#32. The Way the Naga King Fights

“Still, they’re Underground Nobles, so there must be a reason. We should start by talking…”

“Bullshit! This is an invasion! They’re bringing an army of over two thousand troops, do they look as if they’re here just to talk? Do you think they’ll just turn back and head home if we throw them a sacrificial lamb!?”

“But to go against the nobles…”

“Since when were they even nobles!? Aren’t we all labyrinth masters all the same? I have no idea why we’re living as if we’re no better than them!”

The open square that was being temporarily used as a meeting hall was now no different from the neighborhood market, as representatives from each labyrinth argued loudly over each other.

“This is the Underworld! The Underworld! It’s not like the surface where everything is happy and sunny. This is the Underworld, where the only thing that matters is power! Rather than succumbing to the nobles, I would rather destroy myself along with my labyrinth!” Malaxus, King of Hammer and Anvil, retorted fiercely.

“Why do these nobles have such fancy names? It’s because they have all the power and history behind them to back it up. The King of Hammer and Anvil thinks too lightly of them. Is your brain fried from standing next to your hot brazier?”

“My brazier has covered not my head, but my heart! I’m different from you, Gorinthos, who only knows how to hide like a coward in your swamp!”

The conversation that had initially started out as a discussion of the invasion from the 10th Floor quickly degraded into a war of words between them.

Kim Jin-Woo had expected as much. Although they were here to unite against a common enemy, with their own survival...