“What are they doing? They’re going up the stairs?” Snake Eyes’ voice went up. But unlike Archers, Warriors and Priests could not see the situation clearly. The scene only appeared as a speck of light.

“Four people… Hm? They’re fighting a monster?”

New information continued to pour in. What was going on? Was this Stage 2?

While Seol Jihu was postulating several hypotheses, he caught sight of Straight Face, who was looking down silently.

“There are stairs here as well.”

Just as she said, the platform they were riding on also had stairs going up the mountain.

‘It’s long.’

Seeing the stairs stretch all the way to the foot of the mountain, Seol Jihu’s jaw dropped.

‘Pillars?’

One thing that caught his attention was the pillars. There were flat platforms periodically throughout the staircase, and each platform had a single pillar standing on it.

“You,” Straight Face turned back. “You said four people were climbing up the stairs, right?”

“Yeah.”

“Where? Describe it relative to the mountain.”

“About the middle.”

“Do you see anyone else?”

“Hold on.” Snake Eyes looked around. Then, she fixedly stared in the direction Lara was looking at, and frowned.

“…You saw it?”

“I, I did.”

“It appeared suddenly, right?”

“Y-Yes.” Lara nodded her head crazily.

“It appeared suddenly? What’s ‘It’?”

When Straight Face asked, Snake Eyes muttered back, “There’s only two over there… Fuck, what’s going on?”

“Just describe exactly what you’re seeing.”

Snake Eyes grit her teeth in bewilderment. “Over there. They only have two people. They’re near the foot of the mountain,...