Two days later.

Past the borders of Mangul and Danyum, at a mountain path not far off from Deimerit.

"Something's strange," Jang-Wan muttered as she looked down at her Mangul army.

"Something is definitely wrong.”

Mangul’s army of 24,000 was still marching at night.

Among them, 8,000 were Kobolds, and being a nocturnal species, they were blessed with good night vision and a low need for sleep. To overcome their disadvantage of having small physiques and only being able to carry a small amount of things, they had to make use of their advantages, so they had no other choice but to march for longer.

"We'll arrive by tomorrow, but..."

Jang-Wan initially suspected only AR1026, but now both Crampus and Lunda seemed suspicious to her as well.

"Am I really being played by Choi Sung-Woon? Is it all just my imagination?"

Although the evidence she found for AR1026 being a traitor wasn’t enough, she believed Sung-Woon had done something, so she thought that was a good enough reason to look into it more.

"What was the problem?”

She judged that at least one of the two players would agree with her. Even though AR1026 was suspicious, she had no intention of intimidating her. By conducting a thorough investigation with the information she had, she could check if there were any parts that didn’t line up, and in that process, she could also find out if AR1026 really...