Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 5 Volume 8 [Parts 1 to 3] by Miya Kazuki

Author:Miya Kazuki
Language: eng
Format: epub

Ahrensbach’s Foundation and Replenishment Hall

As soon as I stepped through the rainbow film, I noticed a magic circle on the floor right where I was about to put my foot. A small shriek escaped me, but I managed to change course at the very last second.

“Th-That was close...”

I shouldn’t have been too surprised—I’d advised Sylvester to do the same thing back in Ehrenfest—but Hartmut’s assertions that he hadn’t found any traps in the book room and that none of the visiting nobles had even ventured inside had made me too relaxed.

“Was this trap Lady Georgine’s doing?”

Detlinde or her elder sister had most likely set it, but I suspected they had done so at Georgine’s command. I cautiously tossed a feystone containing my mana onto the circle. There was a light clink as it struck the ground; then a furious burst of blue fire shot up into the air.

“Eek!”

The intensity of the flames made me draw in a sharp breath and cling to the wall. The all-consuming inferno looked to me like the embodiment of Georgine’s obsession. Even the slightest touch would incinerate me. The most I could do was clutch my chest as I watched my feystone vanish into the blaze.

As the blue fire disappeared, so too did the circle, leaving only its pure-white surroundings. I was scared that there might be more traps, but I willed my shaking legs to continue toward the foundation.

Inside a square, windowless room of white ivory, seven softball-size feystones floated in the air. Each shone with one of the divine colors and moved in a circular orbit, reminiscent of the celestial globe in the Mana Replenishment hall. A glittery substance that I took to be golden powder trickled down from one of their cores.

These seven feystones were connected to the replenishment hall, and the golden dust was the mana coming from it. In other words, it was the mana being sucked out of Ferdinand at this very moment.

As my eyes followed the falling dust, I noticed that one section of the white floor was open, exposing what appeared to be part of a massive globe. Even just the area I could see was larger than both of my arms stretched out. This was the duchy’s foundation; it glowed with a faint green light, which told me that the current Aub Ahrensbach was Water inclined.

“I didn’t realize the real thing was so big...” I mused, peering down at the foundation. Swaying inside the globe was pale-green liquid, but the vessel wasn’t even half full. Even though Ferdinand had been supplying his mana for the best part of the day, the foundation was mostly empty.

Has he somehow managed to minimize the channeling speed...?

He wasn’t offering mana as part of a large crowd; he was locked up alone, meaning there wasn’t a flow for him to get caught up in. I’d assumed that Detlinde had chosen the rate at which his mana would drain, since she had activated the magic circle, but it was moving far too slowly for that to be true.

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