Chapter 1088 – Grave Robber’s Room

000

While Schrödinger’s screams echo from the second floor, the leadership of the expedition, including Layla, gather again on the first floor.

“Therefore. There are probably some clues about Darwin left here and there in this family. “I want you to spread them out and find them.”

Melu Jean nods her head at Lila’s words, but asks Lila a question as if she still has questions.

“That doesn’t matter… Is it okay if I don’t rush down to the basement?”

“That’s right. Cleon might be waiting underground.”

If Amelia responds as if she agrees with Meluzin’s opinion, Lila will also say ‘Hmm…’ And look worried.

＂What? I’m also worried about Cleon. However, if possible, I would like to gather as much information as possible about the regressor.”

“I also think the same way. The enemy standing in front of you is definitely a returner. Because the origin is Adam and the Expulsion Church.”

And on the contrary, Atis and Kshat say that it would be better to gather more information.

Fleur also nodded her head in response to Squire’s opinion.

＂What? Surely. Rather than fighting without knowing anything, it would be more advantageous to gather information.”

Quartz also values ​​caution, so when he says so, others begin to gather opinions one by gathering information from the upper part of the mansion.

＂Um, over there…＂

And Sasha, who was quietly listening to her group’s story, carefully raised her hand.

“What do you think Sasha?”

＂Eh? Well, of course, I wish I could go and rescue Mr. Cleon quickly… But that’s also it…”

Sasha then straightens the index finger of her raised hand and points to the hole above her.

“Joe, I think I heard Schrödinger’s scream a little while ago… Is it okay if I don’t check?”

＂…＂

It’s such an obvious story and opinion that Lila and Artis look at each other for a moment.

Then.

“It’ll be okay.”

“Huh. Because it’s Schrödinger.”

＂Eeh…＂

Is the two people’s opinion about Schrödinger ‘trust’, or does it mean that it would be no problem for her to be attacked?

Sasha could not help but react in confusion to a remark that could be interpreted either way.

＂Schrödinger~! Are you okay~?”

And when Lila calls her to her hole.

“Huh. It’s okay.”

And, a colder voice than expected came back.

And then, swooshing, the index and middle fingers drawing a ‘V’ were seen in the hole, and both Lila and Artis looked at them for a moment and remained silent.

“Look. It’s fine.”

＂Yes, yes. I’m fine. “

And both of them looked back at Sasha as if nothing had happened.

“Uh, uhm… Is that so? I think it was a slightly awkward voice…”

“Then let’s go up to the second floor. Be careful not to fall into the trap like Attis did earlier.”

Burying Sasha’s worries away, Lila takes the lead and heads towards the stairs.

Then, it floated slightly and moved up the stairs, just as it had flown in the sky to enter Darwin’s room earlier.

“Oh! What a coward! Fly alone!”

＂No, no, this is just to avoid a trap-＂

It was at that moment when Laila said that at Artis’s point that she turned around and looked back at Artis.

Shake!

The ceiling above the stairs suddenly opened, and something boomed overhead! It fell and hit her on the head.

＂Geuak!?＂

Laila, who fell down the stairs along with something that looked like a huge, heavy steel plate, would just slide down to the first floor.

＂La, Laila—!?!＂

Kuon sees Lila squirming and feeling the lingering pain of her pain, and calls out her name like a scream.

Meanwhile, Artis was trudging along, tearing off the note from the back of her plate and reading it.

[Do not use flight magic to go up to the second floor. The magical energy flow inside the house becomes abnormal. -Darwin-]

＂Ahaha☆＂

And then, towards Lila, who had laughed at her earlier, she laughed in return with all her might.

001

“Let’s leave the two of them fighting on the first floor and investigate this room on our own.”

As Kuon said this, he turned to Sasha, who was fidgeting, and Amelia, who was putting her hand on her forehead as if she had a headache.

The three of them came up to the second floor, but Lila and Artis were raising their voices because of what happened a little while ago and arguing, saying, “You laughed first, and I got hurt first.”

Have you forgotten that this is the middle of enemy territory…

That’s how the three people entered the room. Thanks to the tasteful decorations that appeared as soon as the door was opened, it was immediately clear whose room it was.

The mask depicting the devil’s face hanging on the wall had a large nail nailed into it.

Bizarre relics were piled up on one side of the room, and some of them were leaking bad energy from the accumulated magic power.

What was more bizarre than anything else was the ‘altar’ installed in that room.

First, the room was divided into bedrooms, so of course the bed where it was supposed to be was not visible, and a large handmade altar took up about half of the room.

There were traces of blood seeping into something made of wide stone that appeared to have been prepared for sacrifice, installed on the altar.

＂This is…＂

Only Amelia seemed to have the reaction of not being able to guess who the owner of the room was.

“… No matter how you think about it, this is Maxwell’s room.”

Among the three, Kuon, who was the only one who had ever seen Maxwell face to face, muttered this.

Still, he who maintained his position as a priest of the ‘Saint’s Protection Order’ was collecting relics that were so close to being a ‘cult’.

“The antique store where I found Schrödinger before was also full of these relics.”

Sasha shook her head, being careful not to touch the things piled up in her room.

“Now that I think about it, it was like that.”

Amelia, who was with her at that time, would also nod her head.

“Maybe there is an abandoned homunculus here too, similar to Schrödinger…”

“I’m worried about the relic, but let’s leave it alone for now. If you touch it, you never know what will happen. Especially that devil mask hanging on the wall.”

As Kuon said so, he placed a barrier around the demon mask with the tip of his staff.

The amount of dark magic felt there was enough for Kuon to have to be on guard.

“Huh. Okay with this. Then, let’s search the room. Surely there will be information about the Exiled Church or Adam. As much as possible, do not touch the relics over there.”

Taking those words as a signal, the three people started searching the inside of the room together.

Like the back of the altar, or the back of the wall covered with cloth. I start looking around, but there is no secret that stands out.

For a moment, the three people began to feel like adventurers in a dungeon looking for a treasure chest, and became speechless at the lack of answers.

After searching all the places that can be searched, the remaining places are, of course-

“Do I have to search through that mountain of relics?”

Sasha swallows hard and looks at the pile of mountains that seem to have no regularity.

As expected, it gave off the feeling that if you touched the black and dull magic flowing from within, you would be infected with poison.

It was the same for the other two, so they must have been watching each other’s thoughts and timing who would get their hands on it first.

＂Yeah… Before I look for it. Can I purify it a little bit?”

Then, Kuon suggested a solution like an adult, while Amelia and Sasha nodded their heads.

Kuon sighs, grabs his staff, and focuses his mind.

If you were the person you were when you lived in Elessia, you would need a lot of magic power and preparation for a purification ritual to purify this much accumulated black magic.

At the same time, Kuon moved his free hand and brought it to his chest, pulling out an amulet tinged with green light between two large, half-exposed lumps.

＂!?＂

Sasha and Amelia must have been surprised when they saw that scene.

Where did you get the amulet from now?

However, Kuon doesn’t seem to notice the two people’s gaze at all, so he levitates the amulet in the air and begins chanting.

＂An artifact that possesses the power of darkness. Appear before me with a clean appearance. According to the will of the divine light, the shrine maiden commands! Seal!”

When Kuon lightly touches the amulet that was spinning rapidly in the air.

The amulet gave off an intense light, and the magic of Kuon released within it blew a wind of purification toward the artifacts in front of him.

The wind of purification that once passed over the relics was thought to have wrapped around the relics, but returns to the amulet with a whistling sound.

At the same time, the dark magic contained in the relic was recovered and trapped in the amulet.

Once the wind of magic that swept through the entire room calmed down, the magic that had been shining green soon turned dark.

Kuon held it in his hand, wrapped it around the golden string, and put it in his pocket once again.

＂Phew… Is this enough?＂

If Kuon wipes the sweat from her forehead as if she was having a hard time, Sasha will run up to her and ask.

＂No no, no! What just happened!? Something… Isn’t it a little different from the sacred magic you usually use!?”

“Ah, yes. This is a sealing magic created by combining the magic used by shamans and sacred magic…”

Kuon answers the barrage of questions from Sasha, who holds her by the shoulders, shaking her upper body.

She had already trained her skills as a shaman, and it was the culmination of the fusion of sacred magic and shaman magic that she created while looking for various ways to apply it.

In other words, I should say that it is a technology that can only be used on this continent like Kuon.

＂I see… But why is the amulet on the breastbone…?＂

“Ugh, that’s…”

90% of the reason it looks like a bit of a harsh magic when viewed from the side is the source of the amulet.

“Joe, I heard Tokoyo-sama’s advice that it would be a good idea to soak paper with my bodily fluids and store my magical energy…”

＂Ah…＂

As Kuon spoke with her face blushing, Amelia looked at Kuon’s cleavage with a voice that was hard to tell whether it was a sigh or an exclamation.

Even if you usually wear clothes that reveal a lot of skin color, you will easily sweat, so this would be the most appropriate place.

“Well, let’s search for the relics first! Since it’s piled up like this, there must be something!”

Sasha urges everyone with her voice before the atmosphere becomes awkward.

＂Him and Amelia… Have a guaranteed future… ＂

“That’s Sasha too…”

“Everyone, why don’t we talk about that later!?”

002

“… I searched like this. Everything that came out was just junk…”

As Sasha said that, she would look through the things they had organized once again.

Just yesterday, she was lifting and putting things away with her fingertips, like when she was looking in the cupboard because the house key was missing from her pocket.

“I don’t think there is anything that can’t be done if you do that…”

Kuon also speaks with a slightly tired expression, similar to Sasha.

＂Hmm… This is… Probably Tesca’s dagger… Is this…?”

However, she was holding her items in her hands and comparing them with an attitude as serious as Amelia’s.

One is an old book that looks like some kind of scripture.

The other one was an obsidian dagger that seemed to have an edge.

“… Do you think Amelia knows what those items are?”

When Kuon asked her carefully, Amelia nodded her head.

“I’m not sure, but the characteristics seem to match those of the relics whose originals are now known to have been lost. This scripture is a saint’s prayer written about 1,000 years ago. This is a dagger used by believers of the god Tesca, who was the wild god of live sacrifices.”

In both cases, there isn’t much magic left. Amelia added.

“… Sorry. You may never have heard of either.”

“I also remembered something I had read in passing in a history book… I’m not sure. But if it is real, it means that these are all stolen goods.”

As Amelia puts down the two artifacts, she speaks with a serious face.

＂Do, stolen goods?＂

“Yes. The saint’s prayer is like that, and Tesca’s dagger is like that. It is a relic that was kept in a temple or royal castle in the past. It is said that there was an uproar because it suddenly disappeared one day.”

“… So, does this mean that Maxwell stole it all?”

“To be exact, it would be him and his followers.”

It would be better to say that most of the notoriety of the current regressors was created by the school of thought that wanted a return through ancient artifacts, including Maxwell.

With Maxwell’s death, most of the members lost their focus and are now a group of idiots.

＂Ugh… So should this room be like this? If the relics here can be returned to their original owners in the future, that alone will be a significant achievement.”

Kuon speaks as if he can’t expect any more information from this room.

“Wait a minute. There is a place we haven’t found yet.”

Amelia stops Kuon like that.

“Huh? But most of the places you can find in this room… Ah.”

As she was answering Amelia’s question, she realized what Amelia was pointing at and looked in that direction.

It was the wall where the ‘Devil Mask’ was hung, which he had spread a barrier to prevent it from being touched.

“Isn’t it strange that these important relics are spread out on the floor, but only the mask is hung on the wall?”

＂Well, that is… Definitely!＂

As Sasha agrees with Amelia’s words, Kuon also appears to be thinking, ‘Hmm…’.

“There might be something hidden behind the mask!”

＂… But, the dark magic felt in the mask…＂

“Can’t you seal it with a talisman like before?”

＂Should I say that the wealth and amulet are not ready yet…＂

It was a kuon, a way of saying that less ‘sweat’ had been secreted yet.

＂It’s okay.＂

To Kuon, Amelia nodded, stood up, and walked towards the wall where the mask was hanging.

And then, she stretched out her hand over the mask where the barrier was spread – and that was the moment when she grabbed the mask.

Shake! And as the mask shook, it cracked on Amelia’s hand and her sparks flew out.

＂Amelia!?＂

＂It’s okay, it’s okay. Thanks to the nails embedded in the mask, the devil appears to be unable to do anything.”

Kuon, startled by the sudden reaction, raises his voice, but he just shakes his head and removes the mask from the wall.

Then, behind it, there really was something like a button hidden.

＂As expected!＂

When Amelia gets excited and raises her voice, Sasha’s eyes light up.

“Amelia, you might have a talent for being an adventurer!”

＂Heh, heh… Is that so? Hehe…”

Seeing Amelia’s rare shyness, Sasha nods her head and shrugs her shoulders.

Then, as if encouraged, Amelia moves her hand and places her finger on the button.

“Okay, then I’ll press this.”

“Oh, wait a minute! Looking for any traps-“

Click.

At that moment, before Kuon could stop her, Amelia’s finger moved and pressed the button on her wall.

When a clattering sound is heard, the large altar that occupies half of the room begins to open, making a ‘kukgugu’ sound.

＂W-what!?＂

＂The altar is opening!?＂

＂A device like this in the room…＂

While waiting for the shaking to stop, stare at the altar for a moment.

Inside the open altar…

＂Hee!?＂

＂This, this…＂

Sasha screamed, and Amelia stuttered in embarrassment.

And Kuon won’t be able to say anything for a while.

What is in front of the group-

‘Human corpse discolored pitch black, dried and twisted’-

Nevertheless, what was preserved without decay was a ‘human mummy’.