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"Okay. Let's make an altar."

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An altar?　What exactly is that, Mr. Alphonse?"

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"Yeah. I'll explain it to Elvis. Actually, while Elvis was looking into the spread of naming in the sub-national groups, I was doing some research myself. I was just talking to Ai, though.

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"Mr. Ai is the most well-informed person here, so it's only natural that he would have something to look up. And the information you got out of Mr. Ai was about the altar?

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"Yes. There is no priest in this village of Barca. That's what I'm trying to do. I'm going to introduce a rite of succession that will allow magic to be passed on in a way that can be done without a priest."

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"Heh. Is that possible?　I've never heard of it, but if it were possible, I'm sure church officials would be outraged."

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"Of course. That's why we do it in the strictest confidence."

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　The question of succession .

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　The way I chose to solve it was to build an altar.

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　This was a scheme to perform a ceremony that would normally require a priest of the Church of the Holy Light to perform, and to do it here in secret, out of sight of the church.

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　Here is how it was done.

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　There is a church built for wedding ceremonies in the village of Barca.

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　In the church, there is an ice-absorbing stone statue of Brother Ars astride a Valkyrie.

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　The idea is to draw a magic circle on the floor where the ice-absorbing stone statue is placed, and perform a ceremony on it to carry out the rite of succession.

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　In other words, the altar means the floor on which the ice-absorbing stone statue and the magic circle are drawn.

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"...... What?　But isn't the succession rite a secret of the church officials?　I also had a rite of passage when I married my wife, Lyushka, but I didn't get to see all of the magic circle."

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"I guess so. I was told that the naming ceremony is the same for everyone, but the succession ceremony is different for men and women.

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　The rite of succession performed in the church.

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　It is performed for a man and a woman who are getting married.

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　The Church performs the rite of inheritance for a man and a woman who are knights or older, and a boy born to the couple is entitled to the right of inheritance.

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　However, it is said that even those who have actually undergone the rite of succession do not know the full extent of the magic circle.

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　This is because the ritual is performed by using different magic circle for each gender.

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　For example, in the case of Elvis, only Elvis is called to a separate room during the wedding ceremony and undergoes the inheritance ceremony using the male magic circle.

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　His wife, Lyushka, is called to a separate room from Elvis to perform the ceremony using the women's magic circle.

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　This means that if only the male members of the family try to explore the magic circle, they will not have the opportunity to learn about the other magic circle.

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　Even if they did, it is difficult to memorize the magic circle at a glance because of its complicated patterns.

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　That is why the church has been monopolizing the succession ceremony until now.

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"Could it be you, Mr. Ars?　Master Ars, who is also the shield of God, can use magic that only church officials can use. The magic circle used in the naming ceremony was made into a spell called [naming] and leaked to the outside world, and the magic circle used in the inheritance ceremony was also leaked?"

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"No, I guess not this time. It seems that Ai obtained the information on his own.

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"By Mr. Ai?　Do you mean that Mr. Ai had a chance to see the magic circle?"

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Yes, that's right. I heard that they've been renting out the eye to churches lately.

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Oh, I see. Well, Ai is also called a priestess of God, so I guess there is such a thing.

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"No, not exactly. Apparently, the church is going to be the receptionist for the Barca Bank. So, a number of ai were dispatched to various churches in the United Kingdom of Fontana. And one of the churches did it. They put an eye in the same room with them during the succession ceremony."

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"Ha-ha-ha. Well, that's a big eye-opener, isn't it? I see. So the information about the magic circle for the succession, which had been kept secret, has been found out by Mister Ai?

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"That's what I meant. Actually, it seems that the information is already forbidden to view because it is now classified as prohibited information. It just so happened that I was listening to the conversation when I got the information about the magic circle. It was a coincidence that I found out about it before it was banned. And I've already transcribed it here.

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"Well done, Mr. Alphonse. Does this mean that the inheritance ritual can be used here in the East as well?"

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"Yes. Draw an encrypted magic circle on the floor. Then we put bricks on top of it to make the magic circle invisible. Then, when we perform the ritual, we can send magic power to the ice-absorbing stone statue on top, and the hidden magic circle connected to the statue will be activated to perform the inheritance ritual.

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"I think it's a good idea. Then let's let the tight-lipped ones do the work."

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"Yes. Please, Elvis.

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　Let's take advantage of whatever is available.

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　The magic circle of the Inheritance Ritual was quite complicated and it would be difficult to reproduce it using magic power.

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　I thought of making it possible for me to draw the magic circle with my own magic power, but it would be a little inconvenient if I am not there to use it.

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　On the other hand, if I make it into a spell, other people will be able to use it, so I would like to keep it exclusive to my house if possible.

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　Therefore, I decided to use it as an installation-type magic circle.

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　We are going to re-construct the church we just built in the village of Barca.

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　We will make the floor special and draw a magic circle with a code using bricks and magic stones to hide it.

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　Then, when performing the ritual, I made it look as if the ice-absorbing stone statue was the only thing necessary for the succession ceremony.

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　That is the altar.

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　Under Elvis' direction, the work was completed without being seen.

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　As a result, in the village of Barca, the only altar in the East where magic and magical powers could be inherited was born.

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