As the words echoed, Klein vanished from Leonard and Audrey's sight. After a moment of confusion, Audrey followed, leaving Leonard standing there dumbfounded.
Leonard stared at them in stunned disbelief and murmured:
"You... aren't going to divine how dangerous it is? This is an ancient god's Divine Kingdom!"
The roar transformed from his murmur caused no ripples. On the other side, Klein glided through his fall toward Alice and asked:
"Did you divine it?"
"No," Alice replied as if it were only natural. "Do things like whether there's danger really need divination?"
Klein politely remained silent.
They landed amid the howling wind. Audrey and Leonard soon descended as well. Audrey was shocked by the sight before her, while Leonard immediately looked toward Alice and Klein.
"Alice said there's no danger," Klein answered.
Only then did Leonard have the mood to examine the surroundings. Looking at the grayish-white foundation beneath his feet, he asked curiously:
"This is the Divine Kingdom?
"Doesn't feel like much."
Alice said nothing. She had been studying the palace ahead for some time now, and once everyone had arrived, she headed forward directly.
Klein immediately followed, turning back to tell the other two:
"Stay close to me. If anything happens, I'll immediately take you out of the world within the book and return directly Above the Gray Fog."
"What about Alice?" Leonard asked subconsciously.
"Angels aren't so easy to kill." Alice did not stop walking, her voice drifting over from ahead. "And among all Angels, Fate ranks near the top in terms of how hard she is to kill..."
As she spoke, she stepped onto the stairs and climbed them one by one. Although Klein and the others knew they could fly in their spirit forms, they could only follow her up the steps and pass through