FabL: The Blue Traveler and the Dual-Body Savior

After everything was over. The world had already started moving.

I threw myself on my back and was looking up at the sky.

I didn't feel like doing anything.

Only the fact that it was over echoed heavily in my dry heart forever.

Tears don't come out anymore. This time, they will never come out again.

Alice couldn't even leave a corpse.

Because even a single piece of flesh remaining would cause terrible destruction.

I erased her without a trace. With these hands.

I looked around. The town is full of rubble and the smell of blood everywhere.

Completely destroyed. I don't know how many people died.

What I can say for sure is.

That the town called Sacris disappeared from the world map on this day.

Eventually, a few survivors appeared. Everyone looks terrible.

They must have seen the battle. They threw fearful and resentful eyes at me. Natural emotions.

Just glaring, they don't do anything.

They must understand, even if they don't want to, the recklessness of taking me on.

If only they would throw a stone or two at me.

Is this all I could protect? No, I couldn't protect anything.

I didn't care about their feelings. Because everyone is gone.

I feel nothing. My heart is cold as ice. Empty.

Being here would be a nuisance.

When I stood up slowly, the residents trembled in fear and ran away like scattering spiders.

I gazed at the sky blankly.

The island floating there maintained silence as if waiting patiently for its now-absent master.

Edel. Right. Shall I go see it?

Current me doesn't need large-scale magic to fly.

Just by putting a little strength, I can dance in the air freely.

The aura wrapping my body remains black all the time. As if reflecting the color of my heart as it is.

From the sky, I looked down at the metropolis of Edel.

It retained its original form so beautifully that I couldn't believe it perished due to a failed magic experiment.

It looks like people were living there until just yesterday.

Skyscrapers, well-maintained sidewalks, transparent tubes stretched endlessly vertically and horizontally.

None of them seem like this world; rather, they make me feel something close to the scent of Earth.

It seemed like a civilization even more advanced than Earth.

Landing at a suitable place, I walk alone in the uninhabited city.

No sound is heard. This silence was appreciated by me right now.

On the way, I got a little curious and stopped by, and the transparent tubes seemed to be public transportation facilities. I could guess so from the fact that vehicles like trains were abandoned.

There were other eye-catching things, but there is only one reason I came here.

First, I headed to the Royal Magic Library.

This place is a treasure trove of Lost Magic that researchers seek endlessly.

Especially regarding the lost systems of Light Magic and Space-Time Magic, there is probably nothing equal to it.

If it exists, there should be a description of that magic here.

How many tens of millions of books are there? If I examine everything in detail, no amount of time will be enough, but fortunately, I have an ability.

Besides, of course, there is no need to examine all books.

I went to the magic book corner, held my hand over it, and sent my thought.

Then the books on the shelf were taken out all at once, and flip through page by page at high speed.

Concentrating my consciousness, I observe all of them at once.

Enormous amount of information flows in at once.

Information on Super-Advanced Magic, which had few descriptions on the surface, and even Forbidden Magic, whose existence was not even known, is stocked in my mind.

The work ended shortly, and all the contents of the books were recorded in me.

I search for 《Chroluender》 in the 'World of Heart'.

Immediately, a description was found. From page 271 of Cutting-Edge Magic Research.

According to it, research and experiments are being repeated at a place called the Royal Magic Research Institute.

No way. Did it really exist?

My heart stirs.

Feeling somewhat impatient, I hurry to the research institute.

Running relying on the guide, eventually, I saw a gathering of magnificent white buildings.

The moment I approached, I felt an abnormally huge accumulation of Magic Power.

It is a tremendous power comparable to the technique Vitterweitz used.

Tracing the source of power, there was a square box-shaped facility. It has a heavy door like a gate on the front.

Moving instantly in front of it in one step, I look over it.

It seems to be strictly sealed, and there is a mechanism to prevent Magic Power from leaking.

Is that why I couldn't notice the reaction of Magic Power until I came close?

I forcibly pry open the tightly closed door. Although a trap-like sealing jutsu was applied, it was meaningless before my power.

Inside, in an empty space, only one giant round spherical device was floating.

Around the spherical device, lights of complex character strings are floating orderly, as if layering rings many times.

This is. Magic... Formula?

I opened my eyes wide unintentionally at the unexpected thing.

Any magic in this world is "Declaration Magic" constructed and activated by intracerebral vocalization or direct vocalization.

But now, what is in front of me is...

So to speak, "Formula Magic". Constructing magic with characters infused with Magic Power.

Having used "Declaration Magic" as a matter of course, it was an eye-opener.

Although the trouble of constructing the formula takes time at first. If this is used, certainly, much more advanced and complex commands than "Declaration Magic" can be performed with magic.

If it's Time Stop Magic, it could be realized by "Declaration".

Even if it's the ultimate Space-Time Magic, if it depends on this "Formula". Perhaps.

It seems the magic formula is still being spun on its own even now.

Does it mean research is continuing automatically even though no one is left?

I noticed that a clock installed on the surface of the device continues to tick the time until the scheduled completion of the enormous formula endlessly.

When I peered into it. A ray of hope was crushed.

About 1000 years.

I felt dizzy.

Too... too long.

Damn it. Showing me hope halfway, and this? Is this the treatment...!

Even though I thought it probably wouldn't exist, somewhere in my heart I had expected it.

A miracle-like possibility that can change the present. But reality was cruel.

No—.

Possibility still remains.

I'll do it. If I can complete the magic with my own power by referring to the formula here.

Even if it takes any amount of time.

However. Just when I roused such determination.

When I reached out to decipher the formula immediately—.

As if aiming for that timing.

—From the sky, a single ray of light pierced the device mercilessly.

What happened.

Without time to be agitated, Magic Power overflows from the shattered device. It began to twist space and open a hole.

Bad. If I get caught in that.

My body moved before I could think.

Evacuating to the ground with Teleportation Magic.

I immediately glared up at the floating island.

The distortion of space swells in the blink of an eye.

And, opening a big hole in space-time—it swallowed everything of Edel into a different dimension.

All too easily. Abruptly.

I fell to my knees gakkuri and hung my head.

This time for sure, hope has been cut off perfectly.

Never again. Can I meet everyone.

Who. Who did such a thing—.

"Sometimes they pop up. Those bug-like things."

A voice was heard.

The unpleasant voice that had been sticking to my head all along. That voice.

Could it be.

When I raised my face and saw his figure.

The killing intent smoldering in the depths of my heart exploded instantaneously.

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The sword tip driven with full power was—.

However, stopped dead at his skin.

Scratching his cheek shallowly, a streak of blood flows down from there.

I can't move as if my body has solidified. Again.

But that doesn't matter.

"Quite a dangerous greeting. I got a scratch."

When the black-haired boy stroked his cheek, the scratch disappeared easily.

I wanted to meet you. All this time.

You. Only you.

Even while unable to move, I try to thrust the sword forcibly.

Did the power of the will to kill overcome him? Little by little, the sword pushes forward to hurt him.

Not caring about it, he lifted the corner of his mouth with a composed expression.

"Calm down. I didn't come to fight you."

"You...! Only you, I won't forgive!"

He is. My—!

"What a disobedient brat."

With just a glare, the Qi Sword disappeared.

While my body remains unfree, I am bound up in the air.

My neck is strangled.

"...Guh!"

"It seems you raised your power considerably in this short period. More than an average FabL. I was a little surprised."

As I thought. He.

Knows about FabL.

"Al...!"

"Long time no see. Yu."

The person sneering fearlessly in front of me is—the enemy I hate the most.