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Klein was pushed along for a few steps before something suddenly occurred to him. He hurriedly told Medici:
"The City of Silver has a camp outside the Giant King's Court!"
"I know they have an outpost in Afternoon Town, with people stationed there permanently. We can head straight there from here and contact them."
"Afternoon Town?" Medici thought for two seconds, then turned to Hermes. "Do you remember that place?"
Hermes also spent a little while recalling it before saying:
"I do."
"I remember it was the town closest to the Giant King's Court. After the Giant King's Court became part of the Creator's temple, the giants who originally lived there were driven out. Those who settled there afterward were all worshippers making pilgrimages. It was essentially a gathering place for ascetics and devout believers."
Medici rubbed his chin.
"...A gathering place for pilgrims, huh? I don't know much about it. So Afternoon Town was the nearest town during the Great Cataclysm?"
Klein nodded thoughtfully.
"When the City of Silver's team explored Afternoon Town, they saw a lingering apparition of a clergyman from the Ancient Sun God's era. The apparition kept repeating a sentence, saying that someone had tempted Sasrir, that the kings were frequently gathering at the palace, and that a great catastrophe would begin there."
"We'll talk about that later. We can't reach them right now."
Medici waved casually and continued pushing Hermes and Klein forward.
"We only passed through a symbolic 'door.' That doesn't mean we appeared outside the Giant King's Court. It only looked as though we came straight here because the Giant King's Court symbolizes the only door in the Forsaken Land of the Gods."
"We're actually still on the route held by the Aurora Order. Even if we leave it here, we won't