Chi-Woo stood frozen in shock for a while and finally came to his senses. This wasn’t the time to act like this. He needed to come up with a countermeasure as soon as possible, but the thought only led him to another question.

“First of all, I want to make sure that we’re in the Middle World, right?”

“Well…you can think that way for the time being.” Just like he did in the Abyss, the Abyss King had randomly built a world and forcefully overlaid it with the Middle World—and not just one or two, but nine worlds.

“Why did he keep only you and me specifically in the Middle World?”

“Only the Abyss King can properly answer that question, but I think it’s probably for the purpose of separating us. Rather than directly confronting you and me, I think he intends to exclude us for now and diminish our power as much as possible.” The Abyss King’s action was understandable as the expeditionary force included not one but two figures that were extremely burdensome to deal with. It was hard for the Abyss King to guarantee victory one-on-one with either Chi-Woo or Chi-Hyun, not to mention two-on-one. Thus, he had separated the two from the expeditionary force and immediately carried out his plan.

“Okay, then—” Chi-Woo sucked in a deep breath. “What should we do in this situation?” Chi-Woo had no idea what to do no matter how much he thought...