Or, why don’t you find another savior?

"The base of the original Rune." Orange answered concisely.

Although she didn't know whether it was true or not, since the girl asked her to challenge Shiomi, she would not lose out either way.

But under normal circumstances, if there was no compelling reason, Shiomi would definitely refuse to fight with Orange, even for a sparring match.

Now it seems that the nameless girl can, to some extent, provide Shiomi with a "last resort" option.

"Hey, hey..." Xi Jian was speechless. "You really are a typical magician. Are you so obsessed?"

"In the final analysis, magic is about obsession, replacing oneself with a mysterious gear." Orange said as a matter of course, "But if my old classmates saw me, they would definitely say that I have fallen."

"Aren't they all dead? If I can see it, it must be weird." Xi Jian was almost speechless.

As he was walking, he suddenly stopped.

"In fact, up to now, there are two other people who have the same Rune Base Plate as me," said Shiomi.

"It must be your two daughters, right?" Orange was not surprised by the answer at all.

Shiomi said: "In fact, the person who taught me the original rune didn't say anything about any restrictions. It was as if he was saying that since these things were given to me, I can do whatever I want with them."

"...You wouldn't say at this time that you want to give me the base..." Orange felt that she was already free-spirited enough, but it seemed that someone was even more free-spirited than her.

"If you don't want it, forget it." Shiomi took another step, "I just felt like it for a moment."

"It's a rather heavy gift. It wouldn't be appropriate to just accept it. Let me think about it." Orange was unusually uncalm.

The magician's hidden genes began to feel a sense of excitement and anticipation because they were able to access the original mystery.

"Whatever you want." Shiomi didn't mind. "By the way, what kind of cursed body did Atram Galiasta want to snatch from Izeluma? I forgot to ask. It's strange to turn back now."

"Oh." Orange said with a slightly different tone, "This is really true. You killed the person without even knowing why he called you."

"Since Madam Inole didn't say no, then it's okay." Xijian laughed.

Orange nodded in agreement, and then told the truth: "What Gariasta wanted to snatch was the blood-stained Bodhi leaf that Izeluma obtained at an auction not long ago."

"Bodhi leaf? And it's stained with blood..." Shiomi immediately came up with the answer from countless legends, "Could it be that the Bodhi leaf blocked the back of the dragon slayer Siegfried when he was bathing in dragon blood?"

"That's right." Orange gave the answer.

"How do you know this? Izeluma has never made it public, right?"

"Because that's the reward I asked for." Orange continued, "I came to Izeluma to attend social gatherings, but in fact, I was commissioned by them to do something."

It is indeed a very important transaction and should be kept confidential.

But compared to what Xi Jian promised her without asking, Chengzi felt that it was completely fine to tell him.

written request for leave

I had to go out for something today and won't be back until very late, so I haven't updated.

Take a day off.

Please understand.

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Chapter 44: Disclosure

Inside the walled workshop, in addition to basic magic supplies such as the Philosopher's Egg and the Distiller, there are also many materials and props needed for Izeroma magic.

And now, Byron Baliuereta Izeroma was in the workshop, destroying something with magic potion.

The things thrown into the fireplace were slowly burning with the magical flame.

Izeluma's magic focuses on the beauty of expression, so it has shortcomings in some more practical applications.

Acts like this of destroying objects require the assistance of magic potions, so that even the best magicians cannot restore the burned objects.

"I'm really anxious."

A voice sounded behind him, and the head of Izeluma turned around hurriedly.

Xi Jiantianxi was leaning against the door of the workshop with a gentle smile on his lips.

"Mr. Shiomi, this is Izeroma's magic workshop. You shouldn't barge in like this." Byron put away his panicked expression, stood up and refuted Shiomi's behavior.

"Generally speaking, as a guest, you shouldn't be so presumptuous." Xi Jian was unmoved, "But our relationship shouldn't be as simple as that of host and guest."

Byron's face was a little stiff, "I don't know what you are talking about, Mr. Shiomi."

"You see, now I am still suspected of killing your two daughters, the Golden Princess and the Silver Princess." Shiomi slowly walked towards Byron.

Logically speaking, the workshop should be the magician's home camp. No matter what kind of magician he is, being in his own home camp is like sitting in a natural fortress. Whoever acts rashly will suffer a fierce counterattack.

It should be so.

Byron, holding his cane, did not dare to act rashly.

If Shiomi did this before Gariasta's men attacked, he would have taken countermeasures.

However, Galiasta's army of magicians was defeated by Shiomi alone, and Atram Galiasta was killed. After watching the entire battle in the Twin Tower, Byron realized that the situation was far beyond his control.

Xijian walked past Byron, squatted in front of the fireplace, reached out and took out the half-burned documents. Rune surrounded the remaining parchment and recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Repaired Rune Magic.

"Oh... a curse that transfers damage. As long as it is used on a specific target, it can even transfer fatal injuries. Generally speaking, using this kind of magic is very risky, after all, there is no way to control the outcome." Shiomi continued, "But if the recipient of this magic is placed on an automaton, it can unexpectedly achieve the goal perfectly."

He turned his head and looked at Byron. "This point is unexpectedly inconsistent with Izeluma's magic style. It must have taken a lot of effort to prepare to this point. In order to frame the whole thing on me and conceal the truth about Izeluma."

"Why did you frame me like this—" Byron maintained his usual composure and asked Shiomi angrily.

"Because the monarch, Baruereta, thought that Izeluma's previously 'stagnant' results had suddenly made progress, which was a bit strange, but it was not convenient to start an investigation within the faction, so he asked me to come to this social gathering to investigate secretly." Shiomi looked at Byron, "Isn't this enough to alert you?"

His words left Byron speechless.

Shiomi did come to this disclosure meeting with a purpose, as Byron had been convinced from the beginning.

"Well, explain that a little, Byron?"

Inolai, who appeared at the entrance of the workshop at some point, spoke in an emotionless tone.

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Later, in the lobby of the Moon Tower.

The guests who had not yet left, as well as Izeluma's twin maids who were responsible for serving the Golden Princess and the Silver Princess, all appeared here.

"It is undeniable that from the beginning I accepted Izeluma's invitation to attend the social gathering where the Golden Princess and the Silver Princess of this generation made their first appearance, with impure motives." Shiomi announced the facts in front of everyone. "The reason is simple. Just before Izeluma decided to hold this social gathering, the monarch, Baruereta, came to see me."

He glanced at Mrs. Inole, who had tacitly agreed for Shiomi to tell the whole story.

From this moment on the matter had become a complete scandal.

Even if Inole changed his mind temporarily and chose to protect Baliuereta, it was bound to make Shiomi stand against the Democrats.

The potential of this up-and-coming magician is no less than that of the current Mage Marshal Barthelmero Lorelaya. Even if he cannot be completely subdued, he should not be allowed to go to the opposite side.

"The reason for asking me to go is very simple. Although Izeluma's research has been good, according to Mrs. Inole's speculation, it will take at least several generations to achieve new results. But not long ago, Izeluma suddenly announced that they have achieved rapid progress." Shiomi crossed his arms and looked at Byron sitting in the middle of the crowd indifferently. "For such an unexpected change, Mrs. Inole will naturally not be rash to believe it. But launching an investigation will bring unrest to the faction, so she came up with a solution."

The solution is to let Xijian Tianxi do it.

Others may not know, but Lord Barueretta knows very well that no one is more suitable than Shiomi to act in the dark and confirm whether what Izeroma shows is true or false.

This is why Shiomi initially accepted the invitation to the social gathering.

"But this matter, which should have been top secret, somehow reached the ears of Mr. Byron." Shiomi looked at Inole, expressing his serious doubts without concealing them.

Mrs. Inole calmly denied it: "I did not leak the secret, and I did not even discuss it within the Barruereta before your investigation came to fruition."

Xi Jian raised his eyebrows, and immediately had the answer in his mind. He stopped asking repeatedly and continued:

"About a short time before this social gathering began, the Golden Princess had died during the adjustment process due to a problem with Izeluma's shaping technique. In other words, when the Golden Princess was found this morning, she had been dead for more than a few days."

For a magician, performing minimal preservation magic is a piece of cake. If it is a necromancer, there is even a way to make a corpse that has been dead for several years still come alive.

As he said this, Kallen appeared in the hall holding something wrapped in a blanket.

She calmly placed the blanket on the ground, and after spreading it out, many people present showed expressions of pity.

The dismembered Golden Princess still looked the same, with a bloody and sad beauty that was hard to bear to look at.

Chapter 45 The Truth

Unlike when the Golden Princess was found dismembered in the early morning, her body was now completely pieced together, but all the joined parts had joint lines made up of runes.

"Even if there is magic used to preserve and cover up the time of death, as long as the body is restored and the runes for the dead are applied, the exact time of death can be determined." Kallen squatted beside the Golden Princess's body. "If necessary... we can even make the Golden Princess speak."

"Talking to the dead." Mrs. Enola said, "No wonder they do this."

She knew the magic trick. It was said that anyone who did not kill the deceased with their own hands could use this magic trick to ask the deceased some questions.

Depending on the time of death and the integrity of the body, there will be some degree of difference in what can be asked.

This was exactly what Kallen intended when she helped restore the Golden Princess' body with magic.

"But since the Golden Princess is dead, in order to cover up this fact and drag me into the water when I came to inquire about the authenticity of the research results, Mr. Byron prepared corresponding means to make me the first eyewitness of the Golden Princess's remains." Xi Jian said here, "But this alone is not enough, so you did something even more cruel."

That was the Silver Princess who personally killed her beloved daughter as the other half of the magic achievement.

"Of course, you didn't kill the Silver Princess immediately. You approached your daughter as usual, knocked her unconscious without releasing her passive skill, and placed her in the spring water of the forest. You connected with Izeluma's automaton through the curse magic that transferred the damage." There was some anger in Shiomi's eyes. "As for the time, it was probably when the Golden Princess came to see me last night."

He was not angry because he was framed, but because he was angry at Byron for being a father who was willing to kill his daughter for his own selfish desires.

Once Shiomi confirms that Izeroma has forged the results of magic and tells it to Inole, it will be a big question whether Izeroma can continue to stay in Baruereta and study the way to the root of the problem.

Being a research-oriented magician, he falsified the most crucial part, which would have become a scandal that could shake the foundation of Baliueretta.

Therefore, it is better to destroy the results at the beginning and then put the blame on the people who are bound to come into contact with the Golden Princess and the Silver Princess.

As for the reasons, they can be blamed on the aristocratic faction later, turning it into a Rashomon.

"But in this case, there is another question. Who is the Golden Princess who appeared at the social gathering?" Lannis asked, "It can't be a fake, right?"

"I can do it. Isn't there a magician here who is the best at transforming the human body?" Shiomi looked at Orange at this time, "Although until recently, I thought you were just attracted by Izeluma's achievements and came here specially at his invitation."

Orange also rarely showed any apology.

Unable to explain the most crucial point clearly, Shiomi chose to remain silent when being framed and wait for the situation to change further.

But so-called credit is something that can be easily shaken.

Besides, Orange had been planning to talk to Xi Jian after the matter was over, and when he saw that he was framed, Orange was already considering whether to reveal the purpose of his trip.

The base of the original Rune is the major weight that tips the scales.

After getting Orange's confession, Shiomi finally completed the last piece of the puzzle of missing information.

Izeluma had forged the results. After the two princesses died one after another, Byron remained calm despite being angry, which made Shiomi begin to believe it.

The only question that puzzled him before was what happened to the Golden Princess who appeared at the social gathering.

"So what is going on..." Lanis continued to ask questions with great interest.

At this time, Xi Jian suddenly raised his hand and pointed to the ceiling.

Everyone looked up following his movements.

Then, a thunderous roar as if the sky was collapsing and the earth was splitting apart suddenly rang out, almost shaking the Twin Towers.

Caught off guard, even top magicians like Mrs. Inole and Orange had to cover their ears to resist the impact of thunder on their bodies.

But in this case, only one person was a beat slow to react.

"Although you can feel the vibration, you can't hear the thunder, Miss Karina." Shiomi slowly put down her hand.

It was still pouring rain outside, and the weather magic cast by Shiomi had not yet ended. He could still easily interfere anywhere in the lake area.

For example, it can cause thunder that cannot cause any real damage, but even the top magicians cannot withstand it directly.

"You have lost your hearing just like your master, the Golden Princess." Shiomi walked up to Karina. "More than that, perhaps from a very early time, you have reached a sync with the Golden Princess' wavelength. This may be because Izeluma's ritual requires such a person, but this has also become an opportunity for you to temporarily replace the Golden Princess."

After that, all that was needed was a cosmetic surgery that no one could notice, adjustments made, and the use of a suitable catalyst, and the maid would be used as a base to temporarily recreate the figure of the Golden Princess.

"Of course, it was not a lie that you came to me last night and asked me to help you escape. It was just that after you and your sister returned, you found that the key Silver Princess was missing, which made your plan useless."

It was also because of this that Kalina, who could not find the whereabouts of the Silver Princess and was reluctant to make it public, almost fainted when she saw the Silver Princess die not long after.

Perhaps at that time, she even thought that it was her desire to escape that killed the Silver Princess.