She Professed Herself The Pupil Of The Wiseman

Chapter 76 - 70: Abandoned City in the Sky (1)

Throughout the abandoned buildings there were multiple stained white crystals scattered about. Those were the Sky Crystals which at one point helped the city escape the darkness of night.

There was a time when the Abandoned City in the Sky was instead known as the City of Light, always filled with light from early morning to late in the night without exception, and that made even the souls of the people there more bright.

Those crystals, the symbol of the city, did not only help with dispelling darkness, but also kept evil at bay, making the city a holy site. They held the special feature of retaining and amplifying any light, and when surrounded by darkness, that light was released.

That history was the result arrived at by eccentric players who spent time reading all the pieces of literature strewn around.

But now it was impossible to witness the glory that light held back in those days. The old crystals that once lit up the city had completely lost their glow.

「This place looks good from what I've seen. We're close to the forest here as well, so let's set up camp here.」

After wandering around the city district that faced the forest in

Just like with all the previous cases, the hole was massive, spanning around 500 meters in diameter, the far end of it covered by a slight white haze illuminated by the sun.

Apart from the damage done by the Earth Eater, there was nothing else disturbed in the scenery around them. In a way, that also explained how Gilbert had arrived at the conclusion this event had taken place recently.

「There was a point to coming here after all! It's incredible that we're here so soon after it happened. We'll do the full investigation tomorrow, there's a lot of things that can only be checked while we're here. But I'll go fetch a sample real quick, wait for a bit!」

Gilbert sprung like a compressed spring, without waiting for a reply of any sort, and jumped down into the crater.

「Hey, when he said we'd be back by sunset, it also included the time needed to gather this sample, yes?」

「That's obvious, it wasn't.」

Seeing Gilbert with a small bottle on his hand, running around inside the crater, Mira slowly looked away and heaved a deep sigh.

Heinrich felt nervous, realizing that Gilbert would take a long time and would leave him alone with Mira, so he sat at the border of the crater and began some small talk.

They mostly spoke about more personal things, Mira greatly expanding on her made-up backstory of being a Wiseman's disciple, and then Heinrich spoke pridefully about his past exploits as a warrior.