Chapter 38 (2/2)

They were also popular with the Adventurers, and people gave them food.

I had heard that animals got sick if they ate human food with too much sodium…but it was probably different for slimes.

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“Yuji. Do you have a minute?”

The manager called out to be as the feast continued and people began to move away from me.

“What is it?”

“It’s about the stone. We can’t talk about it here, so I want you to come to the back.”

About the stone…the cursed stone, I suppose.

Judging by his tone, it seemed pretty serious.

“Alright.”

And so I used magic to conceal myself as I left the room. Then I followed the manager to an empty room in the guild.

He locked the room…and then said:

“We have inspected the remains of the killed monsters at the guild…and have concluded that the magic stone that created those monsters…is likely manmade. And judging by the number of monsters, it wasn’t done by a single person.”

He said as he pointed at a desk.

There were fragments of a magic stone that had gone white.

I had had suspicions, as it was not as strong as the magic stone that had destroyed a kingdom, and it was carried by a strange human… But it turned out to be really man-made.

I didn’t know what kind of organization it was… But they couldn’t be good, seeing as they were scattering these things around.

And they must be quite powerful as well.

After all, they were able to orchestrate a monster outbreak on a scale that was big enough to destroy multiple towns.

“…Yuji. Do you have any ideas about who they could be?”

I had practically no knowledge of criminal organizations in this world.

Still…I did have some information that might be useful.