Tick, tock, tick…

Tepes frowned while staring at the pocket watch in his hand.

‘What’s going on?’

The enemies were running late on schedule. The ignorant players of Earth should have already appeared seventeen minutes ago, but they were still nowhere to be seen.

“...”

The future Tepes was aware of had changed, and the unfamiliar feeling was unpleasant to him.

‘Did I make a mistake somewhere?’

Tepes carefully examined the map of Trium. He wondered if the stupid vampire apostles got caught by the enemies while setting up the traps.

‘No, that can’t be the case...’

There was no way the vampire apostles would suddenly make a mistake when they were doing well in the previous regressions.

‘Then, what is it? What am I missing?’

A vampire apostle opening the throne room broke Tepes’ train of thought.

“Tepes-nim! The bomb we installed in the fountain was discovered by the enemies! The humans are defusing the bomb right now!”

“...What?”

‘No way…’

Tepes’ eyes flashed with profound disbelief, but that wasn’t the end of it. More vampire apostles rushed into the throne room as if they previously agreed to do so at the same time.

“Reporting to Tepes-nim! We collapsed the sewers as ordered, but there were no enemies in the sewers.”

“We conducted the specified ambush, but we only found traces of enemies upon arriving..”

“The...