Zzahhng.

Woojin grabbed the back of Melody's neck the second she passed through the Return Portal Marble.

“Ooh-oohk.”

She felt her neck being choked. The sudden change in her situation caused Melody to look back at Woojin with trembling eyes. 

His eyes were death incarnate, “Whose vassal are you?”

She trembled, “P-Please Immortal...”

She knew that gaze of the Immortal. There wasn’t a speck of emotion, just the certainty of death. She couldn't look into his eyes.

“Speak.”

Melody’s neck was being squeezed, so it was hard for her to even breathe, “It...it isn't like that. I'm also a Dimensional Lord.”

Woojin let go of her neck.

“Huh-ook. Huhk.”

Melody massaged her neck, her breathing almost frantic in pace. The Immortal has shown his killing intent for a brief moment, but the mental pressure she felt left her exhausted.

Woojin examined her, “So you aren't a vassal of some other Dimensional Lord?”

Melody nodded, “Yes.”

Woojin asked, “Then how did you come through the dungeon?”

Melody was from Alphen. She had used a dungeon as a tunnel connecting Earth to the Dimensional Domain.

She had been inside a dungeon, yet she hadn't been harmed by the monsters. It was that train of thought that led Woojin to guess that she was a vassal of the dungeon's owner.

Melody kept her head down, “I used to have a Dimensional Domain.”

“Used to? How about now?”

“It was...