Academy’s Second Seat

deep in the forest.

“Where would it be… … .”

I followed through the woods without making a fuss.

Anyway, there was no place I wanted to go or had to go, and I didn’t know much about this area, so I wanted to introduce myself well.

“Hmm… … Wasn’t it here? would that be right? Did Daddy clean it up?”

Luna said as she naturally searched through the grass.

“Oh, right! Here it is!”

Luna looked at me with a bright face as if she had found something while searching through the grass.

“What is this?”

“Professor Robert said he was investigating Mr. Levin.”

Luna lifted up the grass and showed her in front of it.

“The place where Levin’s grandfather stayed!”

In front of it was a small hut.

A hut that looks like it will collapse if you hit it.

It looked like it was made of shabby fabric and wood.

It looked like it had been neglected for a long time, seeing the cobwebs strewn there.

“By the way, why is this still there?”

Apparently, I heard that Luna was about 9 or 10 years old when Levian died.

Thinking like that, this hut was said to have been guarding this place for 10 years.

“There is no need to clean it… … Grandpa’s stuff is here again!”

Luna smiled brightly and walked through the grass.

As if hurting the grass like that, he pulled my hand as if to come quickly.

“Call chock! eww… … ! dust!”

As Luna lifted the tent, white dust rose.

She motioned to and fro to push the dust away.

“Soft Wind.”

I used magic to push away the dust coming towards us.

“Five… … Ehehe, thank you.”

After saying that, Luna lifted up the entire tent.

“Five.”

It was a hut big enough to fit one or two people, and there were quite a few things arranged in it.

What stood out were two or three books and some tableware.

There was a thin cloth on the floor and there were things like that, so I thought that at least one person would be worth living.

Luna slowly entered the hut and I looked inside.

“Nothing has changed.”

Luna looked inside with a faint smile.

“By the way, why are these things here?”

“Well? Just for no reason? I never thought I had to sort it out… … .”

When I heard that, I tilted my head.

Usually, it is not right to take things from the place of a certain deceased and store them separately.

I could only think of what the intention was.

I went into the hut and reached for the stacked books.

“… … .”

I tried to open the book like that, but I felt uncomfortable because Luna was holding her hand.

“Luna, can I leave this here for a second… … ?”

I looked into Luna’s eyes and said cautiously.

Then Luna glared at me.

“I haven’t put it on yet!”

“okay. I’ll just investigate this and catch it again.”

“Well! good! Then I’ll let you go!”

Luna smiled in satisfaction and put her hand away.

I smiled softly looking at Luna like that, then looked at the book again.

What the hell kind of book was it that you left it like this? In fact, if it were a book that Levin had, even if it was a children’s book, it had tremendous value.

Wouldn’t you like to have anything that belongs to a celebrity?

It was a natural fact that Levi was the admiration of many wizards.

“Well… … .”

I dusted off the book and turned the pages.

“… … What.”

When I opened the book, there were very basic spells written on it.

It was not written by Levin himself, it was a well-printed book.

I turned the page thinking something was strange.

“… … Fireball, Windcutter, Waterball, Windblaster.”

A basic book to read when learning magic for the first time.

Now it was all basic content that I could memorize and write on my own.

I took a closer look to see if there was anything special, so the contents were also insignificant.

It was an old book, so there were more missing parts than what I had learned.

“Why is this book here?”

I looked at the book with bewildered eyes.

“Oh, it was a magic book. I remember seeing it a long time ago.”

“Well? So you haven’t been here except when you were little?”

“yes! I told you. It was dangerous to meet a monster near here. That’s why my dad told me not to go near this place.”

It made sense, but then, wouldn’t it be right to withdraw this hut?

If a monster appears nearby, will all these artifacts be damaged?

Also, as I looked around while coming this way, it was not easy for a monster to come to this area.

Soldiers were patrolling the area, and the outside of the forest was all flat, so if a monster was approaching from another place, you could immediately recognize it.

Even after thinking about it, I had my doubts.

The surrounding soldiers felt as if they were protecting this forest, and it seemed as if they did not collect the books on purpose.

Then why?

Shouldn’t these basic spellbooks be kept in the Railer Mansion?

Also, why did Levin have such a basic spellbook?

When a wizard so talented that he was called the Archmage ran away, did he even have to bring a book like this?

Doubt grew closer to certainty.

“Luna, I have a favor to ask you.”

“yes?”

Luna tilted her head.

“Can you tell me what kind of magic is in this spellbook or what kind of device it has?”

“What is that… … .”

Luna knew more about magic tools than I did, so it was right to ask her.

Luna tilted her head and fiddled with the magic book.

“It doesn’t feel like there’s a specific device… … .”

After saying that, Luna took out the magic book from her shoulder bag.

Then he opened the page on which the analysis magic was written.

It didn’t look like a magic tool, but it might be different from the outside, so I decided to test it once.

“Activate.”

Luna’s magic book lit a bright light, and the book in front of it received the light.

Then, a magic circle popped out of the book in front of it and spread around it.

“… … Eh?”

Luna had a puzzled expression on her face.

“this… … Is it a magic tool?”

I raised an eyebrow at that.

“What kind of magic?”

“… … I don’t know for sure, but it’s closer to hallucinogenic magic.”

Luna looked at the magic circle that spread out with concentration.

“Then can you cancel it?”

“uh… … I think it is possible.”

Luna looked around the magic circle and picked up the book in front of her.

And then threw it to the ground.

Pak-

“Eh?”

“Okay… … ?”

Luna opened the book again.

“Hmm… … It didn’t work.”

Luna tilted her head, looked at me, and tapped the book with her finger.

“Rudy, hit this book so hard.”

“… … Hit the book?”

“It seems that there is another way to solve this… … . It will take some time to figure out how.”

“By the way?”

“This is a magic tool related to hallucinogenic magic. Hallucination magic is characterized by its ability to dissipate immediately when the caster or its magic tool is touched.”

“… … ah.”

In a word, Luna’s words were not to analyze and dispel the hallucination magic, but to break the magic by shocking the magic tool itself.

Rather than untying each knot one by one, cut the knots.

“Good.”

With a satisfied smile, I took the book and left the hut.

“Luna, stay away.”

“yes!”

The magic was not dispelled by the impact Luna threw on the floor.

Obviously, it should give a stronger impact than that.

However, the book should not be damaged.

I have collected a decent amount of mana in my hand.

He threw the book on the floor and aimed it with his fist.

“Suck!”

thump-

I slammed the book down with my fist.

I hit it moderately without applying too much force.

It was strong enough to not damage the book.

“Five.”

Then the book began to shake.

The surface was different from what I had seen before.

“The magic must have been broken.”

Luna ran up to me with a gun.

I listened to the book.

And I read what was written on the surface of the changed book.

“… … Necronomicon, production?”

I tilted my head.

***

Railer’s Mansion.

“Levian, he asked me to hide in the Empire… … .”

“I don’t know the details either. I just followed the voice left by Mr. Levin in his will. He said that there was only one way to protect Luna, so I had no choice but to follow.”

Robert narrowed his brow as he listened to Luna’s father.

“Will you protect Luna?”

“The Empire said that Mr. Levian had fled and arrived here.”

“Well?”

Suddenly, out of context, Robert expressed his doubts.

Luna’s father continued to speak.

“Mr. Levian didn’t come here to run away.”

Robert hardened his complexion at those words.

“You mean you didn’t run away?”

Wasn’t he obviously running away to steal the spell book?

A question crept into Robert’s mind.

Luna’s father looked at Robert like that and shook his head.

“Not what I hear from Mr. Levin. As soon as he arrived at the estate, he came to see me. He asked me to show you a place that is unpopular and inconspicuous. and… … .”

Luna’s father hesitated for a moment before opening his mouth.

“I told you to give Luna the book in front of you when your experiment is over.”

“… … Experiment?”

Robert tilted his head when he heard that he had come here and did an experiment.

If the book is in front of it… … .

“Maybe that’s what Luna is holding.”

“you’re right. He said he would die when the experiment was over, so he asked me to deliver it to him.”

“ah.”

Levian didn’t run away with the spell book.

The magic book wasn’t even made in the lab.

Robert felt like he had been hit in the head with a blunt.

I thought that the magic book was created and ran away with it, but it was completely different.

The spell book was not created, and Robert did not run away, but just came to this land on his own feet.

Since Levin disappeared while the experiment had not been completed, it was natural that the guys who studied together could not create the spell book.

The person in charge of the experiment suddenly disappeared.

‘After the experiment… … Dying?’

Robert’s head became very complicated.

While Robert was organizing his thoughts, Astina, who was next to him, opened his mouth.

“By the way, what does being able to protect Luna mean?”

“Didn’t Levian say that he came for a reason?”

Astina nodded at Luna’s father’s words.

“Lady… … no. Now the ex-great saint Beatrix. You said you came after listening to him.”

“… … Beatrix?”

Astina heard those words and widened her eyes.