Novia stopped eating and listened intently to the whole story, wearing an expression of surprise when it was finished. "Our family has never heard of these things before..."
She stood up. "Our family has been searching for the traces of other wizards for centuries. We even investigated various classified documents hidden by the church and the empire's upper echelons for this very purpose."
"Yet, there was nothing." She sighed, walking over to an oil painting hanging on the wall behind her, and looked up at the woman in the portrait who looked like an ordinary medieval peasant.
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