The long night had not yet fully passed.
Tonight, many people were surely unable to sleep.
Shien could not sleep.
Lasha could not sleep.
Naturally, Sophie and the others could not fall asleep so easily either.
Even without knowing what Shien had experienced in the ruins, the contents deciphered from the Stone Tablets he had brought back were enough to keep many people awake through the night.
That night, the Elven Village passed in a state of relative peace, yet not quite peace.
At the same time, somewhere in a corner of the world, there were people who remained awake.
"The item was brought into the Elven Village by the Hero?"
Danas received a report from his subordinate and raised his brows.
Beside him, the Queen Consort was present as well.
At that moment, the two of them were at the bottom of a bottomless abyss.
At the base of the abyss, an immensely complicated magic array slowly rotated, as though gathering moonlight, giving off a faint and mysterious aura.
The Queen Consort sat at the very center of the magic array.
Danas, meanwhile, sat atop a huge boulder nearby. As he bathed in the moonlight, he deployed several magic arrays and gathered information.
They were clearly magic arrays used to contact the members of the New Primal Demon.
Thus, Danas had received the information he wanted, as well as information he had not particularly wanted.
The Queen Consort, seated at the center of the enormous magic array, opened her eyes.
"Have you found the item?"
The Queen Consort looked at Danas.
"More or less." Danas ignored the magic arrays before him and said thoughtfully, "After making my estimates, I was already highly confident that the thing we wanted was in Taiger Forest. So when the people below mentioned that