The last day of October.
That evening, Sifa finished attending the Tarot Club gathering and returned to reality from Above the Gray Fog.
At this Tarot Club gathering, none of the members had anything to trade, so they moved straight to exchanging information.
During the discussion, the Sun shared the results of the City of Silver's exploration of the Giant King's Court.
They had completed their first exploration of the Giant King's Court.
Three had died, one had gone missing, and five had survived.
From the Sun's account, the members learned that the explorers had reached the court's main entrance, where two Silver Knights stood guard.
Silver Knight was the name of Sequence 3 of the Warrior Pathway, the level closest to the rank of an Angel.
Demigods of that level were actually guarding the main entrance. The Giant King's Court certainly deserved its reputation as an Ancient God's divine kingdom.
The people of the City of Silver had not tried to force their way through the main entrance. Instead, they had circled around to the rear of the Giant King's Court and reached the Decaying Forest. Yet inside the tomb of the Giant King's parents, they had discovered two human skeletons.
This was another shocking and baffling revelation.
Sifa's first thought at the time had been:
The scene was staged!
It was a perfectly natural thought.
How could the Giant King's parents have been human?
Unless Giants had actually mutated from humans. But if that were true, the mythology of this world-and even its religious beliefs-would be overturned.
After the Tarot Club members had digested this unbelievable revelation, the Sun continued his account. After leaving the forest, the explorers had entered the court itself.
Along the way, they had discovered lingering powers of corruption and concealment. Inside the palace,