"Golbert Markitas has changed a lot in the past year."

Elena looked at him curiously and broke off.

"That happens to people all the time," she said. Especially when we go through hardships and painful experiences.

Elena nodded at Jin's words.

"...... is that the way it is? Anyway, Golbert Markitas was a changed man.

Until then, he had been a sullen man of the world, but not anti-establishment, she said.

I wonder what happened during that year.

"Yes, I don't know. But when he reappeared, he had definitely become a dangerous man.

A dangerous man?

Dangerous man, huh? ...... to continue.　...... Golbert Markitas reappeared and at first he seemed quiet. But in fact he was sowing the seeds of discord.

He had no problem attending lectures because he was on a leave of absence, but that was a mistake.

Golbert Markitas began to deny science in more than half of his lectures, shouting loudly against it.

"The most important of his arguments was that <>.

"<>, or ......"

Jin thought that this was a rather astonishing viewpoint.

Certainly, there is a tendency to do so, Jin admitted.

It is not impossible to think that the earth's civilization will also be ...... if things continue as they are, and above all, since the <> was destroyed.

However, Jin thinks that <> was not destroyed.

In his opinion, it was probably due to the scarcity of materials and the limitation of the species.

"Huh?　If ......, does Golbert Malkitas know about <>?"

"Yes. Everyone related to <> knows about it. In the first place, it is no exaggeration to say that is a facility that originated from .

"Indeed it is."

The question remains, then, where did Golbert Malkitas's thought get twisted?

Jin could not think of anything, so he decided to listen to the rest of Elena's talk.

"...... Golbert Markitas was a good talker, and gradually more and more people began to sympathize with him. Then six months after he appeared. ......Suddenly there was a <>."

"<>?　<

"Yes. I was not there, so I could not analyze the situation, but I think it is possible that some kind of subconscious induction (subliminal) magic was used.

Elena once brainwashed people using <><>> and founded the <>.

Her readings are not to be underestimated.

"But if you use such magic in Avalon, it will be detected at some point.

Rhodes, who had been listening in silence, interrupted.

"If you want to brainwash people, there is ."

"Oh, I see."

Brainwashing magic, formerly known as , was once used by the aristocrats of the Klein Kingdom.

It is the magic used by Lardus the Humorous, who once manipulated Count Walter, a nobleman of the Klein Kingdom.

"That's a different system, so we might not be able to detect it if we don't know it. But even if that were the case, how could Golbert Malkitas use it?"

"I don't know that, but ......"

Rhodes held his tongue, too, unsure of himself.

"First of all, isn't that magic forbidden in the Nordic Federation?"

"Yes, it is.

Then the big mystery is how he learned it.

Yes, that's true.

Again, Jin put off the solution and asked Elena to continue the story.

"......<> has not been confined to Avalon, but has spread to many countries. The kingdoms of Elias, Egelea, Klein, Franz, and Selroa....... The Kingdom of Shawlo was barely affected.

Naturally, the same is true of the countries further west, such as Mitsho and Huso.

"In the end, they occupied about a third of Avalon, seized some magical machines, and fled.

"...... If you ask me that much, they're totally criminals."

Jin growled.

"Yes, that is correct. That's why Golbert Markitas is still wanted by the and the ."

He is probably not alive anymore, but he is not confirmed dead, so he is still there.

"Let's go back to the story. The group led by Golbert Malkitas, who took the Magi Machine, went to the kingdom of Elias. They took over the headquarters of the Nostalgia Party there.

Is that how it happened?

Yes. Around this time, a group calling itself the League of Magic appeared.

There was no doubt that Golbert Malkitas was connected to the , but without proof, the could not be condemned as a criminal group, he said.

"The people involved with Avalon never came to the fore.

"So they can't be charged with any crime.

As a nation governed by the rule of law, you can't accredit people as criminals without proof.

"And they began to raise the slogan, 'Let's move from a material civilization that relies on science to a civilization that only uses magic to train the mind.

But it seems to me that they are relying on material things, such as using golems and besieging Horai Island with ships.

Jin said so,

"This point has been raised by several countries in the past. However, the only response I received was, "It is a transitional period, so there is nothing we can do about it.

Jin felt that this was a double standard.

"I don't see a clear purpose for this. ....... What on earth did Golbert Malkitas want?"

"I don't know now. But the is different these days. It is clear that they want power ......."

Jin wondered if there might have been such a change since Golbert Markitas, the founder and head of the Federation, was no longer around.

"I will continue the story. ...... We, the Nostalgia Party, are also trying to achieve a better future by combining the magical technology of the past and the wisdom of the present, but when we were the Unifiler Party, we had the slogan of returning to the days of the ancient magical kingdom."

"That's right."

It was Jin, of all people, who destroyed that slogan.

So it seems that there were a few people who shared Golbert Malkitas' ideology. And, to borrow a conjecture from earlier, ...... brainwashing also took place, and almost half of the party members joined the <."

It was 3748, five years after Golbert Markitas had reappeared.

Elena said regretfully.

"It was out of my power. I am sorry.

"No, don't worry about it. No, don't worry about it.

"Yes, I did everything in my power against the <>. And of course, <>. But for a while, their power only grew.

He says that some of the nobles in each country supported them.

"In the Kingdom of Elias, the king even declared that he supported the claims of the League of Magic and that he would spare no expense to help them."

Elena says this also sounds like .

"So it was a time of quiet for us for a while."

Although not used publicly, there were many incidents in which the <> was supposedly used.

"Flying machines crashed, hot-air balloons caught fire. A ship even ran out of control."

"I see. <

As expected, Jin had not taken that many countermeasures.

"That's what I mean. ...... probably Golbert Markitas got the information about Jin-sama from somewhere as well."

"I guess so."

It doesn't make sense otherwise.

"I'm thinking perhaps the island of Kunlun."

Jin said, and Elena affirmed his opinion.

"Yes, I think so too. Anyone can go to the Kunlun Island, so it would be easy if they were not attacking openly, but by hiding among the general public.

Jin felt frustrated now that he had taken countermeasures against the slave rewriting magic and the ether jammer, but he was probably powerless in front of the <>.

"However, around the year 3800, the power of the Magical League began to decline. Perhaps our activities were successful, but little by little we were really able to reduce their power until around the time when Golbert Malkitas stopped appearing in public.

And now they are down to about one-fifth of what they used to be at the height of their power.

"If brainwashing magic is a major factor, it could be because there are no more people who can use it.

"I see. ...... So, why was Elena so wrecked?"

Here, Jin asks what has been bothering him. In the first place, Elena was detuned at that time and was not suitable for fighting at all.

"Yes, there is a reason for that.

Elena begins to tell us the reason.