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,

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

"Stop, you're confusing him"

technology, I rolled my eyes as I pointed at

"Project? Infra-red? Sensors?"

his nose in

got too

got too caught up and almost rambled about

a tech junky, I didn't think too much of his behavior and

about that, have

holographic image displayed on his watch, Kevin pointed

a look at

Kevin's words, leaning in, I looked in

are only three entrances of the castles, if you look at the map close enough you can see that there is another one not

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

"Where?"

"Here"

"Oh, I see it..."

moving it to the right, Kevin pointed towards a certain section of the castle where a

of how grand the castle was relative to the door, If not for the fact that Kevin pointed it out for me, I would've

I do find the fact that there was such a place odd...in the end, I didn't dwell too deeply into

off about that place, with the red book in my hand, I didn't have to worry about our safety too

noticed the door,

this seems to be the exit that the servants of the castle 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 more than two guards. But it doesn't really matter as what we should truly

head, I glanced at Kevin

you suggesting we sneak

"Yeah..."

thinking for a couple of

sounds reasonable, when should

hand on his chin as he pondered for a moment, Kevin glanced at the castle before him

I'll try to get even more info on it so that we can create

my brows knit

"A day?"

a bit

doubt on my

more thorough we are the less

my watch and seeing the time, my face crumped up

day surveilling the castle we'll only have eight hours before

corner of his eyes,

since you said that the castle is the last place we need to go, I don't

a second and fully looking at

and we can go in a couple of hours, but the chances of something going wrong might be

that they weren't going to go stay there for long,

a few things, staying there more than eight hours wouldn't really be the best idea since each passing second

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

you're right,

it for a while, I

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

down, I decided to go along with

we ended

caught whilst infiltrating

Haste made waste.

looking at Kevin, I nodded my

time and get a

...

"How long?"

"Shhh..."

his finger on his lips, Kevin looked towards the distance. Towards a

"...soon"

Kevin spent a whole day scanning the perimeter of the

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 appropriate plan on how to infiltrate

heard of his plan I couldn't help but scratch my head