Chapter 174 - The Mesmerized Crowd

“Esthera,” Azriel recited.

As soon as she recited the spell, the mana arranged and moved. On the back of the pendant, etched lines began to appear, composed of Lemm letters and a constellation. The pendant absorbed the golden light that wrapped around it. A valuable relic was instantly made.

Azriel put the pendant on the lion cub’s neck and explained, “I made the spell work when you press its back. You’ll be invisible right away. You recharge it on your own, right?”

“Yes. …Th-thank you,” Marthi hesitantly replied and looked at the pendant for a long while, holding it with his front paw. The lion cub, who was sitting in front of her, wagged his tail busily from side to side.

‘I guess he likes it.’

Azriel quietly chuckled and fixed her robe. It was time to help Sophinea’s training.

*

The very next day, Azriel received a message from Nak that all the things she requested were ready. In the Topaz Guild’s empty warehouse, there were piles of marble pieces smaller than a palm that were flatly processed. Wizards in robes, including Nak Naham, were waiting for Azriel on one side of the warehouse. They were the wizards who were participating in the missing incidents.

“That’s the wizard?”

“The one who said she would put an alarm spell on all of the targets…”

“What nonsense…”

There was a low rumbling between them. Azriel did not pay attention to them. Instead, she was concerned about a bigger problem.

‘Will it be okay if I show how I make relics?’

The principle of creating magical relics was well known. People just did not make them often because those relics were disposable and did not last even a day. Rhema said that she could share what she learned as much as she wanted and that there was no problem with magic itself. However, on the other hand, he said that there was a massacre of wizards. People came to hate ancient wizards who worked miracles, and that was why the legacy of magic was cut off.

‘I don’t know what’s right.’

If she slipped even a little part of what she knew, the paradigm of magic could change, just like how Pendelok Palaios, who was known as the greatest wizard of this country, guaranteed. Rhema did not decide it for her but told her to do what she wanted. However, it was too big of a problem for her to decide alone. Thus, Azriel decided to begin with the fundamentals. Would it be the right thing to hide knowledge for fear of potential problems? It was not wrong but practical and helpful knowledge. Would it not be an arrogant thing if she hid it because she was afraid that people might handle it incorrectly?

‘I don’t want to hide it on purpose.’

She did not have a grandiose cause such as to enlighten or to spread ancient knowledge. She did not plan to become a flag bearer of the magic revolution. That was too much responsibility to bear. She just did not want to hide it; she was willing to become the small stone that caused ripples outward. She was just lucky that she was born as a dragon eye wizard, and because of that, she could learn that knowledge from the Wizard of the Horizon.

‘If they realize it on their own just by seeing the magic I use, that would be the most natural. If they can’t, I can drop some hints…’

As soon as she decided, her mana moved. Golden stars were embroidered in the empty air. A night sky that only she could see and that would realize the miracle she wanted was created. Those who were sensitive to mana flinched and trembled. Even though they could not see it, they could feel it. Her mana filled the warehouse and settled down. It was an unbelievable amount of mana for one wizard to pour out. It was magnificent and elaborate. Some were overwhelmed by fear, and others were mesmerized. Naham was the latter. He stopped breathing and paid attention to the wizard with a slender and delicate body. Azriel recited her spell, “Esthera.”