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After returning to the Temple, we handed back our equipment and met with Mr. Effenhauser to discuss what had happened.
Even the usually calm and collected Mr. Effenhauser looked regretful after hearing what we had gone through.
“It was a hasty decision on my end,” he said. “I shouldn’t have sent you there.”
The two of us, mere students, had annihilated a gang of bandits, wandered around a land cursed by a cursed sword, and had eventually retrieved the sword itself.
While Ellen and I informed him of everything that had gone on, we minimized the story about the mage, Rellia, since we had decided to keep Rellia’s abilities a secret. Although Ellen couldn’t understand Rellia, it seemed like in the end, Ellen had come through with a favorable impression of her.
The Temple did not know much about the situation at the Egxian base, or within the Dark Land as a whole. The higher-ups believed that everything would be fine since many adventurers had been dispatched there, but they hadn’t considered that the adventurers themselves could be a threat.
Most people who hadn’t been to Egxian would think that way. After all, while Ellen and I knew we had to be cautious of the adventurers, many things were unbelievable even when seen with our own eyes.
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