He walked out of the bar.
Gu Qingshan stood in the street, looking around.
The sky was black.
Beyond the town, everything was pitch-black too, as though nothing existed there.
—The entire world was just a card called "Town of No Moon."
This was a secret card. Anyone who knew of it could not reveal anything about it to others.
If they broke this rule, the Overseer would discover it at once and regard it as a betrayal of the organization.
The consequence was death.
Gu Qingshan set off along the cold, slippery cobblestone road.
As King of Pain, he had been stationed in the Void for far too long.
He had been away from the organization's center of power for too long, and the consequence was—
King of Pain had no idea what the organization was plotting.
Now,
Gu Qingshan was completely in the dark.
He could only guess that the "large-scale battle" was taking place in the Asura Realm.
The Asura Realm had actually needed so many Void Masters to take part, and even now, the battle showed no sign of ending.
At the thought of it, Gu Qingshan could hardly wait to see what was going on.
But King of Pain had just completed a mission and was still on leave. No one would assign him a mission.
—Should he volunteer for the battle?
The organization's way of doing things was to have every Void Master, on every mission, work like a precisely wound clock, ceaselessly striving toward the completion of a specific task.
If he suddenly volunteered for battle, they would surely think he was crazy.
Gu Qingshan thought silently.
Then—
What other way could he find to take part in the current large-scale battle?
Thoughts flashed through his mind, and he suddenly recalled what the