"You know about Naja, Lucica, Jane"
"Yes. If Naja, like Master Ars, is as the painting suggests, he is the man we know. Hey, Jane?
"Yeah, right, Lucica. I'm probably pretty sure if the painting [missed] on this paper really belongs to Naja, Dear Ars. Well, we seem to be growing older than we know."
"So Naja is the explorer who was in the labyrinth after all? I'm glad someone knows more about him than I thought. The fact that you know Lucica and now you're the leader of a mercenary regiment means that Naja was exploring the depths of the labyrinth?
"... Um, are you sure Naja is the leader of the mercenary regiment?
"Uh, yeah, I bet you do. Is something wrong, Lucica?
"Uh, the... I don't think Naja and the man with this face that Jane and I know are the same person, but I don't have the impression from the old Naja that we can be the leader of a mercenary regiment..."
"Why? If you two knew the Seekers, you had the strength to act as mercenaries, didn't you?
"No, old Naja wasn't such a powerful man. rather than being weak and famous."
The battle began between the Rheinzatz family and the Kingdom of Risorte, as well as the Memento family.
It seems that a two-pronged operation under the name of Operation Wang Du Recapture is continuing, with large-scale battles continuing in the Wang Du area and Memento territory.
but there are also many independent skirmishes in it, one of which is the victory over the noble army and the raid of the church by the Marshall Mercenaries.
That's what bothered me. I kept checking the tunnels.
but I was able to get information from an unexpected place about a man named Naja, the leader of that Marshall mercenary regiment.
Lucica and Jane once served as deep explorers in Percival territory's labyrinth streets.
These two knew Naja.
In a city with a castle occupied by the Marchelle mercenary regiment by those who sent it to the south, the paper that [mindfully] saw Naja, who was actually the captain of the regiment, is hardly different from the picture.
They both admitted to being Naja about the man whose face was copied out as he was.
But for some reason, they couldn't even imagine Naja once at the top of the mercenary corps.
"Luggage? Was Naja acting as a baggage man in Labyrinth Street? Not the Seeker?
"Um, I don't know what to say. What did I tell you about the magic Naja had, Jane?
"Sure [collection], Lucica. The magic Naja got after [liberating her abilities] in the exploratory union should have been magic that allowed her to pack all sorts of things. That's why Naja, who was weak, was taken by the Deep Group and dived deep."
"Oh, yeah, yeah. [Collect] That was it. I mean, Naja doesn't have much power as a seeker, but she was told to replace the magic bag and was taken into the labyrinth by a deep group of seekers, Master Ars. But he used to get beat up and he kept his head down, so it seemed like the other Seekers were saying something about his pussy."
"... that Naja's position during the Labyrinth Street period was not a very good one," he said. So you can't imagine a bunch of rough mercenaries. "
"Yes, I know because this figure painting also has characteristics, but it seems more confident than it used to be, and if I met you on the road, I might not have known"
"Hmm.... Was the magic Naja gained in [ability liberation] really [collection]?
"Huh? Yeah, I think so. Deep Groups were actually taking him to the labyrinth as a luggage man."
"But that's the labyrinth, isn't it? The deeper you go, the darker your magic gets, so just being there increases your magic power. I heard you sometimes get stronger with the so-called, uh, act of taking them around?
"Are you taking me around? I do have that. It seems that fighting demons properly in the labyrinth is easier to develop physical abilities or express magic when you receive [ability liberation], but just being deep should make you stronger."
"So the naja that followed the deep group, even if it was luggage carrying, didn't just get stronger for that?
"There may be that, but in that case, you tend to be like an amateur who's just powerful because he doesn't have combat skills. What do you think, Jane?
"Right...... Oh, but maybe I've heard of it. Didn't Naja tell you that she was forcing the newcomers she happened to know? I can't fight. I'm busy with my luggage, what someone said in the tavern."
"Oh, there it is, and so is that. But was that a rookie in anticipation stock? Then maybe he was stronger than just a luggage holder after all."
... That's something.
Listening to the two of you, explorer life in Labyrinth Street looks pretty tough, too.
The strong one is great, maybe the values are rooted in it.
Naja in such a labyrinth was not a very good thing as far as listening to the two of them talk.
He happened to be lucky enough to gain useful skills in [ability liberation], so if he made a mistake, he was being taken into the labyrinth by some explorers with only the strength to wield violence.
There was a split once, but there seemed to be a lot of pressing for chores, and a lot of spare parts.
But that Naja left the labyrinth one day.
To say the two of them, I don't know the exact time Naja was gone, but apparently it's because of the total annihilation of that powerful party she was attending as a luggage man.
Apparently, because I don't know for sure.
It's just that one day on the border, Naja came out of the labyrinth alone, and left the labyrinth.
And then, as one of the deep group seekers with Naja, he said, he never saw the figure in the labyrinth.
After hearing a whole story from Lucica and Jane about Naja, I thought about it.
Could this guy be a hell of a bomb?
Because my prediction is that Naja's skills are more than just [collecting].
Marshall mercenaries who fought and won against the Hekails and other noble armies.
There have been reports that the mercenary regiment is quite strong enough for all mercenaries to use magic.
And those mercenaries seem to have used multiple magic.
Surprisingly, reports of mercenaries being able to use even the magic of the Hekail family, which should have been destroyed, have been brought about by the scouts and the correspondents who accompanied them.
Maybe the skill of [collecting] isn't just a labyrinth bag replacement ability.
Wouldn't there be something else as well as just things that could be collected?
For example, is it possible that the other person's magic is also subject to collection?
No, that's not exactly accurate.
The Hekails are doomed.
Nonetheless, the mercenaries were using the magic that the Hekails had.
Didn't you [collect] it?
Is it too much to think that Naja also collects and has the magical inheritance rights that the Hekail family had for every Hekail family magic?
No, it's not just the Hekails.
Numerous knights were defeated in Gizanian territory next to Hekyle territory.
And since then, there have been stories of mercenaries in the mercenary regiment who use the magic of the Gizanian family.
That's not the only problem.
Something more important.
That's what the telecommuters have been informing us about the large quantities of salt in the land controlled by the Marshall Mercenaries.
That is not the holy salt made by Barca and sold by the Church.
The exact same thing as Doren's royal white sea salt, he said, was being piled up and traded in large quantities as if unusable.
The Marshall mercenary regiment led by Naja was said to have been hired last year by the noble army that was following the Memento faction.
And in doing so, he also looted in the Wang Metropolitan Area.
Could he have been there?
King Doren, who was thought to have escaped.
I have a bad feeling.
Maybe it's too much of my thinking.
I want it to be just a dream fantasy.
But I thought of it as a tentative story.
What if Naja's [collection] was something that could collect noble magic, inheritance rights, magic paths, and even a seat as the Lord?
If so, what if King Doren had been defeated by Naja and [collected]?
King Doren gets killed and Naja gets the magic to make salt.
but no one realizes that.
Because [the collected] Naja will replace the king of the Doren royal family, and the original prince of first place inheritance will not be given a magic pass if King Doren dies.
I mean, nobody can confirm that King Doren was killed.
The death of kings and lords is confirmed by whether magic paths fluctuated and a surge in magic was seen.
That is the perception of this world.
If we can overturn that from the premise, will King Doren's death not be confirmed forever and he will be long gone?
That makes it no wonder that no matter how many tracking investigations Lion or Payne does, they can't get one clue.
That's not good.
There is no evidence at all and it is barren to think about this.
But this idea never disappeared from me.
Because Naja has raided even the priests who were already in the church.
What would happen if I [collected] it from the priest at that time as well?
They also have a larger population in the south than in Fontana in warm climatic lands.
If you were a priest entrusted with that compartment, would you have [collected] the benefits of a magic path from more than tens of thousands of local residents?
It may be overwhelmingly stronger than me.
Or if it's taking away the power of the Doren royal family, it's going to be a big deal.
If you keep building on your strength, you might get it sooner or later.
Once, the great magic of the Doren royal family, lost by the tyrant King Nero, may roll into Naja's hands.
After talking to Lucica and Jane, I couldn't get out of this idea.