The Author's POV

Staring at Kevin who was busy controlling his drone in the air, I impatiently asked.

"You got something?"

Staring at his watch as he monitored the drone in the sky, Kevin shook his head.

"Nothing yet"

It's been about a couple of hours since Kevin, Silug, and I were waiting outside of the perimeter of the castle.

As Kevin was able to enter the castle through the use of a skill that he had acquired a couple of months prior back in the novel, for obvious reasons, I couldn't replicate the same method he had used to enter the castle.

...If only there was only a secret passage.

*Sigh*

Sighing inwardly, I knew that lamenting at my past decisions was stupid as my past self would've never been able to know that I was going to enter my own novel.

...but I still did it anyway as I needed someone to vent my frustrations against.

In the end, as I didn't know of any secret passage that led to the inside of the castle, we could only scout the castle using Kevin's drone to get a better idea of how to sneak in.

Interlocking my arms together as I stretched my body, I asked.

"How much more time do you need?"

Staring at his watch intently, Kevin shook his head.

"I'm not sure, because I don't want to get caught I'm currently operating the drone at an altitude of four kilometers...it's hard to get a proper read from that height"

Surprised by the information, I asked.

"four kilometers?"

"Yeah, since we aren't sure on who is in the castle, the safest height to surveil would be that"

"I see..."

Kevin's words weren't without merit.

Although Marquess Azeroth wasn't present in the castle, as we still weren't fully aware of who was inside, it was never wrong to take extra precautions.

Moreover, since demons could fly, the chances of the drone getting discovered weren't low despite the fact that it had a cloaking system.

Thus, such a high altitude made sense.

Plus, with how advanced technology was, that height still didn't impede the drone from scanning the castle below.

"Alright, I think I got a general idea of the layout of the castle"

After another ten minutes of surveying the castle, nodding his head, Kevin tapped on his watch as a three-dimensional model of the castle appeared before him.

"Good"

"Khhr...hm?"

Taken aback, Silug who was standing next to Kevin showed a surprised look on his face as he looked at the holographic image that appeared before Kevin.

Pointing towards the castle, he curiously asked as his deep voice resounded across the area.

"What is that?"

Turning towards Silug, speaking in Latrvian, Kevin responded.

"It's called a hologram and one of the castles before us"

Confused, Silug repeated.

"Hulogram?"

his head,

human technology and it helps us project an image of objects through

"Stop, you're confusing him"

topic of holographic technology, I rolled my eyes as I pointed at Silug who seemed to be even

"Project? Infra-red? Sensors?"

Kevin rubbed his nose in embarrassment as he

got too

too caught up and almost rambled

Kevin was a tech junky, I didn't think too much of his behavior and switched the

matter, forget about that, have

his watch, Kevin pointed towards a certain section of the

take a

leaning in, I looked in the direction of where he was

looks like there are only three entrances of the castles, if you look at the map close enough you can see

a better look at the holographic image of the castle before me, after a minute, not seeing it, I glanced at Kevin and asked him to point it out

"Where?"

"Here"

"Oh, I see it..."

holographic image and moving it to the right, Kevin pointed towards a certain section of the castle where a small

how grand the castle was relative to the door, If not for the fact that Kevin pointed it out for me, I would've never been

that there was such a place odd...in the end, I didn't dwell

something off about that place, with the red book in my hand, I didn't have

I noticed the

use to dispose the trash and unnecessary items. Although I wasn't able to figure out how many guards are present in that place, from the looks of it there are no

glanced at

you suggesting we sneak

"Yeah..."

for a couple of

sounds reasonable, when should we

on his chin as he pondered for a moment, Kevin glanced

more info on

my

"A day?"

that a bit too

the doubt on my face, Kevin

are the less the chances

the time, my face crumped up

bit too long, if we spend a day surveilling the castle we'll only have eight hours before we are

from the corner of his eyes, Kevin

since you said that the castle is the last place we need to go, I

second and fully

and if so I can just do a short skimming and we can go in a couple of hours, but the chances of something going wrong might

weren't going to go stay there for long, Kevin estimated that eight hours should've been

Ren said that they were only going there to collect a few things, staying there more than eight hours wouldn't really be the best idea since each passing second they spent there could lead to situations where they

brows knit even tighter, after a while, my brows eventually loosened as I

you're right, do

a while, I knew that Kevin

and carefully around the enormous castle, there was a small chance that it might not be enough time

weighing the ups and down, I decided to go along with Kevin's

if we ended up wasting a

long as we could reduce the chances of getting caught

Haste made waste.

resolutely looking at Kevin, I

time and get a proper read

...

"How long?"

"Shhh..."

on his lips, Kevin looked towards

"...soon"

Kevin spent a whole day scanning the perimeter of the castle as he got a proper read on

and who was guarding it and who was leaving it, Kevin was able to come up with an appropriate plan on how to infiltrate the castle which he

plan I couldn't help