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"Senior!"

The Old Emperor dropped to one knee.

Behind him, the others knelt in a rustling wave.

They were not putting on a show. They needed a chance to kneel.

Only then could they finally draw breath again.

They had been kept like livestock for ten thousand years. At last, someone had stood up for them, and they needed a way to let it all out.

"Get up."

You waited until they had knelt long enough before speaking.

Your voice was quiet, yet it reached every ear with perfect clarity.

"In three days, I'm going to attack the Weird Fortress."

"You don't need to follow me."

The Old Emperor jerked his head up and opened his mouth to speak.

"That wasn't a request." You looked him in the eye. "It was an order."

The Old Emperor swallowed his words and nodded firmly.

You turned into a streak of light and vanished into the sky.

You had things to do in those three days.

Of the three Quasi Immortal Sovereigns, one guarded the Weird Fortress, one stayed in the Dead Silence Land, and one spent most of his time away.

Within three days, you needed to learn everything about them.

Not the kind of knowledge you could get by using the Soul Searching Technique on a few small fry. You needed intelligence that went right down to the marrow.

You found an uninhabited mountain and sat cross-legged on a natural stone platform halfway up its slope.

You took the jade pendant from your robes.

Soul One's remnant soul lay curled inside it. When he sensed your presence, he trembled even harder.

"S-senior..."

"What's the name of the Quasi Immortal Sovereign in the Weird Fortress?"

"Bone Emperor."

Soul One nearly cut you off in his rush to answer.

"He's at the peak