Inside a grand hall on the eastern side of Lekaya City of War, Leonas sat upright in a wooden chair, holding a blank Magic Crystal sphere. He activated it at times, then extinguished it again, his heart wavering.
Telling his father about the trial would betray Velin's trust in him.
Yet concealing it would go against the principles he had always upheld.
Recalling the conversation between that Crown and the Eternal Dawn Knight after the trial ended, he became utterly certain that Kyle's background was extraordinarily powerful.
But the conversation between the King of Wind Fairies and the Eternal Dawn Knight in the Sky Realm hall had plunged him into doubt once more.
Perhaps Kyle's background was to the Eternal Dawn Knight what the Eternal Dawn Knight's background was to some great being—at the very least, one of higher standing than those three Epics.
"Father, forgive me."
After murmuring those words, Leonas crushed the blank crystal sphere in his hand and chose to conceal the matter.
Perhaps the Eternal Dawn Knight did not care whether he told his father, but if someone trusted him, he could not betray that trust.
Having understood his true feelings, Leonas blew out a breath and ground the Magic Crystal sphere into dust. Then he closed his eyes, recalled the several Heavenly Scripts containing the mysteries of laws, and combined them with his understanding of the Law of Light to construct a new combat technique.
At that moment, inside the Legion Command Department, Velin arrived at a side hall. Finding no official business requiring his attention, he waved his hand and opened a Demiplane passage, preparing to find somewhere to relax properly.
As for a certain world elf, it was currently sprawled across the trunk of the Tree of Life sapling, sleeping soundly.
On March