"Celeste? Celeste!” I stood up and frantically searched around the camp.

Celeste was no longer anywhere around me. I looked at my slave skills, but I didn’t have any that could locate a slave yet. I could party swap with her, but what would that do? By the time I could make it back here, she’d have already run off again. Cursing to myself, I headed down to the 19th floor once again. This time, I made sure to check for traps. I also had my map ready and made a noise of surprise when the traps were shown on the map.

“Detect treasure…” I cast that spell as well.

More points were filled out on my map. Map was truly a skill worthy of the dungeon point system. I knew I could use it to sense life and identify nearby enemies, but I didn’t realize that if had map open while casting detect spells, I could also map out traps and treasures too. Wait, is it possible that since Celeste was in my party, I could also see her?

“Party… bring up my party…” I muttered.

A dot outside my map suddenly bleeped. That had to be Celeste! She was on this floor, so I could see her, but she was outside of the area I had explored. I immediately began racing towards the direction that I saw her. I used sense life to avoid just about every ghost I came across, only engaging until I could escape and flee.

Suddenly, her blip disappeared. This caused me the greatest confusion of all. It would have said if she left my party. I used a marking system to mark where I last saw her. If she didn’t leave my party, then it meant… that she left this floor! She couldn’t have, could she? She went down to battle the boss? What was going through Celeste’s mind! She could get hurt or even killed doing this!

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I made my way to the location marked on the map, the point where Celeste was last seen before she disappeared. I wasn’t surprised at all when I walked into a Library, not unlike the previous two, I had been in. I first walked to the kiosk and registered, and then headed straight to the door heading down. It was closed tight. Furthermore, there was no sound transmitted from the other side. I had no clue what was happening.

Gritting my teeth, I walked back up to the library and began to pace. What should I do? Should I switch with her now? I didn’t know what monster was in there. If I suddenly switched, I could find myself in a very precarious situation. It was far too much danger. Believe it or not, Celeste was more powerful than I was. I had to just trust that she could defeat the boss.

While I paced, My eyes caught the murals on the wall. It was the continuation of the story. I glanced through them. There wasn’t much to say. This told the story I already knew. Karr brought his family to live with him. He began to fight for justice, freeing slaves, particularly of the animalkin variety. He became an emancipator loved by all. The murals were never in a particular order. This one had little to do with the story of the Fairy Queen.

However, I guess someone attacks the fairy queen, she moves in with Karr and falls in love with him, and then he falls in love with one of the slaves he frees. The story appears to be something like that. The only thing that still didn’t fit was Celeste. She wasn’t the fairy queen, was she? She had said there was no coming back from becoming a dark fairy, so if that was to be believed, there was no way she was the fairy queen.

I looked at the door, anxiousness consuming me. Time passed by.