“Ah, now…..”

The forest witch muttered with deep emotion.

“Finally, my wish has come true…..”
“We’re happy to be of help… eh?”

I couldn’t help but let out my surprise.

As she spoke, the forest witch’s appearance had suddenly begun to become transparent.

“No way…..”
“I said at the beginning, right? I don’t have time.”
“Then…”
“Yes. I knew this from the beginning. But now I can finally go with peace of mind.”
“…..”
“Please feel free to use the books in the hut. That is the only way I can show you my gratitude.”

As she spoke, the Forest Witch’s body gradually faded away, eventually enveloped in light. Then, just like Mary-chan, she ascended to heaven.

At the end, the forest witch’s mouth moved, and she seemed to say something.

We couldn’t hear the voice, but it looked like her mouth was moving to say ‘thank you’.

“Anna.”
“Yes”

We all knelt before Mary-chan’s gravestone and prayed for her and Mary-chan’s souls to rest in peace.

◆◇◆

We returned to the forest witch’s hut. In the small room that the witch likely used, there was a small bookshelf lined with books.

Each one seems to be quite old and is undoubtedly an extremely valuable item.

However, the problem is that I can’t read the characters at all. There are no similarities whatsoever with the characters we use. It feels like the difference between hiragana and the alphabet.

So I think it must be a completely different type of writing system from the one we use.

“What should we do? It looks like it will take a long time just to decipher it…”
“Well, that’s a problem.”

As we stood there, holding the books and at a loss, he pervert came up to us and pointed to one of the books.

“This book contains the information you are looking for.”
“Eh?”
“Rho-sama! What does it say?”
“I don’t mind telling you, but there is a condition.”
“What is the condition?”
“Yes. Please give me the rest of the books.”
“Huh? What do you mean?”
“I am a follower of the Wise Sage Loringus. It’s only natural to want something like this, isn’t it?”

…That’s strange. This guy is a pervert who said nonsensical things like wanted to master the way of loli, for which he abandoned everything he had until then and became a spirit of light.

Would that pervert even bother seeking such ancient knowledge now?

“Allen, isn’t that okay? We can’t read it anyway.”
“That’s true, but…”
“Well, that’s settled.”

With that, the pervert began reading the book he had pointed to.

“The title of this book is ‘Record of Dungeon Construction Using 【Alchemy】’.”
“Huh!”

It was so perfectly in line with what we were looking for that I couldn’t help but gasp.

“Let’s take a look at the contents.”

Then the pervert read it smoothly and told us about it. He could easily read something written in such an unknown language, so although he is a pervert, his reputation as a great sage was well deserved.

As I continued reading, something seemed strange to me. It seemed that Anna had been thinking the same thing, as she had a puzzled look on her face.

“Allen, could this terrain and the structure of the dungeon be…..”
“That’s right. I think so too.”
“What’s wrong? Is there something on your mind?”

The pervert stopped reading when he said that and turned his face toward us.

“This dungeon looks just like the ruins of an ancient dungeon that used to be near Lurden.”

Anna nodded and looked at the pervert with a serious expression.

“Is that so?”

As the pervert said this, he flipped through the pages at an incredible speed, checking all the way to the end.

It’s a speed that makes it hard to believe one can understand the content, but perhaps it’s speed reading?

“I see. It seems that this dungeon never became a complete dungeon. It operated as a pseudo-dungeon for a while, then stopped functioning once the magical power contained in its core was used up.”
“Eh? Then, we can do something with 【Alchemy】 to solve that. Right?”
“That’s right”
“Then, we will create a dungeon…..”
“For that purpose, I had you two eat the seeds of the Lunar Magic Grass. If we can create a pseudo-dungeon, then we can ask the gods who had requested you two to turn it into a real dungeon.”
“Well, that’s true. It’s not like we have to solve everything on our own.”
“That’s right. Then let’s continue.”

Then the pervert read the rest to us.