Clatter, clatter.

The knife that was slowly cutting the steak stopped moving.

“Sigh.”

Count Gorgon, who let out a faint sigh, put down the cutlery and shook the little bell.

He called over the chef and started sorting out the complicated thoughts in his head.

‘This is hard.’

Count Orpheus was giving Count Gorgon a headache.

Count Gorgon couldn’t quite understand his strange behavior.

‘I managed to form an alliance between the South and the West by getting Horizon involved, but…’

To be honest, there were many loopholes in his own logic.

Count Gorgon thought that Count Horizon must have realized the flaws in his logic by now, but he didn’t think that Count Horizon would go out of his way to break the alliance since both sides were thinking of each other as insurance.

‘If Count Orpheus really made some sort of a deal with the East because he’s about to attempt a breakthrough into the Transcendent Stage, there would be no reason for him to drag things on.’

It was a reasonable assumption because Count Orpheus could simply push into either the West or the South using his superior power.

‘But he didn’t do that... In that case, perhaps a third party made that crystal ball?’

The traces on the crystal ball definitely belonged to a Star Destruction Stage creature.

“Wait a minute… Star Destruction?”

A certain thought briefly appeared in Count Gorgon’s mind.

‘What if the perpetrator is a Player who has reached...