Chapter 164 - The Grimoire Of Ruination

Vicar follows Captain Neir to the place where the Grimoire Of Ruination was kept in this ship. I realized that we already walked past the storage and supplies room and it seems that we need to walk in further into the Dunkirk Neir. 

When we finally arrive in front of the place where the Grimoire Of Ruination was. I noticed that the place was pretty isolated from the rest of the area within this ship as it was located at the end. There were no people here besides Vicar and Captain Neir. 

Captain Neir opens the lock on the door with a key and finally, we're able to see the Grimoire Of Ruination inside this small room. There was no other object beside it in this small room, we tried to look at the Grimoire Of Ruination more closely but Captain Neir told us to not get near it. 

"Don't get to close to the Grimoire Of Ruination, I still remember the adventurers that I hired to guard this item. He wanted to look it more closely and then he went mad all of the sudden." Captain Neir said that. 

"So how do I need to keep eyes on this Grimoire then?" Vicar asks Captain Neir. 

"You just need to guard outside this room, make sure that no one walks past here or tried to enter the room. I don't want my crew to go mad." Captain Neir said that with Vicar. 

I began to realize that this job was really dangerous and could make Vicar gone mad. I advise Vicar to think carefully before accepting this as it would cost his sanity if something goes wrong while guarding this room. I just don't want to see Vicar went insane. 

"I know ring, this is a job with a huge risk but again I think we need to do this... We might be able to solve the reason why everyone going mad when guarding it." Vicar said to me. 

"I really had a bad feeling about this Vicar but again I'm with you in this, I believe that we could do this," I said that with Vicar. 

"Yes, with the power of believe... I'm sure that it would be an easy task for solving this madness." Vicar said. 

Vicar then agreed with what Captain Neir ask him to do. Captain Neir told Vicar to be careful and if he started to hear something, he wanted Vicar to report to him and stop guarding this room as he wouldn't want other people gone mad because of this task. 

Before Captain Neir left the area, he said one last thing with Vicar. "I forgot to tell you that there might be someone in this ship that had gone a little bit mad as that person once broken to this room."

"How do you know there is a person that went a little insane and who is that person?" Vicar asks that as it was rather a piece of important information. 

Captain Neir replied, "I'm sorry but I don't know who that person was as the previous person that guarding this area told me that he saw someone breaking into the room. He didn't see who it was but he was certain that it was one of the crews of this ship." With that Captain Neir leave us to guard this room. 

I started to talk with Vicar ask him about his thought about the Grimoire Of Ruination. Vicar told me that it should be destroyed but he would destroy it after the Grimoire was delivered to the person that wanted it. I was kinda confused as to why Vicar wouldn't want to destroy it now. 

"Why? Shouldn't the sooner the better..." I ask Vicar. 

"I understand that but if we wait we would know the person that wanted the Grimoire, I confidence that the person is related to revive the demon lord," Vicar said that. 

"You do have a point there Vicar but don't you think that it's kinda dangerous, that person might be powerful than you," I said that. 

"It could but we need to stop it, I don't want to see any more places went through the same thing as Eniesia Town did," Vicar said as he seems really determined to stop whatever evil plan the demon lord follower wanted to do with this Grimoire. 

"You're right Vicar, you're a hero... What's sort of hero that doesn't stop evil right?" I said that as Vicar was one of the heroes right now. 

Vicar just simply smile when I said that with him. I guess he still thinks that he didn't deserve the title hero for the battle against the skeletons in the town. But I still wonder until now, what really happens when the light blinded our eyes. What happened to the skeleton lord?

I then remember something that I wanted to ask Vicar about. I guess this was the perfect time for that as there's nothing to be done as he just needs to guard this place. I then ask him about the powerful monster that the first demon lord created, how many of them, and what's their name. 

Vicar then gladly answer the question, "Well actually no one knows the exact number of how many of the powerful monster that was created but we just know some of it as they keep appearing and give the human trouble." Vicar said that. 

"So there might be a possibility that there a hundreds or more of the monster that the first demon lord created right?" I said. 

"Yes it might, so far the world only encounters six of the powerful monster," Vicar said that. 

"Could you tell me their names..." I ask Vicar. 

"Sure... The Lich Of Asthron, Elder Banshee, The Deep Ones, The Sisters Of Empusa, The Rotten Vermin, and The Corrupt Howler. That's all that the world ever encounter so far..." Vicar told me all of the names of the six powerful monsters. 

"How did you know all about this? I thought that you hadn't the knowledge about this stuff..." I said that. 

"I just heard all of this from the townspeople, I do eavesdrop their conversation some time," Vicar said that. 

I was just about to ask him another question about the monsters but suddenly we heard there was a sound that coming from inside the room. It's like some object had fallen into the floor but as I remember there's nothing in there as it only contains the Grimoire Of Ruination. 

Vicar didn't receive the key to open the door so we couldn't check inside the room to see what's going on there. But the sound makes us wanted to check it so badly as it keeps getting louder every time. We were really sure that there something going on in the room. 

"Should I report this to Captain Neir and ask him to open the door?" Vicar ask me as he was hesitant about leaving this spot. 

"I think you should do that, the sound does keep getting louder..." I said that with Vicar. 

Was this what the other people hear when they guarding this room. I wonder what exactly happens in there and I hope that Vicar wouldn't go mad. Vicar rushed to the captain quarter to report this incident as Captain Neir needed to open the door of that room. 

Vicar opens the door and Captain Neir was surprised to see Vicar here in his quarter right now. I guess he must be thinking why Vicar was here. 

"Is there something wrong Vicar?" Captain Neir ask Vicar. 

"I been hearing some sound coming from the room and I would like you to open the room for me," Vicar said. 

Captain Neir shakes his head and said, "I will not be opening the room as I already know that we will found nothing. This had already happened numerous times before..."

"Really? Does this mean that I started to gone mad too..." Vicar said. 

"Well, I could say that this one the first symptom of it, all of the previous people also was like this." Captain Neir said that with Vicar. 

Hearing that, I started to worry about Vicar but somehow I'm glad that he's not crazy as I was also hearing what he been hearing. I guess all of the people previously doesn't have someone that believes in them and somehow they become mad. 

Captain Neir then asks Vicar once again if he sure Vicar wanted to continue guarding the room as he doesn't want anything to happen bad to Vicar. 

Vicar simply said, "Don't need to worry about it, I still could go on and I will quit if I think that I couldn't able to solve why the people had gone mad." 

"Just make sure that you don't do this too much..." Captain Neir paused as it seems that he was thinking about something, he then continues to say and give us something. "Here take the key to the room, I think that you should check it if the sounds do appear once again."

Vicar took the key from Captain Neir hand.