The Primeval World Tree, the Cheonryeong Tree, spread its roots across the Primeval Mountain Range, home to countless spirits and sacred beasts—a place so abundant in life that people joked simply breathing there could extend one’s lifespan. But since a hundred years ago, this place had been forbidden to outsiders.

“Tch, it was a precarious time back then.”

Dwarf King, Geumgang Paljeong.

At 318 years old, he was practically a living history of the magical world. Compared to him, Elteman Eltewin was practically a child at only 200 years, yet he didn’t use any reverential language toward the older dwarf.