Chapter Twenty-Three: Small Talk
Compared to the other buildings in Dragon Hunting City, the relic database is slightly old and plain.
The place was in the corner of the building, small and inconspicuous, but guarded by two men who looked like guards.
"Hey, hey, hey! Anyone? Ben-sama is here! Hanami shouted at the door.
After a while, a young hunter in his twenties who looked like a bachelor came out of the ruin database, and after a polite and polite greeting, Sanjing already knew his identity, his name was Roerich, a famous ruin hunter.
Sure enough, the person who occupies the ruins database and the client are the same person, but what Sanjing didn't expect was that he had locked the ruins database firmly and ordered the guards to continue to guard it.
I originally thought that I would take this opportunity to solve many problems in my heart, but it seems that the matter of consulting information has to be postponed......
Later, the three of them appeared at the Beast Taming Firm in Dragon Hunting City.
"One-stop service for beast dogs and dragons, eight thousand dragon coins...... Well, this one is good. ”
Roerich touched his body, then smiled awkwardly, "Sanjing, Hanami...... I'm sorry...... Do you have any money with you? ”
I don't really understand Roerich in the next three scenes, as a client who is willing to pay a huge amount of twenty gold, he actually went out without money?
Aren't you a tyrant?
Sanjing shook his head and said, "No, I'm a poor ghost......
Hanami took out a gold coin from his body and threw it over, "Well, this is what Lord Ben lent you!" ”
Roerich said, "Hmm...... I'll keep it in mind. ”
The trio then hired a "one-stop transportation service" to get to the target location mentioned by Roerich, the Misty Forest.
The Misty Forest is called the Misty Forest by the people nearby because it is foggy all year round and bottomless, and there are snakes and dragons infested with it, and almost no one wants to enter it.
Even with the beast dog dragon as a means of transportation, it is still a day's journey from Dragon Hunting City.
At this time, Hanami was already asleep on the beast cart, and Sankei and Roerich were thinking about something.
"Sanjing, what a coincidence, you are also a relic hunter, then we won't be too bored along the way." Roerich said with a smile.
"Speaking of which, I originally wanted to go to the ruins database to check it out, but you took over ......," Sanjing said.
"Is it like this? I'm sorry, I'm doing a very important research right now, and I'm going to need to look up some key information in the repository of relics, but you'll be able to go in when I'm done. ”
"Understandable."
Sanjing nodded, being able to obtain permission from the Hunters' Guild, and having a special guard, presumably with an important research project, although Roerich is not yet an inspector hunter, but it seems that he has gained a lot of prestige in the Hunters' Guild.
"Actually, I, a relic hunter, can only rank second among my master's several apprentices, but even so, the Hunter Guild has given me quite a lot of help and support."
"Master?"
"Three Scenes...... So you don't know yet? My master is a famous scholar of the Hunters' Guild and a dragon hunter. ”
This Roerich's master is actually a dragonman, and he is also a high-ranking scholar in the Hunters' Guild, so it is no wonder that the Hunters' Guild values this seemingly inconspicuous relic hunter so much.
"To be honest, I've only just learned a little bit about dragonmen."
"Huh? Sanjing, also as a relic hunter, I have to criticize you. Roerich showed a solemn expression, "Many ruins in the world are related to people, dragonmen, dragons, and other species, and the dragonman ruins are more like a key in this. ”
"Keys?"
"Yes, that's why I said how important it is to understand the dragonmen and study the history of the dragonmen, and the difficulties of many other species relics have been answered with the continuous study of the dragonman relics."
Roerich continued, "I'm completely right to devote myself to the study of the Dragonman Ruins, and as I dig deeper and deeper, the artifacts left by the Dragonmen and the history behind them will refresh my understanding again and again. ”
"For example, the idea that the origin of the dragon transformation technique and the secret realm that I investigated in my previous research is speculated to come from dragon people has been overturned in my subsequent research."
"Really?" Of course, Sanjing knew that there had been the appearance of the dragon transformation technique before the dragon people, but it was only a preliminary involvement, but the appearance of the secret realm was after the Third Age.
"I have compared a lot of dragonman ruins, and there seems to be the appearance of ancient humans in the patterns of very few ruins, and it is very possible that ancient humans have learned dragon transformation before dragonmen."
"That means the dragonization technique may not have been created by the dragonmen."
"Well, that's right, but the inheritance and development of dragons must be closely related to dragonmen, which is why most people believe that dragonmen discovered and created dragons and secret realms, most of the dragonmen's ancient sayings, and the truth behind some ruins also illustrate this.
"Isn't your master a dragon, don't you know if you ask him?" Sanjing said.
"If only it were that simple......," Roerich paused, "My master mentioned that there was a catastrophe in the history of dragonmen because of dragonization, and that disaster caused a considerable blow to the dragonmen's civilization, but fortunately, it was finally quelled, so many things were also listed as taboos for dragonmen, and they were gradually forgotten as years passed......"
The "...... of the Great Apocalypse" could not have imagined that such a magical species would also encounter the so-called Great Catastrophe in the absence of a stronger opponent.
"But my research is dedicated to finding the truth and restoring history as much as possible, which is also my original intention of becoming a relic hunter, if I retreat because of the taboo, then there is no point in me as a relic hunter."
At this moment, Sanjing suddenly understood, "The prey of the ruin hunter...... It's the truth. ”
"Sanjing, you're right! So that's one of the reasons why I'm heading to the Misty Forest now despite the danger. ”
The three scenes had already learned the goal of their mission from Roerich's previous explanation, and they unconditionally protected Roerich from entering the Misty Forest until he returned to Dragon Hunting City.
And the meaning of Rorich's words is that there is a part of the truth in the Misty Forest? Could it be that there are ruins in the forest?
Roerich seemed to have seen what Sanjing was thinking, "That's right, based on many clues and descriptions in the literature, I guess that there is indeed a possibility of dragonman ruins in the location of the Misty Forest." ”
"Nobody wants to go...... Snake dragon haunt...... The fog that can't be seen clearly...... "Even if you put aside clues and research, such a place is indeed very mysterious.
Generally speaking, there are no hunters interested in such dangerous and unprofitable places, except for relic hunters who have a strong obsession.