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,

an image of objects through the use of

"Stop, you're confusing him"

who was about to delve into the topic of holographic technology, I rolled my eyes as

"Project? Infra-red? Sensors?"

rubbed his nose in

got too

too caught up and almost rambled about

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

about

on his watch, Kevin pointed towards a certain

take a look at

looked in the direction of where he

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 one not so

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..."

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

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

that there was such a place odd...in

the red book in my hand,

that I noticed the

the looks of it, 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

I glanced

so are you suggesting we

"Yeah..."

a couple of

when

his chin as he pondered for a moment, Kevin glanced at the

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 brows knit

"A day?"

that a bit too

the doubt on my

we are the less the chances of something

the time, my face

the castle we'll only have eight hours before we are forced to go back

from the corner of his eyes, Kevin nodded

is the last place we need to go,

for a second and fully

do a short skimming and we can go in a couple of hours, but

for long, Kevin estimated that eight hours

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

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

you're right,

about it for a while,

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

after weighing the ups and down, I decided to go along with

ended up wasting

reduce the chances of getting caught whilst infiltrating

Haste made waste.

resolutely looking at

time and get a proper read

...

"How long?"

"Shhh..."

towards the distance. Towards a certain

"...soon"

day scanning the perimeter of the castle as he

through 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 appropriate plan on how to infiltrate the castle which he

plan I