Souchirou started putting on his shirt back when Maya asked him.

"I would like to ask more 2 things, first why do you have 2 spells cast on yourself and the second is why Hliðskjálf actually chose sages which go against your goals."

After finishing putting on his clothes, Souchirou turned toward Maya and then answered her.

"One of the spells I cast upon myself is an illusion spell in order to look older externally, because due to some circumstances my external appearance does not reflect my true age, the second spell is also related to the said circumstances."

Pausing his speech shortly, he then proceeded to answer the second question.

"Hliðskjálf operates on a list of simple priority commands:

1- The person to be chosen will not tell USNA's government about the backdoor.

2- The person to be chosen must have a minimum amount of income and knowledge about security.

3- They will inevitably use Hliðskjálf to further their own goals.

4- The sages to be chosen will have conflicting goals.

5- Upon death of a sage a new sage will be chosen.

And all these criteria for choosing the sages are of course based on Big Data collected by ECHELON III. Hliðskjálf merely gives them the power of information, if I were to lose due to that alone I would obviously not be worthy to decide how the world should change."

"I see, however those answers do raise more questions, especially the first, but since our alliance is not yet fully confirmed I will stop there."- said Maya as she opened the door.

"I am thankful for that."

Souchirou then got out of the room, and walked through the house until he arrived at the entrance he then entered his car and drove back to his house.

While drying himself after taking a shower Souchirou wondered.

(I guess the 'setting' of being an adoptive son attracts too much attention and is pretty unusual, perhaps I should indeed change it even though that means making a fake family registry for 'my mother'. I will do that before I enroll into First High. Which reminds me I have not undone the illusion spell.)

While placing the towel on his bed, he undid the illusion spell, when he looked at the mirror the figure of him looked a few years younger, but the scar in his chest always reminded him that he was already on 'extended time'.

'Puppeteer' the variant of 'Reality Warp' he used the most during the war against the Great Asian Alliance, the magic that earned him the title 'Necromancer' was now what kept him barely alive in a state of half-death. His condition made him stronger than most as he would not have to worry about magic overuse and the natural limiters on his brain were removed, yet his condition made him fragile, as magic jamming if took him by surprise would mean his death. Moreover, his time was growing short, because age stayed his enemy, he would have no more than 10 years to make his goals true as most of his internal organs still aged contrary to his external appearance, which was frozen in time. The other prices he paid were the loss of his sense of smell and taste, those however did not bother him as much as his lethal weakness to jamming.

"…The scar from that time…"- said Souchirou in a low voice as he touched his chest, he then continued to review his situation.

(Retsu according to my information still foolish tries to create substitutes for magicians thinking it will be enough while keeping powerful clans from evolving further than he is able to control, he will certainly not change his mind, which is troublesome since he knows all too well about 'Puppeteer' and its flaws. I will have to deal with him for sure.)

(Shiba Tatsuya on the other hand may end up become an ally, he does view the current government as incompetent and he ended both Blanche's as well as No Head Dragon's branches on Japan all by himself, but he probably only bothered to do so in the first place due to his sister. He tries to make magicians necessary economically, but he should obviously be aware that even if he is able to do so it will not change the fact they can be used as cheap tools of war.)

Souchirou then sat on his bed while still pondering.

(…So as long as I convinced his sister either to cooperate or not to act he will likely follow her desires, that can be useful as expected. Now, when should I launch the new CAD series Wyrm?)

The Wyrm series, a CAD series that would soon change the face of Modern Magic and society itself. The Wyrm series through Souchirou's 'Reality Warp' made the impossible fact of a CAD having multiple activation stones possible, this fact meant not only the delay in cast was lowered but also the psion count required to perform magic would be reduced. Moreover, he was able thanks to the increased processing power to program a weakened version of 'Gram Dispersion' into them, rendering them immune to all current known types of jamming.

(Well, I still have probably 10 years to reach my goals, so I can take my time thinking carefully on how to handle my biggest obstacles.)

Souchirou smirked as he prepared to sleep.