三个女人的秘密工作生活

Chapter 176: Hunting for the Forest Spirit Seed Part 14

What Kayn and Jericho have signed just now is called the Soul Contract. It is a special type of magic contract as it is bounded inside the soul of each of the parties involved who have signed or are mentioned in the contract and is under the strict regulation and protection of the 'Tower'.

Whoever dares to break a Soul Contract would receive a punishment related to what was stated in the contract. Albeit even if there is none stated, the 'Tower' will still make one pay the crime of not respecting its rules and law, which is deducting away some of the fame points, entirely depending on the degree of the Soul Contract.

It is common knowledge in the 'Tower' that a low fame point equals a bad reputation. If someone with low fame points tries to negotiate something with someone, it is advised to better to disregard it immediately. Moreover, inhabitants of the 'Tower' also based their trust level on how much the fame points are.

In the case of Kayn and Jericho's contract, it was nothing but mere formalities. So, the only punishment for breaking it would be a minus in the fame points.

Unfortunately, although the Soul Contract is a special magic contract, it doesn't hinder anyone from breaking it. Not to mention, it actually doesn't inform either of the party if one of them has actually broken the contract.

That was the reason why despite signing Soul Contracts to the members of his guild in the past, Kayn never got to know about their betrayal until it was already too late.

This was the nature of anything related to the 'Tower'. One shouldn't trust everyone or anything, but if one still does, never trust them one hundred percent. They will and are capable of betraying or tricking you.

After conversing for a brief moment about future-related endeavors that their alliance could possibly try to engage, Jericho finally bid farewell to Kayn and the rest of the members of his party who were currently present.

As soon as Jericho left, Kayn didn't waste any time as he immediately started studying all information that was given to him. He didn't even bother changing spots as he simply used the same table that he and Jericho used in their alliance talk.

It was that important to learn more about the whereabouts of each and possibly every Forest Spirit Seed that exists in the Slumbering Forest at this present moment.

And if he really wants to find the Forest Spirit Origin Seed, he has to determine where the source is by determining it through activity-based location inference. This is a method used to pinpoint someone in real life by looking at their patterns of activities, such as check-ins, social media posts, or transaction records, to infer their current or likely exact location in the map. In the current case right now, he would look at the pattern of the Forest Spirit Seed's location, the locations of those Forest Spirit Seeds in the past, and every other record of its spawning around the Slumbering Forest.

He would then make a perimeter to encircle the location of where the Forest Spirit Origin Seed would likely be located.

"Interesting…" Kayn mutters inwardly.

As of this moment, he had spent two hours analyzing all the documents about the Forest Spirit Seed.

Right now, he noticed strange characteristics based on the location of almost every Forest Spirit Seed that exist both in the present and past inside the Slumbering Forest.

"They are all located inside or nearby any bodies of water around the Slumbering Forest,"

Just like the location they're in right now.

"Gilbert, Jude, and Charles," Kayn quickly called out.

"What do you need?"

Gilbert and the others understood that Kayn found out something.

"I want you three to check these nearby bodies of water and dig under them to see if they lead to an underwater cave system. I want you to complete it as soon as possible,"

"Alright!" Gilbert and the others acknowledge as they immediately left after checking the exact location of where they have to check on the map.

If his assumption is proven correct, then it would mean that the Forest Spirit Origin Seed is likely located somewhere inside the underwater cave system.

"No one ever says that finding powerful items was easy," Kayn uttered.

History has already proven countless times that finding any rare or special items would always be difficult. If one doesn't find himself dealing with an extreme environment, then it can be because they are faced with countless rivals that desire the same item, or possibly even both.

Kayn returns to analyzing the documents in hopes of finding more clues while he patiently waits for Gilbert and the others to return.

"If I connect all the Forest Spirit Seeds," Kayn traces the locations of the Forest Spirit Seeds that were found in the past. "This entire area here would be within the circle,"

Looking at the map, the entire deeper region of the Slumbering Forest was within the scope of the search.

"And if I connect the clues of the Forest Spirit Seeds in the present, it would further expand the circle to cover the northern region and southern region of the Slumbering Forest,"

This was quite understandable since all the rivers connect the northern region, which is where the mountains and other bodies of land are, and the southern region, which is where the ocean lies.

"If we consider the possibility that there are indeed underwater cave systems under each body of water around the Slumbering Forest," Kayn started connecting all the bodies of water together.

After five minutes, Kayn was surprised to discover that the underwater cave system has covered at least the majority of the Slumbering Forest, both the northern and southern regions having the most paths connecting to them.

All of a sudden, a woman's voice sounded behind Kayn.

"Has anyone else discovered this or is it just you?"

It was Chastine.

Clearly, Chastine was very curious about what Kayn was doing since he spent almost the entire morning just sitting on a chair and reading mountains of documents in front of him.

"This is just an assumption. I have already sent Gilbert, Jude, and Charles to confirm its feasibility to be true,"