Ariadne was training with Edmund in the back of the mansion as always. She was tired and held her hand up to Edmund. He looked at her, tired and dripping sweat but he remained composure with the sword by his side. As Ariadne walked back toward Alya, who was preparing a cup of water to give to her, she stuck her sword in the ground and kept walking. Alon was approaching her to the side with a tablet in his hand.

‘Your highness, this is the list of people that said yes to going into the dungeon.’ He gave it to her.

She picked up the tablet, looking at the list with a calm demeanor, but she found it strange that on it there was just “Angel Company." She looked at Alon confused.

‘Why did you put Angel company here?’ She showed the tablet to him, pointing with her finger the name.

‘Everyone will go, they accepted, the rest comes from volunteers from other units.’ Alon stood there, looking at her in the eyes.

‘I hope this much doesn’t let the duchy unprotected, but from your report, having only a company is insufficient for this task.’ She returned her eyes to the tablet.

‘Yes, we need people for the field hospital, trucks and battery recharging to say a feel.’ He continued to stay, still waiting for her to finish reading.

‘Fine, you basically want to create a base inside of the dungeon, let’s see if that is possible after talking with the peasant; i don’t really know much; i wouldn't be surprised if he himself didn’t know anything.' As she finishes reading, Ariadne gives the tablet back to Alon.

With the tablet in hand, he saluted her before turning around and walking back to the mansion. Edmund approached her from behind, passing her and going to the table where there was a jar of water and two cups, one of them full.

‘Something important?’ He drinks a cup of water.

‘Yes, the list of people that are going to go with us in this suicide mission of yours.’ She walked towards the table.

‘Dying here or dying in the dungeon, some months would be the difference, is going to be fine, you are really strong now, we can kill the dungeon guardian, i think.‘ He drinks another cup of water.

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Alya takes the jar from his hands; she looked furious but put water into the other cup. Ariadne smiled at her gesture and drank it. With her tirst satiated, she sat on a chair next to the table.

‘You don’t change, peasant.’ Ariadne relaxes in the chair, looking at the trees.

‘Don’t worry, i’m going to explain how the dungeon works for you and Alon, which is kind of simple.’ Edmund sat on the other chair, smiling at Ariadne.

‘You never explained anything about this place to me, even though you talked so much about it.’ She smirked.

‘My bad, duchess, i didn’t think you really cared to learn to be honest.’ He relaxed his body a bit.

‘I thought we wouldn't need to go there, but unfortunately our current state is not enough; giving weapons to the farmers can only do so much for safety.’ Ariadne looked at him and shrugged her shoulders.

‘Tonight i will explain to you and Alon how it works and we can draft a plan; we may even need more people than Alon had on that list.’ Edmund stroked his chin while looking at the sky.

‘We can’t; it will have to do.’ She spoke to him in a serious tone.

‘So, it will do.’ He nodded at her.

Edmund got up and started to walk to his previous position, followed by Ariadne. In the way she got her sword and prepared for her training to begin.

Later at night, Edmund, Ariadne, and Alon were in the command room, where Alon’s office is. They used the table as the map of the duchy. Edmund pulled out and put on the table a drawing of a map; it wasn’t well drawn, not because he was bad at it but because there were a lot of missing parts.

‘Well, this is what i remember from the books i read in the castle: after a long hallway, there is a city inside of the dungeon and there is where the battle will happen.’ Edmund pointed at the city on the map.

‘But maybe there are monsters or even traps on this long hallway; we need to be careful.’ Alon crossed his arms.

‘No traps, no monsters but golens; inside all dungeons, golens are the ones protecting it, and...’ He stopped in the middle of the sentence as Ariadne raised her hand.

‘You are wrong, In an old book i once read, it said that inside of this dungeon there was demons, not golens, We also have books about those; they are not the same peasant.’ She put her two hands on the table and looked at Edmund.

‘But even in the records of the hero, it said that he fought against golens inside of the dungeons.’ Edmund stroked his chin.

He was trying to talk like all of the information he had came from books or papers he found in the royal library but now with this kind of pushback, it was becoming hard to not feel frustrated over this simple discussion.

‘Lavan did an expedition inside of the dungeon and that is what the survivor told, these are text from the military part of Lavan library, not some fairy tale book, don’t look at me like that.’ She slammed the table with her two hands with anger on her face.

This took Edmund back, but it wasn’t her behavior but what she said. It didn’t matter what those demons were but the fact remained that maybe the golens are not going to be there; that alone would make the expedition harder.

‘If that is true, things got alot lot harder, i don’t know what those demons are but Golens have a crystal to their head or chest; one shot and it would be over, i wonder if these are monsters that wondered in the dungeon somehow.’ Edmund frowned and looked at the map, thinking.

‘So... we don’t know what is inside? It didn’t change a thing to me; that was always in my mind.’ Alon smiled.

‘Not exactly...’ Ariadne looked at Alon.