Seo Jun-Ho headed straight for the Imperial Palace of Neo City. He entered the throne room under the greetings and reverent gazes of his officials.

- Your Majesty!

Yeon shouted energetically.

- It’s been a while!

“It has indeed been a while.” Seo Jun-Ho nodded and said, “The atmosphere of the city seemed to have changed a lot compared to the last time I was here.”

- Isn’t it just so energetic now?

“Yes. It looked good.”

The unique atmosphere of Neo City’s cold and gloomy streets had mellowed down a lot, and Seo Jun-Ho assumed that it was probably due to the influx of Players and astronauts.

“There aren’t any problems, are there?”

- There was no problem except that someone told me to prepare reinforcements but suddenly cut off contact with me.

“Let me off the hook just this one time. I wasn’t in the situation to reach out to you.”

- Well, I’m just glad that you are safe and sound, Your Majesty.

Yeon pulled up the hologram and started reporting.

- As you can see here, the toxic gas on the planet has decreased significantly.

“Is it all because the contaminated caves have decreased significantly as well?”

- That’s right! The Players are certainly very diligent, as Your Majesty said. How can they be more diligent than cyborgs?

The Players were working diligently because they were desperately trying...