It took me two days to find the entrance of this place.
Hmm, shouldn't the portals of secret realms should open at a certain time?
This should be everyone's thought. There was a reason why I found the portal that could let me leave. There is a secret cheat code for the portal to open. This was something that I learned from the Nexus.
Yes, there is a library in there but for some reason, I could only take a few books from it. The other books are restricted. I am sure there's information on souls in there, which I want but there was nothing I could do.
There was no mention of why most of the library was restricted. So the only thing I could do for now was to wait.
Anyway, the secret cheat code to open a portal was to kill the boss of the secret realm. Once the boss is dead, a portal will open and they can leave the secret realm.
Of course, there is a restriction on that cheat code. The number of monsters you killed after entering the secret realm shouldn't cross five percent of the total monsters inside.
The issue is if ten people enter the secret realm at the same time, give or take one or two hours, depends on the realm, then they are considered as a single entity. At that point, it won't count individually but totally.
If that happens, then you have to wait till the time when the portal opens on its own.
Luckily, only I entered at this point. Though the merchants and their party entered this place, They did so long ago. So they don't count. If they did, I would be stuck in that place for a very long time.
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If the Count was such a person, then he would definitely wouldn't pay me what I was owned, if the payment was for a future date. So I decided to take the standard price, though I have a feeling that I would be losing a lot through that option.
Moreover, I never found the source of that sound that led me to that cave.
There are many secrets buried behind that cave. If the count has competent men, then all those secrets would belong to him. There is nothing I could do about that.
If the cave was far away from the ruling territories, inside the wilds, then I could have kept it quiet but it was not. With how close it was to the Count's territory and the searching that had been done for the past month or so, there was a high chance that the cave would be discovered sooner than later.
It was too far from where I live or study, making it difficult to make use of the resources effectively. So I decided to sell the information and make something out of that. Moreover, the clue to their missing cousins has to do with that place.
With two pieces of information, I could get a favour from him in the future, if he was a good one. Let's test that theory.
Westport, the city where the Count lives. It took me five days to reach here from Orlon Town. Once I did, I freshened up in an Inn before I went to meet up with the Count.
Well, he is a Count, a rank higher than my father's. Moreover, it was etiquette to appear before other nobles clean, rather than appearing as if you had been living in the wild.
The Count's mansion was very big, bigger than the Mayor's and also grand.
"Halt, what's your purpose?" the guards asked me.
"Hello, I am here to meet Count Sivel".