[You have won the battle.]

[Animalectus, King of the Beasts, has declared surrender.]

[The Land of the Beasts has been conquered.]

Seeing the message announcing the end of the battle, Kim Jin-Woo ordered the battlefield to be cleaned up with an ice-cold look on his face.

“Why did you have to go this far…?” One of the labyrinth masters in the alliance carefully raised the question as he looked at the decimated Land of the Beasts.

“Funny. We haven’t yet tied up loose ends, so how can we go into battle knowing that? We can’t leave them alone when they might turn their swords against us and fight for the 10th Floor Nobles at any moment.”

The 10th Floor Nobles’ intent to invade the 9th Floor was so blatantly obvious, and yet there were many labyrinths that refused to help. That was a problem in Kim Jin-Woo’s eyes. Parthenon’s influence in his quest for victory wasn’t limited to just the 10th Floor Nobles.

“But still…”

There was some truth in Kim Jin-Woo’s explanation, but it seemed difficult for the various labyrinth masters under him to accept it. It seemed they were very cautious of how Kim Jin-Woo might act after the war concluded.

“Uther, tell me what you’ve seen,” Kim Jin-Woo said.

Uther, who was observing all the goings-on by his side, swiftly responded. “There seem to be people who visited the 9th Floor before the 10th Floor’s army even...