One never knew what would happen in the Underground Empire. In this world, there wasn't a problem with dichotomous thinking: whoever wasn’t a friend must be foe.

"It's laughable that he believed he wouldn't be discovered when he hadn't even made the dungeon secure. He only survived this long because he was lucky."

There was only one reason Lee Shin-Woo had killed Lee Man-Bok. Even though Lee Man-Bok had regained his sanity after turning into an undead, he lived such a leisurely life and didn't have a clear vision of the future. Not only that, he had been sitting on his ass dwelling in his hatred for everything with no concern of anything else... He was nothing more than a walking corpse, already dead in reality.

When the battle with the Empire intensified, he would either die to the twelve generals or to one of the other heroes. If not, he'd face and fall under the control of Ethan Cruz, who was incomparably more powerful than before. Rather than let him become someone’s pawn, Lee Shin-Woo would rather kill him now.

"Even so, you just went and killed him right away? You couldn't try to convince him?"

"Were you not listening? I did try to convince him. I even told him about...