New Path

Colin Iliad nodded. As a qualified leader, he had already realized what Klein was about to say, but he did not interrupt him and merely watched quietly.

Klein continued:

"We will not merely take you away from here. Before opening the door, we will first bring those people to the City of Silver, then take them away together with its residents."

"No problem," Colin Iliad agreed without hesitation. "However, the City of Silver may not be able to house so many people. Some of them might have to set up their own camps."

"Of course," Klein said with a smile. "In that case, we'll be leaving first."

They nodded farewell to each other, and Klein left the room as well.

Life in the City of Silver was not very interesting. The main reason was probably that Klein's Historical Projection could not connect to the internet.

To apologize, Klein swore an oath to the Lord of Storms that once he became the Fool, he would definitely help Alice summon a game console that could connect to the internet. If that truly did not work, he would even get a base station and so on—if he could manage it.

Alice had quite a few complaints about that, mainly because she was dissatisfied with whom Klein had sworn to. So Klein changed his tune and made the promise to the God of Knowledge and Wisdom instead, making Alice roll her eyes and ignore him.

She turned to find Derrick. After returning to the City of Silver, Derrick had rejoined the Exploration Team, although that did not help his advancement much.

The main ingredient for advancing to Unshadowed was readily available. Derrick asked Alice to help him shatter that Unshadowed-level cross when the time came, and Alice naturally agreed. As for the auxiliary