Clark doubted his own eyes.
The corpses of the members were scattered on the floor.
The leader, Regnil, Thomas, Anne, and Barok, the four men attacked and killed the rest of the members.
‘why?’
My mind was confused, but I soon figured it out.
Because the four of them were the oldest members of the adventure group.
And the treasures of the dungeon unfolding before your eyes.
They had killed all the rest of their companions to claim the treasure among themselves. without a single hesitation.
“Hey, you crazy bastards. Did you plan on doing this in the first place?”
At the man’s murmuring, the wizard Barrock raised the corners of his mouth.
“Anyway, are you quick to notice? Of course, we talked about it before we entered the dungeon. If there is any real treasure, let’s gulp together.”
Clark looked at Regnil in disbelief.
The reason I decided to join this adventure team in the first place was because I liked his personality as the leader, but he must have been hiding this nature. In an instant, I was betrayed by my faith.
Regnil stretched out his sword without even giving a glance to Clark.
His blade was pointed at an unidentified man.
“Are you an adventurer too? When did you enter the dungeon?”
“············”.
“Well, it doesn’t really matter. I don’t know where he came out of nowhere, but he was unlucky.”
At Regnil’s words, the man stood silently for a moment, then muttered while smirking.
“········ There is no income, but all the troublesome things are twisted, really.”
The man glanced at the treasure piled up in the pit next to him and said calmly.
“What are you looking at the liver. Are you not trying to kill everything and take over the treasure?”
Regnil’s eyes twitched.
“porridge······.”
It was before the words were even spoken.
The figure of a man who disappeared as if it had disappeared suddenly appeared in the middle of Regnil and the members.
“······································································!
It was before the four of you could even react with astonished faces.
In the next moment, they all collapsed.
Even if it wasn’t, Clark, who was in chaos of what was going on, looked at the scene with complete enchantment.
As if he had dealt with the Guardians a while ago, he had killed them in the blink of an eye.
The only thing Clark saw in a blurry moment was that something blood-red from the man was shot.
“ah······.”
Watching the scene, Clark let out a shaky moan without realizing it.
It was a mixed feeling of confusion and betrayal, the emptiness that the adventure team who had been with for a long time was wiped out, and the fear of men.
The man looked over here. And he took a step closer and came closer.
I wanted to run away right away, but it was difficult to get up in the yard where my legs were torn.
Thinking that it was his turn now, Clark had an intuition to die.
But soon after seeing the thing the man had taken out of his arms, he had no choice but to open his eyes.
A small glass bottle with a reddish liquid glistening inside. It was the potion.
“It’s a mystery you’ve acquired, so make good use of it.”
The man who had put the potion down on the nearby floor left only those words and turned around.
And I walked to the exit without even paying attention to the unowned treasure left behind.
Clark looked at it until the back figure disappeared completely, then stumbled in half-exhausted and slumped over.
“What is it?”
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in vain (3)
After exiting the dungeon, I looked up at the gloomy sky.
Ashel and Thiyong, who were standing around, noticed me coming and approached me.
“Let’s go.”
“Yes.”
He misses the mystery and gets involved only in the most troublesome things.
This time, I was really just doing it in vain.
I climbed on top of Tiyong with Ashel, thinking about my next destination.
Rapids, the largest metropolis in eastern St.
Located in that city, ‘Elphon Academy’ is a historic talent nurturing institution in Seintea.
The next mystery to be discovered was hidden in the public library of the Elphon Academy.
Like the places I’ve been looking for, most of the mysteries are in the sparse nature, but there are very few exceptions.
In a sense, it could be said that it was the most obscure place among the mysteries that had been visited so far.
***
Shoo!
I went down to the forest below, looking at the huge city that had begun to appear in the distance.
Thiyong was planning to leave the forest near the city and enter Lapad City.
I had to quietly get mysteries and get out, but I couldn’t bring the Wyvern to the city and draw attention from all directions.
“I’ll be here soon, so wait here. Avoid people’s eyes as much as possible, and if you come across them, don’t attack them.”
purr.
The boy flapped his wings like a whimper and nodded his head.
In the middle of a forest like this, there would be very little chance of encountering anyone anyway, so nothing would happen.
After leaving the forest behind, Ashel and I got on the highway and headed for the city.
‘Well.’
We went through the gates without any problems and entered the city.
I walked down the street slowly looking around.
As it is the largest city in the eastern part of Seintea, the streets were repaired and crowded with many passers-by.
Among them, there were some that stood out in particular, and they were wearing similar uniforms from somewhere.
“Hey, Assistant Professor Hermill. Have you been out for a while? Did you even take a vacation?”
“What about vacation… Professor Teiji has started a new experiment again. He’s on his way to the store to get the necessary materials, huh.”
A man talking with a woman he met while passing by with tired eyes.
I passed by and listened to their conversation, looking over the buildings in the distance and looking at the gigantic half-visible building in the middle of the city.
A building that looks different from a castle or palace at first glance, and looks like a school.
‘Elphon Academy.’
That was the Academy of Saintea, located right here in the city.
As often seen in fantasy, an academy was an institution that educated students like a real school.
If there is a difference, is it just that the subjects taught are different, such as swordsmanship or magic? Because this is a fantasy world.
In Lassa’s setting, the Academy is the only institution that exists only in Saintea, and in fact, it has no significant role in the main story of the game.
Except for the minor sub-quests, the episodes related to Elphon Academy didn’t have much volume.
Anyway, my purpose was to find the mystery hidden in the public library located within the academy.
‘I’ll take a look first.’
First of all, we decided to find a suitable inn and wait until sunset.
Waiting for the sun to go down, I recollected and recalled information about the academy’s approximate internal structure.
As time passed, the night was completely dark.
I went out on the street alone and walked to the immediate vicinity of the academy, avoiding my eyes.
The place I moved to now was the west wall of the academy.
The public library was located on the western outskirts of the academy.
There are several libraries inside the academy, but among them, the public library was an open library that anyone related to the academy could use freely without any special conditions.
Security wasn’t that thorough, so it was a good thing for me, who had to sneak inside from now on.
If the mystery had been hidden in the depths of the academy, I would have just given up without even thinking about getting it in the first place.
It would be difficult to infiltrate into the depths rather than the outskirts, and things could be complicated if they were caught by mistake.
‘It’s worth a try without too much risk.’
The academy was surrounded by high walls on all sides, and the interior landscape and structure were barely visible from the outside.
I was staring at the wall as high as a fortress wall, and raised my supersensibility to the maximum.
Inside the academy, I could feel some signs walking around and around the wall in the direction I was currently in.
He must have been a guard because he felt the magic power was weak.
After checking their positions, they made a series of space leaps into the air just above them.
It was a dark night, so unless I had some bad luck, I wouldn’t be able to see myself.
Soaring high in the sky, I looked around the inside of the academy beyond the wall, fixing myself with a floating curtain.
The site is as vast as dozens of soccer fields combined, and numerous buildings are spread out around the huge main building in the center.
It wasn’t long before I was able to find the public library building to the west without difficulty.
Because it was night, there were hardly any people walking around inside the academy. There was no one around the destination public library.
‘··········.’
If you don’t like it, I was just going to take a look today… isn’t this a good time?
When I came down to the road, I looked inside again and teleported to the wall. I lowered my posture and looked down.
There seemed to be no difficulty in accessing the public library.
In the beginning, the site was very large, and I was able to see everything around me with a super sense, and there was also a space leap.
After boldly entering the academy, I moved between the buildings, avoiding as far as possible from the intruders.
It’s a sneak peek at the academy, so there’s nothing new about it now, but I really wanted to try everything out of the ordinary.
So I safely moved to the immediate vicinity of the public library, hid in the building, and looked at the library.
The public library is a two-story building, with windows only on the first floor.
‘Are you a librarian?’
Through the closed windows, a man was seen sitting near the entrance to the library. Apparently he was a librarian.
Other than that, I didn’t feel any other signs in the library.
So… then what do we do?
From now on, all you have to do is secretly enter the library, find the mystery and come out.
At the same time, even the librarian was nodding and asleep, so he didn’t even know he opened the front door and entered.
However, it was better to be careful if possible, so I decided to enter through the window.
Space leap cannot be unfolded if there is an obstacle in the middle, so it cannot teleport beyond a closed window.
I looked around again and approached the library window. It was a window that did not reach the view of the librarian from an angle.
When I gently pulled the window, it didn’t seem like it was locked.
I opened the window slowly so as not to make a sound and immediately teleported inside.
‘done.’
We entered the library safely.
After checking the librarian who was still dozing and dozing, he closed the window and headed to the second floor without hesitation, passing the bookshelves.
The place where the mystery was hidden was the bookshelf on the 2nd floor, among them, the bookshelf where ancient books related to history were gathered.
The second floor was much narrower than the first floor, and I was able to find it quickly because I remembered the location embedded in the corner.
I clasped my hands and opened them as I looked at the dusty books that had almost been neglected.
‘I think this bookshelf fits…’
Search found, but there was one last remaining problem.
It was said that the place where the mysterious pattern was placed was the wall behind the bookcase.
In other words, the mystery could be confirmed only by moving the bookshelf and dropping it off the wall. By the way······.
‘·······How to eat this alone.’
It wasn’t very big, but it wasn’t too small either. It was much taller than my height, and the width was twice as wide as my arms outstretched.
I could do it by dragging it and dropping it a little off the wall, but the noise was a problem when I did that.
In the end, I couldn’t drag it to the floor, and I had no choice but to lift it up and move it.
I grabbed the bookshelf once and gave it strength to measure it, but it didn’t move.
In that case, there was no other way.
Eventually, I carefully pulled out the books from the bookshelf and started stacking them one by one on the floor.
If it’s an empty bookshelf, lifting it up a little will do something. you’re doing a really good job
After a while, I took all the books out of the bookshelf.
And when I lifted the bookshelf again, it was only then that I succeeded in lifting it.
After carefully lifting one side of the bookshelf slightly off the wall, I peered through the gap inside.
With the expectation that there will be a mysterious pattern on this wall that I was looking for. However······.
“············”.
There was nothing to see.
There is only a pile of dust.
He scoured the gap once more, but nothing had changed.
I frowned.
‘······what?’
Why is this not there again?
I looked at the surrounding bookshelves once again, wondering if I had misunderstood the bookshelf, but this was definitely the correct location.
I crossed my arms and fell in thought.
I wondered if someone discovered the mystery this time too, but… is that so?
If someone else discovered it first, it means that they moved the bookshelf like me and checked the back wall. Even if you don’t know what kind of butterfly effect my actions will cause, who did this before me? in the library?
‘·······Or the timing is not right.’
Maybe it was even before the mystery was created.
If the mysteries were created between now and the future of the game play, it would have to be nonexistent now.
Which one it is is unknown.
But whatever it was, what was certain was that this time too, it was a useless effort.
No matter how, all two of them are in vain one after another….
‘It’s not really bad luck.’
Did you even use up all your mysterious luck when you found it in Calderic?
All mysteries in Calderic were successful, but all failed in Saintea.
It was a little disappointing, but it was unavoidable.