Knowing he had already left the undersea world, Romon was in no hurry to leave just yet.
After taking several breaths of fresh air, Romon turned back and looked at the palace before him, which had already fallen into ruin. Although many of its halls had collapsed—
—the entire palace complex still gave him the feeling that its grandeur remained. A voice seemed to be telling him: there were still treasures here waiting to be found.
Judging from the results of his search so far, every single item looted from this place had been good stuff.
The more he looted, the greater the benefits for the future.
He might as well keep looting. One more item was one more item. With that thought, Romon continued wandering through the palace complex, vast as a city.
This time, there was no need for so much trouble. Since the palace had left the undersea environment and activated its protective barrier, the flow of energy within it had become somewhat chaotic.
At this point, even Romon could not fully cast his detection spells here, so naturally he was not worried that anyone would notice his movements.
Unless it was truly such a coincidence that they ran face-to-face into each other, no one inside the palace could detect anyone else now.
When Romon had come out earlier, he had already spotted several hidden halls. Like the halls where he had previously found treasures, their doors could only be seen after extremely careful observation.
His intuition told him there should be something inside that he wanted.
Returning to the maze-like corridors, Romon followed his earlier memories and retraced the corridors he had passed through, one by one.
He stopped before a metal door he had marked especially.
"Will this place... bring me a few surprises?" he