“She’s not here!?” Kim Jin-Woo frowned as he looked at the empty quarters of the Night-Mares. He belatedly searched the area, but Ariane was nowhere to be seen. He commanded urgently, “Find the Queen of Illusions!”

The summons scattered to find the Queen of Illusions. After a while, they returned with heavy expressions, reporting that there wasn’t a single trace of Ariane to be seen. “She’s not here!”

“Fuck!” Kim Jin-Woo cursed with belated regret.

Ariane was a traitor. She had been a spy sent by Denarion, and she had already been humiliated once after she was found out. Because she was subjected to such treatment, Kim Jin-Woo had subconsciously ignored the possibility that she could have been a Warden. He had never thought that she could have hidden her true identity by wearing so many layers of masks.

No, now that he thought of it, this might have been Ariane’s plan all along. The fact that she had approached him under Denarion’s orders and that she had revealed her identity the day thousands of mobs were slaughtered all seemed absurd in hindsight. After all, it was insane to think that she, who was only a minor Noble, had pursued Denarion of Nightmares,...