Bilen Tree Court, Bilos Travelers' Inn.
In the spacious treehouse, sunlight filtered through lush leaves and shone through windows webbed with branches. The dappled light carried the cool shade of green.
The air here also bore a pleasant scent of nature, utterly different from Yirong Kingdom's smog, Pamiji Plateau's crisp chill, and Sandworm Market's dryness. This atmosphere brimming with vitality made Angel feel as though he had arrived in the Azure Forest Region of the Tidal Realm.
Such an atmosphere put Angel in an excellent mood.
If not for the stone slab embedded with Black Earl's nose sitting opposite him, his mood would probably have been even better.
Yes, while Dox had forcibly dragged Wai and Kael off to carry out their so-called forest project, Angel had come to this travelers' inn and rented a treehouse.
And Black Earl's nose had floated behind Angel all the way here, before now standing upright on the table opposite him.
Angel could not exactly say anything about it, much less dare chase it away. He could only pretend it did not exist.
Fortunately, Black Earl's nose did nothing either, seeming to regard itself entirely as an ornament.
Since Black Earl was not making trouble, Angel stopped paying attention to him. With the sunlight just right, he bent over the desk and began studying the Garden Maze's topographical map.
The topographical map was completely different from the reconstructed aerial view. It marked elevation differences, the courses of earth veins, and geological subdivisions.
He had purchased this topographical map because Abyss City in the Nightmare Realm was a projection from its intact days, whereas Abyss City in reality had already become ruins. He needed to compare it with reality to determine whether the surface terrain had changed.
After studying the topographical map and gaining a