"So, why did you call us here?"
After the meeting, Lan Qingyou floated along with the group heading outside.
As she drifted, she complained to Alisa beside her.
Indeed.
Aside from learning things that could have been told to them in person,
all they had gotten out of this was a forced assignment to lead an expedition to the Underground City in the Sorrowful Swamp.
They could have simply sent someone over to tell them all this.
But instead, they had insisted on bringing them here.
And made such a big production of it.
If they just wanted to introduce the two of them and let them show their faces, a banquet would have done the job.
Yet they had called them here over this matter.
The key point was that they had also called in several Title Holders.
And most importantly, after the meeting, every Title Holder except the two of them, who had "a mission to take care of," had been kept behind by the Old Emperor.
That was right.
He'd used the mission he had forced on them to send them away.
They didn't know what would be discussed inside.
But they didn't care, either.
"Whether he called us here or not doesn't matter anymore. What matters is that we accepted the mission."
Alisa walked out with a calm expression.
"Yeah. We've already accepted it, so we'll definitely have to go."
"But do you think there might be someone down in that Underground City whose soul matches mine?"
As she floated along, Lan Qingyou began indulging in wishful fantasies.
Alisa shook her head.
"I doubt it."
"Why?"
"If there were really someone down there at your level, the Sorrowful Swamp would probably have changed a long time ago."
"..."
What was that supposed to mean?
It made