Having discovered the Veins, Kim Jin-Woo was left with a dilemma.

In the past, he would have redeployed the defensive troops protecting his labyrinth to protect and secure the down gems instead. However, he had insufficient resources to relocate from the labyrinth in order to protect the Veins that were situated quite a distance away. However, the Veins themselves were too important to ignore.

In the end, after much deliberation, he gave an order to Uther. “Unleash your Greed Slimes and cover up this passageway for the time being.

Uther freaked out. “It would take half my body to completely cover a passageway of this size! No, it would take almost three quarters.” He had already concealed the Veins the same way once, but Kim Jin-Woo’s request seemed excessive.

Kim Jin-Woo peered deep into the passageway where Uther’s eyes couldn’t reach, and asked Uther to cover up the entire area. “Please.”

“Is this worth that much?” Uther seemed to be completely confused not only at Kim Jin-Woo’s request, which was unusual in itself, but at how persistent he was about it. The Naga King he knew wouldn’t be so obsessed over these piles of unripe down gems.

But that was only because Uther didn’t know of the existence of the Veins, and also because he was unaware of the situation in the Grand Labyrinth, where its elite troops had all vanished.

“Worth, huh…” Kim Jin-Woo looked around the passageway. “Well, that depends on how it’s used,...