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"You said that Lilina reads a lot of books. What kind of books do you have here?"

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"Yes, that's right. We don't have a lot of books, but we do have some history books.

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"Hmm, not novels or something?"

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Novels, fairy tales, etc.?　Books are expensive. I don't think there is much for children."

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"Oh, I see. Parchment alone is quite expensive. So it's a luxury item when it comes to books.

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Yes. That's why all the books are written in such a difficult way. ....... It takes a long time to read a book.

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　I see.

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　Come to think of it, I have heard that books used to be very precious in my previous life.

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　It is understandable that the contents are difficult.

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　I heard from an old man that you have to write a letter to a nobleman and praise him in a very pretentious way.

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　Probably, it is not enough to simply be able to write and read, but there are many difficult characters and modifiers that are so difficult that you need a dictionary.

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　I might not be able to understand them even if I were shown the book.

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　It would be like asking me to read the classics without prior knowledge.

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"I see, it's that difficult. Then, Lilina, can you tell me what the book is about in a simple way?"

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"What, about the book?　Me?"

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"Yes, yes. You said you had a history book. I don't know much about history. Come on, Relena."

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"Okay. I don't know how much I can tell you, but I will tell you. I'm very nervous."

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"Well, you don't have to be so conscious. Anyway, let me ask you a question. Do you know why the royal family, which united the nobles, declined?"

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The decline of the royal family? Yes, of course I understand. Then I will explain it to you.

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　Thus, I got a history lesson from Lilina.

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　I was in the middle of a long and difficult journey.

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　The land we live on is big.

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　But the land is surrounded.

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　To the north, vast forests spread out. To the east, mountains so high that they reach to the sky.

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　And to the west and south are canyons and swamps that seem to be cracks in the earth.

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　We lived in a land surrounded by such nature.

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　Surrounded by nature, there is little fear of foreign enemies, but at some point in time, there came a man who ruled the land.

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　He was the founder of the royal family.

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　The first king possessed unparalleled magic and rose to become the ruler of the land with all the people around him.

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　He used the church's magic system.

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　He strengthened himself by adding wizards scattered throughout the land under his control, and reigned as the absolute ruler of the land.

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　Many years passed with the first king at the top and wizards reigning as the ruling class.

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　One day, however, there was a break in the rule of the royal family.

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　Some of the descendants of the wizards, who had become nobles to support the royal family, rebelled against the king.

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　Naturally, the king was furious.

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　He condemned and purged the rebellious nobles.

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　But there was a crucial difference between the king of that time and the first king, although it would have been better if this had been the first king's action.

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　That is, the king at that time was not a magician in the pure sense of the word, but only an heir who inherited the power of the first king.

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"The tyrant Nero, who had been deposed by the nobles at the time, was overconfident in his power. He thought that he could purge the nobles without any problem."

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"What do you mean?　The source of a king's power is his naming. Instead of bestowing magic, it's a parent-child relationship, with the parent receiving magic from the child."

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"That's right. King Nero purged the nobility, and his power was drastically reduced.

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"Drastically reduced?　Did that king go around killing so many nobles?

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No, not so many, apparently. But the purge did reduce the rank of the king.

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"Decline in Rank ......"

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"Yes. The purge caused the loss of the great magic that only kings possess, which the first king used to unify the country.

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"Great magic?　Is there such a thing? No, there was. ......"

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"Yes, it is. It is said that a city could be obliterated with a single act of great magic.

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"That sounds like it would take a lot of magic power just to use it once. ...... Oh, I see. The magic that uses a huge amount of magic power has become the enemy.

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　I remember that Bishop Paul also said that.

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　Since I was named after him, his magical power has increased and he has risen in rank and is able to use recovery magic.

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　He must have wanted to make sure that I would not lose my rank when the Fontana family gave me a helping hand in my troubles.

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　Without me as a source of magic power, my rank would be lowered and I would not be able to use recovery magic.

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　The royal family's failure must have been the same thing.

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　Perhaps the great magic of the royal family used tremendous amount of magical power.

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　But that is not a bad thing.

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　In a sense, it is even natural.

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　Naming a child allows the child to use the same magic that the parent can use.

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　The fact that those with the Barca surname are able to use offensive magic such as [Scattershot] and [Ice Spear] is due to the influence of the magic I have and the magic of my parents, the Fontana family.

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　However, there is a problem with this.

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　It is dangerous if anyone can use offensive magic such as [shot] and [ice spear].

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　In order to reduce the risk of transmission of such offensive magic, a half-understood system was established whereby a knight is knighted if he is trustworthy, and then given the name of knight.

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　However, there are other ways to prevent the unintentional transmission of magic.

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　That is to prepare magic that consumes so much magical power that the person to whom the name is given cannot use it.

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　Magic that even ordinary knights and nobles cannot use.

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　What would happen if there were such a great magic?

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　The parent receives magic power from the child, but the child cannot use the parent's great magic.

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　If there were such a large scale magic that only the royal family, the highest level of the magical power pass by the magic system, could use it, there would be no one to resist the royal family.

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　In other words, it would be as if only the royal family had the bomb.

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　If the city would be obliterated if they disobeyed, they would have no choice but to obey the royal family.

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　However, over the long history of the kingdom, the royal family has grown complacent about it.

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　They took it for granted that there was great magic.

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　It was not until they purged the nobles and the great magic was lost that they realized the gravity of the situation.

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　It was irreversible.

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　Lilina tells us that the tyrant Nero had imposed a terrible tyranny.

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　With the loss of the great magic, the royal family hurried to reestablish ties with the nobility.

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　However, many of the nobles did not approve of this.

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　The nobles, who had not defied the royal family before because of their access to the great magic, would never have submitted to a royal family that no longer had access to the great magic.

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　Rather, they declined to be named by the royal family in order to prevent oppression.

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　Thus, the power of the royal family lost the great magic and fell to the same level as other nobles.

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　But the history of this world is not so good.

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　After all, when the oppressive royal family was removed, the nobles began to fight for territory for their own personal gain.

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　The church was not a substitute for the royal families, partly because it was forbidden to have offensive magic from the very beginning of its existence.

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　This led to many more years of war.

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"Hmmm. I didn't expect to hear so much detail. It was a good learning experience. Thank you, Lyrina."

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　Lilina seems to enjoy talking about what she knows, and she keeps on talking.

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　She was full of realism, but when things got a little off-topic, she would laugh and share her knowledge freely.

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　In this way, I was able to hear many stories from Lilina outside of the royal family.

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