A few hours ago,
Medea squirmed under the blanket, lying naked, her head resting on Black's chest.
"How long can you go on…" she whispered, her breath warm. "It's inhumane…"
Black didn't deign to comment, staring right at the notification.
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Contestant Kai D. Stormborn
All slots of the Dimensional Leader are already filled.
If you wish the System to register Medea as your follower, then you must discard at least one of the three followers you already have.
Followers:
— Shinobu Kocho
— Arya Stark
— Darcie Malfoy
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Note: Discarding a Character from the list of followers will not impact their perception of the Contestant. However, the same Character will not be eligible for the Title anymore.
Do you wish to proceed?
]
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The Ad Infinitum accepted, replacing Darcie with Medea.
Darcie had been a temporary follower that Black had accepted just to call Arya Stark to the Harry Potter timeline, using the Dimensional Summoning Skill.
As the System would just replace one Character with the other, it wouldn't make the Title lose any Title Points. That would have made him lose the Title, making it Unequippable.
Simultaneously, Arya Stark, acting as Darcie in Diagon Alley, would have disappeared from the Harry Potter timeline as well, blowing up all plans.
Getting the approval, the System switched the two Characters.
Black let out a sigh of relief. "One more time?"
Medea let out a smirk. Such a beast…
"I am talking about the Divine Words…" Black corrected, smiling slyly.
Medea playfully slapped Black, smiling as well. She pulled herself up, bringing her lips to Black's ears, and began whispering.
Strange hums rang in the surroundings, as if the hundreds of fires of different intensities were burning miles away from each other.
High-Speed Divine Words allowed Medea to use magic without connecting to Magic Circuits or using the normal incantations for the spells. It was the language from the Age of Gods that was impossible to pronounce, regardless of their origin.
Medea's command on Divine Words was advanced enough that she could activate spells with just a single action, allowing for greater magecraft in an instant.
As Medea kept whispering in Black's ear, carrying lust in her voice, yellow crystals danced in Black's red eyes.
After a while, Medea stopped. She bit Black's ear and returned to her place, resting her head on his chest.
"I admire your will to try it," she said, gently stroking his chiseled stomach. "Still, I don't want you to carry any false hope. I know you are gifted in this… but Divine Words aren't something that can just be passed on. You might never be able to even make sense of the words… pronouncing them to cast magic…"
Whatever Medea was going to say, it got stuck in her throat.
As if petrified by Medusa all over again, she just stopped — her eyes widening.
Slowly, as if she was too afraid of looking up, she craned her neck and saw the Impossibility manifesting itself over their heads.
Divine Words weren't much unlike Ancient Magical Script, Black learned.
Both were the scripts that allowed instantaneous encryption and decryption of Magic itself, but of different timelines.
Knowing one didn't mean you could just learn the other.
However, for someone lucky… for someone who already knew Ancient Magical Script… for someone who had Ad Infinitum — backed by Lucky Intuitions, some gaps could still be bridged, no matter how impossible they seemed.
One good thing about Black and Kai was that indulging in sex didn't occupy any time, other than requiring their physical presence.
So, ever since last night, when Black and Medea had begun doing it, he had been making her teach him a part of her powers. And ever since then, the AI had been using all its processing power to relate Divine Words with the Ancient Magical Script.
What Medea could do with the former, he should be able to do with the latter. Theoretically.
Not to mention, it would also let him finally put the Script into practice more offensively and defensively, then letting it be a passive, ridiculous power that he held in his arsenal.
Just now, when Medea had finished whispering her lecture that she thought to be entertaining her man's whims, the AI and Lucky Intuitions had finally unraveled one of the mysteries from the Age of Gods.
Medea couldn't have possibly seen it, as even the Deep Ones couldn't see it.
But just as They could sense its presence, she sensed it, too — The Yellow Sign!
One entire leg of the Yellow Sign lit up blindingly yellow on Black's forehead.
In the very next moment, Black lifted his hand and uttered a syllable… that sounded both like a hiss and the crackle of fire.
In the middle of the bedroom, above their heads, a yellow spell circle began etching itself in the space.
The moment Medea saw that spell circle, her wide eyes almost popped out.
"Impossible…" The Witch rejected the magic. "How could it be?! That's… That's my spell — Machia Hecatic Graea!"
Yes. It was the Rain of Light — the same magic that had obliterated Hassan of the Cursed Arm last night.
Even though it was only one spell circle, where she could cast many dozens together… Even though it lacked the same potency as hers — enough to kill an Assassin-Class Servant… Even though it was yellow instead of purple…
It was the same spell!
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Congratulations Contestant Kai D. Stormborn
You have created a brand-new Skill — Band of Light (Grade D+)
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Would you like to register it in the System?
If you do, then you will be awarded in Mission Credits. Also, whenever another Contestant learns this Skill, you will be awarded Mission Credits as well.
]
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Black let out a smile and finally looked at the Caster.
"You were saying something, my lady?" he said, putting his finger on her chin and closing her gaping mouth.
Medea looked away as the yellow Spell Circle disappeared and stared into Black's eyes. "What are you…"
Black laughed. "Why don't you go down and find out…"
"…" Blushing heavily, and shaking her head, Medea took herself to…
Bam!
The bedroom door threw open, and Leysritt, one of the two Einzbern's homunculus maids, barged in.
"Something…" she said, her breath breaking. "… Something's wrong with Berserker."
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