I'm really not a top magician

As soon as she entered the mausoleum, she felt that the surrounding atmosphere was filled with magic. Because giant dragons once lived here, the environmental structure here was completely different from that on the ground. There were even many dangerous fantasy creatures living here.

Thinking of this, Lorelai suddenly thought of the end of the Age of Gods.

At that time, due to the decline of the great source magic power on the surface of the world, it became no longer suitable for the survival of the Gods, so a large number of Gods, dragons, fairies, etc. came to live in the inner side of the world, such as the legendary Gensokyo.

Although this place cannot be called the inner world, the structure of this lower world is indeed more suitable for the life of fantasy species compared to the surface world.

However, Lorelai was not very interested in the environment here. She specially summoned the other 11 monarchs of the Clock Tower here today to hold a resolution on the crown.

Arriving at the area 40~60km underground,

This area is called the Ancient Heart

This name is also because the heart of the dragon was also excavated here.

After the heart of the light dragon was mined, a huge cavity was left here, which was then used as a special sacrificial site.

Because the dragon's heart is an extremely powerful magic core, and to protect the core, the dragon bones covering the heart are the strongest mysterious barrier on the map (but in reality, the dragon bones in this area are completely indestructible, and not even fragments have been mined).

Therefore, no matter how fierce the battle is in this cave, it will not affect the outside world.

In addition, it is believed that the reason why the heart is located here is that the defensive barrier of the passage is too strong, and the dragon's body can only move forward so far.

There is a portal leading directly to the mining city. It is usually sealed, isolating it from any outside interference.

The dam (seal) will only be opened when the Grand Council convenes, and the ancient heart will be immersed in unique magical power.

It should have been only a few days since the last meeting of all the monarchs of the Clock Tower. After all, the Crown Resolution that summoned all the monarchs of the Clock Tower was intended to deal with some very important matters. According to past habits, it was very normal to hold a meeting once a year.

But this year, the Crown Resolution Meeting was held for the third time.

The first time was for the awarding of the title to Aika Sajo.

The second time was a few days ago when the Crown Resolution was passed to officially recognize Barthemello Lorelei as the monarch of Barthemello.

If the awarding of the crown to Aika Sajo and the succession of Lord Barthelmero were indeed matters that could affect the future of the Clock Tower, then the reason why Lorelei wanted to hold a resolution on the crown this time was simply because of a trivial matter that seemed insignificant to others.

——The Fuyuki Holy Grail War had ended eight hours ago.

Lorelai officially entered the venue,

The other eleven monarchs had already arrived, including Lord El-Melloi who had just returned from Fuyuki City.

This is Lorelai's second time participating in the crown decision.

The only difference is that last time she participated as a representative of Barthemero, but this time she participated as the monarch of Barthemero.

When Lorelei entered the meeting room, the original discussion in the meeting hall subsided slightly, and all the monarchs turned their eyes to the young monarch, who was also the convener of this meeting.

"Lord Barthemelo, why have you summoned us this time?"

An elderly woman in the crowd spoke first. This woman was Baru Yereta, the monarch. Although already elderly, her abilities were considered top-tier among the magicians of the Color Rank. Moreover, she had trained the Grand Rank magician Aozaki Touko and was a leader of the Democratic School, making her a very difficult person to deal with.

Regarding a newcomer like Lorelei, Baruyereta's words were filled with deliberate provocation. On the one hand, the two parties were leaders of the aristocratic and democratic schools of thought, so a quarrel was natural. On the other hand, the urgent summons of twelve monarchs to discuss the crown meant that the matter was likely no small matter.

Of course, this idea was not only shared by Lord Baruyeleta. The other monarchs present also focused their attention on him, hoping to get a proper answer.

Chapter 324 Crown Decision

"I think everyone is aware of the unusual movement in the Pacific Ocean a few days ago."

Lorelai began to speak.

"Although we initially thought it was just a phenomenon of the Pacific Rim's spiritual veins going berserk, after the Legal Affairs Department's investigation, we discovered that the spiritual veins at the time were not actually going berserk, but rather being stimulated."

As soon as Lorelai finished speaking, the scene suddenly became noisy.

The disturbances in the Pacific Ocean at that time were extremely terrifying. Because the spiritual veins of the four oceans were interconnected, the disturbances in the Pacific Ocean subsequently led to abnormal phenomena in the other four oceans, including volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, earthquakes...

Although the matter was serious, no one took it seriously at the time, so it was just a natural disaster that only happens once in a century, not a big deal.

But the result of Lorelai's investigation just now was a very important discovery.

The spiritual vein itself did not go out of control, but was stimulated.

The spiritual vein is a permanent and fixed flow of magical power within the earth itself. Because the magical power it possesses is very high, many magicians will build their magic workshops on the spiritual vein in order to utilize the power of the spiritual vein to perform large-scale experiments.

Precisely because spiritual veins are so powerful, most magicians only focus on guiding and utilizing them.

Make full use of the magic power of the spiritual vein and guide it according to the characteristics of the spiritual vein.

But these are all normal uses, but it is inevitable that there will be reverse uses.

That is to stimulate the spiritual veins,

By stimulating the spiritual veins, the flow of the spiritual veins will be temporarily disrupted.

However, if it is just stimulation, it is not enough to surprise so many monarchs present, so many knowledgeable magicians are able to influence the spiritual veins.

But what surprised the monarchs present was the extent of this excitement.

The Pacific Spiritual Vein itself was a relatively stable one, and being able to stimulate it was a truly remarkable feat. Even more remarkable was the fact that the other oceans were stimulated in a chain reaction. While this transmission of energy would logically lead to energy loss, the disturbances in the Atlantic Spiritual Vein, even stretching from the Pacific to the Atlantic, could truly be described as a natural disaster.

It is conceivable how powerful the changes occurring in the Pacific mainland are.

Let's reason backwards a step further.

Since it can cause such a degree of abnormal movement, the stimulation it causes is definitely not of ordinary level, but of natural disaster level.

This is also the reason why many monarchs present were surprised.

What's more, that place is Far East Japan, where magic is scarce. It is really hard to imagine that a major natural disaster-level event would occur there.

"Could it be...the Holy Grail War?"

Amidst the bustling discussion, Kenneth El-Melloi suddenly spoke.

When the unusual movement occurred, he was still in Fuyuki, so he was able to sense the unusual movement.

But he was at the scene, so he knew clearly who did it.

This was done by Shatiao Aige.

But Kenneth didn't say this.

"Yes, it was the Holy Grail War in Fuyuki," Lorelai said, "or more specifically, it was the Heroic Spirits they summoned that did it."

After realizing that Kenneth did not choose to give up Sajo Aige, Lorelai began to gradually reveal her purpose this time.

"Heroic Spirit?"

Lord Baruyereta repeated the word over and over again, "But I remember that Fuyuki's Holy Grail was just a counterfeit."

Although other monarchs had little interest in the Fuyuki Holy Grail, believing it to be nothing more than a trick made by country folk, after all, the Clock Tower, the highest institution of magic, had not yet created the Holy Grail, so how could country folk possibly understand it?

However, Baruyeleta did become interested at the time, but after finding out that the Holy Grail was just a forgery, he did not continue to investigate further.

Lorelai nodded in agreement with Baruyereta's statement, and the other monarchs present also stopped their speculations and focused their attention on the two people.

"Although it's a knockoff, it's a powerful device that shouldn't be underestimated. Just the system for summoning Heroic Spirits, and the Holy Grail, as advertised, can indeed grant the victor's wish. I bet everyone here is envious, right?"

Lorelai glanced at everyone present with a serious look.

It was indeed as Lorelai said, everyone did have a certain degree of interest in this Heroic Spirit System, but the most attractive thing was that the fake Holy Grail could really grant wishes.

These two were enough to get the Clock Tower involved.

"I think....the Holy Grail War is a good ritual."

"Yes, as a magic ritual, it is also the magician's alchemist's stone."

"Since it's an alchemist stone, I think it would be a good idea for the Clock Tower to send one or two people there to train with it."

At once, everyone started discussing participating in the Holy Grail War.

Some even made more outrageous suggestions.

"I think since the Holy Grail System is such a great thing, why not move it to our Clock Tower? With our more advanced technology, perhaps we can make the Holy Grail War even larger in scale."

"This is a good suggestion. I agree with it."

"I agree. The study of magic is what we at the Clock Tower should be studying."

Many people at the scene were discussing the issue of relocating the Holy Grail.

Seeing this, Lorelai felt like laughing. If Sajo Aika saw this, she would definitely curse:

"These shameless old foxes say they're helping you maintain the Holy Grail and develop magic, but all they care about is business, how to use the Holy Grail's wishing system to achieve their own goals. They're even so shameless as to suggest sending people over, or even moving the Holy Grail directly."

"It sounds nice to say, relocating the Holy Grail, but in reality, they just want to take the Holy Grail away from Fuyuki. But because of their image, they can't say it directly."

"In the final analysis, Yale-Saxon civilization is a civilization of maritime pirates. Isn't the lesson of the American Indians enough?"

Although Lorelai's daily education didn't cover these aspects, she didn't quite understand the specific meaning of Sajo Aika's words. However, she did feel that these monarchs were still too hypocritical.

"So, Lord Barthelmero's convening of the Crown Resolution this time is about the Fuyuki Holy Grail War?" Baruyeleta did not fall into the empty promises just now. She quickly reacted and asked back.

He is truly an old fox.

Lorelai shook her head and explained:

"Like everyone else, I'm very interested in the Fuyuki Holy Grail. However, it seems our Fuyuki Holy Grail has run into a little trouble..."

Chapter 325 Investigating Fuyuki

"It's just that our Fuyuki Holy Grail seems to have run into some trouble..."

At this point, Lorelai suddenly paused.

Seeing that she was keeping it a secret, everyone quickly said, "Lord Barthemelo, there's no need to keep it a secret. Tell me now."

It was not until this moment that everyone began to address her as the monarch.

Human nature is like this. When you're useful to them, they'll adore you, address you with beautiful words, flatter you, and praise you. When you're happy to help them out with something in exchange for these compliments, they'll initially be grateful. But over time, as they grow accustomed to these rewards, they'll take them for granted and continue to demand more. If you don't meet their demands, they'll secretly undermine you, harm you, and target you until you've completely lost your threat. Everyone is pursuing profit, using whatever means necessary!

Such are the politics of the Clock Tower,

In fact, Lord El-Melloi should be the one who feels this the most. When El-Melloi is in crisis, all the allied families, even the subordinate families, do not think of helping at the first time, but to fight back and want to gain greater benefits from this mess.

Lorelai had long seen through all of this in the Clock Tower.

Lorelai pulled out several documents from her bosom and used magic to hand them to each of the monarchs present. Then, she explained in a serious tone:

"Last night, at 2:30 a.m. Fuyuki time, the same magical fluctuations as the last Pacific Ocean disturbance appeared near Fuyuki again, but this time the magical fluctuations did not produce the same effect as last time."

"But the weird part is behind."

"As this wave of magical energy ended, we discovered that Fuyuki City had disappeared."

Hearing this, everyone present also felt strange.

"What do you mean by disappearing?" Kenneth El-Melloi asked first.

"Literally disappear."

Lorelai's face took on a serious expression, "Fuyuki City has completely disappeared from the map."

Everyone looked at the image displayed by Lorelei's magic.

This image is a bird's-eye view taken from a high altitude.

There are two images in total. The one on the left is an aerial view of Fuyuki City.

In the second image, the environment at the edge of the image did not change at all, but in the center of the image, where the original Fuyuki city area was located, an astonishingly large pit appeared.

Everyone present realized the seriousness of the matter.

Although the scale of Fuyuki City is comparable to big cities like London and Manchester, Fuyuki is still a city after all.

But even such a city, the urban area and the hills within a radius of a hundred miles have all disappeared.

It leaves a big hole...

"Was it that magical fluctuation?" Lord Baruyereta pressed. She lifted her back from the chair and leaned forward, her chin resting on her hands. She, too, was deeply interested in the matter.

But her interest lies in what kind of method can make a city disappear completely?

“That’s unclear at the moment.”

Lorelai shook her head, dismissing Baruyereta's idea. She then explained, "According to the intelligence sent by our Law and Politics Department, there seems to be a barrier around the edges of these pits. It seems as if the contents of the pits are isolated by this barrier. But according to the Law and Politics Department's speculation, this barrier seems to be related to space. Therefore, I speculate that someone has transported this area to an independent dimension."

For a moment, the scene fell into deathly silence.

This kind of thing reminds everyone of the inherent barrier,

However, the inherent barrier is to draw the objects and people in it into its own mental world.

But no one has ever heard that the inherent barrier can swallow up an entire city-sized area.