Alice slowly blinked her eyes.

All she could see was pitch-black darkness, with nothing visible before her. Although she had regained consciousness, her mind was filled with confusion.

“…Where am I?”

She didn’t know. No matter how hard she tried to figure it out, she couldn’t grasp where she was. The bigger problem was that her body refused to move at all.

Even when she tried to exert strength, her body wouldn’t budge, as if it were tied down.

Despite the situation, she managed to calm herself.

‘Grandmother will come to save me soon.’

After all, the Sword Sovereign was …