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Izfar

"This is troubling..."

Izfar cupped his chin as he scanned through the records of his Majesty's otherworld travel inside the royal library in the palace. A few days ago, apparently his majesty wasn't able to teleport to the kingdom due to connection problems. The symptoms were the same like all the other cases before, blocked pathway by a mysterious black boulder.

Noel have faced cases like those and they have the countermeasures, but for some reason, the recent case is special; which was his majesty was the only one who was unable to pass through the portal to the kingdom, while the other creatures can. This hypothesis was concluded by the incident of the lost girl named Serah not long ago.

Deciding that he just looking blindly into the records won't help him, he went to the people who he knew might have the clue to the problem.

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The air inside the sewer feels heavy as usual although the slimes t