Kim Seon-Hyeok bit on his lips, hard.

“I hope you will return as soon as the mission is over this time.”

Like an auditory hallucination, Ophelia’s plea rang through his head. In addition, the faces of countless people he had to protect flashed in front of his eyes.

But what was even clearer than their faces was the identity of the enemy off in the distance.

[The Fragment of Chaos has already lost half of its body. It would not dare to be so recklessly active when the realm of the Dragon Lord is within reach.]

Besides the Fragments of Chaos, the only beings powerful enough to wage a fight against the powerful nomads led by a Transcendental Being was another Transcendental.

“So one of the damn Transcendentals came forward?”

[Which of them would dare appear alone before me?]

Kim Seon-Hyeok nodded at Edda’s words. The Fragments of Chaos weren’t the only ones to fear Edda; the Transcendental beings did too.

“So then it won’t be one, but many.”

[If they appeared with me in mind, then there must be at least ten Transcendentals out there.]

It wasn’t just one dragon the Transcendentals had to deal with. The Transcendentals’ enemies were the most powerful Dragon Lord, the Gold Dragon and the Blue Dragon who had completely restored their former glory, and the cornered Wolf.

“A trap…”

There was no way they wouldn’t have prepared properly when they were fighting against the Dragon clan. Seeing how they had been maneuvering in the turbid Western region so that their opponents could not sense them, it was clear how thoroughly...