His tone was neither fast nor slow, and there was a unique charm in it that always made people feel quite comfortable for some reason.
As he pushed the door open, he invited, "Anyway, come in first."
"Since it's a visit, we have to entertain you and we can't lose the necessary etiquette."
"Very good."
Victor readily agreed and followed.
The two walked along the stone-paved path, passed the empty church, and finally came to the farmhouse.
Along the way, Victor looked at the figure in front of him with great interest, and the former did not seem nervous at all, with a calm expression.
"Father, I came here to understand something."
Suddenly, Victor spoke first.
"What's the matter?" Wen Bingyong said calmly without even turning his head.
"Two aspects. One is the internal techniques of your church. The other is... I want to know something about the fifth law."
Bunbei Eri was a witness to Aozaki Aoko's inheritance of the Fifth Law.
He is also the person who has been present at the most events related to magicians.
It can even be said without mercy that his understanding of the fifth magic is much higher than that of Aozaki Touko.
However, since this guy has a very weak presence in Victor's memory, if he had not made no progress on the mission goal of "Spying on the Fifth Law" for a month, and if the matter of Shizuki Sojuro involved the church, he might not have remembered that there was such a guy in the entire copy.
Hearing this, Victor could sense that the expression of the person in front of him finally changed a little. He raised the corner of his mouth calmly, paused, turned around and said, "So, your goal is indeed the same as Aozaki Touko's."
All for the so-called fifth law.
"But my style of doing things is completely different from Aozaki Touko's."
"It seems that you are not surprised." Victor also smiled: "Well, that's right, we are not stupid, in fact, Youzhu can guess it more or less, but she also acted as if she didn't care at all, so... I guess."
"Is it true that the Fifth Law cannot be plundered?"
"Is this your first question?"
Wen Bingyongli was silent for a moment, then quickly responded, "At least, that's what we think."
"Oh? Can you tell me why?"
Victor became interested, and Wen Bingyongli pushed open the door of a room and turned around and said, "Let's go in and talk."
……
The inheritance of the fifth law has already ended and is a definite result.
In the words of Bunbe Eri... the moment when Aozaki Aoko's grandfather decided that Aozaki Aoko would be the heir.
The power called "The Fifth Law" had been completely given up by her grandfather and roughly stuffed into Aozaki Aoko's body.
"Magicians have a single inheritance. There can only be one user of each type of magic."
"And that person has lost the so-called fifth method for a long time, so..."
"In our opinion, Aozaki Aoko has already become a so-called magician, but she is unable to control this power yet."
"I see."
In the tea room, Victor and Wen Bingyongli sat face to face, quietly watching each other boil a pot of water... So, if they want to peek into the so-called fifth method, they must start with Qingzi in the end?
"So, doesn't Aozaki Touko know this?"
"Who knows? Maybe they know but are unwilling to admit it. Or maybe they admit it but are still hoping for the best."
Wen Bingyongli lowered her eyelids and brewed the teapot expressionlessly: "But even if there is someone who can snatch it, it can only be her."
"As a former heir, if there is anyone who can take that power away from Qingzi's already confirmed succession, I'm afraid she is the only one who has the qualifications."
"As for the other issue..."
"I'm not an agent, and I don't know much about the relevant techniques." Wen Bingyongli calmly brewed the tea and sighed: "But..."
"Since it's a question about baptism, if the Shizuki Sojuro you mentioned really has some problems because of it, I think I can help."
He was a priest after all.
The qualified kind.
"Then please help me in advance." Victor, who was still thinking about the fifth law, came back to his senses after hearing this. He replied habitually, but suddenly froze: "I have another question."
"What? You can tell me."
"You seemed to be very cooperative with me from the beginning..." Victor asked curiously, "Why?"
To be honest, when Victor came, he was prepared to threaten with violence, but the other party not only treated him well, but also told him everything he knew, as if he would answer any question he dared to ask. This was something Victor did not expect.
"Hmm...how should I put it?" Hearing this, Wen Bingyongli frowned slightly and thought: "Generally speaking, I only care about things that interest me, and once I am interested, I will be happy to lend a helping hand."
"So...you're interested in this?"
"...I don't know." Wen Bing Yongli shook her head, and suddenly chuckled and said: "But no matter what, the arrival of you and Aozaki Touko has made this city a lot more interesting."
"..."
"Besides, my intuition also tells me." Wen Bingyongli looked at Victor and suddenly said, "If I don't cooperate with you, something bad will probably happen."
“I always trust my instincts.”
"Intuition..." Victor blinked and suddenly said, "Come to think of it, when you killed Aozaki Aoko's grandfather, it was because of your intuition, right?"
Because I thought I could kill it, I chopped it off.
"Um?!"
At this moment, a trace of surprise finally appeared on Wen Bingyongli's face, which had always been calm. He suddenly raised his head and stared at Victor blankly.
After a while, he suddenly lowered his head again: "You know more than I thought."
"...Yes, it's because of intuition."
He admitted this frankly, but then said: "It's just that I have to correct you on one point, foreign magician."
He raised his head and said seriously, "I just chopped him, not killed him. The word kill is not correct."
"What do you mean?" Victor frowned. For some reason, his heart suddenly skipped a beat, as if he realized something.
"If nothing unexpected happens, Aozaki Touko's next move will definitely be to destroy the nodes, trying to completely destroy the Aozaki family's magic system."
Wen Bingyong looked at Victor calmly: "Why do you think this is?"
"The power of the fifth law now lies in Aozaki Aoko. With Aozaki Aoko's current magic power, it is difficult for her to control the magic barrier of the entire Misaki City, let alone use the magic system of the Aozaki family. At present, she still mainly relies on the witch of the Kuonji family."
"For Aozaki Touko, this is completely unnecessary."
"..."
"Well, I'll give you a piece of crucial information for free, foreign magician." Wen Bingyongli looked at Victor's frowning face and smiled softly: "The reason is very simple. As I said, I only chopped him at that time, not killed him. In other words, I couldn't kill him."
"Yes, that person, the former magician you mentioned, Aozaki Aoko's grandfather."
"Alive, always alive."
"I just lost my body and became the spirit of an old man..."
"Always alive."
……
On the other side, the back mountain of the Aozaki family mansion was hidden by the Half Mountain barrier.
The core of the spiritual vein.
As the blood-red moonlight began to shine quietly, an old man suddenly opened his eyes in a bookstore somewhere in Misaki City.
"Hmm? Someone actually found the heart of the spiritual vein..."
"Isn't that really disappointing?"
Chapter 68, Kuonji Yuzu and Victor
"Spirit body..."
Victor narrowed his eyes in disbelief.
"Yes, spirit."
Wen Bingyongli looked at the shocked Victor with a look of satisfaction in his eyes. He liked this feeling.
Seeing other people's surprised and disbelieving eyes.
"An immortal spirit. I don't know how he did it. I think it should be related to the spiritual veins of Misaki City."
"But anyway, even though that guy has become just an old man after losing his magic, in the end, he just doesn't care."
"Even if it is just a spirit, it has lost its body, magic power, and even the ability to cast magic, but it still has the authority to control the entire Misaki City and the Aozaki family's great magic-"
In other words, the current ancestor of the Aozaki family is more like the last barrier in charge of the entire magic system of the Aozaki family. Even if he has no power himself, as long as the spiritual veins and magic barriers of the Aozaki family are still functioning normally.
He can use the entire Misaki City as his own magic workshop and possess extremely powerful strength.
"It sounds like this is a guarantee left for Aozaki Aoko to fully master the Aozaki family's magic system."
After hearing this, Victor fell into silent thought.
The biggest problem for Aozaki Aoko right now is that as a half-baked magician, she can do almost nothing except firing cannons...
"You can understand it that way."
Wen Bing Yongli smiled when she heard this: "Aozaki Touko knows this, so she must first destroy the magic nodes of the Aozaki family."
Only in this way can she temporarily seal the old man before robbing her sister of her status as heir.
So, there is actually a big boss hidden in Misaki City?
Victor thought helplessly that it was a good thing he didn't do anything rash at that time.
However, considering that the old man didn't show up even when Aozaki Aoko and Kuonji Arizuma were fighting like that, he probably wouldn't alarm the other party unless it was absolutely necessary, right?
This is good news.
Thinking of this, Victor's shocked mood gradually calmed down. He picked up the teacup and gently tasted the church's tea - it was just that there was an extra BOSS in the map, not a big problem.
He was thinking about his words and was about to ask some more detailed questions. At this moment.
The first thing was a ripple formed by magic power.
It blew away like an autumn breeze, and was followed by a tremor that caused ripples in the calm tea.
Did something happen?
Victor frowned and looked out the window in confusion.
Wen Bingyongli, on the other hand, was neither anxious nor slow. He stood up in surprise, looked at the direction where the magic power fluctuations came from, and said in disbelief: "It's true that what you say comes true... As soon as I mentioned the old man, he took action..."
What? Victor was slightly stunned, and then -
The next second, a pillar of light formed by magical power shot up into the sky, and a blood-red glow illuminated the entire earth.
In this bloody scene, Victor only felt a familiar breath that belonged to Arteluchee coming towards him.
Victor: “Pfft…”
Victor spat out a mouthful of hot tea.
……
The sudden vibration mobilized the magic nodes of the entire Misaki City.
The great barrier began to operate, and the blood-red halo covered half of the sky. Even the wandering magicians hiding in the dark and in the corners could not help but raise their heads and look at the starry sky with worry.
Not to mention everyone else.
The witch who was outside purchasing black tea looked towards the distant mountains. A ripple appeared under her calm eyes and she frowned slightly.
Aozaki Aoko, who was still in class at school, was looking out the window with her chin in her hand, bored. She was shocked by the sudden wave and stood up. She looked at the classmates around her in shock. After a moment of confusion, she shouted out loudly, "I want to take a leave."
Not only that, she also went downstairs and dragged the confused and bewildered Shizuki Sojuro out of the school.
On the other side, inside an urgently built magic workshop, Aozaki Touko, who was tinkering with a puppet, also felt the vibration.
But for her, the old man being alarmed in advance was actually a perfect cover for her next action.
