While Chi-Woo was busy preparing for the expedition, Hawa was wandering between the crossroads of life and death like usual. After boldly approaching the legend and asking for his teaching, Hawa had been leading a repetitive life of going back and forth between her home and the official residence. Chi-Hyun’s method of training was simple; it closely resembled the method that his and Chi-Woo’s master, Byeok, used.

He created a specific situation with his image representation ability and left Hawa there. That was the extent of his involvement, and whether she died or not, he gave no advice. Thus, Hawa had to survive on her own again today. Although she was the epitome of emotionlessness, she was still human, and she felt enormous disappointment and frustration towards this forceful training.

At first, she tried to complete this task with all she had without even letting out a groan out of pride, but it wasn’t easy. She wasn’t sure if it was an intentional arrangement of Chi-Hyun’s, but it was hard to make out the different monsters appearing in different situations with the darkness shrouding them. Thus, Hawa tried to identify the monsters by remembering their other characteristics, such as the sound they made, but she soon realized that the attempt was also futile. No matter how much she searched, there was no information that matched the characteristics of the monsters that she’d experienced firsthand; she couldn’t even get a small clue about the monsters outside of the image representation space.

It became clear by then that the image representation space was created based on memory and experience, and the mental images that she encountered were created by Chi-Hyun. Moreover, it was clear that the mysterious monsters that appeared every time were monsters that only Chi-Hyun had directly or indirectly faced. It might be alien monsters outside of planet Liber. Hawa felt most discontent about this fact. She could understand if they were monsters she might face on Liber, but she couldn’t understand why she had to risk...