"Are you going to ask me why Mudstone is unwilling to use this token to leave this world?" the old man asked in return.

Adrian nodded. This old man was surely a freak who had lived for goodness knows how many years.

"I will tell you the answer when you get back, provided you come back alive, of course," the old man said smilingly.

"That’s a fair trade." Adrian stood up and nodded to the old man.

‘That’s how everything seems on the surface,’ he added to himself.

Entering a place where there