"It's unpalatable. ”

Crunching on the bread in his mouth, Isaac unceremoniously commented on the food on the plate, his expression wrinkled as if he was being executed:

"The bread is so hard that it breaks your teeth, there is no salt in the potato soup, the egg paste is like a charcoal cake, the wild vegetables and onions are mixed together, and the bacon is this... Look, it stinks, no wonder I smelled bad when I first came in!"

Rolling his eyes, Isaac dangled a piece of salted meat with a fork in front of the little wizard: "I ate better than this when I was locked up in Eboden, dare you ask me if I'm in prison?"

"If you don't want to eat, don't eat!" The angry Ai Yin glared at him: "This is the Boundary Mountain Fortress, and it is a harsh winter with no supplies from the rear, it is already a luxury to have such a sumptuous dinner!"

"What nonsense, I've seen it!"

Shaking his head, Isaac put on a "you can't hide it from me" expression, staring straight at the little wizard's face: "A bottle of soju, two pieces of grilled lamb chops, toast, stewed rabbit bisque, and black pudding - I didn't expect that I was behind you when you sneaked into Loren's room!"

Holding his shoulders indignantly, Isaac pushed the plate in front of Ain: "As one of your friends, I refuse this kind of differential treatment!"

"W-How can this be the same?!"

The cramped little wizard blushed, just bowing his head: "He's been injured so much, and he's exhausted like that... Isn't it right to eat a little bit of good stuff to supplement your nutrition?"

“...... You know I almost died in Dragon King's City... Right?"

Isaac's eyes widened, and he couldn't have been more surprised: "It's unreasonable...... All three of us arrived in Niderhogg, and we all survived death again and again, and we all died at the slightest point - why is it that only Loren needs to be 'taken care of' in your eyes, me and this precocious imp?!"

After a moment of silence, the two of them looked at the gray-eyed boy who was still swallowing and chewing the salted meat in his mouth almost at the same time.

It took a long time for Lu Sien to react turned his face sideways, and at the same time, he was a little embarrassed to scratch his head when he was stared at by two people:

"That's... If you still have lamb chops, can you give me some?"

"......" Isaac.

“...... in the back kitchen. "Ain.

Silently picked up the plate, and the gray-eyed boy with an apologetic smile got up and turned to leave.

Sighing softly, the little wizard silently piled a whole pile of sheepskin scrolls on the table: "This is what you commissioned me, and I have sorted out all the ideas and research plans you have put forward so far. ”

"It took a lot of time, and so much parchment...... The alchemists of Broken Mountain even sent me a part of the inventory, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to finish it!"

"That'......"

Playing with the fork in his hand, Isaac said casually, as if he had just remembered.

"Yes, if nothing else, these are the things we're going to accomplish in the future — and according to you, we're going to make these things really useful. The little wizard nodded earnestly.

"Burn them all. ”

"W-What?"

"Burn, destroy, smash, tear or give away, whatever you want, it's not bad to keep it as a souvenir. Shaking his head, Isaac sighed, "Anyway, these things don't matter anymore!"

"You... What are you talking about?!" Aine looked at him in shock, "That's all your hard work... It's also all the hard work of Loren and me, how can we ......"

"It's because these things are our 'before' research results, so they are no longer important, and more important is the future!"

Isaac "emphasized" very hard: "These things... The field of vision is too narrow, we can't let them block our direction!"

"I don't understand!"

"Okay, what do you not understand?" Isaac shrugged his shoulders with a very helpless look: "Is it 'vision' or 'narrowness'?"

"I don't understand!" the little wizard stared at him angrily, with a "I want to make you look good if I don't make it clear."

I can't believe I've ever worried about this guy!

"Looks like it's going to be a hassle to explain......" Isaac muttered quietly.

"Then Isaac Grantham, the 'genius', would you please put it a little more simply!"

Snorted coldly, Ai Yin, who was hugging his shoulder, pouted unhappily: "No way, who made us not as smart as you!"

With a long sigh, Isaac's expression was very awkward... It's even more awkward than before, and if you have to explain, you can still chat with Ain normally in the past, bullying the little wizard and other potatoes like a young child......

Now he simply doesn't even have the interest to tease the other party.

"Ain, do you remember what Mentor Dalton and Dean Peter once said - 'The void exists because it does not exist', there are no rules and no common sense, everything is the purest illusion, and you cannot rely on experience to contact and understand its power. ”

"Remember, what's wrong?" the little wizard raised an eyebrow, "Did they say something wrong?"

"No, that's true, but the point is... I don't think they really understand what that means. Isaac sighed, "Or rather, they just understand the very superficial part of 'there are no rules'. ”

"The most important thing is that I... I don't know how I'm going to explain it to you now! I used to think I understood, but the truth is that I don't understand at all, and I'm just like Mentor Dalton or Master Freswalker at Eberden, who just 'thinks' I understand!"

The more he spoke, the more excited Isaac became, his speed of speech became faster and faster, and the cold sweat on his forehead made up for it, with a nervous expression that he was about to faint, and he was dancing with his hands.

But Ain vaguely understood: "Did you find any very high-end 'occult knowledge' in Nidhogg?"

"It should be said that... It's a completely different wizarding system, a system that is far more efficient than the way we use the power of the Void that we're currently exposed to, and the way we use it is simply stupid and inefficient in comparison!"

"I saw... Truth, Ain, can you understand? I see the truth!"

"I used to think that I was going to Nidhogg to regain my lost knowledge and find the reason why the First Wizard Logan started the 'Wizarding Age', but when I actually got there, I didn't find that, I didn't see that!"

"I see my calling... In other words, something that only I can do in this world, a destiny that belongs to me alone, a task that may not be possible in my lifetime!"

"I wouldn't have said anything like that before, but this time Ain you can laugh at me as much as you want...... I've never believed in fate or mission in my life, and only the clergy of the Holy Cross would go out of their way to tell people this nonsense, so that the hapless ones can believe that this is the end of their lives!"

"But now I understand... The concept of time may not be straight forward sometimes, it is more like a huge net, every choice you make is touching the silk thread around you, when you can see the trembling of each silk thread, the result of every choice you make, you will truly understand what your 'mission' is!"

"Logan has started the 'Wizarding Age', so my mission is to bring it into the 'next era' - say goodbye to inefficient spellcasting and endless fear of the Void, and truly let the world see the power they should have in their possession with a rational eye!"

"Isaac ......"

"So these, and these... Continuing to research would be a waste of time, and would even lead me to a dead end. Fiddling with the scrolls on the table, Isaac sighed tiredly:

"So I'm going to forget everything and start from scratch!"

"And we're going to change the world!"