Victoria's memories of traveling to the Violet Kingdom ended there, abruptly enough that Gawain did not react at first. It took him two seconds before he could not help asking, "That's all you remember?"
"Yes." Victoria nodded. "A very clear point—the moment we entered that forest filled with mist."
"In other words, not only were the memories of the City of a Thousand Towers erased, but the apprentices traveling to the Violet Kingdom would not remember the journey to the City of a Thousand Towers either—the experience of traveling through the dense fog, the exact route from the seaside town of Plander to the heart of the kingdom, what the forest within the fog looked like... Those memories also had to be removed before they left?"
"It appears so." Victoria nodded again. "The Violet Kingdom guarded its secrets closely, and those secrets were not limited to the City of a Thousand Towers. It seemed that once one crossed the fog at the kingdom's borders, everything within its interior had to be strictly concealed... I later tried to guess what might be inside that fog, but I found no clues."
Gawain frowned and pondered for a long while. The room fell silent, with only the faint hum of the Magical Devices and the sound of the ventilation system mingling together, somehow making the room seem even quieter. After an unknown amount of time, he suddenly raised his head and broke the silence. "What about after that? What else do you remember?"
"We were still at the edge of that forest, all standing where we had begun. It felt as though we had merely blanked out for a moment, yet half a year had actually passed. Your Majesty, I study not only frost magic but also have some understanding of spells concerning