The Hawk ward was separated from other wards by a deep ravine. At its border, the guards checked the IDs of everyone coming in or going out and recorded them on both computers as well as physical notebooks, which was part of the protocol.Ria crossed the bridge and showed her ID.“Is this your first time coming to this ward?” the tall woke-lizard guard asked.“Yes. Is that a problem?” Ria raised her brows.“That’s not the issue, but your mage score is below six,” the guard said while checking her status online. “It seems you are yet to pay a million dollar fine for causing a ruckus in a public market?”“My teammates are going to pay that today,” she softly replied.“Is that so?” the guard gave her ID back and said, “Don’t let your score fall below four, or you won’t be able to travel from one ward to another.”“Okay.”They let her pass.Ria entered the Hawk ward and observed her surroundings. Most of the species living there were woke- rats, squirrels, snakes, lizards and so on and so

Hawkins was watching everything from the rooftop below.Four objects came falling down freely, and they were the four woke-kites.“These useless bastards…” Hawkins wanted to just let them crash and die, but then these four guards weren’t exactly weak, so he flew and caught the four of them with his talons, and mouth and brought them down safely.All four of them were unconscious and suffered broken bones at different places.“Who could beat the four of them like this?” he hurriedly soared into the sky, but to his bafflement, neither Ria nor Myles were there. “Where did they go? I’m sure they were still here only seconds ago.” His eyes scanned for them as he hovered over the city, but he still couldn’t find them. “Tch, they must have hid themselves under a roof.”He gave up looking for them.“You can’t escape from this city, Ria. It’s only a matter of time before we see each other again, and I won't let you escape from me twice.”In the ravine right outside the Hawk ward.Myles and Ria

Myles and others went through the muddy grounds. Casey and Biskie kept complaining that they were feeling an itchy sensation all over their body, especially their arms.Myles, Justin, and Ria didn’t feel that way.Myles checked their pulse. Something didn’t feel right, but he didn’t have the magic powers to look into their body and tell what was going on.“We’re not going to die, right?” Casey tensely asked.“Don’t worry too much,” Myles calmly replied. “No matter how much we struggle, we can’t delay our appointed deaths even by a second.”“You believe in destiny?” Biskie asked in an almost mocking tone. “Only fools would believe in things like destiny and God.”Myles smiled. “You are able to think and talk because your body is carefully built with intelligence. Your eyes, your teeth, and the blood that flows in your brains didn’t come into existence because some random wind blew and created you from dirt. That’s not how it works. If you use your God-given eyes, you’ll see that there’

The second floor was actually bigger than the first floor, with crazy monsters everywhere. Creatures that were able to mimic wood and stone and hide perfectly, or those that were able to rust everything around them.Most creatures were just horrifying to look at.Moreover, the landscape itself was huge, making them feel like they were miniscule.“There’s no way a dungeon this big is under the city, right?” Casey was wide-eyed as she saw flying monsters with long hairs growing out of their heads like with horses. It had been a few hours since they entered the second floor, but the scenery all around them still amazed her the same.“Yeah,” Biskie was also thinking the same, “we’re probably in another space or dimension or whatever you call it. I think the air itself feels tacky.” She could feel the stickiness in the air. “It’s probably full of particles that can corrupt our bodies.”“What makes you say that?” Ria asked.“Didn’t Myles say this is the breeding ground? So, the monsters fro

The hell dogs didn’t particularly live on one floor as every floor from the 1st to 65th was theirs, and they were known to be the biggest bullies in the entire dungeon.The mages also avoided them as much as possible because these bullies were also almost always guarded by a Dire Demon.Dire Demons spawned at random places in the dungeon, and they rode hell horses and were powerful and also extremely wicked. Once the dire demons proved their loyalty, they would be promoted into nether demons through initiation on the 33rd floor in the presence of a nether knight.After the thirty hell dogs had their eyes on Myles and others, the dire demon that was assigned to guard them also spotted the humans.Wearing a black robe that hid away most of its features, the dire demon was riding a hell horse which was made out of bones.The dire demon watched the hell dogs fight the humans, but it soon became obvious that they weren’t capable of defeating the humans, especially a particular human in the