'So *they're* the ones who are truly after the King's Game!'
"The Heaven-Reaching Empire has already issued a bounty for anyone who slays the Demon and clears the game."
"The Heaven-Reaching Empire will grant them the title of Viscount—a Hereditary Viscount, the kind that comes with territory in the Outer Ring."
"Who could possibly resist such a temptation?"
"No wonder everyone's attitude has changed."
As Chen Qi's "quasi-ally," the ever-informed Lin Biyun was the first to learn the truth.
On the other end of the communicator, she was recounting the various rumors she had heard in a state of utter shock.
It was no wonder she was so flustered; the news was simply too sensational.
That was the Heaven-Reaching Empire, once the number one great power of humanity.
Even in its current state of decline, it could still easily flatten the entire Inner Ring.
