After a while, Lellia barely regained her senses and began to carefully look around the interior.
'Found it!'
The emergency rations protected by magic were found beneath the wooden floor beside a small dining table.
The small glass bottle appeared empty, but a label was attached to its exterior.
It indicated what food was inside. This glass bottle containing mysterious magic would produce emergency rations ready to eat at any time when shattered.
It was a glass bottle containing special magic that Elizabeth had personally developed for storing emergency rations.
It was an incredible magic that could preserve food in its freshly-made state for up to a hundred years.
'Seeing it in person makes it even more amazing...'
She was a very eccentric mage who enjoyed inventing all kinds of wondrous magical items.
This was one of those inventions.
Lellia stuffed several glass bottles into her bag without even checking the labels to see what food they contained.
Right now, Lellia was in no position to be picky about this food or that.
'Thank goodness.'
It was partly due to the relief of finding food, but a smile also came to her face for another reason.
Creating a space beneath the wooden floor to hide something was an idea anyone might have, but she wanted to give it some special meaning.
After all, she too had hidden something precious beneath the wooden floor of the small tower.
Fortunately, it seemed no one had discovered where Elizabeth had hidden the food. There were no signs of anyone having touched it.
'Even Emperor Perseus probably doesn't know about this place.'
In the original work, Uriana had discovered various magic-related items in this cabin.
'These rations were originally meant to be found by Uriana too...'
Lellia felt uncomfortably guilty for no reason, but soon shook her head.
'Uriana has plenty to eat even without this food... so it should be fine if I take it.'
In any case, her own survival was at stake.
Lellia put aside her hesitation and packed her bag.
'First, I need to survive.'
After gathering the rations, she began searching here and there again, wondering if there might be something else useful.
'There should be something...'
It wasn't described in detail, but Uriana had said she found something special here.
Emperor Perseus smiled as he watched Uriana boasting about discovering treasure.
And he came to truly regard Uriana, who had a warm and kind heart like his late wife, as his own daughter.
'...I should head back for today.'
Worried that someone might come, Lellia left the cabin with lingering regrets.
'I'll come back in a few days and look more carefully.'
Fearing discovery, Lellia hurriedly returned to the tower.
That night, she ate the emergency rations her mother had made and cried a little.
It was so delicious, as if it had just been made, that she found it hard to hold back her tears.