11 The Reques (2/2)
He grabs the book and immediately after that, his hands start to quiver. This is because the book has a blue mark of a feather on it. That mark means 'there is a request from the author regarding this book'.
”A request from Lin the Lonely Adventurer!” He exclaims, loosing completely his demeanor of a sage.
He then starts to run wildly toward a classified room of the library. With his speed, he reaches that room promptly.
The room is full of neatly arranged big boxes, and a pair of numbers are inscribed on every box, in this way: 348 598 to 489 232.
He looks at the blue mark on the book and sees on the feather a number: ”6 238 724!” He then searches for the box he needs right now.
Soon, he finds the box and opens it. Inside it, there are D-class zenanium papers. After a while, he pulls the 6 238 724 paper out of the box and earnestly reads it.
Written on it is: ”I am leaving my Energy Signature on this note, so please, contact me if you suspect that the mystery of The Mountain of Rose has been solved.”
This leaves Blan Ton trembling in fear an excitement: ”T-the Energy S-S-S-Signature of Li-Lin the Lonely Adventurer…” Right now, he is holding that piece of paper with utmost care and nervousness, after all, he hasn't held, in his one hundred fifty years of life, something more precious and valuable than this Energy Signature.
After some time, he manages to barely calm himself down.
”Oh, right! The mystery of The Mountain of Rose, I need to read this book!” He then opens the book and starts to decipher every word in the book.
After finish reading, he exclaims: ”That girl must have found that legendary plant!”
His breathing becomes unsteady as he wonders: (What should I do? What should I do!?... This is just too much for my old bones to manage… Ah! I'll just follow the instructions mindlessly, after all, that style of life has allowed me to reach my actual age…)
Five minutes later.
He enters The Butterfly Room of the library, it is a huge room where butterfly type monsters are hovering about aimlessly. They are really beautiful, and most of them are blue, and there are a few green, and a single red. Of course, the butterfly type monsters of better quality are fewer.
He doesn't hesitate to call the red one with a grain of a special food. After the red butterfly type monster finishes eating, it stands on the Energy Signature of Lin the Lonely Adventurer for a few seconds. After that, it catches a small piece of paper from Blan Ton's claw. And it then disappears into thin air.
(It is done. Now, I have to make a copy of the book to give it to that redhead girl.) He thinks.
Another five minutes later.
”Here it is, by the way, just for curiosity, do you live in Lurep Village?” Blan Ton handovers the copy of - The Mountain of Rose – to Rose, and asks that.
”No. But I think I'll hang around Lurep Village for quite some time. Are you sure that you are asking that just for curiosity?” Rose responds while giving two gold coins to Blan Ton.
”Oh, well, I suppose I'm a little curious about the person who made me learn about another book of Lin the Lonely Adventurer.” He responds with his usual demeanor of a sage.
”Hahaha… If that is the case, I do understand you very well! Hahaha… What can I say about myself? Right now, I'm just a novice mercenary. My team consists of just me and my sister.” She says pointing at Thorn. ”Other than that… Um! Lately, I have grown rather fond of the money. Hehehe…” She then keeps laughing shamelessly about it.
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Mercenary's Guild
Thorn and Rose arrive through the main entrance. Thorn says amazed: ”Oh wow. So thanks to that book you found me. Really what a big chain of coincidences.”
”Right? Anyway, I'll need Lin the Lonely Adventurer to join us in the future, and I was thinking that this book could be a good excuse to make a connection with her.” Rose explains her 'little' plan.
”Mmm? Will you need more than one person to join us? I have assumed that you just need that ship designer.” Thorn asks concerned about how many more she needs.
”I don't know who will be the ship designer. And including Lin, I have in mind, four persons. So I'll need five, but of course, if we meet someone who could be very useful to us, then I'll ask that someone to join us as well.” Rose responds without giving many details about the other persons that she has in mind.
Thorn then says with a sigh of relief: ”*Sigh*… Five. I was afraid you'd say without a hint of shame something like 'a trillion'.”
”Eh!? Do you think I am a shameless scoundrel!? Why!?” Rose asks, so shocked that she doesn't notice that she is shouting.
Thorn just shrugs.
”Here you were! I need to talk to you!”
Suddenly, someone says this loudly. That is a familiar voice to Thorn and Rose, so they turn around to look at the owner of this voice. It is Vei Dal!
”Hello, what is it?” Rose asks somewhat puzzled.
Standing before them, Vei Dal says fired up: ”I was wondering if Miss. Thorn is interested in participating in the Lurep Village Mercenary vs. Adventurer Novices Tournament.”