A few hours later, they all finally woke up. It was probably morning outside. After eating something like breakfast, they resumed walking. Thankfully, they brought a lot of food in their space ring so there was no lack of food. They only had to cook and Austin did it willingly. Again, monsters came one after another, but Austin and Aita didn’t have a hard time cleaning them. Austin was also becoming strong at an incredible pace. It was the best training he had ever had. The monsters were far stronger than what he'd usually fight. “Hey, Jake, aren’t we useless in the group…?” “No doubt about it, we are useless.” Jake nodded seriously though he didn't seem to care. Only Aita, Austin and Elena were fighting while they couldn’t do anything because there was a massive disparity between them and Aita, Austin and Elena. Their strength was way above theirs. They’d have to use a lot of mana to fight a monster from the end of the fourth floor. “But don’t worry Jaxon, in every manga, you ne

A bright light blinded Aita and Elena. They felt their body being subject to abnormal pressure. Fortunately, it didn’t last long; a few seconds later, they could feel the ground below their feet again. Aita opened his eyes and a large hall fell on his sight. The walls were dark grey, surely humans doing. No monsters were there even though they were on the fifth floor. Aita swept his gaze and saw Rex standing. Behind him were Gaut and Bein with nervous expressions and again behind them was an unconscious Daisy lying on the ground. Elena tried to step forward immediately but Aita stopped her before she jumped toward Rex and the others. A smile emerged on Rex's face, seeing that. “No worries. We didn’t touch her, though we were about to if you didn’t come.” Rex said as he threw a glance at Daisy. “Now, are you ready, miss Elena? As you said, you will take Daisy’s place and we will leave her.” Rex spread his arms large as if inciting Elena to jump into his embrace. Gaut and Bein smi

“Tell me how you got that artifact and I will give you a painless death.” Aita’s words rang out in that bloodied place. A silence lingered on a background filled with monsters’ groans as they fell by Elena and Daisy's hands a dozen meters away. It might have been a merciful deal from Aita, but it didn’t touch Rex at all. Rather, the latter’s hatred was only inflating. Aita’s words were just humiliating and hurt his pride. “Painless death? Me? Do you think you can kill me? Ahahahaaha!” Rex burst out laughing suddenly. His laugh was twisted enough to scare off any children. With his face red, eyes red from hatred and bulging vessels from his body, he looked anything but someone sane. “I am the son of a duke! You should just-” “I don’t give a damn about that.” Aita cut off Rex’s annoying boasting. He was tired of the third-rate villains counting their biographies to him, even though he didn’t care at all. Was that a way of scaring him? With status? Then he didn’t choose the right

“Elena?”"Eh?"Elena was beyond surprised upon seeing the woman in front of her. With black hair and clear grey eyes, it was Anna. With her, were her other classmates as well. They were all here.“How?!”Daisy let out with a shocked voice. Few seconds ago, they were in a narrow place, but now…“...”Austin looked around, they were in a prairie. It was the first time he had seen this place. “That's my question?! You are appearing out of nowhere!”Anna answered, confused by Daisy’s question.Anna and the others disobeyed Riona and chose to follow Elena, so they took the same way Aita and the others took, but suddenly cracks appeared and Elena appeared.“Calm down, Anna.”Aura stepped forward and looked at Daisy.“Ah, Daisy, are you okay?”She asked with a hint of worry.“Yeah at a hundred percent!”Daisy nodded, to which Aura and most of her classmates sighed in relief. Still, they were shocked that they really successfully took Daisy back. Well, with Aita it was normal, or so thought

‘Spirit Avatar…’ Aita understood immediately that it was Elena’s Spirit Avatar. “L-Lord Aita! Ar-Are you okay?!” Elena asked as she rushed toward Aita. “...” Aita looked back at her coldly. Even after he had said, she came back. It seemed she wasn’t as innocent as she appeared to be, as she didn’t even listen to him! “Why’d you come? Go back.” Aita cut off Elena’s worried rambling and turned around. “I-I came here to help you!” Elena didn’t yield and skirted around Aita to face him. By doing that, she could finally get a good look at Aita’s state and she gasped to see it. Aita’s white shirt was now red, covered in blood and dirt. There was a rather large hole in his stomach. Cuts were present all over his body and his arms were burned as well. It was a wonder how Aita was still able to move. Elena’s eyes moistened and soon tears streamed down her face. ‘It’s my fault…’ She closed her mouth because she was horrified but also to stifle her weeping. All that Aita had gone th