A whole hour had passed since they discovered the existence of the illusion traps, they found two more traps of that type before they reached an enormous hall, which had a lot of small rooms inside.
That large hall was like the corridors and looked human-made. The group had decided to look for some legacy inside that part of the realm.
The number of legacies in the realms was variable, and there was no way of determining the real amount, but usually, the realms with different areas had at least one legacy in each one, so remaining within the same zone increased the probabilities of finding one.
That hall where they arrived with that many small rooms seemed a commonplace for finding some legacy.
"We should look carefully. There is a high chance of a legacy being within the small rooms, but you should be careful. There could be traps inside. We will follow the basic rules. If the legacy is something material, the one who discovered it can get it. If there's more than one item, we will split among all of us the others after the finder had chosen first. If the legacy is some skill or spell, we will gather together to study it."
Those were basic rules the nobles created for that kind of occasion.
When coming to Special Realms, they needed some rules to avoid internal strife and robbery among their members.
Breaking those rules would tarnish their reputation, and that wasn't something the prideful nobles wanted to happen.
Things like reputation and honor mattered a lot to them. That was the reason they were displeased that the commoners chose robbery at the first chance.
As the group was about to separate to search legacies, Yale spoke.
"If I were you, I wouldn't move from here."
They were startled at Yale's words, but since he was the only one capable of seeing through the illusions, they stopped.
"Probably, they are hidden by illusions, so you can't see them, but this area is full of deadly things."
The faces of the four kids turned pale. They only saw a common hall with some rooms.
"Is there any safe way to explore the hall?"
Kermu knew that even if the elder who had created the realm wanted to make it difficult to obtain the legacies, there should be a method to obtain them.
"There is a way, but you should follow my steps. Although this hall seems big, the path without danger is narrow and isn't in a straight line."
There were some pits without end, some pools of poison, and a lot of sharp poison spikes on the floor. Any of those things could end with their lives.
Yale was unable to determine the type of poison, but he was sure that the substance was poisonous. He studied a lot of books about poison in the Poison Class and was capable of identifying the elements in the pools and the spikes as toxic at first sight.
Even without knowing the type of poison, there was no way a poison placed in such a dangerous place wasn't lethal to them.
The hall, which at first sight seemed the most secure place they had been, was instead the most dangerous place.
"I have an idea. Use this in your shoes, your steps will get imprinted into the floor, and we will step only in the marked places."
Kermu said that while extracting some tints from his spatial artifact.
"Really, a spatial artifact is too useful..."
Yale sighed, there was no way to obtain a spatial artifact in Nacesai City, even Swordmad only had his own spatial artifact.
He had problems when carrying things due to lacking one.
"Don't you have one?"
Kermu seemed surprised that Yale didn't have a spatial artifact.
"Kermu, you forget that he is a commoner, and even other noble clans don't have as many spatial artifacts as your clan."
Serka knew very well her fiancé's clan. The Kurk Clan's bloodline had an incredible affinity to the space element and was the number one clan in manufacturing spatial artifacts in the whole empire.
Thus, for Kermu, spatial artifacts were an ordinary thing.
"You are right, I forgot about that. Yale, if you want a spatial artifact, I can gift you one after we exit the Special Realm. I can't get you a top-grade one, and even if I could, someone would try to rob you. Thus, it wouldn't be a good idea. However, obtaining a low-rank spatial artifact as a present for a friend is something I can do."
Kermu was talking earnestly, low-grade spatial artifacts were precious to commoners, and even noble clans didn't gift them without reason, but to the Kurk Clan, some low-rank spatial artifacts were something that they could gift as a proof of friendship.
When Kermu and Serka were engaged, the Kermu Clan gifted a top-grade spatial artifact to Serka's mother.
Their clans ordered the engagement, but they had engaged them because they were very close since they were young, and they didn't oppose it when the elders asked them about it.
There were forced marriages in the noble clans, but they always tried that both parties were willing to marry. They had a lot of members, so usually, it wasn't difficult to found a couple that would be happy to be engaged together.
As no one lost anything with the engagement, the Kurk clan didn't need to send any gift, but they still did it to improve their relationships with the Zhan Clan. Among the five clans, those two were the closest.
"You consider me a friend?"
Yale was startled. He never thought that one of the members of his group would consider him qualified to be a friend. Given their status as nobles, Yale considered that, at most, he was a useful companion for them.
"Of course, I consider you a friend. You helped us a lot since we entered the realm, and you have a good temperament. Even if you are a commoner, you are someone worthy to be my friend."
Yale had indeed helped them a lot due to his illusion immunity, but he didn't do it to obtain anything in exchange, he wasn't the type of person who would sit as others die when a simple word of him could have avoided it.
Furthermore, being in a group was also beneficial to Yale, so it was normal that he helped them.
Moreover, as he traveled with them, he noticed that the personalities of the nobles weren't that bad as most people thought. They were prideful, but their acts went according to that pride.
In fact, Yale liked more how the nobles acted than how Heruk acted. The pride of the nobles would restrain themselves from doing such wicked acts as torture an opponent.
If they had a grudge because someone offended them, they would kill the opponent openly, but they wouldn't rely upon torture nor use underhanded methods.
The only exception was when a criminal had information that should be obtained no matter what, for the sake of the empire. Even the imperial family would use any method to get that information.
The nobles also disliked breaking the rules, which was seen as a barbaric behavior, and the noble clans would punish any member that was found out breaking any rule or law.
Of course, even in the noble clans were shameless people who liked to abuse others, but they need to act stealthy and at least couldn't openly harm others like Heruk did in Nacesai City.
When a noble wanted to abuse their power and status, they need to do it carefully using the laws which enforced a special status to them as their advantage, forcing the other party to offend them.
Usually, as long as the commoners didn't offend them, the noble clans were too prideful to act against them without a valid reason. Thus, even if the people feared the noble clans, as long and they respected them, everything was fine.
"Then, thank you very much."
Yale accepted the offer, although he would obtain a storage space when he finished the first Main Chain Quest.
A spatial artifact was still very useful to him because he didn't know when he would get that reward, and the need to carry more objects without limiting his mobility was something relevant to him.
After that, Yale did as Kermu suggested and advanced with his shoes tinted, marking the way for the others.
If someone were to see them, there was no doubt that the person would think that they were fools walking in a strange pattern, although there wasn't any reason to do it.
However, even Yale, who could see the way, needed to be careful while walking because the road was really a difficult one. He thought that it would be impossible to obtain anything from the hall without Illusion Immunity or heaven-defying luck.
After two hours, they finally reached one of the small rooms.
Although it was the first room, there was already a legacy inside. The way had been an extremely difficult one, but it wasn't without reward.
Everyone's eyes lighted up as they looked upon the legacy they had found.