"T- THAT IS.."
Meritas couldn't believe his eyes, he sees the severed head rolls over the smooth floor and it eventually stopped with the face facing Meritas directly, in his mind he actually knows who this head belong to, but he doesn't want to accept it.
"N- No way.. Th- theres no way right!? That is not what i think it is.."
Meritas was at lost for words, and his reaction to that severed head is enough to convince Sylias.
"It is exactly as you thought, That is Mortem's head."
It was really unexpected, Even Eldi couldn't said anything because he is just as shocked as Meritas.
'D- did that demihuman killed Mortem!? i- if thats true.. Then does that mean— She is multiple times stronger than Mortem!?'
'If they both fought against eachother equally, it would be a disaster and there is no way this sewer wouldn't be destroyed, with Mortem's personality and ego, he would most definitely crush everything around him, and yet even when we were fighting that mage.. I didn't feel any tremor except from that mage's spell..'
Eldi looked at Sylias's glowing eyes, even though his body keeps rejecting and constantly sending goosebumps, Eldi endured it.
'She killed Mortem instantly without letting him fight back or realize..'
He gulped.
***
An hour earlier..
[Achstone, South-East Area]
Sylias was exploring the town and looked around at a various shop, she occassionally approached one of the street vendors that sells miscellaneous item and asked the sellers about the item's purpose, she does it to gain more knowledge and also to distract herself from being bored, despite having many people on the street staring at her, Sylias couldn't care less about them and acted like they never existed.
"Ahh, hello young lady.. What can i help you today.." Said a vendor that is selling necklaces.
He sells his necklaces on a leather carpet, all of the available necklaces were placed neatly infront of him, Sylias squatted to get a closer look, her tail brushes up against the cobblestone road in a C shape.
"...isn't this a magic crystal?" Sylias asked after pointing at the crystal with the size of a thumb on one of the necklace.
The crystal was shiny and it had a little bit of dark gradient on it.
"Haha! you have keen eyes it seems, i can expect that since you're a demihuman. That's right, some of the necklaces that i sell have magic crystal that contains spells inside of them, a friend of mine who is a mage imbued the crystal with protection spell that will summon a barrier when the crystal is broken."
"Oh? That's interesting, so you can store magic spells too huh.."
"Mages are only able to store spells inside magic crystal and spellbooks, both of them are really expensive."
"Hmm, how much is this necklace then?"
"Heh! You know what miss? Since you have a beautiful face, and also the fact that i rarely see a demihuman around this part, i'll give it to you for 15 gold coins, i usually sell this at 20 golds, but think of it like some sort of a special treatment from me personally."
The necklace vendor smirked at Sylias.
"Ah-
Hearing the price made Sylias startled, she had some idea that it would definitely cost a gold coin, but she didn't think it would be 15 golds.
She began checking her satchel to see how much money she had left, when she first woke up in this world, she already had this satchel on her waist, and inside of them is a bunch of coins that she could use for a good while, after counting, it was revealed that her coins in total were only adding up to 6 Gold coins, 25 Silver coins, and 4 copper coins.
'The inn owner from earlier said that 10 coppers is equal to 1 silver and 10 silver is equal to 1 gold, after that there is big gold coins that is equivalent to 100 normal gold coins..'
'I have about.. 8 Golds'
"I can't afford it." Sylias replied.
"Is that so, then what else do you want?"
The vendor looked at Sylias picking up and inspecting other necklaces, she continue doing that for a solid minute before standing up and says..
"I'll take my leave, thanks."
"Huh? Miss? You don't want to buy anything?" Asked the vendor, confused.
"No, but i'll give you 2 silvers just from letting me taking a look at the necklaces."
Sylias then placed 2 silvers near one of the necklaces and moved out from the vendor.
The necklace vendor kept his eyes glued to Sylias as he watched her disappearing among the busy crowds.
'Does she really not realize that i can see her panties while she was squatting.. Well i get money out of it and a good view too, so lets forget it.'
Back to Sylias, at first it might seems like she left because she had enough with seeing the necklaces, but the truth is, she left because she saw two suspicious person secretly walks through a narrow road that no one seems to care about.
After arriving at the same narrow road entrance, Sylias noticed a lot of trash being laid around at the side of the road infront of her, the road looks to be abandoned, and no one has walked into it except those two person earlier, although they wore a hooded robe, one of them had a massive body that is undoubtedly muscular, like a barbarian, thats how Sylias was able to see them even among the crowds.
'Everyone seems to ignore their presence or not care at all, do they have somekind of a Stealth magic?'
Thinking about it won't solve the mystery, since a lot of people have started to gaze at Sylias again, she decided to follow the two mysterious person into the narrow road, it won't be long before her surrounding became dark as the sun was blocked by the houses, some of them even stretched into the road, making the road even darker as it had turned into a tunnel for a brief moment.
'I can hear their footstep, they're still nearby'
Because of her ears and also the trait of being a demihuman, Sylias could track those two person easily without being too close from them, she maintained a fair distance the whole time, until at one point, the footstep stopped.
'Hm?'
After Sylias stopped hearing the footstep sound, she began to hear a scraping sound, those two have started to do something, so Sylias approached them, thinking that she would find a criminal doing an act of crime, but instead what she find when she arrived at their location was a cobblestone well.
Thud!
Thud!
Sylias heard a thud, and the source of that sound came from below the well, the thud sound happened twice, from just thinking about it for a moment, it was pretty clear who or what could possibly made that sound.
'They went down— Looks like there's a secret room in there'
'Should i go after them?'
'...'
'Well, i'll just see it for myself, if they want to fight, might aswell treat it as my first time fighting in this world..'
'It's been only a few hours since i got reincarnated, i can't believe im already putting myself into other people's problem."
Swoop!
Sylias fell down into the well, with a bit of smile on her face.