There was no one in this city, only strange monsters.

In addition to the teapot they first encountered, they encountered creatures such as 'giant scissors wrapped in black thorns and walking around with thorns as legs', 'a rhinoceros with a body that looks like a bearing but a pipe-shaped beast with a smoking head', and 'a saucer-shaped flying object made of square iron sheets and riveted inside'.

Sivi even saw a paperclip covered in black mud that left a black wriggling mark on the ground like a slug.

Now the two of them are hiding in a pipe that resembles a sewer, but there is not a trace of water. Compared to hanging around outside, it's relatively safe at the moment.

"Heh......" The girl yawned a little with her hands over her mouth and rubbed her sleepy eyes.

Presumably because the city is built on lava, there is no shortage of orange-red light sources in many parts of the castle. Through the light outside, the girl could see the back of Siverna, who was still carving something on the wall.

"Is it okay to just sleep for a while? It should still be early in the morning outside. ”

Hearing the movement behind him, Xiwei continued to carve out the map he had memorized after entering the building, and said casually: "Why don't you sleep more, I'll have to rely on you to seal that thing later." ”

"It's okay, I haven't slept in the Sanctuary for long."

After stretching her waist, the girl's expression looked much more energetic.

"It's been a long time since I've slept so deeply. Although in the dream, Xiaocui always thought that the tentacles were burned and complained to me......"

Xiao Cui was referring to the green dragon that almost turned into barbecue.

For some reason, Xiwei, who remembered sauerkraut, complained in his heart, and then continued his work.

"Do you draw this? We shouldn't have explored much of this castle, right? ”

The girl's interest immediately shifted to what Sivi was doing.

"According to my estimates, to be exact, we explored about one-fifth." Sivi took a step back, looked at his masterpiece and nodded.

The newspaper-sized map showed that there was a lot missing—even the fifths of the maps (in Sivial) that had already been opened had many places that they had not fully explored.

"Isn't this kind of thing useless even if it's painted?"

The girl was deflated.

"No, in many cases, even if we don't run the whole graph, we can get a lot of information that can determine success or failure, and the key depends on our observation and reasoning ability."

Xiwei, who had been trained by the maze copies of various disgusting people for more than half a year, had already mastered the skills of dealing with this kind of terrain, and quickly sorted out useful things from the existing intelligence.

Sivi drew a fan-shaped arc in the upper left corner of the map and marked a five-pointed star in that corner: "Only in this area will we encounter those strange creatures...... That's why we didn't touch them for so long when we first came in. ”

"You mean. Is there something there that is being guarded by them? "The girl is simple, but she is not stupid. Immediately understood what Xiwei meant: "Could it be the seal carrier we were looking for?" ”

"Who knows, but there's definitely something in that direction." Sivi put the dagger back in his pocket amid Eliria's worried eyes, "Well, do you want to take the risk and try it?" ”

"Yes, definitely!"

After unifying opinions. Sivi led the girl in that direction again.

Although there are many dangers along the way. However, after Xiwei's deliberate evasion and methods such as diverting the tiger from the mountain took effect. They still came close to it without any danger.

This is followed by a succession of traps and various puzzles.

The traps here are all in vain for the tried-and-true Sivi, and many of the puzzles are a little difficult, and the two of them can barely get through it together. After unlocking the last Sudoku-like combination lock in a very short time, he came to a room in the middle of the area, which was actually the center of the castle, under the huge bell tower.

Unlike the sometimes steampunk, sometimes eerie Gothic architecture outside, the room is decorated like a little girl's bedroom, very sweet and warm, full of fairy tale colors.

"Here...... It seems that there are no remaining seal carriers, huh? A certain saintess who was ready to be bled walked around the room for a while, and said suspiciously.

In the room, there are two ramped counters on each wall that resemble a small bar, making a total of eight in the room. Only on the left slope of the east wall was a leather case that Sivi felt a little familiar.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that this room does not seem to be affected by the forbidden demon realm, which also makes Xiwei finally breathe a sigh of relief - the feeling of the loss of magic power in his body is really not good.

"Mr. Edric, there seems to be writing on the crystal lamp in the center of the ceiling."

Just as Sivi hesitated to open the suitcase to see what was inside, Elilia called out as she pointed to the intricately crafted crystal lamp on the ceiling.

"It's the Rune Rune, but it's the first time I've seen it carved on the crystal, and on a carrier with such good light transmittance, won't the runes on both sides interfere with each other......" Xiwei narrowed his eyes and stretched out his hand slightly, and the magic power in his hand was transmitted to the crystal lamp along with his spirit.

As a result, the magic lamp, which originally looked like a cluster of crystals adorning the ceiling, began to bloom in a different color.

"Failed again......

The old man's voice echoed in the small room, startling the two of them.

However, Sivi soon discovered the essence of this voice: "It seems to be the voice of the owner of this castle recorded by the crystal lamp before." ”

"Is it really impossible to realize artificial life?"

I don't know if Lu Dao is talking to himself, or asking others, the old voice continued.

"Life is the greatest treasure that the gods have given to this world, and we are not gods after all, so we can only go so far?"

"Could it be that he's talking about alchemy life?" Xiwei touched his chin: "In the last era, alchemy life existed...... So is this place just a product of this era? ”

The voice didn't stop because of Sivi's guess, and it just kept playing.

"Is this the limit of humanity? Because of this boring limitation, we can't go beyond the gods?"

The old man's voice trembled, as if telling the sorrow and pain in his heart.

"Unwilling, unwilling! If the limit of humanity is here, then Annan, my dear friend, I am no longer human!"

When he heard this, Sivi subconsciously looked at Elilia, and then it occurred to him that only he knew that it was the being named 'Annan' that they had sealed. (To be continued......)