Wyatt had some recollection of the "Heavenly Abyss Remnant Poison Purge," but he was hardly familiar with it. In these circumstances, he failed to react at once.
The voice was unfamiliar too, but he had deliberately memorized every detail of it. He recognized it now:
It was the one who had lured him into the Illusory Nightmare Domain, the Initial Awakening Society's "designated contact."
Possibly someone high up in the Initial Awakening Society.
Wyatt had nearly forgotten the reason this person had given for luring him into the Illusory Nightmare Domain. That was only natural. In the end, he had wanted to go.
If not the Illusory Nightmare Domain, it would have been something else.
What Great Monarch Wyatt wanted was to prolong his life and find the means to approach true immortality, so that his three thousand years of life could continue.
He hadn't lived enough. Not nearly enough!
And he wanted those years to be worth living, like the previous two thousand and more: rising step by step, wielding power, enjoying life...
That conviction put Great Monarch Wyatt on edge the moment the contact spoke. Now, being a "Humanoid Campfire" or a "Warden," let alone "serving time" or receiving "punishment," was a price he could not accept.
He would not endure it. If he could not escape from within the Ruin and Fall System, he would break out and gamble again, just as he had before!
The situation gave him the chance to summon his courage.
Even now, his Faith Link with the Lord of the Ultimate Dark had not recovered. It remained severed. After three thousand years orbiting in the lord's star chart, Wyatt seemed to have slipped free of his course altogether...
At this point, what was there to hesitate about?
The next moment, Great Monarch