Extra 2: Lost Kingdom

"Sorry, Eve, I still have some things to do." "And you, old man—my greatest question now is, who exactly are you?" Eve nodded silently, then said, "After that, she and Hirse never came to bother me again. Not long afterward, I heard they had married. Perhaps that was for the best—giving up something I had no use for in exchange for a peaceful life..." "Are you setting out again?" "How ironic." "To the Mountain Kingdom in the west." Judging by the current states of the Nether God, Yuriel, the Mountain Knight Baldwin, and Tris, the Lava Demon God, the Flame Lord, God of Elves, and Dawn King who had once betrayed him could not be doing much better. Ivan reached out and brushed the black waters of the Dark River. At the slightest touch, spatial fragments surging beneath the current sliced open his palm. "She brought every soldier and knightly order under her command. Outside Cemetery City's walls, they covered the hills and plains." The old man answered. Ivan stroked her hair. Perhaps it was only his imagination, but the red clouds over the mountains and the tangled mist between them looked like blood vessels in a human body. Ivan removed the ring from his hand. The scene around him, Eve included, dispersed like mist, and he returned to that pitch-black chamber beneath the Nether God's palace. "He left not long ago." Eve looked up at him and reminded him just as she had in those days, "Please be careful on your journey." Although Ivan now despised dwarves because of the Flame Lord, he still decided to find Firestone. Otherwise, that blacksmith would surely be walking into certain doom. Ivan gently caressed her eyelids. "Those who took what was ours will pay the price they ought to pay. Before this