The room stirred from Ismile’s declaration. Though it sounded like a joke, it didn’t seem like Ismile was joking around. With an uncharacteristically serious look on his face, he said, “You may or may not be aware of the situation, but…I’m sure everyone heard that the legend and I left Shalyh for quite some time recently.”

Then Ismile summarized everything that has happened since then. He and Chi-Hyun had gone outside the city to assess the other factions’ situations since they had suddenly stopped warring against each other. It was then that they discovered the discrete dealings between the Demon Empire and the Sernitas. Thus, Chi-Hyun secretly trespassed into the Sernitas’ Sky Castle, and Ismile left. Everything up to this point was what Chi-Woo already knew.

“Before I separated with the legend, the legend assumed the worst-case scenario. Thus, he handed his secret information network over to me and told me to monitor our enemies’ movements closely.” And Ismile did just as Chi-Hyun instructed him to do. Before he went to see Chi-Woo, he contacted the information network and passed the legend’s message to them.

“Not long after that, I got some startling news.” Ismile cleared his throat, indicating that he was going to dive into the main topic now. “It was news that the Demon Empire had assembled a sizable army and dispatched them.”

It wasn’t strange for a faction to amass forces in preparation for war on Liber,...