As Jim’s energy kept getting sucked rapidly like water into a funnel, Jim instinctively punched the ground so that the magic circle was broken, and it was at that moment, the gazes of both Jim and White Maiden met, with the latter having a surprised look on her face. Jim’s fist shot up from below and struck White Maiden’s chin resoundingly.Her feet were never on the ground, but she was still sent flying to the ceiling.Little Nightmare’s eyes bulged out of her sockets, and snot hung from her nose as she gawked at the scene in disbelief.Nightmare_lily, on the other hand, was genuinely astonished. Jim reminded her of her own dad who was a firefighter, a courageous man who was willing to do a risky job to provide for his family.Nightmare_lily has never been attracted to men her age before, and this was the first time that Jim’s sheer courage and masculinity stirred her heart. Even though he was her enemy, she never felt this happy in a long time, seeing a man being courageous and was
Almost ten minutes later.White Maiden had been relentlessly attacking Jim, trying to analyze his skill, strength, and patterns.Their battle wasn’t just a pure physical brawl like it was between Jim and Bloody Corpse.White Maiden tested him physically, mentally, and spiritually to see how he’d respond.She taunted him with words like ‘your death will be very slow.’She could tell that he was not that experienced by the way he reacted when he was doing good and when he was not doing good. He was still doing decently well when it came to controlling his emotions and not falling for her taunts and tricks.She kept raining down physical strikes from her magic staff which seemed abnormally tougher than a steel rod.“Fatal Comet Strike!” She cast a heavy, flaming blow to try and burn his skin.It did not work.“Sand Impact!” She tried to break his bones with a heavy attack.It did not work.“Execution Impact!” She tried a demonic wave attack that could break most men’s minds.However, it
Almost a hundred and twenty years ago.A ten-year-old girl joined a new school with her little heart full of hope. But her math teacher was quite a strict fellow. He would beat students for every little mistake they did.And the little girl had been suffering from a cold for years, so she used to sneeze at least once every few minutes. Especially, when the teacher would erase the chalk from the board and then slam the duster to the wall multiple times, causing the dust to fly around the class, she would sneeze a lot of times. Her friends would laugh as she kept sneezing many times. And her math teacher also found it very annoying. He hit her with the stick every time she sneezed, so that she’d control herself from sneezing. And she did as much as she could, but sometimes, they were uncontrollable, so she would end up sneezing.And the teacher would then throw in her face the chalk or duster or whatever that was in his hand at the time.She was terrified by the math teacher.She came h
“Taste the flames brought forth from beyond the grave!” White Maiden unleashed black flames that burned not just the skin and flesh but the very souls of the people.Jim released energy and formed a giant sphere to defend as many people as he could, and he managed to cover a third of the people, but everyone else got caught in the flames and suffered right in front of them. Their eyes melted and their blood turned into vapor, and their screams echoed everywhere. It was a horrifying scene that wouldn’t be dreamed even in the worst nightmares of most people on the earth.“You know that there is a way to kill people as mercifully as possible?” White Maiden uttered amidst their dying howls and screams, begging to save them. “It is to send them to the afterlife without shedding a single drop of blood… And you do that by burning them alive!”As she said, not a single person that was burning shed blood.Their bodies and their fates were all sealed by the black flames that came in the form o
“Devil’s Crack!”The ground split open, and both Jim and White Maiden fell inside the seemingly bottomless crack.Pretty soon, the crack closed by itself, leaving everyone there utterly stunned and confused.Moments later, Jim and White Maiden landed in a cold, dark place full of ice. The ground, the surroundings, and everything around them was nothing but ice. The temperature was so cold that Jim had to actively release energy to keep himself warm. He looked around, all he could see was utter darkness.“What is this place?” Jim asked.“Ho… so you can see with your spiritual energy, huh,” White Maiden’s voice reached him.He couldn’t tell which direction she was in, or where she was.As seconds passed, Jim was already feeling the coldness incessantly trying to seep into his body, forcing him to use more and more energy.“This is bad…” Jim muttered under his breath.[Have you realized it?] Joe’s voice rang in his mind. [Because you were destroying her seals. She literally ended up tele
“Where did they go?” Doug looked very tense and worried.“I’ve never seen anything like it,” Joker said. “So I have no idea where they are right now, but one thing is for sure… that witch took him to an environment that’s favorable to her.”“Then we should help Jim,” Ronny eagerly stated. “We can’t always leave all the burden to him and expect him to win. His opponent is one of three immortal guardians. We should help him in any way we can.”“How exactly are you going to help him?” Scarlet raised a question. “Do you even know where she took him?”“Why don’t we try splitting the ground open?” Ronny asked.“Huh? Don’t be stupid,” Ace blurted. “That witch used some kind of a spell to drag Jim to some other place. Right now, they’re not literally below us. They are somewhere else.”“Doesn’t that mean Jim might not be able to get here even after he beats her?” Doug asked.Ace could only shrug his shoulders.Just then, Nightmare_lily and Little Nightmare entered the scene, alerting everyone
“Don’t let this man’s inaptitude fool you all!” Little Nightmare told everyone. “He doesn’t have the strength to survive on his own, so he leeches onto others all the time. Am I not telling the truth? Did he really help you with anything significant on this floor or on the second floor?” she directly attacked Doug, making others really question his worth.Joker and others did not say anything, but Ronny stepped forward, “He need not have to be strong because Jim is strong! He protected all of us from White Maiden. And he will protect us in the future, too, until we leave this damn dungeon!”“Future? What future?” Little Nightmare snorted. “Didn’t you guys see him getting pulled into the earth by the witch? For all we know, she might have buried him under the soil by now. He could be dead as a doornail. There’s no point in having faith in someone we can’t even see or talk to! There’s no guarantee that he’ll even return.”“But he saved us all,” Doug said, “and we believe that he will re
This was the eighth time that White Maiden had come back alive after Jim didn’t just defeat but also destroyed her body.And he noticed during his sixth victory that her nails were falling off. She was not able to regenerate them back anymore, which led Jim to believe that he might only need to defeat her three more times.But it was easier said than done.Jim’s strength was only half as good as when he started the fight, but on the other hand, White Maiden didn’t look as if she lost much of her strength or stamina.And she was attacking him all the more aggressively.“Glacial Binding!”She set a wide-scale magic circle on the icy ground, modifying it so that wherever Jim stepped, the ice quickly tried to spread through his body without any restraint.“Forsaken Wind!”She also stopped the wind from moving, which made it all the more easier for the magic circle on the ground to speed up the freezing process.Within seconds, all the air above the ground began to freeze steadily.Jim had