Chapter 219: Not over yet? (1/2)
Chapter 219: Not over yet?
“What is that … is this soe syic?”
“Could you stop doing that?”
“But it’s so boring”
A bored halfling gave out a sigh while looking over the shoulder of a certain ar into a notebook
“Leave Wayland alone, Senna, ill be there in a few hours”
After Senna was shooed away by her party o back to his notes These were the ones he took during his stay at the village taken over by the abyssal cultists It described in detail the way the tier 2 ranked reram
Luckily Roland ell versed in the ways of copying runes During his stay in the village, he had used those skills to copy over the medallion’s runic structure onto a piece of similarly shaped metal Thanks to this he would be able to slowly analyze the inner workings later even if he didn’t fully go through the code yet
The larger probleher tier main relic that was used to create the illusion It could pierce through high amounts of willpower and even affect someone that had divine skills like the swordmaster
‘Yet that woht have not built up any ainst attacks like that”
He could not leave that option out, perhaps soical device if they had some specialized skills His armor and runic spells that he applied to it were clearly not enough and he would probably need to replace them with tier 3 variants to have a chance
‘But that’s only if I can’t figure out how this relic works, what arethe trip to the city of Reeka There had been no ambush as some of the other adventurers speculated and the whole journey wasAfter a while, they found the main road and now could see vast farmlands which indicated that they were close to civilization The volcanic earth here was high in nutrients for the plants and also gave them a red tint due to fire ele at the fields he continued to ponder the problem The easiest way he could think of would be to insert some kind of kill switch into his arnal to any potential abyssal cult relics Yet that would only work if these devices were copies of each other with no variation
There were various ways a runic crafts safety measures into his items One of theht variation to the code could alter the turn-off switch
This of course depended on the craftsn Would the person that created these double helix towers do that? Was he the conscious type or did he just copy everything to cut on ti so in the code could potentially cause the device to malfunction
‘By the way these cultists acted, their belief in that illusion was absolute”
He thought to the two lazy guards that he easily killed after waking up They were clearly not paying attention to his slu body Either they were just lunatics enaiven theed to break through back in Edelgard was a first for them as well
Luckily for him, his tier 1 status probably shi+fted their suspicion towards the tier 3 class holder that was there instead He wouldn’t be surprised if his old gnoe afterward, if he was still alive until noas also debatable
It was not a far-fetched idea if he considered the cult’s ways The higher the level the craftsot Roland could see the person ht have not bothered to change the ‘perfect’ runic code theythat no one would be able to get their hands on the control medallions, then it would be feasible for him to create a counternal to turn these runic relics off This he could either do byit do it constantly on a loop orout
The second option was the et to the botto system For the current him this was not possible as he lacked the skills to access tier 3 runes Even if he had gone through a lot of theories he had no practice, the only person that could help hiic academy
‘I’m still not sure if Loreena will involve that cat…’
His involvement in the cult relic was already known by this church e that he knew He could only wait a bit to see if they ever contacted theate Runic es were few far and in between so the cat’s involvement was not out of the question
‘To be on the safe side’
Roland moved his hand into the satchel that had survived the ordeal Inside of it, he had a few sical scroll Onto it, he started quickly scribbling a detailed recount of the incident with leaving out a few things he wished to keep secret After he was finished he inserted his mana into a thumb-sized stamp on the side which caused the scroll to roll itself up while quickly turning into a green s afterward
“Woah!”
Grisalde shouted out as she saw a small bird made from wind mana bolt into the sky It carried a letter to Roland’s runic teacher with some information about the relic Even if the cat professor wasn’t asked for help he es in the kingdoed research, it was not outlandish to believe that it was the same situation here
“What are you surprised about, haven't you seen ? That’s why country bumpkins like you are…”
“Are what you little shi+t? I dare you to finish that sentence! ”
As always the toot under each other's skin This was not the first ti that the other adventurers started cheering on But the joy was short-lived as soon Senna squinted with her eyes and called out
“Hey it looks like we are going to have visitors, there are a lot of them and they are heavily armored…”
Without trees in the way, his radar lost out to scout classes and their enhanced eyes Yet even he could use si out frolowed in a blue light that caused the scenery to zooroup of hts by the armor… is that the Valerian crest?”
“nobles, this could be bad What do we do?”
Senna called out to the people on the other wagons and to so on foot but in reality, her words were aimed toward one person This person put away the notebook he orking on so asked the question
“What can we do? Just keep your head down”
Everyone nodded at Roland’s words as they knew that they could not go against soldiers from the Valerian household Even if there were no nobles or proper knights with the noble faction or their soldiers Soon enough the now smaller caravan was forced to stop as it hts and various other mercenaries behind thee here?”
Athe shi+niest armor stepped forhile everyone waited While he shouted the knights slowly started surrounding the carriages There had to be so caravans like this out as normally soldiers would not have bothered and just passed by them