Chapter 576 - Departing
Angor returned to his room alone. He left Toby behind so that the latter could spend one more night with his old master.
Number One was waiting for him outside the garden.
“Good evening, Mister Padt,” the machine butler spoke in its typical robotic voice, “I happen to have a message for you.”
Angor gave it a doubtful look.
“Someone visited not long after you left for the auction. When I explained your absence, he left this for you.” Number One took out a sealed letter from its sling pouch and handed it to Angor.
[To Mister Padt]
The handwriting seemed terrible. More than terrible. Even so, Angor did not believe the author of the letter was illiterate because the wordings seemed fine.
Angor already knew that Nano had such a talent, yet he never witnessed it before.
“A cultured and trained Fibber can provide you with top-class silk,” Sunders commented.
“I… want to take him to my family and help them establish a new line of business.”
“Do you have many family members in the mortal world?”
This was the first time that Sunders asked about such a thing.
Angor shook his head. “Currently, there is only my elder brother. I heard that we have another family clan at the capital of Goldspink, but since my father passed away, we never contacted them again.”
“This single Fibber can provide enough silk for an entire family industry then. You came from Marginalized Island, right?”
“Yes. I’m going home later this year. My former teacher is still waiting for me on his sickbed.”
“I think you have enough resources to cure him now. And if not, you can always buy another Ice Coffin of Healing scroll.”
Of course, Angor did not need to use the scroll anymore since he now possessed an Abyssal Inscription card.
“Marginalized Island…” Sunders thought about this name for a moment. “There are extremely few active elements in the environment there, so wizards usually refer to it as the ‘dead land’. However, Marginalized Island and Fey Continent weren’t so different early in history. It was an incident that caused the depletion of elements overnight.”
“Something erased active elements overnight?”
Sunders nodded. “It’s a rather strange matter. Many wizards investigated the incident, but no one found any explanation for it. There is a quest that is constantly on display on the monitor of the questing hall, which asks someone to solve the mystery. Since you’re going to Marginalized Island this year, you might as well give it a try.”
In fact, the mentioned quest was put up a thousand years ago. Despite that, no one managed to solve it. Sunders was only striking a relaxed conversation by telling Angor about it—the outcome did not matter.