"I think therefore I am" is such intelligence in so few words, yet in this advanced age we have changed it. Now we use "I love therefore I am." We can augment reality to the degree that anything you see, hear, do, feel, and think can be manipulated. The only true thing left is love, the only thing within ourselves we can trust to be real. Love is the true meaning of existence, one can't be complete if love isn't involved, I'm glad I have found my missing piece, the one that makes me complete and taught me the meaning of love. For him, I'll do anything like he will do anything for me. I miss you Alexander Kael Touch, my soulmate, please come back quickly.''
There was a long moment of silence between them before Luna sighed and suddenly brought up another matter.
''What are you thinking about the abnormalities happening around here?"
''You are talking about demon sightseeing and people vanishing?"
To Maria's question, Luna nodded, this is one of the reasons why instead of joining the others, they came into this country to investigate.
Recently people who entered some dungeons across this country keep disappearing and those who successfully came back became crazy, some even spoke about meeting demons, a real demons from hell. The country was in a state of turmoil, a few villages disappeared as well, so Typhania who was watching the continents send them to investigate, she was sure that something was brewing in this country, well, even if there was nothing, sending Maria's group who was a symbol of hope would make the population calm down not to panic. Let's not forget that on top of wearing the mantle of Otherworlders, the girls are one of few special existences in the world, SSS class Adventurers, they're not many, except for the guild master of the Adventurer guild, the rest of the SSS class Adventurers did not reach twenty and they are all Demigod realm experts.
Back to the topic.
''Ah! Well, it has been a few days since we arrived but we haven't found anything yet, almost as if our arrival forced them to hide.'' Maria responded and as she said, things were really chaotic before their arrival and yet everything seemed to have calmed down as soon as they set foot in the country.
The base they'd installed in this forest acted as a checkpoint to monitor anyone that enter or leave the forest because this ancient forest hold the most dungeons.
''Something smells fishy, definitely but it seems we can't do anything, at least not yet. Let's simply just observe. I have suggested to Sakuya to look out for the royal family or the nobles' clans, they must be a spy somewhere.''
Maria nodded at Luna's words, and she reached the same conclusion as well. It's quite unfortunate that during such a troubled time some humans are still colluding with the enemy, well, a human wouldn't be human otherwise.
''Not only do we have to be wary of the hidden enemy but we have to be wary of our allies. It is too troublesome.'' Maria sighed, she felt compelled to massage her forehead, so much trouble to deal with.
''Where is Sakuya?'' Luna suddenly asked as she thought of something.
Maria chuckled before answering. ''She went to investigate the dungeon in the innermost of the forest. She said she can't stay still as people keep disappearing.''
If people don't know Sakuya better they would have mistakenly thought that it was because the Japanese lady got a strong sense of justice but both ladies present here knew why Sakuya was behaving like this.
Each individual is different so they have a different method to deal with situations they'll face, while Luna and Maria expressly displayed their longing for their man, Sakuya was different, once her longing surpassed a certain level she can't stay still anymore, to get rid of this feeling she must become active, meaning she must be doing something or else she wouldn't be able to stop her longing, her desire to see Alex keep growing.
''Ah! Hopefully, she'll manage to find something but I would have preferred that she waited to go with one of us, this could be dangerous.'' Luna didn't hide her feelings and Maria could understand her but it was Sakuya they are talking about, nothing could be done about her once she decided to do something or when she's that state.
''Relax I have called upon other's assistance. I have asked Meera, I mean Pandora to get Leon and others to join us. Noire might join them, together we will have more power and people to act.'' Maria informed Luna whose mood brightened at once, after hearing Maria's words she could now relax.
''That's good to hear. Hopefully, they'll join us soon.'' Luna declared before sinking into the lake, Maria smiled upon seeing her sworn sister flapping her legs like a fish, it's fun, she decided to do the same thing and soon the sound of water splashing resounded through the woods.
Meanwhile, in another location, in the depth of the forest, there's a dungeon.
As soon as Sakuya entered the dungeon, she could feel that the flow of mana had completely changed. As with any dungeon, the environment inside was completely different from the outside world. However, as she was a high-level being and Demigod, she did not need any special equipment to adapt to this place.
"…."
She held her breath and looked around the interior of the dungeon. It was a weird place; a mountain range of dark rocky masses surrounded the area, and all the rocks were sharp to the point that there seemed to be no place to even step on.
Something was not right. Sakuya thought. Because she had entered dungeons many times, she knew. This place was not a dungeon.
The sound of her feet stepping lightly on the stone floor echoed loudly in a quiet space filled with only the sound of the wind whispering in her ears.
She kept walking forward.
After walking for such a long time, she finally arrived at the place she heard about.
"The altar."
It was a huge temple painted in many shades of color. In this place, where there was no trace of civilization, let alone living things, the existence of such a structure stood out a lot. It was an old temple that seemed unmaintained, yet there was a fire burning in the braziers.
Sakuya followed the stair and walked down the hallway. After she entered the innermost altar, she looked around.
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