"None can hide from me on the surface, especially if they're strong. But that wasn't the case with you. I came up with several hypotheses. Of them, only one possibility hadn’t been eliminated—you came from a place beyond my gaze, which means you either came from another world or the underground..."

"Hoh, what an interesting deduction."

"You may think you're the only hero here, but the goddess has brought in several heroes from other worlds."

No, Lee Shin-Woo already knew that. After all, there were two other heroes on the surface right now!

"But unfortunately, Her summoning magic is too conspicuous. After the Golem network was created, I would locate and kill any hero summoned to the surface, unless one of Her apostles secretly descended upon the world."

Wait a sec... The surface, not the underground? This was the first time Lee Shin-Woo heard about this. The goddess had been sending heroes to the surface rather than the underground in the past? Why? In order to defeat the Magic Emperor, who had complete control over the Empire?

Of course, simply looking at the Emperor now gave him some idea. The Underground Empire wasn't the only problem. Both the surface and...