Became the Patron of Villains - Chapter 620

For a moment after Heinkel spoke.

Alon, who had been quietly looking at the notebook, tilted his head.

“By the way, Lady Heinkel.”

“Hm? Why?”

“This may be a little out of nowhere, but why coordinates all of a sudden?”

At Alon’s question, Heinkel quietly looked at the coordinates, then answered.

“Now that I hear you say it, it is strange, but is it something worth worrying about that much?”

“I was thinking it seemed a little odd.”

Alon subtly shifted his gaze.

There were still more than eight books left that he had received from Heinkel.

In other words, if coordinates were going to be left behind, leaving them later would have been enough.

Then why had Penia placed coordinates after the words Lord Alon?

“Is there any chance the order was reversed?”

At Alon’s question.

Heinkel immediately shook her head.

“No. In the first place, the 7th tier has to be learned in this order.”

“Is that so?”

“You know once you learn it, don’t you? The first spell supports the second, and the second spell supports the third, right?”

Just as Heinkel said, 7th-tier magic had a clear order.

Because even if the attributes and manifestation processes differed, the earlier spells were made to preserve the formulas of the spells that came after them.

In other words, there was no chance Alon and Heinkel had interpreted it incorrectly.

The fact that these coordinates came after “Lord Alon” was Penia’s original intent.

Because of that, as Alon remained deep in thought—

Clap—!

Heinkel suddenly clapped her hands lightly.

“Do not worry about it too much. It is not as if thinking about her intent will let us figure it out, right? More than anything, we do not exactly have time to worry.”

“That is... true.”

Alon nodded.

They certainly did not have much time.

Compared to the eight books he still had to dig through immediately, the time remaining to him was only about a month and two weeks.

......In truth, even that was only a generous estimate. The actual time he had left was a month.

Because around that point, Alon would probably have to cross over to the Empire again.

‘......I should start gathering the kids soon too.’

As Alon thought that while recalling the Empire, Heinkel, who had been watching him from beside him, spoke.

“What are you going to do now?”

“......What do you mean?”

“Shouldn’t you start moving soon? There is not much time left.”

“That is certainly true.”

Alon nodded.

“I was already thinking of gathering people.”

“To try blocking them?”

“It is not as if I can run away. And if the Karma Seats are all allied, as I heard, then I do need to prepare.”

“Prepare? Sounds like you have some kind of plan. Do you have something in mind? The law is— not perfect yet, is it?”

At Heinkel’s curious question, Alon thought for a moment, then spoke.

“I do.”

“Really?”

“Of course, I will have to think about whether it is actually feasible.”

Heinkel nodded with a hmm, then continued.

“Still, that is a relief, that you have something in mind. So what kind of method is it?”

“That is—”

Alon paused for a moment.

“I will tell you later, not now.”

“? Why?”

“I think it would be better to gather everyone and say it all at once.”

He said that.

Heinkel wore a questioning expression, but that did not mean she could just pester him to tell her.

“Mm— well, all right.”

So she nodded.

And that night.

“Deus.”

“Yes, Lord Alon.”

“Could you gather the kids for me?”

“Understood.”

For full-scale preparation, Alon asked Deus to begin gathering the kids.

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Palantia’s central castle.

During the few months Alon had been gone, most of the construction had effectively been completed, and the central castle, at least, had become usable in proper form.

On the upper floor of that place.

“Hmm—”

Reinysius, who had properly taken his position even before Alon for the sake of the magic power supply, wore a strange expression.

It was because of Evan and Ultultus, whom he had been steadily pursuing from before until now.

‘This is not easy.’

Reinysius let out a sigh.

Ultultus’s coordinates were now in a state where he would be able to find them with just a little more effort.

However, apart from that, there was still no major news in Evan’s pursuit.

‘Did it change again?’

Reinysius used the Foot That Runs Through the Past.

Then came the familiar presence.

But that presence was clearly much farther away than the one Reinysius had felt just moments ago.

As though it were mocking him for trying to find Evan’s location.

This had already repeated not just several times, but dozens of times.

Because from Reinysius’s position, no matter how much he researched, this was the only method he had to reach Evan’s coordinates.

In truth, the reason he had stopped by Rosario before was also because he had wondered whether the power of Divine blood might be able to unlock this key, but as expected, it had not gone as he wished.

......Of course, he had obtained information that was extremely helpful, no less valuable than the information Reinysius had wanted so badly—information that seemed usable at this point after just a little experimentation.

In the end, from then until now, he had been continuing this meaningless chase with no major progress.

And yet, despite the fact that he was clearly continuing a chase no different from before, the reason he was wearing such a subtle expression now was—

‘But still, it is definitely shrinking little by little.’

Because the distance was shrinking.

When he first went near the coordinates where Evan was, the coordinates had moved farther away, as if refusing to allow Reinysius to find Evan.

After that, Reinysius continued trying to find Evan’s coordinates, and by the time he was about to reach them, the coordinates always moved farther away.

But at some point, the distance by which the coordinates moved away had begun to gradually shrink.

If he reached a certain degree of closeness, the coordinates definitely moved away.

But the distance it moved was slowly decreasing.

As if it were permitting him to approach slowly.

‘......What in the world.’

Reinysius frowned at this strange phenomenon, but soon shook his head.

Being unable to solve this question gave him curiosity and a little stress, but even so, there was nothing he could do.

Even he, a dragon, could not recklessly enter and investigate the world on the other side beyond this.

In the first place, he had to use an absurd amount of power just to enter it once.

‘Who created something like this—’

Reinysius shook his head, but only for a moment. Soon, he brushed that thought away.

For now, rather than solving his own question, finding Evan first was the correct thing to do.

“Hoo—”

And so Reinysius silently continued his work.

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A week had passed since Alon asked Deus to gather the kids.

“By the way.”

At the sound of Heinkel’s voice, as she was solving formulas with him as usual, Alon stopped looking at the formula he had been reading.

“Did you call me?”

“No, it is not quite that I called you. I just became curious about something.”

“......Curious?”

At Alon’s question, Heinkel nodded.

“The kids have already started arriving, haven’t they?”

“Yes.”

It was just as Heinkel said.

Starting from the fourth day, the kids had been joining Alon at an extremely fast pace.

The first to arrive were Seollang and Elivan, followed by Historia and Ryang-a. After them came Rine and Nangwon, then Magrina and Radan. Arga arrived last.

......Thinking back to the brief commotion caused because Arga had arrived in dragon form, Alon suddenly remembered that Yutia had not come.

‘......They still cannot contact her.’

While Alon was thinking blankly, Heinkel set down the notebook she had been writing in and opened her mouth.

“You have to move now, right? It seems everyone has come.”

At Heinkel’s words, Alon soon came back to his senses and nodded as if she was right.

“That is correct.”

“Then let us go.”

As of today, everyone except Yutia had gathered, so when Alon nodded, Heinkel rose from her seat without hesitation as she spoke.

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Alon also nodded and rose from his seat like that.

Around the time he did—

“But you know.”

“Yes?”

“Over the past few days, did you feel anything?”

Heinkel abruptly asked him a question.

“Yes?”

Alon asked back.

At that, Heinkel seemed about to say something.

“Mm— no. No, it is nothing.”

Then she waved her hand as if to say it was fine.

“? ......Well, understood.”

Though Alon felt puzzled, he turned around.

‘This is not easy—’

Looking at Alon, Heinkel thought blankly.

The reason she had asked Alon that question was because of what had happened over the past few days.

No, rather than what had happened, it was simply that she had watched his everyday life from beside him.

Yes, simply.

There had been nothing special.

She had just watched.

And as a result of watching that everyday life, Heinkel had no choice but to say something like that to Alon today.

Especially from the position of someone who had also witnessed several unpleasant attempted incidents at night that Alon knew nothing about.

......Well, they had been the sort of attempts that made it impossible for her not to say something to Alon.

Because last night, she had thought the Allied Kingdoms might be destroyed about three times.

‘......As expected, is it because of that?’

Thinking that, Heinkel recalled the constraint placed on Alon.

For some reason, the constraint placed on his emotions.

Heinkel could not fully undo that itself either, but.

‘......Should I tell him once and try experimenting?’

Because with the realization she had recently gained, she had found a law that might become another method.

Heinkel looked at Alon and thought that.

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Right after Alon went down underground with Heinkel to meet the kids like that.

In the sky over the Empire—

No, over the Allied Kingdoms.

Creeeak—!

A strange distortion was appearing.

The empty air, where nothing existed, began to crumple and twist on its own.

Soon, space seemed to swell very slightly.

Crunch—!

From that swollen space, a single hand shot out.

A hand wearing a white glove.

The hand that had appeared in the sky over the Allied Kingdoms repeatedly stretched out and clenched, then slowly began to pull itself out through the narrow space.

Tududududuk—!

Soon, the narrow space gradually stretched apart as if someone were tearing it by force, and a dark space like an abyss began to show.

And.

Crack—!

When the opened space was completely torn apart like that.

A woman walked out from within.

Long, pale-purple hair that came down to her waist.

Eyes the same violet as her hair, looking as though they were full of confidence.

And finally, a face filled to the brim with self-assurance was revealed.

[Mm—]

The woman who had torn through space and emerged like that made an mm sound as she looked down at the ground once, then soon formed a satisfied smile.

[From the look of it, I seem to have come out well.]

Looking at the ground as if it was not bad at all, she stretched wide and moved left and right, in a way that did not match the casual-feeling dress she wore, which was appropriately mixed with white and the same pale purple as her hair.

Soon, she opened and clenched her hand two or three times, wearing a subtle expression.

[Mm— did I come out too quickly after all—]

She repeatedly clenched and opened her hand several times, as if dissatisfied.

But only for a moment.

As if deciding it was fine, she lightly shook out her hand, shifted her gaze once, and with a satisfied smile on her lips again—

[Now then, shall we go?]

She began moving toward the Mage Tower.