Chapter 204: Proof (1)

Lia and Carlos ran to hide behind the nearest wall.

“…I can’t feel any movements.”

Fortunately, Deculein didn’t catch up. No, he didn’t seem to have the will to go after them. It was pretty strange. Of course, as soon as he saw Carlos, his pupils widened. It was truly a horror to see a Yukline’s veins blooming before you.

“It’s okay, Carlos.”

Lia stroked Carlos’s head. The child had turned pale and was trembling.

“Let me see….”

Lia poked her head out from behind the wall. Everything was normal, and there was no one chasing them.

“…Carlos? Let’s go now. It’s okay.”

“…”

Carlos nodded, and the two crept out like mice. Their destination was the entrance of the passage where their party waited. They looked around and ran quickly, and as soon as they reached their destination, they heard a voice.

“Oh, here they are.”

Leo, Julie, and Sylvia. Joining their party, Lia breathed a sigh of relief.

“What’s wrong, Lia? Carlos doesn’t seem well either.”

“What happened?”

Leo and Julie questioned her. The two shook their heads and looked back down the passage to a firmly shut door and the crowds of people milling about.

“When will it open?”

“That idiot has only been bragging since we arrived.”

Sylvia murmured, looking dissatisfied at someone. In front of the crypt, there was a man who seemed to be in charge.

“…Shall I kill him?”

The man wore his hair neatly parted in the middle, had a neatly coiffed and spiky mustache, and was smoking a pipe and reading. This was the person in charge of managing the cave, Gef. The most important clearing condition of the Voice’s world was to enter the deepest part of the concentric circles, and this crypt was the entryway.

“I guess it’s not time yet.”

Even Lia knew that NPC, a beast-type Named that died off a long time ago. In other words, in reality, he was already dead.

“Hmm.”

Then, the man finally stood. He threw down the book he was reading and looked around the crowd.

“A lot of people have come. About nine thousand people? That’s a lot.”