"Old man, how is the old Leonard's Kingdom survey team doing?"
The "Mere Old Man" gave a brief report of the survey team he had observed from a high altitude.
"I see, you found containers of gold and adamantite at the Botsuffa site or something like that?"
"...... what do you think, Reinhardt?"
Jin asked Reinhardt's opinion.
"Well, it doesn't feel right to just take out the things that were stored in such a place.
"Well, I think so too."
Erza agreed with Reinhardt.
"......It's good to see that my brother Fritz is doing well. Gloria is also safe. But I'm still wondering about those ruins."
"Me too. I hope you weren't blinded by the value of the container and unleashed a disaster.
"Yes, keep an eye on them."
Jin instructed the old man to pay more attention to them.
* * * * * *
Morning of the 15th.
After a quick breakfast, the team was about to backfill the hole where they had dumped the contents of the container when Jade Nephroy had an idea.
As they were about to backfill the hole where they had dumped the contents of the container, Jade Nephroy had an idea.
"Let's try something. Let's see what happens if we dump the contents of the gold container here.
Mysterious liquid and mysterious viscous fluid. Everyone wanted to know what would happen if they mixed them, and no one objected.
"Well, let's give it a try."
They bring one container into the depression and make a small hole in it. Carefully, so as not to get any on his body, he poured a small amount of the liquid inside into the hole.
"Oh?
The liquid, which could dissolve iron, was absorbed into the viscous fluid without any problems. And the viscous fluid showed no change.
"Then, we can dispose of it, can't we?"
When he informed the captains of the results, they all nodded their heads.
"Let's keep one for the alchemist and empty the rest.
The captains agreed to leave one for the alchemist and empty the rest.
It took some time because of the hazardous materials, but all the contents of the 48 containers were disposed of into the hole.
"Okay, now we just need to bury them."
As the others were packing up the tent, Fritz suddenly shouted.
"Rock wolf! Watch out!
At the same time, blood sprays. Fritz draws the longsword on his back and cuts one down.
"No!"
A female knight, caught off guard, is attacked.
Get down!
It was Gloria who saved her. She too had just slashed a rock wolf with her favorite sword.
We're surrounded!
She was surrounded by a pack of rock wolves. There were about 50 of them.
Except for the two that I cut down, they didn't attack suddenly, but surrounded them, listening to what was going on.
"Everyone, draw your swords! Form a circle!
Fritz calls out. Bernardo, the captain of the Kleinian survey team, and Bruno, the captain of the Egelea survey team, followed his instructions.
They form a circle with the two young female knights and Jade Nephroy in the middle.
The rock wolves were slowly closing in on the encirclement.