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?"

head,

yes, it's human technology and it helps us project an image of objects through the use of

"Stop, you're confusing him"

rolled

"Project? Infra-red? Sensors?"

Kevin rubbed his nose in embarrassment as he

I got

up and almost rambled

think too much of his behavior

about that, have

his attention back to the holographic image displayed on his watch, Kevin

take a look at

in the direction of where he

if you look at the map close enough you can see that there is another one not so

squinted my eyes to get 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..."

pointed towards a

of how grand the castle was relative to the door, If not for the fact that Kevin

there was such a place

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

I noticed 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 more than two guards. But it doesn't really matter as what we should truly

I glanced

so are you suggesting we sneak from

"Yeah..."

thinking for a couple of

when

moment, Kevin glanced

out about that area I'll try to get even more info on it so that we can

my

"A day?"

a bit

on my face,

the more thorough we are the less the chances of

seeing the time,

too long, if we spend a day surveilling the castle we'll only have eight hours before we are forced to go back

at me from the corner of his eyes, Kevin

last place we need to go, I don't think we'll need

second and fully looking at me,

time and if so I can just do a short skimming and we can go in a couple of hours, but the

to go stay there for long, Kevin

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

even tighter, after

right, do your

thinking about it for a while, I

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

I decided to go along with Kevin's

ended up wasting

we could reduce the chances of getting caught whilst infiltrating

Haste made waste.

far, resolutely looking at Kevin, I

and get a proper

...

"How long?"

"Shhh..."

his lips, Kevin looked towards the distance. Towards a

"...soon"

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

looking at the times in which the door was used and who was guarding it and who was leaving it, Kevin was able to come up with an

his plan I couldn't help but