Return to the Academy

After entering the towns, Benjamin hired several carriages. It took several days, but he finally transported all the spoils from this trip back to the academy.

"Th-These... what are all these things?"

Inside a secret laboratory, Maurice, the old man from the potion department, several core members of the Rune Research Group... every researcher in the academy Benjamin considered trustworthy had been summoned here.

As they looked at the boxes upon boxes of piled-up remains, expressions of astonishment appeared on their faces. The old man casually picked up a shinbone, swung it around in his hand, and frowned as he asked the question from before.

Benjamin could not help taking a deep breath as well.

"What I'm about to tell you may come as a great shock." He spoke slowly. "Brace yourselves first. This is absolutely news unlike anything you've ever heard."

At his words, everyone exchanged glances. Perhaps recalling Benjamin's usual wild and erratic ways, some of them broke out in a cold sweat.

"If you have something to say, say it. Stop hemming and hawing," the old man said impatiently.

Benjamin nodded at that. Then he began to speak. From the secret of the Skyver Mountains, to the ghost at the bottom of the abyss, to the undead world on the other side of the abyss... he recounted everything he had seen and heard along the way to everyone present in considerable detail.

It was only as he retold it all that he realized just how bizarre this journey of his had been.

God knew what had happened... When he first set out, he had thought he was going to take part in the Fool Family's rebellion plan!

Meanwhile, as Benjamin spoke, the expressions on everyone's faces gradually changed from confusion to stunned disbelief. By the end, every