His wound kept bleeding no matter how much healing potion I poured into him.

His heart wouldn't heal no matter how many times I cast my divine blessing.

Mr. Arezu was slowly dying in front of me.

But I—your beautiful, elegant, generous, kind, worship-worthy version of yourself, yet still incapable of saving everyone—had at least managed to keep Mr. Arezu alive.

How did I save him? Well, it should have been obvious from the start.

Mr. Arezu has a mana flow different from a human, elf, dwarf, or a beastkin; that means his body itself is different from a normal human's, and a healing potion designed for a human won't work on him.

Like I said before, Mr. Arezu's body can't generate mana internally, meaning he was probably not a creation of the goddess Isleen. Therefore, in the eyes of the goddess, he's essentially a monster. As a result, divine blessings like Heal or Revive that directly affect the body wouldn't work on him.

It was probably why he kept refusing my healing every time he was injured on our past quests.

He's really dedicated to keeping whatever secrets he has, but I promise I will uncover them all.

So what did I use to heal his injury? You saw me snatching Ms. Sweet-Sylvie's enchanted staff, tearing off its monster core, and placing it in Mr. Arezu's hands for him to absorb—right?

If you're wondering how I came up with that solution and why it worked, just remember that Mr. Arezu has a mysterious ability to absorb mana like a dungeon—along with his hobby of collecting monster cores, which I discovered when he first cheated on me.

With our eccentric eyes that could see the flow of mana, I saw that Mr. Arezu had almost no mana left in his body, so I had him absorb the mana stored inside Ms. Sweet-Sylvie's monster core.

As expected from my brilliant mind, that solution worked. Mr. Arezu absorbed the mana and somehow healed himself.

The only unexpected part was that he didn't just absorb the mana—he absorbed the entire monster core. And everyone—Liz, Hannah, Ellric, Sylvie, and Brandon—saw it happen.

Regardless, that shouldn't be a problem. After all, the frightened looks on their faces when I told them I would freeze the entire territories of Von Envier and Von Guttur if they ever told anyone what they saw told me they'd keep their promise—at least for a while.

I just need to find some dirt... I mean, a bargain for them to keep their promise.

And that's how I saved Mr. Arezu.

I guess that's a bit short for an entry, especially since I haven't written anything for the past two weeks since the start of the Annual-Caravan Quest. Well, nothing out of the ordinary happened during those days—just Mr. Arezu and I having fun together with everyone.

So instead, how about I give you a recap of what happened after Mr. Arezu destroyed the Dungeon Core, causing all the undead Visages to shatter into mirror shards and the town to revert from being a dungeon back to normal upon the core's destruction.

Like I said, I wasn't capable of saving everyone.

Beatrix's group at the Crafters Guild and Mr. Gargoyle's group in the southern forest were the only other groups that survived the Mirare Town Dungeon Incident. Everyone else who was trapped inside the town that night had been captured by the Visages, dragged into the mirror, and lost their lives.

The same was true of all the townfolk of Mirare Town: everyone had disappeared, leaving Mirare a ghost town—an empty, beautiful glass bottle shining in the sunlight.

While Mr. Arezu and I were helping in the investigation, looking for anything the townfolk could have left behind that might tell us what exactly happened—he shared an interesting theory of his own, somewhat similar to mine.

According to him, the town had probably been turned into a dungeon weeks, even a month, ago. The proof was that all the food in the town had already spoiled.

He said that perhaps, by morning, the dungeon would revert to a normal town, with the Visages acting and imitating the daily lives of the townfolk as they had before becoming undead—so travelers wouldn't grow suspicious until night fell, when they'd be trapped, captured, or absorbed by the dungeon by morning.

What Mr. Arezu said already makes the dungeon terrifying. I mean, just imagine a dungeon intelligent enough to lure and deceive its victims. But what Kurea informed us later made the dungeon even more horrifying:

Even though those left outside kept searching the perimeter of the town—engulfed by the Dungeon Boundary—all night, they never found the Dungeon Gate that would let them go inside or let those inside escape outside.

Considering that the gold-rank warrior adventurer Crystal Blade couldn't get out of the town and became an undead Visage, the trait of the dungeon having no Gate was most likely true.

That information only solidified Mr. Arezu's theory.

Regardless, we won't know what actually happened—at least not until we bring the broken Dungeon Core that Kurea collected from the ruins of the clocktower back to the capital and have Ms. Marionette examine it to uncover the true nature of the curse within the core.

We're actually bringing home a souvenir for Ms. Marionette.

I agreed to her request before we left the capital, thinking that Mr. Arezu and I would find another replicated Dungeon Core once we captured the strange fake goblin I was secretly chasing and aiming to catch during the Annual-Caravan Quest.

But I didn't expect it to turn out like this.

I guess that bastard wasn't working alone.

I'm sure the fake goblin was connected to Mirare Town's transformation into a dungeon.

After all, that bastard probably didn't step inside the town—and stayed outside at the caravan camp.

Just a bit more and we'll figure out who that bastard goblin is.

Then I'm gonna make their group pay for what they did to the townfolk of Mirare Town, to the members of the Annual Caravan, and for hurting Mr. Arezu.

There are still a lot of things we need to do before what's left of the Annual Caravan continues the expedition toward the southern border of the Eileen Kingdom.

But for now, I will have Mr. Arezu fulfill his promises.

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