After saying goodbye to Mycroft, Iver returned to the Silver and Tin Palace to find Isabel.
When he thought about changing his appearance, Isabel was the first person who came to mind.
Although she had advanced by riding the Transcendent Tide, and lacked some of the depth of an old-school elven Professional like Yanis... Isabel was now a genuine Fifth Level.
She was already more or less a Bone Carver-level combatant! And Isabel's strongest ability system was illusion magic.
"...You want to use illusion magic to hide these antlers?"
Isabel held the enormous antlers in both hands and hesitated. "At most, I can make them invisible... But I'm afraid that might not be of much use. Besides, they're... too hot."
Iver's antlers radiated heat, allowing perceptive people to clearly sense their presence. Hiding their heat was far more difficult than altering their appearance—it was like trying to hide a fire without letting anyone feel its heat when they touched it. Isabel might not have been incapable of doing so, but if she only used "enchantment," it would be very difficult.
The weight of the antlers was also impossible to ignore. Although their weight was no longer a problem for Iver, a human body and a deer's body were ultimately different. They projected so far forward—and had now grown to more than twenty centimeters in height—that they noticeably shifted his center of gravity.
"So I plan to become a Child of the Moon."
Iver explained, "As a Child of the Moon, I won't have antlers on my head."
"That little girl? Or Bayard?"
Isabel immediately thought of Iver's other two incarnations, a mischievous smile appearing at the corners of her mouth. "Do you want me to turn them into something else?"
"...Why did you think of them first? I can become