The door has golden engravings and various ancient symbols that she did not seem to recognize. It made her confidence drop since she was proud of her academic studies about ancient history yet she did not know a single symbol on the door.

Nevertheless, she quickly regained her confidence as a maid of the king and refocused her attention on the current situation. She pushed the door forward and looked curiously in the room. There were no windows inside nor any other thing besides a table and a chair. No dust or dirt could be found in the room, and it made her slightly surprised.

She quickly walked in and closed the door behind. Her gaze lingered on the clean surroundings but when a cough arrived in her ears, she quickly looked in front of her.

The person in front of her made her jaw drop a bit as she did not expect the Second Elder would look like this. Not only the man in front of her looked like he was in twenties, he even have white hair!

The person sitting on the chair lightly chuckled upon seeing the shocked expression on the girl's face. With a wave of his hand, a chair appeared in front of her, and he motioned her to sit on it.

Upon seeing the chair, Amelia woke up in her shocked state as she lightly coughed in embarrassment. The second Elder only smiled and waited for her to sit on the chair.

Amelia quickly sat on the chair and lightly bowed. The Elder nodded and said.

"What brings you here, child?" His voice was hoarse akin to an old man, but upon seeing the face of the Elder, Amelia was sure that he was a man in his twenties.

Hearing what the Elder said made her slightly uncomfortable but nonetheless, she did not dally any longer as she said in a respectful voice.

"Milord, Your Majesty told me to relay this information to all of the Elders; however, it must be kept secret to any outsiders until further orders."

With a voice that was sweet as honey, Amelia told the second Elder all the information that the parchment contained. Hearing what the girl said, it made the Elder frown in puzzlement. "is this confirmed?"

Amelia did not say anything but instead, she took a token from her clothes and presented it to the Elder.

"This..."

A shocked expression appeared on the Second Elder's face once he saw the token in her hand. With a quick incantation, he made the token fly towards him and with a quick swipe of his hand he imbued it with his mana.

His body shook uncontrollably as his aura exploded from his body. Countless tiles flew off the ground, and cracks appeared on the wall, the near Amelia almost lost her consciousness once she felt the terrifying aura of the second Elder.

With a deep breath, the frowning Elder immediately retracted his aura and threw the token back to Amelia. She quickly grabbed it and with a slight bow, she got out of the room.

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She heaved a sigh of relief as she got out of that hell room. Her body was drenched with sweat, and her legs were shaking from fear. It made her spine shiver uncontrollably as she remembered the aura of the second Elder that could squash her with a single thought.

Meanwhile in a middle of the forest. A young boy around the age of eighteen is walking on an old pathway.

It has been thirty minutes since Rei decided to travel outside of the building. After raising his 'punch' skill to level three, he quickly bought raw ingredients and water from the shop and went down to the first floor. He sighed in grief as he finally went out of the building. His gaze lingered at the building for a moment before deciding to leave and find a civilization. But before Rei could make ten steps outside of the building, he noticed something about the grasses so he quickly went back inside and did something.

After five minutes of doing something inside the building, he once again got out but this time, his face was filled with happiness and content. He circled the building trying to find any road that he could tread on but after spending ten minutes of careful observation, he gave up. He could only curse his bad luck and finally chose a random direction in the forest. Rei was slightly nervous when he stepped out of the building since he feared that he might encounter some anomaly that he had no knowledge of.

But after traveling for thirty minutes, Rei finally regained his confidence as he saw that there were no abnormalities in the forest. Rei could only hear the chirping of the birds and the rustling of the leaves which was pleasing to the ears. However, the grasses in the forest are high as his knees, and it was slightly damp making it uncomfortable to walk on. This was a problem that Rei faced when he just got out of the building, so he opened his inventory and took out a broken chair's leg.

After walking for thirty minutes, he noticed on how effective a walking stick is in a middle of a forest. If he did not have it, he would have likely stumbled on a root or a rock in the first five minutes that he traveled.

Rei hummed a song that was from his former world as he continued to stroll and waved his walking stick in front of him. Although Rei looked calm and relaxed, if an experienced person saw him, they would notice that he was alert and is always cautious of the surroundings.

As Rei was just about to finish the song, his eyes suddenly narrowed as he noticed a weird spot of grasses not far away from him. He hesitated for a second before finally decided to come close to the place where there are some weird-looking grasses.

What he saw there made his heart beat happily.