Chapter 237

Xona crossed her arms, but when she looked at Will, she noticed something.

"Speaking of which, don't you... feel any discomfort? For example, here, will you feel drowsy and fall into a dream in the next second?"

Xona should be worried whether he is really "out of" Treya's control, and whether he will be dragged away while escaping.

This is indeed something he should care about.

He closed his eyes and took a deep breath to feel it.

"Not yet...."

"Hmm... a little strange."

Xona narrowed her eyes.

In the current environment, the more they walked, the less she felt the "underground city" atmosphere left by Treya.

...

The escape route is not "rich", because first of all, several patrol points must be excluded from the route, and secondly...

It is necessary to bypass the places that Treya thinks are "weak" and heavily guarded, because these suddenly increased troops may be directly connected to Treya.

The simplest reason...

They don't want to alarm Treya.

Shuna may not care, but for Will, letting Treya regain control of her mind means returning to the "dream".

After investigating the "extra" patrol knights that appeared in the palace, Shuna and Will marked them on the map.

There are also a few places that, according to Will, are within the range where Treya often moves at night, and they are also ruled out one by one.

The time to sunrise is getting closer and closer.

"Since this side door and this side are patrolled and cannot be walked. Then..."

In the end...

Even Will and Shuna did not expect it.

They got a route that is not awkward at all, and can even be said to be too straight!

This "palace escape route"...

is to escape directly from the palace near the main gate.

"..."

"Hmm..."

The two looked at each other at the result of the map.

"She is guiding us!"

The two said the same conclusion in unison.

Treya must have calculated that they had to avoid the new spies, and after sealing off some walls that could have been used as weak points to escape, she "induced" them to stay on a road.

"This..."

Will hesitated.

The trap designed by Treya was still as "obvious" as ever. But she seemed to have some "confidence" in her trap, that is, "you can only go through the trap" and "you will not be able to escape after falling into the trap."

This is the margin she showed in the palace, her territory.

But while he was still hesitating, Shuna reached out and took his map away directly.

"Don't think too much. Since it can become a 'trap', it proves that she must use something with a 'breakthrough' as ​​a bargaining chip. As long as we seize the breakthrough, there will be no problem."

Shuna folded the map and stuffed it into her pocket.

"It would be better if we had more people - for example, your maid who cares about you very much, she is here, we can assign one person to follow you just in case, and the other person can be used as bait to deceive Treya."

"Iaier..."

Will did not forget her.

It's just...

Will did not have any special "expectations" for her. In his eyes, Iaier would always be the very obedient and well-behaved little maid.

It was hard for him to imagine that Iaier would come to the palace for something.

After Shuona's reminder, Will thought of the cute little maid, shaking her tail and ears, running to be the bait.

Eh...

But...

Will didn't expect this to be mentioned by Shuona.

"Why did you suddenly mention this person?"

"Seeing that the destination on the map is the main gate, it reminds me that I met her this morning."

"... Met her?!"

In his memory - forget it, his memory now seems not very accurate. In his impression, Shuona has seen Leah, at least just met Treya, but Shuona should not have seen Iaier.

How could she be so sure that it was Iel?

"This morning, it was drizzling. When I came to check the place, I saw her talking to the security guard at the main gate and then leaving with an umbrella."

Xuna seemed to feel that there was a loophole in her words when she was halfway through.

"Ah... Actually, I haven't seen what she looks like. But a half-orc with brown hair and obvious wolf features would appear near the palace. Only she who fits your description, right?"

"Then... she should be trying to contact me."

Will's guilt was pulled up all of a sudden.

Before he left, only Iel agreed to let him meet "Mr. S". But on the other hand, Iel was the one who cared most about his life and safety.

Still the dumbest.

Obviously, there was news about his young master, and he was so close to the palace, but he didn't notify her to go with him - in the past, if she had nothing to do when he went to the palace, he would try to take her with him.

It sounds like he would cry in anxiety.

He should have written at least a letter to Iel before leaving the Tenth Demon Castle.

"When we get out, you can consider calling her along."

Xiuna sighed, somewhat reluctantly saying this.

But...

"Ah... I feel like I'll see her pounce on me."

"There's not much time left in the night, let's go around here first."

...

Towards the beautiful main gate of the entire palace, they avoided the eyes of the palace and moved forward step by step.

For Will...

These "scenes" that appeared in front of him one by one were both familiar and unfamiliar.

The first two times he woke up from the dream, he was not able to wander around the palace for such a long time, and naturally he had no chance to see what the palace looked like again.

Crossing the small square in the palace.

In the "dream" that Treya gave herself, this square was beautiful and tidy, full of flowers and trimmed green leaves. It looked like a perfect occasion for a royal date.

But now, in front of Will who woke up, this square looked particularly bleak.

Because in the past, every small square would have erected the representative flags of almost all members of the royal family. But after Treya took office, she obviously removed all the flags, destroyed the flowers, and even cut down the flagpoles in order to weaken the other members of the royal family and to crush the internal fighting tradition of Entak for so many years.

In the dream, Treya led him through a ruin that was like a prosperous ruin.

"Look down, someone has passed by there."

Then he was slapped on the head by Shuna.

Walking past the former Near God Palace.

Before being caught by Treya, his last memory was here. And in the whole dream...

This place did not appear. In his memory of the past two weeks, this is a beautiful indoor garden. Looking in from the outside, you can see its gorgeous windows and plants growing to the top of the garden.

But the door was closed. He only saw this building from the outside and never walked in.

However, now...

The door here is also closed, and it seems that not only the door is closed, but it seems that in order to cut off the relationship with the former Entak, Treya has moved away all the things that represent the symbol of Entak's power, and even the glass windows have been smashed.

"Go this way, there is a blind spot for the patrol knights over there."

Then, he was pulled into the shadow of the building by Shuona.

Finally, he walked to the door of the reception palace.

The main entrance of the entire palace is below the twenty steps. In order to highlight their superiority, the royal family of Entak raised the palace facing the door with long steps, even though they have built it on the mountain.

Here is Treya's regency room. In Will's "dream", the steps of the entire building are magnificent and shining.

But now...

He found that the steps in front of him were not only dilapidated, but many of the stones that made up the steps had been weathered and corroded by rain, revealing signs of fragmentation.

Because in all these years, few people have visited Entak.

"The main entrance is below."

Xuna stopped and said.

"It's a trap. I didn't even see the guard at the door."

"Does this mean it's easier to escape?"

"... Go down this step first, at least before she comes."

"......!"

While looking at the steps in front of him, Will suddenly had a rare "intuition" and "strangeness" in his heart.

He rarely had such intuition in the dungeon, rarely had the intuition that something was staring at him or...

Danger was coming.

But his feeling now was very obvious, just like... just like every time in a dream, he could detect the abnormality in the dream.

"Xuna - be careful -"

Hearing Will's reminder, Xuna subconsciously pulled Will behind her and took out the dagger from her leg ring.

Swoosh -

The black Shadow Nightmare Sword with a layer of light black mist came into close contact with the dagger in Xuna's hand.

"Because you have been in contact with me too much, you can sense me, Teacher Will~"

She has a sweet voice of a half-elf, but she said this in a tone that was only a hair's breadth between coldness and madness.

She seemed to have walked out of the shadows, but her silver hair spread out in the faint moonlight that was about to fall.

"Because of such a person... just because you looked at such a person, you can wake up from such a sweet dream with me? Will... why?"

Will looked into her eyes.

Her purple eye was not covered with an eye mask, and the rich purple inside had reached its peak.

Just like a charm, just one look was enough to pull people into her imagination.

But...

Xuna pushed Will with one hand, causing Will to slip and stumble down the stairs.