Following Yeon-woo’s instructions, Hanryeong searched for Edora. The unstable Pairing he had with Yeon-woo told him that something unusual was going on but he was more intent on carrying out Yeon-woo’s orders than returning to find out what was wrong. After all, Hanryeong’s presence would probably not make much of a difference to Yeon-woo’s situation. Moreover, Hanryeong felt a strange sense of anxiety as he continued his search for Edora. ‘Something’s strange. Is this everything they planned? No, it can’t be. There’s probably more.’

Yeon-woo and the others were busy preventing more incidents from occurring in the village, but, if one took a step back, a couple of things didn’t seem to make sense. First: who was behind this operation? At first glance, it appeared to be Faceless, who enlisted the help of White Dragon and the Daud Brethren, planning everything with a mole within the One-horned tribe. However, when Hanryeong thought about it, Faceless seemed to be a red herring. Hanryeong had once served as the Saber God of the Cheonghwado, and he knew very well what the Sword God and Spear God were like.

At the time, they considered themselves apex warriors and rulers. However, after Red Dragon destroyed the Cheonghwado and Hanryeong became Yeon-woo’s familiar, Hanryeong realized that he had been little more than a frog that lived its entire life inside a well. Hanryeong was skeptical about Faceless’s ability to involve the godly society of Asgard. Although Faceless possessed Gungnir, a great divine weapon, that alone wasn’t enough to mobilize an...