Chapter 148 (1/2)

The lab downstairs was in utter disarray as if it had been struck by lightning. Noah wondered how on earth Adrian managed to gather data when Muell had returned to his original form.

Well done, my little one.  She winked at the giant dragon that occupied half of the lab. Muell, who received her wink, closed both eyes tightly and opened them. That seemed to be his own wink.

“…Take him with you.”

Adrian must have been really tired as he pushed Noah towards Muell. No matter how wicked he was, he was only a puny person before a dragon. Then, Muell transformed into a little boy in an instant, glancing at Adrian, who was holding a dodo, and then came running towards Noah for a hug.

The ideas that came to her mind as she scoured the library became a powerful hypothesis. There was one place where Eleonora’s blueprint would be: a factory where there would be a manufacturing process capable of creating a mechanical human being according to her blueprint. Perhaps Adrian covered the machines with human skin with the pure magic of his own.

This was the most credible hypothesis that would explain the true disappearance of Lenia, in addition to the strange events that happened in the mana operating room of the Angelic. If the real Lenia wasn’t already killed, she was likely to be there too.

So, where was the factory located? Noah squinted her eyes as she watched the back of Adrian ahead.

“Should I kill him here?” Muell wrapped his tiny arms around Noah and whispered in a small voice, blinking his dark red eyes. “May I help you, Noah?”

“Um…” While Noah retraced her train of thoughts, the boy laughed convincingly as if he had taken her silence as a yes. The next moment, a dark trace of mana sank beneath his feet and strode out toward Adrian.

Even if she commits a real murder anyway, no one in this empire would put her in jail, making such a way the best option there was. In all honesty, it was quite tempting for Noah to end this tedious and wasteful quest right away.

But, there were fatal drawbacks. If I do that, I’ll have 17 criminal convictions…