"How does one become strong?
Is it by forging oneself through endless training?
Or must one be reborn, carrying fragments of memories from a past life?
Or perhaps... by apprenticing under someone who has already reached the pinnacle of power??
...
...
However, there is one fastest way!
Find the MC!!
Help them achieve their ambition!!
Insert your name into the script!!
That is the path to obtaining buff—"
(....!!)
The strange book was suddenly snatched away by a graceful woman with a firm, motherly aura. Her face looked youthful, as if time had stopped at the age of twenty-one.
"Enough."
Her voice was warm, accompanied by a controlled smile.
"There are no clues left there by Ou-sama. Those are just his idle scribbles from his youth."
She shot a sharp glance at the two of them.
"You two... have already read that book three times since last night. It's time you start acting more mature."
"Ahh... here she goes again," muttered a girl who looked about seventeen, letting out a long sigh.
"I'll leave it to you, Rei."
"What do you mean, Ellen?" replied Rei, a young man who appeared to be around nineteen.
"Who in their right mind would dare interrupt this chatty—"
His sentence stopped.
The woman smiled widely.
The objects around them began to tremble.
A mass of magical aura started to dance above her hand.
beautiful, yet suffocating.
[Using skill]
>Water Ball<
The spell shot toward a tree behind them and,
(BOOOM!!)
(KRREEKK)
A large tree collapsed, never knowing what it had done wrong.
Seeing that, Ellen and Rei clung to each other in fear, as if reliving a past trauma.
The woman prepared her second attack.
"It seems I... missed a little!!"
"S-Sorry! W-we'll... stop!" Rei said with a panicked face.
"T-That's right... we're done reading it too..."
"Stop, Seina."
Another voice appeared.
calm, yet full of authority.
"They just miss Ou-sama."
...
...
Ou-sama.
The King.
At present, he was in a deep slumber that would last a thousand years.
A king... and also the one known as the very founder of magic itself.
And the five of them
were not merely his subordinates,
they were his family, entrusted with great responsibility.
...
"If Shin says so... fine," said Seina as she looked at Ellen and Rei. "I'll be the one to keep this book."
Shin, a man who looked about twenty-two, simply gave a faint smile.
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"Report. A Hero candidate has been found.
Requesting instructions to begin the trial."
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"Ara~" Seina murmured.
"Hm." Shin nodded slowly.
"Hoooh, that was fast," Ellen said, her excitement returning.
Rei smirked slightly.
"Good work, Siy. Test him... according to the procedures left by Ou-sama."
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"Understood.
Executing operation: Find the MC."
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