The black fog lifted from the green landscape. The people, tired of the neverending fight, sighed and sat down.

"The community is down for real."

"How on earth did they do that?"

"What happened to all the existing Korean challengers? Are they really all dead?” Ji Eun-Ju asked.

Everyone became more serious after hearing Ji Eun-Ju's words.

"No way… Would they really do that to each other? We’re not some kind of monsters; we are all humans,” Kang Ji-Hoon muttered.

"Oppa, it has been more than 70 years since World War II ended. It's time for that terrible tragedy to happen again.”

"Yes, Ji-Hoon. Can’t you understand after being attacked like this? We're enemies to them now. Look at that," Park Joo-Hyuk explained.

Park Joo-Hyuk's sword pointed to the dead body that lay on the ground.

"To them, we are just a species that disturbs the ecosystem. They probably believe they must kill and exterminate us,” Park Joo-Hyuk muttered.

"First of all, we should quickly set up a base where we can all rest. We don't know when the enemy will invade again, and soon, the challengers will come up from the lower floors,” Hwang Kang-Woong explained.

"Yeah, that's right. Plus, we are the advance party, aren’t we? So, we need to revive Merteng before then."

Among the challengers at Undermost, these seven people were the fastest to climb the tower. They could choose to wait for other challengers and climb up together, but the safety of the Korean challengers who were already active in Isocia was a problem.

This was why Lee Shin had allowed them to go up first. These seven people had clinched the top ranks of...