The room was lit only by the faint glow of a desk lamp, which illuminated the left side of Lanchi's face.
He sat behind the desk, leaning back slightly, his brows tightly furrowed as he toyed with the unlit cigar in his hand, as if it helped him concentrate.
"Hughberlian, where are you..."
Lanchi muttered to himself.
The information from the Shadow World had told him nothing about Hughberlian's whereabouts. This world was too vast, and he had no leads at all for finding her.
Starting with Hughberlian absent and being left with only one person and one cat had happened twice now.
To be honest, he was very unaccustomed to this feeling.
When they had first landed in the Protos Empire on the Northern Continent, he had been utterly alone.
But back then, the two of them, separated at sea, could at least deduce that the other was either in the Protos Empire or the Aetherland Kingdom. The Poet of Great Love was also with Hughberlian, so they should have been able to find each other somehow.
In the current story's setting, they had been separated for more than ten years and were completely out of touch.
"Story setting..."
Lanchi seemed to think of something and suddenly raised his head to look at the world map on the wall.
For the "Witch Young Miss" of this era, if she wanted to escape the Blood Race's pursuit...
The best choice should have been to flee back to the Demon Realm.
In the first Blood Moon Ruined World series Shadow World, Purgatory Corridor Academy, Lanchi had heard from the academy that the Blood Race and the demon race had a "North-South Treaty," also known as the "Treaty of Noninterference Between the Blood Race and the Demon Race."
In this chaotic era,