"So it finally happened." Somewhere far far away from where Nux was living, a man with golden eyes, who sensed something spoke with a small smile on his face. "To think they would manage to break the Barrier, they are getting excited just because he is sleeping huh." Beside that man, there stood a woman, just like the man, the woman had golden colored eyes as well, the rest of her face was not clearly visible due to the dim lighting in the room, however, just from her voice, eyes, and hourglass figure, one could tell that she was frighteningly beautiful. "He has been ignoring their movements all this while, of course they would become daring." The man replied as he chuckled. "What are we going to do about the Union Mountains?" The woman questioned. "It is not the Union Mountains now." The man replied. "Our children are still buried there." The woman spoke with an emotional look on her face. "…" The man turned silent. The woman didn't say anything as well. A strange silence fell all over the room. "Anyways, that place is not our Union Mountains anymore. Let's just leave everything on the people." "What if they try to take over take over that land and fight there? The Mana there was limited before, so they couldn't destroy the Barrier we created no matter what they did, now however, if people of the outer continent attack them, it might harm the bodies buried there." The woman spoke. The man's face turned solemn, his golden eyes then shined and he replied. "Don't worry, that won't happen." The woman then stretched her body, showing her curves, then, she turned around. "Alright, I will leave that to you." "Where are you going?" The man questioned. "I want to sleep. I don't think we would enjoy peace for much longer now. So let me enjoy it while I still can." The woman replied as she continued walking away. "Tsk, how lazy." The man snorted. Then, his face turned serious as he questioned, "Do you think they are prepared?" "…the Heroes have still not grown to the desired level yet, the current leaders are… well, too weak. I guess we would just need to protect them this time as well." The woman replied. "However… if we get some time, the Heroes would be able to get stronger, then they can lead the fight. At the very least, they should be able to protect themselves, giving us more freedom." "Haahh… this is so tiring… If only he could stop being lazy and try everything again." The man snorted as he thought about a certain black-haired, Blood-red-eyed man. "Don't blame him, he gave his all and has already lost too much. He is still helping us even after all that, we should be grateful." The woman replied. "Tsk, he wasn't the only one who lost his close ones. We lost many as well." "We still have each other, don't we?" The woman spoke with a serious look and the man's expression changed. "Put yourself in his position, a being who can't even kill himself. A being so strong that no one in the entire world could go against him, yet, a being so weak that he is already broken into pieces. A lonely being, whose only option is to sleep in order the bury the pain his heart is in. Do you think you can live that kind of life… For eternity?" "…" The man turned silent. "Heh. The strongest being in the entire world huh…" If it was anyone else, he would have immediately disagreed and would have challenged him. However, against that man… even he had to give in… That man was indeed the strongest being in this world, but… would he want what that man has… The answer would be no. "The world hates the strong…" The man muttered. The woman had a weak smile on her face as she sympathized with her close friend. She hoped that that man's heart finds peace, but honestly, she knew it was simply impossible. "Alright, let's not talk about this any longer, focus on what is about to come. The Forbidden Trails are still open, we should not lose out hope." The woman spoke. "As if just anyone would be able to clear the unreasonable levels that man set up," The man replied. "The heroes did clear them, did they not?" "The Heroes have a pure bloodline, unlike the majority of people in current Yrniel. He is strong, I agree, but that has clouded his sense of reasoning. He thinks everyone is just as monstrous as us. There is no way the people of Yrniel would be able to clear the Real Trial. They would just clear the first level and will happily walk away. He needs to understand it, we are strong. Unreasonably strong, and similarly, our children were strong as well. However, the people of Yrniel are not the same, the Trials would have been easy for the people of Ancient Yrniel, but the Current Yrniel is just too weak. It is not like we have some sort of limit to the final reward. We could simply reduce the difficulty and reward the people who cleared the Trial. This way, we would be able to raise their potential, making them strong enough to touch the level of people of Ancient Yrniel. Then, those people would further reproduce and give birth to children with much higher potential than normal children. This would continue to happen and as time would pass, we would reach a level where the average level of strength of Yrniel would boost up all together. Just think how great would that be." The man spoke up. The woman didn't reply, she just glanced at her husband and a small smile appeared on her face, "You have the authority to do that, don't you? Why don't you do it then?" "…" The man turned silent. "It's because he told you not to? Heh, since when did you follow anyone's order? Don't joke with me, I know you better than even you know yourself. You have the full authority to do whatever you mentioned, You just won't do it because he requested you not to." The man's expression changed, he recalled that weak and broken expression that had appeared on his friend's face as he requested, "Please do not put up another fight, I will not be able to take it… You can leave all of them to me. I just… can't lose anyone again."