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Chapter 117

At the moment of Andrea's new realization, Khan, along with the Crown Prince's private soldiers, was entering the entrance of a village he had never visited before.

"Are there villages so isolated from the world with no teleportation circles these days?"

A soldier behind Khan grumbled. Khan pretended not to hear but secretly agreed.

The village they had reached was a small rural village located on the outskirts of Tabenum, Unlike other places, there was no teleportation circle here, so they had to rely on traditional means of transportation like horses or carriages.

Despite riding without stopping, it took them six hours to finally arrive at this place.

Most of the quiet village consisted of fields, and the men in black armor amidst the peaceful scenery felt quite foreign.

"Find the house of the magician who lives in this village,"

Khan ordered, and the soldiers dispersed quickly. He sat on his horse, surveying the village. The picturesque landscape, distinct from the city, was beautiful like a painting, yet it failed to touch Khan's heart.

It had been nearly four months since he started searching for Del Narcissus. Leading the prince's guards, he had traveled the continent like a madman.

In the first month, He roamed aimlessly around the vicinity of the Tower.

Then, he received word that one of the knights who had accompanied the prince had disappeared. He was said to have previously served as a guard for Del Narcissus. The knight, named Devan Fiestio, was found lying in a hospital, with a reason for admission was absurd, he had attempted to commit suicide.

"I rode on the teleportation circle together with my master... sob... and I lost my master. Even when asking the station, the response was that if the teleportation circle malfunctioned, it was difficult to determine where he might have ended up. After days of frantically searching, I heard a rumor..."

The village spoke of a victim who, due to an error in the teleportation circle, had their body and legs separated and ended up in different places, causing the victim to die from fatal bleeding. Shocked by the rumor, the knight drank heavily and attempted suicide in a fit of despair.

"I couldn't bear the thought that I might have caused harm or death to my master... sob... I couldn't bear it.

He had stabbed himself in the stomach with his own sword in an alley behind a bar. However, the bar owner found him soon after, and he was rushed to the hospital. But the wounds were too deep, and for two months, He was in the care of the hospital.

He pleaded for Khan to find his master, who wanted to return to the tower. It was the most pathetic and dumbest story Khan had ever heard in his life. But it provided a clue that the last place he used the teleportation circle was the station in Deserent.

In the third month, Khan thoroughly searched all the stations connected to the teleportation circle in Deserent, totaling 178 stations. In the fourth month, just recently, he heard testimony about a beautiful man who had arrived at one of the stations in Tabenum by mistake due to a magic circle error.

According to the station personnel, the unfortunate beauty desperately asked about the fastest way to Kantate and claimed to possess a treasure from the Grand Duke's family, as well as a close connection with the Magic Tower Lord.

Four months, over 100 days, no it would've been much more considering the time Khan had spent searching for Del Narcissus. Finally, after this long period, the special prisoner Khan had been searching for had come close to his grasp.