Now in his dormitory after that messy dinner, Se-Hoon sat in front of his desk, looking at the two blueprints he had borrowed from Lea.0

“Hmm…”0

One was the unfinished blueprint of a device left by Lea’s father, Dane Claudel, and the other was the blueprint of the new enchantment Lea had created. If the two could be perfectly merged together, the item Lea intended to submit for the student scholarship competition would be complete.0

It’s too dangerous…0

In the past, the Heroes Association publicly declared a subjugation mission for the Puppeteer in response to the damage caused by the Puppeteer increasing day by day. They destroyed numerous hideouts and puppets, and then, when they finally located her main body, the Heroes Association mobilized all of their forces and formed a small strike team.0

The strike team was comprised of eight S-rank heroes and twenty-one A-rank heroes, all of them acknowledged as nearly S-rank.0

There wasn’t a single Perfect One that participated because the association president at the time deemed their help unnecessary. Indeed, such a force should have been overwhelming against even the Ten Evils, but the result was far from domination.0

It ended with two S-ranks killed in action, two S-ranks retiring, nine nearly S-ranks killed in action, and eight nearly S-ranks retiring.…8

Effectively, four S-ranks and seventeen nearly S-rank heroes were left incapacitated—a dismal outcome.0

After the matter, Kwang-Soo, who had been one of the few to return intact, attributed the failure to three reasons.0

The first was the president’s misjudgment in not seeking help from any of the Perfect Ones.0

The second was an inaccurate judgment of the Puppeeteer’s numbers....0