Unite the ingredients.

After your journey with Nyllia, you feel refreshed. Everything went well, and you're finally going to have every reagent for the magic arrow together in one place. There were many bumps on the way just like usual, but it seems that everybody eventually succeeded in their quest. It's noon when you arrive, and Peony greets you like usual. You then proceed to enter your home, hoping the others are there already. If not, they do still have the Arcane Eye.

"Is anyone home?" you call out.

Though Nyllia doesn't flinch, you jump at the sudden burst of black smoke that causes you to ****. Yin appears, and she curtsies politely.

"I am so sorry that I was not there to welcome you at the door, Master," she says with a frown.

You clear your throat and pat her on the head. "I didn't knock, Yin. It's fine."

"We are eating lunch right now. Please come join us."

The two of you follow behind the adorable maid and proceed into the kitchen where everybody is present--Snow, Delphi, Eva, Niki, Amara, Jelly, and Alice, though the latter isn't eating. She's just happy to be involved. Even Jelly is munching on some socks, though her version of eating is absorbing it into her body for it to slowly disintegrate inside. There isn't much left, however, especially with Niki and Eva eating with their usual passion for gluttony. It's a miracle they're able to keep the figures they have.

You walk over and pick up a drumstick before everything is taken. "Mission successful," you announce. "I hope you guys are all right."

Eva looks up with a big smile. "Welcome back! We were successful too. Does that mean we have everything we need?"

"It should." You sink your teeth into the meat.

"Let's see," Niki says. She pushes a bunch of the plates and other dishes away from the center of the table, and puts down a dripping sack. She undoes the string, and opens it up to reveal a small, violet organ of some sort. It appears to be covered in the same fluid that coated the spider's webs. "Here's one piece."

Amara puts a hand to her lips. "Niki... You should not put such things on the dinner table."

But regardless, you and your party place the remaining items around it--a frost lotus, a gloom daisy, the venom gland of a violet spider, and two wyvern eyes. They're all there. Somehow, these are going to be used to construct a magic arrow, presumably along with actual fletching, a shaft, etc. The day is still young as well.

You toss the drumstick bone onto one of the plates. "So now we need to find someone who can actually make it."

"And then come up with a plan to attack this place," Niki says.

"Master!" Yin calls out from behind. You barely noticed she left. She suddenly grabs your sleeve and gives it a tug, gesturing you to turn around. She then holds up a rolled up piece of parchment. "This was just squeezed under our door, but I was unable to find who left it there."

"Really?" You take it cautiously and raise a brow. "That's unsettling. There's no marking or anything to denote who it's from."

"Oh just open it already," Niki says.

You pop the seal and unfurl the scroll. Your eyes widen as you slowly come to realize what it is. "This is a floorplan of Sa'dis' fortress! It's really rough, but take a look. With this, we can plan a proper ****. But where did this come from?" You eye it over, and then you notice a small symbol drawn in the bottom corner. It's a circle with four stars in the center--a dragon ball. "Lynx... Thank you."

"It seems you were correct," Nyllia says.

With a deep breath, you hold the scroll tightly within your grasp and turn back to face the others. "We have a lot of work to do, and I have a weird question. Does anyone here have experience with raiding a castle?"

After a moment of silence, Nyllia speaks up. "Not, but I may be the most experienced with something such as that."

You hold the floorplans out to her. "Then I'm relying on you to help come up with an attack strategy for when the day comes."

"Of course." She smiles and accepts the gift. "You can count on me."