Chapter 404 - Episode Fifty - The Count (8)
I think about it as I look up at the Moon din at the end of the sky.
In the beginning, Count Julem revealed some information to me in order to make a pretense of reconciliation and buy time for Shame to escape with Mea.
However, Count Julem’s betrayal was a precondition, so it’s not very credible, but conversely, it’s highly likely that everything he said was false.
Besides, a lie should be interwoven with the truth to make it believable.
If you think about it, there are some points that match with what Sim said about the Moon Festival Dinmei.
It could be a coincidence, or it could be a trap, but right now there is nothing else to rely on.
…… The first thing I should know about is that they said that this ritual would not harm Mea.
This is definitely just random speech.
If that’s true, there’s too little reason for him to shake me off while he’s cutting down his spirit body so far.
It must have been a price that was not cheap even for them.
Secondly, Count Julem said that Moebius, the founder of the Doom tribe, was sealed in the depths of the earth.
When I doubted him, he reminded me that this was true, but that he could not reveal the details.
Now that I think about it, it seems too obvious.
James had also mentioned that Count Julem had a habit of daring to agitate people.
He even went out of his way to declare victory over Peter and me, so that must have been true.
Is it possible that the bottom of the earth was the bottom of the earth, but not the bottom of the earth of this planet?
Depending on Count Julem’s personality, it would not be impossible for him to weave such a useless truth just to make me regret it when I found out the truth later.
The Moon Din has grown very large in the sky.
No way …… is it possible that Moebius is enclosed within it?
Count Julem had mentioned that he had to wait for Mea to grow up.
If this was a lie, then what was he really waiting for all this time?
If I think that he was waiting for the approach of the Moon Din by the Moon Festival Dinmei, then everything makes sense.
The fragmented information that I had been receiving began to come together in my mind.
There was something that Kudor had mentioned a while ago.
Count Julem’s main force must be hidden somewhere, but I can’t find it anywhere.
It must be far away because it cannot be detected, but it must be something that is guaranteed to come back at a certain time because it is meaningless if Count Julem cannot prepare it at the critical moment.
The Moon Festival Dinmei is the day when the Moon Din comes closest to the earth.
It is said that only once every 500 years does the Moon Din come close to this land of human beings, and then it goes back a certain distance.
I have also heard some scholars say that the orbit of the Moon Din is getting closer to our planet every time the Moon Festival Dinmei is held.
If this is true, then the Moon Din has been slowly moving toward our planet for thousands of years.
This fits perfectly with what Kudor said about Julem’s main stash of power.
Moebius, which Julem sees as the weapon to defeat Kudor, is sealed inside the moon Din.
If he intends to use Mea, his descendant, to call Moebius to this place, who has taken advantage of the Moon Festival Dinmei and approach him with teleportation magic …… I can predict where they will eventually head.
It’s the closest place to the Moon Din, the paradise of the High Elves, the sky country, Alfheim.
At the last minute, I found a way to make a difference.
I can only be grateful to Sim, the Great Spirit, for being so soft-spoken.
I have some information that could support this, but I can’t guarantee it.
However, with no other clues, I don’t think it’s the wrong choice to bet on this.
I’ll take the direction alone, corroborated by Count Julem’s and James’ magic circle, and invade sky country, Alfheim.
…… However, there is a problem with that.
It’s not just a matter of getting to the sky country, Alfheim, it’s far away in the sky, and it’s difficult to even get there by normal means.
High elves are said to come and go with the help of spirit beasts, but unfortunately I don’t think the demons I have summoned are capable of such long distance flight.
I’m sure Zolomonia would be impossible, and when we escaped on our own and I let Mea be kidnapped easily, Kudor could kill me the moment I summon him.
In addition, the distance between the Dinrat Kingdom and sky country, Alfheim, is simply too far.
Even if I were to devote all of my magical energy to movement, I don’t know how many days it would take.
…… The day after tomorrow, the Moon Festival Dinmei will be held.
If they’re trying to sacrifice Mea to the ritual of invoking Moebius on that day, I’ll never make it no matter how hard you try.
Count Julem, James, and possibly Shame, who are demons in their own right, will have no trouble traveling from here to Alfheim, the sky country, because they are able to provide low-cost magic power consumption for long-distance transfer.
Just as it doesn’t take much magic to summon a demon, it doesn’t take much magic to transfer a spirit body over a long distance.
In hindsight, the fact that Count Julem was trying to use long-distance teleportation magic so easily should have given us an idea of who he was.
The reason why Count Julem went out of his way to buy time to ensure that Shame was looking for the right time to kidnap Mea was because it was difficult to transfer her over a long distance using magic when she was not a spirit.
…… Shame probably took Mea away while I was fighting Count Julem, using a short-range teleportation to cover her tracks.
It’s not hard to see why, since Count Julem can also fly around at will, so it should not be difficult for them to fly to Alfheim, the sky country, carrying Mea alone on their backs.
And …… if that’s the case, there’s only one way to do it.
The only way is to hurry back to Fage territory and move the wooden dragon Quetzalcoatl.
I’ll be able to fly to Alfheim, the sky country, in a few hours.
Peter had already warned us that traveling over the country in this way was the worst way to start a war, but I had no other choice.
There was no time to waste.
Even if I hurried back to Fage’s territory now and moved Quetzalcoatl, it would be a 50-50 chance at best that I would make it in time for the Moon Festival Dinmei.
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