Chapter 48 - Disposal Ruins Investigation Team (1/2)

Disposal Ruins Investigation Team

<Disposal Ruins Investigation Team Captain POV>

Several men were walking in the dark forest.

A member of the investigation team suddenly stopped and looked back at something he didn’t notice before.

[What in the world are those corpses?]

Hearing him, I also turned around and looked at what he’s looking at.

[I don’t know. Those corpses looks like a fallen mercenaries to me.]

[Are they perhaps on their way to Mills?]

[That’s possible. Other than our group, the only people who pass through this forest are those who are heading towards Mills.]

I noticed that one of the members looked really pale.

He is very pale.

[Have you ever seen a corpse that had turned into that state before?]

[Ye… Yes…]

The corpses were terrible.

There were a total of four of them.

None of their faces could be identified.

It must have been eaten by some kind of beast or a monster.

One of the members knocked over the sword that was hanging on the waist of one of the corpses.

[To fall in a forest like this, these mercenaries probably aren’t that strong.]

[These corpses, no one of them had any money?]

Anyone could seldom find that much money from dead corpses.

Of course, that includes the baggage they had.

However, no money were found on these corpses.

[They may have encountered a robbery. Well, it’s rumored that there have been occasional robberies going on in here.]

[Does that mean that after these people were killed by a monster, other travelers who pass by looted these corpses?]

[If they were just going to be killed by some random monster in this forest, they shouldn’t have bothered becoming a mercenary.]

[Did a monster finally come out from the Disposal Ruins?]

[Hahaha, if that were so, then we have to ask the Magic Knights to handle this instead.]

[You’re right.]

The members tried to insert some jokes into their deductions of what they think could have happened to those people.

[Oh, we can finally see our workplace.]

Disposal Ruins.

The familiar landscape.

There would be no change yet again this time.

That’s natural, or so the captain thought.

[There’s no abnormality this time again.]

One of the loose-lipped members spoke.

[This job sure doesn’t have that much change.]

[An unchanging job is fine. Okay, I’ll do the usual confirmation.]

[Captain, you’re so serious~]

[It’s because this is still our work.]

This is the job that was tasked to them by their Allied Kingdom, Allion.

A periodic survey to the Disposal Ruins.

Urza Kingdom and Allion Kingdom have been hand in hand together.

These two kingdoms have a good relationship that they had been maintaining for a long time.

I’m glad that I got this job.

I strongly like that.

First of all, the pay for this job is good.

And yet, the job is very easy to do.

I take out a magic tool from my bag.

This is a magic tool that was personally made by Goddess Vysis.

For many years, this investigation had been occurring from one team to another.

I walked along the walls of the ruins.