Chapter 65 - U N K N O W N (1/2)

U N K N O W N

When the paralysis gauge was about to run out, the Skeleton King has finally died.

Its gigantic body made of bones began collapsing as it rattled out.

A large amount of the debris from the collapsing bones began scattering about.

The mixture of human and monster bones began to spread out on the floor.

It’s as if I’m looking at the result of some mass genocide.

My level still haven’t gone up.

Now that I think about…

[………….]

I’m certain that the strength of the monsters here in the ruins were in another level.

I understood it with just a glance.

However, I immediately knew that monsters in this ruins were weaker than the monsters from the Disposal Ruins when it couldn’t respond back towards my attack.

It may have been because I’ve already struck a tougher bridge, the Soul Eater, and already had experienced fighting a tougher monster than the Skeleton King.

Is it because I’ve listened to Mist’s explanation about this monster being too strong and I just thought too much about it?

No— I don’t think it’s good to blame Mist.

If I can’t even properly determine the strength of others…

[The monster that Hati-dono was looking for, is it perhaps the Skeleton King?]

[Yeah.]

Pekkkiinnn…

Stepping on the thin bone fragments on my path. I got closer towards the head of the Skeleton King.

[The purpose of my arrival in the Mills Ruins is because of this monster.]

Mist held the sigh that she’s about to exhale.

I quickly take out the Encyclopedia on the Forbidden Arts and checked the corresponding page that refers the Skeleton King.

“The bone meal from the silver bone.”

Okay.

[It seems that there’s no mistaking it.]

I close the book and returned it back into my bag.

When the officer was checking my luggage, I had just explained to him that the “Encyclopedia of Forbidden Arts” is just an old book.

Well, the person in charge places more importance on treasures that have been brought back from the ruins.

Basically, I don’t really to go into the details about what the contents of my luggage were.

Even the mercenaries also dislike being asked about the details of their belongings.

As a result, it was just cast aside as they didn’t even try to “pilfer this treasure” of mine.

That’s what the officer that I had met explained towards me.

[The material that I needed was the weak point of this monster huh…]

I take out the small hammer from my bag.

Is it possible for me to just separate the silver bone part from the others?

I crouched in front of the silver bone.

Klang!

I try hitting another bone beside the silver bone with my hammer.

Pishhii!

I was able to make a small crack on it.

[Hmm? Isn’t it unexpectedly brittle?]

[Well, boney monsters that were classified under the Skull-types seem to lose their toughness after their death.]

Mist, who’s standing behind me, explained.

[I see.]

Mist looks like she has this reserved atmosphere surrounding her right now.

It seems like she wants to know various things.

You could realize it through the atmosphere around her.

However, she knows that we’ve come to an agreement that we won’t ask questions that would intrude the other’s privacy.

She’s probably being thoughtful about that.

She’s an honest person.

I stood up and turned towards her.

[After we returned up to the above grounds, I could answer the sensible questions that you may ask.]

Mist faintly smiled.

[Am I really that obvious?]

[Well, I actually have a little something I wanted to talk about with you. It’s just that, I don’t think I want to talk in a place like this where a monster could randomly pop out. Let’s quickly finish things in here and go back.]

[I understand. At any rate, I was really astonished with your power. The Skeleton King was well-known to be a really strong enemy. An example of this is when one of them were found deep within the Magic Bone Ruins back then in the Alion. Well, I’ve only heard about it before.]

(T/N: It’s the same Makotsu Ruins, I honestly don’t understand why can’t they just call it Mahone Ruins. I’m going to stick it with Magic Bone Ruins since the monsters there look like they indeed were skeleton-type monsters.)

Magic Bone Ruins?

Speaking of which, that place was written down under the Mills Ruins.

I prioritized in going towards Mills Ruins because I didn’t know the location of this Magic Bone Ruins.

So, it’s a ruins that’s located somewhere near Alion huh…

Mist looks toward the head of the King of Bones.

[There was once a really brave hero, whose skills were a cut above the rest. He challenged the Skeleton King with great resolution within his heart and fought face to face with it… Well, that story was being circulated down into the future generations.]

I also looked towards the head of the Skeleton King.

The head still remains spotless even now.

[Piii~]

[Hmmm? What is it, Pigimaru?]

Pigimaru’s protrusion held out and pointed towards the head.

[Is there something in there?]

[Pii.]

He turned into an affirmative green.

I tried getting closer towards the head.

The inside of the skull-like head seems to be hollow.

[Hati-dono? What’s the matter?]

[Ah, it seems that he noticed something in here.]

I illuminate what I’m looking at with the leather bag.

There were several human bones inside of the head.

The bottom of some torso-like bone seems to have assimilated with the interior of the skull.

It’s probably a human being that was swallowed by the Skeleton King.

It was quite an eerie sight.

However, I felt that I’m already used to seeing human bones since I’ve seen them multiple times back in the Disposal Ruins but…

[Hmm?]

There’s something hanging on the human bones that were deep inside the skull.

It’s somewhat wrapped inside a cloth.

This thing was tightly tied around the bones beside it.

I began breaking the surrounding bones around it.

I grasped it within my palms and gently put it on the ground.

I could feel the roundness of this thing from above the cloth.

Is it something like a head?

I wonder if it had just been a skull all this time…

Keeping my vigilance towards this unknown object, I began unfastening the cloth off of this thing.

Powwwaaan…

[What the…?]

The cloth that was used to wrap whatever this thing is began to emit light.

I check the part where the light came from.

There was something on the surface of this cloth that has began to stand out.

I immediately took my distance and watched out if that thing was going to explode.

However, the light immediately disappeared.

It looked just like a common cloth you could find anywhere but…

Was it some kind of magical cloth or something like that?

[Pii.]

When we’ve fully unwrapped the cloth, the contents within finally appeared.

[This is— an egg, right?]

It looks like an egg because of its shape.

The size of this thing is quite close to an ostrich egg that I’ve seen somewhere on the net.

The characteristic that particularly stood out was its color.

It’s a gradation of red, black, and white.