Chapter 137: 137
Tea with Kathe and the Magic Circle
We were mostly finished cleaning up Kathe’s palace .
“Is this alright now?”
“Yes . Thank you very much . ”
Kathe looked happy .
“Oh, yes . I should serve you all some tea . Wait here a moment . ”
So saying, Kathe stomped out of the room .
Tea from a dragon . I was a little anxious .
As we waited for Kathe, Eric said,
“Locke . Could I ask you to use Magic Search? Just in case . ”
“Of course . ”
That being said, it was rude to use Magic Search in someone’s house without their permission .
And so I called out to Kathe, who was in the kitchen .
“Kathe . Can I use Magic Search in here? We want to know if the dark ones have left anything . ”
“I do not mind . But what do you think they could have left?”
“Small familiars or magic tools . ”
“I see . Yes, that would be troublesome . You should do it then . ”
“Got it . ”
And so I cast Magic Search over the whole palace .
I was alerted of all kinds of things . There were several tools that were filled with magic .
But there were no familiars or hidden dark ones, which was what I was most worried about .
“There are several magic tools . ”
“They were likely here to begin with, but we should still check . ”
And so we decided to go and check every single one . There were five in all .
None of them were very big, and so I carried them to the table . This was so that Kathe could have a look at them .
“I brought you some tea!”
“Oh, thank you . ”
Kathe brought a tray, which she had to pinch with the tips of her fingers .
Even if it was large for humans, it was very small for a dragon .
There were bowls and a barrel on the tray .
The bowls were the smallest cups in Kathe’s house .
“Here you go . The cups are too small for me to carry, so you have to take them by yourselves . ”
“Thank you . ”
It was big . I would probably have to visit the bathroom very quickly if I drank all of it .
I took one sip . It was delicious .
“It’s very good . ”
“Do you mean it?”
“Yes . ”
“Aye, it really is good tea . ”
“I don’t know much about the different types of tea, but I can tell that this is good . ”
Eric and Goran also approved of it .
“Gahahaha! I see, I see . ”
Kathe laughed happily . Then she drank her own tea from a barrel .
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“Yes . It looks like it turned out quite well . ”
And then Kathe looked at the tools on the table .
“What is this?”
“They are the things that I found through Magic Search . It would be fine if they are all yours . But I wanted to make sure they weren’t left behind by the dark ones . ”
“I see . So I should check them . ”
“Exactly . ”
And so Kathe picked them up with her nails and inspected them .
It seemed like she would have an easier time as a humanoid, but she didn’t change .
“I recognize this one . But this…”
Kathe said after looking through them for a while .
“Hmm . Yes, all of them were here originally . ”
“That’s a relief . ”
“But…why is this here?”
“What?”
“I don’t think this is a magic tool…”
So saying, Kathe pointed at a mirror .
It was human-size and not for dragons .
“Because Magic Search detected something . ”
“I do not think that it would . ”
Kathe tilted her head .
I tried using Magic Search again, just in case .
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It still detected magic .
“There is no question about it . It’s filled with magic . ”
“What an odd thing…”
Kathe said as she looked into the mirror .
Eric suddenly looked very serious as he listened .
“No, wait . Maybe the dark ones have modified it to be a magic tool . ”
“There is a possibility . ”
“Indeed . It will be necessary to look into it . ”
I took the mirror from Kathe and inspected it .
It would require a different spell to find out what magic had been cast on it .
Not only that, finding out what it was used for required other knowledge that was unrelated to magic .
That’s how difficult appraising was .
“It doesn’t seem to have any purpose…”
“Is such a thing really possible?”
“It’s hard to imagine…”
I stared at it and thought for a while .
“The dark ones like to use mirrors for teleportation, but this one doesn’t have that effect . ”
“…Maybe they were in the middle of doing it?”
Eric said . I looked at the mirror again .
“…Indeed, the pattern on the back does look similar to a teleportation circle I’ve seen before . ”
“Really?”
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Kathe suddenly seemed very interested . She came up behind me, still holding her barrel, and looked over my shoulder .
“Do you mean this pattern here?”
“Yes, yes . ”
“I think I have seen it before as well . ”
“You have?”
Kathe’s tail slapped the floor once .
“Wait here for a moment . ”
She placed her barrel on the table and ran away noisily . Then she quickly returned .
She had a book in her hand .
“That’s a big book . ”
“It is a dragon book, after all . ”
Kathe started to turn the pages .
“See, look here . ”
There indeed was a magic circle where she was pointing .
“Ah, that’s amazing . ”
“But I do not know much about magic circles . I just remembered that I’ve seen them before . ”
It was impressive that she remembered it in spite of that .
Maybe Kathe was smart after all .
“What if the dark ones are using dragon magic technology?”
“It seems rather likely to me . ”
Eric and Goran said with grave expressions .