You have to watch yourself.

You mean...

Unholy Wind will not gather again in the short term.

Farewell, Pathfinder.

Go.

Hyah!

Hyah!

Hyah!

My lord, do you know where Byron had gone?

Byron?

I haven't been able to get in touch with him all day.

I have to say even I'm infatuated with you for three seconds.

Let's go fishing.

You're sure this isn't the work of the Holy Maiden?

Turning two people into trees...

That is something no one else can do

except a druid who has gone against the taboo.

You mean... Pittman is up to something?

Not just him.

This might be related to an old friend of mine.

My lord.

I beg for your trust.

I've seen your character profile.

(Byron, Knight, Attributes: Righteous, kindhearted, obedient) Being kind is one of your attributes.

Attributes?

You have my full trust.

If you have something to say, just tell me.

My lord.

The real culprit will certainly make a move again.

I have a plan.

But...

Please don't tell Heidi.

Philip, dispatch someone to search for Byron right away.

Yes, my lord.

My lord, is Byron...

Don't worry. He is one of the best knights I've seen.

He will be fine.

Pittman is a druid.

He barely stepped into the domain

and the Unholy Wind came upon us.

Naturally, he cannot escape suspicion.

But we cannot alarm him.

We must make him reveal himself.

This real culprit isn't ordinary.

Yes, I thought I had set the difficulty level at easy

but I just realized this seems to be hell mode.

Old man, it's time to explain yourself.

This...

Have you heard of "League of Death"?

League of Death?

They are the corrupted druid clan who toy with life,

manipulate souls and believe that everything

will someday come to an end.

Run... away...

Coincidentally, someone important

within League of Death has set her eyes on you.

Bathia.

I've told you that the next time I see you,

I will kill you.

A druid's magic extracts life energy

and can also toy with life at will.

How one uses it depends on their conscience.

I had suspected League of Death to be behind this

when we discovered the two residents who got turned into trees.

Why didn't you tell me?

It involved a period of dark history in my life

where I had gained much but also had gone astray.

But I swear, I haven't had any dealings

with them for a long time now.

How can you prove that Bathia has not shapeshifted into you?

I cannot prove it. This is what she is good at.

She makes others suspect one another,

and become unable to tell friends from foes.

For concealing information and delaying report,

you'll be deducted half a month's salary as punishment.

Don't, don't, don't! You're just trying to kill me.

Looks like you are the real Pittman.

Well...

If the real culprit isn't Pittman,

then it can only be her.

Your old friend?

Yes, an evil cult follower, Bathia.

My lord, if it is her, please do not get involved.

Allow me to deal with it.

Let's get back to the domain.

There's another suspicious person waiting for us.

Who is that?

It's the crafts person, Jenny Perrot.

Magic beans and lizard grass don't blend well. Next.

What sort of torture is this?

Lord Ancestor.

Jenny is a Level 4 Runemaster.

I was getting her to help test my recipes.

What recipe?

Cement.

Lord Ancestor, what's wrong?

You...

Do you know why you're caught?

Because I got caught reading your notebook.

And we even found this in your luggage.

There are contents regarding the Magic Network

that is exactly the same as recorded inside my notebook.

I don't think this is a coincidence.

My notebook

is a memento left behind by my fellow classmate.

Memento?

His name was Raven Keith,

he focused on studying the Magic Network.

Recreating the Magic Network is his lifelong pursuit.

But, apart from me, no one else cared about his Magic Network.

Until...

I came here and read your notebook.

My lord, I...

You're so persistent in researching the Magic Network.

What are your objectives?

To enable every ordinary people to use magic.

That's it for interrogation.

Rebecca, untie her.

Sure.

You'll conduct researches with Rebecca from now on.

You'll start by organizing your notes.

What are these?

Failed products from the cement experiment just now.

Be careful, my lord. With just a slight knock, it will...

Will what?

Explode.

Exploding cement? Where's the logic in that?

I'm sorry, my lord. I will destroy them right away.

Wait, think about it in another way.

Your invention might have a greater use.

Really?

Of course.

Why don't we name it Rebecca Crystal?

Place the crystal.

Done.

The purity is clearly higher this time, why didn't it explode?

These crystals' properties are unstable,

perhaps we need to change the materials.

Perhaps the problem isn't with the materials.

These crystals' performance is affected

by the magical interference in the environment.

To make them stable, you lack a constant.

Oh? A constant?

A...

magical constant.

It was five years ago,

when I first began studying at the Tower of Mages.

Because of my lowly background,

I was often punished by my mentor using all kinds of reasons.

It was also at that time that I met Raven Keith.

Be careful not to get your legs broken

for sneaking into the magic laboratory.

I just wanted to borrow a pen.

Were you the one who solved the formulas on the blackboard?

He was just like me,

having an obsession with the foundation of magic.

His achievements were beyond mine.

I have a plan, do you want to join me?

What plan?

For the benefit of pitiful people like us,

I want to recreate the Magic Network.

I was drawn in by his spirit

and quickly become close to him.

I even helped to carry materials and documents in secret.

We were only a step away from completing the Magic Network.

But then...

Mentor caught us.

He took on Mentor's punishment in my stead.

Jenny, Jenny!

Raven!

Mentor wants me to rebuild

the Magic Well that had gone out of control.

You'll have to complete the final step of the Magic Network.

But you...

There's no such thing as a "but" on this journey.

Do you still remember that magical constant E

that we haven't determined yet?

I will experiment on it while I'm on this mission.

If I make it back alive,

E is equal to 1.29.

If I don't come back,

E is equal to 1.66.

Raven!

In the end, he never came back.

My lord, please allow me

to adjust the constant within Rebecca Crystal.

How will you do it?

I will enter the determined magical constant

while I activate the crystal.

As long as the stability value

is adjusted to 100% before it explodes,

the crystal will achieve a stable performance.

This method will surely work, but...

There's no such thing as a "but" on this journey.

She refused the protection of a magic shield

in case it interferes with the experiment.

My lord, will this be alright?

I have faith in her.

Perhaps she is the best person

to don the white robe out of all of us here.

Stability value...

17, 35, 29...

Fluctuation has begun, commencing adjustment.

48, 72...

My lord, it's about to work!

93, 97...

Stability value...

zero.

This constant is wrong.

My lord.

She needs help.

Calculate it again using E equals 1.29.

But that is already dismissed.

I'll take it on if it explodes.

Yes, my lord.

Recalculate the magic power.

Stability value at 82, 93. My lord!

Go on.

Stability value is dropping rapidly.

Go on.

Five, four, three. My lord, it'll explode!

Replace it with the previous value.

Stability value is 100!

My lord, it worked!

But why was there a problem with Raven's constant?

Because he cares about you more than the Magic Network.

What?

In my notebook, there is a formula that hasn't been solved.

The two solutions to this formula are 1.29 and 1.66.

According to my calculations, one of the numbers

increases the mana's power.

But at the same time, makes it very unstable.

Meanwhile, the other number does the exact opposite.

It is capable of reducing mana

until the magic power becomes moderate and stable.

Unfortunately, Raven Keith did not know

the precise way to use those numbers at that time.

All he knew was that you will stop at nothing

to experiment using these two numbers.

This would undoubtedly put you in danger.

That's why he only told you half the truth,

the constant that represented safety.

That way, whenever you conduct experiments,

you may not always get it to work,

but it will always be the safest result.

He didn't want to put you in danger

even if it cost him his life.

1.66...

is his final precious gift to you.

Raven...

Heidi, record this down.

On the same day Rebecca Crystal is invented,

Jenny Perrot tested a key theory that will develop

New Citadel of Cecil's mana capacity.

In commemoration, I shall name it

Raven Keith Constant.

Philip.

My lord! It's Byron... he's...

Darn it! At the Town of Tanzan, Lord Byron has...

sacrificed himself.