The meeting finally came to an end, and the Demon Lord, as well as the First Guardian, stayed behind to deal with the aftermath.
Jaha sighed as he looked at the now-empty seats. "It looks like no matter how strong you've become, people still aren't taking you seriously."
Junghwa chuckled at this. "Due to my age, you mean?"
"…"
"Well, you're certainly right," he muttered as he thought back to everything he had to go through to get here. The things he had to see that most of the geezers in that room would never get to experience as long as they lived.
"It wasn't an easy position to obtain, especially given the political climate the sect was in back then," Jaha said.
"Hm. It was quite brutal. Deception was rampant, and we were on the verge of a civil war."
