#87. The First Time

“The ruler of the Satyrs has been defeated in a war.”

“An unidentified labyrinth has captured the ‘Eternal Exile’.”

The impact of the first large-scale war since the great catastrophe occurred had spread further than expected.

The death of a Duke, considered to be one of the true rulers of the Deep Floors, was by no means a small matter. The Duke, who had suddenly risen through the ranks faster than anyone else, had fallen before anyone could unveil him.

It was a decisive event that changed how the Deep Floors functioned, and it was enough to make the Underworld labyrinth masters, whose labyrinths had been forcefully reorganized thanks to the Restoration, feel a sense of crisis.

It was the labyrinth masters on the 9th Floor who had suffered the most, as they shared the same Floor as the very Naga King who had defeated the Demon Army of Sin.

They had to pour in all the resources they had saved up in order to recover the damage they had suffered from the earthquake, while expending even more resources on reconnaissance and search and rescue missions.

Thanks to that, Kim Jin-Woo got busier. He was the man at the center of all those events; he was the one who had defeated the Duke shrouded in a mysterious veil, and the victor who had claimed the Duke’s...