Yin Wei's voice, accompanied by a slap on my cheek, woke me from my sleep.
"Miluno, wake up."
When I opened my eyes, I realized she was already standing outside the car.
"We're here."
I climbed out of the Beetle and looked around, only to see dim, deep-green forest everywhere. Considering Jadeite Stone Prison was located deep in the mountains and woods, the scenery made sense, but...
"Yin Wei, where's the prison?"
We were in an open parking lot. Several other cars were parked here, and the surrounding lawn showed signs of trimming, clearly maintained by someone. This artificial place looked somewhat out of place against the surrounding forest.
But aside from the parking lot, there was nothing here.
Let alone a building that looked like a prison, there wasn't even a signpost...
"Since it's a secret prison, naturally it isn't somewhere visible to the naked eye."
Hmm, had they used some kind of large-scale optical camouflage to conceal the prison?
If that was the case, that was pretty cool.
But as I thought that, Yin Wei led me to a large tree and pulled open a camouflaged hidden door in its trunk.
"Huh?"
A fluctuation of magical power. This door had been hidden with magic.
"This is one of the prison's back entrances. Hurry down."
Behind the door was a ladder leading downward.
So the prison entrance had been magically disguised as a tree?
Or had it originally been a tree, with its interior merely hollowed out by magic?
The trunk had been hollowed out, yet the tree hadn't died...
Just like me.
"So deep! Isn't this entrance way too unsafe?"
The ladder down was incredibly long, roughly twenty or thirty meters at least. There were several platforms along the way for resting. At the bottom was a spacious