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Chapter 5 - Sage's investigation (Part-2)

The sage and his two mage companions, return to the settlement and imform everything to the head of settlement, about how the physical law around the iron castle is so strong that even magic spells fails, and if they go even closer to the iron castle, even simple spell might not even work.

{In elder speech} Now that's a great concern, if your magic won't work because law itself become sso strong, then matter how much the power one draw from chaos, one cannot bend the law that become as hard as a diamond.

{In elder speech} That's right, the law in the places around the iron castle become so real that, supernatural powers cannot even shake the law in place.

{In elder speech} in that case I will provide our best warriors to assist in investigation, also if the law of that place is indeed strong, I will tell them to use non-enchanted weapons and armors, as it would be a waste of resources to use enchanted gears at the place were magic or magical items won't even work.

{In elder speech} That's a right choice, as there's no point of using enchanted items or even potions that might not work in an environment where magic wouldn't work properly or even won't work at all.

Soon, the best elven warriors of the settlement are chosen to assist the trio in investigation as well as to protect them, as the trio cannot use the magic in a place where law is as hard as diamond, the warriors are not even given enchanted weapons and armors rather they are given the regular ones. These weapons and armors were not as good as it could have been if enchanted, but it is better than nothing, they will simply rely on silver coated weapons and dimertium based armors to fight any supernatural beings they encounters.

The group came close to the iron castle, the air become more unpleasent to magic user while the regular ones feels as if surrounding has become quiet with no supernatural presence.

{In elder speech} Is it just me, or did this place suddenly become quiet as supernatural phenomena simply vanished from this place?

{In elder speech} Because that's what happening here, without any supernatural presence this place is just any ordinary forest with only animals, the monsters that lives in a place with strong supernatural presence either couldn't thrive here or the place become unpleasent to them.

{In elder speech} Then that's a good news, it means no monsters in surrounding.

{In elder speech} Wrong, there are some monsters that can live and even thrive in places where supernatural force is absent, like werewolves, leshen, elemental and many other monsters that need no supernatural presence in survive.

{In elder speech} Also, the elementals and leshen need not supernatural presence but chaos itself that fuel supernatural powers and phenomenas, this place make supernatural force weak or even non-existant but it doesn't eliminate chaos in surroundings as is still very abundant here.

{In elder speech} And that's why we might encounter an elemental or a leshen, we might even encounter werewolf and any other monster that need neither supernatural presence nor chaos to thrive.

{In elder speech} Meaning we have to stay cautious regardless as we might encounter something worse than just mere beasts.

{In elder speech} Exactly.

{In elder speech} Fine, we will stay cautious and don't let our guard down.

The group encounter various wild beasts on the way, as well as some stray werewolves, they spotted elementals but since, they were at distance, the elves merely bypassed them, as for leshen, the group maybe lucky enough to not encountering any of them.

The group eventually reached the iron castle, which is surrounded by spiders and humanoids made of metals as well as strange structures (turrets) that seemed confusing to warriors and both mages as they have no idea what it is, only sage seems to suspect the turret to be some kind of defense system.

The group moved forward, the warriors unsheathed their blades and readied their bows, one of the metal humanoid came forward.

Halt! You are entering in a private property. Identify yourself, state your intention and purpose.

The group was stunned to see that metal humanoid that they suspected to be some kind of golem or elemental speaking. The sage decided to reply, in common speech as that's the language the metallic being used in front of them them.

We meant no harm, we are just curious people, who wanted to investigate the castle, we don't know about.

{Pointing towards the elven warriors} And thoses armed men?

They are our escorts, I and my two companions are magic users but for some reason the law of this place has become very strong that cause our magic to fail, which is why we brought non-magical combatants with us, also we don't know whether the owner of this place is friend or foe as well as us not knowing his or her full capabilities, which is why we brought many of them, just a precaution.

Understood, you words seems valid according to our knowledge, access granted, I will message Dr. Alex Thompson about your arrival, follow my colleague, he will escort you and your friend to living room, you and your friends can wait there until the owner of the property comes.

Greetings guests, follow me, I will take you inside the mansion and towards it's living room.

Mansion? Isn't this building too big to be called a mansion?

You can ask the owner about it, we don't have answer to this question. Infact we also have no idea why our master call this a mansion, when it is bigger than ten castles combined.

I see...

The security automaton escorted the group towards the giant mansion, the door opened automatically shocking the elves as there was no one opening the door.

That's the automatic mechanism that need no doorkeeper to close and open, while I know how it is possible, I advice you to ask the owner, you can explain better than us.

Understood, I will ask the owner of this castle...I mean mansion.

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