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"What?　Father Paul wants to see you?"

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　It was a few days after I had returned to the castle after finishing the road maintenance.

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　A man from the village of Barca told me that Father Paul, who was in the village church, was calling for me.

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　As a matter of fact, Father Paul had been away from the village for a while and I had not seen him at all.

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　Maybe, or maybe not, he will tell me about the magic circle of naming.

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　Everyone knows that I have given magic to many people.

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　And that I have given them the family name of Barca.

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　But I learned it from the magic circle that Father Paul used in the naming ceremony at his baptism.

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　At that time, Father Paul said that naming was a blessing from God.

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　What would he say if he knew I was using it without his permission?

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　I don't want to go.

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　I thought so, but reluctantly decided to go to the village church.

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　I don't want to go to the church in the village.

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"It's been a while, Ars. I see you've been doing a lot of things while I've been gone for a while.

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"Ah, I'm glad to see you are well, Father. You haven't been here for a while, have you been somewhere?

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"Let's not talk about me. You know why I called you this time.

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"......, I don't know, I'm just a kid."

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You'll get angry.

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I'm sorry. You mean the naming, right?

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That's right. You have given names to people without the Church's permission, and you have even bestowed magic upon them. Do you know what this means?

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"No, I didn't have a choice. I thought Kyle was hurt and a soldier pointed his sword at me. I defended myself and he died, so I had no choice but to defend myself.

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"...... is a. You make me realize how scary it is not to know things. No need for excuses. I have something to say to you this time.

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"Well, you know, I'm pretty busy, so if you need a sermon, that's fine. ......"

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"Just listen to me. You need to know about magic and naming."

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　Before and while I was talking to Father Paul, I had been expecting him to get mad at me.

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　But I guess Father Paul wanted something a little different.

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　Apparently, he wanted to explain something about magic and naming that I didn't know.

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　Seeing that I was in a listening posture in the church room, Father Paul began to speak slowly.

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　He said, "I don't know anything about it.

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　There is magic in this world, and magic can be used to harness that magic.

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　The life magic given in the church, the ice magic used by the Fontana family, and my original magic are examples.

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　However, I used to call all of them magic in general, but actually there are various ways to call it depending on the stage.

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　To put it bluntly, magic is what you invoke by casting a spell.

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　The "lighting" of daily life magic and my "leveling" are classified as magic.

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　However, there are also cases in which a phenomenon is caused by using magic power without using a spell.

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　This is called sorcery.

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　In this world, all people, big or small, have magical powers.

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　And among them, there are people who can do things that ordinary people cannot do by using their magic power.

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　There are people like me who can plow the fields with magic without using spells, and there are people like my brother Bite and Vargas who can strengthen their bodies with magic.

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　This is a technique that uses magic, in other words, a magician.

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　The basis of magic is to strengthen one's own body, but there are also those who can manipulate earth and ice.

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　Among such magicians, there are those who have studied for a long time and can invoke magic just by uttering a word.

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　This magic using spells is called magic, and the person who uses magic is called a wizard.

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　Among sorcerers, wizards are rare.

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　And rightly so.

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　It is not as easy as it sounds to achieve the exact same effect when casting a spell.

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　It is, in other words, like doing a daily fist pump of gratitude and entering a realm beyond that of a master.

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　Creating magic is considered to be a tremendous feat.

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　Now, why don't we make the magic that can be used by the best of the best somehow available to others?

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　It is not surprising that there are those who think so.

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　And then, over the years, someone put it into practice.

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　The emergence of the mages.

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　The mages who existed in the past have realized the conduction of magic by triggering the act of naming those who can use magic.

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　The mage said that it was not only his own achievement that he realized this technique, but that it was given to him by God.

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　This is the origin of the Church of the Holy Light, to which Father Paul also belongs.

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　The mages use their own magic circle to conduct their magic to others.

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　This helped to expand the use of magic, which until then had been available only to a few people.

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　The magic that has helped the Church the most is the magic for daily life.

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　It is necessary for everyone, used every day, and it does not matter how much it spreads.

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　Yes.

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　It was safer and less alarming to spread magic than to spread offensive magic too much.

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"But the mage had another purpose. In fact, he had another purpose."

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　Father Paul, who has been explaining the situation up to this point, starts to speak.

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　Listening to him, I wonder if this is the origin of the Church, and if it could go into the dark side of the Church.

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　I wonder if I am allowed to talk about this.

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　No, I have already learned the magic circle and even named it for others.

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　In such a situation, there is something that needs to be said.

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"Ars, listen to me. Naming is, to put it simply, a parent-child relationship. There is a clear hierarchical relationship.

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　But I was surprised at what he said.

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　When the magic circle is activated, the person who is given a name can use the magic of the person who gave the name.

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　But in fact, this was not a one-way relationship.

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　The godparents are connected by a magical path to the person who is related to the named child.

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　In other words, the godparents always continue to absorb a certain percentage of magical power from the child's side.

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　Perhaps this is the reason why my magical power has been increasing recently.

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　I have named many people and enabled them to use magic, but the fact is that I keep absorbing magic power from them.

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"Oh, does this mean that I am stepping into a completely prohibited area in the church without permission?

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"I see what you mean. You have gone too far into a sacred act, a secret that only a priest like me, a priest or higher in the Church, can use. You are wise enough to understand how dangerous this is.

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　...... not good.

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　If I not only quarrel with the nobles who rule the land, but also with the church, my life is really over.

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　I will not be able to escape anywhere.

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　When I understood what Father Paul had told me, my eyes went completely dark.

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