"Wait... you're saying you broke through the Endless Darkness?"
Anatole's expression was grave: "There's a world beyond the Endless Darkness?"
"Of course, there is." Neireida said: "The starlight you see is from one powerful Divine Kingdom after another."
"What about the world we are in?"
"It is a Divine Kingdom created by the Creator."
Anatole's lips quivered, and he said in a trembling voice: "If there are worlds beyond the Endless Darkness, and the starlight we see comes from one Divine Kingdom after another... then isn't the Star Magic that I've been studying..."
Glancing at him, Neireida said: "I thought you knew."
"I didn't know! How could I possibly have known!" Anatole shouted in anger: "I wanted to create an entirely new system of magic, but all I did was create a type of ritual that relies on the power of the Outer Gods to perform magic! This isn't creation! This is borrowing! It's theft!"
