How Am I Supposed to Answer to Your Father?

With his previous experience, Dole knew that these things reacted differently outside than they did inside a Wizard Tower. Take bones, for example: outside, they were just ordinary bones, and the Wizard Tower's light could shine straight through them. But once brought into the tower, they produced entirely different effects.

After testing them, Dole understood. Bones, metals, stones—things that appeared utterly ordinary outside—would reveal their true forms once placed within the Wizard Tower. Some were incomparably hard; some emitted strange light that blocked all probing. They all seemed extraordinary.

It seemed that everything from beyond this realm was powerful. There were several kinds of metal Dole had never seen before, so hard it was almost unbelievable.

Seeing this, Dole became even less anxious. This was clearly an enormous treasure trove.

After traveling for an unknown length of time, he had collected more than twenty Spatial Calamity Pearls. Then his eyes lit up as he entered a passageway. A Spatial Calamity Pearl lay on the ground in the middle of it.

He swept his gaze around the passage. There were no creatures and no people. The light was dim, the air thick with the stench of decay, and there was a faint dampness everywhere.

He was still in the lower levels, who knew how many kilometers away from the very center.

Dole walked forward, watching his surroundings as he extended a hand of magic and dug into the ground ahead.

The soil was soft. Before long, he dug out a small stone. After cleaning it up a little, a complete Spatial Calamity Pearl appeared in his hand.

Just then, a small mound rose slightly beneath the ground beside the Spatial Calamity Pearl. Then a black shadow shot toward his face with lightning speed, too fast to cover one's ears. In that