Overlord: Start from the Goblin Lair.

Chapter 324 The Woman in the Attic
The goblin hid very well. Ron and his companions met the stitched butler on the road. It noticed everyone and politely asked if they needed any help, but it was completely unaware that right behind it, a short ranger was lurking silently in the darkness.

"As long as it's not the owner of this castle or Sylvia, no one can find me!" After the butler walked away, Driver jumped out from his hiding place. "Quest may be very smart, but not as smart as me - no one will suspect a mouse running around in the castle, right?"

"Have you been hiding here these days?" Ron thought carefully. It seemed that he could not find Driver at every dinner. He would only find a piece of paper in his room with the words "going hunting" written in crooked handwriting.

Driver was a hunter and there were plenty of animals around, so no one would suspect him of doing something like this.

No one would suspect that a goblin would be so clever as to avoid everyone's sight and use a mouse to explore the entire castle.

"When you go to help with the ceremony," Driver grinned, "the earl and Sylvia will be there, and even the butler will be hanging around you. This is when the castle's defenses are the most relaxed."

"That's not right," Quest frowned, "Then how was I discovered?"

"You went to the attic?" Driver sneered. "You probably would never have thought in your dreams why your whereabouts were exposed - that attic is not empty, there are people in it!"

"Why did you find out?"

"Someone—" Quest was so shocked by Driver's news that he almost cried out. At this critical moment, he twisted his body into a strange shape to avoid alerting the enemy. "How did you know?"

"I saw it with my own eyes," Driver motioned for everyone to move to a more convenient place to talk, "I saw it with my own eyes!"

"Although the attic is locked with three large locks, it is not completely closed. There is a pipe at the top of the castle that only rats can get through. A few days ago, I took advantage of the opportunity when Quest was discovered and sent a local rat to sneak in!"

"In there, I saw a crazy woman with disheveled hair!"

"Woman?" Victoria couldn't help but question, "Are you talking about a female elf?"

After all, the von Richthofen family is an elven family, so it is normal to find an elf here, but humans?

I’m afraid no living person has been here for hundreds of years!
"I know exactly what I'm talking about!" Driver retorted unhappily, "Women, female humans, just like you!"

"Ivy is half-elf, Yelena, Seymour, and the wizard are all elves. There's no way I can't even tell the difference!"

"Go on, what next?" Ron signaled Victoria and the others not to interrupt and let Driver continue.

"Nothing happened afterwards," the goblin shrugged regretfully. "My mouse was soon discovered by the woman. She jumped onto the ceiling like a spider, making strange noises! The last image the mouse sent back showed that its head had fallen off. I guess the creature jumped behind it and bit off its neck in one bite."

"You said she drew out her sword and killed the mouse, which is more reliable than this," Quest complained, "How can you be sure that it was bitten off?" "Because I have ears!" Driver flicked his pointed ears unhappily when questioned, "Can I still not distinguish the sound of a sword cutting and teeth chewing?"

"Then this woman is really crazy..." Ron believed Driver's description. The goblin had shown his reliability several times before, so he was probably not joking this time. "But why is it a woman?"

"The time when no one in this earldom survived was before the Kingdom of Falama. No human being could live to this time, right? Unless she also signed a contract to sell herself to the devil like Falama."

"It may not be the devil..." Quest muttered, looking up at Ron, "Sir Ron, we won't get any results just by speculating here, why don't we go and take a look?"

"You mean, send another mouse?"

"No, we'll go there ourselves," Quest said, "but we certainly can't just go like this. Someone has to stop the butler."

"Let me go," Ivy looked at everyone, "I seem to be the only one who has a lot of free time lately."

"No, Ivy, you have to protect Ron. Remember that woman I mentioned? She's very aggressive," Driver said quickly. "I'll go find a way to stop the housekeeper. You guys are planning to go straight up anyway, so I won't be of much use."

"As for the time, I suggest around ten o'clock the day after tomorrow morning. Based on my observations over the past week, although there will be patrolling undead creatures in the castle during the day, at that time of day, there will be a brief gap at the stairs leading to the attic."

"What's the reason?" Quest asked cautiously, "Isn't this a trick to lure you into a trap?"

"No, it's the gargoyle," Driver gestured, gesturing at the outline of a giant body. "Remember the gargoyle with the broken body? The one Sylvia called 'Old Opal'? It was on patrol at that time of day!"

"But because it has not fully recovered yet and has difficulty moving, it cannot complete its duties according to the original plan of the castle. It will be fifteen minutes slower than expected. This is your chance!"

"Break the lock, subdue the enemy, interrogate the enemy, evacuate..." Quest cracked his knuckles subconsciously. "Time may be a little tight. The gargoyle's eyesight is not bad. Even if it can't get to the designated location, it can still see us."

"So we won't leave from that door," Ron said, "I will prepare as many gaseous forms as possible, and then we will go out from the pipe on the roof!"

"Drivedo, can you draw a map of the castle for us? If there is a chance, I think we can teleport directly from the roof back to the room. The count is resting during the day, so there is no possibility of others discovering it."

"Okay, I'll ask Baymax to give it to you!" Driver immediately went back to the room, and the others dispersed. Ron and Victoria prepared to find Yelena and go to the count again to see if there was any way they could help.

Ron and the other two turned around and came to the backyard of the manor where the ceremony was being arranged. The vampire Count and Sylvia had been waiting for them for a long time. Ron subconsciously raised his head and looked at the closed attic that had no windows but was real - if he asked the other party for some details about his wife and daughter, it shouldn't alert the enemy, right?

(End of this chapter)