Chapter 170 - Map?

Endl started to look inside each room carefully, he looked in every closet he had inside the rooms, on the floor, everywhere looking for a map, or something that might indicate a way for him to get out of here, but of course not it would be that easy, he wouldn't find a map just looking around the rooms, and he knew it.

But even though he knew that, he still had at least a little hope, and that a miracle could happen, that would make him find something, even if it was another passage like the painting.

He just hopes that if he finds another passage, it will not be closed with the priest's magic again, because if that happens, he will have to find the main body of the priest and somehow make him open the passage.

It also crossed his mind that the priest can take care of all the passages in this place, he only takes care of the entrances and exits, and if that is so, he will have no choice but to face the priest.

"Damn, how long am I going to stay in this place? I'm already stinking, and I'm hungry." Endl only had water that he created with his magic, as he had nothing to eat, and not even how to take a shower.

If he wet his clothes, he would have difficulty running, so he preferred not to get wet to take a shower: 'This is also not the most hygienic place to do this.' He also started to think hard, which is not a lie, as taking a shower in such a disgusting place is not good.

"Let's just focus on finding something." Endl started running again as he looked into each room carefully, with each room he looked at, he felt he was closer to finding something.

He didn't know if it was any bad, or something good that would help him, but somehow he feels like he's going to find something.

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It had been more than a day since Endl had died, and work on finding his body was still going on.

Many adventurers came together to dig the place where the cave was, many of them used tools, and others used their magic to help with the excavation, and of course, the guild master was monitoring everything closely so that nothing went wrong.

During that working day, the guild master came back to the guild only once to report, but when he got there, he found the three girls sleeping after crying all night, it was a pitiful scene.

"Tell them that we are almost at the point of the cave he was in, we are close to finding his body." The guild master left a message for the receptionist.

He didn't want those three girls to go to the place they're digging, if they see his body, it's going to be a general cry between them, and they can't stand the shock and be sick, the guild master has seen cases like this happen oftentimes.

Wives and daughters who lost their husband and father who were adventurous, is something that he is used to seeing, and that he does everything possible to help those who are in this difficult time.

"Do you think he's dead?" Before the guild master could leave the room and return to work, the receptionist decided to ask his opinion.

"If his body is not there, there may be a chance that he will be alive, but if we find his body, I don't need to say anything else ..." When the receptionist heard that, she created a little hope, and hoped to pass it on for girls.

She would hope and pray that Endl's body was not in the middle of that land, and that he had managed to get out in time, and is somewhere out there.

After finishing the conversation with the receptionist, the guild meter returned to his excavation work, he hopes to finish this before he stays the night: 'The sooner we know the truth about his death, the better.' That was what the guild master was.

He also wanted to find out if Endl was dead, or if he was smart enough to get away from the fallout.

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After opening a few more doors, Endl arrived in a slightly different room. There were two cabinets inside the room and there was also a table with a very good quality, it was very different from the chairs that he saw broken by the corridors, it seems that this table was placed there not long ago.

He was a little confused because that table was different from all the old furniture that existed in here, so he approached the table and started touching it, but there was nothing different.

He looked for some secret place on the table where he had something hidden, but even after spending a few minutes doing it he couldn't find anything.

"It only remains to look here." He had two lockers to look at and was hoping there was something inside them, he was getting tired of running down the halls and his mana was going down very fast because of the wind magic.

'Come on.' Endl took the doors of one of the cabinets and opened them at once, because if there was something inside he would have time to react, but inside the cabinet, only a large amount of dust fell, there was nothing inside.

He put his hopes in the other closet, and then he went to him and did as the other, opened both doors at once, hoping that something would fall.

When he opened the closet, he found something inside. Inside the closet, there were a lot of old books in a row and they were all perfectly placed in their places, it was very well organized.

Even though he managed to find something, he was still a little irritated that he would have to look through all the books to find something, he would waste a lot of his time in that place.

"I have no other option, I will have to read them all." He only had a little mana, so he took this opportunity to look at all the books while his mana recovered over time.

It will take him a long time to do this, but he still took all the books out of the closet, put them all on the floor and started reading one by one. Even though it took a long time, he was sure he would find something here.

Endl has no idea how long he is in here since there is no sunlight to tell him what time it is, whether it is night or day, but he knows it has been many hours since he was there .

He wants to get out of here, because he is sure that the people out there must be desperate behind him, or even thought that he is dead, but he finds it understandable, since that cave has collapsed all over and they have no idea that this is down here.

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Endl continued to read all the books, it was a good thing to do as he stayed here too long and the priest may have given up looking for him for now. He's been inside this room for a few hours and still hasn't found anything.

He didn't read all the books line by line, he just read all the books quickly and looked for something relevant inside them, but every book he picked up was talking about monsters in this world that he already knew, and some others were telling stories of heroes and the like.

"Is there nothing relevant in this place?" He was already getting bored by sitting on the floor reading books and I couldn't find anything, he at least wanted to find something that would help him get to the exit, but it seems that it won't be that easy.

If he cannot find the way out on his own, he will have to let the priest find him so that he will somehow reach the original body of the priest, but of course this is Endl's last option, and it is also the most risky .

He will basically be handing over his location to the enemy. Well, if he is prepared, he will not suffer a surprise attack or somehow not know that the priest is coming.

Endl doesn't know how, but his search magic detects the priest's clone, so she is also considered a living being, maybe she is a part of the priest, and maybe he suffers damage when his clone is damaged, that's a possibility.

'I know it's hard to keep fighting clones like that, but maybe I have to do this.' Endl thought as he looked at one more book, he was flipping through the pages very quickly while looking at each one.

He thanks you for having a quick reading and does not miss much when you read everything very fast, if something appears on any page, he will see it at the same time.

And that's what happened.

In one of the last books he had in his pile, he found something intriguing. It was a map that looked like it was from the cave, but it wasn't a separate map, the map was stamped on one of the pages of the book, a page that talked about a slave prison or something.

'Then that's it.' Endl understood what this place was.