Chapter 278
By the time Lunia arrived at the Great Hall, Eiran had already been learning the ‘Sword of Animus’ technique from Leo.
“Eiran. If you were going to go first, why didn’t you tell me?”
“L-Lunia? Why are you here?”
“What are you talking about? We agreed to go together earlier?”
Eiran flinched and shook her shoulders as she watched Lunia’s expression of bewilderment.
“T-that’s right! We agreed to go together! I forgot!”
Lunia stared at Eiran, who was smiling awkwardly and trying to cover up, and said, “Eiran, you’ve been imagining something strange again…”
“Whoa!”
Eiran, whose face turned red, grabbed Lunia and covered her mouth.
Lunia shook Eiran off and teased Eiran with a mischievous laugh.
“What? What were you thinking again? Maybe Leo and…”
“Miss Lunia! Leo might misunderstand! I didn’t think of that! I didn’t!”
Eiran covered Lunia’s mouth with a sad face and shook her head violently.
“Ugh!? Ugh! Ugh!”
When Eiran covered her mouth and nose with her hand, Lunia started to struggle wildly.
However, there was no way Lunia, a summoning sorcerer, could shake off Eiran with brute force.
“You shouldn’t say weird things. Do you understand? Do you understand?”
Unable to grasp the state Lunia was in, Eiran tightly closed her eyes and shook her head violently, putting more strength into the hand blocking Lunia’s windpipe.
Leo, who had been staring at her, spoke. “Eiran.”
“Yes, yes! Leo!”
“She’s really going to die if you do that?”
“Yes? What… Huh?!”
Eiran was startled when she discovered Lunia lying flat on her back.
“Luniaaaaaaaaa!”
Leo muttered as he watched Eiran shaking Lunia violently while screaming.
“They’re getting along well.”
“Huh…”
Lunia waved her hand as she saw Eiran kneeling in front of her, her ears hanging down.
“Don’t worry too much. I was just teasing you.”
Then she looked at Leo.
“If you were teaching Eiran first, should we take the same class to review?”
“It’s okay. You and Eiran will learn different sorceries.”
“Different sorceries?”
“Yes.”
Leo explained to Lunia the same thing he had explained to Eiran.
Lunia narrowed her eyes as she listened to the story of the Xian Empire.
‘What on earth is this?’
Leo always dug into the secrets of the world that no one had been able to reach for a long time.
‘That’s true even when it comes to things related to Luna.’
If you looked at what Leo had accomplished, he had already surpassed what a hero candidate could do.
Lunia looked at Leo with a complicated expression.
“I’m going to teach you the sorcery left behind by the Poet of the Stars, in addition to the End.”
“The sorcery left behind by the Poet?”
“Yes. It was a sorcery recorded like the Sword of Animus.”
“I want to see that book.”
“Unfortunately, I was allowed to view it in the Xian Empire, but I wasn’t allowed to take it out.”
He lied that the sorcery that recorded Luna’s works was the legacy of Xian.
The Xian Empire was a great empire that kept many secrets.
That was why it was perfect for him to make excuses like this.
‘This is really convenient.’
Leo smiled to himself.
She looked at Leo with slightly suspicious eyes, but she couldn’t express her doubts anymore since he had brought up the Xian Empire.
“Yes. What kind of sorcery are you going to teach me?”
Lunia glanced at Eiran.
There was envy on her face.
‘I didn’t think the Erquint would still be around.’
Erquint.
It was a legendary sword whose existence was known through the Hero Records, but the actual sword had never been found.
The Divine Blacksmith, Dweno, made it for Luna, the Poet of the Stars, and Luna passed it down to her disciple, the Fairy Knight Velkia.
However, the original was thought to have been lost during the Age of Disaster and was only known to the Ersar family as a Hero Weapon, a reward for conquering the Hero’s Trials.
Thus, it was an ancient sword that was barely known even among the elves.
Of course, those who had studied the deeds of the Great Hero knew of its existence.
The legendary sword was returned to the successor of the Ersar family.
This would have turned elven society upside down.
‘Does Leo think of Eiran as a little special?’
If you thought about it, it was Leo who had made Eiran, who had been refusing to go to school, come back to school.
Additionally, Eiran’s personality was different from Lunia’s own—she was gentle, quiet, and above all, cute.
When Lunia was lost in her thoughts, Leo continued. “Fire sorcery.”
“Fire sorcery?”
“Yes.”
Leo spread his palm and drew a sorcery circle using threads of mana, representing one of the Origin spells created by Luna.
“The name of the spell is Flame Emperor,” Leo said seriously, looking into Lunia’s eyes that seemed to be burning with intensity. “In theory, it’s a flame that never goes out.”
Lunia’s eyes widened in surprise.
So did Eiran’s.
A flame that would never go out.
They knew what that meant.
The Evil of the Beginning.
A terrifying disaster that had brought the world to the brink of destruction.
The black flame of Erebos was famous for being a flame that would never go out.
Luna was unable to overcome that flame and lost her life.
The people of today did not know Luna’s end.
Only Leo, who had witnessed it, knew the death of his friend.
The sorcery of blossoming flowers was the sorcery that Luna had truly wanted to create.
Stella Radius was a spell that symbolized Luna herself, and End was a spell that contained her will to defeat everything in her path.
And Flame Emperor was a sorcery that Luna created to fight against the hateful black flame that took so much from her.
‘I didn’t finish it.’
Although it was a spell created by Luna, it did not suit her.
‘If Dweno had learned the Sorcery of the Stars, he might have been able to complete it.’
As far as Leo knew, Dweno was the one who had used the most powerful flames, excluding those of Erebos.
‘It didn’t work for me either.’
It was a spell that even Kyle, who inherited both Luna’s sorcery and Dweno’s flame, couldn’t complete.
Leo inherited Dweno’s power, but for him, Dweno’s flame was a double-edged sword.
Dweno’s flame was powerful.
Yet the moment it exceeded a certain level of firepower, it would even burn Dweno himself.
Leo did not have the innate resistance to flames that Dweno possessed.
Lunia looked at the Flame Emperor.
“This sorcery is… unfinished.”
“That’s right. The same goes for the Animus Sword that I will teach to Eiran. You both must complete it.”
Luna had only created the framework of the Origin Sorcery.
Although it was nearly perfectly crafted, the sorcery did not activate with the framework alone.
The one who activated it was the learner.
Leo was also the one who had ultimately completed the spell called Innocence.
“It might be harder to learn than the End, and it could be dangerous.”
Leo knew best how dangerous a flame that was difficult to control could be.
He put away the sorcery spell and looked at Lunia.
Lunia snorted at him.
“It doesn’t matter. If Luna created an undying flame, then I, as her elf descendant, should understand best what that means.”
Lunia also grasped Luna’s intention.
“If this sorcery is unfinished… it means that Luna was unable to fulfill her will.”
Lunia took a deep breath.
“Leo, you restored Luna’s wish—the sorcery of blossoming flowers—and returned it to us elves. If Luna were alive, she would have been so happy.”
Lunia’s red eyes sparkled.
“That’s why I want to fulfill Luna’s will, too.”
Lunia’s chest puffed out.
“We are the descendants of the great Poet of the Stars. We have a duty to fulfill her will.”
Leo smiled at those words.
“I think Luna would have been thrilled to hear that.”
“Hmph! Of course,” Lunia replied coolly, a slight blush to her cheeks.
“So! Should we start by interpreting the spell?”
“No, there are two sorceries you need to learn before that.”
“What are they?”
“You must learn the sorcery of blossoming flowers.”
The sorcery of blossoming flowers.
At first glance, it seemed to be a spell that simply made flowers bloom.
‘In reality, it’s a very simple sorcery effect that ends there.’
However, in terms of difficulty, it was the most challenging of the Sorcery of the Stars.
It was a spell that literally contained Luna’s essence.
“Isn’t there anyone among the elves who can use the sorcery of blossoming flowers?”
“No. None.”
Eiran perked up her ears.
The reason the sorcery of blossoming flowers was so difficult to master was because it was a spell that entered the realm of birth itself.
It made flowers blossom without any restrictions, even in a barren place.
A miracle that transcended regular sorcery.
It wasn’t an exaggeration to say that it was a great sorcery that had half-stepped into the realm of gods.
‘The fact that this great sorcery, which has entered the realm of miracles with that genius, could only produce the effect of making flowers bloom shows how eccentric of a person she was.’
Leo thought that if Luna had heard his thoughts, she would have grabbed him by the collar and shaken him like crazy.
“Once you can use the sorcery of blossoming flowers, you’ll be able to learn any spells of the Sorcery of the Stars. That spell is literally the essence of the Sorcery of the Stars.”
At Leo’s words, Lunia recalled Leo modifying the arcane magic of the Lunda family to suit himself.
‘Even my family’s arcane magic is ultimately a part of the Sorcery of the Stars… so everything really does come from the sorcery of the Poet.’
Lunia felt one of her internal questions being resolved.
“Then until then, are we going to hold off on learning the Sword of Animus and End?”
“No. We can practice separately. Eiran will learn how to control the fairy’s sorcery from this guy.”
Leo snapped his fingers.
Then, a summoning circle opened and Kiran appeared.
[Here I am.]
“Kiran, it’s been a while.”
[Oh! It’s been a while! Lewd elf!]
“W-why am I a lewd elf?”
[Why? You think Leo and that other bad elf over there did this and that just because they were together in the same room…]
Whack! Whack! Whack!
Eiran grabbed Kiran and shook him roughly.
[Eeeeeeeeek!]
Kiran, who was caught, struggled in Eiran’s hands as if he had been put in a threshing machine.
“That fairy is still the same as always.”
Lunia glanced at Kiran and made a smug expression.
“You should be more elegant and dignified like Fiora. So, Leo, what about me?”
“You need to get more familiar with flames than you are now. Wouldn’t it be better to start by training yourself to get used to Fiora’s flames?”
Leo said that as he summoned Fiora.
“…”
Lunia looked at Fiora, who appeared on Leo’s palm with a blank expression.
Cheep-!
Fiora lifted her wing as if she was happy.
Cheep-! Cheep-!
In Fiora’s mind, Lunia was imprinted as someone who gives delicious things.
That’s why she cheeped wildly as if she wanted something, and jumped on Leo’s palm, flapping her wings to fly to Lunia.
Flap-! Flap! Thump-! Tumble-!
And then, instead of flying, she crashed to the ground and rolled to Lunia’s feet.
Cheep-! Cheep-!
“What on earth did you do to Fiora?”
Lunia glared and grabbed Leo by the collar.
Leo said, “I’ll tell you this clearly. I did nothing wrong. How was I supposed to know that she would go around begging for snacks from everyone in our school’s Summoning Department?”
Fiora was currently so fat that she couldn’t even fly properly.
Cheep- Cheep-!
Looking at Fiora, who had become a fat chick and was rolling around like a ball, Lunia held her head.
Fiora, who had been struggling, regained her balance and stood up, cheeping at Lunia’s feet for snacks.
“Fiora, don’t worry. I’ll definitely make sure you diet well.”
Kiran muttered as he escaped from Eiran’s hand, looking at Lunia, who was holding Fiora tightly in her arms and making a promise. [If I leave her alone for a week, she’ll grow 1.5 times bigger.]
Leo sighed at those words.
‘An obese Phoenix, a mischievous Fairy Prince banished by the Fairy King for playing around, and a perverted Pegasus. Why are all my summons like this?’
Leo was thankful that Elsie was normal.
