Yeon-woo, Shanon, Hanryeong, and the Vampiric Lord all looked at the Heavenly Demon in shock. But the Heavenly Demon just shrugged, as if he didn’t know what the matter was. This reaction shocked Yeon-woo even more.

From what he knew, the Black King had always been a respected figure to the gods and demons and a father figure to the otherworld gods. He assumed the reason he couldn’t identify the Black King was because he was a progenitor god like Mother Earth, and an even more supreme being than she was. But the Heavenly Demon had been the one to exile him into emptiness? He suddenly remembered the folklore passed down by the orcs.

In the beginning, dreams cycled endlessly in blackness…

Then, light suddenly bloomed and the dreams awoke. Blackness began to fight with light to regain its lost dreams…

A light had suddenly appeared in blackness—his guess that the light was the Heavenly Demon was correct, after all.  

“Why do you look so surprised? Is it your first time seeing a celebrity?” The Heavenly Demon smirked and swept his hair back. His tone and attitude reminded Yeon-woo of the Monkey King. “Well, to be exact, I was the one who rendered him powerless, and the ones under me stuck him into emptiness. But it's the same thing, right?”

Yeon-woo was speechless.

“Thanks to that, I lost all my strength and was forced to rest. That’s why my mind is in the Changgong Library. I need to learn more about Gnosis.”

Yeon-woo had no idea what Gnosis was, but he felt the fog in his head clear. “Then the Tower is…!”

“Shh.” The Heavenly...