Re: Love & Magic

The next day, Zevien bought a storage ring for himself since he could already afford one. A single storage ring with 10 cubic meters cost 1 million Lopax credits, but he bought a 100 cubic meters storage ring with square-shaped space storage. A 100 cubic meters ring was the highest he could buy in the city.

He also went to the biggest market in the city and bought the required materials to activate his Relic, the Mirror of Oz-Fin.

However, he didn’t activate the Relic right away. He first returned to his luxurious room on the top floor of Zenith Corp. Vernisia and the others were attending the academy, but Zevien didn’t since he had to enter his 2nd magic labyrinth today.

He put five empty vials in the storage ring and some tier-2 healing potions that could heal him faster than his healing spell. This was another benefit of the Magician Growth Boost. Since they can enter with their physical body, they can also bring other things inside, like how Zevien brought vials inside to store vampiric blood.

After putting the things in his storage ring, Zevien also wore his newly bought adventurer outfit, a tier-1 magic leather ranger full-body armor.

After entering the Inviolable Blood Garden, Zevien went to Henry’s house to check on them. He didn’t reveal himself because he would never involve himself with them again. After all, doing so would put them in danger purely because of him.

“Phew, they are fine,” Zevien observed from a bit far while sitting on top of a tree. Henry and Rezia were watering their flowers while their kids played outside the field.

“Meow~ Are you going to activate the Mirror of Oz-Fin here?” Tarto appeared and asked.

“Yeah,” Zevien nodded as he turned around and flew in the sky with a swoosh after unfurling his vampire wings.

Zevien continued flying for ten minutes at his full speed and passed by two towns before stopping at the third one.

After descending a kilometer away from the town’s entrance gate, Zevien suppressed his vampire transformation but kept his wings furled behind his back.

He only showed his cat form, which made him look almost entirely human except for the cat ears on his head and a cat tail behind his back. He also suppressed his whiskers; instead, three marks appeared on his cheeks like a certain shounen manga character.

The first thing he did was to activate his Mirror of Oz-Fin. He took out the mirror from his magic eidos body and put the Luminous roots and 1kg of Star-Ast powder near it. A second later, both ingredients disappeared as the mirror shined briefly.

*****

[You have successfully activated the Mirror of Oz-Fin.]

[Mirror of Oz-Fin]

-Type: Relic

-Maximum uses before the Relic turns to dust: Three.

-1st Effect: You can infuse 1000-10,000 mana into the mirror to create a mirror of whatever size —according to the mana infused— that will reflect projectile magic attacks of any power.

-2nd Effect: You can infuse 100 mana into the mirror and open a portal that will lead you to a dungeon. Completing the dungeon will give you rewards according to your performance. (One-time entry)

*****

“Nice! Even though I can only use it three times, the effect is excellent,” Zevien nodded with a hint of excitement.

The government gathered more data later and found that none of the relics were permanent. The Relics that people got had a limited number of uses. After using the Relics, they would turn into dust. So, Zevien knew that the Relic wouldn’t stay permanently.

After putting the Relic back into his magic eidos body, he entered the town. The town was more extensive and luxurious than any town he had seen in the labyrinth so far.

“It looks like the capital town of a kingdom or something,” Zevien muttered as he saw people wearing better, classy clothes, unlike the previous towns.

The buildings and streets in the town were also clean and more artistic. He also saw a big castle far deeper into the town.

“That young man is so handsome but also cute. I think he can participate in the princess’ quest,” a young woman in her early twenties spoke while walking with her friends. They also looked at Zevien and nodded with sparkling eyes.

“That black hair and strange ears on his head, as well as the stark contrast to his clean and white-toned face, make him stand out. Hehe, he can indeed participate. Should we approach him and tell him about it?”

“Yes, yes! Of course. Let’s go and tell him.”

Zevien was walking while looking curiously at the stores and other things he encountered on the way before suddenly, his cat ears twitched slightly. He turned around and saw three young women walking toward him.

When the three girls saw Zevien noticing them, they smiled and waved their hands, “Hello, mister. Can you wait for a minute and listen to us, please?”

“What?” Zevien asked plainly.

The girls arrived and stopped in front of him before one of them spoke, “would you like to participate in the princess’ quest?”

“This quest is hosted by the eldest princess of the kingdom, princess Nerissa. She is twenty-two years old, at the prime of her life. She has awakened her ancestral magic and is entering a dungeon. However, only two men can accompany her. But she wants handsome and talented magicians only,” said the second girl, who had long blond hair.

“There is a selection event at the north-east square plaza, so if you want to participate, then I am sure you will be selected because mister is very handsome and feels powerful to us,” said the third girl quickly as her long dark-blue ponytail danced due to her head moving as she spoke.

‘Princess’ quest?’ Zevien raised his eyebrows. But shaking his head, he replied indifferently, “I am not interested.”

Zevien then turned around and started walking, leaving those three young women with their mouths wide open as they looked at each other with shock.

“He is handsome but dumb…sigh.”

“Yeah. He is wasting such a good opportunity. Let’s tell the princess that there is a very handsome man who says he is not interested in her?”

“It will be interesting,” the dark-blue ponytailed girl nodded in excitement, “let’s go and tell her. Our princess is wise and smart, unlike those idiotic men pursuing her. I think she will be able to rope this demi-human into her party.”

…

“Meow~ Hehehe,” Tarto sneakily laughed, “this trip suddenly became exciting.”

“What do you mean?” Zevien asked with a frown, “I know that something exciting for you is troublesome for me. Say, what are you talking about?”

Tarto rolled his eyes and disappeared without saying anything, but his voice rang in Zevien’s head, “I shall just observe now, for that’s all I can do. Tread carefully, Zevy boy.”

Zevien paused in his steps as his eyebrows creased. After several seconds of thinking, he decided to finish his task quickly instead of finding the Adventurer’s Guild himself.

He approached a middle-aged man and asked him the location of the Adventurer’s Guild before quickly going there.

He went inside and took some tasks before coming out but what greeted him were two knights standing at the entrance with the three girls, who approached him behind the two knights.

“Yep, he is the one. Hi, handsome,” the blond-haired girl said with a smile as she waved her hand, “the princess would like to meet you.”