106. A Week
“I’m not telling her,” Reina said with a mischievous smile.
“Why not? Don’t you think it’s exhausting?”
“It’s a piece of cake.”
Reina was confident.
Little Cal, in their casual interactions, would often display expressions that didn’t belong to a system. But when Reina seriously teased her, Little Cal would become incredibly serious, making Reina even think she had misread the situation.
Reina buried her head in the pillow, desperately wishing she could get a good night’s sleep here. But sleeping here seemed to only make her more tired, so she had no choice but to spring up from the bed.
“Little Cal, what’s my level?”
“Level 121.”
“…You didn’t even tell me my Dragon Mark reached level 76?”
“I’m sorry…”
Little Cal nodded slightly in apology—this was a significant departure from her previous behavior.
But for a system, this should also be a normal action.
Reina sighed. She suddenly realized that she didn’t feel anything particularly special. So, she left the Place of Prayer and returned to reality.
At the same time, Reina’s clone had found the [Forbidden Magic] she had been searching for.
A black leather book titled [Purgatory], with black flames outlined in gold on its cover. On the aged pages were rows of text, clearly not the “original manuscript.”
Reina quickly began reading and finished in less than an hour.
With her powerful mental fortitude, she swore she could completely recite the contents of the book, even write it down from memory.
But this photographic memory ability didn’t offer any practical help in her current situation.
Because the book was written in ancient text!
All the important content was replaced with obscure and difficult language. Reina tried to decipher it on her own, but it was a fool’s errand.
So, she immediately went to the library, intending to find an ancient text dictionary.
—However, Reina discovered that none of the ancient texts recorded in the Dragon King’s Palace could match the content of the book [Purgatory].
Clueless, she was about to enter the Place of Prayer to seek help when she suddenly remembered something and found a dictionary-like book in the forbidden library of the theocratic nation.
Yes, since the Primordial Era, forbidden magic had been restricted and controlled by the sages of ancient civilizations. They didn’t just use laws and strategies to limit forbidden magic, but directly created an extremely difficult language, combined with complex formulas, to raise the difficulty of learning forbidden magic by a whole new level.
Reina suddenly wanted to throw a brick at the faces of those damned mages. Whether it was seals, underground ruins, or mazes, this method of creating a whole new language was simply too despicable!!
But Reina didn’t give up. This meant that the book [Purgatory] indeed recorded darker, more authentic knowledge.
Just then, Reina suddenly remembered that the wedding was less than two weeks away.
—Time was running out.
After dinner, Reina transcribed the entire [Purgatory] based on the information from her clone. Then, she compared the two books word by word, recording the translated content in a separate notebook.
The sheer volume of this project made Reina no longer proud of her mental fortitude.
She would rather copy a dictionary dozens of times than translate such obscure and difficult forbidden magic.
Even more infuriating was that these forbidden magic texts were, at best, just a “key” to deciphering forbidden magic. To actually use forbidden magic, she would need to pay an unimaginable price and use a magic circle that was as complex as a calculation problem.
Before she knew it, night had fallen.
Reina glanced at the time and realized she had missed her bath time with Calysia.
She quickly finished her bath and returned to the bedchamber, seeing that Calysia was already lying in bed, warming it for her. For some reason, Reina smiled.
She took off her clothes and slipped under the covers.
Calysia was indeed still awake.
She looked at Reina’s jade-like body shyly and hugged her.
“Little Vassal~”
Just as she was about to say something, Reina had already closed her eyes and fallen into a deep sleep.
Her chest rose and fell rhythmically, and before she drifted off to dreamland, a smile appeared at the corners of her lips.
Calysia’s smile instantly froze, turning into worry.
She gently caressed Reina’s cheek, kissed her lightly, and then her tail wrapped around Reina’s tail, intertwining with it. Then, she held Reina tightly, just like the first time they had met in Wood Village.
“Thank you.”
…
A few days later, Reina woke up and was about to attend the Demon Moon election meeting when Calysia, for the first time, vetoed her decision, refusing her attendance and instead presiding over the meeting herself.
Reina looked at the now clean, but still slightly messy, room and couldn’t help but laugh.
She re-cleaned some of the overlooked corners… It didn’t take her much time.
Then, she went to the study and continued to decipher the forbidden magic.
After an unknown amount of time, she began to check on the progress of her [Light Clone].
Very well, her clone had successfully infiltrated the monastery and become a cleric.
There was also a strange little episode.
During this time, some members of the clergy, specifically a squad of trainee Holy Knights, looked down on Reina’s rising status in the theocratic nation, thinking she had used her beauty to win people over, becoming a formal nun without ever using light attribute magic, which naturally made people jealous.
Of course, Reina didn’t need to bother with these people.
A few hours later, those trainee Holy Knights “mysteriously disappeared,” and even a full-scale search by the Church couldn’t find them.
In short, Reina’s clone was progressing quite smoothly.
She even made a few human friends and got her own dormitory.
Under the dual care of the Saintess and Ann, and after shining in several battles against the orcs, she would surely become famous soon and gradually become a hero of humanity, even a leader.
This was Reina’s second identity in the human world.
But she didn’t care.
Time ticked by.
The translation of the forbidden magic was only half done.
She almost lost track of time. Fortunately, Calysia was quite diligent during this period.
Reina even felt that she was more relaxed now than when she first arrived at the Dragon King’s Palace—until she realized that she still had half of [Purgatory] to translate, and quickly dismissed her previous thoughts.
At night, Reina had already forgotten the time, missing her bath time with Calysia.
At this hour, if Calysia were still warming the bed, she should already be asleep.
So, Reina went straight to the rooftop of the Dragon King’s Palace.
Directly above the bedchamber was a small platform of several thousand square meters, protected by a symbolic fence. From here, she could see the entire clear night sky.
She planned to just get some fresh air and relax. Now, just by closing her eyes, she could feel countless ancient texts swirling in her mind.
She suddenly understood why Calysia liked to take walks to clear her head.
However, since she started warming the bed, Calysia no longer took walks… She liked to spend sweet bed-warming time with Reina.
“That dummy…”
Reina leaned on the fence, her tail swaying slightly, like a cat’s.
Just then, she heard rhythmic footsteps. Reina turned around and saw a graceful figure in a short skirt under the moonlight—it was Calysia.
She smiled gently, humming a song as she walked over and leaned on the fence beside Reina.
“Calysia, I’m sorry… I lost track of time. I thought you were already asleep.”
“Hee hee~”
Calysia didn’t mind at all. Her smile was mysterious, as if she was hiding something from Reina. After a moment of thought, she stood up straight, patted Reina’s head, and smiled like a young girl just entering puberty.
“I’ve arranged a wedding for our love, the date is set for next week~”
What? So it’s just that…
Huh?
There’s only a week left?!
