"So you're saying that you’ve intuitively sensed each other and joined forces?"

[That's correct.]

Once the dust settled, Lee Shin-Woo listened to how the Pauls had fared thus far whilst collecting the loot from hundreds of undead. Honestly, there wasn't much to speak of; the story was simple. They had sensed a similar energy from the Pauls who had been wandering around after leaving the city, and they decided to travel together.

Three separate groups of Pauls had come together like that, and there were now twenty-two of them. Lee Shin-Woo felt a little weird knowing that the same thing was probably happening in other regions of the Empire as well.

[After that, we decided it was time to look for General Seagald, but...we came across a battalion that was patrolling the area, and we approached them thinking they might be...]

[They quickly realized that our energy was different from theirs and became hostile. Then they ordered us to meet their lord and prove that we were truly soldiers of the Empire, which left us with no choice but to fight them.]

"The lord, huh..."

Lee Shin-Woo had heard a thing or two about lords from his seniors. They weren’t particularly powerful, but had undergone a special transformation that enabled them to command other...