Jim followed Doug and so he had to leave the others behind.“What the hell, man?” Ronny looked most disappointed. “I can’t believe that Doug was a spy working for some bastard on the third floor!”“You can never really trust anybody anymore,” Love Bullet opined. “I’m glad he revealed his identity this way, or I think something much worse might have happened.”“To me, it looked like he was being controlled,” Joker voiced his mind. “So let’s not jump to conclusions just yet.”“Controlled in what way?” Skarlet asked.“I have a guess, but it’s a scary thought,” Electric Assassin said.“No one’s going to shit their pants, so speak your mind,” Love Bullet stated.“Let’s say that Doug is not a traitor, but still someone was able to control him from a distance. That means, they might also be able to control us,” Electric Assassin said. “Now, this may sound crazy, but what’s the one thing that we all have in common?”“We are all humans?” Ronny said.“No, that’s not what I’m talking about,” El
Jim was following Doug who avoided the crowds and guided Jim to somewhere deeper into the wilderness and further away from other villains residing on the third floor.Jim understood that much.At some point, Doug entered the cave that had stairs going deeper into the earth. This cave was similar to the cave on the second floor.The metal doors came down from the ceiling of the cave and shut the way behind him.But Jim didn’t panic.He kept following Doug calmly.After walking for more than a mile, he eventually reached a giant door guarded by a robotic serpent that had flaming eyes and poison vapors coming from its mouth.Doug turned his head toward Jim and said, “Fight that serpent. I want to see how you do against it.”“Who are you?” Jim asked.“Do what I say, and you’ll meet me soon,” Doug replied. “Don’t worry about destroying that serpent. We have many more of those in production, so feel free to use your full strength against it.”“My full strength?” Jim calmly uttered. “You tal
Binnie returned to her room which was somewhere hidden deep inside one of the many caves on the third floor.To her surprise, Demon Dwarf was inside her room.“Why the hell are you here?” Binnie frowned. “And how did you get in when you don’t have the digital access?”“That’s not what’s important,” Demon Dwarf said while rolling metal balls around his fingers. “Did you meet Jim the Hero?”Binnie was a little surprised. “Why are you asking about him?”“So you met him. Did you fight him? What’s your impression of him?” Demon Dwarf asked.“It’s very surprising that the Demon Dwarf who isn’t afraid of even the Eight Masters and doesn’t give a shit about anybody in this world now is interested in some random guy,” Binnie smirked.“He’s not a random guy. I taught him for a few hours in the past,” Demon Dwarf reasoned.“That’s not enough for you to personally come here and inquire about him,” Binnie retorted. “Is it because you’re interested in the martial arts he’s learned? What was it? The
Jim appeared more dangerous than the demons that dwell in the darkest depths of hell. His gaze was quite menacing, and Fancy Fatty felt shivers all over his body.Nevertheless, Fancy Fatty growled, “You think I’ll be afraid to fight you? I’m someone who’ll join the Beast Brotherhood one day! I can’t be losing my shit over a self-proclaimed hero!” He clenched his fist and threw a punch. “Dark Dominance!”Jim blocked the punch, but his forearm began to rot at the point of contact. “Tsk,” he jumped back.“What? Scared already?” Fancy Fatty snorted and leaped forth. “I haven’t even started getting serious yet. I may look like a useless eater, but I’m one of the strongest on the third floor, bitch.” He once again threw his punch, but this time, Jim blocked the punch with his vivre barrier, instead of directly contacting it.His barrier also grew corrupted and was broken to bits. Fancy Fatty’s fist once again struck him, but his punch landed on Jim’s chest this time.“Checkmate,” Fancy Fatt
A few minutes later.Jim was walking out of the laboratory and was muttering to himself, “In the book, he said that we can even hear other people’s thoughts, but I’m not yet able to do so. If I could, I wouldn’t need that fatty to tell me with his own mouth. I could have just read his thoughts.”[Yeah, you’re right, but you can’t learn everything at once.] Joe said. [Your mind and heart energy centers have awakened. So, it won’t be difficult for you to learn any skill related to them.]“You mean I can learn the thought-reading skill if I put my focus on it now?” Jim asked.[Yes.] Joe assuredly said. [From the cells in our bodies to the stars in the skies.. everything in existence produces sound in their own way. Sound can travel through any medium. People used the word ‘silence’ without fully being aware that the silence around them is not an objective experience but a very subjective experience. For instance, the air itself carries a lot of different sounds, and humans can’t hear all
In the colosseum on the third floor.“Love Ray!’ Lovelace destroyed half a dozen monsters by shooting red light bullets at them. “What’s with these sissy-ass monsters? Is there no one who can take some ‘love’ from me?”“What is one of the top villains doing in the colosseum?” some villains who were managing the colosseum complained. “If you fight, then we can’t supply enough people for you to destroy. We’ll soon run out of business!”“But I’m not leaving this place until my boredom is relieved!” Lovelace said and started drinking concentrated wine from a small bottle. She finished half of it and put it back in her pocket. “If nobody is willing to entertain me, then I’ll just destroy everyone in sight. Light Expansion!”A spherical shaped light released from her and spread all around the colosseum and affected all the people it touched. All of their bodies bubbled up and were blasted to bits and pieces.When their blood sprayed out and fell on the seats and colosseum walls, even the wa
As a group, Jim and others began to look around for Scarlet.First, they went to the location where a group called the Four Freakish Thieves lived. They were all butchers who lived in a dirty, bloody environment, working with the dead bodies of humans and animals like.They all didn’t answer any questions and instead attacked with their butcher knives.Electric Assassin stepped in first and unleashed his thunder punches onto them. They blocked his attacks with their blades and then cleaved the air with their cutting moves.Electric Assassin created an electric blast to block the attacks, but they still managed to cut through his defenses and then struck him. As a result, he was pushed back and found himself bleeding everywhere.“Why are you taking on all four of them by yourself?” Love Bullet pointed the gun at them and shot four times, sending bullets at all of them.“Pathetic tricks,” the four of them swatted the bullets away with their blades and rushed at her.“Don’t gang up on a
Jim felt a chill slither up his spine as he beheld an eye open on Cursed Doll’s forehead. It didn’t look like he was just imagining it.She released a burst of curse energy that came like a wave of dark shadow, completely sucking the life out of the grass on the ground as it traveled fast toward Jim.He immediately released golden energy out of his body, which not only shielded him from the cursed energy but even repelled it back.The cursed energy soon dispersed like vapor turning into thin air.Cursed Doll looked a bit befuddled. “W-What did you do? How did you stop my curse?”“You think I’d tell you how I did it? Don’t be silly,” Jim began to walk toward her. “However, I will tell you this much. It’s one thing to put on excess makeup, but it’s a whole different thing to put makeup on to look like a whole different person than what you really look like. Someone like you scrutinizes others but seldom examines themselves. As you are now, there’s no way for you to attain the power I h