It seemed that the world would soon be facing its demise.

The air turned cold, and all traces of life in the vicinity slowly began to dissipate like a candle being snuffed out in a chilling wind.

Up in the sky, the Demon Lord looked at Kang Yoon-Soo’s party members with his seven eyes, and opened his jaws that were jagged like grinding metal gears. Then, he spoke with a voice that sounded as if it did not belong in this world.

「Oh human, destined to die a foolish death.」

The Demon Lord’s voice resounded through the air.

Kang Yoon-Soo’s heart, which had long become calloused and void of emotions, suddenly began to beat quickly as he glared at his nemesis, the Demon Lord. He said, “My heart races whenever I see you… It always has… Just like the first time we met…”

It was only after Kang Yoon-Soo spoke that the party members realized that they could move once again. The Demon Lord’s presence alone had overpowered them so much that they lost control of their own bodies.

「The door is incomplete. It seems that someone interrupted the balance of this world.」

The door of Pandemonium closed immediately as soon as the Demon Lord descended from it, and slowly began to fade.

The seven eyes of the Demon Lord looked down at Kang Yoon-Soo.

「It seems that I have been summoned earlier and alone, and that the time for you to regress has not come yet.」

The Demon Lord was supposed to appear only twenty years after Kang Yoon-Soo regressed. However, Sirian’s interference had not only...