I Became the Strongest With The Failure Frame【Abnormal State Skill】As I Devastated Everything Chapter 48

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Disposal Ruins Investigation Team

Several men were walking in the dark forest.
A member of the investigation team suddenly stopped and looked back at something he didn't notice before.

[What in the world are those corpses?]

Hearing him, I also turned around and looked at what he's looking at.

[I don't know. Those corpses looks like a fallen mercenaries to me.]
[Are they perhaps on their way to Mills?]
[That's possible. Other than our group, the only people who pass through this forest are those who are heading towards Mills.]

I noticed that one of the members looked really pale.
He is very pale.

[Have you ever seen a corpse that had turned into that state before?]
[Ye… Yes…]

The corpses were terrible.
There were a total of four of them.
None of their faces could be identified.
It must have been eaten by some kind of beast or a monster.
One of the members knocked over the sword that was hanging on the waist of one of the corpses.

[To fall in a forest like this, these mercenaries probably aren't that strong.]
[These corpses, no one of them had any money?]

Anyone could seldom find that much money from dead corpses.
Of course, that includes the baggage they had.
However, no money were found on these corpses.

[They may have encountered a robbery. Well, it's rumored that there have been occasional robberies going on in here.]
[Does that mean that after these people were killed by a monster, other travelers who pass by looted these corpses?]
[If they were just going to be killed by some random monster in this forest, they shouldn't have bothered becoming a mercenary.]
[Did a monster finally come out from the Disposal Ruins?]
[Hahaha, if that were so, then we have to ask the Magic Knights to handle this instead.]
[You're right.]

The members tried to insert some jokes into their deductions of what they think could have happened to those people.

[Oh, we can finally see our workplace.]

Disposal Ruins.
The familiar landscape.
There would be no change yet again this time.
That's natural, or so the captain thought.

[There's no abnormality this time again.]

One of the loose-lipped members spoke.

[This job sure doesn't have that much change.]
[An unchanging job is fine. Okay, I'll do the usual confirmation.]
[Captain, you're so serious~]
[It's because this is still our work.]

This is the job that was tasked to them by their Allied Kingdom, Allion.
A periodic survey to the Disposal Ruins.
Urza Kingdom and Allion Kingdom have been hand in hand together.
These two kingdoms have a good relationship that they had been maintaining for a long time.
I'm glad that I got this job.
I strongly like that.
First of all, the pay for this job is good.
And yet, the job is very easy to do.
I take out a magic tool from my bag.
This is a magic tool that was personally made by Goddess Vysis.
For many years, this investigation had been occurring from one team to another.
I walked along the walls of the ruins.
I traced around for quite some time until I pressed on one unsuspecting part of the wall.

Clank~ clunk~

A dent appeared out of nowhere.
It's an elongated hole that is just wide enough for an arm to fit through.
I would then bring the crystal near the hole.
It's a black crystal.
If you see this crystal's color turn to platinum, then the work is over.
I don't know the principle of why the crystal changes color.
However, I had no intention to investigate the reason.
An easy job.
Everyone in the Investigation Team is happily enjoying the leisurely job.

I know what kind of place this Disposal Ruins is.

But I'm not interested.
It has nothing to do with me whoever is sent to wherever it is.
It's a discussion that has nothing to do with my life.
If I can have an easy life without danger, then that's just fine.
I don't wish for any change in my life.
Everyone was used to the leisure of our job.
Even I'm the same as them.
I don't want any trouble in my life.
I just want to continue to do this good-paying job with ease.

[Hmm? What the?]
[What happened, Captain?]
[The color didn't change.]

The black crystal didn't even shine at all.
There's always something that behind that hole that made the crystal shine into platinum.
The crystal at my hand should have changed its color in response to that.

[Captain! Does this mean—]
[Ah…]

My eyes turned serious as I looked at the others.
With a stern expression, I held my hand over my mouth.

[I guess this crystal had finally reached its end.]
[Even the magic tool that the Goddess had personally made had a lifetime too~]

Clink~

I poke the crystal with my fingertip.

[I guess we have to this crystal changed for a new one.]
[When we get back, should we report this to Allion?]
[No—]

I replied quickly within a beat.

[I can just tell them at the time of the regular report. That should be about half a year later.]
[Is that okay?]
[The procedures to handle matters are really troublesome especially when the news have to be sent to Allion. The procedures would be easy if it would be just talked about in this country.]
[Ah… I understand.]

The Investigation Team started preparing to leave the Ruins.

[Well, I guess the report this time should be “No Abnormalities” as usual. In fact, I can't anything that had changed at all.]
[Well, what if there may actually be some people who had lived and managed to get out of this Disposal Ruins?]
[Hahaha! That's impossible!]

Laughing and joking with the rest, I turned back and looked at the ruins.

[There was no record of someone of someone who has managed to live through there and escape the ruins even once, even after examining the past records about this ruins.]

The Disposal Ruins with zero survival rate.
There can be no change.
I put the crystal that doesn't work anymore into my leather bag that was strapped on my belt.

[This will be just an easy job. Absolutely.]

Chapter end