'What?!' Dane's heart lurched. Stunned, he stared at Darryl blankly. He was at a complete loss for words as the panic coursed through his blood. 'Did he address Her Majesty by her name?'

"Darryl!" Ileana shot up happily from her throne and quickly walked toward him. She sized him up before she said, "It's really you! You're not dead! This is unbelievable!"

She was overjoyed. She had always been the cold and aloof type, but she showed a different side of her to Darryl.

Dane, the envoys, and the underworld officials were dumbfounded. 'Is he the famous Darryl from the Nine Mainland? Didn't he get swept into the chaotic vortex three years ago?'

Ileana glanced at Dane and said, "Dane, Darryl is an old friend of mine and the hero of the Nine Mainland. Do you know what's your punishment for behaving so disrespectfully toward him?"

Her voice was not loud, but the grandeur of it was suffocating.

Dane was sweating profusely. He knelt again and hit his head against the ground. "Please forg