Council (7)

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Even after the Council ended, I stayed in the holy city for several days.

Because I still had things to do in the holy city.

The adoption of life magic as the Church's official healing method was only the beginning.

The world still did not understand demon disease, feared curses, and regarded the treatment as some sort of cure-all.

‘In this state, there’s no way life magic can be used properly.’

Magic that begins from a false premise is bound to produce false results.

That was why I remained in the holy city.

‘As if there weren’t already plenty of people suspicious of life magic because of the history of the Thirteenth-Month Tower.’

A person startled by a snake will jump even at a pot lid; if an accident occurred with life magic, people would try to ban it as though they had gone into a fit...