“Can I go with you?” Lee Jun-Young asked.

Kim Jin-Woo didn’t ask why. He simply nodded slightly and stood in front of the door for a while to give Lee Jun-Young time to finish her preparations. As if she had prepared beforehand, she picked up a bag and hurriedly stood next to him.

By the time they reached the gate, the sun was already starting to set.

“Have they all gone in already?” Lee Jun-Young wondered.

Until just a few hours before, the place had been bustling with explorers, but now, there was not a single one to be seen. It seemed everyone had already gone in, and the area around the gate had fallen silent.

“Oh, you’ve arrived.”

Park Sung-Jin must have made the necessary preparations in advance, as a man had been waiting for Kim Jin-Woo to hand him an access permit, as well as a couple of items he had requested.

“We were rushing to have these prepared, so we could only get you two temporary permits for now, but there should be no problems entering the Underworld.”

There was nothing special about the permits that hung from neck straps, but strangely, they were a different color from the normal ones. When Kim Jin-Woo asked about them, the man gave a lengthy explanation.

“This Underworld expedition is supposed to be a large-scale mission, so all the explorers have registered with the Association. Usually, teams would act on their own, but...