In Dawn City, inside the Power Room in the deepest part of the Dungeon.
"I have a bad feeling about this..."
The Minstrel's phantom emerged from the Magic Lamp. He looked up at the darkness overhead, frowning slightly.
Just now, he had suddenly felt an inexplicable chill from the sky. The somewhat familiar sensation reminded him of the terror of once being dominated by the God-Eater Beasts.
"That direction... the Land of Forgetting..."
The Minstrel pondered silently. Could something have happened in the Land of Forgetting?
Unfortunately, he now had to keep watch over the heir to Order at all times and could not spare himself to investigate.
The Minstrel sighed and turned toward the figure in the distance.
At that moment, Mu You lay motionless on the ground with his eyes tightly shut, as though fast asleep. But his skin, blood-red like lava and alternately brightening and dimming, showed just what sort of pain he was experiencing. Under the stimulation of such pain, peaceful sleep was impossible.
During the initial stage of the fusion, Mu You had indeed trembled violently in agony, every organ in his body struggling instinctively.
However, that condition had lasted less than two days.
Starting on the third day, Mu You had suddenly fallen quiet. His trembling stopped, and he lay motionless, assuming his current seemingly sleeping appearance. His stillness was frightening.
At first, the Minstrel had been startled too. He thought the pain had exceeded Mu You's tolerance, causing the fusion to go astray and approach failure.
Yet after examining him, he found that all of Mu You's vital signs were normal. The fusion was still proceeding smoothly, and his condition was actually quite good. His progress was even somewhat faster than expected.
What the Minstrel did not know was that Mu You naturally