I Put all my Stats into Charm - Chapter 76

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I Put All My Stats Into Charm Episode 076

I alternately looked at Hakin’s face and the favorability window.

‘That man is Hakin?’

The final conquest character from 【Chronicle of Starlight】?

I wasn’t the only one surprised.

Hakin’s pupils dilated wide as our eyes met.

At the same time, his movements stopped.

Not missing that opportunity, Lowell chanted a spell.

“Somnus Ligare.”

Translucent chains extended from Lowell’s hand and rushed toward Hakin.

Then they coiled around his body.

“Grrrr!”

Hakin growled and struggled. The more he did, the tighter the chains bound his body.

Lowell continued chanting another spell.

“Mentem Quiescere!”

“…!”

A small light flashed in the center of Hakin’s forehead.

His eyes, which had been wildly thrashing in madness, slowly closed and he collapsed on the spot like a puppet with cut strings.

Unlike his earlier appearance of raging like a beast, Hakin’s sleeping form looked peaceful and gentle.

I stood there as if frozen in place.

‘To meet Hakin here…?’

Something was strange.

Hakin was a character who only appeared in the Imperial Palace. Not in some suspicious cave like this.

That wasn’t all.

Hakin was a character with black hair and golden eyes.

But the one before my eyes had white hair and white eyes.

His hair was disheveled, and he had growled like a beast.

When I saw him in the game, he at least looked like a decent member of society on the outside.

But Hakin’s current appearance was hard to see as a civilized person.

He was like someone abandoned in the jungle.

Most crucially, the strangest thing was Hakin’s favorability.

‘It went up by 95 points all at once?’

His favorability had never risen just from seeing Hakin, and there had never been a conquest target whose favorability rose so exponentially.

‘What on earth is going on?’

While I was confused, Calliton approached, breathing heavily.

“Troublesome fellow.”

He commanded the knights around him.

“Take all survivors and monsters with markings on the back of their necks.”

The knights began moving busily. The sleeping Hakin was also carried away by the knights.

They said Jerome’s eyes and hair had also turned white when he was kidnapped.

The marking on his back was the same too.

Then there was a possibility that Hakin’s hair and eyes had also temporarily turned white due to experiments.

At that moment, Calliton, who had been examining the scene, picked up a research journal scattered on the floor.

Instantly, Calliton’s expression hardened.

With his gaze fixed on the journal, he called for Lowell.

“Lowell Chiffrion.”

“Yes?”

Calliton held out the research journal to Lowell.

On the first page of the journal, which had stained or rotted parts throughout, were the words 【Necromancy Experiment Journal】.

And in the author section below, Lowell Chiffrion’s name was written.

The handwriting in the journal was definitely Lowell’s as well.

“Care to explain why a journal with your name is here?”

In a place where human transmutation had occurred. A journal related to black magic discovered under Lowell’s name.

‘No way….’

I looked at Lowell.

Lowell, who had been gazing at the research journal with calm eyes, slowly opened his mouth.

“…It’s a journal I lost long ago. I thought I’d never find it.”

Then he looked back at Calliton.

“I’d like to know why that journal is here too.”

Right, there’s no way Lowell would do such a thing.

Even though he had a history of using black magic and had tried to taxidermy a perfectly fine person.

Wait… come to think of it, he used black magic and tried to taxidermy someone, so what’s to stop him from monster transmutation?

That’s when it happened.

Rumble!

The entire cave shook and dirt and gravel fell from the ceiling.

It was as if warning us to leave this place immediately.

Calliton furrowed his brow.

“I’ll hear the detailed explanation after we get out. Right now we need to leave before the cave collapses.”

Then he called to a knight who was far away.

“Did you find the way out?”

The knight answered with a serious expression.

“We couldn’t find an exit.”

“What about the way we came?”

“The ground collapsed and it’s blocked.”

“Any other paths?”

“None. The only way is to go back up the way we fell….”

As Calliton frowned, the knight cautiously spoke.

“Couldn’t we go up using Lord Chiffrion’s magic like when we came down?”

“Sorry, but I don’t have much mana left.”

Lowell continued with a troubled expression.

“If we go up in my current state, I might suffer mana depletion and fall midway.”

Earlier, Lowell had consumed considerable mana.

Moreover, now there weren’t just the investigation team, but also the Empire citizens and monsters rescued from the cages.

Rumble―.

The cave shook again.

With vibrations larger than before, even our bodies began to sway.

Then, Jerome spoke up.

“I know the way out.”

Calliton raised one eyebrow crookedly.

“How does the Duke know the way out?”

“I’ve been to this place before.”

“What?”

Rumble!

The cave shook once more.

There was no time to figure out the circumstances.

“First guide us to the way out, Duke.”

Jerome nodded and stopped in front of a bookshelf.

At first glance, the bookshelf looked no different from the other bookshelves lining the wall.

The moment Jerome lifted a candlestick placed on the bookshelf and put it back down.

Creak—.

With a brief vibration, the bookshelf slid sideways.

And the passage that the bookshelf had been hiding revealed itself.

“If you go through this passage, you’ll come to a stone bridge by a waterfall. Once you cross that bridge, you can get straight outside.”

Jerome took the lead.

The rest of the group carefully followed behind him.

Before long, a massive cavern and waterfall came into view.

Whoooosh—.

The thunderous roar of water cascading powerfully from high above echoed throughout.

Far below the waterfall, a river-like stream of water flowed.

The unfathomable depth gave me a dizzying feeling, as if one wrong step would suck me in.

And there was one more unexpected problem.

The stone bridge Jerome had mentioned was broken.

It seemed to have been broken for a long time, with wet moss thickly covering the remains of the stone bridge.

The other side wasn’t even within jumping distance.

Even Jerome hadn’t expected this sight, as his eyes wavered slightly.

“This is…”

Then, Lowell spoke up.

“If it’s this distance, I should be able to cross it with magic.”

Calliton gave no response. He just stared at the collapsed stone bridge before his eyes.

There was a strange wariness in that silence.

Lowell watched Calliton like that, then quietly spoke.

“Don’t you trust me?”

“…”

At the silence that was close to affirmation, Lowell let out a small sigh.

“I understand Your Highness’s feelings. Since my name came up in a place like this, it’s natural to be suspicious.”

He continued in a calm voice.

“If I were involved with this place, I would eliminate the people here first. Since they’re the ones who learned my secret.”

Rumble.

Once again the ground shook and stone dust fell from the ceiling.

“If that were the case, I wouldn’t give the excuse that I don’t have much mana left. I could just pretend to lift you to a reasonable height and then drop you.”

After a brief pause, he continued.

“But I’m innocent. I can explain everything. Moreover…”

Lowell looked straight at Calliton and continued.

“If we don’t get out of here, everyone here will die crushed by the collapsing cave. Wouldn’t betting on my side give you a better chance of survival?”

“…”

Calliton, who had been quietly staring at the bridge, spoke in a low voice.

“Do it.”

Lowell smiled faintly.

Somehow that smile looked a little bitter.

He turned his gaze back to the knights.

“Knights, please line up and hold the imperial citizen and the monster tightly.”

As the knights lined up, Lowell chanted an incantation.

“Ventus Subsidium.”

Calliton and I were the first to float up.

The moment my feet left the ground, my body lost its center and tilted unsteadily.

“Eek!”

Calliton grabbed my arm.

Then he said in a low voice.

“Don’t look down.”

I’m not a tree frog or anything.

At his words not to look, my gaze unconsciously turned downward.

“Gasp…!”

Far below my feet, rough river water was swirling and flowing.

Seeing the rapidly flowing river that seemed ready to swallow me made me dizzy and my body swayed.

Then, Calliton quickly wrapped his arm around my waist and held me.

“I told you not to look down.”

“Hah… I couldn’t help myself…”

“Lift your head.”

I raised my head as he instructed.

Then I met red eyes that were fixed on me.

“Don’t look anywhere else, just look at me.”

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