It was not yet six in the morning, and the rosy dawn had yet to prop up the sky.
The castle and the surrounding mountains were still shrouded in dense fog and shadow.
The Basic Level hall.
The chill of late autumn seeped through the castle's floor-to-ceiling windows, enveloping everyone in a cold and deathly atmosphere.
Based solely on the information currently available about the Shadow World, no one could tell where to begin deducing the traitors' identities.
At the very start of the Shadow World, the challengers in the open had extremely limited information.
They did not know what effects the traitors' Blood Authority could produce, nor did they know what the traitors' objectives were. However, everyone could see from the Shadow World's information that the traitors held objectives entirely different from those of the ordinary challengers.
That meant the traitors would inevitably take action while advancing their objectives, and as long as they acted, they were very likely to leave clues behind.
Therefore, they needed a detective with professional insight and an extraordinary mind to seize those clues.
The detective also had to rely on his absolutely trustworthy identity to serve as a hub where the other challengers could safely entrust information, shouldering the heavy responsibility of uncovering the traitors' identities.
Naturally.
The detective was also the person most likely to suffer the traitors' attack.
The other ordinary challengers had to find a way to protect the detective.
But this detective seemed quite capable in a fight himself...
In the hall, the challengers had gathered in four separate locations.
There was no trust between them and the strangers, and they were cautious even about speaking to one another.
They trusted only the companions who had entered the Shadow World alongside them.
It was easy to see that there