“I told you to keep an eye on Myles Mertzel. You not only let him escape, but you also let my daughter take two important prisoners away,” Luke was staring angrily at Darvi, his right-hand man. “If your explanation doesn’t convince me, you’ll lose an eye.”“I was thinking of stopping Myles after he comes out of the prison with Young Lady,” Darvi explained, “but then he took out a crystal and handed it to the Young Lady. A dark star crystal that gave a scary powerful vibe.”“One that’s enough to upset you?”“My Lord, it brought out what he called demons out of my body. If you were there, you would have probably felt the same way,” Darvi didn’t have hair on his snake-like body. Otherwise, his hair would have stood up. “It gave off a power quite similar to the crystal you absorbed when you defeated the guardian of the first floor of the nether dungeon.”Luke squinted his eyes. “He must have gotten a similar crystal on the 66th floor.”“Probably. The 66th floor may really be the last floo
Myles returned to Ria’s house, only to find out that they had been taken to the Feather ward after sunset. Feather Ward was very close to the Wolf ward, where a significant number of the top mages lived. Myles was returning from there, and now he had to go back to that place again? Myles knew something wasn’t right, so he rushed straight to the Feather ward. He traveled fast and swiftly on the rooftops. Even though he went right past many mages sitting on the watchtowers, they only felt a breeze going past them. Most of them didn’t even think that someone might have gone past them. As for those that doubted, they still found nothing to point their fingers at. In the Feather Ward. In the backyard of the warden’s house, Ria and Justin were beaten black and blue by two alpha mages that looked like humanoid bulls similar to the guy they had fought in the colosseum not long ago. They were both so powerful and durable none of Ria and Justin’s attacks affected them. These two were Bullock
Biskie’s screams could be heard all the way into the other rooms. The Manglers were also there in one of those rooms.“We need power crystals more than anything. If we can get our hands on three quality power crystals, we can definitely power up before Lord Luke opens the gate to the 66th floor.”“Yeah. Now that the cerberus has died, it’s only a matter of time before the 66th floor is breached. We’ve gotta be ready for that.”Suddenly, they heard multiple screams coming from the neighboring room. They hurriedly rushed into that room to see if everything was alright.The twins had their bodies tightly wrapped around by Casey’s hair which rapidly grew out of her hand. Some strands of hair also attacked Kong, but he kept punching and burning her hair with his fists. But this at least stopped him from defiling Biskie.More strands formed bows and attacked the Manglers with a volley of arrows. There was little to no room for them to properly dodge and defend themselves, so the woke-bear
Biskie howled in horrific pain. Tears came down in streams as her head got crushed under Kong’s large foot.“Scream all you want,” Kong grinned sadistically. “No one’s gonna come here to help you.” He put more strength into his leg.Ria and Justin tried to stop Kong, but the Bullock Brothers came in their way. They toyed with Ria and Justin and asked Kong, “Can we bash their skulls together?”“No. I will personally do that after I’m done with this wench,” Kong replied. (All these guys have divine weapons with them. I don’t know what happens to the divine weapon when they die, but I can’t kill them in front of these top rankers. I must kill them secretly and get those weapons for myself!)The Bullock Brothers kept whipping Ria and Justin with their tails. Each whip either bruised their flesh or cracked their bones.“Mm?” Big Bullock looked toward his right. A blurry figure flew into his vision. Something struck him in the chest and sent him flying through the entire house and into the
Darvi found Myles when he was leaving with his teammates using a man-pulling cart. He didn’t confront Myles but just stealthily followed him from a distance.“What happened to his teammates? They are all in terrible condition. Should I call a doctor and tell him to come and treat them?” After some thinking, Darvi shook his head. “Nah, my mission isn’t to care about his team. Let’s not get ahead of myself and focus on the mission at hand. But I must say his team looks weak. If I was in his place, I’d just kick them out of the team, or get rid of them for good as they’d be nothing but hindrance. So, I’m not sure why he keeps such weak souls around him.”Myles stopped the cart at a famous doctor’s house in the ward. She was a woke-ostrich who asked how Justin and others got their injuries. Myles told her they suffered injuries in a dungeon. The doctor asked for proof. Myles took out a random star crystal from his spatial ring. The doctor needed no more proof. She used her water ability t
In the middle of the night, at the Tail Cave.Porcius managed to slip out without anyone noticing, but then he got caught by Ruff who just happened to be passing by.Ruff, the woke-giraffe executioner, took a second to remember Porcius. “Y-You’re Porcius, aren’t you?”“I don’t know who you’re talking about,” Porcius acted innocent. (Dammit1 Why’s this giraffe roaming in the middle of the night? Was he making rounds? I came out at the wrong time!)“You were locked up in the dungeon as the Plague Pig,” Ruff drew his long sword out, “so how are you able to come out? You look like you were healed of all the diseases, too. Care to explain what exactly happened?”“You bastards used me as a guinea pig for your biological experiments!” Porcius howled. “I’m never going to forget what you all have done to me!” he swiftly sucked in a large amount of air and blew a giant air bubble through his mouth.“You think I can’t break a bubble?” Ruff thrust his sword and pierced the bubble, but then it exp
Before dawn.At Ria’s house, Myles and others had a long, fun chat with Hipster and Foxie, one of the two citizens that helped them after they entered the wolf city.“You should keep your Mage Score higher than six, or it wouldn’t do any good for you,” Hipster advised. “I’ve never let my score fall lower than seven in the past five years. I can get it higher than eight, either because of the business I’m in. Brawls are common in these inns and bars, so that’s that. But it’s different for adventurers like you guys. You can reach scores above nine if you achieve good results in the dungeons.”“I’ve managed to keep my score above six,” Foxie also voiced her mind. “That’s enough for the small-time job I do.”Ria smiled and put the house keys and documents in Foxie’s hands, startling her.“What are you doing?” Foxie was confused. “Why did you give me these?”“We probably won’t come back to this house, so it’s yours from now on,” Ria calmly stated.“R-Really?” Foxie’s lips curved into a big
Just as Myles had predicted, the authorities investigated everybody Myles and his group had come into contact with.There were no surveillance cameras around in these wards that were far from the center of the city, so Hipster and Foxie could say whatever they wanted and get away with it so long as they weren’t proven to be lying.Hipster and Foxie had enough people backing them to convince the authorities that they didn’t support Myles and his group for nefarious reasons.Penny was also approached, but she didn’t even answer them. She just showed them her middle finger. Given her messy history, they didn’t poke her too much.Rockell and his family was also interrogated, and the officers tried to intimidate and trick Rockell into confessing something he didn’t do, but because he knew the law: innocent until proven guilty, he was able to get out of any charges that were put on hi as he wasn’t found guilty.After Ruff’s death, Bryant from the Red Blade squad took over the executioner’s