(Thank you very much for the tips from 'Dream Demon', 'Sakuraso's God-sama', and 'Pokémon!') ）

"Whew!"

In the battlefield made of ancient magic, Noah was violently surrounded by a storm, carrying puffs of smoke and wind waves, like the eye of a typhoon, standing in the rocky field.

"Uh-huh!" Gerald, who collapsed on the ground, clutched his chest, but the pain actually came from his back, making Gerald's face turn a little pale.

Lifting his body with difficulty, he set his eyes on Noah, who was transformed into the eye of the typhoon, and the look in Gerald's eyes was very complicated.

There is a shock that Noah has a strength beyond his expectations.

There is also the disbelief that he was defeated at Noah's hands in just ten seconds.

However, in Gerald's eyes, there was an indescribable burst of ecstasy.

Staring at the vast magic power of the waves erupting all over his body, squandering the magic power like money, using the magic power in the most wasteful way, turning the magic power into a substantial wind and waves, and Noah hovering around him like a tornado, after a long time, Gerald suddenly laughed.

"Haha... Hahaha... Hahahaha-! ”

It was a maniacal laugh triggered by an inward ecstasy.

"It's all doomed! Fate is on my side! The resurrection of Jelf is already something that cannot be stopped! Hahahaha-! ”

Seeing Gerald suddenly lying there laughing like crazy, Noah frowned deeply.

Under such circumstances, how could this Gerald still laugh so happily?

If it were a different person, Noah would definitely think that the other party was driven crazy, but Gerald's appearance, although he looked crazy, the ecstasy in his eyes was real, as if something great had happened.

That burst of ecstasy even overshadowed the blow brought to him by Gerald's defeat at Noah's hands, and made Gerald laugh out loud like this.

"How?" Sensing that there might be a reason that he didn't know, Noah spoke sarcastically.

"Does being defeated so neatly make you so happy?"

"Happy! Of course happy! Gerald laughed loudly as he braced his body and struggled to stand up, smiling maniacally even though he still had a painful look on his face, especially when he looked at Noah, he was simply full of fanaticism.

"Because, the conditions for Jelf's resurrection have finally been gathered! Hahahaha-! ”

Throughout the battlefield constructed by ancient magic, Gerald's shrill laughter reverberated for a long time.

……

At the same time, in a conference room of the Senate branch of the Kingdom of Fiore, Zikrein's expression, which was discussing a certain topic with the surrounding councilors, suddenly froze, and then he became ecstatic.

"Haha... Hahaha....hahaha-! ”

Like Gerald on the other side of the world, Zikrein burst out laughing without warning, laughing unusually highly.

The councillors sitting in the other seats were all stunned for a moment, and even Urrutia couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and looked at Zikrein with a surprised face.

"Zike, what are you doing?" Oge frowned and snorted coldly at Zikrein,

"You're still in the meeting, you're so presumptuous, I'm sorry for your status as a councilor."

"Assessor?" Zicre looked sarcastically at everyone present.

"That kind of identity, you old immortal selves, cherish it!"

With these words, Zikrein's figure slowly became illusory, and it didn't take long for him to disappear.

“――――！”

All the members of the council stood up in shock.

"What's wrong?" Yajma exclaimed.

"What's going on?"

As soon as the words fell, the ground suddenly shook.

"Bang Bang Bang

When the members were caught off guard, the surrounding walls, ceilings, floors, and even tables and chairs all fell into a weathered state, shattering little by little with a crisp sound.

"Wow-!"

Some of the reviewers who were greedy for life and afraid of death screamed, and even sat down on the ground directly because of their weak legs.

And in the middle of these councilors, a bewitching figure stood there unaffected.

That's Urutia.

"I don't know what's going on, but it seems that something unexpected has happened over there, making the plan go more smoothly." Urrutia stretched out her hand, as if she were holding a treasure, holding a magic circle that was slowly spinning.

"In that case, I can't let you get in the way."

Hearing this, some of the more keen-thinking commentators, including Yajima, suddenly understood.

Zikrein and Urrutia are both wicked men who have infiltrated the Senate for a certain purpose.

……

At the same time, Noah, who was still on the battlefield made of ancient magic in the Tower of Paradise, looked at Gerald, who was still laughing wildly, and suddenly raised his head as if he felt something, and looked ahead, that is, Gerald's side.

There, Zikrein, who had disappeared from the Senate, slowly appeared beside Gerald like an apparition, with a wild laugh almost identical to Gerald's.

Noah's gaze froze.

"It's you?!"

"I didn't expect us to meet again so soon." It was completely different from the last time they met, and this time Zikrein's body was full of Noah's strange and familiar evil spirit.

The strangeness was due to the fact that there was no such evil feeling in the previous Zikrein.

The familiarity is because the evil aura in Zikrein's body is exactly the same as the evil aura in Gerald's body.

With his excellent sensing ability and keen intuition, Noah finally sensed something.

In the past, Noah had always felt a sense of disobedience in Zikrein's body.

Now, Noah understands what this sense of disobedience is all about.

"Oh?" Gerral and Zikrein raised an eyebrow at the same time.

"Did you find out?"

"It should be said that you haven't been discovered until now, and your ability to cover up is good." Looking at Gerald and Zikrein, who were showing the same expressions, like the front and back of the mirror, Noah sneered.

"I didn't expect you to get a 'Missing Body' into the Senate, and it took a lot of thought, Gerald."

Yes.

"Missing Body".

Zikrein is Gerald's "missing body".

The so-called "thinking body" refers to a three-dimensional projection or a doppelganger.

In other words, Gerrard and Zikrein are not two people at all, but the same person!

"In order not to expose the identity of the 'Missing Body', you have divided half of your magic power into your 'Missing Body', so that your 'Thinking Body' can also use magic on its own and act independently, just like a real person, right?" Noah was staggered.

"Even my sensing ability can only detect a little bit of something wrong, and those guys in the Senate are planted this time."

"Because that's necessary." Zikrein, to be precise, Gerald's doppelganger's "Missing Body" grinned at Noah.

"The Tower of Paradise is being built in an orderly manner, but if you want to activate the R system, you are missing the most important and essential things."

"Magic!" Gerald raised one of his fists, and black magic rippled on it.

"If you want magic to work, you can't do it!"

"It's a pity that the magic power required for the 'R system' is a huge magic power of 2.7 billion concepts, and it is the magic power that gathers all the magicians from all over the world and I don't know if it can be put together." Zikrein's eyes narrowed.

"So, we're going to put our mind on the Council's 'Magic Spirit Power'."

Hearing this, Noah's eyes flashed.

"Wizard Spirit Power."

It is a strategic weapon of the Senate, which is composed of magicians of various attributes who gather power together, and with the instrument configuration of multiple magic items, it can be launched from a distance and used by using a satellite magic array, which is similar to the transcendent space-time destruction magic of satellite rays.

It is said that once the "Magic Spirit Power" is activated, that power is enough to destroy a country!

One can imagine how terrifying this transcendent space-time destruction magic is.

However, because it is so powerful, the magic contained in it must also be extraordinary.

It's no surprise that Gerald would turn his attention to this.

"However, there is no need for it now." Gerald's words turned, and he looked at Noah with a feverish expression.

"Because, I already have a better source of mana!" R1152