World's Summit

"Righteous Walker? Why is there a Righteous Walker here?"

"Run!"

"..."

"If you drop the sword in your hand now, I still won't stop."

"Since you chose this path, see it through. Don't expect me to spare you!"

On another floating island in the Dust Road World.

Alvitte gripped the Law Steel Sword as she fought a group of Awakened clad in steel armor.

While Linsey set foot in the World Center and explored the terrain around the Core Stone Pillar.

Alvitte had also found a way out through the caves beneath the floating island and returned to the surface. But what appeared before her was not an empty expanse of land, but a slaughter already underway.

Well-equipped soldiers raised their swords and butchered people across the floating island. Surrounded by them was a group of pitiful-looking Demi-humans, with traces of magical beasts among them.

Wars between armies were nothing unusual in the now city-state-based Dust Road World.

But among those Demi-humans, Alvitte saw only the elderly, the weak, women, and children. Those magical beasts had also been tamed, used as livestock or mounts.

The warriors, on the other hand, were all well-equipped and carried source essence within them.

—An army slaughtering ordinary people.

Alvitte could not tolerate such a tragedy unfolding before her.

Naturally, she drew her sword and brought the sight she could not accept to an end.

When Linsey contacted her.

Alvitte was in the middle of kicking a human soldier away.

Only after she had properly dealt with the battle before her did she look at the soldiers who had thrown down their weapons and surrendered, then at the Demi-humans huddled together. They did not even dare lift their heads, only sneaking glances at her from the corners of their eyes.

Alvitte sighed before reconnecting to