The Jewel Old Man muttered to himself as he looked at the cloud of blood-colored magical mist condensed before him.
He reached out and gently touched that wisp of magic.
Buzz!
In an instant, with the Jewel Old Man at the center, a ripple of magical energy quietly spread outward.
He was actually using Arcueid's index magecraft to reverse-index her location!
Magical fluctuations filled the air. In the next moment, a rift shimmering with magical radiance quietly opened, dozens of meters wide.
Spatial turbulence surged within the rift, connecting to another place.
With his hands clasped behind his back, the Jewel Old Man took a step forward and entered the rift.
———
BOOM!
At the instant the unfamiliar intruder was sensed, all the barriers throughout the Millennium Castle violently trembled.
Arcueid seemed to sense something and slowly raised her head to look ahead.
Thick smoke billowed within the room, and within that haze, a tall, burly figure could vaguely be seen standing quietly in the smoke.
He let out a soft sigh and said slowly, "I didn't expect that even the White Dragon wouldn't be your match. I had anticipated it to some extent, but for the Kaleidoscope I gave him to fall into your hands this quickly is still a bit surprising."
"But that child is at least a student of the Clock Tower. For that reason alone, I suppose I have to save him and take him away—"
As his words fell, the smoke gradually dispersed, and the Jewel Old Man raised his head to look forward.
Then, for the first time, a trace of confusion appeared on that aged face.
He blinked. The moment he saw the scene before him, overwhelming shock and bewilderment flooded his mind, to the point that the cool line he had been about to deliver next got completely stuck in his throat.
Inside the sealed room, a slender youth was sitting at the edge of the bed. A blonde woman sat closely beside him, one of her hands even resting on the back of the youth's hand, their behavior looking quite intimate.
Judging from the aura radiating from that blonde woman, she was without a doubt the UO of the Moon.
'But why…'
In the Jewel Old Man's original expectations, since Alvin's Kaleidoscope was in Arcueid's hands, it meant that he should have already been defeated and should be seriously injured by now.
Yet from the situation in the room, it seemed that Alvin had not fought Arcueid at all. The two of them were currently sitting together in the same room in perfect harmony.
'They are even holding hands?'
"So you're the Jewel Old Man he was talking about?", At that moment, a cold yet pleasant voice suddenly rang out, pulling the Jewel Old Man back from his thoughts.
He looked at Alvin with some hesitation, his eyes filled with questions, "What exactly is going on?"
'Weren't you fighting Arcueid? How are you sitting so harmoniously with her now?'
This magus who could infinitely wield ether cannons and possessed the Second Magic had clearly not imagined that while others thought of fighting Arcueid, what Alvin had meant back then was sleeping with Arcueid.
Alvin pondered for a moment and said, "A lot happened, but in short, she's not our enemy right now."
The Jewel Old Man fell into a long silence.
He had the feeling that he had missed several episodes.
"You two take your time talking. I'll wait for you outside."
After saying that, Arcueid stood up and left the room. She figured the Jewel Old Man was very wary of her, and if she stayed, there might be things they would find hard to talk about.
"The situation is like this…"
Once Arcueid had left, Alvin gave a rough explanation of what had happened. By the time he finished, the Jewel Old Man's gaze toward Alvin had grown increasingly subtle.
"You and the King of the Moon… getting married?"
As the Second Magician, the Jewel Old Man could stroll freely through various world lines, so he was naturally well-informed.
However, this piece of news still delivered a tremendous shock to the old man, to the point where he briefly wondered if his hearing had gone wrong.
"Let me ask, just in case, do you know who she is?"
Who was Arcueid? The UO of the Moon, one of Gaia's final trump cards for self-protection.
Although he did not know much about this woman, the Jewel Old Man was still somewhat familiar with her personality.
Cold, inhuman, arrogant, in short, he could not see even the slightest trace of emotion that a 'person' ought to have in Arcueid.
Such a woman, and Alvin actually wanted to marry her?
'At the end of the day, what is Arcueid thinking?'
'Is it to drive a wedge between the sisters of Britain and Alvin?'
'Or is it… something else entirely?'
"I know who she is," At that moment, Alvin's voice pulled the Jewel Old Man back to reality.
He paused, then continued, "But my situation with her is a bit complicated, and I wasn't threatened in any way."
"At the end of the day, as long as she can give up her obsession with this planet, that's enough, isn't it?"
Previously, when Arcueid descended upon Britain, her purpose had simply been to kill all powerful enemies and then become the strongest on this planet, or in other words, its UO.
But now that goal had changed, for the Jewel Old Man, this kind of ending was indeed something he could accept.
"You used index magecraft to find me. It can't be just to have me attend your wedding, right?", the Jewel Old Man asked quickly.
"Of course not."
A hint of worry appeared in Alvin's eyes as he said softly, "You've always been inside your own 'barrier,' so you don't know much about what's happening outside. But I think you should have heard about the relationship between the Clock Tower and the King of the Moon, right?"
Although he rarely left his barrier, the Jewel Old Man naturally heard about 'future' matters from students of the Clock Tower.
In fact, after Arcueid descended upon Britain this time, the reason he did not immediately make a move was precisely because he vaguely knew a fragment of the future.
In orthodox history, although he ultimately defeated Arcueid, he also paid an extremely heavy price. If possible, who would want to fight a Moon UO?
Now Alvin had resolved Arcueid through another method, the Jewel Old Man was naturally more than happy with that.
"Alvin, I understand your concerns," the Jewel Old Man said slowly, "You don't need to worry about anyone at the Clock Tower causing you trouble in the future, I'll personally go meet those Lords."
Alvin hesitated slightly and said, "Won't that cause you unnecessary trouble?"
The Jewel Old Man shot him an annoyed glance and said, "There are no outsiders here. You don't need to beat around the bush."
Wasn't the whole reason Alvin came to him precisely to prevent the Clock Tower from picking trouble later on?
Given the Jewel Old Man's status within the Clock Tower, as long as he spoke up, unless it was the director of the Clock Tower, no one could possibly disobey.
"You don't need to feel embarrassed. I'll just treat it as helping Brishisan teach the younger generation a bit," the Jewel Old Man said.
Brishisan, the Lord of the Department of Succession. He and the Jewel Old Man were both disciples of the Mage King Solomon, and Brishisan was also the director of the Clock Tower.
Hearing this, Alvin finally let out a sigh of relief, and a smile of comfort quickly appeared on his face.
'That takes care of it.'
With the Jewel Old Man's assurance, over the next few days Alvin no longer worried about encountering any problems after returning. He simply focused on preparing for the wedding.
During this time, aside from touring the layout of the Millennium Castle, he spent most of his time discussing magical power circulation with Arcueid, as well as the effects caused by differences in friction coefficients of objects in dry versus humid environments.
———
In the blink of an eye, three days passed without notice, and it was soon the day of the wedding.
The Millennium Castle was a place formed through the 'materialization of fantasy.' It could also be considered a special kind of bounded field. As long as one was here, Arcueid, who possessed special reinforcement, was an absolutely invincible existence.
But this time she did not invite many guests. On the day itself, aside from some of the higher-ranking vampire kind within the Millennium Castle, there were the Knights of the Round Table of Britain, as well as two unexpected guests.
The Primordial Mother Goddess Tiamat, and the Goddess of Heaven, Ishtar.
The grand hall of the Millennium Castle was resplendent in gold and jade. At this moment, Ishtar was sitting in a corner of the hall, wearing a thoroughly irritated expression.
Watching those vampire kind chatting with one another, Ishtar could not help grinding her teeth in anger.
"How did it end up like this?"
It was clearly the first time she had fallen for someone, and after finally finding him, he was snatched away by someone else.
Compared to the dejected Ishtar, Tiamat's expression remained calm throughout. She sat alone at the wedding venue, savoring the delicacies of the Millennium Castle.
In fact, part of the reason Arcueid proposed something as outrageous as 'marriage' was to make up for her past regrets.
The other part was the tremendous sense of crisis brought to her by the relationship between Artoria and Alvin.
In today's Britain, and even the present world, everyone knew that the White Dragon and the Red Dragon were a married couple…
But, no one knew that the White Dragon was Alvin.
In other words, as long as she married Alvin, it would be the equivalent of seizing the initiative and declaring ownership to everyone first.
Both Artoria and Morgan le Fay clearly understood this logic, but for Alvin's sake, the sisters tacitly accepted Arcueid's outrageous move.
Only, this time, neither of the sisters appeared at the wedding venue.
A high-ranking vampire saw the woman entering from the doorway and said in a tone of surprise and strangeness, "She really came. Is Arcueid actually serious?"
Days earlier, when they learned that Arcueid planned to marry a child from the Clock Tower, the vampires had already been thrown into an uproar.
Many believed that the King of the Moon might have other motives, and that the marriage was merely a cover. However, no matter what her motives were, she could not possibly be joking with her own reputation, right?
'Which means, that woman is serious.'
A pure white veil concealed the blonde woman's face, but even so, from her graceful figure alone it was not hard to imagine what kind of stunning beauty she possessed.
Elegant wedding music played in the hall, the majestic and noble opening sounding like the wedding of a queen.
In truth, she was indeed a queen. It was just that many people had no idea where this youth named Alvin, who was marrying the King of the Moon, had come from.
Surrounded by a group of girls, Alvin came before Arcueid. He extended his hand toward the woman, and this usually arrogant woman placed her hand into his palm.
"You look rather nervous," she raised her head and stared straight at the youth through the crimson eyes beneath the veil.
"It is my first time getting married, after all," Alvin said.
The last time he had a wedding with Artoria, it had been carried out through a simulation game, so he had no real feelings about it at all.
This time, however, he was personally experiencing what a wedding felt like.
Even though he had long prepared himself mentally, it was still hard not to feel a little nervous.
And today Lily and Morgan did not seem to be here. Alvin discreetly swept his gaze across the hall and did not see those two familiar figures.
At the very center of the romantically decorated hall, the officiant stood before the altar and spoke in a devout, hymn-like voice, "Please have the groom support the bride as they walk to the front of the altar."
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The wedding concluded without any incident, perfectly and smoothly.
Before this, to prevent anyone from interfering with her carefully prepared wedding, Arcueid had even set up multiple layers of barriers throughout the Millennium Castle.
But she had clearly underestimated herself.
A wedding of a Moon UO, unless someone had water in their brain, who would dare come in and cause trouble?
After the wedding ended, Alvin entered Arcueid's room together with her.
After these days of magical power exchange, Alvin could clearly feel the changes within his body.
Originally, after absorbing Tiamat's magical power, his White Dragon furnace heart had already completed one evolution.
And this time, the magical power bestowed upon him by Arcueid pushed the White Dragon furnace heart all the way to its peak.
A White Dragon furnace heart combining the four special magics of human and dragon, plus god and vampire kind. In Britain of the Age of Gods, he could practically walk sideways.
Yet Alvin did not seem particularly excited.
"What are you thinking about?"
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