Wandering Agent by Melody of Mana 04 (epub)

Author:Melody of Mana 04 (epub)
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 25

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ANCIENT SURPRISES

Dras

With a ding, the door opened and our little group spilled out into the hall. We’d lucked out. This floor seemed to start here at the elevator bank. It was just us, and a little door with a picture of stacked rectangles and a little person on it. No clue what that was for.

The building continued to change around us. As I watched, fallen tiles and fixtures floated back into place, cracks sealing as the area returned to looking preternaturally shiny and new. Bit by bit, the whole hallway reformed in front of us.

Selene gaped. “Is … have you ever seen anything like that?”

“Whoever designed this—and I’m guessing it was the ancient Elven king—”

“Good guess,” Ormien interjected.

“ … knew quite a lot more about magic tools and how to use them than we do,” I finished.

“Another good guess,” the elf said, growing restless. “Let’s find that wolf and get this over with.”

Ormien had a one-track mind and an axe to grind.

“We’re after our people first,” Glen growled. “Then we go after the bastard.”

“Right.”

We began our search, room by room. It was very possible that they’d not come down this low, or were dead, but even if we didn’t find our missing members we might find something useful. It was clear that we’d come down into actual laboratory spaces. Sadly what they were doing here was impossible to work out, that is until Leah called out to us.

“Guys, guys you need to look at this,” she said, sticking her head out of one of the previously locked rooms.

All the rooms on this hall had had only one entrance, and this was no exception, while the physicals spent time keeping an eye on the hall, those of us with a bit less punch had taken to giving the various rooms a once-over.

Robert, who’d arrived at his sister’s side seconds before me, stood in the doorway, stock still. After a few coughs, Robert sidled over and allowed the rest of us to pass. When I arrived, I froze too, despite Selene shoving me from behind to get a better look.

Before us stood an all-too familiar ring structure. We’d seen these before. Not only that, we’d used them, even working on its parts to better understand it!

“A travel ring,” I said to no one in particular. The design differed from those I’d seen in subtle ways. For instance, the decorative bits used by Ristolian were absent, as was the top part I was used to seeing. Other than that, however, but it resembled something that could have come out of one of our labs. Hardly something to be found in an ancient ruin.

We’d come here to find the secrets of putting more commands into the core. But finding this … it meant that we might be able to skip that lengthy process and go right to production.

“This … complicates things,” Selene murmured.

She received a round of scoffs from most of us. Only Ormien didn’t understand what he was seeing.

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