Clack. The door closed. After guiding Noel Freya out the door, Chi-Woo fell into deep thought.

‘Prepare…I have to make preparations…’

According to Noel, Chi-Hyun had an ability of ‘astrology’. But of course, the ability wasn’t absolute, and his predictions always had room for change—case in point, a light had lit up the north again contrary to his expectations. But back to the situation at hand, Chi-Hyun had recently read signs of abnormalities in the sky. He didn’t know exactly what the phenomenon was, but it was definite that something would happen soon, and they needed to make preparations for it in advance. Noel said Chi-Hyun must have immediately gone to check out the Demon Empire’s movements for that reason too.

However, since Chi-Hyun couldn’t be sure that was really the source of the abnormalities he read, he gave a separate warning to Noel. What other explanations could there be, though? Noel thought hard and came to the speculation that it might have something to do with the recruits. It was about time for the eighth recruits to come, and the Celestial Realm must have finished their selection process and transported the new team by now. The prophecy tended to use recruit teams as strategic tools under the name of ‘missions’, as clearly shown by how it sent the fifth recruit to the north and the sixth and seventh recruit teams respectively to...