A Narrow-Eyed Nobleman Is Always Misunderstood

Episode 89 – Scion is good at tracking

This land of the old Pandeum Empire, where the brilliantly shining magic civilization was located, was the glory of the past. There was only a dreary wind blowing from nowhere.

The evil god’s apostle, who tried to stop the evil god from becoming a complete deity, went mad in the process, and the Pandeum Empire faced destruction due to the apostle’s power.

Since then, this land has been completely abandoned, and has been transformed into a land where non-human creatures live.

And now that a stranger has appeared in the land.

“… ….”

The silver hair poking out of the deeply pressed helmet was swaying in the wind.

The silver-haired person lifted the helmet’s faceplate, and what appeared from inside was thin narrow eyes.

“Alberto Salihar Maydern, from now on, I will leave a voice record. All of this can be used as legal evidence.”

That man was Alberto, who had left the Royal Academy and entered the byway to the unexplored.

It took him about two days to pass the byway to the unexplored land.

Over the two days, Alberto only spent about an hour sitting down, eating, and resting.

However, this was only possible because Alberto was a sword master, and it would take an ordinary person a week to pass the side road.

The reason why it takes an ordinary person a week to enter an unexplored area through a side road is the structure of this side road.

If you look at the structure of the side road heading to the unexplored area, there are quite a few mountains filled with strangely shaped rocks.

In addition, normal hiking trails are rarely found, and since normal hiking trails do not exist, it was natural that there were no ropes or stakes to help climb the rock.

In other words, passing through this side road depended only on the ability of the person passing through the side road.

So, even Alberto, the sword master, needed two days to pass the byway.

Anyway, Alberto, who entered the unexplored area through a side road, moved his body in search of signs of suspicious people who were said to have been found here.

Alberto first headed for the small, ruined ruins where suspicious people were said to have stayed.

“Kyaaah!”

As Alberto entered the ruins, a bizarre-looking monster screamed and charged at him.

A monster with blue skin, like a cross between a sloth and a goblin, aimed at the top of Alberto’s head and jumped down from above.

The moment the monster’s sharp claws descend toward the top of Alberto’s head.

“Slow.”

Alberto did not pull out the sword from the scabbard, but swung it while holding it in the scabbard.

The speed was so fast that the monster’s sharp claws, which had attacked Alberto, crushed the monster’s head before it even reached the top of his head.

It wasn’t that difficult to avoid the claws of the monster whose head was crushed.

By twisting his body slightly, Alberto was able to avoid the attack of the monster that was about to surprise him by leaping from above his head.

After killing a monster like that, Alberto turned his eyes back to the inside of the ruins.

It is said that the traces were cleaned up, but there were some ash remaining on the floor and black marks of burnt ash showing that there was a person here.

The charred ashes indicated that someone had lit a fire here.

Then, he thought, assuming that the fire was lit here, there must be traces left by someone during their stay around here.

Finally, there was a very good place to shelter from the rain and wind in these ruins.

It was a place where a large and wide stone material that appeared to be a roof was placed on top of the pillars of the collapsed ruins.

Perhaps, the people who stayed here used it as a temporary shelter.

It was large enough to protect people from outside attacks if one or two guards were put up at the entrance.

Going inside, Alberto was able to find food scraps and trash that seemed to have been left by people.

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The food scraps were fruit peels, but they were dry after a long time.

Through this, Alberto noticed that someone had been staying at this place a few days ago.

It was because food scraps and garbage were not things monsters could leave behind.

After confirming that people had stayed here through food scraps and trash, Alberto closed his eyes and raised the aura that spread throughout his body.

As he raised his aura, he began to see things he could not normally see.

Alberto wrapped the raised aura around his eyes to improve his vision, then looked around the area where the ruins were.

‘I found it.’

Alberto was able to find footprints that were taken in the direction of going out of this place, not the ones entering this place.

It caught his eye that there were tiny human footprints on the mud floor.

Alberto smiled and started walking carefully along the footprints.

The eyeballs and optic nerves strengthened using the Aura did not miss even the smallest traces on the ground.

In this way, Alberto was following the trail little by little into the depths of the unexplored land.

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Meanwhile, the members of the combined investigation team, including Anna and Seluna, were also able to enter the unexplored territory.

“This is unexplored territory, where no one can enter except those without permission.”

“I see… ….”

Anna was not too surprised because she had been here a few times along with the Marquis of Sebatia, but the elves of the Alberium Kingdom were very surprised.

In the first place, they were elves who rarely left the Great Forest, because they never came to the unexplored areas even once in their entire lives.

This also applies to Seluna, who often came out of the Great Forest.

Even though she often came out of the great grove, it was only true of the various countries where people lived.

The unexplored area was an area that even in the Bregern Empire, there was nothing to enter except for the Imperial Knights or the fortress garrison.

On rare occasions, there were people who explored unexplored ruins, and even those people didn’t go in and out of this place often, but only went out for a short time every year when the monsters weren’t active and then came back.

So, the information about the unexplored regions that the Bregern Empire possessed was only very limited.

“This is literally unexplored territory. In your language, it’s called the Forgotten Land of the Damned. There isn’t that much information about this land. Therefore, please work here with safety as your top priority.”

At Anna’s explanation, everyone in the United Investigation Team nodded in unison.

Then, one of the Elementalists raised his hand.

Looks like he probably has something to say.

“What are you doing?”

Anna asked the sage if she had any questions as the sage raised her hand.

“The spirits say that their power does not work properly in this land. So it is said that only a very narrow range can be explored for its traces.”

Worriedness appeared on Anna and Seluna’s faces at the spiritist’s words.

No one is good at tracking, so in a situation where you have to risk everything on the elemental sage’s tracking ability, it was never a pleasure to see the elemental sage’s tracking range decrease.

“Also, I feel that the recovery of spirit power is very slow on this earth. Previously, it was like scooping a cup of water from a flowing river, but now it seems to catch dripping dew.”

“Is that enough?”

A look of bewilderment appeared on Seluna’s face at the words of the Elementalist.

Just as martial artists need auras and magicians need mana, sorceresses need spirit power.

What the Elementalist was saying now was no different from saying that the aura was restored slowly and the mana was filled up slowly.

At this, Seluna looked at her Anna and opened her mouth.

“Sir Anna. Apparently, the period needed to track it will be longer.”

“It’s okay. Because I was prepared for this.”

Anna looked at Seluna and said.

“To find someone in the outback, you have to spend at least a month or two. So, since I came here, I expected it to take that much time.”

“Okay, I understand. Then, I will leave the command here entirely to Sir Anna.”

At Anna’s words, Seluna replied with a small smile.

The United Investigation Team began a full-scale pursuit under Anna’s command.

However, the combined investigation team did not know that Alberto had entered this place, and this signaled the beginning of a tragedy that was about to happen.