Chapter 369: All things have purposes; all paths have goals
"Where are they now?"
I put on my night cloak and crouched on my favorite armchair in front of the fireplace, with a cup of warm cocoa in my hands and a little bird dunking its head on it. This kind of exciting news had to be heard in a cozy environment.
"They had reached the border," Heraz reported. And by the border, it meant the empty field between the demon realm and the realm of nature, the one spreading wide behind the Lair. "We spot their scout stopped to look into the cliff, but they came back immediately."
"Probably because they couldn’t see anything but the fog, right?" I patted Jade’s head so the little bird wouldn’t drown from drinking sweet cocoa in its bird form.
Just like how I couldn’t see the realm of nature from the cliff, they wouldn’t be able to observe the cliff with the barrier cast by the elemental birds.
"Do you think they’ll try the cliff first, or instantly look for the river?"
"Weirdly, they moved further from the cliff and toward the river, as if...they already knew the landscape," Heraz told me with a slight frown born from confusion. It must have been frustrating for a soy to not know everything about their target.
"Well, there might be someone who does know about the landscape in that group," I shrugged, feeling more convinced now that one of the Hero’s companions was the author girl.
But Heraz, who didn’t know this, looked infuriated; his pale eyes glint sinisterly, as if he was about to confront the humans and fight them himself. He probably thought there was a traitor within the demonkind who sold the information about his Lord’s Lair to outsiders.
"Calm down, Heraz," I raised my palm. "I merely predicted that someone was given the Goddess’s clairvoyant ability."
The burning pale eyes dimmed like there was a switch turned off. He didn’t look as surprised as I thought, perhaps because having someone with the Goddess’s blessing in a group with a summoned Hero at the center sounded as normal as it got.