As early as May 28, Iver and Yulia had already arrived in Stibium Territory.
The main purpose of their trip was to accompany Yulia in opening the Herasul Secret Treasure. After that, they would contact Landon Viennes von Bayard and find the holy sword that the Moriarty Family had left there.
The first objective could be completed in just one day.
That was because the entrance to the Herasul Secret Treasure was beneath the Triumphal Palace in Lionheart City.
Back then, the reason the first Valentine had chosen to build the Triumphal Palace here was to prevent anyone else from obtaining the Herasul Secret Treasure and gaining the power to resist Stibium's rule.
With the royal palace weighing down upon it, the treasure could effectively be protected from being opened by some stray mongrel that came from who knew where.
The method for opening the Herasul Secret Treasure was the blood of the Heracles Family—it could not be dead blood; it had to be fresh.
The Stibium King's scepter was itself a key.
When it was inserted into the only opening in the basement and six types of mana were injected into it in balance... the ground began to roll and overturn.
Runes flowed across the earth, undoing one protective barrier after another.
The protective measures here had not been created by the people of Herasul, but by the first Valentine as a sealing mechanism. This scepter was the key used to conceal the Herasul Secret Treasure.
Amid the complex sounds of mechanisms clicking and shifting, the ordinary-looking ground eventually transformed into a huge machine made of intricate golden structures. They stood in the middle of the space, on top of a small disk. A raised golden disk rotated into view before them—Iver was reminded of those self-service machines with