The Griston Kingdom, located on the east side of the Western continent. This is a powerful kingdom of this Continent with the royal family in the ruling position.
Here the noble families are the most powerful group of people after the Royal family. But here title without the power is just a fat piece of meat for others to devour. Almost all noble families have the backing of at least one grand knight and some of the more powerful families and royal families even have the backing of the mysterious Magus.
The Elliott family is a moderately powerful noble family in the Griston Kingdom. The head of the Elliott family, Earl Grover Elliott was meeting with a young man named Ramos whom he trusts and is a very strong senior knight. Ever since he received the news from his daughter, count Elliott can't sit still because if he can get his hand on that high-grade breathing manual then in the next few decades his family will have multiple grand knights which will help Earl's family to become one of the most influential families on the Griston Kingdom. So after hearing that Elric escaped and someone may have helped him to escape Earl Elliott is in a very bad mode. But because this matter can't be leaked he can't ask anyone else but someone he trusts very much, so he gave this mission to his illegitimate son Ramos Elliott to investigate and capture Elric and his helper and to find out about the breathing manual.
After receiving this mission Ramos Elliott immediately set off for his destination because it will take him almost half a month to get in that jungle where Elric escaped and Gray first came to this World.
In Greenwood city, Gray oblivious to fact that danger slowly approaching him finally completed scanning all the books in City lord's library which amount to almost 1200. It took him almost 7 hours, when he came it was morning but it is already afternoon. The old man who was sitting not far from him asked him about what he was searching for after seeing his strange action but Gray just told him that he is looking for something interesting to read, seeing that Gray didn't want to elaborate that old man left a long time ago.
What Gray didn't know that was the City Lord of Greenwood city. And at first, he wanted to befriend him but after sensing that gray just a newly advanced junior knight he lost interest because he is a Senior knight himself.
Gray, after sorting out this huge amount of information in his mind finally knew the whole picture of this world. Although This town is very small, in this world many people like to read and education level is also high amongst the common people so there is a lot of record about many things and also many poetry works.
In this World many things are different from Earth, Gray can't even tell if physics is the same as the earth in this world. Because here human is not the only intelligent race, Also this world is very big and extremely dangerous there are zones like Green zones, yellow zones, Red zones, and legendary Black zones. Even the jungle that gray was teleported to is a green zone where even strong normal humans can visit but in the other zones, high-level monsters live and are forbidden for normal humans. Inside a yellow zone, you have to be a Senior knight to guarantee your survival and in a Red zone, not even a Grand knight can travel safely, as for black zones not a single human came back alive until now after going in.
There are three-continent in this world Western continent or barren continent, Middle Continent or mainland continent, and eastern continent or beast continent where other races are the majority, although humans have the weakest body amongst all the races they are still the Main race in this world because it is easier for humans to become Magus for some reason, in the Middle continent, they have many sects with high-level Magus as backers.
But communication and travel between them almost non-existing because of the huge distance and the ocean in between them which are all red zones where not even metal ships can travel through. Even though the relationship between human and other races is not that good but large scale war never happened between different recess instead there was a deadly war between a religion and the Magus in the distant past where many high-level Magus and religious leaders died although finally Magus won that war but many records were lost and the golden days of Magus were also ended because of this war.
Although Gray is not a religious person but the concept of God always fascinated him so he tries to recall all the information available about that past war but then he found out some very interesting information like that religion united the whole Western Continent and this was their main domain and that religion used to summon people from other worlds and called them Heros, then either brainwashed them or forced them to fight wars for them.
Thinking up to this can't help but recall those novels where a beautiful princess or a Priestess summon a Hero and the Hero saves the world from evil and then live happily ever after with the princess. But in reality, some people kidnapped a person from his or her family and forced them to fight a deadly war for them.
Suddenly Gray had another thought,
Maybe my teleportation to this world also has something to do with this Religion because if not it just too big of a coincidence. Although I can explain how the space channel opened in the earth but I can't find a reason why the other side of the space channel is this specific world.
Thinking this a strong interest in that war rose inside Gray's heart.
Gray also learned many other useful pieces of information like the name of this kingdom and its surrounding kingdoms, political and military power systems of these kingdoms, and about danger zones of this continent.
Satisfied after getting detailed information about many of Gray's doubts, when he was about to leave the library he met the old man again. This old man although looks like in his 60 but Gray can tell from his white hair that his actual age is much higher. Gray bowed to the old man to give him some respect because after scanning with the AI chip to surprised he found out this old man is a senior knight, and after that, he turned to leave.
Seeing Gray leave the old man was surprised again because in his eyes Gray came in the morning and now it is already afternoon. After some contemplation, he asked-
Young man, have you found what you were looking for? Although I don't want to brag but my collection of books is not inferior to some of those high nobles from the capital.
Hearing this Gray was a little surprised because now he found out that this old man is the City Lord of Greenwood city.
After thinking for a bit Gray said with little hesitation-
Although city lord's book collection is very extensive but what I am looking for is not present in these books, from my childhood I was very interested in those mysterious existences called Magus but I can't find any information about them anywhere and when I finally became knight I started a journey to find more about them and when I was passing by this city I heard about City lord's library so I came here to give a try.
After hearing Gray's reason for coming here the old man smiled and said to Gray -
Indeed it is very hard to find anything about those mysterious existences and there are very few people who truly know about them but you are lucky to have meet me, I happen to be amongst those few people.
After hearing this although Gray was very excited in his heart but he felt it will not be this easy to get this information from this old man. so he directly asked, can city lord tell me what I have to do to acquire this information.
Hearing this the City lord said with a smile-
This is why I like smart people, you see these few months there are some wolfs attacking the people of this town whenever they are outside the city wall and also because of this traders are becoming less and less. But there are very few people in this town who can kill them, that's why I am very troubled these few days but after seeing that you are a junior knight I want to ask you to kill that wolf group and I will compensate you with money and whatever informations you want.
Hearing this request Gray thought it through carefully then agreed, although this is a little dangerous and he can't directly kill them but with traps, he can kill them, and with the help of the AI chip's scan he can run if needed and also he needs a large amount of food energy anyway but before agreeing he asked for one more thing that is to extend his stay in Greenwood City more then just 7 days.
The City lord easily agreed to his request and gave him a detailed map of the Jungle and asked him to bring back the monster core or fang as proof of completion of this mission.
Gray now knows from all those books, that all high-level monsters have a concentrated energy core inside their body which is called monster core.
After receiving the Map from the city lord Gray saved it to the AI chip just like the map he got previously and now the AI chip shows a more detailed 3d map of the jungle in front of his eye with its name 'Green Wood Forest'.