“I welcome Earl Gang Hyeonu to the imperial palace.” The guard protecting the door of the imperial palace welcomed Hyeonu.

“You worked hard today. I’ll be going in.” Hyeonu passed by the guard with a slight nod.

‘I’m here again.’ Hyeonu returned to the imperial palace. It was a place he didn’t want to visit. To be exact, he was reluctant to meet the emperor again because it wasn’t a very pleasant experience. In fact, this was one of the reasons why Hyeonu abandoned the quest. Hyeonu wandered through the imperial palace with the parchment paper in one hand and a map in the other.

‘Why is it so familiar?’

He was definitely going to the location the parchment was pointing to, yet the location was so familiar to him. Hyeonu knew this building and landscape. He always stopped by here when he visited the imperial palace. It was near the emperor’s palace where the emperor was located.

Hyeonu struggled to get rid of his rising anxiety and took a step forward. However, his uneasy feeling was never wrong. The building on the parchment was indeed the emperor’s palace where the emperor was located. Hyeonu’s expression distorted,...