Ilya became anxious. He had to question his hearing for a moment.

He needed to check whether he heard wrong.

But he was sure.

This was definitely that lunatic, Kwon Hyuk Soo's voice.

[Ilya. Are you listening to me?]

Ilya clicked his tongue.

[Yes sir. I can hear you.]

The telepathy was understandable.

Kwon Hyuk Soo had placed an artifact in all of his groomed subordinates’ heads.

It was a collar of sorts.

It was a small microchip that could be used to deliver messages from him to his subordinates. It was a telepathy walkie-talkie of sorts.

‘Fuck, I forgot to ask to have it removed.’

This was something that either Kwon Hyuk Soo could retrieve or the person could have taken out with a surgery artifact. He had not paid much attention to it because he thought Kwon Hyuk Soo was dead.

It didn’t matter.

It was annoying to have an old man’s voice in his head but it didn’t cause any other issues.

But there was something he could not understand at all.

‘Why?’

[Where are you right now sir? Are you still alive?]

That was right.

Kwon Hyuk Soo had been dragged into the afterlife by Ju-Heon.

Kwon Hyuk Soo started to laugh.

[I am alive for now. But I am the only one who survived.]

It sounded as if the assassins and the artifacts he took with him were all dead.

‘That makes sense. The afterlife that a Divine-Grade artifact dragged them into is probably no joke. But how the fuck is this son of a bitch still alive?’

Kwon Hyuk Soo seemed to...