I wanted to enjoy a slow life while exploring the territory with a secret gift [craft skill], but I was intentionally banished to the frontier by pretending to be incompetent.
"Now, we can look inside the base with confidence."
"According to the records , it is on the left side ."
According to reports from past research teams examined by Kieda, the monsters and beasts on the island are more vicious and ferocious than those of the same lineage found elsewhere.
It may have evolved in a special way because it evolved in a state where they were isolated from the outside world.
An expert who accompanied the investigation team speculated that.
It was a very interesting place, so they asked the upper management kingdom for a long-term investigation, but the investigation team's wishes were quickly defeated.
"It was because of the war with the Gard Empire."
At that time, the kingdom was in a state of urgency with a medium-sized country called the Gard Empire, which existed on the opposite side of the island's southern point.
And unfortunately, the bilateral war began shortly after the investigation team submitted a proposal for a full-scale investigation of the island.
The war, which began in a form similar to a surprise attack from Gard Empire side, had to be played defensive by the Kingdom side at first, and their proposal was blown away because the unimportant things such as the study of the isolated island in the south, was though not very much necessary .
The research team nevertheless moved to pursue research on this interesting island, but it was forgotten as the war intensified, with no budget being spent on researching islands in places that were not particularly important to the kingdom.
"What now remains here are this ruins"
"It's been pretty devastated by the beasts. It must be more terrible inside one. ."
"For the time being, I'll check the inside before making it into a material. There may be something important left by those researchers ."
I enter the tattered building, paying attention to my footing.
As expected, the floorboards were broken all over the place, and when I looked up, I could see the sky even though it was a two-story building.
As I knew from the outside, the second floor was almost broken and I couldn't look it up.
"The stairs ... are completely broken."
I step on the stairs that have been ripped off by the rain and wind.
Paki.
A crack ran in the board of the stairs, even though I didn't put much effort into it.
"It would be impossible to climb the stone with this."
"Crafting the stairs will allow you to climb, but by all means there seems to be nothing above."
I proceed to the back while having such a conversation with Kieda.
Probably, the second floor is a dormitory for the members, and the first floor seems to be a shared room such as an office, kitchen and dining room.
"Let's look at the leader's room or the conference room rather than the private room."
"That's right. There may be something left."
"According to records, due to the intesifying of war they suddenly left the area, and I don't think they wouldn be able to make multiple round trips to that cliff."
"It means that various things could be left behind by them ."
We separated and searched for such a room.
The floor on the second floor is full of holes and the sky can be seen, but the first floor still manages to retain its shape.
Thanks to that, the room was easier to find than I expected.
"The Grandmaster's room is here."
The door of the room was struck with a wooden board with the words "Grandmaster's room" in faint letters.
This door doesn't seem to be broken yet, and it doesn't seem to open when I turn the knob.
"It's locked"
"Do you want to break it?"
"No, it's not good to shake this building too much, so I'll just craft the key."
(At this stage his skill feels like Aladin' lamp)
I answer Kieda while looking into the keyhole.
The key itself used on this knob is still commonly used in the kingdom.
"Okay. I've made this type of key, so don't worry about that."
"Rest. Before I knew it, did you become able to do something like a thief?"
"A little at school, because the key with the same mechanism was used there."
"Can you tell me more about that? For what exactly ..."
"Oh, later. Now I'll open this gate here first."
I interrupt Kieda's question, check the back of the keyhole again, and then get to work.
And when I hold my hand over the keyhole and mutter "craft", I can feel the feeling that something is growing from my hand at the same time.
"This is fascinating"
Kieda screamed at the key that appeared in my hand.
The key that was completed in no time was undecorated.
It's just a complex shape formed at the tip of a single stick.
"I can open it"
While saying so, I insert the key into the keyhole and turn it.
I felt some resistance, maybe it was a little rusty, but soon I could feel the unlocking with a small rattling noise.
"It's a success"
"Then let's look inside"
I slowly open the door and look inside.
Unlike the outside, the room remained almost undisturbed, and it seemed as if time had stopped here.
Still, if I step inside, the floorboards under my feet will squeak and dust will fly up.
"I'll look at this, so Kieda can look there."
"I understand."
We look inside the room, being careful not to roll up dust as much as possible.
The shelves, which may have been lined with various things, are empty, and even if I look through them, it doesn't seem that anything is hidden in them.
"Is it a miss?"
"Only this desk remains to be checked."
All that remained was the office desk that was supposedly used by the leader placed near the window.
However, although I opened all the drawers of the desk--
"It didn't have anything in it."
"Well, We can'to anything more if it didn't had anything it. Then, should we go out?"
"That's right ... oh?"
When I tried to leave the room without any harvest, I heard Kieda's voice and looked back.
Then I saw Kieda sticking his hand under the desk I checked earlier.
"What are you doing?"
"No, I tried to put the desk drawer back in before I left the room. I heard something falling underneath ... this is it."
When Kieda pulled out his hand from under the desk, he was holding something that looked like a notebook.
"pocket book"
"It seems that I couldn't find it because it was stuck in the back of the drawer when I withdrew."
"What is written in it?"
When I received the notebook from Kieda, I slowly opened it in the dusty room.
TL Note- Thanks for wishing you get well soon, I still have the fever but it's better than yesterday and happy independence day to all our indian readers 🇮🇳 . Today was a late release as I was celebrating it. Comment your experience and enjoy reading.
Tanks for the chapter. Hope you get better son.
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