“What is an executive of the Abyss faction like you doing here?”

The mysterious man asked, and Evelyn didn’t answer. She was too flustered to talk. It was too much of a shock that she had been overpowered. Although she was ambushed suddenly, it was still hard for her to accept her defeat. Even the two monarchs who ruled over Abyss couldn’t have cornered her to this degree. In other words, this mysterious man was superior to the Abyss’s two monarchs.

“Aren’t you going to answer?” Unknowable energy forcefully lifted Evelyn off the ground.

“Kugh!” The shapeless mana gripped around her neck tightly and made her pupils jitter. This man wasn’t torturing her to make her confess. He was really going to kill her like this if she didn’t answer. Evelyn opened and closed her mouth, and the mana around her neck loosened slightly.

“The Demon Empire…on the way of returning…” she muttered in bits and pieces. “Met…needed to talk…”

The man’s eyes glinted, and after organizing his thoughts for a bit, he nodded.

“Yes, I was wondering about that.”

“…”

“How was the Abyss able to restrain the Demon Empire? From what I know, your hands should’ve been too full to deal with the Sernitas.”

“…Kugh!”

“Well, thanks to that, I was able to move around more freely.”

The energy gripping her neck disappeared, while the mana that bound her body remained.

“Keh! Cough, cough!” Evelyn coughed hard while hovering in the air and glared at the man with teary eyes. Once she recovered from the coughing fit, she explained, “All…I did was make a deal… Since a hero on your side blocked the Sernitas’ attack, we had more ease…”

“A deal, you said?” The man rubbed his chin. “Someone on our side blocked a Sernitas’ attack?...