The Extra Prince Sets Out To Conquer The World

“Chiki chiki! Yeah! Yeah~!”

Looking at the crazily sparkling star-shaped sunglasses, I thought,

Is she a crazy bitch?

I couldn’t help but think that while watching the woman with light pink hair doing a wobbly dance.

According to the information I purchased from Twilight Trading Company, sometimes a guide appears in the Rite of Fire and directly gives the trial.

It was mainly the case where dwarves left their avatars to pass on the secrets they couldn’t fully pass on to their direct descendants.

As I was at a loss for words and blankly staring at her, the woman wearing a comfortable t-shirt and jeans slightly lifted her star-shaped sunglasses and winked at me.

“How is it? I tried to follow the trendy outfit of the era you live in. Doesn’t it look unlike an old person?”

“The outfit of the era I live in?”

I couldn’t think properly due to the sudden situation.

Her outfit was a modern one, or more precisely, an outfit that would have been commonly worn before I entered this body.

I was confused about the situation, and the woman in front of me suddenly stared at my outfit and stroked her chin.

“Huh? That’s strange. The future outfit I saw wasn’t in this style. No, looking at the items in your hands, they seem like items from the future I saw.”

She looked puzzled at the device in my left hand.

“What do you call this? Cosplay?”

“…First, I’d like to know what’s going on. Isn’t this the dwarves’ Rite of Fire?”

At my question, the woman who looked familiar smiled cheerfully and nodded.

“That’s right. This is inside the dwarves’ Rite of Fire ceremony. But you have an expression as if you’re seeing me for the first time. Didn’t you come here after seeing the hints I left?”

“Who are you?”

“…Huh?”

After pondering for a moment, she carefully asked,

“By any chance, were you not sent by Gavillet?”

If she’s talking about Gavillet, does she mean the Spirit King, one of the Nine Kingdomless Kings?

“I’ve never even met that guy named Gavillet.”

“Huh? Where did it get tangled up? I should have appeared only to a human spirit mage.”

As we were both confused, Navi popped out from inside my sleeve and cried.

-Meow~!

At the cry filled with joy and longing, the woman was surprised.

“Miolly?! How are you here?”

An image flashed through my mind from Navi’s emotions.

“Could it be the first queen consort, Lisbeth?”

When I called Lisbeth’s name, the woman’s eyes widened.

“I am Lisbeth, but… Huh? I become the queen consort? Aquila, that weasel-like witch, wouldn’t have easily given up the position of the main wife.”

Judging by her reaction, she really seemed to be the legendary spirit mage Lisbeth.

Did Lisbeth and Gavillet have a close relationship?

Well, they were both legendary spirit mages, so it wouldn’t be strange even if they were close.

Since Gavillet was a pure-blooded elf, he would have been active even 600 years ago when Lisbeth was alive.

But seeing that she looked younger than the portrait hung in the palace, it seemed her avatar was created before she became the queen consort.

“If you’re really Lisbeth, let me introduce myself first. I’m Yuan, a descendant of the founding king and you, and the current 1st prince of the Duplion Kingdom.”

“You’re saying you’re my descendant and a prince, not only did I become the queen consort, but my child also becomes the king?!”

At my introduction, Lisbeth seemed moved by the fact that her child inherited the kingdom.

“Yahoo~!”

Bang-! Bang-!

I calmed her down as she cheered and set off fireworks, and asked,

“It seems you left some arrangements, but my undergoing the Rite of Fire has nothing to do with you, so could you explain?”

“Ah, right. I was both happy and surprised, so I momentarily forgot. The explanation is a bit complicated… By any chance, do you know about the Reader of the Stars?”

“If you’re talking about an innate prophet, I know about them.”

At my answer, Lisbeth nodded.

“If you know, the explanation will be easy. I was a Reader of the Stars born at that time.”

I didn’t know Lisbeth was a Reader of the Stars.

However, I knew from Aquila’s grimoire that thanks to Lisbeth’s much sharper senses than ordinary people, she saved the founder and her comrades from danger several times.

“At the same time, I was also one of the extremely rare ‘beloved by spirits’ among humans. If it weren’t for the power of spirits, I might have died from the backlash of divination when I was young. Of course, that’s why I couldn’t act as a prophet though.”

Just as the previous Sage of the Winter Wood, Yekatrice, suppressed her divination power with the power of magic, Lisbeth seemed to have controlled it with the power of spirits.

“Still, it’s not like I couldn’t divine at all. Miolly, no, you’ll now have a new name given by your new contractor.”

“It’s Navi.”

When Lisbeth heard Navi’s name, she slapped her knee and burst into laughter.

“Puhahaha! Navi?! It’s the great lord of the typhoon, but it has a cat-like name! Ahahaha! I like it! You know, I actually wanted to name it Kitty rather than Miolly.”

Not just me, but this woman also had an amazing naming sense.

“Dune stopped me, so I named it Miolly. Ah, do you know the meaning of the name Miolly?”

“It means a beautiful sound in the ancient language. More importantly, don’t stray from the main point.”

Her personality was quite scatterbrained.

“Ahahaha! Right. Anyway, you who contracted with Navi will also know that humans have a hard time learning spirit magic innately. But I wanted to pass on my spirit magic to humans. More precisely, I wanted spirits and humans to become friends.”

At her words, I smiled bitterly.

“So you divined the future.”

Yekatrice also used divination to find Jade as her successor to continue her legacy.

It’s just that Lisbeth couldn’t find a successor in the same era.

She died at a young age compared to the power she possessed.

She must have paid a heavy price trying to find a successor in the distant future.

“That’s right. I divined a talented person who could continue the research I couldn’t complete, and I wanted to leave many things for that child.”

“You said you wanted to leave, which means you might not have been able to leave them.”

The woman in front of me was just one point in Lisbeth’s life.

At my point, Lisbeth snapped her fingers.

“That’s right. At the current point… That’s not an appropriate term. In the past, after I asked Bebrodron to create my avatar in the Rite of Fire, I can’t know what happened.”

She laughed, saying it felt strange.

For her, the present was not a point 600 years after her death, but a point before the kingdom was properly established.

“If things go according to my plan, there should be a total of three volumes of spirit books containing my research.”

“Should be?”

“From my perspective, I’m still writing the first volume. If it were me, one volume would probably be in my residence, and I would have given another volume to Gavillet.”

It seemed Lisbeth and Gavillet had a closer relationship than I thought.

Well, the average lifespan of a pure-blooded elf is roughly a thousand years. Depending on their level of training, they could live even longer.

Since she herself was a legendary spirit mage, there was no better candidate than Gavillet as a guide to teach her successor in the distant future.

“And the last volume… Well, wouldn’t it be somewhere like the royal library? The library was our hideout when we were young. We used to hide important things in the library. Well, when we were young, it was just things like cicada shells or pretty pebbles.”

I see, so that’s why there were so many important treasures in the royal library.

The founder, queen consort, and Aquila were childhood friends, so it made sense that they hid them in such a place.

“Hmm, I didn’t find the spirit book in that library-like place. But I did find it in the queen consort’s palace.”

At my words, Lisbeth shrugged.

“Really? Then I don’t know either. The current me hasn’t even completed the first volume yet.”

“Isn’t there anywhere else you might have put it?”

It’s also possible that I just didn’t find it because it wasn’t mentioned in the novel, so I should search the royal library again later.

There were still treasures in the royal library that I hadn’t recovered anyway.

Lisbeth stroked her chin and pondered.

“Hmm~ I wonder? My hometown? Or my grave? If not, maybe Gavillet has it? I don’t know. Hahaha, sorry for not being helpful.”

“It’s okay. You’ve been a great help.”

Just the fact that Lisbeth’s spirit books might be three volumes was important information.

Spirits were my only talent and my main strength, so it meant there were ways to further complement them.

There was almost no information about Lisbeth in the novel.

Once I leave here, I should first investigate Lisbeth’s life in detail.

As I was lost in thought for a moment, Lisbeth slowly approached me.

“Wah!”

I flinched as she suddenly stuck her face close to mine, wearing star-shaped sunglasses that sparkled blindingly.

“Ahahaha! I don’t know what you’re thinking so hard about, but you coming here is an unexpected opportunity for me.”

“…Opportunity?”

“From what I see, you have contracted spirits other than Navi, right? And even lord-level ones.”

At her question, I could understand what she meant by opportunity.

“Are you thinking of making me your successor?”

At my guess, she took off her sunglasses and smiled.

“If you’re willing to.”

Spirit mages are extremely rare.

Moreover, spirit mages who have contracted with spirit lords are so few that they can be counted on one hand even among fairies.

But having a legendary spirit mage who has contracted with spirit lords become my teacher was an opportunity that might never come again.

“Is it okay even though I’m not the successor in your divination?”

“What wouldn’t be okay? Rather, if you inherit and develop my research, wouldn’t it increase the chances of the me and your successor born in the future fulfilling my dream?”

Lisbeth said with a wink.

“It would be even better if you, my descendant, complete the research.”

“Because of me, the successor in your divination might not be born, or your arrangements might be disrupted. Is that still okay?”

At my question, Lisbeth giggled.

“Yuan, the future isn’t originally fixed. A person’s fate can change at any time, and that’s already proven just by the fact that you’re standing in front of me now.”

That’s true.

My existence, which has already escaped the fate of death, was like a singularity that defies destiny.

“Perhaps my plan was too reckless from the beginning.”

Even a rock can be pierced by water droplets falling one by one, and small program errors can accumulate and cause irreversible bugs.

The subtle twists of fate have already accumulated for 600 years to reach the future Lisbeth divined.

And those twists will accumulate for several more centuries.

For her, my existence in front of her might be a more precious opportunity than a plan for a future that might be in vain.

“Alright. Then I’ll gladly receive the teachings of my ancestor.”

At my agreement, Lisbeth smiled brightly.

“Ah, before that.”

I took out an engraving pen and spirit stone from my pocket.

“I’m going to summon a spirit, so please help me.”

The ceremonial space where the Rite of Fire was held was real, yet not real, a place where mythology was engraved.

Therefore, if I took an item from here, I could take it out to reality as well.

Moreover, a space filled with the energy of fire like this was rare.

At my words, Lisbeth clapped her hands with a smile.

“Ahahaha! Great. I’ll help you contract with the best spirit.”