19. Magic Order and Elementalism (2)

And Aylin briefly pondered her own insignificant past.

A princess of a fallen kingdom. A common story. If her tale had ended with death alongside her kingdom, it might have been a somewhat special tragedy.

But Aylin is alive. So, the past is just a trivial matter.

Compared to the Gloria royal family, whose clan was destroyed, and the people of that fallen kingdom, her current life is embarrassingly peaceful. And when she looks back on that time…

More than any other memory, she still remembers the words Wilhelm, the Margrave of Reinhardt, Yulian-doryeon-nim’s maternal grandfather and the head of the Reinhardt family, said to her.

‘Your kingdom is gone. But Aylin, from now on, you are a resident of our Essenmund territory. That means no one can treat you carelessly without my permission. Do you understand?’

The pursuers from the enemy country that destroyed her kingdom. The pursuers finally found her. The last place she had taken refuge was a territory called Harsen in Essenmund.

The pursuers from the enemy country, citing the customs of the Empire, demanded that the Margrave, who happened to be there, hand over Aylin.

Aylin despaired. She was only a ten-year-old kid, but Aylin was precocious. The enemy country had thoroughly destroyed her kingdom with the Empire’s tacit consent.

So, the enemy country had the rights to everything the former Gloria kingdom had possessed. Of course, that included herself, the princess of that kingdom. The enemies’ words were logical. Even if the Margrave handed her over, she couldn’t resent him.

But Margrave Wilhelm did not hand her over.

‘I will take this child as a slave of the Reinhardt family. I, Wilhelm von Reinhardt, the master of Reinhardt, declare that. There’s no need for further explanation, right? Furthermore, there is not a single person who can take Reinhardt’s property from this land of Essenmund.’

He said that and glared at the pursuers from the enemy country with a cold gaze.

‘If there were such a person, they would already be a corpse.’

The pursuers couldn’t say anything to that and returned to their country. Clearly, there was the Empire’s tacit consent. So, they could insist on the ownership of Aylin until the end.

However, they also knew very well that the Empire without Wilhelm Margrave could never become the Empire. No one could argue with the Margrave’s words.

After chasing away the pursuers, Margrave Wilhelm smiled with the gentle smile of a grandfather.

‘I’m sorry for calling you a slave. But it would be too complicated to explain the concept of ownership to you, who are still young. Don’t worry. I’ll create an Essenmund identity for you soon.’

Of course, the precocious Aylin understood everything the Margrave had done. Making her a slave on the spot and claiming ownership.

Even the Emperor of the Empire could not take the property of the great Margrave without a legitimate reason.

So, in that way, the Margrave had ensured her complete safety from the enemy country.

‘I have a grandson about your age. That fellow lost his parents when he was barely born, poor thing. Even more pitifully, he doesn’t even have any siblings. So, Aylin, I hope you’ll be his friend. No, that guy is immature, so you’ll be more like a big sister to him. Haha.’

The Margrave’s grandson, Yulian. That doryeon-nim was also in the Harsen County, which would become his future territory, with the Margrave. Yulian, who met her for the first time, said this.

‘Your kingdom is gone? But don’t worry. Essenmund is so great that even all the kingdoms combined can’t dare to covet it.’

And he promised her.

‘I will become the master of Essenmund someday. I’ll make this place your kingdom.’

Thus, Aylin went from being a princess of a fallen kingdom to a member of the Reinhardt mansion. After finishing her brief reminiscence, Aylin unknowingly let out a short sigh.

“Huu… I’ve been thinking too much.”

Aylin admitted that she had become impatient. Perhaps it started right before the semester began, after Princess Lilia visited the mansion in the Imperial Capital.

Clearly, Yulian-doryeon-nim had not been on good terms with that princess until then. He would always demean the princess, saying she was just a cow with big boobs.

But during that mansion visit, the atmosphere between the princess and doryeon-nim was truly amicable, like that of fiancés.

Also, Aylin always cleaned doryeon-nim’s room, so she couldn’t not know. That day, doryeon-nim had a physical relationship with Princess Lilia as a man and woman.

The virginity of the Imperial family is especially meaningful, so they probably didn’t go all the way. But still, Aylin felt strange at the obvious traces of sexual affection that remained.

Definitely not a good feeling.

She knew very well that it wasn’t strange for the two of them to have such a physical relationship since they were fiancés.

But even after that, things continued to bother Aylin. Yes. She could understand up to Princess Lilia. After all, she was his fiancée.

But the day Yulian attended the Aetern Marchioness’s banquet. Aylin stayed up late waiting for him without sleeping.

That day, she found traces of sexual affection on Yulian’s clothes again. Aylin was always in charge of cleaning Yulian’s clothes.

‘He even had a relationship with the Aetern Marchioness, whom he was so afraid of?’

It could have been with another young lady. But there was a long strand of silver hair on Yulian’s clothes. The owner was obvious.

Of course, a one-night stand was nothing special for the young nobles of the Imperial Capital. There was no need to make a fuss. But the more she thought about it, the more suffocated she felt.

Also, those three days he left for the preliminary squad’s mission with the Marchioness.

While waiting for doryeon-nim’s safe return, her heart was filled with more and more uncomfortable feelings. The fact that doryeon-nim and the Marchioness were together kept bothering her.

The intelligent Aylin thought about her own feelings during that time and finally came to a conclusion. And because it was a feeling she should never have, she immediately denied it on the spot.

“Jealousy…?”

She was just a maid. Was she even trying to act like a mistress just because she had shared her body with doryeon-nim? It was shameful for Aylin to even have such feelings.

‘But I’ve been the one taking care of doryeon-nim…’

Especially after offering her virginity, doryeon-nim became surprisingly gentle and intelligent. So, she had pride in herself, if not as compensation for that contribution.

But if she was a proper maid. And if other women could play that role instead of her. She should be cheering for those women instead.

She couldn’t be by doryeon-nim’s side forever. Nevertheless, the reason she felt this way now was probably because she had been with him for a long time.

‘But if I were to be a little greedy… I thought I could at least be doryeon-nim’s older sister.’

Aylin looked again at Yulian’s equestrian statue she was holding tightly in her arms.

Yulian, with an incredibly serious gaze, was there. The military parade. Thinking about it again, he was really dignified and cool.

Since childhood, he had been called an angel by the residents of Essenmund. That handsome face had blossomed even more now that he was an adult.

And that day. If the feeling she had felt at the military parade was a sin, then it was a sin. Aylin had clearly felt Yulian as a man at that moment of the military parade.

It would be okay to have the feelings of an older sister as a childhood friend. She had been thinking that way for a long time. But she had newly realized that feeling that didn’t suit her place that day.

She stared at the equestrian statue for a long time. In that moment, her emotions surged without her knowing. Affectionate, stifling, and suffocating to the point of being angry.

And without her knowing, the moment of her first experience accepting doryeon-nim’s huge cock was vividly remembered. Also, the sticky sexual affections they had shared until coming to the Imperial Capital after that.

It was okay when she was taking care of him. But after she stopped taking care of him, the sensual sensations that came to mind from time to time confused Aylin.

Just as one of her hands was about to reach that deep place of hers, unable to suppress these emotions.

Aylin barely suppressed that lust.

“Huu… Get a grip, Aylin. How can you think such things while looking at doryeon-nim’s equestrian statue…”

In fact, Aylin had never masturbated in her life. So, that masturbation was a shameful thing in the first place.

Moreover, doing such an unhealthy act with someone else’s equestrian statue was a rudeness that went beyond human decency.

As expected, this carriage full of Yulian-doryeon-nim’s scent was too dangerous. Aylin, trying to relieve her stuffiness, opened the carriage door wide.

The next day.

I have now arrived in front of the Ielrun Hall, the lecture hall of the Magic Society.

Today is the day of an important lecture, as Aylin checked. It’s the Spiritism lecture of the Magic Society.

‘Spiritism was forbidden to learn in the first year. It’s fortunate that it’s a second-year course now.’

In the Empire’s modern magic, the most important thing is creativity in change.

If a novice magician rashly contracts with a spirit of one attribute. Naturally, the tendency of magic would solidify into that attribute.

So, the Magic Society taught Spiritism after the first year. Through the first-year course, they lay the foundation for all four elemental attribute magic.

After that, Spiritism would rather help to deepen one’s strengths in magic.

‘Well, those reasons don’t really matter to me.’

Unlike alchemy, which mediates matter and mana, magic is a bit distant from me.

Magic, which values creativity in change. So, magic was rather poison to swordsmen and knights.

Those who single-mindedly delve into one image of martial arts are knights. The magic that seeks change rather hinders the knights who reach the realm and emit Aura.

‘Knights are stubborn. It’s like their growth directions are completely opposite.’

As long as the blood of Reinhardt flows, my goal is inevitably to emit Aura as well. But at the same time, it’s funny for me, who also has the blood of the Demon King, to easily give up on magic.

The perfect compromise is Spiritism. So, I opened the Spiritist trait, not the magician trait, through the remaining GP.

「User General Trait Unlocked」

: Consumed 50GP to unlock Yulian’s general trait.

* Trait: General Spiritist (B)

: A mysterious being of nature. Becomes familiar with spirits.

* Mana Consumption

: 10MP per hour

The difference from before is that the GP consumption increased even though it was a general trait. Since I have more than one or two traits now, there are system restrictions.

Still, I had plenty of GP saved up through the rewards I had received, so there was no problem buying it. The remaining GP after purchasing this trait is 300GP.

I used all of that GP to unlock a new type of quest. Not only 300GP but also one more item was needed for that unlocking.

That item was Riel’s Horn, obtained from Anton, the Lord of Nber County. The conditions were met.

「Living as the Successor of the Demon King」

: The job change quest has been unlocked by satisfying the following conditions.

* Prerequisites

: 300GP / Possession of the Previous Demon King’s Item (Unique or higher) – Possessed

: All prerequisites have been satisfied.

* 1st Job Change Quest 「Demonification」

: A sub-quest for the job change quest has been created.

In this way, the job change quest for the title ‘Living as the Successor of the Demon King’ has been unlocked. Simply put, it’s a preliminary quest to inherit the Demon King.

‘It’s absurd to become a Demon King with a human body as it is. I have to become a demon first.’

And the act of accepting a Demon God into that demon body is called demonization. Among them, the one who becomes the contractor of all Demon Gods and reaches the pinnacle of demons is the Demon King.

So, I have to awaken the demon blood hidden within me through that quest. I can’t contract with a Demon God with a human body.

Demons were, simply put, intelligent alien races other than humans. So, if demonization progresses, I too will change into something other than human.

The lineage of the previous Demon King, Lucifiel, was clearly a mixed-blood family of dragons and elves. Which blood was stronger varied each time I played the game.

What was certain was that both of them were alien races with extremely high spirit sensitivity.

In particular, I have already decided on the spirit I will contract with through this Spiritism lecture. Contracting with that spirit was one of the job change quests.

‘I’ve planned it out enough.’

That is a spirit whose contract is forbidden in the Holy Empire. To awaken that spirit, I was planning to properly confuse not only the professors of the Magic Society but also the students.

It was even easier for me because they were magicians who valued change.

“Aylin. I trust you’ve prepared as I instructed?”

“Yes, doryeon-nim. The mint tea you mentioned will be delivered here before the lecture starts. Ah. Just in time, Hans is back over there.”

I instructed Aylin to rest and entered the practice area of Ielrun Hall. The second-year students of the Magic Society were gathered there.

In the center of that group, Rosette, a red-haired girl wearing a witch’s hat, was visible.