Chapter 156 156 The Key

[Lucy's POV: ]

"Choose whatever you want from here."

Right after he snapped his fingers, the scenery before us changed to a completely different place and now, we were sitting inside the treasury of the Academy of our world.

"Each of you can only take one thing though. And, don't try to influence the other's thoughts. Let them have what they want."

[ "Hmmm? You mean us as well?" ]

"Yes, lord Chry. You as well."

[ "One is concerned to see the generosity of the headmaster. One must warn the masters to be cautious." ]

"Well.."

This place, we knew very well what this place was. Most of the people in our part of the Worldline would know about this place if they had ever attended the academy and achieved something very extraordinary during their years in it.

'The treasury that contains many extraordinary items which would be impossible to get anywhere else.'

There was gold and jewelry all around us, items sealed in glass cases, things that were floating in the air with a unique glow covering them, things that were of <S> rank and above the things that were one of a kind.

'There were 'relics' as well but the actual useful ones existed in the other rooms, which belonged to the other areas of the Worldline.'

This room.. we mostly knew almost all the things that were present here and, if the headmaster was giving us the chance to have anything from this room, then, she and I both knew what we were going to ask for.

"Headmaster, we can have anything from this room right?"

"Of course."

He was smirking, he definitely knew we knew what this place was and had an idea of what things were present in this place.

His eyes looked deep inside mine when I asked that question, they were searching for an even deeper truth about me, they were trying to reach the deaths of the things we knew, however, he stopped midway when Anna looked at him with a unique annoyed look.

She didn't like his gaze either now, and El was already glaring daggers at him from beside so, the headmaster stopped his curious digging.

"Then give us the Key," she said with a smile similar to the one he had a while ago and a subtle look of surprise appeared on his face.

"The.. key? Which key do you want Miss Auriel?"

"Stop playing dumb and give the two of us the key, headmaster," and when she said this, the smile on her pretty face deepened.

"The key.."

The look on the headmaster's face suddenly transitioned into a serious one. He knew what we were talking about and even though he had said that we could take anything in this place, the thing we were asking for wasn't some simple <A> rank artifact that he could hand over just like that.

"There are many things you know and seems like the Key is one of them. However,

I said you can take any one thing 'inside this room'. I believe you thought the key was something present here, however, you are mistaken."

"We aren't, headmaster. Of course, we know the key isn't in the room however, you are, here. And you said we can have 'anything' from here. Which should logically include everything on you as well, right, headmaster?"

He couldn't deny it. He knew as well that we might think of this opportunity like this. There was no way he could actually refuse this when he said it himself and go back on his word. He was the headmaster, he couldn't do that.

"Ha.. hahaha."

He had no choice but to accept.

"Alright."

And since he was willingly giving us both the 'master key' to not just all the locks to the locks that existed in this world, but, a relic that could open any 'lock' there was in this Worldline under certain conditions.

-Snap!

"I was instructed to give anything you ask for, but not even they would have thought you would end up asking for this. Well, it doesn't matter much though. What you have accomplished already.. is more than enough to deserve this."

-Ooooooooooong.

He glanced at Anna and Cary with that unique look once again and then summoned a unique-looking silver key in his palm.

"You know how to use it as well, I believe?"

"Of course."

We have used this thing many times when we were playing the game so at the very least, we knew what basic function this key possessed. That much was enough information to know about how this Relic worked.

"Thanks though."

We both placed our hands on the floating key and, with a silver light and after absorbing some of our Mana, the key vanished and a glowing mark that was similar to it flashed on our palms before vanishing once again.

"This will be pretty helpful now."

Getting this key this early definitely means we can start with the main plans without beating around the bushes. And since we got it just like this, the thing we were going to do to obtain that 'couple title' next week can also wait for a while more.

'We can start with gathering the team for the first grand show and quickly get stronger, upgrade our status, and continue gathering as many Authorities as we can before it is time for us to conclude things here.'

But we will do that dimensional dungeon raid shortly since we had promised the adventurer association branch manager.

"Alright then. Go get whatever you want Anna. We will wait here."

"Right, go fetch me something better than this key Cary darling~!"

[ "Don't call me darling, tsk." ]

He said that, but the little dragon didn't actually mind being called that. And, Anna was happy to be free and fly once again so she just spread her wings and took off towards the book section of this place.

She looked happy.. my dear cute girl.

"Ahem. So, will you start receiving the rewards now?"

"You seem more interested in our rewards than we do, sir headmaster."

"Of course, I am.. in fact, many of us are."

He had that mysterious smile once again. The initial posting of this chapter occurred via N0v3l.B1jn.

'There's really something going on here..'