Joshua handed the Orange Cat Simulator back to Thousand Faces to manage, then went up to the third floor with Ciri and Arl, who had voluntarily tagged along.
After several expansions, the Hearthstone tavern's two floors had enough space to serve as an enormous inn. The third floor alone had dozens of rooms available for guests.
Yet those rooms had never been fully occupied.
The Goddess of Order, Lloydel, had the honor of receiving a permanent room in the million-gold-value Hearthstone tavern district.
"I suddenly have a strange sense of anticipation."
Ciri glanced at Arl following behind them. Arl had come to help Joshua open a gateway to Behemoth.
Although Joshua was worried that the girl might teleport him into the ocean, she had thumped her chest and guaranteed that she would not. He chose to trust her this once.
"Anticipation for what?" Joshua did not understand what Ciri meant.
"The kind of anticipation you get right before watching a battle between a lion and a tiger, or the Four Great Elemental Dragons fighting Deathwing," Ciri said in a lowered voice.
"I get it."
The moment Joshua reached Lloydel's door, he instantly understood what Ciri meant.
"Deathwing?"
An elf's Long Ears were not just for show. Arl gave her ears a slight twitch and caught Joshua and Ciri's whispered conversation.
"No, it's nothing."
Joshua gently knocked on Lloydel's door, then called her name loudly through it.
"Lloydel, open up! I need to talk to you!"
There was no response. Joshua knocked again, but there was still no reaction.
"At this hour, the Goddess of Order should have returned from her lessons."
Joshua glanced at the time in the lower-right corner of the Magic Net. It was already six in the evening. Ordinary Nolan people usually went to sleep punctually at