"…"

There was a heavy silence.

Kim Si-Hun and the other party members couldn't understand Mandarin, so they remained silent. Kang-Woo, who understood what the Sword Emperor had said, also remained silent, but it was to figure out the situation.

Echidna tugged on Kang-Woo's clothes and asked, "Kang-Woo, what's a Martial God?"

"Hmm? Echidna, you understand Mandarin?"

Kang-Woo looked surprised, but he quickly realized that he had forgotten something very basic…

'Now that I think about it… How is it that Echidna's able to speak Korean?'

He had never thought about it. Echidna had spoken Korean so fluently when they first met that it never occurred to him that it was strange. He thought she'd naturally learned to speak his language after becoming his summoned beast.

"No, I don't know Mandarin. I can use magic and make it so we can understand each other," Echidna explained.

"Wow."

It seemed like the magic that Echidna was using had a similar effect to Kang-Woo's Authority of Language.

"Can you cast that magic on other people too?" Kang-Woo asked.

"Yup."

"Then cast that magic on Si-Hun and the others as well."

"Okay."

Echidna raised her hand and chanted a short spell. A wave of magic...