Chapter 21

Claude should finally have some peace. He finished dinner and went back to his room. He thought about his brother stiffness during dinner and smiled again.

Arbeit hadn’t been able to sit still at all. He didn’t know how much Claude knew. He kept staring at Claude at every opportunity he got while they ate. He probably wanted to ask Claude how much he knew, but he didn’t dare. Claude actually enjoyed playing hot potato with their gazes. He’d let his brother stare at him for a few seconds then suddenly look at him, and the man would quickly look away. The moment Claude’s eyes returned to his plate, however, Arbeit would stare at him again and everything would start over.

It became so obvious even their mother noticed and asked what was going on.

Arbeit nearly fell of his chair to quickly explain it away, gobbled the rest of his dinner down and all but ran out of the house. He was probably heading to be boutique to ask them a few questions.

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The the seventh, eighth, and ninth entries had a lot of information. It turned out the gathering he’d been talking about was a lot bigger than Claude had initially thought. He also finally learned the writer specialised in runes and alchemy.

He’d never known how difficult magi were to kill, but it seemed, at least the weaker ones, were quite killable. Despite that, it appeared magic was quite powerful.

He wondered what kind of plane this was to which everyone was being sent. He said it was just a rumour, but he also struck Claude as a pretty naive man.

It felt almost like he was reading a webnovel. This was the first he’d heard of the people of this world, if only the magi, knowing and being able to travel to other worlds. It also appeared that the different worlds didn’t have the same amount of magic.

He also heard about Symposium for the first time. From the way the writer talked about it, it was their destination and it was where the sky-piercing tower was. And even common people had to obey the council’s summons.

Claude was most intrigued by the mention of the council. He’d never read about how exactly the magi ruled before, it was certainly not taught in school and it wasn’t recorded in any of the books.