Chapter 107

Hakim wiped his right cheek with his bare hand.

Beneath the blazing flames, his brown palm was smeared with black blood that could not possibly have been human.

‘Looks like I’ve been found.’

A smile naturally formed at the corners of his lips.

His goal had been to take that black-haired woman, but after coming all the way to the Empire, wouldn’t it be a shame to turn back now?

And besides, wasn’t she a Hero who had been hiding like a rat for several years?

He had always wondered just how remarkable that renowned Hero really was.

‘Then of course I ought to test my strength against her at least once!’

Think about it.

To think that he, who had once scraped by in a slum, would bring down the Hero once revered by everyone...