"Miss Qin Jiangchi, it's nothing serious. We encountered a small Riftbreaker squad near the Power-Supply Highlands. We've already taken care of them."
Eldera answered the voice on the projection quickly—careful not to let the call display the scene around her.
"What? Riftbreakers were spotted in that area?!"
The Power-Supply Highlands was the most critical location in all of Area Four Valley aside from the hub itself. You could blow the hub to pieces and rebuild it later—
But the Power-Supply Highlands absolutely could not be allowed to fail.
That place was basically a giant powder keg. If something went wrong there, the consequences would be unthinkable.
"We'll dispatch a team immediately. Thank you—sorry for the trouble!"
"…We've neutralized this squad already," Eldera replied, voice steady. "Please have your people check the corridors and the security checkpoints. Thoroughly."
"Understood."
The holographic portrait dimmed and vanished.
Eldera turned her head and silently scanned the land that had become scorched wasteland.
The grass had already been sparse and dry, but now it was blackened to ash, exposing dark mud beneath. Everything within dozens of meters had melted away without a sound. Riftbreaker remains lay scattered here and there, still steaming faintly.
Eldera's Originium Arts should have been aligned with nature—gentle, restorative.
But she hadn't expected that once "herself" made a move, it would become something this horrifying. Even in the memories she'd inherited, scenes like this were rare.
The area was unnervingly quiet.
No wind.
Even the air felt like it had turned dangerous.
And the one who had done all of this—Eyjafjalla—stood beside Bai Ling in silence, expression calm to the point of blankness, saying nothing at all.
After a long pause, Bai Ling finally broke the stillness. His tone was… a little strange.
"…Eyjafjalla."
"…"
The girl lifted her head at the sound of her name. Her pretty pink eyes held confusion—and something like self-doubt.
She didn't understand why she'd lashed out like that.
Her original intention had been to use her Arts to form a wide-area "prison," to restrain everyone—not to attack with lethal force.
But what she'd actually released had become pure destruction, so overwhelming it had flattened an entire small hill with casual ease.
She didn't like conflict. She liked killing even less.
Looking at the remnants on the ground, all she felt was a hard-to-name wrongness—like something inside her refused to accept what had happened.
Seeing that, Bai Ling swallowed whatever he'd been about to say. He waited a little, then spoke again.
"Adele."
The instant that name landed, Eldera's eyes shifted—slowly, decisively—locking onto Bai Ling.
Eyjafjalla also snapped back to herself and looked at him reflexively.
"These things had already lost their minds," Bai Ling said. His voice wasn't loud, but it was clear. His eyes stayed on the dead caster's remains. "If we hadn't cleared them out, they would've caused far greater harm."
"…There was a smell on them," he added quietly, as if confirming it to himself. "A smell that makes your skin crawl. So… it's fine. You didn't do anything wrong."
As he spoke, he walked around to Eyjafjalla's side. The horn-mark on the back of his left hand began to glow faintly.
A soft pulse of energy spread—subtle, controlled.
Eyjafjalla's breathing gradually steadied. She let out a long exhale and lifted her head again.
"…Mm."
It wasn't perfect. It was only enough to pull her back onto her feet.
But for now, that was enough.
She braced herself, deliberately turning her gaze away from the remains.
"Senior Bai Ling… Eldera… let's go."
As Eyjafjalla recovered, Eldera quietly withdrew her eyes.
Adele Naumann…
Only people from Rhodes Island would know that name.
And Rhodes Island, in most circumstances, kept itself hidden—let alone releasing personal information about its members.
Even Endfield didn't have full intelligence parity with Rhodes Island in most situations.
For Bai Ling to say it so naturally…
He truly knew far too much.
That was one of the biggest reasons Eldera had never been able to fully believe she was "Eyjafjalla."
She had grown up on Rhodes Island. Those fragmented memories were old—so old they felt more like stories than life.
Maybe that was where Warfarin's trust in Bai Ling came from.
Bai Ling lowered his arm, then glanced at the back of his left hand.
The two horn-shaped marks there had dimmed, almost imperceptibly.
A sign that one of the Command Spells had been used.
He hadn't used it as an absolute, coercive order.
It was more like guidance—an anchored instruction.
And with that single use, information began to surface in his mind as if it had been waiting behind a curtain.
[Servant: Eyjafjalla]
[Class: Caster]
[Parameters: Strength C / Endurance C / Agility C / Mana A / Luck C / Noble Phantasm A]
[Skills: Territory Creation (C), Against Originium (A)]
[Noble Phantasm: The Lamb-Beast Lord's Tender Mercy (Anti-Personnel)]
So it really was a proper Heroic Spirit summoning.
The status screen was here.
It looked rough—almost crude—but all the essential information was there.
And it felt like he could "think deeper" into it.
As his consciousness turned, the moment he wondered why Eyjafjalla had Territory Creation, a detailed explanation immediately followed:
[Territory Creation (C): Eyjafjalla's geological research is exceptionally profound, allowing her to quickly identify advantageous combat positions in complex environments.]
[Against Originium (A): Eyjafjalla suffers from severe Oripathy; ordinary Originium Arts deal reduced damage to her.]
Because she was gravely ill… she gained a powerful skill?
How should he even put it…
It fit, in a brutally literal way.
But it was still—
Infernally cruel.
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