"Now we can focus on finding the last sacred relic," reminded the future Supreme Magus, Your Honor, seeing that the girl was still in a daze.
"Oh, do you have any suggestions?" Lolo could only suppress the doubts in her heart for the time being.
"I want to take a look at the place where you put the last sacred relic," said Rob to the little golem in the corner.
However, the little golem seemed a little hesitant. It seemed to be worried about leaving Claire here alone.
At this moment, Simon suddenly said, "I can stay and take care of her for you."
Genji was surprised to hear that. "Huh? Weren't you the most active person in the fight against that monster? Even if someone really has to stay, it should be me. After all, I'm the weakest in the team, "sighed Fatso.
Simon pointed at his feet. "But you can't use these magic circles."
The little golem tilted its head and thought for a moment. It also felt that Simon was the most suitable candidate compared to Genji, so it ran upstairs and said goodbye to the old man. After that, it stuffed all the magic circles it made in the past two days into Simon's arms.
Due to the limited materials, most of them were low-level magic circles. Only two of them were intermediate-level magic circles. One of them was the reflective magic circle that almost hit Simon, and the other was a tier-4 defensive magic circle that worked very well.
Simon was very surprised. "Did you do all this, in this kind of environment?"
The little golem nodded, looking a little proud. However, it seemed to remember something and immediately pretended to be ignorant.
Lolo was angry and amused at the same time. She knew that the little golem was worried that she would be targeted by others. In fact, most people had already noticed the abnormality of the little golem during their time together.
Unlike its dull companions, the little golem seemed to be extraordinarily emotional and expressive. It even made people wonder if it already had a life of its own. And now, Simon seemed to be very interested in it.
The little golem dared not delay. It hurriedly led Rob and the others out of the puppet workshop.
Their destination was a theater ten miles away. The little golem remembered very clearly that it placed the last sacred relic under the floor seven rows and thirteen columns from the left of the theater stage. However, when it went there again, there was no sign of the sacred relic.
After the team walked for a while, Rob suddenly said that he wanted to go to the toilet. He found a building by the side of the road and went in. Five minutes later, he came out again. For some reason, Lolo felt that he was a little different from before, but she couldn't tell what exactly was different. Besides, everyone was in a hurry, so the doubt only flashed in her mind for a moment.
After a magic hour, they arrived at the theater. Genji lifted the floor again, but there was nothing underneath. As they were not sure if the golem would suffer from memory loss like humans, they still lifted the surrounding floorboards together just in case. However, they still found nothing.
After that, they had to expand the search area. Finally, Rob found a few strange claw marks on the wall on the west side. The claw marks seemed to have been made not long ago, and there were still some blood stains on them.
"Are they ghouls?" Genji guessed.
The Quasi Magus shook his head. "Ghouls are usually only active on the first and second floors of the dungeon. Moreover, the dungeon in Bantem Town is close to being fully explored. Most of the ghouls have been cleared by the adventurers in the early days."
"Who took the last sacred relic? Xavier? Or that monster?"
This time, it was the golem's turn to shake its head. It gestured on the spot for a long time. It seemed to be saying that neither Xavier nor the monster had been here.
Rob took out the referee committee's version of the map and found their current location. "The nearest magical beast is a petrified sawtooth crocodile, but it's about a kilometer away. From what I know, petrified sawtooth crocodiles rarely leave their nests. Apart from food, they don't have the habit of collecting treasures."
"Then who took the last sacred relic?"
The magus did not speak. He squatted down to examine the claw marks again. After a moment, he raised his head and said hesitantly, "These claw marks look like they were left by a grey-backed jackal. Are there such magical beasts in the freshmen competition?"
The grey-backed jackal and the black-humped camel were both first-grade magical beasts with stronger offensive abilities. Unlike the black-humped camel that liked to stay in one place, the grey-backed jackal did not have a fixed base and liked to roam around. Moreover, they preferred to move in groups. Usually, one would encounter more than two grey-backed jackals in the wild. They were extremely unfriendly to rookie adventurers and were once known as the rookie killer. Therefore, Siamus's freshmen competition this time did not introduce these high-risk magical beasts.
On the other side, Jenny seemed to want to say something. Luo Bu saw the expression on her face and asked, "Is there anything you want to add?"
Jenny hesitated for a moment before saying, "We met some freshmen from the Silver Tower in Bantheim. I think I heard them mention something about hunting a grey-backed jackal or something."
As one of the top ten Academy of Magic in the south, the Silver Tower's combat strength was much stronger than Siamus's, even if they were freshmen. Therefore, ordinary magical beasts were of limited use to them. However, the academy could indeed use the grey-backed jackal as a killer weapon for newbies.
"But after the Silver Tower's competition ends, there will be people specifically counting and retrieving the magical beasts from the freshmen competition to ensure that the numbers are accurate. How did this grey-backed jackal make it into the next competition?"
"There will indeed be people counting and retrieving magical beasts after every competition, but they do so by subtracting the number of magical beasts killed during the competition from the total number of magical beasts. What's left is the final number that was retrieved. What if this grey-backed jackal isn't among them? What if this is a grey-backed jackal that has been judged dead? "
Lolo's eyes lit up. "This also explains why the claw marks on the wall are still mixed with blood. This grey-backed jackal was severely injured, possibly even fatally. It was on its last breath and couldn't live any longer, so it was classified as dead. Perhaps the hunter thought it was already dead, so no one came to retrieve it after the competition ended. Coincidentally, when Hector placed the last sacred artifact, the heavily injured grey-backed jackal was nearby. It saw the sacred artifact's location and discovered that the holy power of the sacred artifact had a stabilizing effect on its injuries. After Hector left, it used its last bit of strength to crawl here and steal the sacred artifact."
Genji was dumbfounded. "This..... this is too miraculous. Isn't it possible that a Grey-backed Jackal just happened to die here and left behind these bloody paw prints?"
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