One week is a short time in this world. Especially when a Magus could extend their life by hundreds to thousands of years.

“It's really uncomfortable to feel time passing so quickly.” Erick sighed softly while mocking himself.

In the past, he had told his colleagues to cherish every moment we had, but he wasted his time training like this.

“But if I had done this in my old world, maybe I wouldn't have lost my friends. Maybe things would have been different and I wouldn't have ended up here.”

Erick looked at himself in his room mirror. It was a small room that he rented after being given a kind of card by the tower leader for him to use.

“There's no point in lamenting over something unnecessarily. What I have to do is advance to the point where I can get back everything I lost.” Erick said this in his heart.

With the knowledge that the magic tower of Babel possessed, of course, there was a way to get back what he wanted. His family, his friends, and even his long-dead lover.

He also has a goal to find out whether his life has a reason. Searching for meaning within himself. The tower leader has given him what he needs, now he just needs to find it with his own abilities.

"Are you ready?" Erick asked this seemingly quiet room. He didn't speak alone because 3 people immediately answered him.

“We are ready even if we have to sacrifice our lives. Do what the tower leader tells you to do and don't care about anything else." Three people answered simultaneously and appeared behind Erick.

Determination and readiness to die could be seen from his third eye. Erick could see all of this from the reflection in the mirror in front of him.

To carry out what he had planned, he was also ready to sacrifice himself and die if necessary. Although he did not want to die until he found the meaning of his current life, he was not afraid of death.

His entire life had been filled with torment while in the small cauldron of Austin Farmland. His life was full of misery in his old world even though he was a hero.

Even if he died now, what else did he need to fear?

None of his friends or family remember him and are sad about his death because they are all dead. He had no friends in this world or anyone who knew him.

Maybe the tower master would be sad too if he died? I don't know... who knows? Maybe he doesn't care whether I live or die after this.

“Then we'll go to Rosemary's mansion.” Erick put on the clothes he had prepared beforehand and walked out of the building alone.

The location of the Rosemary family mansion was not too far from where he lived. It could even be said to be quite close. Even from his previous room, he could see the craters and scars of the battle between Zaratul and Angulus Wretcher

Erick walked confidently without the slightest fear. His eyes were firm as he looked at the Rosemary family mansion in the distance.

“There are lots of flies lurking around here.”

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“Erick, do I need to clean them all? Even though they are intermediate Tier 2 Magus, I am confident that I can kill 3 of them even if I die.”

The two people behind Erick felt a gaze that was clearly directed at them. It was so clear even though they were in Astral mode. Only one person was silent and didn't say much.

Erick, who was looking around him, didn't care what the two people behind them were saying. Zaratul also didn't say anything and remained in Erick's shadow along with his Orb.

“Ah… you must be the guest that the Head of the family mentioned.” A man in a white robe and bright blue clothes greeted Erick. He looked at the 2 people behind Erick and into Erick's shadow.

After seeing that the data given to him was correct, the man bowed his body elegantly in the middle of the crater left by Zaratul and Angulus' battle.

His voice was sweet but had the firm trace of a man who seemed to have seen a lot. “My name is Pier Rosemary. I am the trusted aide of the Rosemary family and also the captain of the family's magic battalion. I apologize for my impoliteness in welcoming you."

This person… Dangerous.

The three people behind Erick took a glance and reached the same conclusion. The man who looked graceful and elegant, behind the friendliness he showed there was a feeling of suppressed ferocity.

It was like watching the Beastmen fighting wildly in Austin Farmland. It's just that the feeling emitted by this person is more terrifying than that of the Beastmen in Austin Farmland.

If the Beastmen they often encountered were intimidating with their raw power and ferocity, then what this person exuded was a sense of danger that would lead his enemies to doom. He was like a wolf in sheep's clothing ready to pounce on its prey.

Erick came forward and introduced himself too. “I am the representative assigned to resolve this issue. You can call me Erick. Surely you already understand why we are here.”

"Of course. I will be your guide.” Pier Rosemary invited Erick and walked beside him towards the Rosemary family mansion.

On the way, Pier asked Erick curiously, who had not spoken a word since they walked together.

"I want to know how you can find out what we need to solve the problems faced by the Rosemary Family. As far as I know, you guys can't know something like that.”

"Do you want to know?" Erick looked at Pier who asked.

Pier was of course curious about how information held by the head of the family could be leaked to outside parties. Only a few knew about something like the Apocalypse Harbingers in this world and how their movements caused serious conflict in the Pendragon kingdom.

King Esther even assigned this matter directly to his master, Roderick Rosemary, to investigate it when royal politics would start again.

What he knew was only that. Who knows what the master is planning, they should continue to investigate using the prisoners they got when the attack on the Betlam family occurred.

It's just that everything has reached a dead end. No matter what, there was no way to prove that the captives they captured were from the remains of Apocalypse Harbinger.

Until one day, a letter suddenly appeared right in Roderick's room which wrote about one thing.

“If you want information regarding the remains of the Apocalypse harbinger, we have it. It's just… do you deserve it?

Only a small family like Rosemary's family wants a secret that they shouldn't know. Playing with fire without knowing that the fire will burn you. The end you meet is just a ship that will be destroyed in the middle of a sea filled with fog without knowing what is in front of you."

It was a letter containing both challenges and insults that pierced the honor of Rosemary's family. If it weren't for the person who wrote this letter having the information they wanted, Roderick would have personally ripped apart and destroyed whoever wrote a letter as insulting as this.

When he read the letter again, Roderick immediately mobilized various Magus to carry out investigations in secret and pursue any traces left by the owner of the letter.

Even though it didn't provide many satisfactory results, the battle between Zaratul and Angulus was the biggest clue left by the people who left this letter. Because at that time, although not known to many people, another battle occurred on a small scale.

What became clear was that the traces that occurred during the small-scale battle had a very high match to the traces left on the letter.

“If you don't want to tell about it then that's fine. Everyone has their own secrets and I have no right to ask. It's just… can you tell me who wrote that letter?”

“That is truly beautiful writing. It was truly beautiful until it touched our hearts with such deep wounds.” Pier smiled slightly when he said that.

I don't know why his eyes now feel so scary.