NOVEL NEXT Chapter 293: The True Face of the Former Council Member
Two days slipped by like water through fingers, gone in the blink of an eye.
News of Viktor's return to the mansion gradually spread throughout the capital, drawing an increasing number of visitors.
However, Viktor's response remained just two words:
"Not receiving."
This left those hoping to visit Viktor rather helpless, though given his well-known temperament, there wasn't much they could say.
The powerful always walked a different path.
Soon enough, another event emerged to capture everyone's attention.
The Duke's daughter had become the youngest third-tier mage in history.
The entire capital was instantly enveloped in celebratory atmosphere, filled with extraordinary excitement.
The reason was simple - this achievement was unprecedented.
The youngest third-tier mage in history had emerged!
This record was no longer held by Viktor, but instead by the Duke's daughter.
Erica du Cloye.
At merely seventeen, not yet of age, she had become the youngest third-tier mage.
This record surpassed Viktor's previous achievement by three years.
When this news spread, many who had traveled from afar hoping to visit Viktor ended up visiting the Duke instead.
This granted Viktor some peace and quiet during these days.
Let the Duke deal with those fickle masses.
Viktor stood in his spacious garden, caressing flower petals of unusual colors.
He walked among scattered fallen flowers, his black coat swaying in the gentle breeze.
Cocotte lay on her cloud, one hand propping up her face.
As flower petals danced in the breeze, Cocotte lazily used her mind to catch the pink petals floating in the air.
Her voice carried a hint of gloom.
"Why do I have to go too?"
Viktor was planning to visit Endymion, but Cocotte didn't want to return.
She preferred sleeping.
Looking at the extremely lazy Cocotte, Viktor said calmly:
"The other council members probably don't know about your advancement to fifth-tier yet."
"Eh?"
At this, Cocotte suddenly perked up.
She blinked, slowly sitting upright.
Then Viktor's voice continued:
"In the entire council, you're currently the only one who has surpassed fourth-tier to become a fifth-tier mage."
"Don't you want to see the other council members' reactions?"
By now, Cocotte was sitting completely straight.
She looked at Viktor intently and nodded vigorously.
"Yes! I want to go!"
If you'd said that earlier, I wouldn't be feeling sleepy at all!
Just then.
Henie approached, carrying a thick magic tome in her arms.
"Professor!"
She called out enthusiastically to Viktor.
Having heard they were going to the City of Mages, Henie was very excited.
It was said that the magic library in the City of Mages contained magical knowledge accumulated over hundreds of years of the city's history.
Henie was so excited she hadn't slept well all night.
After all, knowledge was one of the two things Henie loved most in life.
The other need not be mentioned.
At this moment, Cocotte, who had just sat up straight, trembled slightly when she saw Henie appear.
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Seeming to recall some unpleasant memory, she hurriedly guided her cloud to hide behind Viktor.
Viktor glanced at the retreating cloud, then looked back at Henie and continued:
"Get ready and stay close to me."
This trip to Endymion wouldn't need to be as complicated as last time.
As a council member now, he could teleport back anytime.
The badge on his chest gradually began emitting light, its three heads slowly separating and floating upward.
A rope of magical energy wrapped around Henie and Cocotte with her cloud, its end connecting to Viktor.
Light flashed, a fierce wind arose.
The three quickly transformed into barely visible light and vanished from the garden.
Only the unusually colored flower petals remained, scattering in all directions with the explosive wind.
Whoosh—!
Everything around them began to distort, the earth gradually separating from them.
A stream of light traveled through the clouds, as if guided by something, heading straight into the thick, chaotic cloud layer.
Above the white expanse of clouds were two endless white stretches extending for thousands of miles.
Only a blue gap remained between these layers, extending into the distance.
A phantom city floated between these two cloud layers, quiet and magical.
The light instantly poured into the City of Magic.
The light stream passed through that wonderfully chaotic garden, where strange-shaped plants raised their heads to watch the passing colors.
The light stream passed through the Rhea Canyon, where even the chaotic magical currents couldn't affect them in the slightest.
In the deepest part of the Magic Canyon, a silver lightning bolt rose up like a giant dragon's body, looking to the sky, seeming to sense some kind of danger.
Passing through a phantom stellar rift, the surrounding blue began to surge, as if gaining consciousness and starting to twist its body.
An intense dreamy haziness passed through their entire bodies, and the blue before their eyes began to shift from chaos to order.
When the blue completely stilled, a beam of pure white holy light shone through from the exit of the stellar rift, meeting them.
Whoosh—
The white light gradually faded.
The three who had transformed into light floated in an ethereal space.
Broken marble and clouds mixed together, suspended in the air.
In the distance, giant stone rings kept rotating, one layer connecting to another.
Massive heavy white wings flickered with surging magical power, thick clouds constantly trembled, like countless writhing eyes and completely unstable giant beast bodies.
The top of the City of Magic floated above the world's peak, with an open ring-shaped gap continuously pouring heavenly light into the interior.
Three marble heads, broken as if smashed and cut apart, scattered fragments of rock bathed in heavenly light, slowly flowing everywhere.
The light rapidly traveled through the air, entering the huge twisting building before them, gradually descending toward the deep structure.
Standing on the cloud layer beneath her feet, Henie felt dizzy.
She barely steadied herself, looking at this unreal world, thinking she must no longer be in the mortal realm.
Just now, she felt as if her soul was about to leave her body, no longer belonging to her.
Looking at the drifting clouds in the distance, Henie felt she might faint again just as she was recovering.
"Where is this..."
"The seventh layer of Endymion."
Cocotte explained to Henie in advance.
Returning to Endymion seemed to relax her somewhat.
After all, this was where she had lived for decades.
She flopped down onto her cloud, feeling the surrounding magical power gathering toward her body.
The pale magical rope gradually dissipated, while Viktor's coat continued to sway gently.
At this moment, Heim Horn emerged from a nearby phantom cloud layer, speaking with that uniquely ethereal voice.
"Welcome to Endymion."
This welcome was naturally directed at Henie.
Henie was slightly stunned, looking at Heim Horn before her.
She couldn't clearly see this phantom mage's face - it seemed to have a thousand faces, making it impossible to tell if they were male or female.
To be honest, Heim Horn was also examining Henie.
Before seeing Henie, they had thought Viktor must have been deceiving them.
How could someone possibly advance from first-tier to third-tier mage in just three months?
Even now, they couldn't see what made Henie so special.
Since they couldn't figure it out, they might as well wait for Viktor to tell them voluntarily.
Just as they were thinking this, Viktor's voice conveniently sounded:
"Council Member Kent hasn't arrived yet?"
Heim Horn looked at Viktor, explaining somewhat embarrassedly:
"Well... Council Member Kent is on his way, but he said his self-developed flying device had some malfunction, so we'll need to wait a while longer before he arrives."
Unnecessarily complicated.
This was Heim Horn's first thought.
As council members, they could instantly arrive at Endymion's seventh layer, the Broken Sky, with just a thought, no matter where they were.
But if someone enjoyed the feeling of flying there, they had nothing to say about it.
After all, every council member had their own little quirks to some degree.
Viktor nodded understandingly, his calm voice continuing:
"Well then, before Council Member Kent arrives, Heim, please open the magic library."
The magic library contained all the magical crystallization of the entire City of Mages.
Heim Horn didn't question this, after all, Henie, who had just become a third-tier mage, indeed needed to learn some third-tier magic to consolidate her abilities.
They even kindly said to Henie:
"When entering the magic library, you only need to go to the standard areas accessible to third-tier mages."
"Try not to get close to the fourth-tier areas, the magical knowledge there might confuse you."
It was common sense that mages should avoid knowledge above their tier.
But at this moment, Henie just smiled slightly at Heim Horn.
"Senior Heim."
"The one who wants to learn magic isn't me."
Heim Horn blinked in confusion, looking at Viktor again.
Not you, could it be him?
They knew very well what kind of monster Viktor was.
Did someone like him lack magic to use?
Just as Heim Horn was about to ask what was going on, Viktor put his hands in his pockets and looked toward Cocotte.
"The one who needs to learn magic is her."
"Huh?"
Amidst Heim Horn's utterly confused voice, Cocotte sat up straight.
She raised one hand, wearing an extremely confident smile.
A vast ocean of magical power suddenly erupted from her body.
In just a moment, it filled the entire seventh layer of Endymion.
Hum—Hum—Hum—
Countless star rings inscribed with rune-like patterns grew out one after another from behind Cocotte.
This wasn't a magic array, but Heim Horn was even more shocked than if it had been.
Heim Horn had seen this before.
That was something only fifth-tier mages could possess.
Magic Wheel Rings.
"Oh my, how embarrassing."
Cocotte's gaze carried a hint of mockery, her voice rising beside Heim Horn's ear with an extremely inflated tone.
"Suddenly became fifth-tier, and I'm running a bit short on magic."
"Council Member Horn, would you mind recommending some spells?"
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