Inventors system

The next few days Morana and the group started to mix in with the crowd and started gathering Intel.

They soon managed to find out quite a few things about this place. 

On the third day of their stay, they met other participants for the first time, and coincidentally they were old acquaintances.

When the group was sharing their discoveries for the day at the hotel restaurant two individuals came in and attracted their attention.

One was a young boy about 12 years old, with dark blue hair and sky-blue eyes. He had soft and beautiful features and carried himself with a calm and dignified manner.

The other individual was also male, he was about 6.2 feet tall, maybe in his early 20-ies or late teens. With light-grey hair and beautiful green eyes. Both his mana and aura mixed well with the others and it was as if seeing the serene picture of nature.

The two also quickly noticed the group and 2 pairs of eyes sparkled with barely noticeable relief and happiness.

"Leonard" 

Upon seeing the boy Sophia quickly identified her brother and strode towards him. Checking Leonard for any injuries.

After confirming that her brother was okay her sight stopped on the other boy that had left to greet Morana and Samael.

"Rana, Samael." 

"Ioannes." Morana also greeted him back.

The group once again sat down as Ioannes started recounting their adventure.

The two of them met from the beginning after coming to The Dream city and teamed up in order to survive. They were the only ones left from the original group.

After Ioannes finished his story, he also didn't forget to ask about the group's adventure.

He was elated after finding out that Morana regained her sight.

"So, what do you plan to do now?" Asked Ioannes.

After sharing all the information the group once again started thinking about their next steps.

"We need to get inside the castle, but we still have barely any information and I doubt we will gain more." Said Ezra.

"Why?" Asked ever quiet Leonard.

"Because there is no significant information known by the people outside the castle, whether it is now or a few days later we are still going blind." Answered Zoel in Ezra's stead.

The mood by the table became heavy, but it didn't last long as their attention was soon distracted by Morana's mounting sound as she continued to merrily eat her popcorn.

Noticing the dozens of pairs of eyes on herself, Morana looked back with an innocent tilt of her head.

"Hmm? Is something wrong?" Finally, she couldn't help asking.

"How can you eat in this situation?" Asked Sophia.

"Why can't I eat?" Asked Morana back with a wronged look as she instinctively hid her popcorn back, as if someone was about to snatch it.

This couldn't help but earn her more than a dozen speechless expressions filled with black lines.

This time she didn't wait for anyone's answers as she spoke.

"I mean what are you guys so nervous about, do we have to go to the castle no matter what? Yes. Do we have to face what's in there, no matter what? Yes.

So, why are all your faces turning purple from worrying like you ate Willy Wonka's 3-Course dinner gum."

Even though no one understood her reference, the mood did become less heavy and it gave Morana a new idea for her future experiments.

And while everyone was feeling less troubled Jolly couldn't say the same when he heard about his master's new invention ideas.

So, the next day the group didn't go out to gather any more information; they stayed in the hotel and started getting ready for what was to come next.

They decided that they would go to the castle that night.

As soon as it became dark the group met down in the hotel lobby and headed out towards the castle together.

At the same time as they wordlessly started executing the plan as they've discussed beforehand, another group of individuals was observing them from the walls of the said castle.

"So, they have finally decided to come, huh?" Muttered Lestat as he looked at his other companions with a complicated and meaningful gaze.

"Baeron, Tia go and get everything ready for our guests." Said Acheron and without much words, the two headed out of the hall.

The group easily knocked out the outer guards of the palace and soon entered its grounds. As they effortlessly managed to pass through more and more different layers they finally noticed the problem.

"Stop." At Zoel's call, everyone halted.

"You also noticed?" Asked Ezra as he looked at Zoel, seeing the latter nodding his head.

"What's wrong?" Only Emir, who still didn't find anything weird, looked at everyone with confusion, only to receive looks of disgust.

After Sara patiently explained, sure enough, his face also darkened.

"Are we in some kind of illusion?" He asked.

"No." This time It was Morana who answered.

"Why do you say that?" Asked Sophia.

"We are not in an illusion, it's a maze, a type of formation, but…"

"But?"

"But the level of this formation is too low and it's easy to break. It's weird that a place like this would have this kind of array."

For the next few minutes, everyone was lost in their thoughts as the situation became too silent and awkward.

Finally, Emir couldn't take it any longer and decided to break the silence.

"So, what are we gonna do?"

Instead of answering him, Zoel turned to his sister.

"Can you break it?"

"Hmm."

"Then do it. NO matter what, we have no other options."

Morana didn't pay attention to the group any longer from a while ago Jolly already found the eye of the formation and she only needed to break it 

Just as she broke the eye the whole place instantly turned bright from the light.

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