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Instead of wasting time looking for the main door, Nero, Jo, and Servant made their way out the way they came in, from the dungeon, and take a detour.
Their feet can’t help but run. They don’t want to be left behind to take part in whatever is happening right now.
Servant’s steps suddenly stopped, and the two people who were with him stopped as well.
“What is it?” asked Nero, and Jo answered the question with a question.
“Didn’t you hear it?”
“What?”
Nero listened carefully. But there was nothing so strange about his hearing that it had to make him stop. He put on an incomprehensible face and Jo impatiently gave an explanation.
“That sound, like a very large glass cracked and splattered.”
Nero shook his head. He didn’t hear such a sound.
“The shield has been shattered.” It was now Servant who spoke, and just as he finished speaking,
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