The Author's POV

Entering the castle, we soon found ourselves inside of a long and narrow corridor in which a red carpet dyed the floor.

-Clank!

Closing the door behind him, Kevin glanced at the bodies of the orcs that Silug had just taken out.

With one body inside of the trolley and two leaning against the wall of the hallway it was safe to say that they were not going to wake up anytime soon.

"Alright, if everything goes according to what I've observed, there shouldn't be another turn shift for the next twelve hours which is within our eight-hour limit."

Pausing for a second and staring at Silug and then the orcs on the ground, Kevin sighed in relief as he continued.

"Fortunately he held back and didn't kill the guards, else the situation would've turned troublesome"

...Although Silug had broken their necks, because of the orcs strong constitutions, they were still alive.

Albeit barely.

Had Silug killed the orcs, then things would've become troublesome as they would've immediately alerted the demons of their presence.

The reason being was because each of the orcs had signed a contract with a demon. If their contractee suddenly died, they would be the first ones to know as their souls would be damaged.

Looking at me, Kevin started speaking.

"Ren, now that we've entered the castle we should still not let our guard down as I'm not sure about how many enemies are hiding in the building..."

"mhm"

to Kevin speak I absentmindedly

of what Kevin was saying,

the door behind me for a couple of seconds,

'...something doesn't add up'

feel like there

that Kevin and I forgot to take

think about it, there was no way that a huge castle with three enormous gates would have

was indeed protected by two ranked orcs that were under the contracts of the demons, I highly doubted that this was all of the security they had...there must be something else

couple of seconds after flipping through the book and skimming through the last

found out instantly cleared all the

Prison.

us was a massive prison that trapped

security was so lax was because there was another layer that we had to go through before truly

...now this was troublesome.

already took us a long time to sneak into the building yet

in

I sighed as I

"...talk about problematic"