The genius creators of Shangri-La Frontier were already planning to ramp up the difficulty for Seiya and the others, yet Seiya's group in Reversed City Laleias knew nothing about it.
To verify what Seiya had said, the next day, when Laleias entered daylight once more, Seiya's group headed into Laleias's main city together.
Since there were many more people entering the castle this time, their search became far more thorough.
Within the main castle, aside from the three rooms Seiya had mentioned—the "King's Office," "Core Throne," and "Nostalgia's Top Floor"—
Sun Yue even discovered a gigantic octopus in an underground space, its body bound tightly by countless chains!
When Seiya's group approached the massive octopus, a game notification appeared before them.
[Encountered Unique Monster: Abyssal Kukanid!]
Staring at the nearly blood-red notification window and the enormous creature before them, Seiya and the others froze.
The Abyssal Kukanid they had been searching for so long was actually hiding inside this castle?
The moment they saw Kukanid, Rust, Seka-0, and the others immediately entered combat mode.
As for NPCs such as Birak, Emil, and Araba, they seemed to lose control of their emotions and directly launched attacks at the "Kukanid" before them!
Birak and Araba aside, Seiya remembered that little rabbit Emil normally was not this brave.
Through the party status, Seiya soon noticed that NPCs such as Birak, Emil, and Araba had all gained a cursed status called "Abyssal Misperception."
NPCs afflicted with this abnormal status would be mentally induced into actively attacking Kukanid.
Faced with Birak and the others' attacks, Kukanid, which had seemed to be in a state of light sleep, opened its eyes and swept and smashed with its enormous tentacles!
Because Kukanid's body was so huge, the surrounding space was limited, and its attack patterns