The giant Cassiem was exceptionally excited.
—The aimless search that had given him such a headache was finally coming to an end.
His Highness the Prince had given him the fragmentary clue "the place closest to death" and ordered him to find something he had never even seen. He truly had no idea where to begin.
What exactly was the place closest to death? What did that "Book of Law" look like? Was it a book, or something else? What did it actually look like? Where might it be stored now?
The answer was, "I don't know, but go find it anyway."
...What else could he do?
He had even been given a death order: he had to find it. If he couldn't, he didn't need to return—no, wait, then give me some more information, at least!
But there was no more information to give.
His Highness the Prince knew nothing either. His only clue had come from that eye demon.
The eye demon was a demon wielding the power of the Path of Adaptation. It possessed abilities for manipulating information, such as clairvoyance, X-Ray Vision, detecting invisibility, and foreseeing the future.
However, Prince Wolfram was not a Demon Scholar, but a Grand Wizard. That eye demon had not signed a contract with him; it was merely his companion—because the eye demon had once been his elder brother.
Back when Supreme Heaven still existed, he had already become a demon and was feared and hated by his own kind. Now that the giants had nearly been wiped out, that eye demon had instead become one of the lucky ones.
But in Cassiem's view, the eye demon was not necessarily reliable.
Although demons retained some of their memories from life... once they became Path beings, they were no longer their former