"Co on..." Evangeline muttered in a clearly bored tone. "We've been walking for three hours! It doesn't feel like we've moved at all! There isn't even a single monster present, so all we've been doing is wasting ti."
"You know it's good when there's no trouble, right?" Neraxis asked, amused. "Personally, I wouldn't want to be jumped by a monster that's at least level 100 or so."
"I an, sure, but I wouldn't mind so action..." Evangeline trailed off, a sly smirk tugging at her lips. "Unless you want to fast-forward our next week's plan~?"
"Stop it." Jane cut both of them off. "I'm not letting you have sex in the most dangerous place on the continent. If you wanted to do it, then you should've told you weren't ready."
"Nah, just ignore her," Neraxis said with a chuckle. "She's just pent up because she's still a virgin."
"Haaa?" Evangeline tilted her head in disbelief. "You'll see what this virgin can do once she gets her hands on you."
"You wish—"
"We've arrived at the first checkpoint," Jane announced. As Neraxis and Evangeline turned toward her, they suddenly noticed an interesting sight in the distance.
It seed like a city. However, instead of stone or wooden structures, everything seed to be made out of bones.
It had this ominous feel that instinctively made him avoid this place. But as he looked deeper, he heard a faint lody.
Just as he was about to focus to make out the lody's words, Jane slapped him across the back, causing him to snap back to her with a frown.
"That hurt."
"No, it didn't." Jane shook her head as a serious look appeared on her face. "You need to ignore the lody. The more you focus on it, the more enchanted you'll be. Imagine a siren, but on a much, much wider scale."
She paused before continuing. "The lody will force you to use mana against your will. Of course, I don't have to tell you what might happen if you use mana in this place without proper preparations, right?"
"We'd get eaten alive. Yeah, I understand." Neraxis nodded. "But how exactly am I supposed to dull out that noise? We need to go through that bone city, right? The closer we get, the louder the sound will be."
"Umm..." Evangeline turned toward them. "I don't like that sound. It reminds of the tunes they used to play at the church."
"Oh? A vampire that has been in a church? You sure are a different breed, aren't you?" Jane remarked with a giggle. "But yes, you're right. This is coming from a church, and if we want to cross this city safely, we need to destroy the one responsible for causing this noise."
"How about a better idea?" Neraxis cleared his throat and pointed at the outskirts of the bone city. "Why don't we just go around?"
"We can't." Jane shook her head. "We'd fall into an illusory maze. We wouldn't be able to get out because the lody would play directly into our brains. Trust , the previous expeditioners faced the sa fate because they didn't listen to ."
His brows twitched as he turned toward Jane in disbelief.
"Previous expeditions?" Neraxis's eyes narrowed. "How many have you been on? For that matter... when was this task assigned to you, anyway?"
Jane remained silent for a mont before letting out an exhausted sigh.
"Two years. Forty-eight expeditions. Forty-two of them got this far. Only twenty-one managed to cross the city," Jane replied, resting her hand on her chin. "After that... the number dwindles significantly."
"Wow... Neraxis, you know when I said our odds of dying are high?" Evangeline chid in with a wide smile. "I think they're extrely high now."
"Don't worry about it, just go forward and resist the temptation. You two are special to , especially Neraxis. So I won't abandon you like I did with the rest of the expeditions," Jane said, and the mont her words fell, a pop-up flashed in front of Neraxis.
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