Dye and Ynoir stayed in the rest area for several more hours before continuing with the instance. However, they did not expect to be transported out of the instance instead.
[Granary Instance Completed]
[Reward : 352 EXP]
[Quest Item : Note x1]
Dye was surprised. Because they weren't spouses, Dye and Ynoir didn't share an inventory. Even if they were in the same party, they didn't share the same inventory. As long as she remembered, she programmed it so spouses could share the same inventory.
That was convenient, but one could only have one spouse.
"Hold on."
In one of the glowing inventory boxes, she saw a scroll like object. It wasn't a skill scroll but the note from before. Materializing the note, she saw : "Meet me in Fort Malteres."
So her initial deduction was incorrect. The puppeteer wasn't inside the granary but he was outside of the granary. It was another realm, but the puppeteer wasn't inside this other realm with his puppets. The last puppet was the final boss? The only puppet with consciousness?
That made a lot of sense, but there weren't even mini bosses to fight with!
The stronger puppet mini bosses with no consciousness - "..."
"Ynoir, the puppeteer isn't in there," Dye showed the note to the elf, "he is in Fort Malteres." It would explain a lot. Why out of all the puppets in the hall, there would only be one puppet with consciousness that wasn't even notified of their arrival. It the puppeteer was within communication range (according to puppet level, should be in the same realm), he could've told the puppet of their arrival.
On the other hand, the puppet only activated the moment they reached his aggro range.
Though, she wasn't sure if people in this world have aggro range that ignored people who were right in front of them.
"Fort Malteres?" Ynoir showed a confused face, "how could he even be there? That's impossible."
There were no part in her game map that showed Fort Malteres anywhere, so she wasn't sure where it was either. Could the place be located outside the outer ring of the map? But those places were definitely places where newbies could never go to.
Newbies like them.
"Um...I'm sorry," Jaglash looked at the conversing duo, who totally ignored him right from the moment they appeared in front of the granary. The guards didn't realize anything, but they probably would if the duo didn't tune down their voices.
Who would speak loudly right in front of danger?
Perhaps because the duo spent hours in the relaxation space they forgot their surroundings. Though, Jaglash didn't know about the relaxation space. He just thought the duo might be tired after fighting.
The time in the instance was much quicker than the time in the real world.
Dye had just realized it when the system clock suddenly went back in time. It seemed that time was longer in the other space. That was when she realized the puppeteer was indeed out of the ordinary. A normal puppeteer that created a puppet space in a granary would usually only be able to create one with the same time flow as the original world.
If he was able to make the time go faster...
It seemed that whoever he was, he had the ability to go to this Fort Malteres, wherever this fort was.
"Let's go back for now, before any of the guards catch us loitering around in an unwanted location," Dye said as she levitated Jaglash and herself back slowly. Ynoir following with his stealth skill right after.
Though, it seemed that rather than going back so the guards wouldn't catch them would turn to going Kate so they weren't in this awkward position.
"Julian! No!" Lin Mao's voice could be heard whisper yelling from inside the tent.
"Just let me do it," Juliana voice could also be heard, a bit husky and breathy.
The three outside couldn't imagine what might be going on inside the tent. In addition, there were two sleeping people inside! One of them was a kid! A kid!
Well, Kaen wasn't necessarily a kid as he had an adult male body, however, he still had the mind of a kid! What were they doing?
"You! What are you doing outside your tents!" A guard marched over with a spear pointed at them.
"Um...You see...,"
"And with Second Prince at that!? What are you thinking trying to betray our master's tru-st...," He couldn't finish the whole sentence before the guard broke into a blush himself.
"Ah! That hurts! Be more gentle!" - Lin Mao.
"Earlier, you say it's not going to hurt...," Julian seemed to reprimand, "like I said, how could you do it by yourself?" His tone was ambiguous.
"No! Don't put it there!"
The guard was silenced for a moment before saying, "I'm sorry Second Prince. We'll give you some privacy. "
Jaglash who was mistaken to have a weird fetish of some sort - "wha-no!"