The floating book suddenly started turning the pages on its own and stopped at a certain page. On that page, there was a picture of a large boulder and that same boulder suddenly appeared before the book and fell toward Tomoe's team. But that was just a simple boulder, so before it could reach then, Kaya cut it in many pieces with her sword.

Grace then informed everyone about this peculiar book. It was a rare and quite well known magic item called Dreamer's book. Only a high level Alchemist was able to make this item, so the presence of this book here was the proof that there was a high possibility that this workshop really belonged to a high level ancient Alchemist.

As Grace was telling everyone about this book, the book continued attacking them. At first Tomoe wanted to destroy it but Grade stopped her. That was because a Dreamer's book was able to only attack for a certain number of times. After it had used up all the pages, this book would become inactive. So if their team was able to endure all of this book's attacks, then after the book became inactive, it would be possible to get this item for their own. That was why Grace asked Tomoe to not destroy a valuable item like this.

After using 23 more attacks, the book finally went into an inactive state. It looked like this book had already used a few attacks on other people as from the grade of this book, it should be able to hold a tod of 36 attacks. After the book fell down from the sky, Grace went forward and picked it up. After checking it and making sure that it was alright and not damaged, she put it inside her storage unit. Then following Haliol's instructions, they continued their journey.

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After the Dreamer's book area, Tomoe's team went through three more areas with various alchemical traps and items getting in their way. But with pure brute force, they were able to overcome all of them and quite a few of the items became their spoils.

Then finally in the sixth area, Tomoe's group caught up with the previous group. It looked like as they did not have a map, the large group had separated into three parts after the first area. So the group before them had only 5 people in it.

At first Tomoe had thought that this team must have someone powerful in it as quite a few of the traps that they had seen before were quite powerful. But as the previous team had also managed to overcome them, then they must have someone powerful with them.

But that turned out to not be the case here. Tomoe saw that all five members of the other team were surrounded by a light membrane. This was a barrier and Tomoe judged that it was also quite powerful. At least strong enough to defend against an attack of a regular S ranker. So this barrier was the reason why this team was able to overcome all the obstacles but was unable to take the valuable traps and items away.

As Tomoe's team noticed these people, they also noticed them. And they were also able to recognise Haliol who was their target just a few days ago. So all five of the members immediately understood that these people were enemies and they got ready to fight.

These people knew that as Haliol's group also managed to overcome the traps and had managed to reach this place even after starting after them, they surely were quite capable. And killing of Haliol here would also allow them to retrieve the all important map of this place. So getting rid of these people was very important. For that reason, they did not waste any time and immediately used one of their trump cards.

One of the men took out a hexagonal ball-like object. Then he just threw it up and the hexagonal ball started to change its form. Very soon it turned into a small golem which was just about 15 centimetres tall. It did not look dangerous at all but all the A rank or above powerhouses presence immediately became serious as their instincts told them that this item was dangerous.

This item also got ready to fire some kind of beam and was accumulating energy. But before it could finish the energy accumulation process, a sword slash cut the item in half and it was destroyed. After realising that the others whose power level was below S might be in danger if this item unleashed whatever it was accumulating, Tomoe immediately moved with her lightning fast speed to destroy it.

The members of the other team had not expected this. Even though the main function of this item was to attack, it was not brittle enough that anyone could just cut it with a simple sword swing. Immediately all the men became extremely cautious and tried to take out other items.

Tomoe had already seen how dangerous their items could be so she did not give them any time. She moved in her super fast speed again and cut open the light barrier with another sword slash. Then she just hit all five of the men and women just hard enough to make them unconscious. The only reason why she did not kill them was because, they could become a valuable source of information for them.

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After those people woke up, Grace interrogated them with her special technique. From those captives they found out that a total of 15 people had entered this workshop and they had separated into three teams. And the items that they were using were all created by their boss who was a S rank Alchemist.

After getting all the info, Grace asked Haliol about what to do about these people. Haliol asked Grace to not kill them, as his boss had different plans for them. So Haliol dragged them with powerful anesthesia medicine and kept them inside a secret room mentioned in the map, then they continued on with their journey.

According to the map, only three regions were left and they would finally be able to reach the centre of this workshop where all the important things were supposed to be. And as the other doors did not lead to the central area, Tomoe's team was definitely going to reach that area first. Even then Tomoe did not slow down their speed and went ahead.

The remaining three areas also had traps and items which were even more dangerous than before. The last area before the central part even a S rank golem guarding it. It was quite a powerful golem and without Tomoe no one in this team would have been able to defeat it.

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After defeating the golem, finally everyone managed to reach the central area. The central area also had a lot of shelves but unlike the second area, these shelves were not empty and were filled with various things.

Now finally the expedition was reaching its end.

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