"Dimensional Anchor... Right, how did I forget about this?"
Lyra exclaimed a bit loudly, a beautiful smile on her lips. In an instant, her gaze on Soren softened considerably as she felt a huge weight lifted off her shoulders.
Truth be told, she was very reluctant to let juniors below level 50 venture inside the Abyss.
Unlike other dungeons, the Abyss wasn’t only dangerous but also quite strange. Normally, hunters below level 100 wouldn’t even go inside unless necessary.
Although Lysandra could stop them from being corrupted, what if?
"Soren... you came at the right time. Haha... with this S-rank artifact, it should be easier for me to do things now. With this, activating Void Stones shouldn’t be an issue."
The more Lyra thought about it, the happier she became as she gave Soren an appreciative glance.
"This is an S-rank artifact?"
But Lysandra, who had been quietly listening the entire time, suddenly spoke up while leaning toward Soren, her curious gaze fixed on the Prism.
After all, even she was surprised that Soren possessed an S-rank artifact. No wonder Lyra quickly erected a barrier around them.
For a moment, she couldn’t help but look between the Prism and Soren, confused as to why he had such a treasure.
Not to mention, she could feel that it was a rare space-type.
"Yeah, S-rank. It was a gift given to him by Principal Logan. Don’t you dare lay your eyes on it, Lysandra."
Lyra warned while grabbing her shoulder to pull her back, seeing her getting too close to Soren, her cleavage fully on display.
Surprisingly, though, she noticed that Soren didn’t even glance at it, unlike what he would have done with her.
Maybe the situation wasn’t right?
"What? Do you think I will snatch my students’ things? I was just curious, okay?"
Lysandra pouted at Lyra with faint anger, acting like a child.
For a moment, Soren couldn’t help but give her a strange look when Lyra spoke again.
"Okay, stop playing around. I don’t have much time. Soren, can you please give me that artifact for a while? I promise I will return it to you intact and even reward you later."
As long as she let one of the senior students use this artifact and activate the Void Stone, she didn’t have to let the low-level students risk anything. It was a perfect solution.
"About that..."
But Soren wasn’t going to hand over his artifact like that as he showed an embarrassed smile.
"Professor Lyra, how about I go inside myself and use the artifact instead? You see, I don’t trust anyone else with it."
It was his trump card after all. It was hard for him to let anyone else have it, even for a bit.
He was already risking it by taking it out in the open.
Besides, more importantly, Soren also wanted to look inside the Abyss.
After all, one of his trump cards, Crimson Queen Lash, required Succubus Blood Essence to upgrade.
Not to mention, the Unique Dungeon he had to tackle had some relation to this place.
Getting to know about the Abyss was on his to-do list anyway.
"This..."
As soon as Lyra heard Soren’s words, she frowned slightly. Letting Soren go inside, even with that artifact, seemed too risky.
However, before she could refuse, Lysandra suddenly spoke,
"Lyra, just let him go. This guy isn’t as weak as you think."
Surprisingly, she spoke in favor of Soren, startling both of them. But Lysandra just gave a mysterious look at Soren’s figure before commenting,
"His soul power is clearly higher than that of any student here. Considering how the monsters inside the Abyss generally attack weak souls, he should be safer than any student instead."
In fact, she had noticed this change in Soren the moment he entered her tent before.
She was a healer after all. Her gaze was anything but normal. Not to mention, Soren didn’t have any skill to hide his soul power yet.
She obviously noticed his change accurately.
"Soul? Oh, right..."
Lyra raised her eyebrow as if remembering things,
"So, you absorbed that Soul Orb given by the Principal already? Is that why you want to volunteer yourself? No wonder..."
She now felt like she was forgetting many things today. Maybe because of the stress, she was having trouble keeping track of everything.
So much for being a professor who taught strategy to her students. Well, Soren had once again earned another point from her with his thoughtfulness, though.
"Soul Orb? Principal Logan even gave him such a thing?"
Lysandra was once again surprised by yet another revelation.
"Wait...are you an illegitimate child of that musclehead or what?"
In the end, she couldn’t help but ask Soren, totally suspicious.
Otherwise, why would the Principal give him an S-rank artifact, especially and even a Soul Orb?
This didn’t make sense.
"I-Illegitimate child?"
Soren couldn’t help but roll his eyes at Lysandra’s suspicion and didn’t even bother to answer. He felt it was best to ignore this crazy healer most of the time.
It was best not to garner too much interest from her.
"Okay, Lysandra... can you stop joking? The situation is serious right now."
Fortunately, Lyra stopped Lysandra in anger with a light tap on her head and then looked at Soren, nodding lightly.
"As you want, you can enter the Abyss this time. Just make sure you are extremely careful and ask for help if needed."
After saying that, she signaled Soren to hide that artifact and was about to remove the barrier when Soren stopped her.
"Professor Lyra, if you don’t mind, can I... tell you something?"
Although Soren didn’t want to, he had decided to warn her about Ruther somehow.
Unfortunately, he didn’t have much evidence.
Still, just the warning should be enough to stop him from going reckless this time around.
"Hmm? Yeah, what is it?"
Fortunately, Lyra had a good impression of him so far. She should at least listen to him, right?
"Well, it is about Professor Ruther. If you don’t mind me being presumptuous, I feel like there is something off about him, like... something unnatural."
Even then, Soren decided not to directly tell them about his identity, but rather to make them suspicious.
He believed that as long as they paid a bit more attention to that guy, they should get the clue.