“As the victor, I’ll hand over the ownership of the Land of the Dead and its labyrinth to you, the Black Merchant,” Kim Jin-Woo said.

“You’ve made a good choice,” the Black Merchant said. However, he once again waited to see if Kim Jin-Woo was silently contemplating making another ballsy move.

But even that anticipation lasted a short while, as Kim Jin-Woo soon carried on. “But, there is one condition.”

“What is it this time? We made a promise this time around, so you can’t do what you did the last time.”

Kim Jin-Woo responded to the Black Merchant’s plea. “I don’t want something so ominous in my presence. Thus, retrieve the Labyrinth Core and keep it somewhere out of my sight.”

Perhaps the request was too unexpected, as the Black Merchant looked back and forth between the Labyrinth Core and Kim Jin-Woo and replied, “What do you…? Even if we restore the Labyrinth Core as is, it will be too fragile to attempt to extract it. I refuse. If it cracks during the extraction, how do you expect me to follow through with the clean-up?”

The Black Merchant made a huge fuss as he continued to reject the request. He wasn’t putting on an act. The message that appeared for Kim Jin-Woo further confirmed that the Black Merchant was, in fact, being serious.

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