## Chapter 1077 – Ancient Beings

Alright.

The identity of this jewel skull with ancient knowledge was that bastard called Oracle. Okay, that’s enough. I won’t dig any deeper into his identity.

With limited questions due to energy constraints, knowing the name is enough; digging into his exact origins is a waste.

I’m not some otherworld historian, what would I do with that knowledge?

I’ll do it if I get the chance later, but what’s important to me now isn’t that kind of past stuff, but knowledge that will be helpful in the future. Or knowledge that can explain the current situation. Anyway, since Lysia can distinguish truth from falsehood, I don’t care about his identity.

So, what should I ask to make it a good question?

What does this bastard know that I would consider important?

Right now, the information I consider most important is definitely about the Lich. That heinous heretical undead is still plotting something suspicious, and the end of that plot will surely be the world’s damnation.

He’s even connecting Pandemonium to this world to obtain the soul of a Great Demon. I don’t know what else he’ll do, so I must kill that Lich bastard.

If I kill him, I’ll gain immense wealth and honor. The spoils are spoils, but I’ll gain something very big.

“Okay.”

Then let’s ask about the Lich.

“First, I’ll ask about the Lich. That should be safe, right?”

I told them first.

“That doesn’t sound bad.”
“Well… yeah. He was the one who used that gate. It would be good to know.”
“Ask quickly. I’m dying of curiosity.”
“Okay.”

I immediately asked Oracle about the Lich.

“Okay, Oracle. There’s a Lich I’m chasing right now. He’s a son of a bitch who’s screwing up the world with all sorts of evil deeds. But he’s not an ordinary Lich… he’s an ancient Lich. He’s a Lich with thorough knowledge, enough to know all the locations of the ancient beings sealed around here.”

In the first place, a Lich isn’t a common thing.

I know that only those who have reached a very high level among wizards can become a Lich. If so, he’s likely to have made a name for himself in the past, and if so, there’s no way Oracle, who has ancient knowledge, wouldn’t know.

“A Lich like that would surely have made a name for himself in the past. Tell me what you know about that Lich!!!”

But even so, there can’t be only one or two Liches. Well, if there are several, I can just listen to them all slowly.

“Lich… Lich… a high-ranking wizard who abandoned his body and turned into an undead…”

He began to recite information about the Lich. All eyes were focused on Oracle at that word, and Lysia quickly examined his brain.

“Oh!!!”

Does he know the Lich’s identity!

“Generally… a wizard who becomes a Lich can hold more mana than before… and because they become beings that transcend lifespan… unless destroyed… they can accumulate knowledge infinitely… however… in exchange for abandoning the body… the soul corrupts… and they become beings who can no longer associate with their own kind…”

That was the definition of a Lich.

“Yes! That’s it! There’s one of those guys still active! Tell me about him! There must have been Liches even when you were active!”
“…”

Suddenly, he closed his mouth.

ㅡ…

Silence follows.

“What, what…? Darkie? Doesn’t this bastard know?”

Winea, who had been waiting for a while, pulled on my sleeve and asked.

“Wait a minute.”
“Isn’t he thinking!!!”

Maybe.
Surely he knows.

“…”

The silence continues a little longer.
We closed our mouths and focused on Oracle.

“…”

It looked like he was trying to think.

I checked the brain in the glass bowl, thinking something might be wrong, but Lysia nodded as if to say it was okay. Then there’s no problem… this bastard takes too long to think.

How much time has passed?

ㅡCrack.

His mouth opened again.

And the voice that flows out.

“I don’t know.”

What!!!!!!

“No!!! You son of a bitch!!! How can you not know that!!!”

Is this bastard making fun of me!!!

I immediately grabbed his jewel skull with both hands, put my face close, and scolded him. No, this bastard! He acted like he knew everything, and now he’s saying he doesn’t know!!!

“You’re supposed to be an Oracle who knows everything!!!”

Oh, damn it!!! Help me!!!
I’m so pissed off I’m going crazy!!!

“Lysia! Isn’t this bastard lying!!!”
“Hmm… what he’s saying now seems to be true.”
“What!!!”

He really doesn’t know!!!

“Katt. It’s okay. Calm down.”
“Darkie. You’re going to make my ears fall off.”

They grabbed my arm as I was about to run wild… Okay. Let’s calm down a bit. It’s not like I can do anything by getting angry.

“Hmm, ah. Sorry. I got too excited for a moment. I’ll calm down.”

But why doesn’t this bastard know.

“Ques. Ques. The range of the question. Is. Too wide… I Oracle… a being with. Great knowledge… However. Even the things after being sealed… I can’t know. All… My knowledge is. Stop. Stopped at the time of sealing… So. Speaking of the present… is impossible…”

Ah.

In other words, Oracle’s knowledge was stuck at the time of the Idol War when he was sealed, and since many Liches died and were newly born at that time, he can’t know about the Liches that are active now.

“That’s right. What Father asked was too broad. You have to remember that this was sealed. I think you need to set the question range more accurately.”
“That’s right.”

As Aria said, that’s why my question was wrong just now.

Certainly.

No matter how much this bastard is an Oracle with vast ancient knowledge, he can’t specifically explain today’s Lich after hundreds of years.

Yes, that’s it.

How can he know everything if I suddenly ask about a Lich individually? So, I have to ask specific questions using what he knows.

There must be a `surviving` Lich in his database.

Let’s assume there are about 50 of them. Then one of those bastards is that guy who’s still active now. Of course, if it’s a Lich born after this Oracle bastard was sealed, he won’t know, but there’s no other way right now.

And when you think about it, it’s not like he knows everything.

Wow, damn it.

This bastard was a useless bastard in many ways.

“Then how…”

Should I ask about the Liches that he knew were alive until the end? It seems very inaccurate, but there’s nothing else I can do right now…

“Ah!!!”

Yes, there was a better way!

“Wait! Where did I put the paper and pen!”
“Yes! Here!!!”

As soon as I spoke, Hilde brought paper and a pen and handed them to me. I stroked Hilde’s head for a moment and then sat down at the desk.

And I drew a picture.

“Katt?”
“This. The heretics’ symbol, you know. I’m going to draw it and show it to him. If I draw it and show it to him, he’ll know, right? Then I can find out about their identity.”

That was the answer, you bastard.

There’s that symbol that the heretics used to death. It’s probably the symbol that the Lich used, so if I show it to him, Oracle will be able to identify him.

“Oh. That sounds plausible.”
“That’s right. If he recognizes that, we can know what the Lich’s identity is. But the next thing is the problem.”

Karin and Lisztina came to me and looked at the picture I was drawing.

“Hehehe, that’s it.”

After completing the picture like that.

ㅡWhirr!

I held the paper in front of Oracle and asked.

“This is!!! The symbol that the Lich used! Tell me what you know about this!!!”
“Thegak.”

Oracle’s mouth closed again.
Is he trying to think?

ㅡ…

It’s really a suffocating time. Lysia was also looking at this side with a very nervous face, fiddling with his brain.

And.

“I don’t know.”
“Damn it!!!! You son of a bitch!!!!”

Kieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!!!!

“Just die! I’m telling you to die, you bastard!!!”

Enraged, I tore the paper and grabbed Oracle’s jewel skull with my hands…! I can’t stand it anymore!!! I can’t control my anger!!! It’s better for my mental health to just kill this kind of bastard!!!

“Ah, ah! Don’t, don’t destroy it! It’ll still be useful!”

Then Lysia jumped up and hugged me.

“Ah! Katt-nim, no!!! What! I think I need to breastfeed you quickly! Winea-nim!”
“Kyaak!!!”

Hilde, who screamed, picked up Winea in a princess carry and presented her to me, and immediately pulled down her clothes and bra straps from behind to expose her breasts to me.

“No, you crazy!! What are you doing!”
“Special medicine to calm Katt-nim, opening!”
“Bullshit!!”

Seeing Winea, who was blushing and putting her clothes back together, putting her heavy breasts into the bra cups, all the anger in this world melted away and calmed my heart.

“The best… Winea.”
“It’s really bullshit! Hilde, are you going to do that!”
“I couldn’t help it! But Katt-nim calmed down!”
“You guys are really crazy!”

Oh.

Anyway, I calmed my mind once again…!

“Don’t worry. I won’t break it. I just couldn’t control my anger because it was too unexpected.”
“Ugh… Darkie. That might just be a mark that the Lich made himself. Then this bastard wouldn’t know.”
“He’s really a useless Oracle bastard…!!!”

The ancient beings are all crazy bastards.

“No, but damn it. If this is the case, he doesn’t know anything. Wouldn’t it be better to ask about something other than the Lich? Witch-nim. How much more can you do?”

Then, Karin said.

“There’s still a little left. If you’ve calmed down, take a deep breath again and ask slowly.”
“Hoo… okay.”

As I was taking a deep breath, Claudia said to me.

“Katt. It seems like we can’t just ask about the Lich because there’s not enough specific information. And the gap in knowledge according to the era is too severe. It would be better to ask something else.”
“Yes. Claudia is right. Ask something else.”
“I guess so.”

But then what else should I ask besides the Lich.

“But then what should I ask.”
“Hmm…”
“Umm.”

Everyone started to worry at my words.

“Father. Then how about that?”
“What?”
“Even if he doesn’t know anything else… this Oracle has ancient knowledge.”
“That’s right.”
“So, how about asking this Oracle about the locations where the ancient beings are sealed?”

Uh.

“Things that are sealed don’t usually come to light easily. Even if some of the things that Oracle knows have already been excavated, most of the others are likely to still be sleeping.”

Aria explained in a very organized manner with a clear tone.

“I think it would be good to ask about that. We can kill the guys who will surely do evil deeds when they wake up, and we might be able to get something. More than anything, I think it would be good to take what the Lich is aiming for first.”

Everyone admired those words.

“Oh! That’s it! Ask about that! That would be good!”
“As expected, Aria is wise!!! Katt-nim! Let’s go with this!”

Lisztina and Hilde admired.

“Finding and killing the sealed ancient beings… that sounds good?”
“Yeah. It seems good.”

Karin and Winea nodded.

“Our Aria is so smart?”

I also admired and stroked Aria’s head.

“Hehe, I’m originally smart.”
“Good, good…!”

Aria smiled brightly, as if she was happy to be helpful to me, and answered.

“Then let’s go with that! Hey! Oracle!”

I immediately called Oracle.

“I’ll put it in!”