Humans gathered experience by seeing with their eyes, hearing with their ears, and feeling through their skin. But they were naturally curious creatures. They wanted to know more about the things they couldn’t see, couldn’t hear, and couldn’t feel. That was why they made records. 

In the past, Seo Jun-Ho had read the journal of someone who had entered an elves’ village. 

‘The elves’ village is a vertical structure with the World Tree at its center.’ 

But dark elves’ villages were completely different. There were no trees, flowers, or plants at all because they had been abandoned by the World Tree. Their villages didn’t even have a single weed. 

‘Where dark elves reside, all the plants around them would wither and the trees would twist, and the fruit would rot.’ 

Those were the words of a dark elf who had received the curse of the World Tree. Coming into direct contact with light also gave them a terrible skin disease. 

‘So they ran away to a place where they could avoid sunlight.’ 

Underground. 

Seo Jun-Ho had cleared some underground dark elves’ villages as...