Even though holding hands didn't mean much to me, Shira was still quite happy that I didn't refuse her request.She sent me a sweet smile as she started to drag me forward into the distance.We still had to meet with Alliron and Aratas in the middle of the 2nd layer.The surroundings were no different compared to the first layer. There were red cloud-lead skies that looked like doomsday had come, grey sand along with a lava pool that was deep below which influenced the surrounding oxygen to become as toxic as possible.Now that I didn't have to fight for my body to go berserk and rampage in more ways than one. I was finally able to scan everything around us.The further we went into the 2nd layer, the more I felt an invisible pressure starting to appear on my shoulders, starting to push me into the sand, leaving deeper footprints in it.I scratched my chin using my free hand as we arrived in the middle of the 2nd layer, meeting with Alliro and Aratas.Alliron looked the same, nothing

The 6th layer was meant to stop you and torture your sense of being with the stopped time.You could look around and see, but you couldn't say anything, do anything, or hear anything.There was also the fact that your body's built-in time clock would be thrown in disarray from the stopped time in this layer.I could feel that this could be considered a relatively high level of mental torture.It started slowly initially, but the more you stood there, waiting for something to happen, the more maddening it would be.Imagine standing still, unable to move, but, still being perceptive of your surroundings, watching them be immobile for an unknown amount of time.The torture would turn anyone insane.Fortunately, even though my movements were remarkably restrained, I was still able to move through the stopped-time environment as I had an expanding amount of knowledge about the time law that was governing this hell layer.The more I moved through the restricted area, the more I understood..

My target didn't know that I was stalking him from the shadows.I kept my aura hidden to the maximum, making me not much different from a simple tree or a rock in the senses of others.The shadow soldiers scattered around the battlefield dissipated immediately as they returned to my side, transforming into energy that seeped back into my body discreetly. I couldn't hold back anything against the sin-bearing demons. Their strength was high enough to hold back Alliron and Aratas, even though it was a 4v2, it was still impressive!I closed my eyes for a brief second as 5 seconds passed, and the hooded demon attacked Alliron once again, injuring him by piercing the side of his chest and taking out a few ribs.The second that he tried to get back to his allies' sides, I appeared behind him, appearing there directly by moving through the shadow, achieving teleportation!My eyes were peering directly into the demon's, making it widen behind the hood.A dagger made from wood that was encased

The portal shimmered as three people left it. The first and foremost person was an oni-person with red skin and two muscle-like horns growing out of the sides of his head. He had giant stature of 3+ meters, bulging muscles all over his body, and different types of tattoos, the most glaring one being the decapitated dragon tatoo on his exposed shoulder. He was wearing a white tank top stained with blood that left us to see all of his tattoos and short tattered pants that didn't cover even his knees. His green emerald eyes were trained upon Alliron and Aratas the moment he entered, not even bothering to look at Shira and me, seemingly sensing that Alliron and Aratas were the stronger ones, even though no energy fluctuations came out of their bodies to betray their strength. The 2nd person to enter was a 1,80 tall humanoid with slicked-back green hair that reached his shoulders, his face was the epitome of annoyingness considering how smug he looked, and he had two katanas tied to his

The oni demon couldn't stretch his head to look at the situation of his allies, but he could sense that their auras had disappeared.The lack of sins that should have converged on his body made the blood vessels on his forehead pop up as the steadily increasing anger in his mind fully exploded at once!His muscles tripled in size as his body grew alongside them to support the new weight.The tattoos on his life were becoming more and more life-like, while Alliron and Aratas couldn't help but look at each other and nod.Now that the other two fights had been finished, they could go full power without the worry of the sins of the other two flying towards the oni demon and powering him up.Alliron stretched his body like a cat would, before the aura around his body changed entirely.Bloody mirages covered his whole body, showing decapitated bodies, sewn corpses to create chimeras and amalgamations of beings, bloody cadavers with missing organs, and many other scientifical experiments tha