Because the Exiled Magic Swordsman Was Actually the Pillar (Physical) of the Party， the Heroines of the Hero Cling to It Belatedly. 1048

Chapter 1048 – I Can’t Imagine

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Since time immemorial, humans have been combining various disciplines to understand and interpret the phenomenon called dreams.

It is sometimes an analysis based on ‘understanding’ through superstitions or beliefs related to divination.

Sometimes, it is through understanding based on ‘analysis’ through the laws discovered by outstanding doctors and scholars in history.

I have been trying to find an answer to the question, ‘Why do humans fall asleep and why do they dream?’

And through that, wouldn’t it be possible to freely control the unknown realm of the dream world?

In other words, it is a pioneering spirit like that of explorers whose purpose is to conquer the ‘unknown’ by sailing towards the sky or the great sea in the distance.

However, finding such a worthy and heart-warming answer was a phenomenon that had not yet been conquered even in thousands of years of human history.

In the meantime, even if one does not understand what a ‘dream’ is in the end, should it be said that it is natural to turn to using the world of dreams.

They were wizards, scholars who managed and studied energy that defies physical laws, called magic, or something related to the soul.

If ‘dreams’ have a strong connection with the ‘spiritual world’ or ‘imaginary landscape’, then that area is familiar to magicians.

So, wizards found a way to freely dream faster than other scholars.

If you are in a space that is relatively free from the laws that strongly bind reality, you can test magical theories regardless of your magical power and regardless of the limited environment.

There have been many magicians since ancient times who use ‘lucid dreams’, which are dreams that can be intentionally perceived and controlled as if they were reality, and there has been a sufficient amount of related theories accumulated.

However, if you fall too deeply into a very realistic dream, you will not be able to get out of it.

It would be better to say that we have forgotten ‘how to wake up.’

To prevent such accidents, wizards intentionally build a ‘lighthouse’ before entering the dream world.

It is a ‘lighthouse’ that can serve as a guide from the world of dreams to reality.

The method is simple.

Before falling asleep in a dream, cast a spell that can be maintained regardless of whether you are conscious or not.

For example, a barrier created by infusing magic power into a magic stone, or a crime prevention magic that makes a sound when it detects someone approaching.

Any type of magic can be used as long as it uses an external object rather than one’s own body.

Then, the world of the dream and the outside world would be connected through magical power, and based on that, it would be possible to forcibly create a path to wake up from the dream.

“So, Kuon. If Kuon detects the magic power from outside and guides us, we can wake up from the dream!”

Lila speaks with a little excitement, perhaps because she found hope.

Then Artis will mutter quietly.

“If there was a way, I would have said it from the beginning…”

“Oh, I can’t help it. I never dreamed that there would be a magical connection to the outside world…”

“Because I’m in a dream?”

“Yeah, yeah, because I’m in a dream…”

Puck!

Layla’s hand blade exploded on Sasha’s forehead!

Critical hit!

Sasha’s eyes went dark!

“Sasha—!”

“Hmph…”

Leila snorted as she glanced at Schrödinger, who was holding the fallen Sasha and raising her voice.

“Anyway. Let’s try magic detection against the magic that Kuon left behind. Kuon, is that possible?”

“Yes, I’ll try…!”

Magic detection is not as good as Lila or Cleon, but it is a basic skill for using magic, so it was of course a skill that was possible for Kuon, her priest and shaman.

Kuon closes her eyes, chasing away her magic that is escaping from her own body.

Since the activation and maintenance of her magic required the consumption of magical power, the theory was that by checking where her magical energy was flowing, she could find the location of the magic.

“Huh?!”

However, the next moment, what came out of Kuon’s mouth was not her clear voice of discovery, but a voice that made her feel embarrassed and absurd.

“Why, what’s wrong?”

When Lila, who was watching her Kuon from nearby, asks, Kuon speaks while covering her own mouth.

“Well, that… I tried to follow my magic with magic detection. The direction was…”

“What was the direction?”

Kuon blinked her eyes as she looked at Lila asking that question, then raised her arms and pointed to the sky.

“Well, it’s over there…”

“…”

The gray sky spreads everywhere.

It was also the sky where Schrödinger was forced to fly earlier.

“Aha. So when Kuon appeared, she appeared from the sky.”

If Amelia speaks as if she understands, Artis will nod her head.

“Dreams are sometimes called the depths of consciousness… I had no idea that they were physically deep places.”

“That’s it!”

And at Artis’ words, Laila points to her this time.

“‘Sleep deeply’ or ‘sleep is deep’! The perceptions related to people and sleep are ‘shallow’ and ‘deep’. So, when you are immersed in the world of a dream, you unconsciously realize that you are in a ‘deep place’. It has been applied!”

“… Is such an arbitrary interpretation possible?”

“It’s better to interpret a dream than a dream!”

To Kuon’s suspicious question, Laila proudly answered.

“Because I’m in a dream?”

“Yeah, yeah, because I’m in a dream…”

Poop!

Layla’s fist exploded into Schrödinger’s abdomen!

Clean hit!

Schrödinger lost his mind!

“Shoo, Schrödinger—!”

Melusine holds on to the fallen Schrödinger and raises her voice.

“Who are you? The one who taught you two useless puns?”

Looking at the two people lying down quietly, Lila shook her hands.

Somehow, physical attacks seemed to be more effective in suppressing the attack than magic.

“Anyway. They say you just have to go up to the sky… Unlike reality, it seems like you can use flight magic here without any problems. So, shall we fly to the sky?”

“Now, wait a minute. Aside from Lila, we can’t use flight magic…”

When Kuon said that, Lila said, ‘Ah, I see’, as if she hadn’t even thought about it.

But, Lila will shut her mouth for a moment and then speak.

“No, wait. This is a dream, right? It’s a dream for all of us. If it’s a dream, there’s no problem with flying.”

As she said this, she suddenly floated up into the sky.

“Wow…!?”

Kuon, who was right next to him, must have looked surprised when he saw Laila like that.

I couldn’t help but feel a strange feeling as I watched her rise slowly, as if she was sliding upwards, without any buoyancy due to the magical power generated when using her flight magic.

“Uh, how did you do it?”

“Huh? It’s simple. All you have to do is imagine ‘yourself flying freely in the sky’ in her head, as if you were using magic.”

As Lila spoke briefly, she spun around in the air.

The group felt a little dizzy when they saw her flying freely in the sky as if she was dancing.

“With this, even if I don’t cast a separate floating spell, everyone will be able to ascend to the sky on their own!”

At Lila’s words, Amelia’s expression stiffened for a moment, but she soon closed her eyes.

Then-

With her fluttering and her sense of movement, she too rises into the sky.

If there was anything different about Lila.

Behind her back, there were wings made of light.

“Wow…! That’s it!”

Amelia let out a happy voice as she found herself floating in the sky as her wings flapped, and Lila nodded her head.

“Heh. Amelia imagined the image of flying with wings. Well, if you’re not someone who usually flies using flight magic like me, it might be a little difficult to imagine the feeling of rising into the sky.”

“Each person needs a different approach.”

When Kshat nodded her head to Laila’s explanation, she picked up the fallen woman and hung her up.

He jumped up into the sky.

Then, every time she moved her legs flexibly, her body started to move upward at a fairly rapid rate.

“Fast, fast!? What did you imagine!?”

“I imagined swimming in the air. I guess that’s something I’m used to.”

“Well, I didn’t think it would work out that way…”

Conversely, Laila was taken aback by Kshat’s answer.

“Okay, then it’s Kuon’s turn next.”

“Uh, yeah…”

From her words, Kuon also imagines himself flying in the sky.

Although she was a little nervous, she thought that since she had flown in the sky many times, both on her own and by force, floating would not be a problem.

And just as she thought, Kuon was floating into the sky, similar to Lila.

And starting with her, the others in her expedition also began to float in her air.

When Artis’ disciples, as well as Sasha and Schrödinger, who had fainted, opened their eyes, they lost consciousness once again and almost fell to the ground at the sight of people floating in the sky.

However, after they also floated into the sky through their rich imagination, Attis was the only one left on earth.

“What’s wrong, Artis? Come up quickly!”

She just watched the others go up.

When Lila spoke in an urging manner, Artis looked up at her with an expression that said he was in trouble.

“… Laila.”

“Huh? … What’s wrong?”

Looking at her with a slightly serious expression, Lila also answered with her nervous expression.

Could it be that they think there is something wrong with this operation?

Attis then paused a little, took out a piece of tobacco from his chest pocket, and put it in his mouth.

Sigh… I sucked on the unlit tobacco.

Phew. When I exhaled it, for some reason smoke appeared.

And, after such a pause, Artis was talking.

“People can’t fly.”

“─Ha?”

At Artis’s words, Lila looked more like I heard something wrong than her confusion and asked back.

It’s not that far away, so should I suspect hearing loss if I hear the words incorrectly?

“So, people can’t fly in the sky with their bare bodies.”

“Oh my God.”

Attis’ words were so absurd that even Laila, who normally never seeks God, ended up calling God’s name without even realizing it.

Other disciples had similar reactions.

“In the first place, I have never used a flight spell, nor have I ever received a floating spell. I have never flown in the sky. And according to my research, the reason humans were able to fly in the sky was after technology had developed considerably in the primitive world… Humans. Being able to fly on your own without receiving help from others means escaping human limitations—”

“Wow! I got it! I got it! Then I can just float it!”

As Artis made her excuses at length, Lila’s side began to panic and pointed her wand at her.

And without even needing a short chant, when the magic light flashes from the tip of the staff, Attis’ body floats up…

“…”

“… Huh?”

─I didn’t.

Both of Artis’ feet were stuck to the ground, and she did not look like she was going to rise into the sky.

“Huh, why!?”

Lila would be so embarrassed that she would point her wand at her again and again.

However, if Artis stood tall like a mountain and did not rise from the spot, Lila would talk while looking at Artis.

“Could it be that Artis has a constitution with extreme anti-magic power that makes it difficult for magic to be applied, or something like that!?”

“No.”

“Then why!?”

Lila raises her voice as if she doesn’t know what’s going on.

Then, Melusin, who was next to her, carefully put her own hypothesis into her mouth.

“… This is just my guess. Maybe the magic used here isn’t actually magic?”

“What is that…”

“Because Lila said she would use magic and explained what kind of magic it was, the person who received it also thought the same and imagined a scene where she was reminded. In other words, the magic was not actually activated, but the result of being enchanted. Just because I remembered it, Schrödinger from before appeared as well.”

At Meluzin’s words, Laila closed her mouth for a moment.

If you think about it, neither her use of magical power nor her own wand in her dreams are real.

So, the fact that her magic was properly activated may have been her own illusion.

A dream is, after all, a world that reflects such illusions.

“Then… What should I do?”

“We have to find a way for her to get up in the sky without flying. Like she said, with help from something else.”

If Melusin talks like that, Laila will talk while looking at her artis.

“Well, then! Artis. What do you think you can do to fly!?”

“… That’s right. Basically, it would be better to train a winged beast like a Pegasus or a griffin and fly on it…”

“Then imagine those guys!”

Artis nods her head at Lila’s words.

Then, in front of Artis’ eyes, something began to gather and take shape, just like when Lila created Cleon’s illusion earlier.

It was a horse with wings, an eagle’s claws, and a lion’s tail.

“… What is that? Griffin? Pegasus? Which one is it?”

“Maybe that’s a hippogriff… A hybrid between a horse and a griffin.”

Amelia answers like that, but what was created was as thin as a picture drawn on paper.

Even if Artis tried to ride, he didn’t think he could.

“… Why does it happen like that…!?”

As Artis’s imagination took hold of her, Lila could not help but scream in pain.