"Even though they looked pretty damn close, didn't they?"
Even though I tried to win some of them—or at least one of them—over to my side with words reeking of pure desperation, convincing people who have spent the entire day walking is no easy task.
"Leader, there's something weird going on here. Even though it feels like an entire day, according to my calculations, we haven't been walking for more than three hours. Besides, if it were really night, they should have teleported us back to the Seven-Tiered Abyss City by now, shouldn't they?"
Just as I was thinking 'Thank God Elenora finally threw me a lifeline, otherwise they were going to eat me alive in this wolf pack,' the sound of dogs barking started coming from a spot not too far away. Simultaneously, my dear brother, our precious shaman Toraman—whose crying had somewhat subsided—reverted right back to his bawling routine.
