“I can help you activate the pillar.” Aera continued speaking after making her previous statement, and she noticed that Yujin appeared a little taken aback by her sudden suggestion.Yujin, who was rendered incapable of speech, eventually mustered the strength to speak up and ask, "How do you intend to assist me in this situation?" And even more so, how were you able to learn everything there is to know about this?" After what seemed like an eternity, he finally asked while holding the pillar in front of Aera's face.He was still perplexed as to how Aera had come to be in this location, and now, something significantly more than that piqued Yujin's interest as Aera happened to speak as though she does have some knowledge about the pillar that would certainly be helpful for Yujin.At this point, Yujin had simply had enough of blindly believing Aera without even requiring her to provide a reason for what she said.“You have to activate the pillar in order to unleash your power’s full pot

“You know that we’re going to put the entire team and this mission in jeopardy if we risk going inside just to take this girl, kid.” As soon as Robalt heard Yujin's suggestion, he immediately responded to Yujin. Due to the fact that the security measures within the crystal fortress had been beefed up, the plan was not exactly foolproof, especially considering the fact that they had already carried out an infiltration. It would not be as simple for all of them to simply turn around and go back to the train station to pick up Aera as if she were some kind of umbrella they had left there."Robalt is absolutely correct, kid. Should we choose to return to that location, you run the risk of ensuring that none of us will survive. You could get us all killed right away, kid. It would be best if we went back to the main camp and worked out the details of this situation there." Vestrel spoke up while he was standing there with his hands on either side of his waist. While this was going on, Co

Yujin and the other strays were successful in making it back to the base in Alley without being injured. Even though they were all pretty worn out from the journey, the moment they stepped foot in the city, each and every one of them went straight to Draken to give him the news."You have once again impressed me with your greatness, boys. The rewards for your efforts have been deposited into your accounts even as we speak.” When Draken saw them looking at the maps and records, he did not waste any time in letting them know how impressed he was, knowing how the team had managed to steal them from the research department archives.Draken may have had the impression that there were little problems that might arise for the team to actually locate it, but he persisted in his insistence that they find it and bring it back no matter what the cost was. Draken believes that now that they finally have the maps in their possession, it will be a great deal simpler for them to locate the dungeon.

Yujin fell silent for a moment. He was still pondering the various means at his disposal to devise a strategy that would allow him to successfully rescue Aera. "What do you think, kid? Do you have any ideas?" Draken asked as if to put Yujin's already difficult situation under additional strain.In response, all Yujin did was shake his head and say, "I really hate to be the one telling this, but unfortunately I really could not think of anything." Because of this, Yujin was forced to keep his silence while he waited for anything that Draken might possibly have to say to him. He was curious as to whether or not Draken already had something planned for this very moment. "You are aware that going there would expose you to a great deal of danger, kid. There was no question in my mind that my men would be able to pull it off; however, you know that if things went worse in there, I could not fully abandon them all by forcing them to continue."“Then how about Aera?” Yujin's question came

Akihiro's expression changed and he began to smirk in Yujin's direction. In spite of the fact that Yujin was actually his son, he radiated an air of malevolence toward him."Son, what could possibly be the problem? Could it be that you have come to help out this poor Aera that is over here?” Akihiro asked Yujin.Suddenly, Akihiro started getting closer to his men, who were apparently holding Aera at the moment. Yujin could not help but glance over at Aera with a worried expression on his face as he did so. When he realized that it was his fault that she had to go through the ordeal of being held captive by Yujin's own father, he had the feeling that he wanted to blame himself. He was aware of the fact that it was due to him that she had to go through such a trying experience. Yujin provided a response, saying, "Absolve her of all blame, father. Release Aera. You are aware that she has absolutely nothing to do with this.” On the other hand, Akihiro can only laugh in response to Yuji