thirty-six

Leaving Karanak, the soul-relieving city, for three days. Arriving at Lunatic Lake, the capital of the Kingdom of Alkite, in the middle of the day, Mira had been led by a samurai to Solomon's office in a sad mood.

At first, the samurai surrounded me like this, and I was deeply frightened that I might be turned into a dressing doll again, but I arrived in front of the office without any problems to calm my mind.

"Excuse me," the samurai opens when she knocks on the door and replies. There was a quiet door closing behind Mira as she entered the office.

"Welcome back. You shake it for a week or so. So, did you find him?

There are only two indoors: Mira and Solomon. Solomon asks as he throws out the paperwork at hand, in the tone of speaking to a friend.

"Unfortunately, I wasn't there. Then there were traces. And it's going to be a clue."

Saying, Mira opens the item section and selects out some of the materials that were in the castle of the ancient temple. Solomon grabbed some of the material that piled up one after the other as he pulled the paperwork on his desk to the corner in a big mess.

"The Rebirth Law of the Immortal Bird? This is how the Immortal King is cremated, where the Four Seasons Spirit is... What the hell was he doing?

"You'll see that when you look at me."

Flying information can't be enough to answer that. Solomon glanced at the material handed to Mira, wrinkling between his brows.

It describes the extent to which various healing items, such as medicines, are used against the inscription of death. Arrange everything from common to luxury items, most of which are written as ineffective. And the only item name that hasn't written anything about the effect yet is the Holy Grail.

Thirty years I've been in this world. Furthermore, Solomon, who enjoyed it as a game, came to an answer with this statement alone.

"Maybe he went looking for the Holy Grail of Divine Life and Glory?

"Um, maybe so"

Mira nodded and told Solomon what she had seen in the sixth castle of the ancient temple of Nebrapolis.

"I wonder if he's an important person"

"Maybe."

At the end of the conversation, the two will be temporarily silent, even though they think that Seoul Howl is. Whatever change of heart may have occurred, Seoul Howl is now traveling all over the world in search of the Holy Grail.

"The fact that you're not in that spot, you should try to get some clues and travel. If you're gonna find him, I think it's best to unravel the Holy Grail's secrets from that dossier and follow in the footsteps, but how about that?

"Well, I'm sure of that."

First, find out where Seoul Howl is going from the material and hit it in turn. That's about all I can do right now. To conclude so, the two stare at the pile of materials with a fed up look.

"Still, examining this amount on boulders is going to break your bones. Shall we call the right man here?"

Solomon plays the bell on his desk twice at his fingertips. But then there's no sound. But Solomon turns his gaze back on the material just because it's not a problem.

"Is that a ringing bell? I didn't hear anything."

The bell on the desk, at first glance, has the shape of a miniature-sized church bell suspended by a string on a pillar of a small frame. Solomon said he would call someone and did a trick to ring this bell. But contrary to that behavior, Mira could not hear any physical sounds other than the sound of metal being bounced.

"Hmm? Oh, it's a call bell. For once, the magic appliance only sounds like the person you've designated. The range is about a kilometer, and I'm now designating..."

"Dear Solomon, how are you doing?"

On the way to Solomon's explanation, a calm man's voice arrives from the other side of the door. The voice was familiar to Mira as well.

There's something I need you to do. Come in.

Solomon, who has moved into king mode, changes his voice color and invites the person.

"Excuse me."

The man who opened the door and thanked him was a blonde elf with black chic justo cole on his butler's clothes, an aide Slayman with Solomon. With that look in his eyes, Mira recalls the characteristics of Fujimura.

It's ancient knowledge and spiritual knowledge. Distinguished as knowledge unlike skill, they are intangible property and comparable to rare items. Just because it's knowledge, I can remember it if my brain allows it. The starting point for knowledge is just to hear from someone or read a book. However, because the amount of information is enormous, no one will know everything unless they are fond of something else.

However, there are some who have repaired such vast amounts of information above a certain level. One of them is Slayman.

"Welcome back, Master Mira. Have you made any progress?"

"Yeah, I got a clue."

At the same time as entering the office, Suleiman, who caught Mira's eye, praised her for her posture. When Mira took the word, she turned her gaze to the table. When Suleiman checks the tip of that gaze, there's a ton of paperwork piled up there.

"I see. Is this the clue? That's quite a lot."

"From what I've seen, this material seems to require spiritual and ancient knowledge. I called you. I would like to know information about where to read and how to get there. Allow access to the Royal Library A-rank if necessary"

Over the past thirty years, Suleiman has shown great talent in organizing and deciphering information, while also knowing more about it. As for combat, only to the extent that ordinary people have trained a little, but there is no one left to the right in the Alkaite kingdom for desk work.

"Yes, I did. If this knowledge helps, I will have the whole body and soul."

Not just as Solomon's aide, but a loyal Slayman. Excited by the need for knowledge, he puts the countless materials handed over to Solomon on a transport tool and says, "Well, let me use the library," after the office with a sense of emotion. Solomon smiled contentedly as he dropped off the look.

"Now it's only a matter of time."

"You pushed it all brilliantly."

"I hope you say it's the right material. You see, my job is to use people."

Mira shook her shoulders at Solomon, who was no different, and threw her body on the couch, which was no longer in place. Open the items section to retrieve the apple ole while exploring where to twist and calm your body to make sure it is comfortable to sit. And that's when the Devil's Horn in the list got into my eyes.

"Oh, speaking of which, can we have another one?

"No, I don't mind. Is something wrong?"

Mira only turns to her face as she lies down, Solomon answers with the appropriate alignment of the documents that were in the corner.

"That's it. There was a demon at the bottom of the catacombs. Do you know what caused it?

"... the devil?

The moment Mira utters the word, Solomon's expression only gets steep for a moment.

"Uhm, suddenly appeared. Count, third place. I slaughtered him because he attacked me, but why was there a demon there?"

"Well, that's a boulder."

And a little while later, Solomon pulled the documents in his hand over the corner of his desk again and took the tightly sealed file out of the drawer. Mira stands up for something and drops her gaze on Solomon's open file.

"I don't know how far you are in the knowledge of this world, but the devil was supposedly wiped out in a war ten years ago."

"Hmm, that's what I'm asking"

"You're adapting fast. But the truth is, as you can see, the rest of the party is lurking around and they're up to something. This is the report. It's a collection of sightings and traces."

That said, Solomon retrieves and arranges several documents from the file. All of it was stamped top secret.

"Hmm, it's classified."

"Generally speaking, it's all gone. So I'm coming through. The only people in the country and the union who know the devil is still alive."

"Did that happen... should I have stopped talking..."

Emera and the others are passing through Mira's brain, which Solomon's words have shown to be more serious than expected. Solomon changes his expression to the words of Mira, who squealed so unintentionally.

"Hey......! I told someone!?

Solomon looks up reflexively and sends his gaze like he panicked to Mira staring at the material by the table. Mira opens her mouth feeling unusual about Solomon in a hurry.

"Not in such a hurry. And I haven't told anyone. There was a companion when we met the demon."

That's right. Forward, Mira briefly talks about meeting the Emeras, who started with Tact. Escort to the Mirror of the Dark Princess and look for Seoul Howl on the sixth floor. On the way home only to find clues, the demon suddenly appeared.

When Mira speaks of a single stream, Solomon nods as he is convinced and then rises.

"I see. I understand the general situation. I guess I just have to stab the nail. Alliance, Ecalato, Carillon and Tact, you're fine, right?

"Um, yeah. Emera and Asbal, Flicka and Zeph. After that, it's not the captain's cyril."

"Got it. I'm just gonna get in touch with the other union and manipulate the information, so wait here."

That said, Solomon leaves the office and heads to the communications room. It is a facility with devices capable of two-way communication between long distances. This is also one of the techniques that emerged from Magic Direction Engineering to compensate for the fact that the various chat modes that were controlled by the system (communication between players) no longer function.

When Solomon was gone and left alone, Mira sat in her chair and ran her eyes appropriately when she took the materials on her desk.

The first sighting report was of a black man with horns from a cliff west of the continent, in a mountainous forest, looking down at the Knights during the exercise. It says he disappeared shortly after one of the Knights found him, and since he was far-sighted, he hasn't even found out if he's a demon.

Mira glanced at other reports, but most of them are just those eyebrow spittles. Sometimes there's a mix of credible things.

After a brief glimpse of the material, Mira approached the window in her spare time when she stood up fluttered, reflecting the view from the royal castle in her eyes.

It's a pretty luxurious landscape.

Spread under the eyes of a large glass window is the three-day moon-shaped lake, which is also the source of the capital, Lunatic Lake. The city is developing around this lake, and from the location of Mira there is a vibrant view of the city full of people's signs. But the Royal Castle is in the heart of the city, so it's still half way there. Mira turns her attention to a facility that stands out internationally with a sigh of admiration. It's one of the five-line mechanisms that your Garrett taught you, the Alkite School.

More luxurious than the university I went to.

Mira smiles slightly at its school building, nestled like a palace, remembering the campus life of meeting and parting.

Alkite School. It is not as large as the Royal Castle but it is a large institution and a school facility centered around three school buildings. School buildings with yellow edges in white are the primary areas, red edges are the higher areas, and black edges are the specialty departments. There are so many faculties on art, either because of the characteristics of the Alkaite kingdom, and in that respect there is also a high call with the continent's best. For this reason, there are many international students from other countries, and noble children may also be staying in nearby inns on an annual basis. The best educational institution anyone who aspires to be a magician would admire. That was Alkite School.

Speaking of which, does Tact go to school?

And then there's Mira's uncontrolled smile on the back of her brain. Being like my brother who admired me for my own affairs. Solomon returns to the office after a while, wondering I'm sure I'll encourage him as a magician in the future.

"What's up?

"He seemed okay."

Mira asks with her face only facing as she sticks to the window, Solomon answers as she breaks her expression and sits back in the chair, relieved.

"I talked to the union chief, and he said there's not as much talk going on about demons as there are rumors in the other city."

"Hmm, well. Well, I don't think they're going to be delusional."

The senior adventurers, Emera and the others, should know the impact of the information, and I don't have the impression that Cyril, the captain of the regiment, would do anything to confuse the situation as long as he talked. Mira, who thought so after I said it, just laughs and puts her chest up, naturally.

"Well, that's why I don't need to say anything else about this. While there's a lot of ambiguous information, it's pretty conclusive that you came back alive in relative terms."

"I understand. The reason why the devil appeared on the sixth floor doesn't make sense."

"Yeah. Basically because the information is opaque. The purpose and reason of the devil is now unclear. But well, I guess we should send a survey team to the sixth floor of the catacombs. I wonder what you were doing in a place like that."

Maybe that's a good idea.

The only thing I looked into in the ancient temple was about Seoul Haul, the Nine Wise Men. I had no eye for information about the devil. So if we investigate formally, we may have something to discover. Mira agrees and when she leaves the window frame, she sits on the couch and stretches as she leads.

"Speaking of which, those clothes look like your sage robes, but they're not, are they? Did you even buy a replica?

"Um, in the city of Karanak."

Solomon sees Mira unwrapping her body looking good and pays attention to the outfit. Mira replied in a royal manner when she stood up with a face she had told her how it was. The replica's robes are also made of simple materials, which are far inferior to the real ones. However, because the shades and shapes are sockly made, they satisfy the conditions of appearance and appearance that Mira attaches the greatest importance to.

"Oh well. Yeah, you look great."

As if she were a girl interested in playing with the coveted Nine Wise Men. Solomon smiled.

"Right. After all, it's the best design I'm used to."

I never noticed Solomon's intentions, and just because I was good at it, Mira turned around. At the same time, I remembered leaving the real thing on the tower. After the first toilet since I became my current body, I got tense and stormed the bath. And the sage's robe was dirty with goblin returning blood, so he left it in the stripper.

First, go back to the tower and retrieve it.

With that in mind, make plans for the future. You can't even follow Seoul Howl until you've identified a destination from the materials. So far, that's the only clue I've got.

Then should we pull the supplies we are likely to need out of the tower warehouse? That's what Mira thinks, and she remembers what happened on her way home from the ancient temple. There was only one other thing that was likely to lead to the Nine Wise Men.

"Well, well, well, there's one more thing I'd like to ask you, okay?

"Fine, what?

Solomon, who immediately agreed with Mira, kicked the desk gently while sitting in the chair and moved to the window at the caster's disposal. Try Solomon, I've always been a paperwork here, so I'd like to have a conversation with a friend for thirty years.

"According to what I've heard, there seems to be a case of spirits being attacked these days, but you know what?

I once asked Leonil, the union chief of magicians in Karanak, if Solomon, the king, might know more. Solomon leaks his voice as surprised but impressed by Mira's words.

"Heh, that's it already... Of course I do. As far as we know, first the tree sea north of Grimdart. It starts about nine years ago, when most of the spirits that live there are gone."

"Almost... then?

Grimdart Empire dedicated to the righteous God located in the north of the continent. From that country, which is also known as the kingdom of the knights in one of the three divine kingdoms, to the further north, the sea of trees extends to the continental end, so much so that the whole kingdom of Al-Qaeda will enter three. Even though such a vast sea of trees would be rare, there would also be a considerable number of spirits.

"It doesn't look like it was too wide for boulders to explore, but he said there wasn't a single person left in what appears to be the habitat of the Spirit. The cause was completely unknown at the time, and Grimdart was investigating it. However, similar reports gradually emerged from the surrounding countries. At first, a mass outbreak of elemental eaters and the presence of their subspecies were pointed out... but one day an investigation team dispatched to examine the remaining spirits discovered a group that was catching the spirits. They were armed groups like the Knights, carrying many spirits in cage-like places."

"Hmmm...... it still looks like a lot of damage"

We knew from the story of the Spirit of the Wind that a good number of spirits had been attacked. And from Solomon's story, it turns out that the scale is pretty big and terrible. The investigation team that was talking about had fewer combatants, and fights with armed groups were judged reckless, which led to bringing information back.

"I'm currently investigating it independently in various countries, but I don't know why I grabbed the Spirit yet. I also checked the human trafficking route, but the spirits weren't on the list. The only thing I know is that the armed group is named Chimera Clozen.

Still, I can't believe you already know this story. Who told you that?

This is also information that is not available to the public because it is a very serious project. However, it was not completely blocked, information had been released to adventurers of the Union rank A and above, and prizes had been hung for useful information. I asked Solomon, wondering if it would be around the guild members he was talking about, but Mira's reply was a completely different opponent.

"Meet the Spirit of the Wind on your way home. It's from him."

"Heh... of the wind... Mr. Spirit..."

Solomon returns Mira's words with a distracted look. Solomon in the Warrior Class cannot see or talk to spirits. Though it is possible, I did not anticipate this answer.

"Besides, I played with the Black Cat Ceremony God"

Mira tells Solomon what happened on her way home, adding that with a joking look. The Spirit of the Wind asks about the Raiders from his fellow Spirits. Actually attacked, but helped by the black cat ceremonial god Nyanmaru. Even now, Nyanmaru is beside the Spirit of the Wind as if he were escorting him. Crude them, Solomon notes the same point as Mira when he finishes the conversation.

"Nyanmaru... I remember Kagra, I wonder if it has anything to do with it."

"I don't know what to do. The Spirit of the Wind hasn't even met the magician. Well, we don't have any clues, so it would be nice to find out. I'll talk to the union chief of magicians in Karanak and get him to look into it."

"Sure. Yin Yang Magician Against Chimera Clozen. I'm worried about this. If you're telling Leonil, is it too soon? I'll call you later and see if I can get a couple of guys."

Illuminated by the light that plunges through the window, Solomon grins as if he had even figured it out in a flirtatious way, sounding the back of the chair with pleasure.

Mira finished asking what she wanted to hear the whole time and then chatted with Solomon. It's a story of no other love. But a long futile story with an old friend has been a very meaningful temporary for Solomon, who gets chased to work.