Dual-Image and a Cellar in a Forest in Another Country Before Perihelion Ends

From the comic panel that is separated into two image files, each showing the Witch and the Watchman. It appears that the Witch is riding her magic broom, while the Watchman is riding a horse. This time, each character has two comic balloons, with one balloon above and one balloon below.

The first comic balloon—or the top comic balloon—of the Witch says, "The coordinates are correct!"

While the first comic balloon of the Watchman says, "Right, we have to go there immediately to suppress the magic women hatred!"

The second comic balloon—or the bottom comic balloon—of the witch says, "But why are we on separate layers? We ought to unite!"

The second comic balloon of the Watchman says, "Right! We will be able to carry more payload! That will be the key to our strength!"

From the two bottom balloons of each character, I immediately understood that this was a dual-image steganography scheme. The word "payload" spoken by the Watchman in steganography can be interpreted as data embedded in the cover image. The cover image itself is an image used for data embedding. This can also be likened to the equation "cover image + payload = stego image."

These two image files become stego images, or images with data embedded in them. I have to extract secret messages from the two available stego images. Without having to wait, I immediately operated ANESRITHM again.

While waiting for the process to complete, I once noticed the image of Mr. Warm's first e-mail and the message that had been translated from the image. I thought, in that puzzle, I had to solve it before the specified time limit—namely, before the witching hour was over. I wondered, would there be a time limit for this puzzle, too?

My question was answered when ANNESRITHM completed the extraction process from the two stego images. From behind the separate comic panels of the witch and the watchman, a message was read:

Congratulations, you have been able to unite the Witch and the Watchman.

Go to those coordinates. Find and challenge the mini Pommelte ring sanctuary with your irises.

You will be taken to a cellar where a jonquil-colored magic ball is kept.

Say the password “WATCHMEN” and greet the Magic Ball with your fingerprint.

Finish before this year's perihelion begins.

Here is the deadline to complete the next task: before perihelion occurs.

Perihelion is the point in the elliptical orbit of a planet, asteroid, or comet that is closest to the sun. The term perihelion comes from two Greek words, namely (1) peri, which means dekan, and (2) Helios, which means the Greek sun god. For your information, the opposite of this point is called aphelion, which is the farthest point of these objects from the sun.

Our planet's perihelion consistently occurs around the early dates of January. There is no specific date, but the time range always occurs around the beginning of the year. In my brain, there is already a memory of when this perihelion occurred, which was on January 3 in the early morning. I immediately typed a search on the internet for confirmation, and indeed, my memory was correct. This year's perihelion will occur exactly on January 3 at 00:38.

Compared to the deadline for completing the previous puzzle, this time the deadline is much longer. I have more than 24 hours left. But I could already guess why Mr. Warm gave me so much time.

At a glance, if I remember the coordinates I got from calculating the volume and area of ​​the Witch of Agnesi curve, the coordinates I had to visit were outside the territory of the Federal Republic of Deutschtonia. I opened the Maps application and typed in the coordinates in decimal degrees format. 52.545773, space, 15.20530844.

My guess was right; the coordinates I was heading to were outside my country. The coordinates were in the Republic of Polskachia, precisely in a place called Gmina Lubniewice. The area is located on the border of the northeastern region of the Federal Republic of Deutschtonia.

I checked the information on the internet about the location I had to go to. In general, my destination was in a natural forest area that was still overgrown with trees. I couldn't use a car to get to that location; I had to walk.

In addition to accepting the condition that I had to walk to get there, I had thought about several other things. I thought that I would not be able to reach the edge of the forest to enter the forest with my car. It would seem suspicious if someone passed by and saw a high-end car parked on the edge of the forest without a driver or owner.

I planned to reach the edge of the forest by folding the bike, and bring my folding bike inside. I checked that by bike, it would take about twenty minutes from the nearest town that had a hotel. “It would be no problem to cycle 20 minutes and bring the bike in,” I thought.

I immediately opened the hotel room provider application. After looking at various options, I decided on a hotel. Like the hotel room I was currently staying in, the hotel in Gmina Lubniewice that I chose was a high-class room.

The reason was the same, namely because it was still the holiday season and many rooms were already booked. In the Gmina Lubniewice area near my destination, many tourists visit. The place is a magnet for many tourists because there are several beautiful lakes there.

After finishing the hotel business, I researched other aspects. The city of the Federal Republic of Deutschtonia that is closest to Gmina Lubniewice is the city of Guldendorf. Luckily, there is an Alleinbahn line that goes to Guldendorf. However, there is no Alleinbahn line or similar service in the Republic of Polskachia. From Guldendorf to Gmina Lubniewice, the distance is about 73 kilometers. I, who can only drive my car on ordinary roads, probably need about 50 minutes to arrive there.

Now I already have a new plan; I will cancel my previous plan, which is to stay until near the checkout deadline at The Three Globes Hotel. My new plan is I will go home first to my house in Hessestadt. I have to take other tools that, who knows, later will be useful for my trip abroad.

After that I will drive on the Alleinbahn again to Gudendorf. From my house to Guldendorf, the distance is about 830 kilometers. If using the Alleinbahn, I estimate I will arrive in 2 hours 15 minutes to 2 hours 30 minutes.

I planned to check out of the Drei Weltkugeln hotel around 5 am. With the time limit for completing the puzzle still far away, I decided to take the remaining sleep time. I didn't know how many more puzzles Mr. Warm had left, and the next one might keep me awake and unable to sleep.

Besides, the series of events that occurred in the last 24 hours drained my energy significantly. Therefore, I had to sleep while I still could.

The last thing that came to my mind before my consciousness disappeared was about a cellar at the location point. Surely the cellar would be very different from the hotel where I was sleeping right now—or maybe not?

What did the jonquil-colored magic ball that Mr. Warm mentioned look like? Were there other objects there? What would the secret of death and the key to conquering the Quietus Cloud be like?