The castle was very big; from its central area to its corners, each floor was quite sizable – however, as they now have more people in their group, their search proceeded at a faster pace.

The five of them used only roughly half an hour to search through the second floor, but they found nothing. Chen Xiaolian, Phoenix, and Sawakita Mitsuo were characters with intellect and detailed judgement. The three of them took the lead while Nagase Komi and Soo Soo followed them. After searching through the floor and making no discovery, they knew they did not miss out on anything.

However… … something appeared off with Phoenix. She appeared somewhat absent-minded. She had tried to put on the façade of normality. However, Chen Xiaolian, who had fought beside her twice, was able to detect that something was wrong.

She appeared slightly different compared to back when she was in the London instance dungeon, where she had shown extraordinary intellect.

“Let us head upstairs. We will discuss further after we reach the fourth floor.” Seeing no other way, Chen Xiaolian gave the suggestion. No one objected and all of them moved up the castle. 

Sawakita Mitsuo and Nagase Komi had searched through the third floor. Naturally, they chose to skip searching the place. Then, when they were moving to the fourth floor…

“Can’t go up?”

The stairs leading to the fourth floor stood not far from them. However, when they tried...