Chapter 675

Waver: "Is it actually a child born there?"

Shishigou: "Sigh, how pathetic."

Rin Tohsaka: "Underground? Is that labyrinth under London?"

【The two walked under the night lights and finally stopped beside a square brick building.】

【Boy: "Is this... a collective housing?"】

【"Yeah, because the Department of Modern Magecraft is much shorter on money than other departments. We don't have a great backer, so we can't prepare a mansion."】

【Heartless opened the door and took the boy inside, but the other person had clearly reached his limit and passed out directly while going upstairs.】

【Heartless cleaned the boy up and placed him in an empty room; the boy didn't wake up until the next morning under the sunlight.】

【Opening the door, Heartless was already sitting at the dining table waiting for him.】

【Heartless: "Did you sleep comfortably?"】

【Boy: "Um... yes."】

【Heartless poured the boy a cup of coffee; the other person seemed to have never drunk this thing and frowned bitterly.】

【Boy: "Why treat me kindly? Since you know I used an irregular method to leave the labyrinth, isn't it the job of a Zhong Ta mage to catch me?"】

【"Don't ask."】

【Heartless said lightly: "I haven't turned that reason into words yet, and the result of turning it into words might not be unfavorable to you. Since that's the case, shouldn't we both not mention it?"】

【"However, if I have to say it, I think about thirty percent of the reason stems from—if it were my mentor, he would probably do this."】

【Boy: "Mentor?"】

【Heartless: "Yes, my mentor at the Zhong Ta is Lord Noridge, known as 'Daddy Long Legs'. Whenever he finds someone who looks promising for the future, he always provides assistance because he finds it interesting. However, 'promising for the future' here doesn't refer to talent, but purely whether it is interesting to the mentor."】

Shishigou: "I remember Noridge should be—"

Waver: "That's right, it's the family of the sponsor who promoted the establishment of the Department of Modern Magecraft; this point should be about the same in both worlds."

Shishigou: "Yeah."

【Heartless: "That's right, I'm just doing what someone did for me before... anyway, this is not kindness at all; it should be said to be a momentary impulse purely out of curiosity."】

【Although this sentence didn't count as a serious answer, the boy accepted it somehow.】

【"Can you please take a look at these?"】

【The boy took out a small cloth bag from his bosom; the things inside were very mixed, including crystal bodies that looked like gems, plants stained with soil, and some fossils the size of a palm.】

【Heartless looked at these things and identified the items on the table one by one at a glance.】

【Withered spirit roots, fragments of unknown Phantasmal Species, Kelpie's mane, Phantom Butterfly's scales, and even the teeth of a Chimera cub.】

【These are all things that are hard to find on the surface today.】

Rin Tohsaka: "Sigh! Aren't these things already extinct! Where did you get them?"】

Kayneth: "..."

Fiore: "Since the Lord doesn't want to say it, let me say it."】

Fiore: "For the Mage's Association, Yggdmillennia also holds many secrets."】

Rin Tohsaka: "Including this labyrinth."】

Fiore: "Of course, this can be considered the biggest secret of the Mage's Association."】

Fiore: "It is said that there is a huge labyrinth under the Zhong Ta, rumored to be formed by the corpse of a giant dragon at the end of the Age of Gods. It contains a large number of spell bodies that are almost impossible to find on the surface, such as dragon scales and teeth, Hydra cub corpses, etc. It has not been fully explored to this day and is the biggest asset of the Mage's Association."】

Fiore: "They named it the Spirit Tomb of Albion."】