"It doesn't seem like an act. Looks like it's really him."
Only after confirming his identity did Dan Heng let out a sigh of relief.
"We finally found you guys. That wasn't easy."
"While we were separated, I kept running into scenes from the past."
"Hmph." Mydei narrowed his eyes. "This trial of Strife is truly vicious."
"I'm afraid this trial doesn't belong to any one person... It's a battlefield where all challengers and delusions slaughter one another."
"Just now, I saw an old acquaintance whom only I knew. There was no way Phainon could have known him."
Yan Huan looked at him and asked:
"The one Okhema's soldiers stabbed? I thought there was something off about the way you looked at him."
"Mm." Mydei nodded.
"Let's hope this battlefield isn't as vast as it seems..."
"I have a feeling that, although it doesn't belong to Phainon, this battlefield has another master."
The three of them carefully advanced in the direction of the fighting.
Xuan Feng people and Okhma people lay dead everywhere along the way.
Listening to what they were saying, Yan Huan roughly guessed the true nature of this war.
"Mydei... It looks like the backstory here is that you led the Xuan Feng people and stabbed Okhema in the back."
"Doesn't seem so." Mydei shook his head.
"You heard it too just now... Someone called me a cowardly crown prince."
"So this battle should have been a rebellion the Xuan Feng warriors launched against Okhema of their own accord..."
"And I didn't join the war."
The three arrived at the vast plaza of the Cloud Stone Celestial Palace, where the sounds of slaughter were at their fiercest.
At that moment, Gnaeus stood in the center of the plaza with his back to them, looking utterly resplendent.
"Heh,