Bermuda - Bermuda Episode 10
Episode 10
Flynn responded a little hesitantly as he looked at the man who welcomed him unexpectedly.
“hello? See you again. “I haven’t found that person yet.”
“Oh, is it still there? “You came here while conducting an investigation.”
“Yeah, it just so happened… . “I have something to ask you. Can you please cooperate?”
“yes? ah. It’s possible, but I need to move them all quickly now. Actually, I should have moved early in the morning, but I drank so much yesterday that I overslept.”
The brown-haired member scratched the back of his head and smiled.
“Can we finish this quickly and then talk about it?”
Probably, if he had been the leader, he would have ignored the circumstances and told him to cooperate with the investigation. That may be true in the current situation, but Flynn couldn’t bear to be that type of person.
He didn’t look like he was lying or trying to avoid anything, so Flynn nodded and said,
“Can I help you? Then we can finish it faster.”
“uh… , really? “I would be grateful if you could help me.”
As the brown-haired member spoke, Flynn walked over to the cart and took out his medium-sized artifact next to it. It was small enough to be held in one hand, but when it hit the ground, it grew as big as a cart and then turned into a large box.
Soon, Flynn began moving the boxes on the cart into the artifact. Then the wide-eyed man asked in a surprised voice.
“Wow, is this really an artifact?”
“Do you know the artifact?”
“yes! Sometimes magic tools are handled at the top, and I’ve seen them a few times. “But this is the first time I’ve seen it get this big.”
“Oh, most of the ones on the market are small, but mine is a medium-sized artifact, so there are more items inside. “If you shrink it and make it lightweight, you can carry it around like a small artifact.”
“and… “So, investigator, do you have magical powers?”
‘Oops.’
Flynn then realized his mistake.
In general, magical power is required when using an artifact. Because of this, people who do not possess magical power do not experience much change when they touch the artifact.
Sometimes, magic power is injected into the artifact itself so that even ordinary people without magic power can use it, but in these cases, it is difficult to find it around because the price is quite high.
In his mind to quickly help and investigate, Flynn momentarily forgot that he had been hiding his magical powers until a fire broke out in the next town.
However, everyone in the village who was out at the time already knew that the leader and himself had put out the fire last night, so I answered naturally again, wondering if it was anything.
“Yes, I’m not into combat, but to some extent… .”
“I see. really… When you look at things like this, horsepower is really convenient. I envy you.”
“Haha, that’s right. It’s true that there is magical power… Good. “It’s convenient.”
As his brown eyes sparkled, Flynn felt a little embarrassed. So he smiled awkwardly and focused on putting the artifact in the box. As Flynn silently carried the boxes, Dan Sang-won also carried the remaining boxes.
After putting the last box in, Flynn shrunk the artifact again and picked it up.
People who have magical powers are often said to be blessed. At least they are stronger than people without magical power, and their lives are more convenient. This was like an innate talent, not something that was revealed through effort.
So Flynn felt a little embarrassed and uncomfortable at the same time when talking about this with someone without magical powers. No matter how humbly he speaks, the other person will feel deprived.
Even people who are commonly referred to as non-possessors of magical power were often born with a small amount of magical power. Even if the amount was such that one could not use magic directly, if one possessed even a small amount of magical power, one could excel in academic fields that use one’s physical development or brain.
Because of this, it was commonly believed that the more magical power there was, the better, and in particular, Laina Logia had so many magical powers that it was called the Empire of Mages.
Perhaps because of this, there were more people than other countries who possessed a small amount of magical power, even if they could not manifest it in a meaningful way. But in this empire, surprisingly, the young man in front of him did not feel any magical energy at all.
Flynn tried to divert his words, hoping that he wouldn’t feel deprived.
“Now, where should we go now?”
“Oh, it’s around here! Come over here.”
Contrary to Flynn’s concerns, the man didn’t seem to have any particular thoughts. Flynn felt even more sorry for having pitied and watched him alone, so he silently followed him.
The place I followed the man was on the outskirts of the mountain, a little to the side. Contrary to his expectations that he would be moving boxes into the store, Flynn was quite puzzled as he went deep into a deserted place.
I looked around nervously, worried that someone was deliberately leading me to some dark place.
How far did you walk? The man suddenly looked around the ground, stopped at a certain point, and pushed the fallen leaves aside with his foot. Then, the fallen leaves and dirt cleared away, and a wooden plank larger than expected appeared from the ground.
When a very secret secret door located in the ground on the outskirts was revealed as if trying to hide something, Flynn was surprised that such a thing was hidden inside. However, the man who brought him here lifted the wooden plank upward without any hesitation.
As the board, which seemed quite heavy, was easily lifted in his hands, a hole large enough to fit two people appeared, and a very cool energy flowed out of it.
As I was blinking at that, the man who brought me here pointed inside and said.
“Just put it in here.”
“this… Inside? “What are we doing here?”
“I think this place is said to be used by our merchants to store materials, but it is always difficult to find because it is in a remote location. Haha, if it becomes known that you brought an outsider, you will be scolded, so please keep it a secret.”
“iced coffee. Yes I will. Do not worry.”
Flynn, who had unintentionally discovered one of Delberg’s secrets, went inside with him without showing any signs, thinking he should investigate the inside. The man walked downstairs first, holding the lamp hanging at the entrance, wondering if it was really a place that had been used as a storage room.
Then, waiting for Flynn to follow him down, he shined the lamp in front of him. Flynn was a little nervous, but then he took his steps into the dark hole, one step at a time.
As we entered the storage room, it felt very cold. Frostland itself is a fairly cold place, but coming down to the ground felt like being inside a freezer. Flynn wrapped his arms around him and rubbed his arms. Perhaps because it was cold, my senses became quite dull.
The man who went down first in front of me was also shivering as if he was cold. He was wearing a lot more clothes than yesterday. He was wearing thicker clothes than me and seemed to be especially colder.
“It’s a bit cold, isn’t it? “There is a ledge on this side, so watch your step.”
The man said, shining his light at Flynn’s feet. Flynn, who already almost tripped, smiled shyly and followed him. When he went down a bit and his feet touched the flat ground, he saw a large room with several hanging lamps. There were boxes of various sizes piled up there.
“You can just pile it here.”
“and… , there are quite a lot of things. “I had no idea there was so much stuff down here.”
“The temperature here in the Frost Territory is very low. Maybe that’s why it seems like the residents’ culture is to store things in the ground like this. Thanks to this, the people at the top also liked that they didn’t have to install a separate freezer. “The ground acts as a natural freezer.”
“A natural freezer… ?”
“Well, could you take out the box you put it in earlier?”
“Ah yes!”
Flynn opened the artifact again. The two moved the boxes and stacked them on top of other boxes. It seemed like the boxes were stacked too high at the front, so the man said to Flynn as he moved to stack the boxes toward the back of the pile as well.
“These boxes will need to be moved to another location later, so it’s a good idea to stack them up in front.”
“okay.”
At the man’s words, Flynn stopped going back and piled up the boxes in front again.
As he had thought about earlier, the box did not weigh as much as he thought, so Flynn wanted to check the contents. However, I felt like my unnecessary actions could cause a strange misunderstanding, so I decided to finish my work first and get out of here.