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Nexa grinned evilly as she saw realization dawn on Jim’s face. “I guess you are beginning to understand your place, so why not make things more humbling for you?” she said and then flew straight toward Ronny and Doug.“No!” Jim chased her, but she was too fast.“Succubus Strike!” Her tail whipped at them in a way it was going to pierce through both of their hearts one after another like a sharp vine would.Ronny and Doug couldn’t even see her. However, Ronny’s hand moved on its own, and he managed to grab the tail of the succubus.Suddenly silence fell in the neighborhood.Nexa blinked twice. “Huh?” She couldn’t believe that Ronny caught her tail so effortlessly. (who the hell is this guy? Wait, that’s right! He’s been given twice the bounty as Hero Jim. No wonder he’s so capable. BUT… he’s not a hero like Jim.) She shrunk her tail in size so that it slipped out Ronny’s hand and came back to her.“H-How did you catch her tail that I couldn’t even see?” Doug asked Ronny. “You really ar
Melina, who was standing more than thirty feet away from Jim, grinned like a beast. “I’ve grabbed hold of his feet! Attack him now!”All the six shadows swarmed onto Jim without any mercy or shame.Jim didn’t even have time to properly bear the pain in his foot. He released all the energy he had in his energy centers at once and formed it as a sphere around him, which automatically burned away anything it touched.Melina’s tail melted away down to the tone, making her scream in horror.At the same time, the weapons with which the seven shadows attacked Jim got repelled completely as they were unable to pierce through the energy sphere.“That’s the… vivre domain!” Devilian’s eyes slightly widened. “So he’s able to do this now. Wonderful. But it consumes a lot of energy. A beginner like him won’t be able to maintain it for long. I can’t let such an asset die.” He was thinking about stepping in, but then highly-transparent tube-like structures burst out of the energy sphere and struck th
Jim incessantly rained punches down on Nexa, so much so the sound of his arms moving through the air could be heard by Ronny and Doug who were at least hundred feet away.Moreover, the explosive gusts of air made it impossible for Doug to stand firmly on the ground. He kept getting pushed back unlike Ronny, so he held Ronny’s shirt, making it difficult for him to breathe.“Let go of me, you bastard!” Ronny growled in a half-suppressed voice. “I can’t properly breathe.”“Sorry, Boss. I have nothing to say. Please bear with me,” Doug cried out shamelessly.Meanwhile, the battle between Jim and Nexa got more intense, as Nexa separated the feathers in her wings and controlled them individually and sent them flying at him. They collided with him and exploded tremendously, making even the ground to cave in.Each of those explosions were far worse than anything Jim had ever seen. If not for the vivre sphere shielding him, he’d have blown to bits long ago. Nobody would have ever found out all
Nexa leaped at him and diagonally slashed her feather sword. “Storm Breaker!”Before her sword even reached him, it released flames that were capable of expanding and breaking the bricks.Against such an attack, Jim withdrew all his defenses and poured out his strongest punch. “Heavenly Fist!”A fist the size of Jim formed out of Jim’s fist and blocked the flames as well as the sword that followed. The ground under both their feet crumbled, but they kept going at it. Nexa was grinning madly, whereas Jim was showing his teeth because he was giving it his all. This was an attack he must survive, or it’d be over for him.However, Nexa’s sword sliced half-way through the heavenly fist energy, and things did not look good for him.Devilian was stepping in, but the women of Dark Hood led by Melina stopped him. Even though Melina’s burn tail was yet to fully recover, she was willing to fight Devilian fearlessly.“Tsk, how annoying,” Devilian loosely flicked his wrist. His fingernails separat
Nexa and Jim’s exchanges were very destructive, but like a madman, Devilian jumped in between them. Both Jim and Nexa, whose adrenaline was rushing to the max, lashed out at him and sent him flying back with their attacks. He crashed into the castle wall, and seemingly passed out. “Tail Thorn Shower!” Nexa’s tail showered flaming thorn bullets at Jim. They rained on him in exceeding numbers, making it difficult to impossible for him to block all of them. Some of them pierced through his flesh and bone, giving him immeasurable physical and mental agony. Still, Jim firmly planted his feet on the ground and withstood the pain and prepared his next attack. Nexa didn’t let him do what he wanted, and so she came at him with another attack. “Sleeping Blossom!” A swing of her feather-sword released a violent violet gas that washed all over Jim. It was so potent even a highly narcotic drug would pale before its effects. It was so fast-moving, Jim ended up inhaling some of it before he stop
For a second, the floor manager looked like an elven woman, but this was clearly not a woman given how sloping the forehead was. The shoulders were also wider than the hips. The body structure, and the piercing gaze… all of them indicated that this person was a male.“She’s one of the chosen few, Hero. I can’t let you kill her,” he firmly held Jim’s wrist so that he wouldn’t be able to touch Nexa now with that same hand.“Who the fuck are you?” Jim coldly glared at him.“I’m Barbosa,” he struck Nexa’s forehead with his finger and made her pass out. He then put her on his shoulder and turned to face Jim. “I’m the second floor’s manager.”“So what? Who gives you the right to intervene in a battle between us?” Jim growled at him.Barbosa smirked. “Your battle with her has indeed caused the villains on the upper floors to go crazy for you, but… you must understand that all the floor managers in this dungeon are villains. In fact, the demon dwarf who taught you is the fourth floor’s manage
Ace, Jim, and others were able to leave the Lollipop street and avoid fighting all the succubus along the way.They settled in Ronny Street.Everybody’s morale in that street was sky-high as in their perspective, their lord managed to defeat Nexa the fifth-ranked villain, which was huge news. And they believed that it was actually Ronny who had accomplished that feat.The thought of going for Ronny’s or Jim’s bounty didn’t even cross their minds anymore. After all, how could they defeat someone so strong? And why would they want to defeat someone so strong when their street could prosper if the boss was super-strong.Jim shut himself in a closed room and completely focused himself on healing. He had many deep cuts and holes in his body. Instead of relying on the nanobots, he relied on his vivre this time on purpose. This was done so that he would push his limits even more. Healing with his own energy when he was already feeling drained would make his powers bloom even more. This was w
“So you were supposed to go to prison but were brought here?” Doug was visibly shocked after hearing Ace’s story as they conversed after eating to their fill. “I’m not the only one. They bring many criminals that get sentenced for life to this place directly instead of taking them to the prison,” Ace said. “That’s…” Doug didn’t know what to say. Ace’s story was very emotional. Ace found his wife cheating on him. He filed for divorce and provided evidence. Yet the family court didn’t let him keep his little daughter and let his wife keep her, and he was also supposed to give her 1500 dollars every month as child support. Ace paid for six months even though his ex-wife didn’t let him see her even once, but in the seventh month, his daughter died from severe fever. The cause was simple. No proper care and nutrition. Ace got so angry he killed his ex-wife by squeezing her throat and choking her to death. “Killing her isn’t wrong at all in my eyes,” Doug said. “If I get to do it again,