The Land Of Thorns
Bad things part 1

Back to the present time when Edgar and Silvi were inside a room in the bandit headquarters.

“Oh lord. Why are they both here!”

Shouted Edgar who saw Celine and Lilia lying on the floor of the room, and immediately approached to check the state of the two of them.

‘Do you know them?’

Touch Silvi to Edgar who is next to her and ask her as she checks on Celine who is still unconscious.

“Iya, I know them both. They are servants who work at my residence.”

Reply Edgar who answered him took those words out of his mouth.

‘It looks like they don't have that scar on their neck ... The fairy spirits said that she was fine.’

“Why can they be so sure?”

‘I don't understand either, but they say you should worry more about the woman with him.”

Silvi was silent watching Celine closely, and did not notice Edgar who was approaching towards Lilia to examine her as the fairy spirits told her.

“Lilia! Holy hooch! Be aware ... what they have done to her!”

As the light from the torch she brought close to Lilia made Edgar so surprised to see Lilia had bruises on her face and he tried to wake her up repeatedly but she had not yet woken up, Edgar checked his condition and he felt a little relieved knowing he was still breathing.

Then Edgar saw the young man bound in the corner of the wall was watching him, the man's mouth was also tied to the cloth until he was groaning like he wanted to say something.

Edgar felt strange and a little surprised to see it because from earlier he saw only children and women who were sealed in this building but only recently he saw there was a man.

The man looked so thin and wore a robe that looked like a priest, and because of his thin body it made the clothes he was wearing looked oversized, oversized, and it's a little strange looking at him with his curly hair in a mess doesn't look like a real priest.

Edgar slowly drew closer to him and opened the cloth that bound his mouth to speak.

“Quick! You guys need to get out of this place quickly!”

The young man exclaimed after the cloth that had tied his mouth came off.

“Quiet! What do you mean and who else can you be in this place?”

Edgar asked her by looking at her so curgically.

“I am a wandering alchemist, and my name is Roderic.”

“Alchemist? Alright Roderic ... then what do you mean we have to get out of this place?”

“Energi magic it! Its instability will make this place destroyed.”

Edgar saw his face so panicked that Edgar felt clueless as to what Roderic had said to him, and it was a little strange to hear a word so rarely spoken by an alchemist like him.

“Magic energy? You are an alchemist but you understand about magic? And what is unstable?”

“I have created a bad tool! I did not expect that they asked me to make something to use the magic of such a monstrous artifact!”

“Shortly - briefly, so you mean you created something that made magic from an artifact so that someone could use it and you know that the tool you created cannot withstand the magic from that artifact!”

“Yes! Like those. We have to save ourselves from this place! So please take this bond off me!”

Edgar thought that this alchemist had a rather strange personality but from looking at Roderic's face which still looked full of panic, made Edgar think for a moment to try to believe him.

‘Is it possible that the artifact is an heirloom belonging to the wind Spirit that Silvi said earlier?’

That was what Edgar was thinking when he saw Silvi who was still near Celine who was still trying to break him down.

Not to mention if indeed what he said was true, if the artifact he was referring to was the one Silvi was looking for, then, must be the heirloom of the Spirit of the wind contains natural magic whose power is so great.

Even so Edgar was still amazed to hear it, because the alchemist Edgar knew had a conflict with the wizarding world because creating a magic tool for alchemists was a taboo subject, at least that's what he knows from memories in his other life.

“Alright! Maybe what you said is true and I don't want to keep you stuck in this place if this place is destroyed.”

Edgar tries to trust her and rushes to help untie the rope that ties him.

Aghhh!

The drurm!

Suddenly they heard a faint noise which was then accompanied by the sound of an explosion that made the room seem to shake like a small earthquake. The surprise made them become alert to the surrounding walls and roofs and not long after the vibrations subsided.

‘What's that noise from the front door group? Did they attack in?’

Thought Edgar who noticed the direction of the source of the sound that was then not heard again, Edgar again continued to remove the rope that bound Roderic.

“What a sound is it! Oh, Thanks ... rescuer!”

“Edgar, my name is Edgar! If what you say is true then I must warn my two friends who are still infiltrating inside this building.”

“Infiltrate? Why did you infiltrate this place?”

“Actually we are attacking the headquarters of this bandit.”

Hearing Edgar say the headquarters of the bandits made Rodric sculpt with an expression so shocked he looked at Edgar as he tried to get up from his seat.

“You're serious? You said this was bandit headquarters?”

Roderic asked Edgar who only made Edgar look with a face that looked disbelieving to him.

“They hired you in this place and also detained you, but you didn't realize they were a bandit group? Do you not feel afraid to see the faces of the sangar you met in this place?”

“So so, it's appropriate that their attitude is so ketus to me.”

“Iya and you didn't realize it?”

“Hey! I'm not the kind of person who sees others from outside. Besides I don't know that, and I love my job, who's not happy to get a job!”

Hearing it only made Edgar seem even more in disbelief to see that there was someone so unconscious with his surroundings, Edgar tried to ignore him to avoid the headache and approached back to Silvi.

‘Silvi, does the heirloom belonging to the Spirit of the wind have the power of natural magic in it?’

Touch Edgar who is near Silvi to talk to him.

‘Of course! There is no way that something possessed by a Spirit of nature does not contain any natural magic in it, why do you ask like that?”

‘The man is an alchemist and it seems he is seen creating something that makes the heirlooms belonging to the Spirit of the wind can be used freely by ordinary humans, he said, and he said that the tool he created was not perfect to make the magic energy in that thing unstable!”

‘Is it possible that the vibration just now came from the instability that the alchemist said?’

Hearing him made Edgar think that the explosion might have had some point in relation to the artifact in question, but Edgar was not too sure of it.

‘...., I also do not know that but that was clear before the vibration occurred I heard a noise that might come from the group that was in front of.’

‘Isn't it bad if they're all inside here.’

‘Yes, that's right. We must immediately take the two of them out and follow Ludi and the shop owner's uncle!’