“—Aaaaaaahhh…,” Cyan’s scream was slowly drifting away.

Even as Eugene was falling to the ground far below, he didn’t take his eyes off Cyan.

Cyan was the young master of the Lionheart’s direct line, a famous and prestigious clan of warriors. With such a background, Cyan had definitely been taught many things from an early age, yet there was no way he could have been familiarized with a freefall like this.

And wasn’t this only natural? Having passed through a warp gate, they were immediately left to fall to the ground from high in the sky. So right at this moment, Cyan was flapping his arms in mid-air, still screaming his head off.

Eugene considered, ‘Do I need to help him out?’

For now, Eugene decided to take care of his own safety first. After he slowed his fall with some flotation magic, he looked at Cyan once more. With Cyan’s abilities alone, he wouldn’t be able to survive a fall from this height. Even with the greatest of luck, some of his bones would be completely shattered.

‘It seems I don’t need to help him out,’ Eugene decided.

This wasn’t a simple accident. If someone had planned to drop them from the sky from the very start, they must have prepared some safety measures just in case.

It was just as Eugene had expected. Though Cyan was still screaming and squawking for help, his fall was slowly being decelerated. Somewhere in the forest below, a wizard must have cast a spell on Cyan.

Without paying any more attention to Cyan, Eugene turned his head. He could see a castle built near the peak of the nearby mountain. Eugene eyed the flag waving from the top of a tower’s spire.

The flag bore an emblem of a lion baring its claws and fangs, proving that this was the Black Lion Castle where they were originally meant to have arrived. Would they allow Eugene to just fly over there from here? No. If that were the case, they wouldn’t have had him fall from this height in the first place.

Although he didn’t know the specific reasons behind this happening, for now, Eugene just decided to accept this situation optimistically. Although Vermouth’s grave might be hidden somewhere on the grounds of the Black Lion Castle, it also might be hidden somewhere on this mountain.

‘Though I don’t think they’re just going to let us wander around as we please.’

To start with, Eugene decided to just take a look at any of the places that caught his attention while making his way to the castle. With this in mind, Eugene started...