Roaring Heroes Battle the Overlord (Ainz)

Chapter 104: The Ceiling of the World

The north wind howled as EeDeChi led the way with Barrett trailing behind. They walked through a dilapidated residential area.

When they reached an intersection, EeDeChi stopped, as if deep in thought.

Barrett asked from behind, "Are you lost?"

"I could never forget the way." EeDeChi put on a casual expression.

"Then tell me, what's Rigrit's address?"

"Uh..." EeDeChi confidently replied, "Ludus Street, Deerhorn Lane, No. 45."

"It's Ludus Street, Corner Lane, No. 43, second floor," Barrett said with a sigh. "If you don't know the way, stop pretending to lead."

"I'm just momentarily not recalling it," EeDeChi stubbornly retorted. Barrett shook his head, passed her, and headed for the left path at the intersection. EeDeChi hurriedly followed him.

They wandered around for a while and finally found the rumored home of the last member of the "Thirteen Heroes." The adamantite-level adventurer Lakyus had given EeDeChi a ring and recommended that she seek out the reclusive Rigrit Bers Caurau.

A few weeks ago, they had come here once, but the door had been tightly shut, and the house was empty. They had been forced to leave in frustration. EeDeChi was not one to give up easily, and today, she had returned, hoping to uncover something.

The two of them stepped onto the creaky pinewood staircase, making their way up to the second floor of the dilapidated building.

It was disappointing. The iron door was as it had been before, locked tight. A thick layer of dust covered the copper lock, and EeDeChi's fingerprints, left from her last visit, were still clearly visible on it. It seemed even thieves and burglars had no interest in this place.

EeDeChi took out the ring Lakyus had given her and began to fumble around on the iron door, trying to find a mechanism to open the door with the ring as a key, hoping to reveal whatever secret lay behind it.

The old door, with wooden panels embedded inside and covered in iron on the outside, could be smashed with a single palm strike by EeDeChi. But breaking it would be pointless, because she could see that behind the door was another small space.

The small space seemed like jelly, overlapping with the room. She could enter the room, but she couldn't access the small space.

Slow, shuffling footsteps echoed from the other side of the hallway. Both EeDeChi and Barrett turned their heads, only to see the elderly woman they had briefly met last time. Barrett had even helped her dump out some filthy wastewater.

The old woman hobbled toward them, her back hunched, and surprisingly, she was carrying a wooden bucket. The yellow, white, and green contents inside the bucket mixed together, releasing a disgusting stench that filled the entire hallway.

It seemed that dumping out wastewater was her daily routine. Barrett couldn't help but wonder if the old lady had been saving up a week's worth of waste, waiting for it to evaporate and "mature" before she came to dump it.

EeDeChi pinched her nose and said to Barrett, "Don't you know how to respect the elderly and love the young? Why don't you help the old lady dump her water?"

Barrett crossed his arms, looking unamused. He had already shown his respect last time, so he wasn't going to do it again: "Making someone else do it, is that what you call 'respecting the elderly and loving the young'?"

EeDeChi shot him a sharp glare, but after a brief moment of hesitation, she seemed to feel that Barrett had a point.

She lowered her hand from her nose, took the wooden bucket from the old lady, and rushed downstairs in quick strides, dumping the foul, murky water into the drain.