A blinding light completely engulfed everyone's vision. After a while, it gradually faded, but the scene before them had changed.
They were no longer in the underground cavern where Deliora was kept.
Before them was a small room. The air smelled strongly of disinfectant, cabinets filled with assorted medicines lined the walls, and heavy snow fell outside the window.
It appeared to be an examination room in some medical institution.
Gray and Lyon looked around in astonishment, utterly bewildered.
"Was that teleportation magic? Where are we?" Gray asked first.
Blanc waved the card in his hand at them.
"This is the Return Card. It can take people back to the past. I linked it to Ur's lingering will."
"The place we're in now is where the events from the past that Ur wanted us to understand took place."
Ultear's pupils contracted sharply at his words. She stared fixedly at the card in Blanc's hand, her fists clenching without her realizing it.
Back to the past? Wasn't that the very magic she'd always been pursuing?
The Arc of Time was merely an inferior imitation. What she had always sought was the flawless Time Magic of the Great Magic World, magic that could let everything start over.
The other two were equally shocked. Lyon took half a step back, looking at the card as his voice rose involuntarily:
"Seriously? Is something like that really possible?"
Gray, meanwhile, frowned with concern:
"Back to the past? Is that really safe? That must be some incredibly dangerous forbidden magic."
"What if we change history..."
He fell silent at that point. Changing history could have a profound effect on the future-everyone understood that. Yet all three of them had pasts filled with bitter regrets.
"Don't worry. Anyone who returns to the past through the Return Card