<Seon-Hu: I’ll be back before the summer ends, so don’t worry.>

<Father: Call your mother often, son. You will always be a child to your mother.>

<Seon-Hu: I’ll try.>

I hung up. Flying around the world during vacation had become the norm for me, and there was only one week left until school started. I couldn’t just sit around and wait to hear news about the First Evil; it was important to strengthen myself in order to kill him. 

“You don’t need to be nervous, I’ll be entering alone this time,” I told Woo Yeon-Hee, who suddenly had become speechless, unlike the way she was at the airport. She looked at me with round eyes, and I could see defiance in them. We were still below the standard to challenge the top class dungeons, so our next target was another F-class dungeon in Gim-je. However, I had never been to this one, so the goal for this entry was exploration.

“I can do better this time,” Woo Yeon-Hee said after turning down the radio volume. It had been six months since we had destroyed the dungeon in Hwasung,...