Warlock Apprentice

Angor had finished testing the last distant relative of Neet’s clan.

And… nothing.

Neet had witnessed how difficult it was to find qualified talents yesterday. Even so, it was still painful to see none of their members or servants stood out.

After asking the servants to take the crying kids away, Neet looked at his father, Count Ross, and shook his head.

Ross sighed helplessly before he spoke to Angor, “We’ll be on our way so that we don’t trouble you anymore, Sir Wizard. As for your request, feel free to use our underground archive. We have all the historical files stored there.”

Neet nodded and offered to guide Angor again. During childhood, he often sneaked into the archive for adventure. Of course, he only found thick books piled up instead of treasures. That was when Neet took a liking to reading. The story of Nayah the Cruel also came from one of the books in the basement.

“Satisfy all of Sir Wizard’s requests as long as it’s not something too difficult for you. You don’t have to ask for my approval.” Count Ross put a hand on his son’s shoulder and left the room with everyone else.

Angor had put away all the tools used in the test and was now relaxing against a pillar.

“If you please.”

…

While waiting for Neet to return, Angor took the chance to do his routine meditation.

Neet returned to the mansion at night.

“I apologize, sir, but I was told that the map went missing several days ago.”

“Missing?”

Well, it might be someone from Song of the Deep or other people looking for Lucas who beat me to it… Nobody else is interested in an old map, Angor thought.

“The guards said that they saw a flying guy escaping through the window that night,” Neet explained. “But they aren’t going to go after a flying man, obviously. Besides, the map isn’t that important.”

Welp. My guess is probably true then. Angor sighed in his mind. “Can we find another ancient map somewhere else?”

…

Again, Angor traveled across the sky stealthily in the night while looking at the shining city beneath.

He was heading straight to the biggest and most luxurious-looking building complex in the middle of the city, where the royal authorities of Anrum stayed.

Infinite Reticence, on.

As his figure faded from plain view, he followed the route mentioned by Neet and dived down.

A moment later, he stepped out of the document chamber and entered the street outside.

Using Neet’s help, he successfully discovered another old map in the royal residence. While at it, he took some time to search around and didn’t find anything about Lucas.

Since Lucas was known as a criminal who blatantly scammed the king, there was no way that a noble family had his clues but the royalties did not. This probably meant someone else came earlier and took everything, again.

Thankfully, whoever stole the records didn’t know about Moyah’s journal.