“Malice.”

Eunuch Liu’s answer was clean and precise, but Qianye couldn’t make heads or tails of it. Why would a great dark monarch—one who could suppress an entire continent—fear something so intangible as malice?

This malice had to have a source, right? Experts with a sharp perception would indeed sense certain things beyond the five senses, but if that was the extent of it, Eunuch Liu would’ve mentioned the source of this threat.

When Qianye inquired further, Eunuch Liu replied with a question, “You’ve been pioneering new land here for a while, did you not sense the malice?”

Qianye thought back carefully and recalled that he did feel restless and uncomfortable in the beginning. The human body would also react to stress under adverse environments, so he couldn’t say for sure if it was due to malicious intent.

Eunuch Liu said, “Speaking of which, this is actually a good thing for us humans. There’s an extremely powerful malicious intent targeting top experts here in the new world. According to the pieces of intelligence we obtained from the Evernight side, we can be sure that the malice is much stronger against the great dark monarchs of Evernight than toward the heavenly monarchs of the Empire. I don’t know why that...