After Cale and Raon was done with the work, Cale could hear a voice in his mind.

• ...A pile of money.

Cale could hear Cheapskate but just ignored him. It was funny that the cheapskate who could not use magic stones and had a fire attribute that wasn't even magic was responding to this kind of money.

• That's not the case.

'Huh?' Cale flinched.

Click. Click. Click. Raon locked the boxes with the spatial pocket bags back up and returned them under the magic lock as before.

Nobody would be able to tell that anybody had been here. At least until they saw the rocks in the bags that is...

Cale was calmly watching this, but his mind was getting complicated at the cheapskate's comment.

'No? Cheapskate, you can use magic stones as well?'

• Money and jewels work when fortifying my strength, so why wouldn't magic stones work?

'Oh, I guess that makes sense.' Cale nodded his head at Cheapskate's response. 'It made sense. But this isn't for you this time.'

It was for their side's magic faction with Raon and Rosalyn in the vanguard.

• Ay, I don't need it right now. You'll be fine just using it for magic.

Cale nodded at Cheapskate's comment. He heard a clear voice at that moment.

• I need to get stronger too.

It was the Sky Eating Water.

Cale's expression turned odd. Most ancient powers left tattoos on Cale's body as they became absorbed. However, the Sky Eating Water and the Scary Giant Cobblestone did not leave any tattoos.

"Human! Are we not leaving?"

Cale heard Raon's voice and decided to think about fortifying his ancient powers later as he grabbed the top's whip again. His body became invisible once more.

– Human!

Raon started to speak into his mind again.

– Are we going to go steal a map and the coordinates now?

Cale started to smile. "Yes."

He could hear the voices of the Wind Elementals through the top's whip.

*I saw them having a meeting on the ninth floor!*

*There was a map open there!*

*I've confirmed where their troops are hiding. I also confirmed the coordinates for the North, East, and West Alchemists' Towers. Destroy, obliterate.*

*Hey you, stop saying weird things like that!*

*No. Chaos, destruction, obliteration! Kahahahahahahaha!*

Cale looked toward the closed door. There should be guards, knights, or alchemists outside on the corridor.

– Human, how are we leaving?

Cale slowly reached his hand out at Raon's question.

Click. A lock was unlatched.

Screeeech. And the window was opened.

– Oh! Right! We can fly out of the window!

Cale looked out the window that was wide enough for him to fit through.

The Southern Alchemists' Tower was ten stories tall. He could see the beautiful scenery outside.

Cale stepped on the ledge and walked off into the air.

Swooooooosh- Small gusts of wind gathered at the tip of Cale's feet.

Magic surrounded Cale at the same time.

– It's flight magic!

*It is destruction if you fall! Obliteration! So, you must live.*

Cale could hear both Raon and the Wind Elemental in his mind. Cale carefully closed the window.

"Please."

A Wind Elemental responded to that from inside the closed window.

*I will lock the window! I can do it with a tiny breeze!*

Click. The closed window was locked by a Wind Elemental who remained alone on the inside.

*I'll come find you once the door opens later!*

Cale nodded his head at the Wind Elemental before looking up. The ninth floor and the tenth floor. There were floors that Cale had not seen yet.

The tenth floor was said to be where the Southern Alchemists' Tower's Tower Master resided.

Cale first slowly floated up to the ninth floor. The invisible Cale could look inside the window. He could see Alchemists busily moving around.

*The third window to the right. The map and coordinates are inside the room through that window! But the window is locked!*

Cale moved to the right as the Wind Elemental mentioned. He passed by the first and second windows. He could now see the third window.

Once he looked inside the glass...

'Son of a!'

– Human!

Cale moved away from the window in shock.

Click. The window opened.

Cale quickly moved as close to the wall as possible. He then put his hand over his mouth.

"The breeze feels nice."

He could hear someone's voice. That person was slightly leaning out the window and enjoying the breeze.

It was that bastard.

'The mage who was with White Star!'

The one who had a poisoned dagger stabbed into his ankle and had his one wrist cut off.

Cale was so shocked that his heart almost jumped out after suddenly seeing that guy's face.

*That mage wasn't there just now!*

He couldn't even hear the Wind Elemental's voice properly. Cale turned his head to the side while remaining absolutely silent. He could see the slightly pale mage.

'He's not fully healed yet.'

He confirmed that the mage had not completely resolved Ron's attack and the poison.

Cale started to smile. 'His body condition is not normal. That is why he hasn't figured out I'm here.'

This was great information to have. Cale knew that he had found out some important information.

Someone wearing an alchemist's robe walked up next to the mage and started to speak. "Tower Master-nim, the breeze is pure and wonderful here because we are next to many mountains and the Jungle."

'Tower Master? White Star's lackey mage is the Tower Master?' Cale found this to be odd.

"Tower Master?"

The mage frowned after hearing the Alchemist call him the Tower Master and shook his head. However, the mage was smiling. The Alchemist gently added on as if he understood what was on the mage's mind.

"You are the person who will lead the greatest Magic Tower on both the Eastern and Western continents in the future. So, of course, you are the Tower Master-nim."

"I am not there yet."

'Hooo.' The corners of Cale's lips twisted up.

– No! Smart Rosalyn is the Tower Master! You stupid mage!

Raon was shouting in his mind but Cale focused on the two people's conversation. He could hear the Alchemist's voice again. Cale's eyes opened wide at that moment.

"Did the liege head to the North?"

The liege.

White Star.

They were talking about White Star.

The mage responded to the Alchemist. "Based on what I heard, the liege debated long and hard about whether to head to the land of the Whale tribe, the southern region of the Caro Kingdom or the Roan Kingdom's Northwest region to gain power."

This was unexpectedly huge information.

The Roan Kingdom. The place Cale expected the other earth attribute ancient power to be located.

'But the Roan Kingdom's Northwest region? Marquis Taylor's territory? White Star debated between those three places to go find the earth attribute ancient power? The Caro Kingdom's southern region? Mary's neighborhood is on his list as well? Wow. This is a big one.'

– Human! So, White Star thinks that the earth attribute ancient power is either in our neighborhood, the Whale tribe's neighborhood, or Mary's neighborhood?

Cale quietly nodded his head at Raon's question.

Only two people were said to possess the earth attribute ancient power during ancient times.

One was the Scary Giant Cobblestone while the other was the ancient White Star.

The current White Star was looking for the ancient White Star's earth attribute ancient power.

The three potential locations of this power were the Roan Kingdom's Northwest region, the land of the Whale tribe, and the Caro Kingdom's southern region.

Boom boom. Cale could feel his heart beating wildly.

'This is driving me nuts.'

The location of the earth attribute ancient power Cale and Choi Han had deducted using Choi Junggun's memoirs was the Roan Kingdom.

That meant that the answer was...

'The Roan Kingdom's Northwest region.'

The home of Marquis Taylor Stan.

'...It makes sense.'

This hypothesis made a lot of sense.

The Roan Kingdom's Northeast region that Cale's Henituse territory represented was famous for its marbles. In comparison, the Roan Kingdom's Northwest region, Marquis Stan's territory, was famous for its granite.

Marble and granite. The Roan Kingdom was famous for being the land of boulders because of these two different types of rocks that existed in large quantities.

'Things are turning out quite interesting.'

Cale could not help but smile.

It was at that moment.

"Becrock Tower Master-nim, do you think that the liege will visit all three locations?"

The Southern Alchemists' Tower's Tower Master was calling the mage, 'Becrock Tower Master-nim.'

Cale now knew that the mage's name was Becrock.

– Human! That alchemist is spewing nonsense! Smart Rosalyn will be the Tower Master! Even gramps said that Rosalyn was a genius!

"Calm down, Raon." Cale whispered.

*...Despair, destruction, chaos.*

Cale ignored the crazy Wind Elemental as he then got closer to the window.

"I'm not sure. The liege said that he would first visit the spot that is most likely to hold the power."

"Then I guess the North had the highest possibility. How did such information-"

The Southern Alchemists' Tower's Tower Master looked toward mage Becrock with curiosity and greed as he asked. "Do you wish to know, Tower Master-nim?"

However, he changed his expression after seeing the cold gaze in Becrock's eyes.

"Of course not. I just wish to follow the will of our liege."

"Good. That is all we need to do."

Cale could see the sweating Southern Alchemists' Tower's Tower Master and mage Becrock as he got closer. He could also see inside of the ninth floor.

There were many different types of documents and he could see a map of the entire Mogoru Empire on the wall. There were many red dots on the map.

'It's their travel route.' Cale could instantly tell that the red dots and the connecting lines were the routes the four Alchemists' Towers would use to attack the capital.

– Human, are we going to steal that?

'Steal? For what? It'll be obvious if we stole it.'

With Becrock here, it was better not to mess up the ninth floor.

That was why Cale pulled on the black cloth covering his neck.

'We just need to record it.' His eyes started to record the entire map and every single detail on it.

– Human, don't we need to steal those documents?

As Raon mentioned, Cale could not only look at the map. He needed to go in and look through those documents as well.

The size, makeup, and location of the enemy troops were important as well.

It was at that moment.

Knock knock knock.

"What is it?" The Southern Alchemists' Tower's Tower Master raised his voice after hearing the knocks.

Becrock looked toward the door as well.

"Tower Master-nim, I think you need to meet a merchant."

The Southern Alchemists' Tower's Tower Master started to frown after hearing the response.

The one who made the report was one of his trusted subordinates who would not interrupt his conversation with mage Becrock for no reason.

"...A merchant?"

But he interrupted them for a damn merchant?

The Tower Master continued to speak as he found this to be odd. "Come in."

Click. The door opened and trusted subordinate bowed as he continued to speak.

"I apologize for interrupting your conversation."

"It's fine. What do you mean when you said that you think that I should meet with a merchant?"

The Tower Master could see a small smile appear before quickly disappearing from his subordinate's face. The subordinate even peeked toward Becrock before looking back at him.

That made the Tower Master even more curious. This was not someone who would make such motions for no reason.

"Do you remember the Singten Merchant Guild which is one of the Empire's five largest merchant guilds and was close to the royal family in the capital?"

"Are you talking about guild leader Plavin Singten?"

"Yes sir."

"What about him?"

He was an important merchant, but not someone that the Tower Master would easily meet without an appointment.

"He says he has gathered around 1,200 slaves."

"...What?"

The Tower Master's eyes opened wide.

1,200 slaves. That was not a small number. It was quite large especially now when they could no longer conduct the slave trade they had been doing in secret.

The subordinate continued to speak with confidence. "We will be able to gain a lot of dead mana if we receive those slaves."

Dead mana. It was a necessary ingredient for black magic as well as something they needed to offer to White Star.

The Tower Master now understood why his subordinate had peeked toward mage Becrock. The Tower Master's shoulders opened wide with confidence.

He peeked toward Becrock as he started to speak. "Ahem, this is great. Don't you agree?"

"Yes, it is. You managed to get someone very useful on your side, Tower Master-nim. I knew there was a reason the Southern Tower was doing the best in comparison to the other three towers."

The Tower Master started to smile after hearing Becrock's comment. Becrock would share similar sentiments to White Star. That would raise the Tower Master's status as well.

'I might even get to be the new Tower Master of the Alchemists' Bell Tower.'

That position was currently empty as the former Tower Master had died. The person in that position would lead all of the black mages and be close to the White Star.

If he could get that position!

The Tower Master pushed down his rising greed as he ordered his subordinate. "And you've confirmed these slaves?"

"Of course. Merchant guild leader Plavin brought a video recording device with him. I have confirmed the slaves chained down in the basement of his secret residence."

"Oh, really?" The Tower Master was slowly starting to get excited.

The subordinate sounded proud as well. Mage Becrock slowly moved away from the window and walked up to the two individuals.

This made the Tower Master and the subordinate even more excited.

"Yes sir! There seemed to be hundreds of slaves in there, so I have no reason to doubt the 1,200 number."

"Oh, I see! Is that why our Merchant guild leader Plavin wishes to meet me?"

The corners of the subordinate's lips went up in a sly way. "Yes sir, he said he wishes to meet the person who will be the future owner of the Bell Tower."

"Ahem, the future of the Bell Tower? Ahem!" The Tower Master quickly responded without being able to hide his joy. "I guess I need to see our Merchant guild leader Plavin's face at least once. I need to compliment him for doing such a good job."

"Of course, Tower Master-nim." The subordinate responded but the Tower Master was looking at Becrock.

His gaze seemed to be asking for Becrock's permission while reinforcing his worth to the White Star's needs.

"Tower Master-nim, may I come with you? I want to meet such a talented merchant as well."

The Tower Master's expression became even brighter after hearing that Becrock wanted to come as well.

"Of course! Let's go meet him right away! Prepare a spot on the tenth floor."

"Yes, Tower Master-nim!"

They could not meet him here on the ninth floor with all of these strategic documents.

The subordinate quickly closed the ninth floor window. Then all three of them left the room and headed toward the tenth floor.

Click. The door closed and was locked from the outside.

Swooooooosh- Then a small gust of wind blew in toward a tiny crack in the window.

*Opening window. Chaos, destruction, larceny!*

Clang clang. The lock on the window started to move.

*...Larceny!*

Then it managed to unlock.

Screeeech. The window made a quiet noise as it opened wide.

– There don't seem to be any surveillance magic devices!

Cale walked into the room while listening to Raon's voice. He looked around before starting to speak.

"I guess they were very happy. I didn't expect them to go see Plavin right away."

"Human! They're all so funny! Hehe!"

Raon fluttered his wings in excitement.

Cale was already picking up a document as Raon laughed.

Flip. Flip. The information in the documents were quickly being recorded in Cale's mind.

"The humans in the evil merchant guild leader Plavin's basement are all soldiers in disguises! They're all being tricked!"

*Kahahahahaha! Scam! Deception! Crime! Despair!*

Raon and the Wind Elemental were not chatting with each other, but they were oddly saying similar things.

Cale was still busy recording, but Raon continued to rattle on in excitement.

"They'll get captured by the soldiers when they go to collect Plavin's slaves! We will smack them from behind!"

Cale started to smile.

The soldiers in the capital. These soldiers who were angry at Imperial Prince Adin and the royal family happily disguised themselves as slaves in Plavin's secret residence.

The Southern Alchemists' Tower will send some forces to the residence to collect these disguised slaves.

1,200 was too big of a number to teleport or transport in the merchant guild's carriages.

'Plavin will also say that he will not be able to move all of them by himself.'

The Southern Alchemists' Tower's forces will be treated as criminals as they try to leave with the slaves.

"But that Becrock bastard went with him, will grandpa Ron be okay?"

Ron Molan was next to Plavin right now with his face under a mask.

"Yeah, it's fine. Becrock's body is not normal right now. He didn't even notice us outside. Your grandpa Ron's stealth techniques are top notch. The current Becrock would not be able to tell if Ron hides his strength."

"Hehe, this is fun! I'm so excited!"

*Destruction, chaos! Kahahahaha!*

Raon was flying around in circles in the air. "I'm so excited I want to spin in circles! But I'm not going nuts like the crown prince!"

(Explanation from Eatapplepie: spinning and going nuts are homophones in Korean. )

Swoooooooosh- A small breeze joined Raon in the air.

*I'm going to spin too! Party! Joy! Despair!*

Clap! They heard a small clap at that moment. Raon looked toward Cale.

"Human, are you done?"

"Yeah."

There were no more documents in Cale's hand.

"Raon, make a call." The corners of his lips were twisted up.

"Who do you want me to call?"

"Call them in the order I tell you. As quickly as possible."

Cale told Raon the order to call people and Raon immediately called the first one.

Merchant guild leader Plavin will buy them as much time as possible.

> Huh? Young master-nim? Long time no see.

"Tasha."

Dark Elf Tasha, crown prince Alberu's aunt.

> I sent the kids... young master Cale? Are you currently stealing something?

"I'm going to speak quickly because I don't have much time."

Tasha sat up straight after hearing Cale's comment.

> Of course, go ahead.

"Will it be okay to drag White Star to the Land of Death?"

The Caro Kingdom's southern region. Mary's neighborhood that was known as the Land of Death.

> Oh.

Tasha let out a short gasp before asking.

> I'll need you to tell me more details.

"Please come here. I do not have time."

> That is fine. I will come to the Empire soon.