At dusk.
Milan, hungover, shook his head and slowly sat up from the huge bed in the royal palace.
"One fluffy, two fluffy, one fluffy, two fluffy..."
His mind felt as though it had suffered a heavy blow. Staring blankly into the air, completely absent-minded, he remained dazed for a long time.
Only when the sky filled with stars and a moon slightly fuller than a New Moon climbed over the palace roof did he finally come back to his senses.
"Ahhh, no, this is basically a massive public humiliation scene! If that scheming bastard Evan finds out, my lifelong reputation will be completely ruined.
This is the kind of stain he'll laugh at for the rest of my life.
And if Olivia tells Apusuya, I'm dead!"
Both hands clawed through his dark-blue hair.
If he found out this had been the fault of Paracelsus, the previous Crown Wizard to come here, who knew whether he might simply wish for that mission target to disappear from the world.
Thud!
When he jumped out of bed, he staggered slightly. He used Universal Sorcery · Cleanse Spell to clean himself thoroughly, then quickly changed into the clothes scattered across the floor.
The white rabbit fur stuck to them made him collapse all over again, and he hurriedly destroyed the evidence.
However, the moment he pushed open the door and saw the crescent moon in the sky, his steps suddenly halted.
"This star chart..."
Milan frowned slightly.
By the instincts of a Third-Order Astrologer, he felt that the celestial signs belonging to the second day of the New Moon were somehow off.
Although the various celestial bodies in the night sky felt like they were indeed in the normal state they should have been on this day, and the fluctuations of magical essence