"Once I get within a certain range, my magic will stop working, so you need to decide now how we are going to proceed," Rain said.
"Even if they don't know about the tunnels, it is unlikely that they would leave her in the bottom floors," Branden said after he thought for a while. "She must be in one of the highest buildings; it would be hard for her to escape, and it also would be hard for us to infiltrate."
"So, we will have to enter through the front, huh?" Rain thought.
Rain thought of a crucial issue as he surveyed the situation: the enigmatic nature of the anti-magic substance. Suppose only he possessed some insight into its workings. In that case, he might devise a strategy to neutralize it and breach the anti-magic barrier. Unfortunately, their understanding of this mysterious substance remained frustratingly limited.