When Angel was still a Nighthawk in Tingen City, she had heard Klein mention the haunting in this town. It had originated in this abandoned castle and involved the mutated Sun Holy Emblem, laying the groundwork for Angel and Klein to obtain Advanced Charms of the sun domain and Shattered Light Ray, ultimately killing the True Creator's offspring and saving Tingen.
Later, when Azik Eggers had pursued his memories and finally reached the Death Mausoleum deep in the Berserk Sea, she had also learned from him about the life of the First Lamud Baron. She knew that this was the starting point Salinger had arranged for Azik, ultimately drawing him into a cycle of lives that repeated every sixty years.
Withdrawing her gaze from the castle's mottled walls and the vines beneath the moonlight, Angel turned to Audrey, who was also admiring the night scenery beside her, and softly cautioned her:
"Stay close to me. After He fell asleep, this castle naturally developed a kind of defense mechanism. A mistake in dealing with it could severely injure even a demigod."
He... Audrey repeated the pronoun inwardly and nodded firmly.
Recalling the information the Goddess had instilled in her, Angel followed the moat filled with fallen leaves and humus, passed through the outer wall at a copper-clad wooden door on the castle's side that had long since rotted and rusted away, and entered the weed-choked garden within.
Built at the transition between the Fourth and Fifth Epochs, this castle had served more as a military stronghold than a residence. Various functional buildings stood within its walls, and even after a thousand years, some of their original purposes remained discernible. But Angel had no interest in archaeology. Instead, she suspended herself and Audrey on invisible spider silk, ascended a square tower to