"… You want magic items, right?" Leon asked.
"Indeed… other items that may increase our powers and grant us some effects would help us a lot." Eadmund said. "The thing is… what do you want? We can give you a roof to rest, but as you can imagine, it's not much comfortable. We have food and water, but you have both, right?"
"I want information," Leon answered. "Give me the location of all dungeons nearby and the layout of the city above. I want to know where is kept all the magical knowledge the people above learned over the years. I also want to know where the guards usually stay at night and the routes to avoid them… give me that information, and I will give magic items even to the kids of your village."
"… You certainly are an interesting person," Eadmund smiled a bit surprised. "No wonder a powerful being decided to summon you to another world… Well, we don't have the information you want, but we can obtain it. We just need a few months."
"Months?" Leon frowned.
"Yes. Although you want a lot of information, you will need even more." Eadmund explained. "We certainly can discover the best routes for you to use and which building you will find the knowledge you want. However, only that isn't enough. Since you won't just find the magical knowledge lying around in an open book, you will need some keycards to have access to the building and the machines in which the knowledge is kept."
"That is true…" Leon sighed.
"So, we will have to monitor some possible targets to steal what we need." Eadmund added. "Anyway, it seems you are in the middle of your training, so you can keep doing that until we got the information you want. However, it would be a good idea to follow us in our village. It seems you can stay awake for more than a few days straight, but instead of resting here when you need, you should go to the village."
Leon nodded, it was hard to be sure if he could trust Eadmund and his people, but he was quite sure he would rest with more ease under a roof where the poison mist is the thinner. So, he decided to follow him to learn the location of their village and do half of the deal.
Just like Gurr's village, Eadmund's community was underground and hidden in a massive pile of rubble. The poor-looking houses looked exactly the same to him… since there was no reason to build more homes than the number of families that lived there, Leon would have to use Eadmund's house to rest. But before that, he gave him enough magic weapons to arm half of the village. He still had many more weapons and other items stored on the magic box, but he wouldn't arm all the people of that place before they do their part of the deal. Besides, it was dangerous…
"I will give the other half once you give me the information I want." Leon declared.
"Understood," Eadmund said.
Although Eadmund's policy dramatically influences the people of that village, some still looked at Leon as if he was a weird creature. It was a pain to feel those stares, so Leon only returned to that village to rest and nothing more.
After a few days, Leon discovered that Eadmund and the other warriors only found him because they noticed a decrease in the elemental golems' population. It looked like that thing was bound to happen whenever he was training his spells near dungeons.
Regardless, thanks to Leon's presence, the warriors who patrolled and fought against the golems to protect the village from being discovered, finally had some room to breathe since the battle against them wasn't easy. But instead of taking a few days off, Eadmund sent them to obtain the information Leon wanted.
Meanwhile, Leon himself didn't leave the area around the elemental golems' dungeon, even though Eadmund already gave him the location of several dungeons. But since they were too far away and the golems were still hard to beat, he decided to stay there, making good use of his spells that countered those creatures, and at the same time, he leveled up his elemental resistances.
Health: 139+
Mana: 2344 +
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