"Wh-What? Why did it suddenly disappear?!" Cha Yeon-Joo asked, confused.

The black gem that Oh Kang-Woo had found—the item that might be able to help them find out more about the Demon Cult—had suddenly disappeared.

"... It melted down the moment I grabbed it," Kang-Woo said.

He looked down at his hand while pretending to be shocked.

In reality, the black gem had disappeared because he'd used the Authority of Predation, but he couldn't say that.

He had to hide that he wasn't a human but a demon—the pinnacle of all demons, the demon king.

Yeon-Joo looked disappointed.

"... Is this a characteristic of demonic energy?" she asked.

"Now that I think about it, Oriax’s corpse also turned to dust and disappeared," Goo Hyun-Mo commented.

‘Good job,' Kang-Woo thought with bright eyes after he received the perfect assistance from Hyun-Mo.

Yeon-Joo nodded and muttered, "Hmm... I guess that's it, then."

"In any case, have your guild members investigate whether this item comes only from El Cuero or if other monsters have it too. And if they find a gem inside a monster’s brain, have them bring it over right away," Kang-Woo said.

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