A moment ago. Jaekyung listened with great interest to Choi Ju-tang's story. Though it was called a story, it was in truth a report from an employee to his employer.
But since Jaekyung nominally called him Senior and he called Jaekyung junior, the report simply took the form of a casual story.
“We've arrived at the Western Twin Lake and successfully made contact with Gwak Jeong-shin. It was so much easier than I thought, it was almost bewildering. As it happened, he was busy gathering manpower. He was recruiting on a massive scale, generously scattering spirit stones as if to show off to everyone around.”
“Hmm? He's being quite proactive.”
The letter Jaekyung had received from Gwak Jeong-shin hadn't mentioned any of this. The last letter he received was filled only with words of concern for a friend, expressing worry about the current situation and telling him to flee if things got dire.
‘It seems he's truly made up his mind.’
Perhaps it wasn't what he was thinking right now. In any case, Gwak Jeong-shin knew he was a Rememberance Cultivator and would likely guess he had various connections among the humans, so he wouldn't try to deceive him with such a shallow trick.