The ancient empire—Zich’s eyes shone at its mention. He might finally learn about the existence he was curious about. But before that, he had to make sure that the ancient empire he was thinking of and the ancient empire Romanne was talking about was the same one.

“It seems like you have a general idea about the empire.”

“I heard from Leona that it was an empire that belonged to many incredibly strong humans.”

“I see. Although that story has been passed down as a legend among elves, I told Leona about it in more detail since she has a high chance of becoming the next shaman.”

‘Leona as the next shaman?’

Leona went beyond careless to reckless. She didn’t fit the image of a shaman well, but Zich quickly shrugged it off.

‘Even the current shaman swears like a sailor. It wouldn’t be strange to have a reckless shaman.’ Furthermore, even someone like Leona would not remain so reckless their whole life. 

Romanne continued, “Legend says that Clowon was an incredible empire. They produced skilled emperors from generation to generation and built an ironclad force around the emperor. But they had nothing much to do with elves. No matter...