The view suddenly opened up.
There was no ceiling above them, only a night sky thick with dark clouds.
A cableway paved with iron chains stretched across the cliff. Beyond it lay a land of dried black earth.
The Demon King's Castle stood at the far end of his vision like part of the backdrop. Lightning suddenly split the sky, seeming to tear the whole world apart as thunder boomed from time to time.
Dark drew two Magitech Cards from his Card Case and charged onto the cableway.
"In the name of Dark Demon, Magic Guidance Summon—Hawlucha!"
Hawlucha materialized amid the light and dove toward the flock of vultures flying up from beneath the cliff, its sharp gaze fixed upon them. Countless Feather Arrows pierced through the vultures' bodies.
"The problem now is that the ritual itself is inside the game."
Just a few minutes later, Dark crossed the cableway without a scratch, not even needing to use the "Flight Spell" he had prepared beforehand.
Like the monsters they had encountered along the way, those vultures were nothing but paper tigers. They could not withstand Hawlucha's attacks at all.
After successfully stepping onto the black earth, he praised Hawlucha and recalled it into its Magitech Card.
Then he continued onward.
The Demon King's Castle, their destination, was right before his eyes. According to the message Professor Sylph had sent earlier, Victor and the others had already entered the Demon King's Castle and were carrying out the final assault.
As the center of the entire ritual, the Demon King's Castle naturally could not be guarded by monsters as weak as the previous ones. The difficulty of clearing it would rise drastically.
But with the support of Tom Nixon and Professor Ryan Harks, it would not be difficult for Victor to