The Author's POV

Chapter 495

"Haa...haaa..."

By the time I reached the top of the cliff, I was already starting to feel exhausted. It wasn't because the climb was hard. No, rather, that was the easiest part. The main problem was the constant attacks coming from the monsters in the sky.

"Kow!"

Jumping back and twisting my body in the air, my foot landed on a small ring, and I placed my hand on the sheath of the sword.

Click—!

What followed the low clicking sound was black blood that spilled toward the ground like heavy rain. Whilst this was happening, I twisted my body in the air.

"Huup!"

Placing my right leg on another ring, I propelled my body to the top of the cliff, and I rolled a couple of times.

"Haaa..."

With my back facing the ground, I took a few moments to collect my breath.

"I'm tired."

Getting up, I walked back and extended my hand toward Angelica who was still climbing up.

"Here."

My gesture seemed to have caught Angelica off-guard as she paused for a moment. After a while, she took my hand and helped herself up.

"...Thank you."

"No problem."

Letting go of Angelica's hand and massaging the back of my neck, I finally got a better view of my surroundings.

It was then that I finally spotted it.

"Looks like we're in the right place."

A large black castle at the very edge of the cliff. Above it was a large beacon that attracted the mana in the air, creating a large vortex; closely resembling a tornado.

'Seems like some part of the future is still intact.'

For the castle to be here, meant that not all of the future had changed. I was secretly relieved by this as it meant that I could still make some changes to it.

That aside.

Placing my hand over my forehead, I got a better look at the castle in the distance.

"It looks the same..."

The castle was almost identical to the castle where I first met Everblood, and it didn't bring me any good memories. Sometimes I wished I had never gone into that dungeon, but I knew that it wasn't something I could've controlled.

Leaning a bit, I looked beneath the cliff.

"Are they still following us?"

"No."

Angelica replied, also looking beneath the cliff.

"Strange…"

My brows creased.

"Was I perhaps wrong?"

Were the people really just some random people who had nothing to do with the matter? It was possible.

But I didn't think things were that simple.

"Angelica stay on high alert, there's a high chance we're going to get ambushed."

Regardless, I wasn't planning on letting my guard down.

"…yes."

"Alright, let's get going."

I turned to face the castle in the distance. Surrounding it, and behind it was a large expanse of dead trees, giving off a desolate and cold feeling. Compared to the bottom of the cliff, the trees were a lot denser, and taller, evoking a creepy and ghostly feeling.

If I had to make an estimate of how far the castle was, I would say it was about five kilometers in the distance.

It wasn't that far. In fact, it was quite close.

Even then.

going to be a lot of traps ahead, so be

I understood after looking at the forest, it was that it was the perfect place to create an

If my guess wasn't wrong. They had most likely taken a shortcut up and were waiting

I started channeling the mana inside of my

"Let's go."

***

vast canopy of white, leaving behind a

we need to

the speed the wolf was going, added with the fiercely blowing wind, his hair shot back,

distance, Ava squinted her

"We're close."

she tapped her

"Stop."

wolf came to a halt and

distance, her face

a

"Is this the place?"

"Yes."

Ava replied.

his shield which was still

"Burp, we stopping?"

loud burp, Leopold

"Wow."

steps. Stabilizing his footsteps, he stared at the half-filled bottle in his

lot stronger

already warmed up enough, and it was no

adjusted the

looks like we can only walk

one of the mountains, and so, Ava realized that going up with the wolves was

flute and

Tootle too~

tune rang in the air, and the

onto the flute, Ava

going

"Finally."

murmured, unveiling his shield which was

"Burp…"

another burp, Leopold wordlessly took out a gun-like device and rested it on

me

***

"Stop."

I stopped Angelica

down a little, I squinted

something wrong with

forest, I knew that there was something wrong with the place. If I had a choice, I wouldn't

wrong with the place, I couldn't quite explain what was

my guard up the whole time, yet, I was unable to realize what

That was until now.

the area in front of me, I extended my hand forward

"What are you doing?"

Confused

in a low

"…just checking something."

I stopped my finger at a particular point. Making

Pluck—

then that I was finally able to catch a glimpse of an invisible string in the air. Not only one string but in fact a series

"As I expected…"

a

But.

have time to

I got ready to attack at any

ready, it looks

three cards from my bracelet, I threw them in different directions. Left, right, and

and once they did, I was finally able

before, the area around us was

shocking about this was the fact that Angelica and I didn't notice this at all. Upon closer

body, I pinched my fingers. Feeling a hard sensation on the tip of my fingers,

"It's these fuckers…"

of a nail appeared in-between my

wonder they managed to

me to notice them. Our attention was

Rustle—! Rustle—!

arose from the

"There is someone here."

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