Legend

Elaine and Vihera, who saw Ray kick the floor lightly, each have a convincing look on their face.

Even though Azimov cared about those two, he looked around to see if he was interested in the various magic items placed inside the store.

And Beaune starts checking the floor before Ray says anything about whether he regrets being let out as a bandit.

"Well, there's no escape route on the walls or ceilings, so all that's left is the basement,"

"Right. But... if we get out of here, where are we headed? Based on what Ray was telling the guards earlier, I'm guessing quite a few guards are moving on this one? If so, I think it's tough to escape and hide in the guild."

Elaine tells Vihella's words strangely.

That was the same with Ray.

(Like digging in the ground so you can travel outside the gilm? Well, it would be a possibility...... but even Gilm would be doing about as much to counteract monsters digging in the ground)

There are not as many monsters flying in the sky, but there are no monsters to dig into and travel through the earth.

More than that, it wasn't very much for Ray to think that Gilm, the periphery, was failing to take action against such a monster.

"Mmm!"

Unexpectedly, Bühne's voice echoes inside the store.

When he receives the gaze of the others, Büne sheds his magic into the pot that was kept near the wall.

Then there is the sound of something unlocking, and the floor that was near the pot moves, and a staircase appears that is as large as it would be easy for two adults to get through.

"I see that's why we got out of the store. I don't know what made this elaborate trick. Maybe this store was originally the one of the hands of the Bestian Empire? I thought the guy connected to the Bestian Empire was thoroughly hunted down."

Vihera opens her mouth to Ray whining that she couldn't hunt it all out.

"So what do you do? Do you want to keep going? Or wait for someone to come?

"... you can't let them get away with this. It may be too late to chase you now, but maybe you'll make it. Then we should go after him."

"I guess. So, who's going?

Ray is troubled by the words.

The bandit Bühne could not be removed because he would first proceed where he appeared with such a scheme. You will also need an alchemist, Azimov, more than chasing alchemists and magic item store owners. Also, you can't stay here any longer than you are being targeted.

And as a force of war, Vihella and Elaine were more dependable people than ever before, beyond knowing what lies ahead of this escape route.

If Seto could go, he would take him, but Seto would have difficulty acting in relation to the staircase that leads to the basement.

"Right..."

You felt lost in Ray's tone, Elaine trying to say something...

"Dear Elaine, are you all right!?

Unexpectedly such a voice echoes around me.

Suddenly it was the woman with the axe who came inside the store.

Ray soon found out who the woman was.

And naturally, Elaine also opens her mouth without wondering who the person is again.

"Ara, are you here? I told you to wait at the inn, didn't I?

"I came in a hurry because I heard about Lady Elaine from someone who came to the inn, on top of waiting and never returning at all!

Everyone in the store, including Ray, gives a convincing look to the words.

You heard about Elaine, who was supposed to just stroll around the city, getting into trouble for some reason, and she couldn't stay or not, and she jumped out of the inn?

I guess Arla's loyalty to Elaine was maximized.

"Yes, well, not as much as Lord Ray or Elaine standing around... besides, we were talking in the wind that he seemed to be a very cunning opponent of anything, so I thought maybe he'd run away and make another commotion"

Arla told me she was worried, but Elaine, who heard the story, has not given her a particularly sorry look.

On the contrary, he even has a thin grin.

"Don't worry. Just in case, she's letting the yellow follow her. If he escapes, he won't lose sight of it."

To the words that came out of Elaine's mouth, Ray remembers that the yellow he was when he captured Adria had disappeared from Seto's back at some point.

(I was totally intrigued by something and thought I went somewhere to see you, but you weren't)

Yellow from Ray's eyes was only a child, and he seemed to have a personality to jump without one or two against what was of interest to him.

Sometimes it hasn't been that long since Elaine created it with dragon language magic yet, and that's never a mistake.

... but if you say so, Seto has only been created in the world by warcraft for a few years.

(I guess that's why Seto and Yellow fit in)

Elaine smiles and opens her mouth to Arla in front of Ray, who wonders if she's close to her mental age or if she's been created by special figures such as Ray, Elaine.

"More than that, Ara, you've come to the right place. From now on, we'll use this staircase to track down the escaped opponent. You tell them when the guards get here."

"Huh? Um, Master Elaine? What the hell are they doing?

For Arla, I heard about Elaine getting out of the city and making a scene where she was worried, and when she came after her whereabouts, for some reason Elaine was inside the magic item store, where she was about to go down the stairs leading to the basement, so I naturally couldn't understand the situation.

It's good to have Ray in this place. Elaine originally went all over the city to find Ray, so that's not strange.

But if there was someone there with the same beauty as Elaine, it would have been different.

Born in an aristocratic house, she was Ara, but still has never seen anyone as beautiful as Elaine.

I've seen several noble ladies and beauty proud women before me, but what I'm seeing right now was a beauty beauty bearer no less than Elaine in a literal sense.

This is the first time I've seen such a person, and so I can't help wondering why such a beauty is here.

Also, in the sense that they were concerned, the same was true for Vihera.

Although Vihera cared most about Ara because she spotted the strength of Ara rather than her appearance.

It was Ray who opened his mouth in such a way that a complex relationship was about to arise in so many ways.

"Bad, Ara. I have a little something to do over here right now. I know there are a lot of things I should talk about introductions and stuff, but I need you to put that behind me. Elaine, Vihella, Büne, Azimov, let's go."

To Ray's words, we go to the stairs, deciding that we should go after the shopkeeper here now anyway.

"Hey, Master Elaine!?

"Sorry, Ara. Let me get this over with."

Elaine tells that's all, leaving Arla on the spot and going down the stairs.

After all, Ara, left alone in the store, moves near the store door with no idea what it is.

Still, I didn't go out the door because maybe something would happen in this store and I understood that if it did, I would have to do something about it.

Even though I said something, I basically couldn't say I didn't like it if that Elaine asked me to, just Arla, who in the end has a deep affection for Elaine.

"Nevertheless... I wonder who the hell that disgracefully dressed person was. Could it be Lord Ray's second lover? There was no such thing as evil with Elaine. Hey, what do you think?

Ara's gaze was directed at Seto, who was asking her how she was just outside the store.

"Gru?"

About what? and Ara reached out with a grin to Ceto tilting her little neck with her circular eyes.

It was one room down the stairs.

It's just that the room can't be described as a very ordinary room.

"This... sounds like someone with a lot of advanced alchemy skills."

Azimov, glancing at the room, squeaks as impressed.

There are several experimental instruments and materials in the room.

Some of them are very rare and are of high rank monster materials that require advanced technology to handle, and Azimov could understand just how skilled the alchemist was in this room.

Some people use expensive materials even though they don't have the technology, but if you look inside this room, it's clear that the alchemist who was here is not such a person.

"That much?

I know it's something related to alchemy that spreads through the room, but I'm not familiar with alchemy in Ray enough to know the technique of the person who was just looking at the tool and using it.

That's not just Ray, but Elaine and Vihella as well, pointing the gaze of doubt towards Azimov.

Azimov, who is gazed at, nods back in a roaring tone.

"Oh. Considering purely my skill as an alchemist, I'm probably better than me. And look at all the material I left here."

Azimov told us of several materials placed in various parts of the room.

"Perhaps when we escaped from here, we took the kind of material that was really scarce. In other words, the material that remains here is not as important to the alchemist as it is to the alchemist. … Normally, there are undoubtedly a number of first-class materials."

"So you're saying that the alchemist who would have run away from here took the scarcer material?

Azimov nods at Ray's inquiry with an unpleasant look on his face.

"But sometimes there wasn't an alchemist here, was there? For example, here's a room where you just work, and by chance you weren't here today."

"No, look over there"

What Azimov showed in the words of Vihela. Glass bottle on the table.

There's green liquid in there.

"That green liquid is called a Paña dream, and if you don't keep scratching it with magic at a constant rate, it will turn brown and become useless in less than an hour"

"... that's green"

As Elaine said, the liquid, called the dream of Paña, remains green and no brown element exists anywhere.

That meant that there was someone here until earlier, and given the current situation, that was definitely likely an alchemist who was working on this case.

"It will. Besides, Paña's dreams are quite difficult to adjust to."

"Mmm!"

At the same time that Azimov tells you how impressed he is, Bühne calls attention with a short but clear voice.

What Bühne was showing was a part of the wall.

When you tap the walls in regular order as they get everyone's attention, eventually a part of the wall shifts with the sound of something coming off, creating a passage that leads to the back.

"Hidden passage, huh? A hidden passage above a hidden staircase is... quite ready."

It was Elaine whining like I was impressed, but it felt right that if I tried it on the Rays, they would imitate it extra.

"Beaune, can you get the lead?

"Mmm!"

Quickly nod at Ray's words and continue straight to the other side of the hidden door.

Others, naturally starting with Ray, follow.

The other side of the hidden door was the main road.

Around here, even if we were to build an escape route underground, I guess we couldn't do it like a maze.

Such a straight run down the underground tunnel where the soil is trampled and consolidated...

"Mmm!"

Unexpectedly, Büne, who was running the lead, screams sharply and stops his leg.

The Rays who were running behind it also hurry to stop their legs.

That's how everyone's legs stopped, and Büne glances at the wall, which is sharp and nearby, and carefully reaches for it.

Naturally, the walls also solidify the soil only in the underground passageways where the soil was dug.

Biune, who was firmly and then carefully touching its dirt wall, eventually finds what he is looking for or does some work against the wall.

The most important thing to do, though, was to take out the long needle that Bühne was using as a weapon and poke it at the wall many times.

"... what are you doing, that?

"Probably an arrow, a needle, or poison was starting to fire from the wall. I've seen you do the same thing in a dungeon in Exil before."

Is Vihera right, or when she finishes the work, Bühne nods small.

That's how he kept running down the underground aisle again… After that, there was no such thing as a trap, and he eventually arrived at a spot with a scythe that was extending up.