After regaining a sense of reality after eating Choi Kayoon’s overly salty and spicy meat stew…

“I should start preparing to head off.”

Together with the three women who cared for him during the period of his unconsciousness, Woohyuk headed to Heidelberg, the capital of the Rhine Kingdom.

Swordmaster Granver was supposed to come to find him.

Though he was the incumbent teacher of Princess Eleonora, thanks to Woohyuk’s success in conquering the Northern Front, Woohyuk was able to obtain permission to use Granver from Emperor Tiberius.

“… But why are we moving in a wagon? If we use the shuttle, we’d reach Heidelberg in one day,” Helena, who was sitting next to Choi Kayoon, complained as everyone else was keeping quiet inside the carriage.

Woohyuk shook his head, turning his gaze towards her,

“The flying shuttle can’t be controlled by anyone. For now, only Aris can fly the shuttle, and she’s busy with her research assignments right now.”

“If it’s research, are you talking about the Qliphoth Fruit? Obviously, there’s a need to take a countermeasure against it. Because of its proliferation, several small kingdoms are in a financial and civil crisis.”

The Qliphoth Fruit transformed non-demons into Awakened people, and at...