In the central area of this ancient alchemist's workshop, Tomoe and her group looked at everything in amazement. They had expected to find valuable things here but they were also surprised by the amount of items, they had managed to find. There were more than one thousand shelves and all of them were not only filled with books, documents and papers, there were also various rare materials perfectly preserved and secured.

Not only that but some of the shelves even had completed items created by the alchemist. At the end of the day, this should have been an abandoned workshop of that alchemist so finding so many items here was very unexpected.

But from how the workshop was designed, the alchemist who was living here did not look like a generous person who would just leave behind so many things without demanding anything. So instead of loosing their guard after reaching the destination, Tomoe and everyone else become more cautious than before.

Just as they were looking at everything with suspicion, one part of the wall of this room away and the figure of a lanky man wearing luxurious robes came out of it. This was a very unexpected encounter for Tomoe's group and they looked at this man with surprise and suspicion. And it looked like this encounter was unexpected for even the man himself, so he also became extremely surprised after seeing so many people here.

After that he ignored everyone and started to investigate something on his bracelet. His lack of attention to the girls were weird and unsettling so Tomoe took out her sword and directed her killing intent toward this man. Suddenly feeling the killing intent washing over him, this man suddenly jumped away and raised his hands up in surrender. Then for the first time he spoke up and in a shaky and raspy voice he said -

"W-wait, I do not mean any harm."

Hearing the awkward desperation in his voice, Tomoe got rid of her killing intent. But she still was ready with his sword and asked the man for his identity. This man then introduced himself and it turned out that he was the owner of the workshop and a legendary alchemist named Colbera Artuhum.

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After learning that Colbera was actually the owner of this place, everyone was baffled. If that was really the case, then from how it looked now, Tomoe's group had infiltrated his house without his permission and started threatening him with a sword. No what from what angle it was seen, Tomoe and her group were the bad people here.

After hearing the name Colbera Artuhum Grace was already sure that this person was probably telling the truth. So she told Tomoe everything she knew about this famous figure. Colbera was a very ancient alchemist and was extremely famous once upon a time. But his fame was too distracting for him and so one day he vanished from him residence. Some people had assumed that he had left the continent to visit other continents but no one knew about his actual location.

After that there were some occasional rumours about him showing up in some places but as it had already been so long, people were not caring about him as much. Now it looked like Colbera had never left the continent and was actually doing his research here in secret. Grace had never seen Colbera before but from his description that she had read in the newspapers, she was very sure about this man's identity.

After knowing this truth Tomoe finally put down her sword. Then Alisia stepped forward and started to converse with the legendary alchemist. The way she was handling the conversation, everyone was very impressed by Alisia. In just a short amount of time, Alisia told him about their reason for being here and about the misunderstanding that this place was actually an abandoned workshop of an ancient alchemist.

After knowing the truth Colbera actually looked relieved. When a surprised Alisia asked him about it, he awkwardly smiled and said that he was a bit scared if they were actually here to rob him. From the killing intent he had felt before, Colbera was sure that even ten people like him would not be a match for Tomoe. So he was genuinely relieved after knowing that Tomoe was not here to kill him.

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After all the misunderstandings were cleared, Colbera served everyone some tea and started a conversation. Actually after Colbera started to do research here in isolation, he had not talked with other people for a long time. That was the reason why he was a bit awkward at first when he started talking with them.

After learning why Haliol and the other group was here for, Colbera told him that he had never researched those type of things and had no intention to do research on then in the future too. From how his face became a bit red after learning about sexual item and drugs, it looked like Colbera was quite innocent in this regard.

But at the same time Colbera did say to Haliol if his mistress wanted to learn a few things from him, he would be willing to teach her for some time as a reward for them reaching this place. Haliol was extremely happy with this proposal and promised Colbera that he would soon bring his mistress here.

As for the other group of people, Colbera opened up a secret passage and brought them here. Then he told them the truth and as they had not managed to reach the central area, they were not given any rewards. Not only that but Haliol still had five of their men under him and he told them that they would be released only after they had paid enough compensation money.

So for the time as these men did not have anything with them for the time being, those five men were not released. These ten people did tell Haliol that they would come back later with enough money but he was not too sure if they would keep their word or not.

But that had nothing to do with Tomoe's group and so they decided to go back. Colbera also decided to come with the ladies as he was also getting a bit bored after spending so much time here in this place. When he was alone he had not minded it that much. But now after talking with people for some time, he suddenly felt like returning back to the social world for some time at least.

So, Tomoe and her group came back to the city of Moronto with the legendary alchemist Colbera and Haliol. Haliol had already contacted his mistress and she was coming here as soon as she could. The five prisoners were also brought back to the city. Then danger returning to the Duke's mansion, all the ladies saw that Elena was playing with Turin and Anne in their room. The sight of this reliable older sister of theirs relieved them and they went to greet her.

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