At first, Hawa didn’t know. She had merely thought that since there were thick trees and vines, it was a jungle of sorts. However, before long, Hawa felt a strange sense of déjà vu. Although it was definitely her first time here, this place felt strangely familiar. She felt as if she had been here before, and this feeling became stronger as they went deeper inside. Hawa tried to ignore this feeling, but as time went by, the unknown sense of familiarity became more intense.

Then events that she couldn’t ignore occurred. First, when she saw the tree monster that Emmanuel faced, she had doubted herself, but after seeing the three-way intersection, a memory deeply engraved in her brain surfaced. How could she forget it? To her shock, the Hala Forest was similar to the place she had risked her life to train and died hundreds of times in, where everything was covered in darkness. Of course, it wasn’t 100 percent identical, but too many things were the same despite the small differences. A hypothesis took shape in her mind. What if Chi-Hyun had created the image representation space she trained in to be as similar as possible to the Hala Forest based on the information he heard from someone else? Then everything fell into place, and it made sense why he had made a ridiculous request to her out of the blue.

[Join that expedition and be acknowledged.]

[Take the position of the head in your team.]

And...