If The Magician and the others were handling the preliminary preparations...
Then the work those two were doing was the very heart of the project.
And for that "heart"...
What the two needed to do now was reconstruct a set of enchantment or rune formulas suited to buildings.
After all, everything they had used before had been intended for equipment.
Those formulas certainly wouldn't meet the requirements for buildings.
The Star: "The key is still figuring out how to approach the construction, isn't it?"
The Sun: "I think we could try engraving them directly, the way I do."
The Sun: "The Crystal Pen certainly has its advantages, but compared to an engraving knife, it's far too delicate."
The Sun: "Just covering one room with runes would take a considerable amount of time."
The Star: "That may be true, but with an engraving knife, even the tiniest mistake would ruin the entire structure."
The Star: "We can't afford even the slightest mistake right now."
The Sun: "..."
As they talked, each stuck to their own position, and neither could convince the other.
Or rather, one specialized in enchantments, while the other specialized in runes.
The two weren't even part of the same system.
If there was anything they had in common...
It was probably just the subject of "semiotics."
After all, both enchantments and runes had originated from that discipline.
It was simply that differences in how they were used had sent them in vastly different directions.
Of course, that didn't mean Ruan Qingyi and Ingrid were on bad terms.
Quite the opposite.
Since both devoted their efforts to semiotics...
They got along extremely well.
They were even known, together with Lan Qingyou, as Tarot Villa's "Symbolic Trio."
Though Lan Qingyou herself had never acknowledged that title.
Mm... magic circles were