Shota's Isekai NTR Adventure

Chapter 723 Studying the seal

Chapter 723 Studying the seal

Duke Nergiante took another moment to adjust his thoughts before revealing a bitter smile.

With that bitter smile on his face, he said, "I would thank you not to think so little of me. Even if I am someone who can be considered a coward when it comes to matters like this, I do know what is important."

He looked at the table that I was standing in front of and said, "I at least know what is important and what isn't. At the very least, I know what I have to do."

With that, he came forward to stand beside me and looked down at the documents that I had been looking at.

The only problem was…

These documents were all written in an ancient language.

So no matter how Duke Nergiante looked at this thing, it didn't matter since he wasn't able to understand a single thing. All he could do was stare at these pieces of paper with a blank look on his face.

During this time, I had been carefully looking over these things.

After a long silence, Duke Nergiante finally asked me, "Are you able to read these?"

I gave a nod before waving my hand at the fourth prince.

He and the rest had been standing on the side as Duke Nergiante and I had been looking over these documents.

There wasn't that much space to begin with, so it wasn't as if he could have done anything even if he came over.

The fourth prince was a tactful person, so he knew that he had to at least give Duke Nergiante this chance in the spotlight before coming forward. But since Duke Nergiante wasn't able to do anything, it was time for him to do his thing.

After seeing the fourth prince come forward, Duke Nergiante stepped back to give him space with a bitter smile on his face.

During this, the captain of the guard came over and seemed to ask Duke Nergiante something.

Duke Nergiante just shook his head and said, "They are here to help us."

The firm tone that he said this made it very clear that he didn't want any discussions on this matter.

The captain of the guard was surprised to hear this, but he still listened to the duke's orders. Though it was clear by the look on his face that he didn't seem like he was willing to accept this.

In the end, he was stopped by the duke's personal guards that had come with us from the capital.

It seemed that the captain of the guards had already crossed a line that the duke wasn't willing to stay silent about anymore.

The fourth prince and I just ignored all of this as we focused our attention on the pieces of paper in front of us.

After a while, the fourth prince waved his hand at a few of his guards and he handed a few pieces over to them before giving them some instructions.

They took these pieces of paper and moved around the room while looking at them. With the way that they were holding them up in front of themselves as they moved around the room, it was almost as if they were looking for something specific based on what was on those papers.

Duke Nergiante felt a bit left out when he saw this, so he asked, "What are you doing?"

Neither the fourth prince or I said anything, rather it was the fourth prince's guards that explained what the situation was to Duke Nergiante.

"Let us help." Duke Nergiante said with a serious look.

After a moment of hesitation, the guard gave a few of the pieces of paper over to Duke Nergiante after a nod from both me and the fourth prince.

Taking these pieces of paper, Duke Nergiante revealed a bitter smile since these were the ones that he had picked up previously.

He hadn't understood what they meant before, but now that they had explained it, he understood.

These were blueprints for the seal that had been placed here.

Following what was written on these pieces of paper, he was able to find some runes that were carved on the wall. It was just like how the pieces of paper had described them.

Working together with the fourth prince's guards, they were able to eventually figure out what these runes were leading to.

It was on the other side of the room, but it didn't seem like there was anything there.

That was until I came over and pressed my hand up against the wall.

I touched the wall in a certain way that slowly caused runes to light up on this wall.

These runes seemed to be in the shape of some kind of array, like it was sealing something.

Then again, that was what they were looking for in the first place.

They had been looking for the seal for the demon king that was here.

I didn't do anything after making this seal appear other than looking carefully at it.

While I was looking at it, I held up the pieces of paper from the table in front of me.

After a while, I pointed at one part of the array and asked the fourth prince, "It's this part, right?"

The fourth prince came over to look at where I was pointing and narrowed his eyes to look carefully at it for a bit.

Eventually, he said with a nod, "It is this part."

The others were all confused when they heard us say this.

Duke Nergiante was the one that asked for everyone by saying, "What are you talking about?"

Neither the fourth prince or I said a thing as we kept looking at this array on the wall.

After looking at it for a bit, I said, "This is the part that's the problem with the array. This is the part that's decaying and allowing the demon king to escape."

As soon as they heard this, everyone tried to get a closer look at this.

But that wasn't all that I had to say.

As I looked carefully at this, I said, "This is a problem."