The "Aeluenthyu" they were currently in was a city floating in the sky.
Seiya believed that the magical power required to keep an entire city suspended in midair clearly could not be sustained by players or NPCs alone.
In other words, the sky city of "Aeluenthyu," like the Great Tomb of Nazarick, could only have been something players built in YGGDRASIL and then brought with them when they crossed over into this world.
It was a guild capable of rivaling Skeleton King and the others, and it possessed a Sky Castle like this. That made the identity of the "Eight Greed Kings" quite clear.
The "Eight Greed Kings" consisted of seven men and one woman, and legend had it that they were destroyed entirely due to internal strife.
That was hardly strange. Back in YGGDRASIL, they had merely been players, but in this other world, they had become genuine inhabitants of it.
Just like Skeleton King, who had become undead, there must have been nonhuman races among the "Eight Greed Kings" as well.
Changes in race brought changes to both body and mind, so conflicts arising from that were nothing unusual.
The thirty Guardians protecting the city were probably NPCs like Albedo and the others.
However, because they strictly upheld the orders left behind by the "Eight Greed Kings," they had continued faithfully guarding the guild and had never left this place.
One only needed to look at the NPCs of the Great Tomb of Nazarick to understand just how loyal NPCs in YGGDRASIL were to players.
The downfall of the "Eight Greed Kings" had undoubtedly been painful for these thirty Sky Castle Guardians.
So when they learned that Seiya might be a descendant of the "Eight Greed Kings," they were quite stirred up as well.
Their lord had left