Chapter 462 - Investigating The Surface City

After finishing all the enemies, I buried the compass together at the same place as the first compass. I don't know if there are other compasses that can point to where those two compasses are, so it's best to keep it buried for now.

I will let Albert have it, but not now. I'll just inform him about it later. If he also thinks that there might be other compass that can point to where the two compasses we have are, it's best to keep them hidden. Or at least away from the capital.

After that, I looked around the city to see if there are anyone else. Though other than those who are under the ground, there are no other people above ground.

The underground was also big, but instead of as big as the city, it goes deeper instead. There might be other powerful mages inside, but since none of them has noticed that I'm looking at them, I guess it's fine to say that there is no master level mage here. Even artificial one. Unless the underground is deeper than I thought and the master level mages are way deeper under the ground. But for now, I think we can continue with our mission safely.

After that, I returned back to where we entered, and run toward Candy's position while making sure that Wendy can see me so she will catch up with us.

"How is it, Roy?" Candy asked after she left an empty building.

"All enemies here are cleared. We can investigate everything above the ground. But there are many people under the ground. Should we bring an earth mage with us?" I asked.

"Hmm… Kayla is smart, but when she needs to think a lot of stuffs, she tends to stop for a while or she won't be able to concentrate. Angela is strong, but she's not suited for this mission. At least don't call her yet. Go get Celestine. Not only she's a powerful expert level earth mage, she's also a former member of the cult. There might be things that she will remember while we are investigating," Candy said.

So, we decided to get Celestine. She's in Consenza with her sister, the Empress of Consenza. Although she's not in Cassau, she also has prepared to come with us in case we need her help. That's why as soon as I opened a portal, Celestine with determined face entered the portal without hesitation.

"What's the situation?" Celestine asked as I closed the portal. She didn't even see her own sister waving her hand.

"Many people are underground. I believe all of them are members of the cult who are left behind to protect this place," I said

Celestine didn't reply and just looked at me intensely. I know what she wants me to say.

"No, there are no children in this place," I said.

"Do we just need to destroy everything?" Celestine asked.

"Not until we have investigated everything. But since we will need to go underground, we need your help," Candy said.

"Candy, what did you find?" I asked Candy.

"These buildings are lodgings for the guards. There were diaries inside, and some of them have useful information. Though it means we need to investigate all the buildings here. Roy, you need to go to the other side of this city and grab any documents from all the building. Wendy and I will grab everything here. What about you, Wendy? What did you find?"

After being asked by Candy, Wendy pulled a paper with a hand-drawn map. She must have drawn it when she's stopping before.

"During the ruckus near the other gate that Roy caused, I also look at the building over there and drew a map of this place. There were some suspicious building and I marked them in this map," Wendy said.

I compared the map and the surrounding view and see that the place to enter the underground area is among the one that she marked.

"This is where people can come and go under the ground. As for the other suspicious buildings, there's no one there. I will grab everything and transport them so Albert can sort them out," I said.

"Wait, what about me? You called me here and I will have to wait until your job is over before we can continue?" Celestine asked.

"With your earth magic, you can tell the location of the people underground, right? Find a place that is built differently. Either from different material than the others, or have been enhanced a lot to ensure protection. That place is the most suspicious. I can't tell which building is reinforced, so I will be counting on you. If you can draw a map, that will be the best," I said.

Now all of us have our own mission. Well, except for my familiars that only need to act as bodyguards.

Since I won't be fighting for now, I don't need to bring Graham's shadow clone anymore. I let it stay with Celestine to protect her while she's busy drawing a map.

I can see most things under the ground, but I don't know which one that we need to investigate the most. And the worst part is that there are several people lying inside a certain room. All of them have mohawk as their hairstyle!

About five of them. If they are released here, it will be disadvantageous for us since they can destroy everything. If only we have another brainwashing mage with us. Russell is too old and unfit to go on a journey. We can only finish things here first before getting him to help undo their brainwashing.

For now, those five mohawks are sleeping. I can leave them for later.

What about any suspicious people? Like the Professor?

I can't tell which one is the Professor since many of them are wearing lab coats. But at least Celestine is here. Maybe this is why Candy asked me to get Celestine instead. At least it's good that there are no children in this place, is what I like to say.

But there is something deeper than what I can see. It's like inside a dungeon that has never been explored with abundant magic. I can't see through it. If there are children inside there, and I destroyed everything, Celestine will be my enemy instead. I don't want that.

I didn't lie when I said to her that I didn't see any children. I just couldn't see if there are any.

Let's save the excuse for later. For now, I need to grab all the documents, diary, and everything else that seems important and transport them. though I doubt some of them are really important since they are mostly just the guards' diaries.

Oh, wow! I found something funny!

In one of the lodging that is obviously occupied by a man, there's a diary. The cover of the diary and the pen to write it has pink bear as their ornaments.

It's pink, it's a bear, and the writing inside is so messy that I couldn't read it. If you like lovely stuffs, your writing needs to be lovely as well! What is this? I'm a doctor, but his writing is much worse than mine! In fact, we might need experienced pharmacist to translate this.

Well, that's not my problem. Let's take everything that I can. Except that pink brief with bear picture on its back. That's just weird.

I also entered a suspicious building that Wendy marked. And it's suspicious indeed.

"There's nothing here at all," I said.

"Do you think they realized that this place has been discovered and the owner grabbed everything here before they leave?" Victoria asked. She also agreed that this place is suspicious.

"Probably. Let's find anything we can find. There is no hidden place here though… wait, there's writing on the bed," I said.

I lifted the bed and turned it upside down. There are a lot of writings. Why would anyone draw gravity under the bed?

Well, it's suspicious as well. I'll just transport the whole bed, wardrobe, desk, and everything here that has writings on them.

Maybe this place is not just for the guards. It also for the researchers to think of their ideas. And as they have too many ideas, they started to write all over the place.

…does it mean that I have to bring the whole building next to this that has a lot of writings on its wall? The other building that Wendy marked?

Just how did she know that these two buildings are suspicious when she can only see them from the outside? Is this what a special agent can do? Maybe I should go and take a lesson from them as well.

…Nah, it's too much pain.

After grabbing everything, I returned back to where everyone is and transport everything that they have taken. I also inform them about the building with a lot of writings in the wall. The two agents then followed me to the building and write everything and just send their report. I don't need to bring the whole building with me.

"Alright. That's everything on the surface. Celestine, what about the underground?" I asked.

"I found some place that has been reinforced differently than the rest. They are suspicious," Celestine said as she gave the map she drew to Candy.

"So, what's the next plan?" Wendy asked.

"Enter the underground, strip everyone naked so we know they didn't bring any suspicious magic tools, put collars on them, and transport them. Unless we have to kill them," I said.

"…that's a good plan, I guess. But we need a route. We'll take this route so we can check on the suspicious area one by one," Candy said while drawing a route on the map.

Now the map and the route have been prepared. It's time for raid number two!