Chapter 91, Records
In the end, I returned home without resolving the problem.
It was probably something we wouldn't be able to solve for a while.
To gain something through the Swallowing Mimic, we would need to place it somewhere containing Mysteries or objects related to them.
But that wasn't easy.
If it was somewhere we could reach ourselves, then there was no real point in placing the Mimic there.
We could just go there and take the Mystery directly.
To properly benefit from it, we would have to secretly place it somewhere inhabited by a mid-sized faction or larger.
And to do that, we would first need to search for such a place.
Searching naturally required time and resources.
And even if we succeeded in finding somewhere suitable, that still wouldn't solve everything.
The Swallowing Mimic swallowed materials around it.
We already had more than enough of most resources, so there wasn't much we needed.
If there was anything, it was Mysteries.
And there was no way factions would store Mysteries somewhere easy to steal.
They would probably keep them somewhere with strict security.
Sneaking the Mimic into a place like that?
If we had enough freedom to do that, it would probably be better to simply break in and steal the Mystery ourselves.
There was one method that came to mind for using it properly.
Using a portal to another world.
“But that's way too dependent on luck.”
The destination beyond a naturally formed portal was random.
More precisely, the space you were transported to was random, not merely the location inside a connected space.
The space itself wasn't fixed.
A portal connected to the ocean one second could be connected to the sky the next.
If I carelessly threw the Mimic into something like that and it landed inside the stomach of some gigantic monster, or in a pool of volcanic lava, then I would have simply thrown away a Mystery.
And even if I jumped through the portal every second to check where it led, the connected destination would immediately change again.
It was a problem with no real solution.
Maybe I could try it later if I obtained a luck-related Mystery.
With that conclusion, we moved past the issue and turned to the next problem.
“What should we do with this?”
Lee Yeonhee lightly poked a woman's body with her hand.
A woman with smooth, long golden hair.
Dorothy's body.
Dorothy had her eyes closed as though she were deeply asleep.
At the moment, she was in a state similar to a vegetative state.
Her body was fine, but only her mind had died.
If we simply left her like this, she would eventually die.
And since Dorothy might possess another resurrection-related Mystery, we couldn't allow that.
Fortunately, this problem was easily solved.
We decided Eriel would continuously supply her with divine power.
“Then there's only one final issue. We obtained so many Mysteries during this trip that I think we need to establish some standards and organize them together with the ones we already had.”
“Organize them?”
“Yes. Including what we obtained this time, we currently possess almost seventy Mysteries. I think we should prepare a separate space and arrange them differently according to certain standards.”
“Wow, we own seventy Mysteries?”
“If we combine the ones from the supermarket, the Backrooms, the Company, the Order, the ones everyone found separately while exploring, and what we obtained this time, it comes out to around that number.”
Lee Yeonhee spoke while looking at a sheet of paper Eriel had written.
We had acquired seventy Mysteries so far.
The number shocked me, but thinking back on everything we had gone through, it also made sense.
“We can't rely on Oppa's bag forever. And besides organizing them, I think we should leave individual records for every Mystery too.”
“Was that Eriel's suggestion?”
“Yes. She said it's about time we started preparing.”
As I watched them talk, I remembered what Eriel had said earlier.
It had been just after we returned home, before we gathered to organize what we had obtained and exchange opinions.
Eriel had looked pleased and proud when she saw all the Mysteries we had gained from this incident.
But she had also left us with a warning.
“It's about time a Mystery Devourer started appearing around us.”
“Yes. We've already been close to the threshold several times, but after obtaining so many Mysteries this time, we've clearly crossed it. We should prepare.”
Scq871, Mystery Devourer.
Apparently, its original name was Memory Devourer, but its alias, Mystery Devourer, was far more famous.
Eriel said that in order to prepare for it, we needed to record our Mysteries and make sure we remembered them.
“Then the records...”
“I'll handle them. I have Lucy, after all. And I don't really have anything else to do.”
“All right. Then Oppa will handle that. Should we end the meeting here?”
“Yeah, let's finish already. We started this meeting as soon as we got back, so I haven't even had time to rest. I want to relax in my room.”
I nodded at Hwa-ryeon's words, and we soon ended the meeting.
Everyone returned to their respective worlds through the books to rest.
