Yeon-woo couldn’t believe his ears. ‘What?’

「H-H-H-Heavenly Demon?」

「No way…!」

But it didn’t seem like he’d heard wrong. Shanon and Hanryeong gasped in shock. Even the usually impassive Boo and Rebecca were also surprised. The shadow under his feet trembled. The words the man had spoken were simply too shocking.

The Heavenly Demon was a transcendent being who was neither god nor demon, neither dragon nor giant and stood high above the rest of the heavenly world even though everyone was his enemy.

In an almost monotheistic manner, the Devil Army worshipped him as the true god and regarded the other gods and demons as fakes. Because they were such fanatics, Yeon-woo had believed all this time that the Heavenly Demon wouldn’t be much different from his followers. Since the Heavenly Demon was supposed to be the only evil who had ever reached the heavenly world, Yeon-woo was expecting a monster who could only destroy, a rabid beast who hated anything that tied him down.

He’d always thought that the Heavenly Demon was like a great demon to whom even the Demon Kings would bow. He wasn’t the only one who believed this; most of the players in the Tower all had the same impression, which was why the Heavenly Demon had a very small following.

‘But…this person is completely different.’

He looked so lofty,...