On an island at the border of the Polar Sea and the Fog Sea, Bernadette, Bruna, and Isabella—three former princesses—appeared on the beach in a sorry state.
Even Isabella, who always presented herself flawlessly, was gasping for breath. She tugged open her collar, took a vial of medicine from her chest, and drank it.
"Those monsters' abilities were bizarre. They weren't particularly powerful, yet they could bypass so many of my methods...
"And you called that relatively safe?"
Bruna sat down on the ground and complained.
Though Bernadette had suffered some injuries herself, she said calmly, "They weren't particularly powerful, so they were still within our ability to handle..."
"As for those strange creatures... I believe I mentioned that I foresaw things inside that didn't belong to our world. Solomon's 'Black Emperor' was on good terms with a Sanguine Duke. Perhaps the latter used a High Summoner's powers to summon those monsters from the stars!" Isabella had caught her breath and joined in.
"But why would Solomon put monsters from the stars in his tomb? And if Roselle could divide the entire ruin into separate areas to imprison them, why didn't he simply destroy them?" Bruna asked.
"Isn't that what we're trying to find out? Perhaps Roselle hid some secret here..." Isabella straightened her collar, then looked at Bernadette and said carefully, "This doesn't seem like a tomb. It's more like a prison... No, that's not quite right. It's more like a large laboratory with cells for holding test subjects. Those creatures from the stars may be the test subjects."
"That's my assessment too... And the entrance is on an island southwest of the Southern Continent. In the Fourth Epoch, there's no way the God of Death wouldn't have known about it!
"Were the God of Death and the Black