After thinking for a bit, Ciara soon replied with a nod, “The female demon, right? The one who had the ability to ignore the dungeon’s power.”

I continued, “You said the next Demon Army Commander I would fight would be a strengthened version of Lespina.”

She nodded sheepishly. “Yes, I did. But that was my mistake. I realized it after I obtained this woman’s memories. That woman was an Irregular among Irregulars. If this Sherafina woman knew such an odd thing would be born, she would never have given information to the Demon Lord.”

Lespina’s power was unique even among the countless demons that ever existed. The Demon Lord must have vowed to birth more demons like her, but in the end, no demon like her appeared again. Even the Demon Lord had been toyed with by Sherafina’s hands.

But after subjugating Lespina, there was something I had always considered strange.

“Before I defeated Lespina, I met Sherafina for the first time. At that time, Sherafina told me about two things. First, the danger of demons. Second, Ciara Kenex, to take you in. …That was a magic spell to force someone to act a certain way…a mental suggestion, right?”

Ciara explained, “Yes. Because Hero-nim already had Absolute Soul at the time, so it was impossible to instill a mental suggestion without Absolute Soul activating unless she met Hero-nim face to face.”

I pursed my lips. “I see, so she did the same to Loretta.”

I remembered thinking Loretta had been acting strangely by suddenly bringing me to meet the Dungeon Lord.

That was the only time Sherafina had met with me directly. At the time, I didn’t think it was strange, but thinking about it now,...