Pah―!

Spreading his Jigwi wings wide, Chang-Sun flew quickly over the snowfield, where a blizzard raged.

[The ‘Tracking Rune’ is reacting!]

The cross pendant on Chang-Sun’s hand spun like a compass; a Tracking Rune, which could be used to track the original owner of an object by stimulating the traces of the owner’s energy left on it, appeared above the pendant and pointed in a certain direction.

The more energy there was, the more quickly the rune tracked down the target. Although Gwak Do-Woon, the pendant’s owner, had died, its other owner was still alive; thus, the Tracking Rune led Chang-Sun directly to Phantom Demon Jeong Yoo-Jin.

[The Celestial ‘A Good Season to Hunt’ looks at the rune curiously, believing she could hunt much easier if she had such a convenient tool.]

[The Celestial ‘World-Encircling Serpent’ clicks his tongue, saying she should first gain proficiency in runes in order to use runes like you.]

Chang-Sun had left the main unit along the way because he sensed a reaction from the previously dormant Tracking Rune. As he moved, the reaction from the Tracking Rune grew more intense, which meant he was on the right track.

‘The Highoff executives are at the Winter Palace right now,’ Chang-Sun thought, recalling the information he had gotten little by little by torturing the illusion mages.

He had been dumbstruck to hear that the Highoff remnants had gathered in...