During the battle, there was one thing the Sword Saint hadn't been able to understand.
Why had the previous Sword Saint died here?
If they'd chosen the three strongest corpses, then including the Sword Saint among them meant the fourth strongest had been replaced.
The enemies he'd faced before must have been even weaker.
Not stronger.
And enemies of that caliber, even if he couldn't beat them...
Shouldn't have been enough to kill him.
Even if all three had attacked him at once, he should still have had enough strength to escape if he wanted to.
At worst, he would have been seriously wounded.
There was no way he should have died.
At least, he was sure that if he'd really wanted to run, he wouldn't have died like that.
But it was hard to say what had happened a thousand years ago.
Maybe another powerful figure had entered the Forgotten Kingdom and killed the previous Sword Saint there.
Now that everything had settled, though, it seemed...
The previous Sword Saint hadn't died because he couldn't defeat the three.
It was because the upheaval here had turned the place into an impossible dead end.
Beside the Sword Saint, the burly man swallowed hard. "I heard that the Forgotten Kingdom brings back three of the strongest people who ever lived. If you defeat them, you get all the treasures they carry."
"Thinking it over..."
"That rumor has always come from people who didn't get the treasure."
"I've never heard of anyone succeeding."
"I thought it was because of the Month of Forgetting, and people forgot everything that happened inside."
"But now it seems that no one ever learned the true cause of death for those who challenged the strong ones in there..."
Those who made it out of the Forgotten Kingdom