The restaurant door opened, and Wood and Zrias walked in. Both looked travel-worn, but Zrias in particular looked exhausted, as though he had died countless times.
"Byakuya, if you don't pay me more black maple, I'll have died over six hundred times these past few days for nothing."
Zrias sat down without minding that the food was leftovers. He picked up a ham sandwich and stuffed it into his mouth. Seeing this, Su Xiao had the servants bring out the prepared feast. Zrias, whose face had always been thicker than a city wall, dug in with his hands. Even Wood, who usually paid attention to etiquette, ate rather quickly. It seemed the two of them were genuinely starving.
Once they had eaten their fill, Zrias let out a long breath and pulled most of a sheet of parchment from his robes. The thing looked ancient, weathered until it had the texture of wood. A small piece could be snapped off with the slightest bend.
The ancient Parchment bore most of a circular array diagram. It was so intricate that it made one's eyes blur, but Su Xiao could still identify the characteristics of its main nodes: the sun, the world, and aggregation.
Originally, the Dusk Squad consisted of Su Xiao, Zrias, and Wood. But after dealing with the first powerful enemy, the "Mutated Beast God," Zrias and Wood had entered a state of concealment, as if they had never come to this world. The High Tower Knight Commander, False King, Nun, and incarnations of the gods that came afterward had all been dealt with by Su Xiao alone.
What had the two excellent teammates been doing during that time? That question concerned the very essence of the Dusk Squad. Simply put, their goal was to defeat powerful enemies and seize