Smiling lightly at the Duke who had driven away the annoying Viscount, I hehe laughed. The Duke smirked and patted my head.

‘To be called a stray dog by such a cool person.’

In my heart, I wanted to tell Dad about it right away, but it was just words from cowardly people who had nothing to do behind his back.

I didn’t want to pick up trash-like words from them and pass them on to Dad.

‘Perhaps that’s why Deivan didn’t say anything in particular.’

The carriage was supposed to use teleportation first, and then the knights would move using teleportation.

The magicians began to stand next to the pillars one by one.

Clemens explained from the side that if you inject magic into the pillar, the magic moved to the magic stone, and when the teleporter was activated, the magic could be seen in one place.

‘Those people were all magicians.’
It wasn’t very cold, so I wondered why they were wearing their hoods so deeply. It seemed like they were all dressed the same.

Then it happened. One of the wizards, on their way to their respective positions, grabbed their head and collapsed.

“Wait a moment! We will momentarily pause!”

There was a commotion among the wizards as they checked the fallen wizard’s condition. Fortunately, the fallen wizard quickly got up.

Even though it seemed fine, the people around judged that it would be better to operate teleportation after confirming the condition.

“Tsk.”

The Duke clicked his tongue from the side.

It seemed like the delay was due to some unexpected issue that occurred in the middle, and he wanted to return to the mansion quickly.

“It seems like it will take longer than expected. Diene, if you’re bored, you can go back with Clemens.”

“No, I prefer to be with Dad!”

“Alright. Let’s stay together, my dear.”

The answer came slowly. Glancing at their expression, it seemed like they were deeply moved by my words.

I turned my gaze forward again.

‘On that person’s head…’

Actually, what I just said wasn’t sincere.

Of course, it was nice to be with Dad, but the reason I said I would stay longer here was not just because of Dad.

‘That energy.’

Faint magical power was wavering around the fallen wizard’s head. The energy flowed like a stream from one place.

“Dad, I’ll be in the carriage!”

“Huh? Earlier, you said it’s better to be with Dad…”

“Later!”

I quickly stood up from my seat. As soon as I got on the carriage, I carefully opened the window.

Naturally, I tried to leave the bag behind, but the snake, like a ghost, sensed it and grabbed me.

‘I shouldn’t get caught taking it with me…’

Time was running out. After a very short moment of contemplation, I immediately moved my body.

“Hmm.”

It wasn’t far from where I teleported.

Deivan, who was leaning against a tree, sending a little magic power under his hand.

The use of mind control magic was strictly prohibited unless it was for research purposes.

Whether or not forbidden magic was used was managed by the magical tower. Since each magic had a unique flow of used magic power, it was easy for the magical tower to immediately detect if it was not the authorized flow of magic power.

Moreover, each person’s magic power had its own unique aura, so it was easy to know who was using it.

Of course, that was assuming that it was caught.

‘If the flow changes very subtly, it can’t be known.’

There was a reason why the movement of magic power was called a flow. It was because the natural magic power in the natural world was constantly flowing.

The cycle of that flow was not constant, and it occasionally changed minutely, sometimes irregularly changing the flow.

The only time the magical tower could confirm the use of magic was when that flow was disrupted.
In other words, if one were to manipulate magic according to the flow of natural magic power, not only forbidden magic but also the use of ordinary magic was unknown to the magical tower.

‘Well, maybe I should spare the others.’

Casually manipulating magic, I heard the footsteps approaching rapidly from the side.

Deivan, who had been doing mind control magic, left his hand alone and reached out with the other.

Even though I didn’t know who it was, if someone unfortunate discovered me, then immediately,

“Found you!”

It was an unmistakably familiar voice. Deivan was truly surprised. Stiffening as he extended his hand, he asked abruptly,

“…Kid?”

“Yeah, it’s me!”

Whether in a hurry or not, Dianne bent her body with rapid, short breaths.

Deivan looked at the suddenly appearing Dianne with a puzzled expression.

“What’s up? How did you know about this place?”

“I wanted to see Deivan!”

Deivan slightly furrowed his brow. It wasn’t that the kid broke the hiding barrier around him.

The hiding barrier was still intact. That meant only one possibility.

While the hiding barrier concealed the appearance of the caster, it didn’t completely transform them into an invisible person.

The principle of hiding diverted the attention of the person approaching the barrier elsewhere or disturbed their mind to prevent them from discovering what was there.

It meant that hiding wouldn’t work for someone desperately looking for the caster or someone strongly connected to them.

‘What… she really.’

Deivan forcibly suppressed the corners of his mouth from curling up. Then he realized that there was still magic power in his hand.

‘Maybe I should send the kid back safely and do it again.’

Since I had released the spell, by now, the wizard who was under the mind control magic should have fainted again.

‘It will take some time to wake up again.’

“How did you find your way here? How did you know I was here?”

“Well, that… I thought about Deivan a lot, so I was able to find it!”

“Hmm, well. Okay?”

It seemed like I missed her quite a bit. Well, I hadn’t seen the kid once today because I was busy with work here since the morning. Deivan coughed meaninglessly for a while and then spoke again.

“Let’s go first. I’ll take you to your father. Did you follow your father all the way here? I’ll take you back, and I’ll go straight to the mansion.”

“Before that, I have something to tell Deivan.”

“Something to say?”

“Don’t kill those people.”

His steps stiffened at the unexpected words.