“Tae-Shik hyung…” It had been a while since the revelation, but Gi-Gyu was still as confused as ever.

Gi-Gyu’s voice cracked a little when he whispered again, “Tae-Shik hyung…”

Gi-Gyu couldn’t remember the last time he had seen Oh Tae-Shik. And when they had finally met again, Tae-Shik had looked like a horrible black beast. Shockingly, they had fought on their reunion, resulting in Tae-Shik now resting before Gi-Gyu like a corpse.

“What happened to you…?” Gi-Gyu asked despite knowing Tae-Shik couldn’t hear him. It looked like that black barrier from before had been ingesting Tae-Shik but had to spit him out after the fight. His clothes were in tatters, and he was covered in wounds. All those wounds weren’t from the fight earlier. Some looked old, as if they had been inflicted long ago and then left to stew.

‘All this time… what were you doing?’ Gi-Gyu wondered. Players’ natural recovery rate was higher than non-players, and even severe wounds that would leave a scar on non-players quickly healed with just a drop of some healing potion.

Of course, only the elixir or the high-ranker healers could treat fateful...