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Thursday, January 13th, morning, Seemium Island.
"This should be it."
The woman, with simple black hair, grayish-blue eyes, and a face clearly not native to the colony, looked around, then took out a pile of items to conduct a survey.
After a while, she seemed to confirm something and couldn't help but smile.
She was Leticia, an amateur archaeologist from the Moses Ascetic Order, and also a Sequence 7 Warlock.
Leticia then seemed to think of something, looking at the woman beside her who claimed to be an "Elf mixed-blood," and asked expectantly, "Did you feel anything?"
"There… there really should be something here." Siatas frowned.
She did feel something; something was attracting her, an attraction from her Elf Bloodline, carrying a certain Charm.
However, this Charm was very faint, not enough to affect her rationality and judgment.
Mobet naturally noticed Siatas's unusual reaction.
He deliberately said in a casual tone, "But there isn't even a temple here; all I can see are trees and grass." As he spoke, he quietly squeezed Siatas's right hand, which was resting by her side, to offer comfort.
Then, Mobet saw Siatas give him a look that said, "What are you, this idiot, doing?"
Mobet: …
Alright, he really shouldn't expect Siatas to react like a normal girl.
But just as Mobet was once again lamenting in his heart that his wife was a block of wood, he suddenly noticed that after Siatas glanced at him, she actually didn't pull her hand back.
#She let me hold her hand, she has me in her heart#
Mobet was instantly overjoyed and couldn't resist leaning closer to Siatas, almost resting his entire body on her shoulder, only to suddenly receive a short-range strike.
"Don't lean on me, you're heavy." Siatas said grumpily.
"Sorry…" Mobet rubbed the spot where he was hit, retreating a bit with a wronged expression.
Leticia, who was about to say something but witnessed this scene: …
Can you two please pick a better time for romance?
"The Ancient Elf Ruins are underground; of course, you won't see anything looking from above ground." Leticia said stiffly.
She then pulled something out of her backpack: a shovel.
"Dig.
These ruins have long been buried; we need to dig here first."
…
"Seriously, how down-to-earth.
I thought it would be more mystical." On a certain tree, Lin Ruo propped his head with one hand, holding a telescope in the other, sitting against the tree trunk.
Looking at the people diligently digging in the distance, he immediately felt that this exploration of ruins was instantly linked to some illicit business.
However, he also knew that this was normal.
For something like ruins, if they are buried underground, the first thing to do to get in isn't to dig, after all, not everyone is a Wraith or a Traveler who can directly pass through.
Even considering the unknown conditions of the ruins, even a Wraith or Traveler probably wouldn't go in directly.
"Are we just going to wait?" Klein, also holding a telescope beside him, asked in a low voice.
"What else?
Even if we were to act, we'd have to wait for them to dig out the entrance first, otherwise, what if it's the wrong place?
And I don't want to dig." Lin Ruo spread his hands, saying quite frankly.
Klein: …
Actually, the last sentence was the main point, wasn't it?
—That's right, it was already the next day, and Lin Ruo and Klein had quietly followed behind Leticia and the others the whole way, relying on their inside man and their own powerful tracking and stealth skills, following them all the way to this primeval forest.
As for Medici?
He was analyzing data in the safe house.
Once the entrance to the ruins was dug open, Lin Ruo would summon him.
Under the watchful eyes of this teacher and student, Leticia and the others quickly dug a pit.
Then, after digging a bit more, they unearthed what was clearly a buried constructed wall.
Evidently, Leticia's judgment was indeed correct.
Upon discovering the wall, Leticia put down her shovel, letting the others continue digging while she prepared herself.
The items she was preparing were clearly some kind of explosives and purification Charms, indicating she didn't intend to actually dig out the ruins' main gate to enter, but rather to blast open a path.
Thus, soon after, with a "Boom—", a hole large enough for a person to crawl through was blasted into the buried wall of the ruins.
Looking inside from this opening, not much could be seen; most of it was pitch black, with only faint glimpses of some pillars and collapsed walls.
"Prepare yourselves, we… hmm?" Leticia's voice abruptly stopped.
It wasn't that she didn't want to speak, but her thoughts were stolen at that moment.
At the same time, Mobet quickly whispered something, then snapped his fingers, and a wisp of flame appeared at his fingertip.
Siatas, on the other hand, had already drawn her bow, and the lightning-flickering arrowhead was almost pressed against Leticia's neck, making her dare not move.
"This is as far as you go, madmen attempting to disturb the peace of the Queen's Ruins." Siatas said with a cold face.
She had endured for a while and now just wanted to beat the other party up.
Mobet, meanwhile, played with the flame and said, "Don't be too nervous, everyone, we don't intend to kill you, we just hope you give up on these ruins, leave immediately, and keep it a secret."
"You… Dream Stealers? Ocean Singers?"
Leticia looked at the two in astonishment.
Of course, she wasn't completely unprepared for these two who joined halfway, but she truly hadn't expected them to be two Sequence 5s.
She had thought they would at most be Sequence 7s, like her.
No, if you two are Sequence 5s, why were you pretending to be rookies with me?
If you wanted to know the whereabouts of the ruins, you could have just forced me to tell you, and I wouldn't have refused, would I?
Leticia was a bit speechless, and at the same time, a little excited and alarmed.
What kind of ruins could attract the covetousness of two Sequence 5s?
And who was the Queen Siatas mentioned…
Leticia's curiosity as a Seer even outweighed her fear at this moment.
She naturally wouldn't try to resist two Sequence 5s, especially when her teammates had already given up resisting—Leticia's four good teammates, upon hearing Leticia's words, one by one decisively abandoned resistance.
This was not strange; they were just some Sequence 9s and Sequence 8s; even combined, they couldn't do anything against two Sequence 5s.
These were powerhouses of the Pirate Admiral level.
So Leticia merely said, "Perhaps you need a guide.
I'm certainly more familiar with exploring ruins than you are."
"No need.
It's better if you don't participate in what happens next.
Especially you, Leticia, with a partial Elf Bloodline, you could easily be corrupted in these ruins."
A strange voice spoke, a very gentle male voice.
Leticia dared not move her head, but her peripheral vision glanced towards the direction of the voice, and she saw two young men walking side by side towards them.
One she had seen on the newspaper a few months ago: the mad adventurer Gehrman, a lunatic whose Sequence wasn't high but who dared to madly hunt pirates and even provoke the Admiral of Blood's pirate ship.
The other was a scholarly-looking young man, dressed in a way that simply shouldn't appear in this primeval forest, and he even seemed to be holding a book in his hand.
The latter smiled gently at her and said, "Or perhaps, you are already impatient to meet the Hidden Sage?"
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