It will take some time before the vines that trap the dark elves wither and die, and I don't have to worry about her breaking free anytime soon. However, considering that the other party may be a thief with special skills, I was very careful when I returned, trying not to leave any clues that could be traced, and even if I did, I would do my best to erase them.

When I got back to Atreus's house, I lowered the heavy sack over my shoulder, opened the mouth of the bag, and poured its contents onto the carpet. Seeing that I had brought back some strange objects, Flora also approached me, picked up a piece of forged metal and examined it.

"Oh? Do you see something? ”

"It's engraved with words, but I can't read it."

I picked up a metal plate from the carpet and put it in front of my eyes, and there was a lot of information written on it. It's just that the first impression I got was basically the same as that of Flotra, and I couldn't read the words inscribed on it.

I don't know what it means, but fortunately, this kind of writing is not completely new to me. Thanks to the knowledge exchange spell, I am now able to master and use Elvish with great skill, and the text on the metal plate in my hand seems to have some in common with Elven language, and seems to be a variant of traditional Elvish.

The name of the Forging Mo race has the word "Mo", and the word "Mo" means elf, and it is clear that this script belonging to the Elven variant is the script used by the Forging Mo clan. I tried to deduce the unknown Forge Mo language through the known Elvish language, but failed, the Forge Mo clan has a much richer vocabulary than the traditional Elvi language - after all, the Forge Mo has a technology called "science" compared to other elven races, which will also lead to an incomparably large thesaurus.

Let's talk about the text for the time being, anyway, no matter how much I struggle, I can't understand what these words mean. At the moment, Neos must have thought too much, I don't think that these metal plates engraved with words can play as important an important role as forging the Mocenturion, these may just be simple relics.

But when I think of this, I have some doubts, if these are just simple cultural relics, then what are the thieves trying to steal these things? Without Kasaimer's research, these things are just useless pieces of brass and iron. So I picked up a few more notebooks that were mixed with metal plates and flipped through them.

Kassemer's signature appears on the title page, and it appears that these small notebooks are research notes written by Kassemer himself. After turning a few pages back, I realized what a sack of metal plates was for.

As a scholar of the culture of the Forge Mo, Kasaimer included the text of the Forge in his research agenda, and these small books can be regarded as a rudimentary dictionary of the Forge Mo language. The dictionary is incomplete, after all, Kasaimer's energy is very limited and the focus of his research is not on this aspect, so the vocabulary recorded above is relatively conservative, and it can only meet the needs of elementary school students.

The thieves should have stolen these dictionaries in the hope of deciphering the information left behind by Kasemer's research, or simply outright plagiarism of academic results.

To reason about the motives of the thieves, it is time to consider the ownership of the stolen goods. Later, when the old man of Nebos learned that the stolen goods were not as important as he had imagined, he would have been disappointed and had no interest in them; Now that the matter has been made, it seems that the stolen goods will be handed over to the dark elf thieves or returned to Casimer, and the final destination of the stolen goods should be secretly destroyed by Nepos' order to avoid leaving any incriminating evidence.

Not...... That being said, it was a shame to destroy them in vain, so I decided to make a copy of them.

……

"It's ......"

Just as I was casting a spell to copy the research notes, Atres came to the room and saw the pile of metal plates stacked on the carpet. Presumably his superiors had informed them of the theft of heavy artifacts from the fortress under the stone, and Atres appeared to be very sensitive to the stolen goods.

"You actually stole the palace mage's real room?"

"Uh, no, I just got the stolen goods back from the thieves."

Faced with Atries' nervous questioning, I quickly excused my relationship. Relieved to hear that the crime was not my own, Atreous continued to ask me, "Where is the thief?" We need to arrest him. ”

"Hmm...... When I found out, I threw down the stolen goods and ran away. ”

"Does he have any physical features?"

I continued to shake my head in disbelief.

"Alright," Atrex walked in the direction of the sack, preparing to reload the metal plate into the bag, "and it would be nice to get the stolen goods back, at least to the top...... Well? ”

"Wait," I grabbed Atreez's arm, "I can't give you this stolen goods yet." (To be continued......)