“Edelfelt.”

“Can you please stop calling me by my family name?”

Though Luvia’s tone wasn’t kind, her voice was missing its usual contempt, possibly because of the events that had just transpired.

“You know plenty of techniques for using gemstones to automatically search for enemies, right?”

“…Yes, of course, since mages naturally incur resentment.”

Luvia was a hunter— that was why they called her the world’s most graceful hyena. In her mind, if someone hurt her, double the retribution was far from enough.

“Good. It’s useful here, but take care not to concentrate too much Magical Energy in the Great Magic Circuit. Every nook and cranny of this place is overflowing with it. That kind of magecraft alarm will keep going off. It might be less precise, but you probably want to limit its targets.”

“Targets?” Luvia repeated. The old man seemed to have piqued her interest.

“Yes. You should be all set if you constantly adjust the attributes it’s looking for.”

Before he even finished his sentence, the old man suddenly raised his hand. With a woosh, an assortment of things flew out of it and onto the wasteland around us. It appeared to be some minerals mined from Albion. Later, I realized that there was a contraption near his wrist that allowed him to toss things into the air while his hand remained still.

“How many did I just throw, and where did they go?”

“Testing me?”

Luvia took out a blue jewel and uttered an incantation from her lovely lips.

“Awaken(Call).”

With a single word from her, the gem changed color from blue to red and then yellow in the space of a few seconds.

“Seven.” The young woman replied, unfazed by the strange changes that the gem rapidly underwent. “No. There’s one hidden behind you. They’re in these places.”

Luvia flicked the gem. It flew toward the rocks that the old man had thrown, causing them to rise from the ground.

“So annoying. It only took you twenty seconds and a single word? I was expecting maybe fifteen minutes. If only my disciples were this talented.”

Lord El-Melloi II's Case Files: Grand Roll (Lower); Chapter 1, Part 2