said Felix. He was the first to break the silence after I finished conveying the man’s words to my friends.
said Anise, after a while.
said Sallia.
asked Felix.
said Sallia.
said Felix. I could almost hear Felix smiling, even though he had only made these statents through the communication bracelet. Then, he turned back to our prisoner.
“Has your group found any specific treasures or valuables?” Asked Felix.
The man snorted, though I noticed that his eyes shifted every so slightly. I could tell that whatever he said next would be a lie.
“We haven’t found a whole lot of anything.” So the scavengers had found sothing? I wondered what they had found that could incite interest from them. “This school seems like it was already looted by so Transmigrators beforehand. There are still plenty of facilities inside that are intact, but the real valuables are gone.”
I felt a glimr of excitent at the man’s words. This ti, it wasn’t the excitent of discovering new information about our predicant. It was the excitent of knowing that we hadn’t co here in vain.
The facilities inside were still intact! To us, those were the real treasures.
That being said, even though the facilities being intact was important, my curiosity had also been piqued by the man’s words. While he had claid that the raider group hadn’t found anything valuable, I was pretty sure he was lying. If they had found sothing valuable… was it sothing we could use? I considered calling the man out for lying, then glanced at Felix. I could tell that he had caught the man’s tell as well. I conveyed the man’s words to Felix. After I finished explaining my thoughts, Felix grinned, and then got very close to the man, before he stared directly into the man’s eyes.
“You say you didn’t find anything valuable?” asked Felix. “Not even any leftover transmigrator currency?” He sounded almost as if he were teasing the man.
“You an Achievent?” asked the man, though he sounded a bit more relaxed this ti. “No, we didn’t find any. Part of the reason I’m so sure that Transmigrators have gone through this area before is how little Achievent we found. Legend says that back when the Market was at its peak, mbers of the Market could literally sll Achievent. They’d sniff it out and then burrow through even solid rock to get it. I’ve heard that Transmigrators didn’t even truly ‘sll’ Achievent - they could just sense it sohow.” The man laughed, though it sounded a bit like nervous laughter to . “It’s a great crafting material, even if most Systems from other universes don’t use Achievent quite so directly as a source of enhancent. My group was hoping to find so liquid Achievent, but we haven’t even found a drop. Who else could clear out the Achievent this effectively, apart from a group of Transmigrators who can sense the presence of Achievent?”
I wondered why the man was so confident that Transmigrators could literally sense Achievent. I certainly hadn’t noticed any such ability, and I was a mber of the Market. This seed like a ridiculous rumor that had been exaggerated over a pint of beer, until thousands of years after the fall of the Market, half-drunk rcenaries and scavengers might believe it because there weren’t enough Transmigrators around to disprove the rumors anymore.
Or perhaps there had been so kind of really common ability that had existed in the old Market that let users sense Achievent?
I sighed, before I shook my head. Either way, it was irrelevant to . “Sorry, but I don’t think it’s very plausible that your group found nothing in this place,” I said. “You can see that this building is still intact, unlike many of the other buildings in the Market. This building likely has, or at least had, a few treasures that were left over from the days of the Market. I doubt that a few Transmigrators could have picked every corner of this building clean.”
The man laughed again, but his laughter sounded much more nervous now.
“You don’t know Transmigrators, miss. The ones that existed before the fall of the Market were horrible. They were mad lunatics who went around doing absolutely anything for Achievent. They even put entire worlds to the sword, just to get more. The ones that crop up after the fall of the Market are just as crazy - they just aren’t organized anymore. If even one Transmigrator made it into this building, they would swipe every drop of Achievent and every single speck of material. Sadly, this building is really just a big waste of ti.”
said Felix.
said Sallia.
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