It took around five hours to capture Penn. It was the midpoint, or exact middle point, of the four hours Hyeonu spoke about and the six hours the emperor thought about.

A five hour battle—at the end of it, there were only rankers left in Penn after a perfect battle without a single death. There weren’t even ants left.

[Captured Penn 1/1]

[Demonic creatures killed 50,293/???]

[Demons killed 39,384/???]

“Wonderful. You are well qualified to participate in the war.”

The emperor soon appeared on the city walls and started to speak. The emperor praised the battle of the players. The emperor continued to talk, regardless of whether he actually liked them or not. The position of emperor was like this. He had to do things differently from his real heart.

[You have cleared Proof of Qualifications.]

Then the same message window appeared in front of thousands of players. It was a message window indicating that the first step of the main scenario was cleared.

‘I gained a huge amount of experience.’

[Experience has been acquired.]

[You have leveled up.]

[All health and...