Volume 4, Chapter 2 – The Entrance of the Stone Gate

So, because Tianyin had made up her mind to secretly set off alone for Inferno, that very night, when Xiaobingxue was getting ready to sneak into Tianyin’s room in hopes of “sleeping together under the same blanket” with her, she unexpectedly ran right into Xiaomengyao, who seemed to have the exact same idea.

“Ugh, why is it that Xiaobingxue… Xiaobingxue, you do this every single night, can’t you give me a turn?”

The cute black-haired loli puffed out her cheeks in anger, eyeing the emotionless, expressionless loli in front of her with full vigilance.

As for Xiaomengyao’s words, Xiaobingxue did not respond at all. She simply pushed open Tianyin’s door, then walked straight in right in front of Xiaomengyao.

“Eh… she actually ignored me!”

Grinding her teeth before she knew it, Xiaomengyao was a bit unhappy, but she was not the type who would just stand there and watch Xiaobingxue run into Tianyin’s room.

So, in the middle of the night, the two lolis went in one after the other.

But in fact, an unbelievable accident happened…

“Mas… Master!”

“Xiao… Xiaoyin?”

They did not see the familiar figure they had hoped to see in Tianyin’s room. Yes, the bed where that silver-haired loli should be curled up into a little ball was now completely empty.

To be precise, there actually was still something on it. It was a letter Tianyin had left behind, telling Xiaobingxue, Xiaomengyao, and Xingyu Muxi that she had already gone to Inferno…

Of course, at this moment the two lolis were in such a panic over Tianyin’s disappearance that they did not notice the letter Tianyin had left on the bed at all…

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A dozen or so minutes later, the light came on in Tianyin’s room. Inside, besides the two lolis who had discovered that Tianyin was missing, Xingyu Muxi, who had rushed over after hearing the news, was also there.

Compared to the two lolis, Xingyu Muxi was much calmer. After she came in, she immediately noticed the letter Tianyin had left on the bed.

“Honestly… Xiaoyin went and snuck off to Inferno all by herself. Because she was afraid we wouldn’t agree, she waited until night and left in secret…”

After she finished reading the contents of Tianyin’s letter, Xingyu Muxi’s slender brows knit slightly. A faintly annoyed expression appeared on her delicate face.

“Eh… M-Master went to Inferno? That sounds really dangerous!”

“Xiaoyin, danger!”

When she saw the two lolis who clearly wanted to chase after Tianyin, Xingyu Muxi looked over with an unusually serious gaze.

“Neither of you is allowed to go anywhere. You stay put in Eden for me, got it?”

“Eh, but… but…”

Xiaomengyao still looked a bit unwilling.

Seeing Xiaomengyao’s unwilling expression, Xingyu Muxi slowly narrowed her eyes.

“Didn’t I just say it already, you’re not allowed to go anywhere, okay~”

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“Uu…”

For some reason, even though Sister Xiaomu was clearly smiling now with her eyes narrowed, she gave Xiaomengyao a very, very scary feeling…

……

Sneaking out into the night, Tianyin activated her half-fusion state that she had not used in a long time, then followed the directions on the System’s display for the location of Savita Gorge and began her journey on the road.

Borrowing the faint starlight, Tianyin rushed along at a speed that surpassed Legendary-tier. Even though this time she was setting out alone without Xiaobingxue and Xiaomengyao at her side like last time, her current speed was much faster than before.

The time spent on the road was dull and boring, but at least Tianyin still had Samael with her, so along the way Tianyin could chat directly with Samael to kill the boredom.

「If you keep moving at this speed, Xiaoyin, you should just about reach Savita Gorge by dawn.」

『By dawn? That’s actually pretty fast, isn’t it?』

The two of them basically used this kind of totally pointless small talk to pass the time as they traveled.

As Tianyin kept hurrying along, time slowly crept toward dawn.

When the sky began to grow brighter, a huge gorge, lying far lower than the distant horizon, appeared on the ground within Tianyin’s field of view.

『Eh… So this is Savita Gorge?』

Having reached the first destination after traveling for an entire night, Tianyin was still a bit impressed with her own speed.

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「It should be. After all, the gorge in front of us is about the same as the description of Savita Gorge, and the entrance to the underground city should be somewhere inside this gorge.」

『Wuu… right, the entrance is supposed to be inside the gorge… Looking at how big this gorge is, just finding the entrance feels like it’ll take a lot of time… so it’s better to fill my stomach first!』

「Yes, good stamina is very necessary as well.」

Samael fully agreed with Tianyin’s idea.

Having decided to rest first, Tianyin very decisively picked a relatively inconspicuous, fairly well-hidden spot and took out the spare food she carried in her System Inventory to start eating.

Tianyin’s little mouth was just that small, and she spent nearly a whole hour on this one “breakfast”.

Once Tianyin finished resting, she set out on her journey once more.

However, since she had already arrived at Savita Gorge, all Tianyin needed to do now was find the entrance to the Underground World located inside Savita Gorge.

Still, calling it an entrance… when it came to this so-called entrance, the information the System had given her did not include any specific description. So in Tianyin’s imagination, this so-called entrance would probably be some kind of huge rift in the gorge…

After searching for the entire morning, Tianyin finally found the entrance that led to the Underground World.

Right now, Tianyin was standing directly in front of that entrance.

“What… what the heck… the entrance is actually a door? Why did I naively think the entrance would be a huge rift?”

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Looking at the huge “stone gate” deep in the gorge, Tianyin grumbled with clear dissatisfaction.

“So this really is the entrance… Seriously… I ended up looking through so many rifts for nothing…”

Because in Tianyin’s understanding the entrance would be something like a crack in the earth, she had previously tried going into several rifts that “looked” like entrances and explored them.

In reality, none of those rifts contained the path Tianyin wanted.

「Pff…」

『Samael, what are you laughing at?』

「It’s just… Xiaoyin complaining like this is unexpectedly really cute, you seem so stupid in an adorable way~」

『S-Stupid… W-Who are you calling stupid!』

Tianyin was very displeased.

「Alright, alright, let’s go in first. Now that we’ve found the underground city, Xiaoyin can finally have a good rest, so let’s hurry inside~」

『Alright then… come to think of it, after rushing along the road all night, I really am feeling a bit sleepy…』