105. clue (5)

found.

All Maxim could think of were those three letters. Maxim held the report in his hand and read the cover over and over again. It was the name I was looking for so much, but I didn’t feel fortunate. That the name Christine Watson was written on the experiment report and that she became the subject. Maxim’s hand, which had been absent-mindedly, trembled a little and turned the pages.

[In-depth study on the suitability of rare mana]

[In order to evoke the subject’s normal mana response, all of the subject’s physical conditions are restored to the same level as the standard value.]

Maxim’s eyes read the experiment report. Could it be that there was no threat to the body? Wouldn’t it have harmed and tortured the mind? With each word and sentence, Maxim’s heart beat, stopped, and repeated. Originally, Adeline would have been worried that she would feel her nervous expression, her heart beating with impetus, but Maxim could not hide that expression.

[Split the date for a month and sequentially inject more and more concentrated mana to check the response.]

[Whether or not to respond to black magic is judged after the suitability test is over.]

The first thing Maxim’s eyes looked for after reading that sentence was the date of the experiment. Please, I hope the experiment hasn’t gone to the next stage yet, Maxim said in a low voice the date.

“… 3 days later.”

After 3 days, the experiment is over. right now. to save Even now. I had to cut off all the heads of those damn wizards. Power entered Maxim’s grasp. Tendons sprouted from the hand holding the hilt, and a life-filled glare flowed from his black eyes. Immediately, immediately, he had to draw his sword and head to the deepest part of the dungeon.

It was when Maxim pulled his sword halfway out of its scabbard.

chin.

hand raised above the shoulder. Maxim immediately pulled out his sword completely, and regained his senses at the sound of Adeline’s voice. The hand on Maxim’s shoulder was now too weak, and his voice trembled a little as he squeezed his courage.

“Calm down.”

Maxim’s head, which had been heated like lava, quickly cooled. A head filled with negative emotions complained of dizziness in the void of those emotions. My heart was beating so fast and so violently that I could hear it even in Maxim’s ears. The unpleasant chill rising from the stone floor of the dungeon, steamed white with each exhalation of Maxim.

Maxim kept the report in his arms and turned back to face Adeline. Small white smoke billowed out of her mouth as she breathed feebly. Maxim propped up the desk with his hand and hid his staggering body after being caught up in a torrent of emotions.

I almost got swept away by my emotions. Maxim opened the half-crumpled report. don’t go right away If she was swept away by this emotion and went to dig through the underground dungeon, there was a higher chance that Adeline would end up lost, and that instead of rescuing Christine in time, she would become a corpse within the dungeon.

no.

Maxim kept thinking. Air was not properly supplied to the head. You must act soberly. The quickest way to save Christine was to revisit the dungeon within two days with the king’s official support. Maxim felt his hands getting sticky. Blood dripped from between his clenched fists. No harm has been done to Christine yet. I just had to remember that fact.

“I’m sorry.”

The voice was locked. Maxim cleared his throat and cleared his throat. Adeline tilted her head in the direction of Maxim’s voice. To make sure that Adeline couldn’t fully read his expression, Maxim moved away from her.

“… Why are you so agitated?”

“I found something that might be helpful. It’s a test report. It was nothing.”

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Naturally, such words did not fully explain Maxim’s attitude. However, Adeline bit her lip as if she was reluctant to continue the question. Maxim immediately waved his hand and added an explanation.

“The content of the experiment was erratic. I couldn’t forgive the wizards who were conducting these experiments.”

It was still a ridiculous excuse, but I didn’t want to continue the conversation on the same topic. Right now, I had to make it my priority to somehow hide this incident and safely escape from the dungeon.

“First, let’s get out of the room. How are you feeling? Can you keep walking alone?”

Adeline shook her head at Maxim’s question.

“It’s okay not to worry. However, I do not know if I will be able to perform the battle with full skill.”

It seemed that Adeline decided to pretend she didn’t know Maxim’s oblivion. Maxim let out a sigh of relief. The problem they had to deal with now was escaping from the dungeon, not the mage’s report.

“still… I don’t know how many obstacles will remain, but I have no problem swinging my sword. It won’t get in the way.”

Adeline said that and built up her momentum. Maxim was still uneasy, but to some extent, he had an apologetic expression towards Adeline who had returned. Is she still struggling to resist with the mindset of fighting for the Count? What is the pathetic, precarious knight fighting against now?

Maxim sighed one last time. We must not wait any longer to find the exit until dawn. After confirming with a glance at Adeline following her, Maxim left the room. The corpses of the synthetic monsters were still piled high, giving off a stench. Maxim raised his head and expanded his senses. Maxim frowns as he tries to find an exit.

“The air… .”

“It’s coming in from the left. The right side just goes deeper.”

Scarily as Maxim tried to find the air flow, the correct answer came out of Adeline’s mouth. Adeline tilted her head toward herself as if she had determined her path so easily and wondered why she wasn’t moving. Maxim let out a weak laugh.

“Let’s go left. It’s also where the monsters I faced climbed up, so I’ll have to be more careful.”

Adeline nodded. Maxim walked towards the stairs on the left. The mouth was wide open and the entrance was deep. A dim light shone at the end of the stairs. Maxim looked at the stairs going down to the right with regret.

now.

Maxim quickly turned his head and looked at the entrance to the stairs on the left. He tried to sense the signs of a trap by extending his senses, but Maxim’s senses did not catch anything. Maxim turned his head to Adeline, who sensed the presence of the dungeon behind his back.

“The trap is… , I don’t feel like it. Can you feel anything?”

“There is nothing that gets in my senses. I think it will be okay to go down.”

Adeline shook her head. It was a voice that seemed to be very uncomfortable about not being able to feel the presence. Maxim glanced at the landscape where the bodies were piled up. The wizard who built this dungeon must have been convinced that those synthetic monsters would repel intruders unconditionally.

‘… Although it’s strange not to be beaten back by people like that.’

Maxim laughed inwardly at the wizard who had won the prize against the strange intruder and reached for the stairs. The deeper the dawn, the stronger the dungeon’s chill. No, as the dungeon deepened, did it just reveal the chill without hesitation?

The air inside the stairs was damp and damp. The light, which seemed dimly visible, was getting closer and closer as we walked down the stairs. The light was an ominous green, like moss on a lantern. Maxim frowned in disgust as he looked around the space on the third basement floor.

“Awesome.”

A corridor stretched out into the center, with huge coffins made of glass lining the sides. At a glance, there were dozens of coffins, most of which were broken and spilled something like green ooze on the floor. Upon hearing what the room looked like, Adeline let out a small sigh.

“It is an ominous space.”

At Adeline’s assessment, Maxim nodded unconsciously. In the unbroken glass tube, the limbs and head that appeared to be body parts of the beast were floating in the green liquid connected to the metal tube. The broken coffin must have contained synthetic monsters. Maxim looked around the space more closely to see if there were more such monsters left, and turned his head to the place where Adeline stopped blankly.

“Why are you doing that… .”

And what Maxim’s eyes caught was a huge glass tube hidden in a crack in the glass tube.

“What is that again?”

The glass coffin, huge enough to fit four or five glass coffins, had been shattered. The green ooze that still remains inside is viscous and drips down through the shards of the broken glass tube.

“I can feel the remnants of existence. What do you have?”

“There is a broken glass coffin large enough to fit five people in. Can you feel the presence?”

Adeline seems to be trying to confirm by expanding her senses, and then shakes her head.

“Right now… do not have. I think we’d better cross the hallway first.”

That glass tube bothered her, but as long as Adeline couldn’t detect her presence, it wasn’t a concern. Maxim walked slowly across the corridor. The flow of air was now so clear that even Maxim could feel where it would lead if he concentrated. As Maxim got closer to the end of the corridor, what had been close to a stream of air turned into a weak wind.

“ah.”

The end of the hallway led nowhere. Instead, an aqueduct can be found at the bottom of the wall blocking the end of the hallway. A small amount of green slime flowed through the narrow channels. The wall was again forming another long hallway. Maxim frowned at what he could now clearly feel.

“There is a canal. And… .”

Maxim’s eyes landed on the wall connected to the canal. It wasn’t the stench from a corpse, but the stinking smell of sewage that you could smell while walking down the street. Maxim’s expression widened in delight, but soon crumpled again when he realized that he had to follow the sewers to escape.

“sewer… .”

Adeline muttered softly. Maxim nodded his head sympathizing with the similar sigh. It was better than sniffing the stench of a monster’s corpse, but it wasn’t pleasant enough to happily breathe deeply.

“How, you found a way out. The problem is to check if this road really connects to the palace sewers…”

Maxim wondered if he should break down the wall, and pointed at it with his hand.

thud.

The sound came from far away. Maxim and Adeline stopped breathing. The sound of something hitting the wall hard. And the sound of walls collapsing.

“Arsene.”

“Yeah. This time, I felt it clearly.”

Adeline was holding her sword before she knew it. It must have been that he concealed that presence before Maxim did. A presence that far exceeds that of a high-ranking witchbeast. As if the other side had sensed him as well, the presence was getting closer much faster than Maxim and Adeline were moving.

“I will be in the lead.”

Maxim stopped Adeline and said. Adeline put on a bewildered expression at Maxim’s hand pushing her back.

“You’re not used to fighting in the dark… .”

“Fine. You’re not even in a state where you can fight properly in the first place.”

Maxim calculated the distance and time in his mind and drew his sword. Although it was lacking, there was still enough mana left to strengthen the body. I saw the outline of what was coming. Standing on two feet like a human and approaching with strides, it was like seeing a werewolf from an old story.

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No, he’s a werewolf.

Maxim swallowed dry saliva as he looked at the unusually long arm. Every time the werewolf breathed, a low growl of the beast could be heard. I didn’t even put vocal organs in the synthetic monsters that were made crudely, but I guess I thought it was necessary for this guy.

At the same time as the werewolf’s arm flew away, Maxim kicked off the ground and jumped out.

—

Adeline flinched at Arsene’s presence as she ran away and tried to move her body. If they attack together right away and get in the way of each other’s sword attacks, it will only create a favorable situation for that monster. It seemed that the feeling still lingered on the shoulder where Arsene’s hand touched and then fell.

On top of that, the image of Arsene, who was strangely angry, and the image of Arsene talking to him in a different voice overlapped.

‘Keep an eye on it.’

The count’s orders were still ringing in his ears. Adeline remembered Arsene’s every appearance, every action and every word. That sword strike, the change of emotion in his voice, the way he looked around, the slight trembling when he called his name.

The man who should have been a potential enemy, the man who would be decapitated without hesitation if the Count ordered it, remained in Adeline’s mind as a strangely strong image. Even now, the hand gesture that was only a moment to push himself away was too deep.

‘Adeline.’

‘Sorry, please wait a little bit.’

For some reason, just by recalling those words, and recalling the faint touch on her face, the remnants of the black magic that had invaded her seemed to fade away.

no.

It’s only two days. It is just an illusion of memories and thoughts created by coincidence.

Shaking her head, Adeline brushed off her doubts about herself and the Count, and the image Arsene had left her, and her hands squeezed the hilt of the sword. It was okay not to think about it right away. Rather than Maxim’s appearance, he expanded his senses to the overall battle. There was still pain in his eyes, but there was no difficulty in displaying his vaunted sharp senses.

Kang-!

Adeline could tell the battle between Maxim and the monster by her senses and hearing. It was supposed to be the sound of a monster and a person fighting, but there was a noise like sword to sword. The sound of tearing iron and the sound of a fast-paced pongong that irritated the eardrum. It was a sign and sound that could have been heard in a fight with a swordsman wielding twin swords.

‘A monster wielding claws. It’s quite large, but it’s fast. Arsene doesn’t look like he’s struggling, but it’s a fight that can be finished quickly if he creates a gap.’

Adeline finished her calculations. The underground space was not wide, and Arsene could get caught up in it, so I didn’t use Aura. As Arsene stepped back with a sharp metallic sound, Adeline approached the monster as if gliding lower.

“Adeline… !”

As he passed by, he felt Arsene’s breath, which had changed to bewilderment. At the same time, I felt the presence of a monster that had hardened as it was about to charge as if caught off guard. The chill in the dungeon, the feeling of the weight of your feet on the ground. Adeline, assimilated with the world, raised her sword blade and drew a line over the world.

Peeing.

Accustomed to the sword, the sensation of the cloth splitting was felt. Arsene’s presence stopped moving as if in shock for a moment, then started moving again with the sound of the werewolf’s right leg being cut off.

I’m done.

Adeline, who had cut off the werewolf’s leg and passed it off, saw Maxim’s presence as she flung herself at the monster, and Jack muttered in a voice.

Ah again. Something that shouldn’t exist created a haze in Adeline’s mind. Right now, the pain in his eyes and the Count’s orders seemed very far away from him.

Someday, I think there was a time like this.

The sound of a werewolf being cut into pieces was heard at the same time as Adeline’s mouth opened in an empty space in the remnants of a memory that should not have existed.

thud.

The piece that was a werewolf fell to the floor. The presence of Arsene, who cut down the werewolf, is getting closer. Adeline tilted her head slightly at Arsene, who stood in front of her with a puzzled expression. What I heard was a dejected laugh that I had heard many times before.

“The sword attack was fierce,”

At Maxim’s words, Adeline shrugged casually.

“It is still not enough.”

The roar of laughter came again.

“Thank you for helping me.”

that voice. Adeline nodded slowly, feeling the changed echo in Arsene’s voice heading towards her.

“Then, let’s go out through the exit that monster made for us.”

hand.

Adeline realized that Arsene was reaching out to her. As if possessed, Adeline carefully placed her hand on top of it. He felt the hand holding his hand.

Adeline felt Arsene’s steps leading her. His steps seemed to resonate with his own heartbeat. Effortlessly putting aside the thoughts in her head that were now too complicated to organize, Adeline followed Arsene.