Start of the Second Round

Some secrets are better left alone.

These secrets will make you wonder if there are indeed rules in this world. 

Sword King Shawn once encountered a mysterious group of individuals in the ancient battlefield of Parting who called themselves The Hand.

It was when he was a mere Sword Sage.

He was so terrified that he fled and did not stop running for a month.

That was the scariest he had ever been because he witnessed how these people slaughtered a group of adventurers from one demon state, and from what he managed to gather before he was exposed, they are everywhere.

This made him alert; for years, he has always been alert.

When he returned to the human continent, he tried gathering information on them but came out empty-handed. Years have passed, yet he hasn't heard the name "The Hand" come out of anyone's mouth...

...until today, when he heard Kent call it.