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.

There's most likely going to be a lot of

at the forest, it was that it

the figures below. If my guess wasn't wrong. They had most likely taken a shortcut

started channeling the mana

"Let's go."

***

into a vast canopy of

do we need to

Ava. With the speed the wolf was going, added with

into the distance,

"We're close."

faded, she tapped

"Stop."

wolf came to a halt and Ava

into the distance, her face had a tinge of

coming to a stop,

"Is this the place?"

"Yes."

Ava replied.

took out his shield which was still cocooned

"Burp, we stopping?"

a loud burp, Leopold also

"Wow."

a couple of steps. Stabilizing his footsteps, he stared at the

is a lot stronger

warmed up enough, and it was no longer needed. Any

adjusted the beanie

like we can only walk for

so, Ava realized that going up with

raised her flute

Tootle too~

the air, and

clenching onto the flute, Ava proceeded

going

"Finally."

his shield

"Burp…"

out a gun-like device and rested it on

me sober

***

"Stop."

my hand, I stopped Angelica from moving

little, I squinted

wrong with this

wouldn't have entered the forest, but since it was the only way that led to

something was wrong with the place, I couldn't quite

my guard up the whole time, yet,

That was until now.

I extended my hand forward and

"What are you doing?"

asked. Confused by

in a

"…just checking something."

the mana in the air, I stopped my finger at a particular point.

Pluck—

the air, It was 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 of them, but,

"As I expected…"

felt a wet sensation. It

But.

have time to care about

sheath of my sword, I got ready to attack at any moment

it looks like we're

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

did, I was finally able to catch a glimpse of

from before, the area around us was

about this was the fact that Angelica and I didn't

the tip of my

"It's these fuckers…"

nail appeared in-between my fingers.

they managed

made it hard for me to notice them. Our attention was focused elsewhere, resulting in

Rustle—! Rustle—!

rustling sound arose from the distance, and three

"There is someone here."

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