The Underground World

The people of the Silent Temple fell silent as they looked at the pitch-black entrance to the underground network.

"Nora, do you... usually travel through tunnels?"

"Hey, don't ask it like that. Nora only has a head left—how is she supposed to walk? She'd be heartbroken if she heard you..."

"Sorry, sorry. Do you usually roll through tunnels?"

Nini shot the Buriers a glance. As expected of the Silent Temple—they really knew how to talk.

Nora took a deep breath, her tone utterly even. "Usually, we use the network. Underground travel isn't affected by the weather outside, so it's more efficient. Castel's network system is also very developed, making it convenient to get elsewhere."

After saying that, she rubbed herself against Gwen. Gwen understood and held her as she jumped straight into the network entrance. Nora did not want to see her former colleagues right now. She just wanted to sulk alone.

Ignati led the priests slowly down the stairs. Once they passed through the doors at the entrance, the Buriers all cried out in surprise.

"Th-this is so big?"

"How is this possible... How much work would this have taken?!"

"No wonder Nini can come in... This ceiling is almost as high as a church!"

"Sigh, if the Northern Territory had a network like this, perhaps we wouldn't have needed to fear the White Calamity."

Castel's network system was already completely different from how it had first looked.

At the beginning, the so-called underground network had merely been a dwelling excavated by the Banshees themselves. There had been no planning to speak of, not even an architectural style. Later, around the time of the Deep Sea War, the network had been urgently expanded and reorganized. Tunnels had been dug between nearly all of Castel's surface fortresses. Though crude, they