Chapter 46 The Secret of the Apple Box

I always had a doubt from the time I started living in Irz Village as an adventurer.

That doubt goes back to the day I met Lily for the first time.

Thanks to Lily throwing water on my face, I woke up and found myself in the middle of the forest. After that is all as we know it but, whats important is the part before this. Just how did I end up in Fairy Garden?

I had smuggled myself inside a box filled with apples (actually a similar fruit) at the port town of the Arc continent. The box that I had sneaked in was, along with the other goods, crammed into the ships hatch and left on a 1 week long voyage.

Inside the cramped box, all I could do was sleep, eat the fruits and develop my black magic.

During this development time, I came up with [load] and [shadow space] like convenient magics.

But, inside the swaying ship, closed inside a small box, unable to move even a bit, was not going to be a comfortable trip.

The only reason I was fine was of course, thanks to the super body gained with the modifications that allowed me to easily live for 1 month without eating or drinking.

I wasnt hungry much and had too much free time, and the just fact that I was not in that facility anymore, made it feel like a much better environment.

And the last thing I remember inside the apple box was about 7 days after departure.

Becoming sleepy, I immersed my own body inside the already perfected shadow space except the face. The shadow space contains magic but no air so I had to keep at least my face outside to avoid suffocating.

If someone looked from the side theyll see only the eerie sight of a single face floating, but to sleep while spreading my legs inside that small box, it was the easiest method.

In fact, it felt neither cold nor hot, and did not even feel the swaying of the ship either so it was really comfortable. Moreover, if I submerged my ears as well then it also became sound proof since sound did not pass through it.

Thinking back now, disconnecting almost my whole body from the outside through the use of Shadow space might be the biggest reason I had no idea whatever happened to me after that.

And before I realized it I was inside the forest.

Yes, the doubt I had was to know just what happened that led to me ending up there.

At first I thought that it went something like this- The ship reached the port normally, goods unloaded, transport by land route, and in the middle, fallen from a cliff and inside the forest.

But that ship belonged to Arc continent, no, to be precise, it belonged to the Syncrea Republic, a country of humans.

The destination of the ship should have been the base built for invasion of the Pandora Continent, i.e. Virginia.

But, Virginia was being pushed back by the Daidalos army. So just how did a human bring the box this inland.

That box should have been a part of the resupply goods meant for Virginia. It should have been consumed in Virginia and should have no reason to go any further.

In the first place, even if someone could carry it till here, humans were not even allowed to get of Virginia currently.

A contradiction originated here. A box meant to be in Virginia was currently in Fairy Garden, far east of Virginia.

The owner of the box, i.e. humans, cannot have carried it till here, then, who was the one that carried it till here?

It might seem like question that could make someone lose his sleep from anxiety, but the answer, the identity of the being that carried it cleared it easily.

A garuda, was it the one behind it?

On one of the hills making up the Gallahad mountain range, at its summit existed a garuda nest.

I am currently, to complete a special quest, in the middle of infiltrating this nest along with Lily.

If at the top most point, a suspiciously big cave exists, then it would be a garudas nest. Was that cave naturally made or was it dug by the garuda, I didnt know. But it was definitely an amazing cave with a height of around 10m.

Inside that giant cave, within the stash of shining items and prey collected by the Garuda like a crow, I had found a thing similar to the apple box I had snuck in.

Within my range, I can see two apple boxes. In the surroundings there are also broken similar boxes as well.

Looking at all these things, I thought and inferred.

A Garuda that can fly long distances with ease, discovered a ship of the Republic on the sea.

Whether it was simply on a whim or it had planned all along, Garuda attacked the transport ship and took large amounts of apple boxes with it.

And among those boxes was the one I was in.

To think that I didnt realise anything even when this monster bird attacked the whole ship. The isolation abilities of shadow space are really fearsome.

I flew along with the Garuda in skies of Pandora while in deep sleep.

And, by chance, the box I was in fell and landed in Fairy Garden, the place I met Lily.

aah, I feel a bit refreshed now-

Oops! Nows not the time to be relieved by solving my doubts.

We came here for a specific reason. Work, I need to work.

Lily, go search there, Ill search that way.

Yes

I and Lily were adventurers as a pair.

At first, we did only the quest of collecting medicinal herbs together, and actually Lily thought that