Kim Jin-Woo stared into the darkness on the outskirts of his labyrinth, before turning around to face Dominique.

“It should take a while, right?” Dominique asked him.

“Nobody knows. But I know she’ll return,” Kim Jin-Woo replied confidently.

Dominique nodded as she remarked, “Still, I never imagined that that Under-Elf was a descendant of the Cursed Elf Lord.”

It seemed Dominique had been caught by surprise upon learning that Rikshasha was the Princess of the Under-Elves. Even Kim Jin-Woo himself had been surprised by the hidden backstory of the Under-Elves.

But that was the extent of their surprise. After all, the clan had been nearly wiped out, and due to the curse of the Underworld, Rikshasha was simply holding an empty shell of a title with no way of recovering her former glory.

“We can never be labyrinth masters again. The Mysteries of the Underworld deny us,” RIkshasha had said.

She seemed uninterested in the pursuit of her clan’s former glory, but nevertheless, she had left the Fortress in search of the rest of the surviving members of her clan, explaining, ‘Even though our clan has dwindled in power and numbers, there are still quite a few of our members still out there. I want to persuade them to serve...