A Ke had not been conducting any experiments related to message-transmission magic arrays lately, so Liszt left A Ke's laboratory and prepared to visit the Mage Tower to ask whether the magicians of the Magic Guild had developed a solution.
But before he could inquire, Chris had already arrived at Thorn Castle.
"Chris, you're here so early today?"
Chris usually came to Thorn Castle in the afternoon to assist A Ke with magic experiments and, incidentally, ask about magic. She now considered herself A Ke's student in every respect, looking very much like she was about to become A Ke's loyal lackey. Of course, any magician would gladly be a loyal lackey under a magus.
"Your Highness, one of the Magic Guild's experimental projects has made some progress. I was just about to report it to Lord A Ke Roydes." Chris was equally respectful before Liszt.
She was willing to become a magus's loyal lackey, but why would she not also want to become a dragonrider's loyal lackey? In Flame Territory, magi and dragonriders were all one family anyway; there was no need to distinguish precisely whose lackey she was.
"Oh? What experiment has made progress?"
"The message-transmission magic array proposed by Your Highness has shown preliminary progress. We successfully inscribed a magic array capable of triggering magical feedback over a long distance, but we are still far from the stage of transmitting messages."
Just as he had been about to look for them, the solution had delivered itself to his door.
Liszt was delighted. "Explain it in detail... No, let's go to A Ke's laboratory first. Come on!"
Back in the laboratory, Chris carefully explained the results of their experiment. Essentially, a certain magic array could trigger magical feedback. For instance, if fire-element magic power was released into one