Cale, who was looking at Fluffy who had her tongue out and was shaking her tail at him, looked up at Jopis and started to speak.

�I think we�re here.�
��You realized it right away as I expected.�
�Well��

Cale shrugged his shoulders and shook the map in his hand.
There was a large red dot on the spot Cale expected they were standing right now.

That was their destination.

Jopis turned her whole body around and looked at the others. The normally dark waterway was not dark because of the Fire Elementals contracted to some of the Dark Elves.

�This place is one of the passages I tried to use in the past to run away from Elisneh.�
�Where is this place?�

Cale started to speak to respond to Tasha�s question.

�I think it is the former central flower garden and the current central plaza.�
��Do they use the term, �plaza,� inside the palace?�
�It�s probably because it is so wide.�

Cale looked toward Jopis to see if he was right. Jopis smiled elegantly and started to speak.

�That�s right. And the statue is at the center of that large area.�

The large plaza in the shape of a square inside the palace.

�North, South, East, and West. Each direction has meeting areas for the king�s chief executives. There are mini palaces for administration, military, and law.�

Three of the directions had mini palaces for different executives with the fourth direction having the palace where they met with the king.

�Amazing. Who would think to put the entrance into the maze at the center of such a location?�

Jopis answered Tasha�s question as if it wasn�t much.

�It is because it is empty when there are no meetings.�
�Ah.�

Tasha quietly gasped and Jopis reached her hand toward the ceiling.

�Since it is a meeting area only for the highest of administrators, people cannot enter this plaza as they please. The king personally kept this area secure as it is an important area.�

Click. Click.

Small noise filled the area.
Jopis�s hand started to move faster but her voice was still elegant and calm. JrNovels.com