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“The concept of white magic here is different from what I know.”

Eruhaben crossed his legs as he spoke in a low voice.

After the issue with the Wall of Purification, they had followed the Pope into a study or office.

Cale’s group members were either sitting on couches and chairs around the room or standing and looking at the map on the table at the center of the room. Their gazes turned toward Eruhaben.

“Usually, white magic is a term given to magic using regular mana and not dead mana in order to differentiate it from black magic. The term is not used very often.”

The ancient Dragon then looked at the Pope who gulped.

‘Why did I not notice it?’

The Pope had not felt the ancient Dragon's presence earlier. However, the ancient Dragon gave off such a large presence once they came into the room and he took off his hood.

‘It is highly likely that he is a Dragon.’

There might be another Dragon in addition to that small and cute black Dragon. This one seemed like a proper adult Dragon as well. The moment the Pope had this hypothesis that was more of a certainty...

She couldn’t help but speak formally to the individual who was speaking informally to her.

“Yes sir, that is true. The basic magic that is used is also called white magic.”

Cale, who was seated next to Eruhaben, was thinking about how the youngest young lady Orsena had shouted, ‘white magic.’

‘Which white magic was she talking about?’

Was the seven year old talking about white magic using regular mana or was she talking about black magic that gave off a holy light?

The Pope continued to speak.

“Even now, that white magic, mm, I will just call white magic using regular mana just ‘magic’ in order to differentiate.”

Cale looked at the map.

The three continents of the Xiaolen World... Most of it was dyed black. The ocean was dyed black as well.

To be more specific, 81.29 percent of it was black as the world informed Cale earlier.

There was less than 20 percent that was maintaining its original color.

“Magic is still surviving through the named mage families. It is a symbol of a family's history and long-standing legitimacy.”

The Pope smiled awkwardly and continued to speak.

“Of course, magic is still used quite often as 20 percent of the lands maintain their functions.”

“How did the world end up like this?”

The Pope stopped talking for a moment at Eruhaben's question. She then let out a short sigh.

“...The land started to become dyed black about 300 years ago.”

“Mm.”

Choi Han groaned.

300 years.

That meant that the world was slowly taken over by dead mana since quite a long time ago.

“The cause?”

The ancient Dragon calmly asked while observing Cale who seemed to be deep in thought. He also looked at the Beast named Sui Khan, who seemed to be just as deep in thought.

However, the ancient Dragon couldn't help but look at the Pope after hearing her response.

"The start was the extinction of the Dragons.”

Boom!

The Pope turned her head after hearing a loud noise. The black Dragon, who was with the two Kittens, had slammed the ground with both front paws. Crack. The temple floor crumbled.

“Extinction?!”

Raon looked at Cale in shock and Cale shook his head.

“Please explain in detail, Pope-nim.”

“Of course, esteemed purifier.”

The Pope continued to speak in a more devoted voice.

“All of the Dragons on the three continents and the oceans died. The humans did not know about this at first. It was rare for humans to ever see Dragons.”

She was right.

Cale was a peculiar case but most humans would usually have no Dragon sightings throughout their lives.

"But one day, there was a sudden incident where a mountain in the center of the continent suddenly sank down.”

“A mountain crumbled?”

crumble, it sank down.

“Mm.”

suddenly groaned and uncrossed

as Cale’s eyes

the humans at that time and informed

in the records

It described the incident.

looked desperate and some of them were even

Tree

out a

purifier’s firm gaze as

and the world

"Excuse me.”

his hand to

the World Tree

come back to life as

it continues its life

said a mysterious existence killed the World Tree

“Cale-nim.”

had been quietly listening, started to

the same as the

silently nodded

is right.

difference was that the White

village of the Elves to get the branch of the World Tree. This might have been just one step in eventually killing the World Tree. ‘Those bastards even made a

Ah!’

down at a badge on

tree was in that

black World Tree

‘Mm.’

an odd look on his face and his long-time friends, who recognized it, looked at him wondering what was going on, but... Cale waved them off and motioned for the Pope to

nothing special after

expression was quite dark for saying

number of creatures dying rose exponentially. A new power started to rise and the power relations

Cale nodded his head.

basically figure out the power relations

that

places would be the center of

“But excuse me...”

time since coming into

as a lot of creatures would die once a decent amount of the land was taken over by

averaging nine-years-old and stopped

‘They already know.’

Shawn was about to say or had quickly realized

Shawn was about to

that Dark Elf

thoughts in Cale’s

dye the land, they would have had to kill a lot of living creatures. It would have been similar to how the White

underground plaza of the Mogoru Empire's Alchemists’ Bell Tower had

“First.”

looked at Cale once he started to

with the Roan

almost certain about

lady Orsena mentioned white

the top

looks like I'll need to visit the

Hong's ears twitched as he

Why visit instead of

weird, nya! It’s weird

flinched but Cale

been someone

corners of Cale’s lips curled up and the children averaging nine-years-old nodded their heads as if this was expected while some of the

Han smiled innocently like Cale while Mary

need to go

the

his gaze

of Huayans here and they hold the title

human's family is a Duke's

right, nya! It’s a great family,

for a moment as Raon commented and Hong chimed

is a Duke of

pushed aside that question

of Huayans has held the position of the Imperial Crown Prince's instructor

400 years? Others

bitterly at

power. Furthermore, they have the image of trying to delay the erosion of dead mana more

along with the bitter smile made it seem as if there was some story behind it. However, the Pope seemed to have no

the Iska Empire's capital. They are right next

if he

difficult

who had been quiet this whole time looked

It was Sui Khan.

I can search

found this to be odd, but he held back his questions after seeing Choi Han nod his head as if he thought it

as if he wasn’t okay with it before asking the Pope a

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