Chapter 164: The Old Man Returns (1/2)

After greeting his friends, the group spoke about various topics while waiting for the rest of their group to arrive or the doors to open, whichever happened first The topic of Rowan becoht up

"Wait, so you're Arthur's teacher now?" Maria remarked, "What are the chances of that?"

"A lot s-lost cousin, I'd say" Arthur retorted, "There's probably soh schools within a reasonable driving distance or so like that Out of those schools, how many suddenly lost their sports teacher?"

"Why did you say it like that? What happened to the last sports teacher?" Maria asked, co the random nu Nothing at all," Arthur rerin "I' lottery tickets and reheated sausage rolls to disgruntled customers"

The door to the facility opened shortly after, and Arthur gleefully walked into the building while Maria had several questions left unanswered

Acai, Alvira and Lia briefing, and not long after the group was led into the capsule rooa his eyes, Merlin found himself where he left off, just outside of the ruins He took around at his surroundings and quickly noticed that the sun was rather low in the sky and that it'd be nighttime in only a matter of minutes

'I should stick around, just in case' He thought to hi down beside the door frame

Merlin waited for the moon to rise, and he was fortunate this ti ever so faintly, and after waiting for a little while longer he could see theover the horizon

"You're back I see" An oldhis eyes to widen

'I didn't sense hiht to himself, 'What a stealthy old ress?" The old man asked as he walked towards the door fraured it out yet," Merlin responded in a sad tone "Actually, I wanted to ask you a few questions before you disappeared last time"

"Oho, questions for gest bottleneck with figuring things out is currently this language," Merlin said, pointing to the unknown script above the door frauring out such an ancient language, I'e is called"

"Oho, I do suppose that would put a das," The old e h I can tell you what little I do know"

"Please do," Merlin requested

"Well, one of e is ancient Arcadian," The old man spoke up, "He believes he's seen this script used in ancient tehout Arcadia, namely the ancient shrine of Arte is true, the language has been lost to time, without a doubt" The old man's expression darkened "These words ain Perhaps only the Gods thee"

"Well, you ure it out," The old htened as his eyes rest on Merlin's sheathed weapon He rest his hand against the s you'll be able to think of a solution You're a bright young man"

Merlin stood up and approached the door fraer than it originally had, but it was still faint enough to go unnoticed by those walking past

But as Merlin moved closer to the ruin, he noticed that the blade strapped to his side had begun vibrating

Startled by this sudden change, Merlin pulled Ghostsaw's blade out of its sheath to inspect it, but he quickly found that the closer the blade was to the door fraer it vibrated

"What on earth" Merlin e interaction

He continuedthe blade ever so closer to the door fraot closer to the centre, but then it suddenly came to a stop, and Merlin couldn'tpressed against an impenetrable barrier

For a blade that could phase through al, for it to be unable to enter the eht No matter how much force Merlin applied to the blade, it wouldn't traverse through the door fra with the ruin this time around, he reached out with his free hand and reached through the frame where the blade couldn't He quickly found that his hand could h the space without any resistance, but the blade was still being prevented

「The quest "A door without a key" has been updated」

While being sos and the notice that his quest had been updated, Merlin was slow to notice that the old man had disappeared oncethat?" Merlin exclaimed in frustration, "I still had randpa"

He looked around for a while, trying to locate any trace of the old ain it was as if he had vanished into thin air