(Wn) Chapter 146 (1/2)

146 The Whereabouts of Those Sought

Iour detection skills before we left Dias’ office

Specifically, I asked hile level 8 skill or 3 level 6 skills

「Personally, I can figure out when soot the Appraisal Detection skill, but it's normally quite difficult to catch someone in the act of it The skill is honestly quite a stealthy one The sa type skills They're all pretty to detect」

That sounds like soo crazy with anxiety So to hide without you ever being the wiser

「Skills like Induced Thought and Technical Senility are much more difficult to cover up Even I can’tboth the skills at a fairly high level」

Neither the Appraisal or Connoisseur-type skills involved invoking any sort of effect that'd influence their targets All you had to do to activate either was look at whatever it is you wanted to know more about, and that was it

Induced Thought, on the other hand, flat out et Hence, it became much less difficult to detect

Taking that theory and applying it to the skills in my possession allowed me to realize that it'd probably be hard for people to sense Appraisal or the Principle of Falsehood Skill Taker, on the other hand, seemed like it’d be pretty easy to notice immediately

「I doubt Presence Detection would allow you to detect if you're being appraised, even if raised to itsthe skill to level 8 should at least be enough for it to let you to detect if someone uses a skill that'll have an effect on you」

In other words, level 8 probably wouldn’t cut it for us Self Evolution allowed us to get skills e person, but it also ca us with any of the experience typically involved in leveling it Luckily, it looked like the eastern dungeon would allow us an opportunity to overcooal was set We’d dive into the dungeon and level Presence Detection up to 8 either through absorbingself evolution points

「Leaving now」

「’Kay, see you around Oh, and please don’t forget about the Kli!」

Fran turned her back on Dias as he begged her for a favour and departed from his office

『Let’s go check out the library and see if we can gather ourselves soeon』

「Nn」

『We don’t have that et all this administrative stuff over with as quickly as possible』

We needed to find ourselves a place to stay before nightfall That, however, was honestly notan inn

『You think Old Man Gallus is here yet?』

And so, two hours passed We had long stopped looking around the library and instead started walking around the city in search of Gallus He should’ve arrived way before we did, especially after taking into consideration the fact that we'd gotten ourselves a little bit more than a little bit sidetracked

The reason ere searching for him, and not verification of the fact that he was here was because it was pretty obvious that he'd at least been here rather recently Many of Ulmutt’s adventurers were like the ones in Alessa in the sense that they alking around with high quality weapons made from iron or steel

We had started out by asking a few of these adventurers for confiruesses had hit the nail right on the head Their weapons were indeedcame to an end, as they'd all pointed us in different directions e asked the around the city borrowing other blacks in one place like he did back in Alessa

Fran and I ended up having no choice but to visit random weapon stores in order to hopefully run into hi in on the adventurers in our vicinity along the way Much to our annoyance, it seeeons or the upco about Gallus at all That said, we did happen to stu that just so happened to catch our attention

「Hey, you hear about the evil God’s fortress? Apparently it fell overnight Wasn’t the Millenia Fortress supposed to be their hold?」

「Yeah, but that’s not the only place in which the evil God’s believers have gathered enthat so blessed with the evil God’s powers」

「Wait, wait, that’s a thing? I thought the only people that worshi+ped the evil God were criminals and outlaws」

「Apparently, Evil Goblins and Evil Kobolds are only the way they are because they’ve powered up after receiving the Evil God’s blessings, not that I’ve ever seen either of them myself」

「Oh! Those things? I’ve heard that they’re really hard to deal with Wait, don’t soo all out in order to exterminate the evil God’s believers? Maybe that’s why Millenia fell」

「Oh codoht? There’s no way the Reidosians would ever bother wiping the them to use instead」

「But, if the Reidosians didn’t crush the fortress, who did?」

「Who knows? I’ve caught wind a few ru out I heard it from one of my acquaintances that happened to be in the area when it happened, and he got his info fros that escaped from within the fortress Apparently one of their top brass happened to get back that day and caused an uproar It's said that guy had totally transforic beast’s instead of a human's He used that new body of his to slay all the other executives before laughing and clai that he’d consumed them for their power He was like a demon, they say」

「Dude, that sounds freaky as hell」

「Were you try to tell us a horror story or so?」

「Coh, it was just a ru exaggerated」

I was rather surprised to hear that the Evil God’s believers had a sort of fortress set up, and even more surprised to hear that it’d already fallen at the hands of one of their own allies

（Just now, talking about Zerrosreed?）

『You think so too?』

Tohis cannibalism skill noaround tearing down all the Evil God’s strongholds for his skill’s sake if we just leave him be? I mean, that actually kinda sounds like a plan We could leave him be till he takes out all the Evil God’s followers and then just kill hi he’ll end up getting by the tiet to him

（Growl）

『You sure sound pumped, Urushi+』

（Will defeat some day）

『Yeah, we’ll kick his ass But first, we’ll have to get stronger』

（Nn）

（Woof!）

The conversation we overheard was interesting, but it didn’t really give us anything to act on, so we continued walking around toith our ears perked

We weren't able to find anyone that knew Gallus till we entered our third smithy Its oas much like the old man, he was also a dwarven blacksmith

「Already left Ulmutt?」

「He left a few days ago cause he heard about what happened in Barbra I'ured he’d be able to help」

Looks like we just missed each other

「He said he’d be back before the Martial Arts Tournah」

「Got it」

「Y’know, Gallus has actually told me about you ahead of time So that’s what his custom made named equipment looks like…? damn, that's fabulous」