Elior walked down the empty road at midnight. Today, his destination was the third ring where a dungeon was supposed to be. Today, he was not planning to clear the dungeon, and the reason for that was what Aanya said the other day.
He had thought through everything and, in the end, decided to not try anything without restraint. The chances of something going wrong were not big, but Elior would not just depend on those chances. Among the things he had learned in the previous timeline, was that things could turn ugly at any moment.
So in the end, he decided to play safe. Locate the dungeon and inform the Guardian association. Other than that, he had other things he needed to take care of that could not be dealt with by the guardians.
Today he was a little extra busy. Tomorrow was not a holiday, so he had to finish the business and return to rest for a few hours before he would get busy with training and class.
Elior opened the public school building and entered silently. He was not so callous today, and with the extra mana to spare, he went on entirely with the [Void Stealth] on. The ability would be super useful on many occasions, so he did not cheap out now as more usage would make him more proficient in it.
Today there seemed to be someone present in the area, unlike the other time at the park. Elior thought it should be the Nightwatch, and he was proven to be right.
A man with heavy clothing on raised his torch all around the surroundings. Finding nothing, he moved away from there, making noises with his boots.
Elior put his senses to work and raised his mana sense to 20 metres in the radius. Even with his current ability, it was quite hard to remain like this, but he had made many hard things possible in his life. All he had to do was imagine the void and all his concentration was put into the stealth and mana sense.
Today, or more accurately tonight, he had to work a little extra hard to find the dungeon. After an hour of walking around and inside the school building, he found what he was looking for. This time it was hidden in the girl's toilets.
Elior clicked his tongue and broke the stealth tech that hid the dungeon. Dim, dark light glittered immediately, and it was denser than the Lizard's Cave. Elior looked at it particularly and tried to guess the Chaotic mana density in the chaos wall. Clearly, it was not higher than 1 Axis unit, but it was quite dangerous for something like that to appear in a school building where thousands of kids come and go.
Well, dungeons were dangerous most of the time, but it was another matter if it was in a barren jungle or inside the safest place on earth.
'Are these the sign of the great calamity that will come two years from now on?' Elior thought, but could not come to a conclusion. The involvement of Shadowblood said something else, but he could be wrong. 'I need to dig further.'
Now that he had found the dungeon, all that left was to inform the Guardians. Elior thought about using the Guardian helpline, but on another note, he left it for someone else. He raised his arm against a few more walls and broke it with his spatial distortion. He did not make it into dust, but left it to drop in chunks of concrete, making a noise on the ground.
That was the plan—he wanted the watchman to come quickly and discover this dungeon here and then report it to the guardian helplines. He walked back and hid himself in a corner with the shadow stealth on and waited for the guardians to come. He did not forget to take some remaining of the stealth though, leaving enough for the guardians to frown upon. The material was alike aluminium foil, metallic and light, but it was quite harder to break than normal metal. He opened his bag and stuff it inside.
Like he had thought, the watchman came in running with the flashlight. But unlike what Elior thought, the watchman did not report immediately when he found the dungeon here. He rushed back immediately twice the speed he had come here with clear horror in his eyes.
Clicking his tongue silently, Elior followed after him. He had to make sure the watchman called the guardians or else he had to do it in his stead.
Fortunately, it came to show the watchman was not an entirely cowardly piece of coward. He called immediately, returning to his small desk. Elior heard the entire conversation before departing from there. The Guardians would come in any minute—it was not good to linger there for further.
. . .
Elior left the metro station before the academy city and checked his cellphone. It was 03:25 and he would have a couple of hours of resting time if he went to his quarters immediately.
He went inside the academy grounds without much problem, but something caught his attention. Like the other day, someone else was there and even though he could not see the appearance, his could guess it was Leroy who finished whatever business he had outside.
Elior followed to make sure it was him and his guess was spot on. Leroy entered the dormitory building silently and walked inside his quarter.
'I have to spy on this guy to find out what he's doing on our side.' Elior made a mental note and entered his room. Abruptly, cold sweat appeared on his back because the door was not locked when he entered.
"Shit!" he cursed and found the one that was sitting at his door.
"You left me waiting for hours, brother," Shin said.
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