Three days ter.

  “Let me introduce her to you. This is Lilja, she is…”

  “She is the springbringer.” The girl, whose name was saved in my communicator as ‘witch’, in front of me didn't let me complete the introduction.

  She was wearing a school uniform. According to Lilja, she was closer to her age than mine.

  “Who wouldn’t know about the great springbringer?” Wrench started the obvious.

  “Well, she is my…” The pressure applied on my shoulder didn’t let me complete the sentence.

  I am unsure why she wanted me not to discuss our retionship, but I chose to respect her choice.

  “I will be acting as your league manager from now on.”

  “League manager!? Not a member?” The man adjusted his hair before extending his hand towards Lilja for a handshake. While shaking it, he added, “I am Flick. I am part scout and part DPS.”

  “Where the hell are others?” Witch didn’t care about the other woman in the room.

  “Did you receive the message I sent you a few days ago?”

  Three pairs of eyes turned towards me. The curiosity was evident in their gaze.

  “Yes, I am new, Bjorn, not the one you know about.”

  “The rest of the league had quit after learning the truth.” Lilja bowed to them, “Thank you for continuing with the request.”

  Before Lilja could expin, Witch raised her hand and directed it at me. Sparks were running behind her as it was forming a couple of meters-long magic circle.

  “I hope Ms. Springbringer won't mind if I test the league leader.”

  “Please use your strongest magic.” When I looked at her, she smiled at me and moved away from my behind.

  The magic circle behind the Witch was also completed in time.

  The first thing I felt was that the humidity in the air was being sucked into the magic circle. It was like ants were kissing my face.

  However, that was all.

  The table between us was decaying at a visible rate. Cracks started to spread.

  As! Magic couldn’t affect me.

  “Is that the best you can do?”

  The look in her eyes changed. The next moment, the table was turned into dust.

  She had reasonable control over the magic. The only things affected were the table and the air between us. The chair I was sitting on stayed the same.

  I wasn’t sure if it was dust or sand. However, it formed a spear and shot at me at full speed.

  That was it.

  The moment I touched it, the sand spear turned into dust again.

  The next moment, Flick appeared behind me. The dagger, covered with mana, was an inch away from my neck when my elbow hit his chest and was sent flying.

  “Do you want to test me, too?”

  “I am an apprentice technomancer in my world. I am not suited to be a melee fighter.”

  “Then what are you good at?”

  “Scouting. Reconnaissance. Long-range attack, and somewhat effective in mid-range fighting.” Wrench opened his hand, and a fly took flight from his hand.

  It was not alive. It was a machine. Wrench’s left eye rolled in his eye socket, and a projected scream appeared in front of his face.

  “Oh! This is what the fly is seeing. I would say it is a very technologically advanced world to which you were sent.”

  His face returned to normal as he smiled without an answer.

  “What was that?” Witch smmed her hand on the table, which Lilja had regrown from the wood dust with the flick of her wrist. “There is no way to break a level three mana circle just with touch.”

  “Level three mana circle? That dust spear was a level three magic?”

  It was really hard to believe. Luckily, Lilja expined that it wasn't a simple sawdust spear. The spear was hardened with the magic to the point that it could even penetrate a bunker.

  Oh! No wonder the Witch was so shocked.

  “I am someone who has three skills.”

  I mumbled the script that Lilja had given me. She had told me not to give everything even if it was an aly. It is not like I don’t know. But Lilja was more aware of the hidden world of explorers than I am.

  More importantly, I was a sve in the world. It did make my life pathetic, but I was still a sheltered person who hadn’t had anyone else other than the one I had killed.

  “You can confirm the data with the system.”

  As soon as Lilja said it, a system prompt appeared in front of them.

  “But there are just two skills. {Troll’s Regeneration} and {Hyper Sense}. Where is the other skill?”

  “I have to hide it for personal reasons.”

  “A ‘S’ grade and ‘A’ grade skill!”

  “That didn’t expin how you stopped my magic.” She wasn’t satisfied.

  “I think {Troll’s Regeneration} is the reason,” Lilja expined to her with a smile. “The troll’s skin has the ability to dispel the magic.”

  “Not a level three magic.”

  “Unless it is a blue troll.”

  I wasn’t sure if the trolls in Lilja’s, Witch’s and My World were the same. I didn’t even know if there was something like a blue troll in my world or not, but there were such trolls in both of their worlds.

  Her expression still said she wasn’t convinced, but Witch chose not to push with the topic.

  Flick, who had miraculously survived, sat down on his chair. “How about the league?”

  “Yes, we can’t continue with only five people. We need at least seven people.”

  “Sorry, I won’t be joining the expedition.” Lilja made her stance clear.

  However, it wasn’t that she didn’t want to. Instead, she won’t be able to. The world's system and rules won’t let her do that.

  “I have found two more members for the league. You guys can come in.”

  The door opened, and a pair of men and women came in.

  The man was about five and a half feet tall with a stocky build, while the girl was over six feet tall.

  “Introduce yourself.”

  “I am an archer. I can also use holy magic and healing magic.”

  “You have a title, right?”

  “Yes, yes.” The man nodded vigorously, adding, “You can call me Teer. It means arrow in the nguage of the world I was sent to.”

  “I don’t have a title. You can call me Erun. I am a marksman. In my world, I am a captain of a space trooper unit. I have two skills. I can hit anything within 200 meters. I am also proficient in dagger and hand-to-hand combat.”

  “Hello, I am Shtr. You can call me Shtr or Boss. This is Witch, Wrench and Flick. Take a seat.”

  “We are still one short.”

  “You don’t have to worry about it,” Lilja expined. “The Andng Exploration League partially owns the Nozul Forbidden space. So, it won’t be hard to twist the rule a little.”

  “I don’t think those dirty guys from the Ayarus guild would agree.”

  “We can then talk to Ramos. He would take care of it.”

  “Who is Ramos?” Wrench gave me a questioning gaze.

  “He is the one who gave me the mission.”

  “Ramos, Ramos.” Witch mumbled the name several times before asking me with pure disbelief. “Ramos, the first dragon? The overseer of the world?”

  All eyes were on me. I can even hear Lilja sighing behind me.

  “Please keep it a secret.” Lilja flicked her finger, making another system prompt appear before them.

  “Who are you?” Witch can’t help asking.

  “That is not important right now.” Lilja didn’t let me answer. “What is important right now is this.”

  With a swish, the top of the table changed. The top of the table created some kind of map.

  “This is the map of Nozul Forbidden Space. Please keep in mind that the forbidden space is continuously expanding. There is a possibility that a third force has invaded and created a beast horde, we are unaware of the situation.”

  “We can take it as the terrain has changed. But what about the watch post of the Ayarus guild?”

  “They lost contact with the guild outpost about three days ago.”

  “The world has changed; we don’t know what is inside the space. At least give me a reason why it is happening.”

  “There is a core in that forbidden space.”

  “A core?”

  Although I had realised that it was a rare phenomenon, all the grasp made me realise how rare they are. However, at the next moment, their eyes would fill with greed.

  “If we can grasp the core, we won’t have to worry about working again.”

  “Do you think an independent league like us could do that? If anyone could control the core, it would be a big guild like the Ayarus guild.”

  “Yeah! The current top two guilds could do it because they were already ranked top five globally.”

  “However, this forbidden space is much rger than the ones they control?”

  “There will be foreign intervention for sure.”

  In the middle of the talk, Teer asked the most crucial question. “Doesn't the birth of the core also summon a greater monster?”

  “We can’t be sure right now. But with all our reports, it might be a succubus queen.”