The silvery moonlight was hidden behind dark clouds.
In the dim light, Wei Yanchi vanished right before his eyes.
Xie De instinctively tightened his grip on the silk tassels dangling from the sofa. He lowered his gaze and saw that his shadow had returned.
A crackling sound came from beside his ear as 455 struggled to reappear.
A cold wind sliced diagonally across the Castle's Gothic spires, giving the grotesque stone gargoyles an icy sheen.
Xie De closed his eyes briefly. "455, I want to file a complaint against 730."
"Hm?"
Xie De said coldly, "The reward we received lets us avoid danger in the Instance to a certain extent, but it never told us what to do if the entire Instance is full of danger."
455 considered this. "You have a point..."
"I want a different reward."
"What kind?"
"Information. I want it to provide a certain amount of information."
455 said awkwardly, "But, host, 730 can't give you clues about the Instance. That's a strict requirement of the Instance."
Xie De shook his head. "I'm not asking for clues to clear the Instance. I want some information about this land, like the names of officers in the army, their family backgrounds, the army's route of advance, or even a map of this Castle."
"╭( ･ㅂ･)و ̑̑ That would be really useful! 730 will definitely give us that. Host, what suddenly made you think of this?"
"Because I realized how dire our situation is."
Xie De took a deep breath. "455, we're in the past, while the other Players are in the future. The only Player we know of who's here in the past with us is Orion, but right now, we have no way of exchanging information with Orion."
"The history we create here becomes the clues they