Chapter 23 “Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool nowhere but in 's own house.”

6 am, just as the morning sunlight gave its blessings of life to the animals and plants living in this green land.

On this sunny morning, Cecilia's mother handed over two lunches wrapped in teak leaves and put them in the young man's bag.

"This is food, this is drink, this is snack, and this is sweets! Ok! Everything is complete!" Cecilia's mother said with a happy face.

Even though she had to prepare all the supplies while they were all asleep, there was not the slightest sign of fatigue on her bright face.

"Wow! That's the power of Mother!" The young man said.

"Hey, didn't I say earlier that I would only be gone for a short while? Then why did you even prepare this much food? You didn't forget that the two of us are only going to do a test and ritual right now, right? We don't have the slightest intention of traveling and having fun." Cecilia said.

"Come on, no need to be so rigid, enjoy your time. If you continue to be stiff like that, your face will suddenly turn into an old lady like your age." Her mother mocked.

"Oh, so now mom has already caught by Marie's disease huh?" Reply Cecilia who then passed and squatted in front of her house.

Seeing her daughter's behavior, Cecilia's mother confusedly looked at the young man who was standing confusedly beside her.

"What are you waiting for!? Let's go quickly!" Called Cecilia.

"Leaving?" responded Cecilia's mother while looking at the young man.

After a while, the young man finally understood what Cecilia meant.

"Hey, do we have to depart like this?" Asked the young man.

"Yes. We will depart like this." Cecilia replied.

"Wouldn't it be better if we just walked?"

"If you want to spend up to three days and nights in the forest, then go ahead." Cecilia replied without looking back.

"Umm... isn't this rude? What about your mother? Aren't you ashamed of her?" asked the young man.

"I don't care."

Hearing Cecilia's answer, the young man scratched his head as he limped towards where Cecilia was.

"Wha... Wha... WHAT!? No way! This can't be happening! Could it be..." Cecilia's mother muttered.

"Mom, I know what's on your mind but please don't..."

"Hey, wake up! Look! Right now Cecilia wants to carry Wallace to go with her!" Cecilia's mother shouted with all her might.

Adel immediately woke up from his sleep and ran out of the house.

"Shit! Hey, you! Hurry up, otherwise Adel will say all kinds of things to us!" Cecilia snapped at the young man.

Immediately, the young man ran and climbed on Cecilia's back and hugged her body tightly.

"Thanks for the lunch! See ya!" Said the young man who then took off along with Cecilia who carried him on her back.

When the two of them had flown in the sky, Cecilia then remembered Marie's complaint and realized the fatal mistake she had just made.

"Damn it, I forgot that if I flew with this much force then surely our garden and house would be all messed up!" Cecilia thought.

Elsewhere just as Adel woke up and ran out of the house to see her teacher who was just about to leave, suddenly a huge wind blast appeared and blew Cecilia's mother into her house.

But fortunately before her mother fell to the floor Adel immediately caught and protected her from the impact that almost happened.

"Are you okay!? What exactly is going on!? Are we being attacked right now!?" Adel asked to Cecilia's mother.

After taking a breath and calming herself down, Cecilia's mother then answered and tried to calm Adel down.

"No, it's nothing. I was just playing a little prank on your beautiful teacher." She replied with a small smile.

After that, they both got up and went outside to see what had happened to the yard.

And just as they had expected. All the plants and flowers that had previously bloomed beautifully were now crushed and uprooted from their roots, and even the front door and walls of their house were now littered with soil and pebbles.

"Umm... You're sure you've only disturbed her a little, right?" Adel asked Cecilia's mother.

"Ah... Maybe it seems like I went a little too far with her? Hehehe..." Cecilia's mother replied with a chuckle.

Then the footsteps of an old man could be heard from behind the two of them who were looking at the destruction that had occurred in their yard.

"It's still early in the morning but how can you all be so nois..."

Before the old man could finish his sentence, his legs suddenly gave out and he fell down in front of his door.

"WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO MY GARDEN!?"

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Although the two of them had set off using Cecilia's magic just like one month earlier, but in the end they still only reached the Dungeon at six forty-five minutes.

"This is tiring, I didn't expect that the two of us still have to go through such dense forests and trees." Complained the young man who then put down his bag and sat down while leaning his back against the hard Dungeon door.

"Hah! Just like that and you're already complaining, after all, if we don't use my magic, we won't be able to save this much time, right?" responded Cecilia who then approached and opened the bag that had been placed by the young man.

"Huh... but still this is all very tiring." complained the young man while looking at the doors and walls in the Dungeon ruins.

From the looks of it, it was certain that the entrance of the Dungeon was made from a very solid white stone and was decorated with various inscriptions engraved using glittering copper.

"Hey, do you know why these walls and doors have so many inscriptions?" The young man asked.

"Huh? Inscriptions? Which ones? I don't remember there ever being an inscription in these ruins." Cecilia replied.

"Here, the inscriptions engraved using copper on the walls and entrance of this Dungeon." The young man said while pointing and touching the inscriptions that were engraved and formed a sentence and paragraph on the wall and entrance of the Dungeon.

"Hmm? Copper?" Cecilia muttered.

After thinking for a moment, Cecilia finally began to understand and remember what the young man meant.

"Ooo! Those copper engravings huh? So it's all an inscription? I used to think that the engravings were letters, but since no one could read them, we all thought that it was probably just a useless Ciphertext. Hmm... it turns out that it really is a text, huh?" Cecilia said while eating the lunch that had just been taken out of the young man's bag.

Seeing Cecilia who had just started eating, the young man also sat down and opened his lunchbox which turned out to be three pieces of sandwiches that contained green vegetables.

"So can you read it?" Cecilia asked.

Suddenly with blazing eyes the young man happily answered Cecilia's question with great pride.

"Are you kidding!? Of course I can read them! Because these are all letters from my world!" The young man replied.

"Ooo is that so? So what does that sentence say?"

"Hmm... So if we follow the sentence written on this entrance then to enter we must ask for help from a Priestess from the Cathedral. Hmm... If that's the case wouldn't it mean that the two of us have failed because we didn't bring a Priestess from the Cathedral with us? And if we follow this sentence, is it possible that Marie is the Priestess in question?" The young man asked.

"Hah! Marie? A Priestess? Don't joke, is there a priestess who is money minded like her? Besides, we don't even need the Priestess, because I'm alone is enough to open this Dudgeon door." Said Cecilia who then drank water from her water bag and stood in front of the Dungeon door while placing her right hand.

Then Cecilia whispered a spell that made the copper carvings on the white stone door glow a shimmering golden light.

Along with the appearance of the golden light, suddenly the ground in the dungeon area shook and the stone door that had previously covered the dungeon was now slowly opened in front of the young man who was still sitting and eating the sandwich that was still left in his hand.

"That's it, let's go. If our guesses are all right maybe you will be able to get that magic power of yours." Said Cecilia who then walked first into the very dark room.

"Hey! Wait for me! Can't you see that I still haven't finished my sandwich in my hand!" Protested the young man who then ran after Cecilia who had now disappeared in the darkness of the room.

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