Neron hurried back through the tunnel, his boots splashing lightly in the puddles of water that had collected on the dirty ground.
The gong's echoes still rang in his ears, urging him to pick up his pace.
His journey to the tunnel had been fruitless—he couldn't find a way in and there was no sign of Serah either.
He was just left with the unsettling feeling of being watched and he hoped that he hadn't missed any important thing happening at the entrance.
As he came out of the tunnel and made his way back to the entrance, he was relieved to see the mass of Adventurers still gathered outside.
They had organized themselves into two queues as they prepared to file into the villa.
It was a rowdy spectacle though as the Adventurers didn't take kindly to the guards trying to organize them and there were ripples of murmurs spreading across the crowd.
