Joo-Hyuk couldn’t find Lee Soo-Ah, and there was no way for him to find out whether she was dead or alive. Going off of hasty assumptions could lead to problems, but he needed to prepare countermeasures for any unexpected scenarios as soon as possible. These thoughts buzzed through his mind during the entire time he spent traveling back to the Sky Guild’s mainland.

He finally entered a ghost village in District 13 near the destination. It was a town that his group had to pass through to enter the mainland, but he noticed that there was one attack team preparing to camp there. They were a sloppy group, and they weren’t even one of the top ten squads in the Sky Guild.

Huff-

The large beast Joo-Hyuk was riding on stopped after deeply exhaling through its nostrils. The line in the front and back also stopped for a moment.

“Bring them here,” Joo-Hyuk ordered.

“Yes, sir!”

One of the squad members sprinted toward the group and brought a man over, the captain of the team who was camping. His name was Son Il-Woo. Joo-Hyuk looked down at him without getting off his mount, while Son Il-Woo waited for Joo-Hyuk to respond with a nervous expression on his face.

Son Il-Woo naturally knew the ins and outs behind the symbol of the Sky Guild. All the symbols had a lightning bolt going through it, but the simpler the bolt was, the higher the ranking of the group in...