Eryndor immediately went to work, focusing on extending his view beyond the normal range.
Withstanding the feeling of drain, he only increased the range in the inner part of the town.
He had seen them walking in that direction the other day.
His vision passed over the numerous buildings and a few people who were still loitering out in the chilly night before finally spotting an inn.
Eryndor checked all the rooms, but didn't find the blue haired senior.
It's not this one.
He moved over to two other inns before he found the senior in the fourth inn.
The entire group was in different apartments, with professor Melissa having one full apartment entirely to herself.
He focused on 'Cognitive Scrying' while gazing at the blue haired senior.
Instantly, just like the previous times when he used this ability, his consciousness was transported into a dark place.
There were multiple light balls floating around, Eryndor could choose what memory he wanted to read.
He could think of commands like 'recent memory', 'important memory', 'sad memory' and many more types.
With a little more focus, Eryndor could also do things such as picking a word and filtering it through the memory.
He immediately thought of the recent memories and came across his memories starting from a few days ago.
He fast-forwarded through most of them, getting to know how Rodrick Altreck looked in the process.
From the looks of his memory, it seemed the two were friends. The blue haired senior's name was Jeremy.
Eryndor put a halt on the fast-forwarding scenes when the group meeting came up in the memories.
Unlike watching a movie, Cognitive Scrying could enable a person to read a large amount of memory in a few seconds.
Shortly after, Eryndor already knew what had happened in the planning session.
Satisfied that he got what he wanted, Eryndor focused on the thought of 'cancelling Cognitive Scrying' and felt his view shift once again.
He immediately withdrew all of his range and settled back down on his bed.
There are two concerning points in his memory.
The first one was that in Jeremy's memory of the recent few days, there was an instant where there was no sound, emotion, or sight.
He would have passed it off as the time when he was sleeping, since a person didn't have any sight, sound or emotion associated with the memory of when they were sleeping.
But it was not the case.
There was a complete blank canvas in that certain timeframe. And it wasn't when he was sleeping.
That timeframe was when Jeremy gave their group the contact card.
What the fuck is happening? Why does Jeremy have a blank space at that moment?
That wasn't the only weird thing about it. After the blank area was a dense space, where many memories resided.
Normally speaking, a person should have a memory span of ten seconds if they experienced ten seconds in real life.
But the dense part somehow had twenty seconds for ten seconds of real life.
And the suspicious thing about this was, that the extra ten seconds in the dense part belonged to the blank space which came before it.
This enabled Jeremy to be aware that he had given their group the contact card.
What the fuck is up with this jumbled mess in his memories?
What exactly was that blank space? And why was there a dense collection of memories just after it?
The second concerning point was that in the group meeting, Rodrick had suggested unlocking the Mystical Artifact of their group early.
Through Jeremy's memories he knew what Mystical Artifacts were, and he couldn't help but feel Rodrick was suspicious due to all the events he had previously encountered.
Eryndor endured the headache in his head and once again used Cognitive Scrying.
Keeping the range absolutely narrow, he once again reached Jeremy's room and repeated the procedure.
This time, he went back in time in his memories and only left after finding what he suspected.
Returning to the view of his own body, Eryndor massaged his head due to the increasingly severe headache he was experiencing.
But the discovery he just made left him feeling unsettled.
The period of blankness had appeared in Jeremy's memories once in the past before.
It was just after he told Rodrick about his ability when they were preparing for a test.
Eryndor could feel his rising heartbeat as a layer of fog was cleared away.
So there is indeed a connection between the location sensor from Jeremy and the information pointing towards the red area from the Mayor.
Rodrick is the connecting point.
Eryndor thought for a long time before opening the group chat of his teammates and sending a message.
"Does anyone know what causes blank space in a memory?
And no, the target still has recollection of what took place due to the fact that the memory which belongs in the blank area overlapped with the memory in the part next to blank space."
It was a far fetched attempt but he was willing to try anything.
From the looks of it, all three of his roommates were trained quite professionally.
There was a faint possibility that they might have extraordinary origins, a suspicion Eryndor had harbored for some time.
He had first entertained the thought when Drakarion effortlessly overpowered students who had been training at the Academy far longer than him, utilizing its resources to their full extent.
Likewise, Paulina not only had a clear concept for her own spell model but also seemed familiar with the Academy's spell model archives—particularly the one she had been eyeing as her target to acquire.
And lastly, Valentina had already sensed her internal energy and contracted a beast before even joining the Academy, not to mention she had one more in reserve. Both of her beasts had passed the Academy's verification.
Despite having suspicions, Eryndor had always been tactful about it, never posing a question to them.
He would only discuss it if they breached the topic themselves.
Now, when he had already explored nearly everything, asking his roommates seemed to be a viable choice for further clarity on the situation at hand.