HBWnovel Chapter 7 – Diary.
Chapter 7 – Diary.
"?"(What is it?)
(Is it some sort of moss?)
(It's blue???? Is there something like blue moss?)
(?)
(What the?)
(There is a switch right next to the entrance?)
Phantasia pressed the switch and moments later, the door closed, returning to its previous form.
(Oh…. So, you can close it from…. Wait a second. Why is it bright? I didn't seen any torches or anything inside in this tunnel.)
Phantasia looked behind him and saw the blue most emitting some light.
"…"
"Huh. That explain the weird moss."
"Its some sort of light source?"
[Dark Cave Moss]
[Rarity: Common]
[A special moss that can be found in very deep and dark caves with their own ecosystems. Emits faint light when exposed to the total darkness. Contains bit of mana and is edible.]
(Huh. Its edible? No wait, it contains mana?)
(Some of the ingredients I used did contained mana, so by any chance this thing can be used both for cooking and alchemy?)
(I may collect some of it later on.)
(Well, at least there is some light source inside this place and I don't have to worry about leaving the exit opened.)
(Still… Is anybody living in here?)
(There is dust on the ground….)
(There would be some spots then on the ground…. But nothing… Is there nobody alive?)
(But the markings and that ink bottle were definitely manmade doing.)
(There is a chance that this is some sort of dungeon from games where you can encounter monsters and bosses. I should be ready for something randomly popping out and attacking me.)
"Lets go. Take up the front."
The Phantasia and his monsters began moving traveling through the hidden passage while keeping his guard up.
He walked and walked until he reached the end of the path.
After reaching the end of the path, he found himself in the large underground space with some sort of old house in the middle and some sort of farm near.
"?"
(Home?)
(Is that somebody home?)
(It looks old and ruined, as if it wasn't attended for years. The same goes to the field. I can see it all the way from here its shitty state.)
(Still, no enemies?)
(I thought I would run into something like monster by now… But nothing?)
(Was the puzzle the only thing? Well, I did ended up somehow encountering a lot of monsters, even monsters I didn't fought with before and some high level monsters….
So, it wasn't exactly only puzzle and I almost died few times or I had to hide like a coward or would have literally died on the spot, so yea… I almost even shitted myself when that group of giant bunnies appeared and almost found me, that would have been literally instant death.)
(So yea…. Beside the puzzle it wasn't exactly "EASY" path to walk through and I got fucked many times over.)
(Honestly, I think literally making a boss battle at the end would be kind of overkill in more than one way, since considering that the difficulty of the path wasn't exactly easy.)
(Anyway, this house is the thing that stand out the most. Is the "Tresure" located in there?)
Phantasia approached the house carefully and quickly opens its door while pointing with his crossbow.
"…"
(Huh… Still nothing?)
(I thought I would get "Surprise motherfucker! Boos fight!" jump scare… But nothing?)
(Anyway…. This doesn't seem to be normal house….!)
(Wait a second. Those are alchemy tools I saw in the public workshop!)
(?)
In the middle of the room, an old skeleton wearing old clothes was laying on the floor.
(Is he house owner?)
"…"
'POKE' 'POKE'
"…"
(I guess he isn't coming back to live and attack me…. For now?)
(…)
(I'm watching you!)
"…"
(Anyway… By the look of things this place seem like an old house that seemed to be wrecked inside? Did somebody broke in?)
(…But it doesn't kind of look like that?)
(…)
(Lets take a look around.)
"…"
"Alchemy tools…. Plates, broken plates, oh a wine bottle… And still intact."
"Some old and torn clothes… Correction. Completely destroyed."
"…Is there?"
(What is it?)
(A book?)
(…Did it belonged to this guy?)
(….) – Phantasia picked up the book and opened it.
(…)
(…)
(Huh… This seems to be a diary? Did it belonged to this guy?)
Year 1283 July 23
My name is August Davone Von Darum.
I'm a half dark elf and I'm the noble of the Emberion kingdom.
Well, I was noble.
My nobility was revoked and I was deemed as criminal by that incopeted king.
It all started few months ago.
I was a re
Something that will react to the specific classes and create something new.
Something that can create its own path.
If its success, I maybe be able to create a class that may cure me, without letting the tower find out about me.
After I create it, I will have finally chance to extract my revenge on those traitors!
Year 1283 August 30
The research… It stopped in tracks.
The mutation is taking forms too soon as well as reaction are occurring too soon…. I need a living subjected in order to use them as test subject if I want to progress with my research.
But… Can I, do it?
They will definitely die!
…
No!
I need to do it!
If I don't do it, I will die and those bastards will still be alive!
I'm sorry… But I will have to do it.
Year 1283 September 15
The research has been going way better after kidnapping an orc.
I can see it! The thing I'm looking for!
But… My memories… They are getting even worse.
I'm forgetting too many things to the point I need to record my every action I took during the experiment and other things.
I now even need to carry around the code for the entrance and even had to mark my path in the forest with a special ink that I invented in the past when I was working for the tower.
But the city! Am I over thinking it, or are they looking for me?!
Do they know that I was kidnapping people?!
No wait! What if the tower had started looking for me in here!
NO!
I cannot let them capture me! Not now when I'm finally on the path I wanted!
But I cannot stop kidnapping people! I need more materials! I need more subjects!
Year 1283 September 19
I-I think that the lady at the store looked at me funny? D-does the realized I was the one who kidnapped her son?!
No! I made sure that nobody saw me! She doesn't know!
Wait! What if she now works for the tower?!
Shit! I cannot use that store any longer.
Year 1283 September 22
Em… I think I kidnapped 3 people? Maybe 2? No wait, 3. I accidently killed 1 of them today.
Shit… My memories… I'm forgetting too much!
Not only that, I need to slow down with kidnappings. People of the city are aware that people are going missing.
I'm also running out of the drugs I'm using for kidnaping and the seller got recently catched by the guards and throwed to prison.
I can probably kidnap few more times…. But should I? The tower is probably still looking for me and I think people are getting suspicious of me? I even saw a weird looking mage walking through the streets… I though he was from the tower, so I slit his throat… But he wasn't.
I killed just random mage for no good reason.
Fuck… I'm scared!
Both my mentality and memories are falling apart.
I'm not in good state… I don't know how much time I have any longer.
I need to finish my research before I break.
Year 1283 September 30
The last…. The last prisoner just died… And I cannot go back to the city and kidnap more people, since people are now wary of the disappearance.
Without the city folk, I cannot continue my research…. I need to use my own body.
It may kill me, but I'm too close to reaching my goal.
And, it's not like I can't do it, since if I don't do it, I will break.
Year 1283 October 2
Today…. I think my research almost killed me?
Em… What was it again?... Shit I forgotten to write it down…. I think I lost consciousness for entire day.
My arm is cut up and has some markings…. Shit… What was the thing I was doing? By the look of things, I forgotten to write it down.
Shit. I need to restart yesterday experiment.
Year 1283 October 5
I'm running out of time. I don't know how many mouths, weeks or maybe days I have left.
Year 1283 October 7
Its working!
The mutations! The reaction! They are happening at the time I want to!
The finally pieces! I'm finished making them!
I can do it!
All I need to do now is to assemble to data in correct order as well as form in order to complete it!
Year 1283 October 11
…
I think I, did it?
The thing that I was researching… I think I, did it? But… How do I use it?
Shit….
I can't remember… Even after looking through the books, notes and the diary I can't remember how to use it…. There is not a single mention how to use this class!
But… Why I made this class? Why not a potion? Wouldn't potion be better? I was a blacksmith…. Wait, an alchemist… Right… According to the diary I was alchemist.
But… What do I do now?
Year 1283 October […]
The research about the class…. I think there was research? What did I do that?
[….]
I think I ate something weird…. My thing inside me hurts... And it tasted funny…. Why.… Why I was hiding?
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"…"
"The rest of the pages are gibberish to the point that even system cannot tell what is written here."
"I guess he ended up "Breaking" just as he feared."
"He must have spend all of his last moments, with that memory eating poison until he forgotten how to even live and ended up dying here, alone."
"Years must have passed considering the state of things."
(It seems this place is some sort of connected to the important plot of one of the stories in this world.)
"Still, the "Thing" he was researching was a class? He seemed to have completed it… But because of his state he wasn't able to use it, making all of his efforts in vain and just dying."
(His memories missing, his fears taking over, paranoia and despair and at the end, confusion that led to him finally breaking and being unable to think straight. He probably ended up going on rampage, not knowing what to do when everything got him at the same time)
"…"
(But… According to the book, he finished making!)
(Where is it?!)
(The thing he made?)
(It must be here somewhere!)
(Tables?)
(Shelfs?)
(?)
"…"
Phantasia got on his knees, near the skeleton and tired putting his hands on it, but before he could, he quickly retracted them and took out his crossbow.
(I just fuking dare you to get up and turn out to be a boss monster.)
Phantasia inspected the skeleton before lifting it up and rolling it on the to the side, revealing a greenish book.
"!"
"Is that it?" – said Phantasia while picking up the book off the ground quickly from the ground and backing away from the skeleton.
"…"
(Huh… Is he really not coming back to life?)
(Anyway, what is this book?)
[The Class Book Of The Forgetful Researcher]
[Rarity: Common]
[A book that was written by the desperate August Davone Von Darum who was well know researcher of the Rose tower before being branded as the traitor and the terrorist.]
[The book was a mean of creating a new class that would help out the researcher in restoring himself, however before he could use the power of the class, he forgotten everything, leaving this as his last creation and masterpiece.]
[Upon use: Acquire special class: [Chaos Researcher – Rarity: Common (Grow)].]
(…)
(Oh… I think that was his treasure!)
(…)
(Wait… Common rarity?!)