"Seiya, you insisted on choosing this quest. You must have some other purpose, right?"
After leaving the Adventurer's Guild, Lakyus immediately voiced the doubts in her heart.
If Seiya wanted to quickly raise his adventurer rank, then with their strength, they could have completed far more Quests in the same amount of time. There was no need to choose one that required such a long journey.
Although the reward for this quest was extremely generous, even comparable to an Adamantite quest, Lakyus did not believe that Seiya, the Third Prince of the Kingdom, would be short on money.
Since he had already decided to act together with Blue Rose, and Seiya intended to train them for the Kingdom's sake, he no longer hid his true objective.
"Subjugating those Desert Scorpions in the Southern Desert is merely a side task. My real target is the Ruins sleeping beneath the Southern Desert."
"The Ruins in the Southern Desert?"
"That's right. I wonder if you've heard of the legend of the 'Eight Greed Kings'?"
At Seiya's question, Lakyus and the others from Blue Rose all shook their heads. Only Ivilia, who had lived for more than two hundred years, frowned slightly. She seemed to have heard that name from the old woman, Ligu Rido.
"Legend has it that every so often, powerful beings descend upon this world, bringing upheaval to the entire world.
"Some of these unknown forces that descend upon the world belong to righteous factions and bring benefits and development to the world. Others, however, are evil factions that bring massive death and destruction.
"The 'Six Gods' who founded the Slane Theocracy more than six hundred years ago were one such unknown force.
"And the 'Thirteen Heroes,' the ancestors of you and Lakyus, also belonged to one of them.
"Finally, the