Chapter 1202 – Ep.1200 Smith, a Black Company in Another World
As expected, it didn’t take long to remove the collapsed debris.
Each time the fire whip swept through the debris, the broken and shattered debris was swallowed up as a repository for sacred materials, making it truly a living human excavator.
“What kind of power is that?”
“What is authority? “It’s just a blessing from the company.”
“Company?”
“There is such a thing.”
Ingrim came up to me with surprised eyes as he saw me organizing the surroundings in an instant and asked me about my abilities. Since I was too lazy to explain, I just ignored it.
Ingrim must have sensed that I found it annoying to explain, so he didn’t ask any more questions after that.
“But I can’t see a separate passage leading down.”
It was good that the debris had been removed.
However, when the debris was removed, all that was visible was the broken and cracked marble floor.
“This way.”
While I was looking around in a dazed state, Ardel, who had been concentrating on his hands on the floor with Rihina, stood up and led me inside.
And.
Pakak!
When I placed my hand on the intact marble floor and applied a little force, the marble split in half like a corn can and swallowed Ardel’s hand.
‘Well, there’s no need to find the entrance using a gimmick.’
It’s not like you have to sneak somewhere.
The original owner was no longer from this world, so there was no reason for us to care.
For that reason, I quietly watched Ardel’s actions as he manually cut the marble floor that was hiding the passageway down in half and then broke it, revealing the entrance. And when the stairs leading down were finally fully revealed, I felt a great sense of déjà vu.
Wide enough for just one person to pass by.
The wall is unified in a gloomy black-gray color.
Lastly, there are glowing stones embedded at regular intervals.
It was obviously my first time encountering this underground passage, but for some reason my mind felt very familiar with it.
“Huh.”
“You?”
“Uh, no. Let’s go down.”
I walked down the stairs with my companions.
‘According to Sith’s guess, I was thinking in that direction to some extent…’
A structure and form that is suspiciously familiar even though it is my first time seeing it.
The reason my brain accepted it that way was simple.
This is because the underground passage we are currently walking down is exactly similar to the current style of the Sith Church underground passage when Petrmira was still active.
The Sith made a reasonable guess that the presence of Petmira that briefly inhabited Kalm’s body was Mariel, the first emperor, and I also gave some weight to that, but I was not at the point where I was certain.
However, if you give a hint this blatantly, you have no choice but to believe it even if you don’t want to believe it.
When we reached the end of the stairs, what greeted us was a wide cavity.
“It’s not that big, considering it’s been around for a long time.”
“Isn’t this wide enough?”
“If you think of it as a tomb of past emperors who ruled the continent, it is a very modest scale.”
At first glance, it seemed larger than the underground space he had been in for several days in the royal capital, but even after seeing it, Ardel judged it to be rather frugal.
“I don’t know if it’s frugal, but… For a place where the coffins of emperors were kept, it is very gloomy.”
Contrary to my expectation that the color would become a little brighter as we came down the stairs, even if it wasn’t golden, the cavity was just about that level, with the stairs and walls we came down spread out and widened.
“The coffin is over there.”
We walked towards the platinum-colored coffins placed at regular intervals at the end of the wide cavity.
“It’s a little gloomy, but I’ve done everything I need to do.”
There was a coffin made of platinum, and on the wall where the coffin was placed, there was a huge portrait that perfectly reproduced his appearance when he was alive.
‘… They look so similar that it gives me goosebumps.’
It wasn’t just that their eyes or mouths resembled each other; the emperors in the portraits resembled each other enough to be believed to be twins, with only slightly different hairstyles.
And what made me even more horrified was that the appearances of the Emperor and Leviel, who were no longer from this world, were also eerily similar to them.
When the Emperor and Reviel looked alike, I thought it was quite possible since they were parents and children, but when I saw the numerous portraits hanging on the wall in person, I intuitively knew that this was not a mere coincidence.
“Do you feel anything special?”
“Not yet.”
“I don’t have one either.”
Ingrim and Nuit, who were quietly following behind, seemed to focus on my question for a moment and then shook their heads.
‘I don’t feel anything special either.’
If Mariel’s fragments had been hidden here, I would have felt a tingling pain in my balls, if not terrible pain.
“The management is all so good that it’s hard to tell which comes first.”
As Ardel said, the coffin and portrait were in very good condition, as if someone had taken care of them every day. So I asked Ardel and Lihina to open the coffins at both ends.
… Grrr.
When the two people applied a little force to push the lid, the platinum coffin lid was pushed aside with a fairly heavy sound.
“It looks like it’s this way.”
“I think it’s this way.”
And Ardel and Rihina looked at me at the same time and answered like that.
“… ?”
“… ?”
Ardel and Rihina, who had answered that the coffin they had chosen was the coffin of the first emperor, turned their heads and looked at each other. The two people who exchanged comments with each other pushed the remaining coffin lids one by one to check the inside before I could even open my mouth.
As a result.
“They’re all empty.”
“What happened?”
The inside of an empty coffin.
I walked slowly and looked inside the empty coffin.
“You two, please check to see if there are any other hidden spaces.”
At my request, Ardel and Rihina went up to the ground again through the stairs.
“Don’t sit still and take a look around here.”
“I understand.”
“Yes.”
Ingrim used the divinity I instilled in him to light a small spark in his palm, and together with Nuit, it lit the walls and floor. And then I started walking through the cavity, looking closely at the ceiling.
‘This is a completely unexpected situation…’
I never would have thought that all the coffins were empty.
If I could contact Marvius, I would ask for his opinion on the situation, but unfortunately, Marvius was currently in Molingta, a long way away from here.
‘It’s unexpected, but it’s not all that bad.’
We already know that the first emperor’s coffin is empty.
Nevertheless, the reason I visited this place was because there might be a fragment of Mariel in the coffin or any clues related to its location.
And now, this unexpected situation has given me unfounded confidence. I am confident that if I search that coffin, I will definitely find some clues.
First, I walked over to take a look at the coffin that Ardel first opened.
Grumbling!!
Recently, after rehabilitation and using it a lot, I can now fire the fire anywhere on my body without concentrating my mind. I started the fire with my hands and looked closely at the inside of the coffin.
First, when I looked at it with my eyes, it was ordinary.
Just in case, I put my burning right hand in the coffin.
Although it was an ordinary piece of paper, it had a gimmick where writing appeared when it was burned or sprayed with a special reagent, so you shouldn’t look at it in vain.
‘Is this a dud?’
I traced every surface with my hand and found nothing special, so I moved to the next coffin. So I repeated the same action 6 times.
‘Damn, I’m breaking into a cold sweat.’
My shirt was now soaked with cold sweat due to the anxiety creeping up every time I passed a tube.
The last one left.
When I first approached the coffin Rihina had checked, I repeated the process again.
First, I look at it with my eyes and try to burn it with fire, then I put my palm to it and apply a little of my strength to it. And finally, I traced the coffin with the palm of my hand.
‘If I do this, I’m leaving…’ …’
I carefully examined the last, seventh tube, but contrary to my intuition, which told me there was something there, I found no clues.
“…”
A tube made of platinum.
It was empty inside, and a large portrait hung on the wall where the coffin was placed.
Are there other hidden passages?
If not, is the emperor’s remarks real, not here?
Hundreds of thoughts pop into my head.
However, I knew that no matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t find an answer, so I decided to search as best I could in the given environment until Ardel and Rihina returned.
‘If it’s not inside the coffin…’ …’
I grabbed the empty coffin and pushed with all my might.
“Huh!!”
I pushed it with so much force that my face exploded, but somehow the coffin wouldn’t budge.
“Huh, crazy. Nuit!”
“Yes?”
I called in Nuit, who was walking behind Ingrim and looking around.
“Let’s push this together.”
“I understand.”
Nuit and I held on to the coffin with both hands, then pushed our hips back and stretched both legs as hard as we could.
“Hmm!!”
“Huh!!”
I pushed with all my strength, with the intention of using all my breast sucking strength.
“Huh! “Huh!”
“Hey! Hehe!!”
Nuit and I let out a sigh of relief almost at the same time and fell on our stomachs on the coffin.
Grrr.
“… ?”
The pipe, which had not budged, went down very slowly and a sound as if some device was operating was heard.
I lifted my head and looked around while draped in a coffin to find the source of the sound. And after frantically looking around repeatedly, I was able to find a very minor change.
Portrait hanging on the wall.
Only the portrait hanging in front of the coffin in which I was placed protruded ever so slightly.
