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,

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?"

at Silug, Kevin rubbed his nose in embarrassment

I got

got too caught up and almost

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

doesn't matter, forget about that, have you

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

a look

looked in the direction of where he was pointing

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

the castle before me, after a minute, not seeing it, I glanced at Kevin and asked

"Where?"

"Here"

"Oh, I see it..."

the right, Kevin pointed towards a certain

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

find the fact that there was such a place

place, with the red book in my hand, I didn't have to worry about

that I noticed the door,

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

glanced at

are you suggesting we

"Yeah..."

of

when should

a moment, Kevin glanced at the castle before him for a couple of

now that I've figured out about that area I'll try to get even more info on it so that we can create a more appropriate plan...so maybe

my

"A day?"

that a bit

on my

thorough we are the less the chances of something bad

and seeing the time, my face

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

the corner of his eyes,

place we

and fully looking at me, Kevin

think we need more time and if so I can just do a short skimming and we can go

going to go stay there for long,

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

to Kevin speak, with my brows knit even tighter, after

right,

while,

fact that we were going to be moving slowly and carefully around the enormous castle, there was

ups and down, I

ended up wasting

caught whilst infiltrating the castle, I

Haste made waste.

resolutely looking at Kevin, I nodded my

take your time and get a proper

...

"How long?"

"Shhh..."

his lips, Kevin looked towards the distance. Towards a certain part of the

"...soon"

whole day scanning the perimeter of the castle as

who was leaving it, Kevin was able to come up with an

once I heard of his plan I couldn't help