Chapter 61

They arrived at the alchemy guild after they ride a carriage from the Red Dawn for around thirty minutes.

Ludger (Renneshia) was currently standing in front of the alchemy guild which makes him remember some haunted house-like building in his past world. It was a gothic-style building with a grim appearance and gloomy atmosphere surrounding the building. The guild building was quite isolated and located a bit far from other buildings.

From Favian explanation, they build the alchemy guild like this because they want to prevent any accident happen to the people who live near the alchemy guild. He said sometimes some experiments would cause an explosion because of some errors or unfortunate accidents.

Of course, both Hudson and Ludger (Renneshia) don't believe in his words.

After moving closer to the alchemy guild, they could see the colourful smoke coming from the alchemy guild building. The closer they get to the alchemy guild building, they started to be able to hear some weird sounds coming from the alchemy guild building. And when they reach the alchemy guild building, they also could smell some strange and unpleasant smells.

Ludger (Renneshia) really feel that the alchemy guild really fits the description of a haunted house that he read in his past life. And when Favian opens the door and shows the dark corridor in the building, Ludger reels that a ghost might appear when they walk into the building.

Having a bad memory of the supernatural experience, Ludger (Renneshia) feel a bit scared of the alchemy guild-building atmosphere. Ludger (Renneshia) quietly follow Favian and moves closely to him.

'I hope I won't accidentally open a hidden or trap door and separate from them.' Ludger's (Renneshia) thoughts and carefully follow them.

They moved to the farthest room that located at the end of the corridor and enter it.

"We almost arrived at my laboratory," Favian said as he use his magic power to activate the hidden door that lead them into a secret room in the underground.

They follow him and went downstairs and hear the door behind them start to close. The stairway was being lit by the strange light crystal on the wall. It creates a dim light that helps them to see the surroundings.

At the end of the stair, a wooden door appears and when Favian push the door, it shows a wide laboratory with a lot of strange equipment.

'As expected, will I be able to find a Frankenstein-like experiment?'

Ludger (Renneshia) looks at the laboratory with curiosity. But he didn't dare to look around without Favian permission and just quietly follow him to a large table with monsters' corpses on top of it.

"I have told you about it before that some monsters act differently from how they should be. It has been happening for almost a year. I only found out about it because I found the different structures of the monsters' bodies that the adventurer guild sell to our guild." Favian said and showed them two monsters' corpses that have a similar appearance.

"Could I borrow a chair? I couldn't look at it because I am not tall enough." Ludger (Renneshia) ask him while feeling embarrassed.

"I almost forget about your height and age. Could it be because you are acting older than your age?" Favian said while having an expression of thinking about something and taking a chair for Ludger.

After Ludger was able to look at the corpses on the table, Favian continue his explanation. Favian started to open the monsters' corpses and showed them the inside of the monsters' bodies. Both of them look at the bodies and found out the difference between the two bodies.

"On my right is the normal Hroul and on my left is the abnormal one. Although both of them have the same outer appearance, but their inside is like a different monster. As you can see, this organ is the part that causes them to become more ferocious than the normal one. But it will cause them to have a shorter lifespan than the normal one." Favian explains as he shows them the different parts.

'Is the Gale Wolf that we met before also similar to this Hroul?'

Ludger (Renneshia) wondered about another abnormal monster that attack him before and he unconsciously frowned upon thinking about it.

"Do you know something relates to it, boy?" Hudson realized the change in his expression and decided to ask him.

"Could both of you make a vow to the Goddess that everything I told you here won't get out of this room? And you won't make trouble for me and the people in Red Dawn." Ludger (Renneshia) asked both of them with serious faces.

Gulp.

They swallow their saliva because of the pressure from Ludger's (Renneshia) small body.

In this world, if they vow using the Goddess' name, that means that they will get their punishment if they break the vow. That's why it was only being used when they need to make sure that both sides will not break their promise.

Favian and Hudson look at Ludger's (Renneshia) face before they look at each other face. Then they nodded their head and open their mouth.

"I will vow to Our Goddess, Elyshian that I won't tell anyone else about what Ludger will say in this place and I won't cause any trouble for the people from the Red Dawn. I will receive the punishment from the Goddess." Both of them said at almost the same time.

Ludger (Renneshia) nodded his head and took out the Gale Wolf's corpse from his spatial ring. Hudson and Favian were really surprised by what happened in front of them.

"T-That's...I-Isn't that a G-Gale Wolf corpse?!" Hudson stuttered as he saw the corpse.

He had heard about the (fake) spatial bag from the reports that he read before so he didn't too surprised when he saw the spatial ring ability. He only thought that the boy seems to be cleverly tricking the adventurer guild workers to hide the real item. It makes him admire his intelligence as he was acting carefully to prevent any trouble from him.

But Favian who saw the spatial ring for the first time was looking at Ludger (Renneshia) with an intense gaze before he open his mouth and started to speak excitedly.

"What is that? How does it work? Did you make it? Is this the secret that you want to hide? Hmm, I understand what you are thinking about. This kind of item could bring a lot of greedy people who want to steal it from you. Can I borrow it for a few days? I am really interested in that item mechanisms." Favian asked while looking at Ludger (Renneshia) with shining eyes.

"I will explain about the ring later to you." Ludger (Renneshia) said to calm Favian down.

"Ahem." Favian makes a fake cough and pulls himself together but his gaze didn't change.

"Alright, I will explain about this Gale Wolf corpse. It was a Gale Wolf that attack my group before. It happened in the Northeast of the Southern part of the Empire. This Gale Wolf appeared in the forest and start to attack our group. I won't be able to survive if it didn't exhaust itself and died after it used all of its magic power." Ludger (Renneshia) told them half of the truth.

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Actually, at that time, Renneshia and her mother were being sucked into the tornado that created by the Gale Wolf's magic power. Renneshia was lucky because her mother pulled her into the carriage and they were able to protect themselves from the sharp wind of the tornado for a few seconds.

When her mother pulled her body, she remembered something from her past life memory that relate to a story in some fantasy novel. As she remembered about it, she started to gather her magic power. But It spend longer time than she thought so she was saved because her mother pulled her body.

In a few seconds, she gathers her magic power and creates a tornado of a similar size as the one created by the Gale Wolf. The only difference is the direction of the wind was the opposite of the one that was created by the Gale Wolf.

The two tornadoes clashed with each other and it neutralized the sharp wind that flying in their direction. As the ferocious wind gets calmer, the carriage started falling down. Renneshia takes her mother and jumps out of the carriage.

Renneshia used wind magic to make them land safely. When she lands safely, Renneshia quickly raises her body and turns her body in the Gale Wolf direction. She prepared to attack the Gale Wolf but it was already exhausted from its last attack.

The Gale Wolf is unable to send any attack to them anymore but it still glaring at Renneshia as it feels that she was dangerous. Renneshia decided to kill it and send a finishing blow to the Gale Wolf's weak point with her magic.

After Renneshia killed the Gale Wolf, she put the corpse into her spatial ring and took out the clothes and magic potion that she made in her alchemy class before. They changed their appearance and outfits and also make it so it seems that they have died from the Gale Wolf attack as they put on their turned clothes and poured some blood and cut a bit of their hair.

They arrive at the nearest village and are able to have some rest while they discussed about their new identity for their future.

When the Viscount Ruach people saw the scene, they thought that they have already become minced meat from the monster attack and reported their death to the Viscount.

That was the story that happened when they run away from the East.

They move to the South and make a new identity before they joined the merchant's caravan to Labyrinth City in the West.