Chapter 819: Resolve To Advance

"Ciel trains us in Magic and teaches us ancient Spells lost to civilization. She also reveals the things that happened in the past, helping us make sense of the present."

I could sense a great deal of respect in Neron's tone as he spoke. He and Ciel must have really come a long way.

"You really trust her, huh?"

Neron smiled slightly and nodded.

"She doesn't have most of her former powers, and her connection to the world has thinned considerably. It takes a lot of time for her to gather enough power to affect the laws of this world, but without a doubt... Ciel is the strongest."

In essence, thanks to her abrupt and rushed reincarnation process, Ciel was nerfed.

'Their team is obviously outgunned.' I thought to myself.

I had expected something more spectacular, but if this was all they could boast of, I was a bit worried about us.

Even Karlia and Kido, who were plenty powerful in my world were bound to have some sort of limit in this world.

"I realize what you might be thinking. This seems like a losing war, doesn't it? However, we have a plan."

My body twitched a little upon hearing my favourite word. Instantly, anticipation filled my eyes and I looked at Neron with expectation.

"What plan?"

"By coordinating our attacks to look random on the surface, and attacking strategic sites which will definitely affect Jared's world Empire." Neron began, his eyes narrowing with seriousness.

"We plan on launching a sting operation on one of those facilities today. It's a weapon production site. Destroying it will not be enough to stop Jared, but it'll slow the effects of his tyranny down."

I liked how Neron was as pragmatic as he was hopeful. It would still take a long time to deal any damage to this Evil Jared himself at their current pace, but I recognized what their efforts would achieve.

"That's pretty good."

"Thank you. I'm only telling you all of this because Ciel told me not to withhold information from you."

I perfectly understood this. In fact, I was already pretty excited about the whole thing that I eventually had to raise my hand to make a suggestion.

"Why don't I help you guys?" A smile leaked from my face.

"Help us? How?"

"W-well, with Magic. Back in my world, I'm pretty strong, you know? Not as strong as Neron, but still very powerful."

"Oh? Really? That's great, then. Maybe next time."

'... Eh?'

I was actually offering my help just now.... And Neron just politely refused it at point blank.

"Do not take offence at my words. It's simply because you are an unaccounted variable in the plan. I can't add you to the team so abruptly since that would mean a whole lot more planning and restrategizing. And we're leaving today."

Once he said that, I realized I was the one being inconsiderate.

The more people who had to be teleported or protected, the more power one would have to expend. If they were truly trying their best to conserve energy, and they had made a perfectly functional plan without me, then I would just be a nuisance.

Besides...

'I don't think I can help much anyway. My power is still on the fritz.' I thought to myself. 'I need to figure out how to stabilise my power... and fast!'

"There's also the fact that you still don't know a lot about this world, and my teammates don't wholly trust you." Neron's calm voice permeated the room.

Afterwards, for a while, we both descended into silence.

"How about you? Do you trust me?"

Neron's stoic face hardly moved as he shrugged his shoulders, rising to his feet in the process.

"Strangely enough, I do. I don't have a particularly good reason for believing you. I guess you could call it my intuition."

"There's a lot more to say and I would like to hear all about your world too, but there's hardly much time left. I have to go now."

Neron made for the room's exit, opening the door slowly.

"You should remain here until we get back. The Magic barrier here gets deactivated after a day, so if we're not here by then, consider yourself free to go."

So there WAS a Magic Barrier. As expected.

'Yet, I didn't notice it. How weak have I gotten?'

"I understand. I'll try to figure things out on my end too. Thanks for your time." I replied with a genuine smile.

"It's fine. Rest well."

With that, Neron exited the room and shut it behind him, leaving me alone to ponder my current predicament in this strange world.

'My connection to Aether was severed back then, so I can only resort to Mana and Miasma. However, for some reason, I can't use them properly here. Why?'

If I had to develop a theory, it would be because of wavelength. I couldn't sense the Mana here, so the wavelength of this world must be different from mine.

After all, this world has its own set of rules, and as a foreigner, I would need to learn them in order to realise how to apply my abilities to them, so that they would work.

In essence, I would have to build my Magic from scratch. If I was to choose a method, it would begin with my Mana Cores.

I didn't have the time, opportunity, or need to do this back in my old world, after the war, but perhaps it was finally time to begin.

'First, I'll compress my Mana and Miasma Cores, purifying them to the utmost degree so I can form an active Aether Core.'

I didn't know how many Cores I would need to sacrifice to achieve this feat, but it was necessary. Then, there was the other thing.

'I also have to figure out how to properly use Magic in accordance with this world's wavelength and see if I can use Spellcraft while I'm at it.'

With no Arcana or enough Magic to fuel my Original Magic, I was stuck in this world. I still had a lot to learn and plenty of things to do, so the sooner I got started, the better.

'Looks like I'll have to resume my hardcore training.'

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