“Is it dangerous?” I asked.

“Yes…” Kim Hyun-Sung replied.

“I see…”

I knew being in the arms of the regressor wasn’t always comforting. If I had to compare this continent and the current situation to a game, Kim Hyun-Sung was a named NPC who gave main quests. It had already been confirmed that he was at the center of many things, and he was aware that he could be in danger during that process. Thinking about it now, he had always been in danger. He had been at risk when he first participated in the attack team with Jung Jin-Ho in the tutorial dungeon, and he had also been in danger during the Castle Rock defense war. Obviously, I didn’t really feel pressured during those events because I trusted our lovely regressor, but the biggest reason was that I always thought he would appear out of nowhere whenever I was in trouble and take care of the issue for me.

It was undeniable that the overall difficulty we had experienced in the tutorial dungeon had increased after he joined the party. It was dangerous, but I wasn’t nervous. Now that I thought about it, my decisions so far had been reasonable because they were made after considering...