Stray

Time goes back before the sun was about to set.

Oliver took the black horse out of the inn where he was staying. Seeing the boredom on its face, the black-furred Pope probably didn’t cause any trouble worth paying attention to.

The black horse snorted a few times, rubbing Oliver’s head desperately with its long face. It snuggled into Oliver’s brown hair creating a bird’s nest with it. After rubbing a few times, it then looked up vigilantly at Nemo who was politely keeping his distance from it and decided to work in the direction of “looking friendlier”.

“According to the Pope— Ahem, I mean the Pope of the Laddism Church— Lord Quinn, Dylan and Mr. Cross should be heading directly to the Central Church. Hatfield is not far from here. We can meet them there.”

As he spoke, Nemo picked up a fresh carrot and carefully handed it to the horse, trying to save Oliver from the sticky horse. The great Demon King even used a cleansing spell to remove the mud from it.

The black horse glanced at the tempting carrot critically and stretched its ears forward. After a while, it finally decided to temporarily abandon Oliver’s head and started chewing on it.

“Well, I don’t think Mr. Dylan will slip away at this critical point in time.” Oliver combed his messy hair with his fingers.

“The Abyss…” Nemo picked up another carrot and smacked his mouth. “This time we may have to stay in it for a quite a while. According to those biographies, even a simple shallow exploration will take at least half a month. The premise is that the equipment and arrays function normally in the Abyss.”

No one knew how big the Abyss was. People didn’t know much more about it than the bottom of the deep sea. There was only one thing that the knew. The underground space called the “Abyss” was much wider than the ocean on the surface.