The Traveling Hero Won’t Let the Innkeeper’s Son Escape

Alec was remembering what Ruth had heard as she watched Eliza pray.

(... I see this is what caused that woman to go crazy)

Ruth told me and I know that old woman is Natasha, wife of the Dickhout family. And I had actually fought, and I also understood that I wasn't just a human race.

With that in mind, it can be said that Curtis' imagination is almost true in the light of the circumstances of this mansion.

I don't know if you tried to get information from Kevin or if you were willing to kill him from the start, but this mansion was attacked by that group because of Kevin. Natasha returns home after all the residents she's staying with have been killed. I killed the men impulsively in view of the tragedy. Then Natasha sealed the mansion so that no one could come near her?

(Don't feel bad...)

It is likely that Natasha could not accept their death because of the time taken to stop it.

So I couldn't bury the body, I couldn't burn it, I left it there. If it's true, I was “playing" with my daughter's birthday in pursuit of what was supposed to be normal, creating the ideal world in such a place. I'm guessing Natasha's time, like this mansion, has remained stopped since the day of the incident.

"I miss you..."

Natasha mourned not only her dear husband and children, but even her servants, and could not help but go mad, dominated by anger, sadness and bitterness. Even behavior that didn't make sense to others was important to Natasha.

(If -)

If Alec meets the same eye, you might not have to just go crazy. If anything happens to Ruth...

"So, she said," You'll be dead in a year. "

The words Ruth said to the lid come back to mind.

He said it was a lie Natasha had told. Alec also believes it is a lie. But...

"... be,... sama... Dear Alec!?

"!"

When his body was shaken and his gaze pointed in front of him, what was there was Eliza and Curtis with a worrying look on their face.

I hear my prayers were over at some point. There was no cloudy air in the room like when I first came in.

"What is it? You don't have a good complexion, do you?

"Was there any effect of the curse?

"Yes, Mr. Cannagra said anything about this place?

"……… Cannagra, you there?

To Alec's call, Kannagra shook his head as he glanced around.

"Nothing seems to have any spiritual impact in particular, but I did feel something of your Lord was shaking right now. Not a very good one. Even though it was purified thanks to Eliza, there's too much resentment here. Don't get too distracted, they'll pull you off."

"I know."

Alec sighed to change his mind.

"All right. Begin your original purpose. There may be a hint of the“ Zagres ”somewhere in this room. We'll find him."

Copy that.

Alec's voice made my people start looking in the room. Already on my first stroll, I have confirmed that nothing has changed except this room. If I wasn't in this room, I'd look again.

Alec looks along the wall and remembers what it felt like when he remembered Ruth's words.

(... You felt bad)

For a moment then, such frustration and haste that my consciousness became cloudy dominated my head. At the same time, I felt the power in me had grown for some reason.

I checked the status just in case, but there was no change in the number, and the title of the brave correction value still stops at eighteen. It doesn't seem like something strange has happened.

"Alec! There's something here!

Fana touched the back wall where the fireplace was located to convey the anomaly. If you go to the side of the fana and take a closer look at where you point it, it does contain strange cracks.

"Is it also a shelf behind this?

"No, it was just behind this staircase, wasn't it? I don't think it's a space for anything."

"Was it? If Fana says so, I guess so."

"Is it another seal? Moore."

"No, this is a little different, something more special. I can't solve it just by disarming the surgery, and I can't do Alec's moves. advanced things that combine it...... it could be similar to when Gilmore"

Gilmore, the flying ship used by Alec and the others, could not get inside just by disarming his moves and tricks, and he needed a special key. Moore said that the key is made with technology that is unlikely to be contemporary.

This mansion also had many unusual objects that looked normal. Maybe, just like Gilmore, there's a good chance that the lost technology is being used. Were the hours stopped one day?

"So you need something like a key."

"Keys, keys, keys… Ah, here's a dent"

Fana spotted an odd dent from the side of the fireplace. I saw that. Garcia speaks up.

"... this unique dent, doesn't it resemble the key found in that temple of the air?

"Oh, speaking of..."

"But that's the key to the Ark, isn't it? It doesn't matter here, does it?

"But I rarely see such unusual shaped dents."

"... do you want to use it"

Alec took an oddly shaped key out of his nostalgia. It was acquired in the Temple of the Air as the "Ark Key”.

When you align it with the direction of the wall, you get hammered with pittance. Then there were signs of various things moving around the mansion. It sounds like the structure of the mansion is changing slightly with this key. Eventually, when the noise stopped, the fireplace moved to the side.

"It's open, dude..."

"Stairs………?

The one that came out behind the fireplace was the staircase that led to the basement. The dark staircase could not be seen ahead and was found to be quite profound from the echo of the sound.

"How far does it go?

"This is not the level of a small room where materials are hidden……."

"Maybe there's a lab or something"

"I'll get the lamp out so I can move right away."

Start preparing for the butterflies and everyone to challenge the dungeon.

Alec, who finished taking out his weapon, glanced down the path leading to the basement.

"What do you have?

"I don't know………"

Kannagra stopped by Alec's side looking serious.

"Okay, Alec. My concubine is blurring the report to my dear lords... so don't get the information right, mistakes are unacceptable."

"Yeah, I know."

More than Alec, he unwittingly laughed bitterly at Kannagra, who was inflating his expectations for the emergence of the underground.

It was at first that Cannagra was not a 'superior spirit who made a covenant with Alec', but rather a 'subordinate of the Spirit King' entirely. I was honestly a troublemaker, reporting the actions of Alec and the others on a case-by-case basis, or imitating them to withhold that they would behave differently than the will of the Spirit King.

But as I went on my journey, I softened my attitude a little bit as I saw many truths I didn't know.

'I tell you, I can't do an imitation that betrays you to a concubine.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. So, my lords, let me give you a little help. "

With that said, Kannagra is currently taking Alec's side. He was misleading reports against the Spirit King, tampering with the memory of other watchmen, and making sure that Alec and the others were not restricted in their actions.

Knowing the reality unheard of by the Spirit King, whom I respected, Cannagra must have also had a change of heart.

Alec and his friends are now more free to move than ever, thanks to their strong alliance with Cannagra, who is good at mental intrusion and memory tampering. Alec's behavior from the other watchmen should be reflected in what he asked for further power. You wouldn't expect me to be looking for a past record that was intentionally erased.

(That and this is because of that note found in the Temple of the Sky...)

Empty temple visited a few months ago. It turns out there the root of this world anomaly is sleeping in a dungeon called the Ark. The loose seal on the ark is what is causing the melting demon to grow. We traveled again for a while and found out from the materials we found that this should go back to normal if we re-seal that ark. - But Alec and the others felt a great deal of discomfort there.

Many of the materials they found were, for some reason, in a very beautiful state of preservation and were able to assemble the given information successfully, even though quite a few years had passed. Alec himself seemed to be acting of his own free will, and he felt something manipulative that he was deliberately trying to trace.

As for Alec, he also wanted to finish his journey and return to the village as soon as possible, but he complained that nothing should proceed without question.

He persuaded his colleagues, including Kannagra, to explore thoroughly the ruins he had visited before. And I discovered a room in a ruin that wasn't supposed to be there.

The room was filled with entrances and just touched it to start weathering. There was nothing decent to read, but the only words in it that were written on a metal plate caught Alec's interest.

[In front of the power of Zagres, which we created, - not the four of us. The ark needs further human pillars -]

The disturbing words "created," "zagris," "four," and "human pillar" were written with the word "ark" that Alec and the others were chasing.

To many of the words I had never heard before, I didn't think I could pretend to know as I did after the discussion, and Alec and the others decided to secretly explore the mystery that the Geos seemed to be hiding.

(Plus, I care about that woman...)

Another reason why Alec and the others decided to take action is the presence of the goddess Aristotle Theresia.

Aristotle Theresia, the goddess who had given detailed instructions to Alec and the others until the middle of the journey, was unable to hear her voice at all at the border one day. Talk to me from here and I'm not responding.

I think the time has come for Alec and the others not just to follow the instructions, but to think and move, and then we thought and acted on our own - but there were a few things that bothered me later on.

(Something was wrong with the last person I heard……)

There were a lot of words and actions that I thought were unstable, such as the voice of correction immediately after the entrustment to Alec and the others, or to say something else shortly afterwards. I've been swayed by it many times, and it's been tough on my eyes. So much so that the Garcias of Faith were a little suspicious.

Some time after that happened, I couldn't hear my voice. It's just after Alec and the others took the Spirit King's test.

(Anyway, one of the members who created "Zagris”, Kevin Dickhout, existed. This made it all the more likely that the jizzies were up to something. You can't just not look it up......)

Alec looked back when he felt his companions finish their duties.

"Let's go in, everyone stay alert………"

"Copy that."

Alec stepped into the stairs where he appeared.

Feeling ourselves trying to uncover the mystery that the world is desperately hiding -