CH 67

“I don’t feel like I’m being pulled like before.”

Serdel nodded at Falden’s murmur.

She didn’t even feel a tinge of energy.

It was rather quiet.

‘It looks so normal that I think it’s more strange.’

The eyes quickly looked around. Long vines were covering the entrance, and leaves were scattered on the ground. 

In the meantime, a vague illusion came to mind.

Like a video with playback problems.

The content was cut off in the middle, but there was no problem with grasping the rough situation.

The sound of breath is full of fear.

desperate steps.

The guys who go in.

They were hunters.

With their pale faces at the end, the illusion was over. 

Serdel knew at once that it was a memory engraved on a leaf. 

At first glance, it was similar to when she experienced the cross-section of foresight in a slave markey, but what she saw now was not the present or the future, but the past.

‘Is it possible to use this ability because Dell and the five senses are connected?’

Because she doesn’t have the ability to see the past. 

[N, Nuna! Are you going to go there? You’re not going in, right? Don’t go in. Yes? Please]

Dell, who saw the cave through Serdel’s gaze, was terrified and begged.

[Dell is scary. Uwaa..] 

The boy was extremely anxious, perhaps because of a cave trauma not too long ago.

‘Don’t worry. Nothing dangerous will happen.’

[S, still— Can’t you go in until Dell arrives? Nuna, if you go in there, I will be human and reach out to the idiot Redan!] 

Serdel clicked her tongue at Dell, who was making threats. 

‘Are you going to give up candy in that case?’

[U, ugh! I, I don’t have to eat candy for the rest of my life. D, Dell won’t sell your safety for food! Do you want to make me become human? I’m going to do it?]

‘Try it.’

[…..Uuuungg.] 

‘Don’t worry, Dell. Nothing will happen.’

Serdel persuaded Dell until Dell’s anxiety subsided.

[Then just a little bit. Just step in for a little bit, and if you think it’s strange, you have to come out right away.]

‘Okay, thank you, Dell.’

As soon as the permission was granted, Serdel inadvertently threw her gaze at Falden.

“Shall we go in?”

“Do you know what’s in there?”

Falden stared at Cerdel. It’s as if he’s trying to read her mind.

“Of course, we have to check it to make sure. You can’t just sit around like this, can you?” 

“Ah. Seeing the Young Lady say that, there’s nothing particularly dangerous about it, right?”

“I’m not sure?”

Serdel shrugged at him, who was worried. Soon he took the lead.

“Hold it.”

His big hand, which was stretched out toward her, was so natural now. 

“Be careful with your feet. If you ever get scared, you can stick close to my back.”

He looked back and smiled, and his smile was so mischievous.

“As soon as we leave, I will use Your Highness’s body as a shield.” 

Falden’s eyes grew cold.

“Young lady seems to have forgotten that I’m a prince.”

“If that was the case, I wouldn’t call you Your Highness, right? What are you doing? Let’s go in quickly.”

“Yes, yes. Who the royal family is.”

Tsk, twisting his lips, he strode into the cave.

The entrance was quiet. She didn’t feel anything at all. It’s like something inside is preventing energy from spreading to the outside.

Glittering walls and ceilings that are neither too high nor too low.

It’s not clearly revealed, but it was very beautiful because it felt as if pure white pearls had landed on a black background. It was like a night sky full of stars.

“Whoa—”

“Is it a mana stone mine? Ha— it’s beautiful.”

[Wow, it’s pretty!] 

Falden was amazed next to her, and Dell burst into exclamations in her mind.

She stared blankly for a moment, then put her hand against the wall.

The mana stones protruding out of nowhere were touched. Judging from its size and purity, it was a low-class of manastone. 

As they went further inside, an intermediate mana stone appeared, and a heavy air flowed as if the area itself was different from the place where the lower class mana stone came out.

Of course, the size was slightly larger, and the purity was exceptionally high.

“—I expected it, but it’s definitely different from other mana stone mines.”

Let’s go by it there and go further inside—.

“….!”

She couldn’t close her mouth because it looked different. The whole area was shimmering in a glossy black light. It was like an illumination. 

The size of the mana stone embedded everywhere was also large, and the purity was indescribably the best.

Of course, the waves of Mana were also intense.

‘It’s really cool to see it in person.’

According to the level of the Mana stone, the areas within the mine are separated like a sword. 

Manastones are difficult minerals, so when a low-level manastone mixes with the energy of an intermediate manastone, or when an intermediate-level manastone mixes with the energy of a higher-level manastone, they collide with each other. 

Therefore, when various grades of mana were found in one mine, there were many mana stones that had lost their function.

It was natural that there would be a problem with the amount of mining. However, the area of energy was clearly divided by grade. And they didn’t even invade each other.

‘Maybe it is thanks to this that the purity of the Mana stone is high.’

Serdel, holding a dagger, put it through the gap in the mana stone.

“Ugh.”

She wanted to pick one and check it in more detail, but mining was not easy.

“What are you doing?”

Falden, who approached with a smile as if it was ridiculous, took Serdel’s hand and gave it strength.

Crack! The mana stone that was pulled out rolled on the floor.

As soon as she picked it up, a high-quality mana stone of the same size and with the same energy grew in the spot where it was pulled out. The speed was so fast that it couldn’t even be compared to other mana stone mines.

It was a moment when the amount of mining in the future was expected.

“That’s amazing. Usually, the mined manastones have their roots closed and the purity goes down. There’s nothing like that at all.”

There was tension in the corners of Falden’s eyes.

“Even Count Robbesta will have to pay more attention from now on. Since these mana stones appear to be released in large quantities in the market, the number of people who explicitly aim for the territory will increase. “

Sticking out his tongue, he cast his gaze at Serdel.

“You’d better be careful too, Young Lady, because all the weird guys might stick together.” 

“I’ll keep that in mind.”

“Oh, that’s right. Young Lady, can I take one too?”

Serdel gently looked at him.

“—I’m not a random guy. I hope you don’t include it in that standard.”

“I didn’t say anything.”

“Your eyes were disrespectful!”

“You’re trying to show it to His Majesty, right? Just pay 10 gold and take it.”

“You’re saying that when I take care of you and feed you in the forest?”

“Of course, well.”

“Damn it. What the hell is this dry feeling!”

Grumbling, he pulled out another mana stone using the dagger he used. Then, he soon looked around. Serdel, who noticed at once what he wanted to do, suggested first.

“We’d better go out first. You want to show it right?”

He nodded. 

‘Really, what kind of reaction will the Emperor show to this achievement?’

She was curious.

Originally, the Emperor should have been informed of the situation at least once a day, but Falden didn’t do it. In order not to be swayed by excessive interference. So for some time, he stopped contacting him.

Falden, who came out to the entrance, took out the communication device. After fiddling with it for a while, he looked back at her.

“Young Lady.”

“Please say it.”

“Young Lady, how many more mines do you think there will be in the forest?”

“You know, it’s not easy to find even a single mine, don’t you?”

“That’s true, but for some reason, it feels like that. I don’t think this is the only mine in this vast forest.”

She looked at him, his serious eyes on her.

This time, she could see that he wasn’t just asking for no reason. 

However, if she gives him the answer he wants here, she will give him confidence in his guesses. 

Can she trust him?

Having had Radun’s power by herself, he could no longer be called an enemy.

He didn’t even have the rude tendencies of Count Maient. He was also one of the male protagonists. 

She doesn’t know if she’ll make it to the ending. 

‘It’s also a business partner.’

Just because she built a wall for him, she couldn’t keep rejecting him. 

“I think there are three places in total.”