Chapter 434 An Impossible Discovery

"Let there be... carnage!" I shouted... only for my expression to break apart, turning into an uncontrollable burst of laughter.

"What?" Levi asked, baffled b my sudden outburst.

"It's nothing," I replied right away, wiping the tears of joy from my eyes as I leaned forward, readying myself for the task of destruction. "I'm just laughing at how silly I was," I admitted, opting not to use words like 'cringe' that both my former master and current lover could fail to understand. "Either way, let's not waste time," I urged everyone, covering the fact that it was my own silliness that stalled for time.

And so, we began the joyous task of destruction.

While I was quite interested in seeing how Mia would go around the task, I opted to focus on my own actions instead. And so, I ripped the planks off their structural support. Whenever I would see a more stable part of the structure, I would simply mess it up with a punch or a kick, turning the planks that could be potentially reused in construction into mere wooden scraps only fit to be used as firewood.

Splinters flew out from the planks that I would break while the job of brutal deconstruction processed. And soon, what used to be quite the platform for exhibitions and speeches, turned into a mess of wooden rubble covering the dusty floor formerly hidden underneath.

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"Alright," I breathed out, taking a few steps back and allowing my eyes to measure the area. "That should do it."

"It looks like you enjoyed yourself," Mia pointed out with a small chuckle, pushing her hair into place as she looked at me with an amused expression on her face.

"I could say the same about you," I replied, smiling from the bottom of my heart when I looked back at the girl.

This was the joy that only someone madly in love could feel. To enjoy short moments of conversation while at the job so much felt pretty much unnatural to me. Yet, it would be one massive lie to claim I didn't enjoy this feeling quite a bit.

"All that we need to do now is to move all the rubble out," Mia said, turning her attention back to the task at hand. She then stepped through the broken pile of wood underneath her feet. "We should spread the rubble out a bit before leaving it for others to..." she said as she started to kick the bigger piles...

Only to turn silent when her legs suddenly ended up stuck on something solid.

"Huh?" Mia twitched, surprised by the sudden resistance under her feet.

She pulled her eyebrows together before kicking at a pile of wooden rubble again... only for her foot to end up stuck in the exact same place as before!

"That's weird," she muttered, pulling her leg back and squatting down before pushing the wood scraps out of the way.

"Something wrong?" I asked, looking away from the piles of wooden rubbles that I started to spread out with kicks just like Mia suggested.

"Arty..." the girl muttered in a strangely tense voice for the amusing task of random and silly destruction. "I think you should come and see this," she said, turning her head to the side and giving me a serious look.

"What's wrong?" I asked, approaching Mia's side and taking a look down... Only to then freeze on the spot.

There was something that didn't fit the scenery, hidden below a shallow layer of wooden scraps.

I fell down on one knee and swiped all the wood out of the way... Only to look at a massive metal cap.

It was circular in shape. It had a radius of nearly a single meter, making it the biggest piece of solid metal that I saw in this world since reincarnating into it.

"The hell is this..." I muttered under my breath as I reached down with my hand and touched the metal. I then closed my eyes before pushing a tiny bit of my mana to inspect the structure of this strange, massive cap. 'A cover for the hidden treasury or something?' I came up with a guess.

Soon, the results of my scouting made my guess all the more likely.

"It's not just one big piece of solid metal," I muttered, burrowing my furrows in confusion. "It's outfitted with more formations and defensive arrays than I ever saw in anything that didn't come out of my hand!"

That alone was a shocking revelation. Because unless there was some land that boasted an impossible level of advantage over the others in terms of formation making, then I was pretty much confident in occupying the highest ranks of the formation making in the entire world.

It was an effect of taking IT education and applying it to magic, something that only another reincarnator like me could possibly ever do.

Yet, this wasn't even the most worrying part about the cap that I discovered.

Because sure, just like I said out loud, it had an insanely high number of high-quality formations fitted within its structure.

What I didn't announce out loud, though, was how those formations were far more complex than anything I came up with in my life!

"What's with this state-of-the-art technology being buried underneath a simple, wooden stage of some random auction house?" I whispered, caressing the surface of the metal cap with my fingers. 'And how in all hells it went by unnoticed for all this time?'

I didn't know how far spanned the history of the auction house we were currently in. What I knew for sure, though, was that it wasn't an organization that appeared recently.

Then, a single memory surfaced in my mind.

"Didn't you say that this auction house was a hidden branch of the royal family used to control and oversee their domain?" I asked, turning my eyes to the side and giving Mia an intense look.

"T-that's right..." Mia muttered, slightly overwhelmed by the intensity of my stare. "Is it bad?" she then asked, her curiosity getting one better over her shock.

"I wouldn't necessarily say it's bad..." I replied while turning my attention back to the item, the existence of which I couldn't rationally explain. "It's just that..." I hesitated, struggling to find the right words to describe what I was feeling.

"I don't think anyone currently alive could ever hope to create something like this seemingly simple piece of metal."