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"I, along with many other spirits, escaped from the fiend's clutches through some clever trickery! I went to Südostenland, which was an old rival nation of what you now know as Eastia, while the rest of the spirits scattered through the winds to find their fate."
Here she began to speak about her actions in a pre-Eastian coastal town, which was now the city of Leipgart-Pflau. She learnt how to speak Common from one of the locals there, and was generally treated with kindness by most inhabitants.
Eventually in this pre-Eastian town she found a tutor that helped her learn how to use spirit magic. And it was here that you realized something; while she went on with her in-depth delusions of arcane magic from the Everlasting Empire and enchantments, you realized that Yumi was an inverse weeb for 'Continental spirit magic'.
"... and while I was practicing a curse that could deny the ability to taste anything, I was found and kidnapped by Hoshidoma, after which I was ferried away and brought to the dungeon. Unsurprising, considering Hoshidoma was fascinated by ancient dungeons." She was succinct about that part.
"That still doesn't explain why the place doesn't have any Oceanippon stuff. In fact, Cattleya said the dungeon had dwarfish architecture." You recalled.
"Neither the mansion nor the dungeon were built by him. I think he was studying the place."
Yumi proceeded to tell you of the actions he took to establish himself here; outfitting some of the undead skeletons with the armor from buried dwarven graves, restoring most of the dwarven traps, while also finding a way to control the golems. Yumi was then placed in the dungeon's final room, where she was promptly forgotten about for at least a century.
She received some vindication when a group of Eastian adventurers came by and killed Hoshidoma and his undead wife, wanting to find an unexplored dungeon to loot.
Just as the Eastians agreed to look into ways to let Yumi free, a Westphalian Savant Lord invaded the dungeon as well and killed the Eastians. He seized all Oceanippon items and experimented on them, and when he didn't find anything of interest he destroyed it all. Thankfully the money Hoshidoma obtained and the spell-holding jewels remained hidden from the Savant until Mel discovered them some months ago.
"This other Savant Lord, instead of taking over the underground and making it his home, decided to hide it away." Yumi recounted. "He wasn't focused on technology like you are, but instead was rightly fascinated with spells and powerful enchantments. That door from earlier was made with an ancient Artemian spell, which thankfully caused me to slumber dreamlessly until you and your goddess awoke me." And that solved the mystery as to why the door was locked so well and why the stone structures had such strong magic potential.
Upon hearing that it was an ancient spell you made a mental note to write to Aila about it, if only to have your cute elf wife come over here again.
