"Wait a minute. His Majesty?Her Majesty...?"
A quick glance scanned Julia's luxurious clothes and the luxurious furniture in the room she was in.
Adele's jaw dropped.
"Oh, I didn't have time to tell you..."
Julia smiled faintly at the dumbfounded Adele. Then she turned to Endymion and said.
"Boris, is this possible? What is my magic doing to Mion without me knowing?"
"Hmm. I don't feel anything."
Endymion said as he put down the documents he was hastily processing. Boris approached him, rummaged through his arms, and quickly pulled out a small magical tool to examine Endymion.
As luck would have it, it was the magic detector that had been invented just yesterday. It was a combination of Julia's magic and Boris's technology that could detect magic.
Knock knock.
"Ouch! There's a reaction!"
Boris held up a magical tool that was shooting sparks. Julia accepted it with surprised eyes.
'If this is reacting, it means that a spell is currently cast on Mion.'
"Do you feel anything, Your Majesty? Since I can't feel anything, I think it must be some kind of magic beyond my ability."
Boris muttered in a lowered voice.
Julia tried to gather her wits and senses, but her body, which Pal had personally praised as being sensitive to magic, was unable to find anything.
"No. It's strange. I don't feel anything either.
"Well, I don't understand. Should I ask the Lord of the Tower?"
Everyone was puzzled by the strange phenomenon they had discovered unexpectedly. At that moment... Adele, who had been rolling her eyes and observing the situation, raised her hand and spoke.
"Excuse me... Can I help you?"
The eyes of the three who had been wrapping their heads and worrying gathered.
"There's something I made called a relaxation potion. It's something you take when you want to do nothing and just rest, and it slows down your body's reactions. I tried it first when it was released, and it temporarily stopped me from using my magic power."
Adele rummaged through the bag, saying that if she took the antidote, she would immediately return to normal. Then she immediately took out two small vials and handed them to Julia.
"Yes? Is there something like that? It's an effect that doesn't make sense to me."
Boris, who was burning with enthusiasm for learning, felt a little bit of hurt pride. He looked at the medicine with cold eyes.
"Of course, I made it."
"Somehow I don't like it."
"Huh? What did you say?"
As Boris muttered suspiciously, Adele smiled brightly and asked. Then, a prickly Boris picked up the vial and asked Julia to take care of the future.
"Because the Lord of the Tower told me to protect the Queen. If I make a mistake, the Queen can decipher it for me, so I will check it myself."
"No, wait a minute. I'm a good pharmacist, no, a businessman. Are you saying that I'm selling poison to my customers?"
Adele grumbled as if Boris was about to pour a bottle of medicine into his mouth. Boris pretended not to hear her and took a small bite before Julia could stop him.
"Hmm. I feel a little dizzy. Where, let me use some magic.. Huh?"
"Am I right?"
Adele was proud. Boris looked shocked and dumbfounded as he tried the basic small flame magic, and the fire on his fingertips died down.
"I, who have been locked up in the magic tower and training all this time, there are still so many things I don't know..."
Boris was shocked and drank the antidote. Then, just as Adele had said, he returned to normal.
Julia took the tested medicine and took a sip, smiling awkwardly.
"How is it?"
Endymion asked, waiting with the antidote at his side, fully prepared to recapture Adele at any moment, just in case.
In fact, Julia was not in much danger thanks to the protective magic that Pal had given her and her body's own detoxification function. However, since she always felt good about being taken care of like this, Julia didn't bother to stop him.
"Um... I feel really energetic right now. To an excessive degree, even."
Julia sat on the sofa, looking curious. Adele, who had been growling with Boris, added with a bright face.
"The medicine is taking effect! The golden power that surrounded Madam, no, Your Majesty, has faded considerably."
"Really? That's good. If the magic power leaking out disappears, the magic currently on Mion will be broken, so you can see what it is."
As Julia was examining the body and speaking softly. Endymion suddenly stumbled, touching his forehead.
"Your Majeaty?"
"Mion!"
A startled Julia caught Endymion leaning forward.
"It's okay."
Endymion straightened up and met her eyes, as if he too was surprised.
A man who had never been sick before was dizzy. Julia looked at his face in surprise.
"Mion, your face looks a little pale."
Boris also opened his eyes wide and muttered to himself.
"What kind of magic was used to suddenly make people like this? It's as if the life force is being sucked out of them."
But at that moment, this time, Julia was smart. It was as if a chain reaction had occurred.
"Uh?"
As Julia let out a surprised breath, Endymion quickly caught her. Boris and Adele looked surprised from the side.
"Are you both okay?"
"No way! Could it be because of magic? Try taking the antidote right away!"
Adele picked up the antidote that had fallen on the sofa and handed it to Julia. She took it and drank it and immediately felt the dizziness disappear.
"Phew. It's okay now."
"Oh, Your Majesty, your complexion has improved again!"
"The magic power is starting to flow again!"
Boris and Adele shouted in succession.
Julia looked at Endymion, who was studying her closely. The two of them were completely normal, as if nothing had happened.
"Don't you think something is strange?"
"Yeah. I feel like the magic that's been cast on me can't be stopped."
Endymion said softly.
Certainly, when she cut off the magic, she felt a momentarily overwhelming feeling. Thinking back, she thinks it was because even her goodness couldn't withstand the force that had surged in.
'So if I don't use any magic normally, I should be like that?'
Julia furrowed her brows at the strange conclusion. But then, something flashed through her mind.
"Mion! When I first trained with Pal, do you remember what Pal said?"
"Wow! This is more incredible than I thought? You're saying that this much magical power can be controlled with just this?!"
Julia looked back at Endymion and Boris. They both remembered.
Julia opened her mouth cautiously.
"It's just a hypothesis, but I think, thanks to Mion, people didn't find out I was a wizard for a long time."
Magic power that she was using without even knowing it. Magic power that was so excessive and abundant that her body wouldn't be able to withstand it if she had it all.
"It was a magical power that surprised even the eight-legged. What if it wasn't because the ring hid my power, but because it consumed magical power like Adele did?"
Adele extracted countless magical powers by making them into potions and selling them. Thanks to that, her presence in the Magic Tower was not detected.
So what if she had also been supplying magical power to Endymion for the past twelve years while maintaining his spell?
"Well, certainly if we assume that the principles in both cases are the same, then it is possible. But what kind of magic is it that requires so much magical power?!"
Boris, still in shock, blinked.
Julia had never been detected as a sorcerer until she recently took off her ring. It was a spell that had drained so much magic for so long.
"Adele, shall we go to another room together? Boris, I need to ask Pal right now. It seems like it's a matter that concerns both Mion and me."
Julia stood up and then suddenly stopped talking. Adele and Endymion, who had been standing up as well, quickly supported her.
"Why? Are you feeling unwell again?"
"No, wait. Oh my god..."
Julia opened and closed her lips repeatedly.
It was as if the magical power that had filled her body earlier had thrown her a key. It felt as if all the knots that had been tangled in her head had been untied at the same time.
Julia quickly explained to everyone.
"When I used magic in the royal garden, my magical power exploded, right? And before that, when I fought Chiara. But I was fine at Duke Moffat's castle and the magic tower. That's when I was with Mion."
Pal was supposed to be stable because her magical power recognized Endymion as its master, but that wasn't true. It was stable because it was constantly consumed when it was with Endymion!
"Then it all explains. My immense magical power went undetected for a long time, and I was only quiet when Mion was around."
Adele was the proof that it was possible. Proof that one could hide one's existence by eliminating magic.
Both Endymion and Boris looked quite shocked by the conclusion that fit perfectly.
"The only thing left is what kind of magic was cast on Mion. But when I cut off the magic earlier, Mion's health didn't seem to be getting better..."
"It must have something to do with life."
Endymion answered immediately. Boris and Adele's eyes widened, and Julia nodded with slight surprise.
"I shouldn't jump to conclusions, but... yeah."
"Contact the owner of the tower immediately."
"Yes, yep!"
Boris ran out and brought the communication device. Adele was busy trying to answer Julia's additional questions and prepare herself mentally.
She was caught selling medicine, learned the royal family's enormous secrets, and even contacted the magician. She suddenly found herself terribly entangled.
A few minutes later, a connection was established with the tower.
"What should I do? I've been feeling unwell all of a sudden lately, and it's hard to stay conscious. I think I'll have to hibernate and rest tomorrow."
But the answer she heard from Pal was unexpected.
It seemed that a dark, damp aura had spread across the entire continent, not just the Magic Tower, and that Pal had been using up a lot of energy to purify it. It seemed that he had accumulated so much fatigue that he was at his limit.
"Are your arms and body okay?"
"If you get enough rest, there'll be no problem! I'll recover as quickly as possible and get up. In the meantime, Semele, please take good care of the Magic Tower and the continent."
He rubbed his eyes, trying not to fall asleep, as Pal, filled with sleep, said. Julia nodded and asked impatiently.
"Hey, Pal, am I right in my guess? And do you know what the magic on Mion is? You said something strange last time."
Since Endymion is closed, he said it's a bit too hot, right? When leaving the magic tower, he cast a protective spell.
"That's probably right. I also vaguely felt the magical power between you two the moment you left. But since you had already left the magic tower, it was too ambiguous to intervene, so I couldn't say anything."
Pal yawned and answered.
"Don't worry. You said Adele, right? I'll have to see for myself to be sure, but it's probably the same as Julia's. It's probably because my strength has weakened recently."
Pal muttered as he held back his eyelids that were being forced shut. When he woke up, he would have to do a thorough investigation to see if there were any other kids he had missed.
"Actually, this, um. I wasn't supposed to tell you, but I figured it out myself... Well, this much, haaam."
The voice gradually became fainter. It was as if he were fainting, and Julia, startled, grabbed the communication port.
"Pal? Come on!"
"Life, related stuff. That's right. That's right... Yeah, it's good that you two got married. You both survived."
"What?"
Pal half-closed his eyes. As if he were falling asleep against his will, his voice mumbled until the very end.
"Julia, you can use your magic power as much as you want. But that's... not just one. There's another one..."
Tick, tick. Tick-!
There was a noise from the communication port, and then it went off.
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