Chapter 93 - The Aurora Disc

Could that ‘duty’ that Rhema said related to the fact that he was a watchman? She stared at the empty air vacantly before taking out her notebook. A dragon, watchmen, seal, Ofeq… After writing down what she had heard in the notebook, she suddenly opened the front page before putting it away. It was the page where she had drawn the sculpture near the door.

“Marthi, do you know about this sculpture? What do you think this is describing?”

“It’s the three primary wizards,” he answered without hesitation just by glancing at it.

“The three primary wizards?” she repeated him.

“It’s said that there were three wizards in the beginning, and they spread magic and God’s language to people, which was the beginning of human civilization.”

“I’ve never heard of such a story. How do you know that?”

“It’s a common knowledge I was loaded with as a familiar spirit, The knowledge about Ofeq is alike.”

“I see… Who were the three wizards? Were they watchmen, too?”

“I don’t know such details. It’s a memory I had when I was a beast… I apologize, master,” Marthi drooped his ears. Azriel patted her familiar spirit’s head.

“No, the things you’ve told me have been a great help, too. Thank you,” she titled the drawing of the sculpture ‘the Three Primary Wizards.’ Then she closed the notebook and stood up. “Now, where should I investigate this… Wait, the disc.”

She had forgotten about the disc because of Rhema’s name that suddenly popped out. Azriel lifted up the half disc she had put down aside and walked it over Marthi’s flame. Under the bluish light, small letters were revealed. It was in ancient Lemm. She faltered over it. “A… u… r… o… ra. Aurora?”

It was a familiar word. Its meaning was ‘dawn.’ And there was a society that had this name as its title. “The Aurora Society…”

She had investigated the society where Tarbo Tameion belonged while inquiring about him. The Aurora Society was a famous gathering that was widely known to even other countries and many outstanding wizards belonged to it. However, the society was not a group of outstanding wizards. “It was not a gathering of wizards only, either.”

Many of its members were non-wizards. There was only one purpose of the Aurora Society. It was to filter the people who would benefit its purpose despite the picky joining condition. “The interpretation of the Aurora Disc. It was a gathering that began from there.”

The relic ‘Aurora Disc’ was considered to be hiding secrets of the ancient magic civilization. The society bagan from a group of people who came together to study it. High-quality people who studied relics and the magic civilization gathered in the society. Naturally, there were many outstanding wizards. In addition, as they made many attempts to interpret the disc, they automatically appraised and analyzed relics and attempted to restore ancient magic. They had little progress in the interpretation of the disc, but their different attempts and researches had great achievements. Even the instructions of the mana engine of the train was discovered by the Aurora Society. Because of that, the Aurora Society was a group of extraordinary wizards. They were also well-known as the experts of the ancient magic civilization. In spite of that, the original purpose of the society was the interpretation of the Aurora Disc.

“And the disc that the society studied was only half of it. They were looking for the other half with effort, but they couldn’t find it anywhere…,” Azriel stared at the half disc she was holding. The reason why the disc was called the Aurora Disc was that the only letters that people could read on the disc was ‘Aurora.’ “This must be the other half of that Aurora Disc.”

She realized where she should investigate. “I should go to the Aurora Society.”

***

Azriel came back to Brownie Castle riding on Marthi in his original form. After passing through the cypress forest, they met an open lake which was cast by the castle’s shadow.

“A lake! It’s my first time seeing it. The water is so clear! It looks cool.”

“Do you like it?”

“Yes, the master lives in a wonderful place. You are indeed the pupil of the watchman!”

“Then, do you want to look around the lake? I’ll call you soon after.”

“Can I do that?” His tail with a poison sting swayed to both sides. Azriel jumped off of Marthi who had landed.

“Since this is where you’re going to live, look around as much as you like.”

“Thank you, master!” Marthi flew to the lakeside excitedly. Azriel went to the castle alone. There was a white shadow standing in front of the castle gate. It was the Wizard of the Horizon who had not changed a bit as if he was stuffed over the past three years while Azriel grew up.

‘Rhema.’

Spotting him, Azriel’s steps became faster more and more. She almost ran and stopped in front of him. She had never run into his arms since she was ten. She felt a little sad about that.

“Rhe—ma, I, familiar, spirit…!” she yelled.

“I was watching you fly in. You’ve certainly brought it,” Rhema responded welcomingly.

“The t, test…”

“Of course, you passed. From today, you are a true ‘wizard.’”

“Whoa, I, I…!”

“You should catch your breath.”

“Okay…”

While Azriel was catching her breath, Rhema quickly scanned her to see if she had been hurt, in trouble, or exhausted.

“Rhema, were you waiting for me?” Azriel asked.

“Yes. You came back safely,” checking that there was not a scratch on her and only her clothes were slightly wrinkled, Rhema smiled. It was a much more smile-like smile that he put on three years ago right after he reunited with her. As he stayed with Azriel, his expression was gradually becoming natural. Azriel had not realized such a change since she had been on his side all along.

Returning a smile reflectively, she asked. “How did you know that I was going to come?”

“I didn’t,” Rhema replied.

“…You don’t say! Have you been waiting for me all along?”

“I didn’t have much to do.”

“What? Oh, you shouldn’t have. It was almost a whole day!”