“Then what are we going to do now?”
“What do you mean?”
“Are you going in? Or are you going to call in reinforcements? I asked about this.”
Rudy opened her mouth without thinking much.
“Isn’t it natural to go in? If there was someone inside anyway, they would know we were here, can we just go?”
Ian nodded his head.
“Then let me go right away.”
While Ian was about to move, Rudy paused for a moment.
Ian turned his head to look at Rudy, who did not return.
“What’s going on?”
“… … no.”
Rudy shook her head and followed Ian to the hut.
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The door to the hut creaked as if it were old.
The two reached out their hands in front of them and carefully went inside.
“It’s dark.”
Inside the hut was ordinary.
A sofa and a fireplace to cool off in the living room.
There was also a dining table in the kitchen where several people could dine.
The hut was not the only one on the first floor.
The stairs leading down to the basement were clearly visible.
Once, Ian approached the sofa and wiped it with his finger.
“It looks like it has been used for a while.”
Ian’s fingers were covered with barking dust.
It didn’t feel like I hadn’t used it in years.
If the item has not been used for several years, there must be traces of insects gnawed at it, but it was cleaner than I expected.
Rudy headed towards the kitchen and looked around.
“There are also signs of use on the tableware.”
It’s dusty, but it doesn’t feel like it’s been used for a long time.
There are several dishes there.
I could see that I was not alone here, but with a group of people.
The two of them looked around and could not find anything unusual other than these ordinary parts.
“Go downstairs.”
With Ian’s words, the two went downstairs.
“ah?”
“… … It’s ridiculous.”
There was a large space in the basement.
It was such a large space that a hut like this looked ridiculous.
There were traces of numerous books and studies.
“Looks like you found it.”
“How the hell did you make this?”
The two looked around.
“Who is it?”
Then a man walked out.
It was a man wearing a robe like a researcher.
Ian and Rudy quickly reached out their hands.
“Reveal your identity.”
The man muttered as if it were nonsense.
“Isn’t your identity something you have to reveal? What are you going to say when you come into someone else’s house?”
After looking at each other, Ian and Rudy opened their mouths.
“We are investigators from the Empire. Who are you?”
The two hid their identities and asked the man.
“My name is Raven. What’s going on here in the Empire?”
“We are investigating the rebels. If you’re not a rebel, answer the investigation.”
“Huh, is the Empire researching like this these days?”
“This is an investigation into the rebels. We will use force if we are not docilely investigated.”
Raven raised both hands at this.
“Okay, feel free to investigate.”
Rudy and Ian looked puzzled at each other’s dignified attitude.
The two hesitated for a moment, and then Ian came forward first.
“I will investigate.”
Rudy was still reaching out to Raven, and Ian went down the stairs.
“What are the imperial dignitaries going to come up to here to investigate? Oh yeah… … .”
Raven grumbled at Ian, who looked around and bit his tongue.
Ian looked around and looked for any traces of the rebels.
However, no trace of the rebels could be found.
In fact, there is no such thing as a clear trace of the rebels.
If there was a letter written by Aryandor or a member of the rebel army, it would be easy to find out, but it was not easy to find such a thing.
Still, there were a lot of materials related to magic engineering, and seeing that there was an anvil like a blacksmith in the corner, I was sure it was a magic engineering lab.
However, it was difficult to know if this person belonged to the rebels.
Ian stopped investigating and looked at Raven.
“Why are you here?”
“Why would you be there? Is it strange for a researcher to be in the lab to study?”
“Why is there a lab in this place? If it’s a magic engineering lab, isn’t it normal to be in a crowded place?”
“Even if I tried to make a laboratory in a conspicuous place, only flies would keep getting entangled, so I made it here. Is there any problem?”
“Paris?”
“Aren’t there nobles? Those flies coveting the things I made are bothering me, so I came to this place.”
“Then how do we get out of here?”
“I’m going to use that stuff.”
Raven reached out towards the corner.
There was a pair of shoes lying there.
They weren’t ordinary leather shoes, they looked like shoes made of iron.
“What is that?”
“Shoes made with magic engineering. It has wind magic on it, so if you jump from here, you can safely descend or climb up. these shoes. When making a mana circuit, I purposely twisted the circuit on purpose. By deliberately running the circuit… … .”
Raven suddenly began to explain the principle of the shoe.
As a researcher, he spoke quickly and spit out unnecessary words when he came across a field he knew.
Ian swept his head as if in pain, but Rudy, who was standing on top, gleamed his eyes.
“Hoo… … . So, wouldn’t it be difficult for mana stones? Obviously, Mana Stones can’t stand it.”
Raven clenched her fists excitedly when Rudy showed interest.
“So, we used magic engineering to reinforce mana stones! If you look at the mana stones here… … !”
Rudy came down the stairs and looked at the shoes.
“You did a good job.”
“thank you. You must know more about magic than that.”
“Yeah, if you’re a wizard, you don’t know this much.”
Rudy looked carefully at the shoes and turned to Raven.
“Can I try this on?”
“Yes, let’s try it on.”
Rudy put on Raven’s shoes and tried to move.
“Aww, that’s a bit heavy.”
“Yes, it is a magic engineering item, so it should weigh that much.”
“How does it work?”
“Oh, there’s a device next to that shoe.”
Ian sighed and looked at Rudy.
“What are you doing… … .”
“Five!”
As Rudy touched the device following Raven’s words, it gradually floated into the sky.
“Don’t force the movement. A strong wind can blow up the lab.”
“Ah yes.”
Rudy rose to the sky for a moment, moved a few times, and then came down.
“This is amazing.”
“Haha, it makes me feel good that you react like that. There is more than that. Would you like to see it?”
Raven opened the warehouse in the back and showed him several magical engineering supplies.
“Ah yes. But can we take a look around the lab a bit more?”
“Yes, you can.”
Rudy began to scan the lab.
Ian looked at him like he didn’t like it.
There is no trace of the rebels anyway.
It seemed like such a waste of time to investigate this person.
Investigating this man’s past could have revealed anything he had to do with the rebels.
Ian approached Rudy, who was looking around, and said softly.
“Stop it now.”
“yes?”
“Take him back to the Empire.”
“Take me?”
“If we look into his past, nothing will come of it.”
“I don’t think there is a need for that.”
“What?”
Rudy smiled and looked at Raven behind him.
“Is the lab smaller than I thought?”
“… … Small?”
“What are you talking about?”
Raven and Ian looked at Rudy with absurd expressions.
“Is that all there is?”
“Yes, it is.”
“Aren’t there any other warehouses?”
“… … .”
“It’s strange.”
Rudy chuckled.
“Obviously, in a laboratory, there should be a lot of mana stones, but there is no place to store mana stones. Even though it is a space where no one comes, why did you put it that way to show it to someone? What are the different dishes on top?”
“Sometimes a friend comes over. And mana stones are supplied to the village from time to time.”
“Is it all iron and other things?”
“yes.”
“okay. So are you carrying all those irons with those shoes? even friends? Are you going to move it to the middle of this mountain, where even a wagon can’t climb, by yourself?”
Raven opened her eyes thinly and glared at Rudy.
“What do you want to say?”
“I looked around the lawn a little while ago.”
“grass?”
“It looks like a well-maintained lawn, but there are some traces of it.”
“Hoo… … Is that so?”
“It’s like that mark.”
Rudy reached out toward Raven and moved his mana.
“It felt like the footprints of a dragon.”
In order to research magic engineering, transportation must be developed.
Good transportation does not mean that there are commercial areas around and that the roads are well paved.
If it was just a good environment to transport, it was good for transportation.
“It looks like it was moved using a bone dragon, right?”
The grass in front acted like a runway.
The Bone Dragon descended there and carried all the equipment.
It’s like a hextech kit I’ve prepared to show off.
A lab that seems to be missing something.
taken from noblemtl.com
Many household items that have been neglected but have not been used in a long time.
There were only a couple of things that were awkward.
“Shall we look a little further? I think it will become clearer after a little while?”
Rudy laughed.