Demigod Holy Knight Gallup was torn. He carefully probed his surroundings but found nothing unusual, while his spiritual perception kept warning him.
His targets—the two stone giants—were still frantically mining ore. From his estimation, in a little while, the two stone giants would finish mining all the ore there. At that point, a dragon would leave the Iron Floating Fortress to move it.
By then, no matter how well he concealed his aura, he would not truly be invisible. The dragon would definitely discover him.
The strangest thing was why his spiritual perception sensed no danger within five thousand or four thousand meters, yet detected danger within three thousand meters.
Could my spiritual perception be overreacting because I'm too tense? he wondered. This had happened before. In some particularly dangerous places, spiritual perception could occasionally make mistakes.
His targets were right ahead. As long as he moved another thousand meters forward, he could eliminate the two stone giants.
In the end, his desire to kill the two stone giants overcame the warning from his spiritual perception. He took a step into the three-thousand-meter range.
That single step almost immediately triggered a violent reaction from the Golden Castle.
The reaction did not come from the Golden Castle itself or from the War Fortress, but from the catapults.
Although these catapults from the Hell World had lost the control of the Hell Soul, Abel had replaced it with an even more powerful War Fortress spirit.
The catapults possessed an ability unrelated to either the Hell Soul or the War Fortress spirit. It was an ability inherent to the catapults themselves.
That was the ability to guard automatically. As long as they were placed on alert, anything entering their alert range would automatically be attacked.
Three thousand meters was the catapults' alert range.