I Just Want A Peaceful Life

by Stayrr

( avg 45k ) What if the strongest person reincarnated to another world. Will he keep pursuing his dream to have a peaceful life? “Ding.. The Idle system is fully integrated.” “Wait… Why am I keep getting stronger!” Or will he conquer this new world? Seek and stay tune Angus's adventure in another world.

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Few hours after meditating to regenerate his mana, Angus feels a movement from Jayna. Right now, Jayna's face is already regaining vitality as she rested before.

"Umm.." groaned Jayna while hugging Angus as a body pillow.

"Morning, Jayna." said Angus.

"Emm.. Morning, Angus. Ehh.. KYAA!!" screamed Jayna as she moved away from Angus.

"D-Did we do…" muttered Jayna blushingly.

"Huhh.. What are you talking about?" asked Angus.

"Uhh.. Nothing.. Nothing." answered Jayna quickly.

During this time, Draven suddenly appears from Angus's shadow.

"Master, I found something inside the cave." said Draven.

'Huh.. Inside the cave. There was nothing inside them last time I checked them.' thought Angus.

Before entering the cave and choosing it as the resting place, Angus already checked it with [Mana Echolocation] and found nothing but a dead-end cave.

"Alright, lead the way, Jayna wait here." said Angus.

"No, I will also come along." said Jayna.

"It's okay. I will be back after checking it a little bit. Besides, you still have not fully recovered and need to regenerate your own mana." said Angus.

"B-But.." said Jayna.

"Don't worry, I am good at running away." said Angus.

"Alright, if you said so." replied Jayna reluctantly.

Then, Angus goes into the deeper area inside the cave along with Draven. As they are going deeper, the interior becomes darker. Then, he takes out a magical lamp to brighten the way. After a while, he found a dead-end inside the cave.

"I see nothing here besides a wall of rock." said Angus.

"Turn off the light and use your [Mana Eye]." said Draven.

Angus did as Draven said and used [Mana Eye]. He immediately sees a swirl pattern that is darker than the rock wall. The swirl pattern color is almost identical to the rock wall color, which is not easy to distinguish using ordinary means.

Moreover, it didn't contain any mana-like runes diagrams. The black swirl pattern is very random and doesn't connect one with the others.

After looking carefully, the stroke of the swirl pattern is similar to the wooden bracelet he has. Taking out the wooden bracelet in his left hand, the wooden bracelet shone a little bit before diminishing.

After a while, the swirl pattern moves like a tentacle and creates a picture of a gigantic bird. Looking at the picture, Angus immediately recognized it.

'This is a phoenix. Is there any connection with the phoenix inside there? What is this swirl pattern exactly?' thought Angus confusedly.

The end of the stroke of the swirl is pointed to the center of the phoenix chest. After waiting for a few more minutes, nothing happened.

Looking at this, Angus became suspicious, "Draven, is there something behind this wall?" asked Angus.

"I don't know. There is something that blocks my perception." replied Draven

"As expected, there is something behind this rock wall. Otherwise, Draven will notice what is behind the wall. Maybe this is also the reason why my [Mana Echolocation] can't detect it." said Angus.

After observing it for a few more minutes, Angus decides to come back to Jayna. He will observe it further with Jayna.

As Angus walked back to the entrance, the swirl pattern moved back to its original position. Arriving at the entrance cave, he found Jayna already meditating to regenerate her mana.

Unlike Angus, with a unique breathing technique and superb mana core, Jayna needs a little effort to regenerate her mana. Despite her mana capacity being lower than Angus's, she still has some time to restore hers.

She could use a mana potion. However, there is a limit for one person to drink a mana potion. So, it is best to use it only in life and death situations such as battles or other emergencies.

Furthermore, her mana capacity is also not small among her peers. If Angus mana almost reaches the three hundred mark, her mana is around half of it.

However, this is already an outstanding achievement since grade one is usually only around a hundred points or below. This shows that Angus mana is absurd among the others. After waiting for a few hours, Jayna opened her eyes as she finally fully recovered her mana.

She found Angus looking at the map of the Endless Battlefield dimension. Unlike the one Axel has, this one is only a replica of the real magical map.

Despite its only replica, it still could be zoomed in and out to see more detailed information. However, it couldn't update the landscape as Axel had.

Feeling Jayna done with her meditation, "Jayna, are you already fully recovered?" asked Angus.

"Yep, so what should we do next?" asked Jayna back.

"I found a sort of door in the deeper cave area. However, I don't know anything behind the door. It could be a deadly trap or contain something dangerous." explained Angus.

"Really?? That could be a hidden treasure." said Jayna enthusiastically.

"Or something dangerous. Even Draven's perception is blocked. Anyway, we could explore the cave in the meantime, or do you want to go back to search for the others." said Angus.

Hearing this, Jayna begins to feel sad as she remembers her dorm mate. Angus and Jayna barely made out alive from the [Meteorite Shower]. It will be a true miracle for others to stay alive through that disaster.

Although Jayna pursued power and adventure in this dimension, she still didn't want to abandon her dorm mate. However, she also knows that it may be a futile action and may endanger themself.

The first rule when they train together that is told by teacher Roy is to be ready to abandon their teammate and move forward. It is pretty cruel, but if they want to survive in this dimension, they need to be prepared to do this.

While contemplating their next decision, an unconscious young man floats on the calm river on the other side of their location.

There are a lot of burning marks and blood on the body of the young man. This young man is none other than Axel Pomel, one of the Angus dorm mates that comes into the Endless Battlefield dimension.

Unlike Angus and Jayna, who could escape the [Meteorite Shower] range with their movement skill, Axel needed to hide behind the tree and use a rune magic card to create a barrier to protect himself.

However, the spell barrier level is too low and weak to defend against the incoming flaming rock. He got pushed off into a faraway location by the blazing rock after his defensive barrier broke.

By sort of coincidence, he fell into the cliff nearby and entered into the river. After a few hours, he finally arrived at the calm river.

As Axel keeps floating on the water unconscious, A shadow approaches Axel from the nearby forest and looks at Axel's floating body.

On the other hand, Millie and Mia found their current condition is somewhat less fortunate than the others.

After Angus told everyone to scatter, the two girls immediately went away together and employed a barrier to protect them using a rune magic card.

Like Axel, the two girls' barriers are broken from the flaming rock, and Mia decides to protect Millie with her body.

Then both of them get hit by another flaming rock before receiving another shockwave that leads them to another area like a ragdoll. Although they are getting out from the [Meteorite shower] area, their body is riddled with various serious injuries.

First, Mia's hand is completely gone, along with various fractures and inner wounds on her body. The reason she still survives is that Millie keeps supporting her with healing magic.

On the other hand, Millie herself is not unscathed. Few of her rib bones are fractured and with various internal wounds. Moreover, she is showing signs of mana deficiency as she tries to keep healing Mia.

"I am sorry.. Mia. Please stay alive.." said Millie while keeping her healing spell without stopping.

Many empty mana potions could be seen beside Millie. Few monsters detect their blood smell not far away from the two girls and approach them.

At the same time, far away from their location, Ian runs desperately while various ferocious beasts follow him.

"Gyaa… Stop coming after me!! My meat is not delicious!!" shouted Ian while running.

His condition is by far the best of the others besides Angus and Jayna. After Angus tells them to scatter, he is the only quick-witted one and immediately uses all his mana to dig a hole in the ground using [Thunder Punch] until he exhausted all his mana.

However, he underestimated the scale of the [Meteorite Shower]. Despite digging quite deep on the ground, he still received a shockwave from it and was buried deep into the underground.

He could also feel his body being roasted alive as the temperature of the ground increased from the [Meteorite Shower]. At this moment, he took out the rune magic card and barrier himself inside the ground.

Soon, the [Meteorite Shower] ends, and he uses a little bit of his strength to dig his way to the upper ground.

As soon as he arrived on the upper ground, he found that he was in the middle of the ferocious beast, which led him to be pursued by them.

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After thinking for a while about their next move, Angus and Jayna decided to go back to their previous location for the time being. However, before they could go back, Angus detected many ferocious beasts scattered along the way.

Unlike when they first come into this place, the surrounding area is crowded with ferocious beasts. Fortunately, their location is still located at the outskirts of the beast territory, which means only low-grade beasts living in this area.

This also means that various kinds of beasts live in this place. They often fight one with the others. All of this beast is quite aggressive and always attacks anything on sight except their kin.

Taking this opportunity, Angus decides to teach Jayna to erase her presence to avoid any unnecessary battles. Jayna already learned [Arctic Heart] that keeping her emotions calm is one of the prerequisites to erasing one's presence.

She also learns the basic stealth move but to completely erase her presence and become one with nature is a different matter. Erasing one presence and becoming one with nature could only be done after practicing and experiencing with their own body.

So, it will take some time for her to do this thing perfectly. Because of this, they may attract many beasts along the way if they go back to their original place now. So, they decide to explore the cave for the time being until Jayna could become better at stealth.

Like Angus expected, the rock wall is sort of a door to the other side after observing it more. However, he didn't find any hidden mechanism to open the door except the swirl pattern.

Based on his knowledge, this kind of thing means to hide something dangerous or sealing something. So, this kind of 'door' is not supposed to be opened. Although there is a chance that something inside could kill them, both of them still decide to explore it.

Angus wants to know more about swirl patterns. As for Jayna, her eyes already shone brightly when Angus mentioned this treasure hunt. Apparently, Jayna is interested in the treasure hunt.

After scrutiny for a few hours, both of them couldn't find a way to open the door wall. During this time, they notice that there is no sun in this part of the area.

Since they arrived in this dimension, they always found a gray cloud in the sky. It is not dim or dark but also not too bright.

The weather itself also seems to lack a concept of day or night since it stays cloudy with the same brightness all day long. Angus guesses that this could happen because this is not the natural world and an artificial world that was somehow created by something or someone.

Because of this, some of the physics laws don't work in this dimension. Erasing his unnecessary thought, Angus returned to focus on the door in front of him.

Finally, they decide to break the wall by force. *Bam* [Dynamic punch] as Angus hits the wall hard. But, the wall could withstand his attack and leave without any scratch.

'Such a strong wall. Do I need to use [World Punch]? But, the backlash is too big for my current body. Even in my previous life, I almost died after using it once.' thought Angus while looking at the wall.

Jayna didn't want to leave behind and also sent various attacks towards the wall [Flame Sword] [Sword Art - Crimson Slash] [Sword Art - Hundred Slash].

Looking at the flurry attack, Angus feels Jayna pour all her frustration into the wall. At this moment, he saw that her attack managed to chip a part of the wall. The chipped part is located at the middle part of the phoenix picture.

Noticing this, "Jayna, stop. I think I found a clue. Let me try one more time." said Angus.

"Huft… When I finally found an eternal sandbag. Well, help yourself." replied Jayna.

'Eternal sandbag?? Err..' thought Angus inwardly before ignoring Jayna's remark.

After Jayna backs away, Angus gathers some mana in his hand [Iron Fist]. Then, he jumps and punches the middle part of the phoenix creature. All Angus's strength and body weight gather at his fist [Focus Punch].

As soon as the punch touched the wall, the wall cracked as it shattered like glass. Behind the wall, they see nothing but a road towards the deeper part of the cave.

"As I thought, the middle part is the weak part. Perhaps it is also the key part. Anyway, let's get going." said Angus.

"Alright, treasure hunt time!!" said Jayna excitedly.

Angus couldn't help but be happy looking at Jayna's behavior. Entering the destroyed wall, they walk along the dark path with the help of the magical lamp.

After walking for a few hours, they arrive at the cave interior, changing from the natural cave wall to a tunnel made of brick. The brick itself is tough and could withstand various of Angus's attacks. It is also made of unknown material.

Along the way, he found a lot of deadly traps. Fortunately, with the help of Angus [Mana Echolocation] and Draven's phasing ability, they could dismantle the trap safely. Since there is no light inside the tunnel, Draven could easily phase to anywhere inside this tunnel.

Finally, after another few hours walking along the tunnel, they arrive at the vast room. Inside the room is a long bridge. On both sides of the bridge are dark, enormous ravines. Angus threw the stone into the ravine but couldn't hear anything even after a while.

It is like the ravine itself is a bottomless hole. Looking at the bridge and remembering all the traps they encounter along the way, Angus decides to test the bridge using various stones. But, all of them didn't react to anything.

The bridge itself is kind of weird since he couldn't see the end of the bridge even after trying to see the path with [Mana Eye] and a magical lamp.

Left with no choice, Angus shot a [Firebolt] towards the bridge end. As the [Firebolt] travels, the poisoned arrows are fired from the wall. Unlike the trap arrow before, the poisoned arrow force is powerful and fast, which could easily destroy the bridge.

After a while, the rain of poisoned arrows stops and leaves a holed, tattered bridge behind.

Seeing this, 'What the hell!! Even I will die being rained by those poisoned arrows.' thought Angus.

Besides the rained arrow, Angus also could see the other side is some kind of tunnel. Similar to the one they are coming from.

"Draven, could you disable all the arrow traps on the wall?" asked Angus telepathically.

"Hmm.. I could. But, it will take a lot of time to disable all of them." replied Draven telepathically.

"Alright, do it. We have some time to waste." said Angus.

"It seems it will take some time for Draven to disable all of this arrow trap." said Angus to Jayna.

"Then, Let's rest here first. According to our normal time. It should be night now." said Jayna.

"Yeah, let's do that. We don't know what is going to be waiting for us at the end of this." said Angus while taking out his sleeping bag.

As Jayna and Angus are resting, their friend has their adventure and difficulty. Axel is still unconscious on the calm river and almost killed by another ferocious beast that approaches him.

However, at the last moment, a small shiny light came towards the beast. Suddenly, the beast was cut into pieces by a sharp wind blade from out of nowhere.

The small shiny light keeps looking at the unconscious Axel and flying around it. After some time, many small shiny lights gather around Axel before bringing him into an unknown location.

In the meantime, Ian finally managed to run away from the low-grade ferocious beast trying to eat them by leading them to a few monsters nearby. The moment the beast and monster find each other, they immediately fight each other.

Using this opportunity, Ian finally managed to run away from them. But, just as he walked back to search for some direction and the others, he saw a huge lion similar to the one they saw before it cast [Meteorite shower].

Before Ian could run away, he got suppressed with a monstrous aura from the lion. Ian couldn't help but kneel on the ground and couldn't breathe properly.

After a while, a voice came into his mind. "You are not a beast or monster? Why are you here?" said the unknown voice that seemed to be coming from the lion.

At the same time, Millie and Mia got cornered by various kinds of monsters. Both of the two girls' condition was already bad because of the [Meteorite Shower]. Now, Millie needs to fend off all the monsters by herself while keeping Mia safe.

At this moment, Mia opens her eyes and looks at their current situation. "It's okay, Millie. *Cough* You need to survive. *Cough* Run, protect yourself" said Mia while coughing blood.

"No… I will not leave you behind." replied Millie frantically.

But, Mia already falls back unconscious. During this time, the exhausted Millie's mind became chaotic and screamed around. *ARRGGHHH* An invisible wave coming towards the surrounding area.

Suddenly, everything that the invisible wave touches dies and leaves the two girls in the middle of dying land surrounded by monster corpses. Far away from them, a black hoodie person is looking in Millie's direction.

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Dozens of hours passed by since Draven started to dismantle the poisoned arrows inside the hall. The poisoned arrow trap has a complex mechanism and is hidden quite well inside the wall. However, this also makes Draven's job easy.

Since it has a complicated mechanism, all Draven needs to do is damage some part of it before it malfunctions. Still, there are thousands of the poisoned arrow traps across the wall.

While waiting for Draven to dismantle the poisoned arrow, Angus teaches Jayna to become one with nature through some meditation. As for Angus himself begins to study the few parts of the poisoned arrow trap that Draven brought.

The force and speed of the poisoned arrow are unbelievable and comparable to the sniper in his previous life. After scrutinizing them, Angus found that they are made of a combination of rune and mechanical parts.

Since the trap was using a rune, Angus couldn't decode them unless he got more similar symbols. Unfortunately, all the traps used the same rune symbol and were useless for Angus to decipher.

He needs more symbols and variables to translate the whole rune language completely. Still, that didn't mean he couldn't reverse engineer the mechanical part and use his own rune language to test it. After another few hours, Draven finally disassembles all the arrow traps.

"Haa… Finally, done. I don't want to dismantle any of this arrow trap for the time being." said Draven inside Angus's mind.

"Alright, good work. Here's the grade two monster meat." said Angus while taking out a few slices of monster meat to pacify the grumble Mundus.

"Ahhh… Meat!!" said Draven while immediately biting the monster meat.

"Jayna, let's continue our treasure hunt." as Angus wakes up, Jayna from her meditation.

Meditation to become one with nature could easily make the practitioner lose their perception of the surroundings and time itself. Angus still remembers when he was training this technique, he often passed a few days in the blink of an eye.

Waking up to Jayna, Angus shoots a few [Firebolt] and throws a few pebbles to test the surroundings. Making sure there is no other trap, they decide to continue their journey and pass the bridge carefully.

After looking carefully at the bridge, Angus wonders at the firepower of the poisoned arrow trap. The bridge itself is made with the same material as the tunnel. However, it could easily be damaged by the poisoned arrow.

Angus already inspected the arrow before and found it was only made of some strong metal which means the trap mechanism is the one that increases its firepower.

This also made Angus wonder what kind of things were sealed in this location that needed to employ such sophisticated and advanced traps.

After crossing the bridge, they found a tunnel with stairs leading downward. Some part of the stair is already submerged with blue-colored water. Despite the lack of light in the area, the water shone brightly from the magical lamp they brought.

They could see a tunnel below underwater. Besides that, they didn't find any other way. Looking at the strange blue-colored yet clear water, Angus threw another pebble to test it. But the stone only submerged like regular water.

Angus could see a mana presence in the water using [Mana Eye, but he didn't know what it would do. Left with no choice, Angus made a small wound and dipped some blood to test it.

The moment the blood touches the water, it becomes dissolved into nothing. Looking at this, both Angus and Jayna have dreadful feelings. If they enter the water didn't, they will be dissolved into nothing.

Angus speculated that it might dissolve any living being to nothing. Didn't want to give up yet, Angus took a grade one monster meat and threw it into the water.

On the contrary to his expectation, the meat was still intact even after entering the water. The thing that looks gone is only the blood. Taking out the meat inside the water, Angus could see the only one that was gone from the meat is only the leftover blood inside the meat.

After thinking for a while, "Hmm… What weird water? Does it only react to liquid things?" said Angus.

"Hmm.. Maybe it is only to disinfect things. Since the monster meat itself didn't smell like before." said Jayna.

Hearing this, Angus thought for a while before dipping his hand inside the water. Looking at the brazen act of Angus, "Angus!!" shout Jayna while taking out his hand.

However, Angus's hand is completely fine and not even getting wet. Unlike ordinary water, the water residue in his hand becomes small water droplets and does not wet his hand at all. It is like Angus's hand is impermeable towards the water itself.

Looking at Angus's fine hand, "Why did you do that? Your hand could have been hurt." said Jayna worriedly.

"Well, I thought that since it is only disinfecting something, It is quite safe. Besides, it is faster this way." said Angus.

"B-But.. What if your hand gets hurt?" said Jayna while starting to tear up a little bit.

Looking at Jayna's worried face, "Don't worry, Jayna. I am quite strong." said Angus while hugging Jayna to calm down.

While both hugging each other, "Haa.. What a lovebird. Get a room." remark Draven telepathically.

But, Angus didn't reply and enjoyed hugging his girlfriend. After a while, they found that the water was relatively safe. Although they didn't see all the water properties, they know that it is safe for them to pass by.

Now, the only hurdle is not the water but the oxygen. They didn't know how long they needed to be submerged underwater. Fortunately, Angus and Jayna found a water breathing device among the tools given by their parents.

It seems King Leon and Angus's father already prepared any kind of tools for different situations. After testing the device to work normally inside the blue water, they begin to submerge and swim underwater.

The tunnel is quite long and dark if not for their magical lamp lightened up the path. The water is also quite cold. If Angus and Jayna didn't have one another along with a magical lamp, both of them might get a panic attack swimming through this long dark tunnel.

Angus doesn't know how far they swim, but he suspects it is at least a dozen kilometers away with their speed. After another few hours of swimming, they finally found the end of the tunnel that seemed endless.

They found a hole to go up from the end of the tunnel. Looking at the end of the water surface in the hole, they immediately go up and resurface from the water. *Splash*

"Fiuhh.. I thought the tunnel would never end." said Jayna.

As for Angus, he is looking around to find information about their current location. Both of them could see in a sort of room with many pictures on the wall. At the end of the room, there is some kind of weird door with many mechanical parts.

"Urrg.. another weird door." groaned Jayna, who is already quite exhausted after all the swimming.

Despite having large mana, Jayna didn't have the physical strength like Angus. So, she needs to buff herself with mana to swim all the way here. She also didn't have Angus endurance and was quite tired.

As for Angus himself, he was also tired, a little bit not too exhausted like Jayna. So, both of them decide to rest for a little bit. At the same time, Angus is looking for some information from the picture on the wall.

Unlike before, the picture on the wall seems very old. As a blacksmith, Angus could also discern the age of some things. Although it is not too accurate without the proper tools, he knows that this picture is older than the tunnel they passed through before.

While Jayna was resting and recovering herself, Angus inspected the drawing that seems to tell a story.

From the drawing, he concluded that there are three large birds like a phoenix. All of them are very powerful and hailed by the beast. However, there seems to be a conflict between the three phoenixes.

One of the phoenixes seems to attack the other beast in the picture and begins to fight with the other two phoenixes. Then, another drawing shows the phoenix standing on top of the other two and reign over the two phoenixes while holding a crown on its head.

The next drawing shows that the crowned phoenix somehow gets trapped by the others. In the end, it is chained and jailed. Below the jailed phoenix picture, there is a sort of symbol or language. But the character is scratched, and impossible to read.

'Don't tell me. This is the jail of that crowned phoenix. Well, let's think about that later.' thought Angus before going to Jayna's side to rest.

Before hours of resting, "Master, wake up. Your mate is acting strange." said Draven.

Hearing this, Angus immediately wakes up and sees Jayna looking at the strange door.

"Jayna!!" as Angus called her.

But Jayna ignores Angus while muttering, "Burn.. Burn.. Burn…"

Before Angus could approach Jayna, she suddenly launched and concentrated [Fire Punch] towards the door. *BAM*

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*BAM* At this moment, the sturdy door blasted into many parts and released chaotic fire mana towards the surrounding. The fire mana is so strong that it pushes Angus backward into one of the walls while roasting him.

On the contrary, the fire mana storm completely ignores the absent-minded Jayna. Then, Jayna moved into the room while ignoring Angus.

Looking at Jayna's strange behaviour, Angus flares up his own mana and manipulates the chaotic fire storm mana [Fire Armor]. Then, Angus follows Jayna and enters the room while trying to offset the chaotic fire mana.

Entering the room, he could see they were inside of the cave with lava pools everywhere. In the middle of the vast lava pool, there is a coffin on the top of the boulder. The coffin is chained into the wall and the boulder itself.

At this moment, Jayna flies closer towards the coffin with the help of the surrounding thick fire mana.

"Jayna!!" called Angus.

But, Jayna ignores his call and keeps approaching the coffin. As Angus wanted to approach her, the thick fire mana in the surroundings condensed into many hot fireballs and shot towards Angus along with the firestorm.

It is like Angus's presence is not accepted within the cave itself. Looking at the fast-approaching attack, Angus immediately counters with his own [FireBalls] while also avoiding the remaining Fireballs. *Bom* *Bom* *Bom*

Fortunately, his fire armor managed to protect him from being burned alive by the firestorm. While Angus frantically avoids all the hot fireballs, Jayna arrives in front of the coffin. She took out her sword and cut off the chain that connected to the coffin easily.

Each time Jayna cuts the chain, the fire attack towards Angus becomes more powerful and faster. After Jayna cut almost all the chain, the thick fire mana condensed into miniature firebirds and attacked Angus.

Taking out his Sky Thorn at the last moment, Angus managed to defect the firebird charge. Still, Angus gets pushed back quite far back. As Angus stabilizes himself and tries to fight back, the coffin suddenly opens.

Inside the coffin, a corpse is bandaged like a mummy, with its chest penetrated by a huge spike chain. At this moment, Angus could hear a voice in the surrounding area.

"Yes.. Come closer…" the voice is enchanting, yet Angus could feel a malicious intent from it.

However, like being brainwashed, Jayna could only come closer to the corpse. Looking like there is no other time, "Draven, shadow mode!!" shouted Angus.

Angus immediately got covered by his own shadow. He used [Shadow Blink] to arrive behind Jayna through Jayna's shadow without wasting any time.

Just as he touches Jayna's back, a large fire phoenix comes out from the mummy corpse entering Jayna's body. *BUSS* a massive shockwave is coming from Jayna. At the same time, the chaotic fire mana in the surrounding area calms down.

Angus is pushed back into the cave wall and almost falls to the lava pool if he does not stab his Sky Thorn into the wall to hold himself.

"Jayna!!" called Angus.

At this moment, Jayna looks at Angus with a different eye. "So, this body name is Jayna. What a beautiful name." said Jayna, like she is entirely another person with sharp bird eyes.

Looking at this, Angus knows that something is possessing Jayna's body. Knowing this, Angus got enraged.

"Get the fuck off Jayna's body!!" said Angus while using [Shadow Blink] to appear behind her.

However, Jayna managed to push Angus back just with her mana before he could touch her.

"Hmm.. This body is a little bit too weak. But, there is nothing I can't do about it since she is still very young." said Jayna while ignoring Angus.

'This is bad… She is much stronger than I thought. There is no way I could force it to come out from Jayna's body unless Jayna herself fights back. Wait.. That's it. I hope you forgive this.' thought Angus.

Then, Angus releases a thin sharp killing intent towards Jayna. The killing intent is focused like a needle and penetrates all of Jayna's mental defense.

After that, another colossal aura came from Jayna [Possession]. The phoenix that takes control of Jayna's body couldn't control her body and feels suppressed by a mountain. A silhouette of a person wearing a crown appears behind Jayna.

"RAA… How dare you, a mere bird trying to possess me!! Weaklings!!" said the person while releasing his seven grade aura.

The phoenix inside Jayna's body is immediately afraid of the pressure and tries to escape Jayna's body.

"Hmph.. Want to get out?! I don't think so!! [King's Decree]" *BUSS* Another strong shockwave erupted from Jayna.

"KYAAA!!" a loud bird cry coming out from Jayna's body.

Taking this opportunity, Angus arrives behind Jayna using [Shadow Blink] and makes his mana entering Jayna's body. Using his superb control of mana, Angus forces Jayna to circulate her mana carefully. At this moment, the presence of the phoenix itself is gone.

Noticing what Angus has done, "Huh.. What are you.." before the possession king could finish his sentence, Jayna's body is cooling down at a rapid rate, and the [Possession] skill is immediately gone [Arctic Heart].

After Jayna fully calms down, she falls on the ground exhaustively but is caught up by Angus.

"Jayna!!" called Angus worriedly.

Jayna opens her blue eyes and looks at Angus. "Angus…" replied Jayna shortly before falling unconscious.

Angus immediately inspected her body. After making sure she is only falling asleep, Angus feels relieved. Then, he got out of the lava pool room and let Jayna rest on the ground beside him. As for Angus himself, he keeps observing Jayna while recovering himself.

At the exact moment, Jayna was possessed by the phoenix, a woman located inside a mountain far away from the beast territory, opening her eyes from her meditation.

"This feeling? Is the eldest sister's seal broken? I must check it myself." said the woman before turning into a green-colored flame and flying from her cave towards the beast's territory.

In the air, she flares up and becomes a large green-colored bird.

At the highest point of the endless battlefield dimension, where everything is covered with snow, Another woman opened her eyes from her meditation.

"This is the eldest sister's aura." said the woman shortly.

Then, the woman was covered with a blue flame and flying towards the beast's territory. In the middle of the air, she becomes a blue-colored bird and flies faster.

At the same time, various kinds of strong beasts, monsters, the individual also feel the aura of the phoenix, but they choose to ignore her.

Meanwhile, inside the beast territory, Ian frantically fights a low-grade cub fire lion for his life. After being caught by the seventh-grade lion, Ian got captivated and pushed to become the fighting partner of the lion's descendant.

The seventh-grade lion is looking at Ian fighting his descendant and feels the fire phoenix aura during this moment.

'Hmm… This is coming from the outskirts of the beast territory. Well, as long as it didn't enter my territory, everything is fine.' thought the seventh-grade lion beast.

At the same time, Axel fell unconscious before finally waking up and found himself inside the green land with countless flowers on it.

"Urrgg.. Where the hell am I?" said Axel groggily.

At this moment, he could hear many soft childish voices, "He is awake."

"Yup, he is awake."

"Should we call the queen?"

"Rather than that, he should not move his body."

"Yup, the mortal body is too fragile."

"They may die anytime."

"But, he cannot hear us, right?"

"What should we do if his wound suddenly gets worse and dies?"

Hearing all these childish voices from the small light around him, Axel feels weird about this situation.

"Umm.. Excuse me? Where are we exactly?" asked Axel towards the small light that kept chatting one with the other.

Hearing Axel's question, all the small lights immediately close their mouths and stop their movement.

"Err… Did I say something wrong?" asked Axel.

"H-He.. Could hear us!!" said one of the small lights.

"No way, Elsa is right. He could hear us."

"He is truly the chosen one."

"Yup, chosen one."

"We should probably call the queen now."

"Yup, someone call the queen, please."

Then, once again, the small bright lights once again chatted among themself while sometimes asking Axel.

At the same moment, another group of monsters comes approaching Millie and Mia, who fell unconscious. Before the monster could attack them, a black-robed person appeared between the monster and the two girls.

The black-robed person raises one of his hands and shows a dark grey wrinkled hand towards the monster. One by one, the group of monsters slump on the ground, lifeless. Looking at this, the other monsters immediately run for their life but still slump on the ground and die.

Then, the black-robed man looked around at the surrounding place and Millie. Moving his hand, the black-robed man gathers the invisible energy in the surrounding into a gray-colored ball.

He threw the grey-colored ball into Millie. Then, Millie's pale face became healthier, and her internal wound also healed at a fast rate. Even her broken bone is assembled by itself and back to her original place.

Done with his job, the black-robed man sat on the ground waiting for Millie to wake up.

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Few hours after the black-robed man saved Millie, Millie finally woke up and found her body was very light and strong. She even could feel her mana capacity increasing rapidly.

Suddenly, she realized the situation before she fell unconscious and looked at the surroundings cautiously. She found the black-robed man across from her and Mia beside her.

Looking at Mia's pale face, "Mia.." called Millie and checked her condition.

After checking that Mia's condition is stabilized, Millie looks at the black-robed man and the nearby monster. She suspects that he is the one that helps them from the group of monsters.

"Errmm.. Thank you, mister." said Millie.

Suddenly, Millie hears a voice in her head, "What a marvelous talent…"

"Eh.. Who's there?" said Millie.

"Truly intriguing how such small, weak creatures have this kind of talent." the voice is saying inside Millie's head.

Millie keeps getting confused while looking left and right, searching from where the voice comes from.

"Don't worry, child. It is I that talk to you." said the voice.

Then, Millie looked at the black-robed man across the two girls.

"Ermm.. are you the one that is talking in my head?" asked Millie hesitantly.

"Yes, little girl. It is I that talk to you." said the voice.

Although Millie is confused about why the robed man didn't talk normally, she still accepts it as she didn't want to be rude to their savior.

"Then, I thank you for saving us from the monster group." said Millie while bowing her head.

"No, little girl. I only deal with the monster that comes a few hours after you collapse. These groups of monsters and the death environment in the surrounding are your own doing." replied the voice.

"N-No way." replied Millie.

"Yes, little girl. You possess the greatest and the rarest talent, the soul affinity." said the voice.

"The soul affinity?!!" said Millie.

At the same time, inside the prairie, the land is covered with flowers. Axel looked at the beautiful woman in front of him. The woman is gorgeous yet gives feelings of mysteriousness.

"Err.. Are you perhaps their queen?" asked Axel.

"Yes, it's been so long for different races entering our home, especially the chosen one." said the woman.

"Yes, the chosen one."

"He is truly the chosen one."

"But, he is weak."

"Weak but the chosen one.

All the small lights in the surroundings keep chattering while flying around Axel. From the conversion with these small lights before, Axel found that these small lights are called elemental spirits.

Unlike other race spirits similar to ghosts, the elemental spirit is a kind of race itself born from nature. Some of the people also call them fairies because of their figure.

Axel also found that one of these fairies is the one that saved him. Despite their small figure, all of them are very strong but very playful. Some of them are even very childish and like to prank people.

If Axel weren't severely injured and needed to stay on his spot, he would be pranked by all these little fairies to death.

"Now… Now.. Everyone, give our guests a little bit of space. I am sure he is quite confused at the moment." said the queen.

"Alright, but he must play with us later."

"Yes.. Yes.. Play with us."

"Yay.. playing…"

Then, the small lights leaving Axel that keep flying near him give some space and the queen alone. But, Axel could see they were flying nearby.

"Ignore them. Sometimes they could be too excited, especially after finding the chosen one." said the Queen.

"You keep telling me the chosen one. What does that mean?" asked Axel the question that was bothering him.

"It means you are qualified to contract with us." replied the Queen with an enchanting smile.

"Contract with you??" said Axel confusedly.

Meanwhile, inside the cave, Jayna finally wakes up after resting for almost a day time. The moment Jayna wakes up, Angus immediately approaches her.

"Jayna, how are you feeling?" said Angus.

"Urgh.. Angus…" replied Jayna while trying to get up.

"Is there any discomfort or anything?" asked Angus

"I don't know. I feel so tired, yet my body feels stronger than before. It is quite weird." replied Jayna.

"Did you remember anything before?" asked Angus again.

"Yeah, It's like watching a hologram video. Angus.. I am sorry. I.. hurt you…" said Jayna sadly.

Hearing this, "Don't worry.. Besides, everything is fine in the end, Right?" replied Angus.

"Really?" said Jayna, at the same time launching a jab towards Angus.

However, Angus already predicted this and dodged the jab easily.

"Of course." replied Angus with a smile while dodging Jayna's jab.

"Alright, then we should go now." said Jayna while trying to get up and ignore her attempt to jab Angus.

"Don't you need to rest properly?" asked Angus.

"No, it's okay. Besides, I already advanced to grade two now. I am stronger than before." said Jayna.

"Grade two?? Wow.. I guess getting possessed brings you a fortune." replied Angus.

"Ehh.. So, you want to get possessed??!" said Jayna while a fire came from her body.

"Err.. I didn't mean that." said Angus.

At this moment, Jayna clutches her head. "Urgg…" said Jayna.

"Jayna, are you alright?" asked Angus worriedly.

"It's okay. I just got some of the phoenix memories. Fortunately, the [Arctic Heart] managed to block the sudden influx of knowledge." replied Jayna.

"Angus, we need to get out of here. From the fire phoenix memory, she has two sisters. Both of them are quite strong, like a six-grade combatant. They must feel the fire phoenix aura when she possesses me. I think they will come here if they are still alive." explain Jayna.

"I see.. Then, let's go now." said Angus while packing their things.

Just as they want to be submerged into the blue-colored water, "Stop!! This is not ordinary water. This is absolute blue. This water will evaporate any impurity, especially fire being like a phoenix."

"Now, I have already become one with the fire phoenix. I don't think I can enter the water without getting hurt." explained Jayna.

"Look at this." as Jayna dipping one of her fingers into the water and immediately melted.

"Jayna, what are you doing?!" Angus immediately pulled her hand.

Then, a fire covers her finger and regenerates it at an incredible speed.

"Don't worry. This is one of the fire phoenix abilities. The fire phoenix has a strong regenerative ability and is immortal. But I am too sure about the immortal part since the Fire phoenix has never been killed before getting sealed." explained Jayna.

"Still, you are quite reckless. You don't need to do this to prove yourself." said Angus.

"It's okay. Anyway, you should go now. I don't know when the other phoenix will come." said Jayna.

"Then, how about you?" said Angus.

"I will.. find another way. Yeah, there is another way that is special for the fire phoenix to pass through." said Jayna with a smile.

Looking at the fake smile Jayna gives, Angus immediately hugs and kisses Jayna's lips. After a while, "Didn't I tell you? I will always be with you even if you don't want to." said Angus while caressing Jayna.

"B-But…" said Jayna while tearing up.

"I will only leave you when I die, which I don't plan for until my dream is achieved." said Angus resolutely while wiping Jayna's tears.

"A-Angus.. I am sorry!!" said Jayna, hugging Angus.

"It's okay. Anyway, it's not too hopeless yet." said Angus.

"B-But…" said Jayna.

"We still have this legendary Mundus beside us." said Angus.

"Huh??" asked Jayna confusedly.

"It's time to test two people's shadow blink." said Angus with a smile.

"Two people's shadows blink?? Don't tell me?? you are going to..." replied Jayna.

"Yep, we are going to do it." said Angus.

"That's absurd!!" said Jayna.

"Don't worry, you just need to hug me like this." said Angus while hugging Jayna.

Then, Angus sends a telepathy command to Draven, "Draven covers us with your shadow." command Angus.

After a while, both of them were entirely covered by their own shadow.

"Ready, my princess?" asked Angus.

"Never, this is imposs.." before Jayna finished her sentence, Angus already used [Shadow Blink] and disappeared on the spot.

Somewhere inside the beast's territory, Angus and Jayna immediately appeared out of nowhere under the shadow tree.

At this moment, both of them immediately felt massive nausea attacking them and couldn't help but vomit. *Cough* *Cough* *Vomit* Especially for Angus, who is also exhausted since he needs to spend a lot of mana to use the [Shadow Blink].

Using the [Shadow Blink] for two people is not the same as doing [Shadow Blink] two times. Angus needs to spend enormous mana almost to the point of exhaustion just to teleport them once.

After a while, Jayna managed to recover while helping Angus rest. Fortunately, there's no other beast nearby. Then, they set up an isolation rune to the surrounding area to make a resting place.

At the same time, two large birds with blue color and green came to the cave that was resided by Angus before.

"Sister." said the green one shortly.

The blue one only replied with a nod before entering the cave.

"Someone was staying in this cave not too long ago." said the green one.

"Yeah, they also managed to bypass the first barrier. Let's go sister, I hope we are not too late." said the blue one.

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Soon, the two phoenix sisters pass through the tunnel and the bridge. Along the way, they could find a trace of Angus and Jayna, with a mysterious beast that managed to dismantle all the hidden traps.

"What kind of creature could do this?" said the green-colored sister.

"I am not sure. But, judging from the aura lingering nearby, it is not a strong one. Besides, there is a trace of the civilized race here. It's probably one of their familiar." replied the blue-colored sister while examining Angus and Jayna's trace.

"Sister, it seems they managed to pass through the Absolute Blue tunnel." said the green one as she followed the trace.

"Since the Absolute Blue is still here, it means the eldest sister is still trapped there. Careful sister, we may need to fight against her again." said the blue one.

"Don't worry. The eldest sister is sealed for a long time. She is not a match against us." said the green one proudly.

Then, the two sisters flash their medallion into the wall. The Absolute Blue water recedes at a fast rate before completely gone.

While waiting for the Absolute Blue to go, they are becoming cautious and ready to battle anytime. After a moment of waiting, there was still no reaction along the tunnel.

"Sister, why is the eldest sister not coming out? Did she wait for us to come?" asked the green one.

"No way, the eldest sister's hatred and grudge against us are so deep. She will definitely come to us the moment she feels our presence. Let's check it." said the blue one.

Both of the sisters enter the dry tunnel and arrive at the painting cave. As soon as the door is open, both of them immediately enter the lava pool cave but only to find an empty husk of mummified corpse in the coffin.

"She is gone!!" said the two sisters.

They couldn't find any trace of their eldest sister, who was supposed to be trapped here.

"Damn it, she also managed to change the vessel." said the blue one after looking at the corpse inside the coffin.

"Sister, there is a trace of people in here not too long ago. But, their trace suddenly disappeared." said the green one after looking around.

"It seems they somehow managed to escape along with the eldest sister. This is inside the beast's territory. It will be easy to search for them among the other beasts." said the blue one.

"Alright, let's go. We can't let that bitch escape!!" said the green one.

Then, both of them turn into green phoenix and blue phoenix before flying towards the outside using the tunnel. Their speed is very fast. As the legendary bird, they could pass a hundred kilometers in a matter of a few seconds.

Arriving at the cave entrance, both of them immediately scatter in different ways while emitting their aura. All the lower nearby beasts couldn't help but be afraid and choose to hide from the two legendary birds.

At this moment, Ian is already at his limit and already uses all his life-saving rune magic to fight against the fire lion cub.

Although they are still cubs, they are already graded two beasts. Now, he is in front of the seventh-grade lion who will give him a verdict about his life.

Just as the seventh-grade fire lion wanted to end his life, the fire lion looked in the other direction, "Damn, bird. Dare to create havoc!!" *ROAR*

The fire lion disappears from its spot and appears a few kilometers away in front of the green phoenix.

"Green Goose, what is the meaning of this?" said the Fire Lion.

Looking at the fire lion in front of her, she stopped in the middle of the air, "Nean Lion, I am looking for a civilized race. Do you see any of them?" asked Green Goose.

"What if I see them?" replied the Fire Lion.

"They managed to break our eldest sister's prison. I suspect she possesses them." replied the Green Goose.

'Eldest sister? Is there another phoenix?' thought the Nean Lion inwardly.

"So?? This is not a territory you should trespass. Besides, you weak birdy beast already banished from here a long time ago." said the Nean Lion.

"Y-You… Nean Lion, this is a very urgent situation. If we are too late..." said Green Goose.

Before she finished her sentence, "What will happen? Was your eldest sister stronger than me?? Kukuku… A little birdy like should run before I completely burn you down. Now, Scram!!" said Nean Lion.

"You!! You asked for this!!" said the Green Goose before turning into a bigger green-colored bird.

Looking at this, the Nean Lion also became bigger at once. Soon, both of them clash with the others and burn the surrounding area.

"Kakaka.. I hear you are impervious to fire. Let's see if my fire could burn you down." said the Nean Lion while shooting a contracted fireblast.

The Green Goose also does not want to lose and counters it with her green-colored fireblast. Both of the fireblasts clash and create a tremor even up to a hundred kilometers away.

All the nearby beasts that didn't manage to escape immediately got scorched and burned alive. At the same time, in the opposite direction, the blue-colored phoenix found Millie and Mia along with the black-robed man at the outskirts of the beast territory.

Landing on the ground, seeing that her eldest sister is not in one of the two girls, "You there, did you know any other civilian race in here besides you?"

Hearing this, Millie immediately thought, 'Other civilian races, don't tell me, is it the others?' thought Millie.

Looking at Millie's face, 'She knows something.' thought the blue-colored woman.

Then, as she steps forward to approach Millie, the black-robed man stood up from the ground.

'Who is he? I couldn't feel him until he moved.' thought the blue color woman.

"Take a step forward, and you will regret it." said the black-robed man inside the woman's head.

"Who are you? This is none of your business." said the woman as she flared up her fire mana.

"Kukuku… a mere bird is trying to fight me. Little girl, I will demonstrate to you the true power of the soul." said the black-robed man.

At this moment, the blue phoenix already launched a strike towards the black-robed man. However, before the strike managed to hit the man, a long black scythe parried it and pushed her back. Looking at this, the blue phoenix turns into a giant blue-colored phoenix.

Her blue fire is burning yet also freezing at the same time. It is one of the mystical flames in the world. Green flames represent nature's vitality. Fire flames represent destruction. Then blue flames represent power.

Among the three phoenixes, the blue phoenix has the most mystical and most potent fire properties. If it is not her eldest sister who is a monstrous entity itself, she will be hailed as the strongest phoenix.

Looking at the blue fire, "Hoo… such amazing mastery of fire. It could also burn and freeze at the same time. Yet you are nothing in front of the power of the soul." said the black-robed man.

Hearing this, the blue phoenix shot a huge blue fireblast towards the man. At this moment, the man raised his wrinkled finger and shot a black light from his finger [Finger of Death]. *Buss* The black light shot through the blue fireball and hit the blue phoenix.

Getting hit by the black light, the blue phoenix feels her body erode at a faster rate despite her enormous regeneration ability. Soon, she fell on the ground and turned into blue-colored ash. Suddenly, the blue-colored ash burned up and turned back into a blue phoenix.

'Who is this guy? How could he kill me so easily? It's better to get away now.' thought the blue phoenix before flying away without saying anything.

"Hoo.. So, this is the reincarnation ability of phoenix.. Hmm… Why so hurry?" said the robed man before flying in the air.

Suddenly, his black cloak spread in the sky like the darkness of night [Death Shroud]. *Bang* The blue phoenix immediately stopped in the middle of the air.

She feels like being entrapped by a strong cage all over her body. The black-robed man approached the entrapped phoenix slowly.

Looking at the approaching man, the blue phoenix has a bad feeling. A feeling that she has been long forgotten arises once more.

"Tell me, O mighty phoenix. Did you fear death?!" said the man.

"No, stay away from me!! Go away!!" scream the blue phoenix.

"Don't worry. In the face of death, everything is the same. [Death Touch]" said the man while he touched the blue phoenix with his wrinkled finger.

The blue phoenix once again becomes ash and leaves a blue-colored ball. Then, the black-robed man grabs the blue ball and goes in Millie's direction. The surrounding darkness changed back to the cloudy weather light before.

"Now, where are we? Ah yes, helping your friend." said the black-robed man towards Millie.

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As the two phoenixes search around, Jayna could feel the presence of the two phoenixes from far away. Sensing the aura of the two phoenixes, Jayna's eyes become glowing red. She immediately feels hatred and immeasurable anger from the inside.

The memories of being betrayed by the two phoenixes and sealed for a long time coming to her mind. Aware of her unstable emotion, she begins to circulate [Arctic Heart] at full power to calm her mind.

During this time, Angus realizes the condition of Jayna. He could feel the crimson fire mana around Jayna's body, ready to explode anytime. Angus immediately helps Jayna to calm her mana and emotion.

According to Jayna's story, both of the sisters of phoenix are old and strong beasts. Angus guesses that they may have the power of grade six or probably grade seven. He realizes that if she is going berserk now, it will reveal their location.

At this moment, it is suicide to fight such an opponent. They could only hide or escape from them for the time being.

With the help of Angus, Jayna managed to suppress her agitated emotion. But, she decided to keep using [Arctic Heart] for the time being as she still receives more memories from the fire phoenix remnant.

At the same time, a Green phoenix called the Green Goose feels that her sister's presence is suddenly gone. However, she could get away as she still got entangled with the persistent seventh-grade Nean Lion.

Furthermore, both of them are resistant to fire. Because of this, none of them receive any significant damage.

"Nean Lion, Let's stop fighting. We didn't have any enmity one with each other before." said the Green Goose.

"Kakaka… Why?! Are you afraid?" replied the Nean Lion.

"Hmph.. Of course not. I still have more important matters than fighting with you." said the Green phoenix before flying away.

"Tch.. What a coward.." said the Nean Lion before going back to his lair.

Meanwhile, Millie looks at the blue sphere in the black-robed man's hand. According to the black-robed man, who is called the soul keeper, he could heal Mia's wound with the help of a blue phoenix soul.

There is a connection between body, mind, and soul. Each of them is interconnected mysteriously.

The soul is the most mysterious force, strong yet also fragile at the same time. Even with the soul keeper's long experience, he still couldn't unravel all of its power.

Because of the mysteriousness and bizarre feeling that souls give, it becomes taboo and unethical to play with one soul. This also makes Millie hesitate to use this art.

Looking at Millie hesitated, "Little girl, although I still have not unraveled all things about the soul. From my experience, I know an absolute truth about the soul." said the soul keeper.

"There is no bad or good soul. It is only a stronger or weaker soul. It means all souls are the same regardings their origin. The soul of a phoenix and the soul of an insect are the same. The only difference is their soul force." explained the soul keeper.

"All souls that are already detached from its vessel are the same. Be it people, beasts, plants, or even insects, all of them are the same."

Now, think about it. This is not a soul of being but a soul of insects or other insignificant beings. Did you need to care about them?" asked the soul keeper.

Hearing this, "Ermm… No. But..." said Millie before stopping.

After thinking for a while, "Alright, please use the art of soul to help Mia." said Millie resolutely.

"Good... however, transplanting souls is an advanced technique yet also delicate matter especially using the phoenix soul. One wrong move may kill your friend. That's why I will do it." said the soul keeper.

Then, the soul keeper put the blue-colored sphere into Mia's body. Suddenly, her body was enveloped by blue fire. All of her wounds healed rapidly. Even her losing arm is starting to regenerate at a fast rate.

"Can you feel it? The power of the soul within your friend's body." asked the soul keeper.

"Yes, I could feel that two forces fight one with the others. One is small, and the other is bigger." replied Millie.

"Excellent.. As I thought, you have great talent in soul art. The small soul is your friend, and the bigger one is the phoenix. I want you to help your soul friend to overcome the bigger one. Otherwise, she will be eaten by the phoenix soul. This will be your test."

"Help? How?" asked Millie.

"Before you wake up, I sent a few dead souls that you killed into you. All this soul becomes your soul force and is fully integrated into your soul. I want you to take some part of it and give it to your friend.

"Think of it like a portion of food that could be divided into many parts. Then, take this part and empower your friend's soul. If you take too much, it will overwhelm your friend's soul, But if it is too little, your friend's soul will be taken over by the phoenix soul quickly."

"For the time being, I prevent both of the souls from clashing one with the others. But as soon as you transfer your power soul to your friend, I will not prevent them anymore. This is also a test for you."

"Don't worry, in case you almost fail. I will take over and save your friend. But, it means you are not as talented as I thought before. So, will you take this test?" said the soul keeper.

"I.. I will take this test. I will not become a burden to everyone again." said Millie resolutely.

"Excellent, now feel the power of the soul inside your body and transfer it to your friend." said the soul keeper.

Millie closed her eyes and could feel overflowing mysterious energy inside her body. Then, she takes some small part of it. A small gray ball appeared in front of her chest.

Looking at this, 'What a monstrous talent?!! She already managed to do this just after hearing my instruction. It took me dozen years to do what she did. My judgment truly is not wrong.' thought the soul keeper.

"Excellent, now to transfer the soul force to your friend, you need to imagine it like a calm river that keeps moving and steady." said the soul keeper.

Hearing the next instruction, Millie begins to send her small soul force to Mia like a calm river that keeps flowing. Mia's soul begins to increase at a fast rate.

The soul keeper is not preventing the phoenix's soul anymore and letting the two souls clash. At first, Millie feels Mia's soul getting overwhelmed, but her medical experience helps her calm down and keep sending the soul force calmly.

She even takes a small part of her soul again and is ready to send it to Mia. In the meantime, the soul keeper silently looks at Millie's work with awe.

During this time, a green phoenix came in their direction at a fast speed. Feeling the presence of her sister inside the unconscious girl, She immediately came towards it. Before she approaches the two girls, the soul keeper appears in front of the two girls.

"Leave!!" said the soul keeper shortly.

"What have you done to my sister?" said the Green Goose.

"Leave or die!!" repeated the soul keeper while releasing his soul force.

Feeling the bizarre power surrounding the man, the Green Goose's instinct tells her to get away from this man. But, looking at her sister in an unknown state, she becomes in a dilemma.

At this moment, the soul keeper raised his wrinkle hand and shot a black light towards the green goose [Finger of Death]. The black light travels at a fast speed, but Green Goose still could react to it. She immediately shot a green-colored fireblast towards it.

However, the fireblast couldn't even hold the [Finger of Death] power. Like her sister, she got shot, and her body eroded rapidly before turning to ash. From the ash, a green-colored fire burned, and the green goose resurrected.

Looking that there is no chance she could fight the man in front of her, she immediately gets away. Fortunately, the soul keeper didn't feel like following her and let her escape. He also still needs to observe Mia for the time being.

Soon, after a few hours of work, Mia's soul finally managed to eat the blue phoenix soul and become one. As the two souls merge, a wave of blue flare erupts from Mia's body towards the surroundings.

By this time, all the wounds in Mia's body healed. Her hand was also fully regenerated. She also managed to reach second grade. Looking at Mia's condition, Millie feels relieved despite being exhausted.

"Mia… Haa.. Haa.." as Millie approaches Mia.

Then, Mia opens her eyes and looks at Millie. "Ehh… Millie, what happened?" Mia immediately wakes up.

Looking that her best friend is completely fine, Millie feels relief and falls unconscious.

"Millie.. Millie…" called Mia, who is catching Millie's body worriedly.

"Don't worry, little girl. She is only exhausted." said the soul keeper.

At this moment, Mia realizes that there is a black-robed man nearby and begins to look at him cautiously.

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After the Green Goose escaped from the soul keeper, she decided to go back to her mountain. She realized that she couldn't fight against the soul keeper alone. Furthermore, the beast's territory is a very dangerous place for her.

Without the help of the blue phoenix, she may have another hard fight like the Nean Lion. Although she couldn't die, it doesn't mean she likes to get killed over and over again.

As for her sister, the blue phoenix, Green Goose is confident that nothing could harm the phoenix. So, no matter what the soul keeper does, her sister will be safe. The pride of the phoenix that hailed as the immortal leading to this conclusion.

Now, She could only retread and go back to her mountain, thinking about her next move. As soon as the Green Goose flies away from the beast's territory, Jayna's agitated emotions start to calm down.

She realizes that one of the phoenixes is gone, and the other is flying away towards another location. Knowing this, Jayna feels relief.

Then, Ian and Jayna decide to get away from this location. Although they want to stay and search for their friend, they also know that staying in this place any longer is very dangerous for them.

They don't know when the other phoenix will come back. If the phoenixes manage to find both of them, then it will be their end. No matter how strong they are, their strength gap is still too large.

Based on their combat strength, both of them are second-grade combatants. It is a suicide to fight against six grade immortal beast like the phoenix. Not only can they not kill the other party, but the phoenix could also easily kill them.

In the end, both of them reluctantly decide to escape from this place. They could only hope the others still survived and were reunited in the future. After packing their things, both of them move cautiously along the way.

After Jayna received the fire phoenix's experience and knowledge, she could hide her presence much better than before.

Her mana capacity is almost five times higher than before, making her have difficulty controlling her mana. She still could use all her skills normally but could not control them into the finest detail like before.

However, this is only a minor setback for her as she gains many things from the fire phoenix. Not only her abilities, but she also gains experience and knowledge of the immortal bird.

Soon, both of them managed to get out of the beast's territory. Fortunately, their current location is closer to the route they choose before getting scattered by the Icetooth horde and [Meteor shower].

On the way, they often find low-grade beasts. But, none of them managed to pose a threat towards Angus and Jayna.

They could end the battle quickly using the sneak attack. Only one or two beasts managed to survive their sneak attack. Still, all of them also end up dying in Angus and Jayna's hands.

As they get farther from the beast and monster territory, they encounter fewer beasts along the way.

In the meantime, Ian wakes up with a pained body inside the lair of the Nean Lion. His luck has been terrible ever since get scattered with the others. He gets caught by the Nean Lion and becomes its cub fighting partner, more accurately their living sandbag.

At first, he thought that he would get killed after fighting non-stop while defending his life against the Nean Lion's cub. However, when the Nean Lion decided to end his life, a loud bird cry was heard throughout the forest.

Then, The Nean Lion in front of him disappears from his spot. A moment later, a tremor and clash could be heard from far away. At this moment, Ian thought that this was his chance to run away. But, his body has already reached its limit.

He also already used all his potions and his rune magic card. Left with no choice, he steeled himself and decided to run in a random direction. Just as he ran for few meters away, One of the Nean Lion smacked his body using its paw and make him fell unconscious.

Normally, he will not fall unconscious from this kind of attack, considering it does not come from a high-grade Nean Lion.

But, Ian is already exhausted to the limit and on the brink of mana deficiency. Mana deficiency is a severe body condition problem. The higher the grade, the worse the effect.

Fortunately, Ian is still in the first grade. The first-grade mana deficiency effect only will make a body weaker for a few days. Still, it doesn't mean he could tolerate it. It is a state where his body starts to not work properly, according to his mind.

Ian lay on the ground inside the Nean Lion's lair and contemplated why he still survived and not become the food of the Nean Lion. Just as he tries to move his body, he feels weak and muscle pain all over his body.

"Don't move too much. If you didn't want to die." said the seventh-grade Nean Lion that was lying beside him.

Looking at the seventh grade Nean Lion, "Why? Why did you let me live?" asked Ian in a gloomy tone.

Hearing this, "Boy, do you think I care for weaklings like you? You couldn't even be considered as food. Since I just had a nice fight with an immortal bird, I am quite happy and decided not to do anything for a while."

"So, whether you want to live or die is not my matter anymore. You could also run away." said the Nean Lion.

At this moment, Ian is glad that he is still alive. He also starts to regret entering the Endless Battlefield. However, he needs to do it if he wants to change his family's fate.

During this moment, Ian begins to remember every effort he makes to strive for power. He begins contemplating his life experience so far.

His obsession starts when a noble makes a deal with his father. During the transaction, the noble goes back on his deal and takes everything from his father by accusing his father of the nation's traitor.

He still remembers how his father was kneeling, apologizing towards the noble for something he didn't do. If not for this, his family merchant may become one of the greatest merchant guilds in the Heart Kingdom.

This humiliation experience made Ian hate all the nobles and decide to strive for power to change his family's fate. Only by having absolute power could he not be suppressed by anyone again. He didn't want his family ever to experience this kind of horrible thing.

After he lived inside the Spring Dorm for a few years with the others, he noticed that not all the nobles are scumbags. There are still good nobles like Angus, Jayna, Millie, and Mia.

Although they often fight with Jayna in the first few years, it is because they compete for the first rank. They also didn't have a grudge against each other.

Over the years, his hatred towards the noble started to fade away. But, he is still obsessed with power. He didn't want to feel helpless and can't do anything.

Now, Ian's situation is similar. He is helpless and even gets pity from his opponent. He was even considered as nothing in front of Nean Lion's eyes.

After contemplating for a while, Ian decided to keep pursuing strength but not to change his family's fate. Nor is it for revenge against the noble. But, it is for survival. At this time, he learns that the most important thing right now is to survive.

No matter how strong he is, he would die and be forgotten if he could not survive. Only by surviving could he do anything he wanted.

He begins to understand why his father wants to kneel in front of that scumbag. It is not because his father didn't have any pride or felt wronged. It is because he did that for his family to keep surviving.

As long as he survived, they could make a comeback. But, once they are dead, it is the end. Ian becomes more resolute and decides to keep staying despite receiving pity from his opponent.

Thinking about this, Ian begins to think about how to survive his current condition. His wound is not too severe. He also had a lot of supplies in his space storage for years. The only problem is getting out of this lair.

Ian still remembers being chased by many beasts day and night without stopping before coming to this place. Now, he is inside the inner part of the beast's territory.

He suspects that the moment he gets out from this lair, he will once again be chased or perhaps killed by the other beast.

Thinking of this, "M-Mr. Mighty Nean Lion, since you didn't care about me. Will you let me stay in your lair for a while. Just think of me like nothing." asked Ian nervously.

Hearing this, the Nean Lion glaring at Ian, "Staying here? Do what you want. But, you will need to fight against my cub after you recover." said the Nean Lion before closing his eyes and ignoring Ian.

Hearing this, Ian was immediately overjoyed by it. "Yes, with this I get a safe place for a while."

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Inside the prairie grassland covered with green grass and flowers, a teenage boy stands still while closing his eyes. Suddenly, the teenager opened his eyes and raised his hand. A wind blade shot from his hand.

The wind blade keeps going until a few meters away before dissipating. Looking at the wind blade, the teenage boy smiled happily. This teenager is none other than Axel Pomel, who got saved by elemental spirit, aka the Fairies.

"Yes, finally, I managed to do it." exclaimed Axel.

"Wow... He managed to do it."

"Yup, he did it."

"But, he is still weak."

"It's not even 10% of my power."

The other nearby fairies keep chatting themself while berating Axel. Axel, who heard this, could only sigh before sitting on the ground.

"I can't believe I have the power of this." muttered Axel.

He begins to remember his conversation with the queen a few days ago. Apparently, he is a special person that could hear and make contracts with the elemental spirit. According to the elemental spirit, only a good-hearted person could see them.

As for the one that could make a contract with them is as rare as finding a unicorn. Because of this, it's been a long time since someone is qualified to have a contract with them.

Through the contract, he could borrow their elemental power. However, Axel also needs to use his own mana to borrow this elemental power. He also requires a lot of practice to use their elemental power successfully.

Some of the contracts are very strict with a lot of requirements. Some of them are very loose with less complicated requirements. Axel found that the higher the grade of elemental spirit, the higher and complex its condition.

He also discovered that these spirits have their own specialty. For example, the spirit that he is currently contracted to is named Elsa. She is a wind spirit that has specialties in wind blades. Among the other lower-grade wind spirits, she has the best expertise in wind blades.

However, Axel could only utilize not even 10% of her power. It is because the requirement to use her power also consumes his own mana. This mana consumption will lessen as he keeps using her power to get more used to it.

This is the reason why he keeps practicing until his mana is exhausted. According to the queen, If he becomes more used to the elemental spirit power, he could cast the spirit power with only a little bit of mana.

The downside is he also needs to maintain the connection of the contracted spirits with his own mana. It is possible to connect two or more spirits, but it will consume more mana and stamina along the time. For now, he could only connect one spirit for a dozen minutes.

As he gets used to the spirit power, this mana consumption to connect them also gets smaller. Besides that, he also found that there is a limit to the spirit he could get a contract. For now, he could only contract three first-grade elemental spirits.

His body would explode by over contracting with many spirits at once, especially the high-grade one. Fortunately, this limit could be expanded as long as his body gets used to the elemental spirit power.

Basically, using elemental spirit power is a very complex and arduous path. But, the reward is also worth it. According to the Queen spirit story, few master elemental spirits before him could even create disaster just by willed it.

This kind of power is almost the same as a seventh-grade combatant, the realm of legend where everyone could only dream and not reach it.

Because of this, Axel works together with these spirits even though all these spirits are very childish and like to mock him. He just feels that he is dealing with a bunch of kids. Even though all of them are many times older than him.

In the middle of his resting, "Axel, give me more candy." said the spirit that is fluttering nearby him

"Ehh.. Already??" asked Axel.

"Of course, you keep using my power. So, I am quite hungry now." said the small wind spirit.

"Haa.. Alright, here the candies." said Axel as he took a bunch of candies from his space storage.

Looking at the candies, the small wind spirit immediately snatched them from Axel's hand. All the candies on Axel's hand immediately went away in the blink of an eye. Seeing this, Axel gets surprised even after looking at it many times.

"Ehh.. I also want candies."

"Me too.. Me too…"

"No, give me."

The other nearby fairies begin clamoring around Axel and urge him to give them candies. However, he still remembers the Queen's warning about giving them something.

Spirit is a pure being, and giving them something means having a contract with them even if they didn't intend to. If Axel gives them something, they will be forced to contract with Axel and lead him to explode into pieces from having too many contracts at once.

The reason Axel gives the first wind spirit candies is that she is contracted with Axel already. She also demands sweet things once in a while, as the contract said.

Sometimes when he contracts with spirits, they will demand something for the contract. It could be food, raw materials, or even gold. The higher the elemental spirit grade, the more demand they usually want.

One time, Axel asked the requirement for contracting with the Queen spirit. The queen said one of them is enormous gold, enough to supply the whole Heart Kingdom for one year.

Moreover, that is only for one of the Queen's abilities as for the others. He didn't even qualify to know about it.

"Sorry, everyone.. I don't have much left of the candies." said Axel, making excuses to others spirits.

"Boohoo… Stingy Axel."

"Yeah.. Stingy."

"Weak and stingy."

"Weak, stingy, and ugly."

Suddenly, a strong wind comes to Axel's face along with the land movement, making him fall to the ground. Then, a block of ice appears in the air hitting his head.

Looking at Axel's miserable condition, "Hahahaha..." laugh the nearby spirits.

Hearing all the nearby chattering spirit, Axel could only roll his eyes. Contracting with the spirit also means being friends with them. So, Axel could only be patient with them.

After Axel rested for a few hours, he continued his training. Right now, he recognizes the horror of the Endless Battlefield. Although it is dangerous, he also marvels at such an environment.

He feels that if he needs to explore this dimension more, he needs to become stronger. Right now, Axel is inside one of the pocket dimensions called the Elemental world.

By such coincidence, he arrives near one of the elemental world's entrances and is saved by Elsa. The elemental world is connected with many worlds or dimensions. But, they have their own law.

Another being beside the spirit could only enter and exit one entrance. So, if Axel wants to go back to Firuman, he needs to go back to the Endless Battlefield dimension before going through the exit.

Normally, there is also a limit to how long another being besides spirit stays inside the elemental world.

However, Axel is a contractor after such a long time. So, the Queen exempted Axel with this restriction and allowed him to stay as long as he wanted, just for this time.

The Queen spirit considers it as a gift to him. Using this opportunity, he begins to train the new power that he gets from the elemental spirits.

In the meantime, Angus and Jayna finally get out of the beast's territory. Now, they arrive at the vast desert. Above their heads, they could see three bright hot suns. Looking at the weather, they know that they have already come into another zone.

The Endless Battlefield dimension is divided into many zones with varieties of weather. Some of them are forests with cloudy weather like the monster and beast territory.

Some are hot vast deserts like this. There are also mountain ranges with hail storms or land with non-stop rain. Because of this, many people often die not only from the monster or beast but also from the harsh weather.

Now, Angus is feeling exhausted because of the hot temperature in the air. Unlike Jayna, who is now immune to hot temperature and fire. Angus still needs to keep fighting against the hot temperature with his own body.

The hot desert is scorching and dry. Even with the fire resistance which he got from opening the Gate of Life, Angus could still feel the nearby scorching temperature. Looking at Jayna, who was completely fine, Angus couldn't help but envy her.

Feeling stared at by Angus, Jayna looks back at Angus, "Emm… Angus, are you okay? Do you need to take a break?" said Jayna worriedly.

Hearing this, he feels his pride as a man get hurt.

"Don't worry, this kind of temperature is nothing to me." said Angus.

"I see.. then, let's move on." said Jayna.

Suddenly, Jayna attacked Angus out of nowhere using her fast jab. Angus already predicted this and caught her jab easily.

"See, you couldn't even dodge my attack. You are exhausted. Let's rest first." said Jayna.

"Err… No need…" said Angus.

Before Angus finished his sentence, "Rest now!!" said Jayna with a chilling tone.

"O-Okay." replied Angus.

Jayna and Angus begin to build a tent to take shelter from the heat and sun. Fortunately, the tent is powered with a mana core to regulate the temperature inside.

Although it cannot make the tent cooler because of the extreme heat outside, it is still better than nothing. Using the tent, Angus didn't feel the hot temperature outside and began to hydrate himself with water.

Few hours after they rest, they feel the dry air in the surroundings begin to blow harshly. Looking outside the tent, they found a few hurricanes in the distance, along with the massive Sandstorm.

"Let's go inside quickly!!" said Angus.

Seeing the horrible disaster coming towards them, they immediately go inside the tent and activate its defense mechanism. The tent they use is a special tent that could withstand the horrible sandstorm and hurricane.

The tent immediately changes shape into a sort of ball while Angus and Jayna are inside of it. The sandstorm keeps going for a few hours. They could feel the ball-shaped tent shaking a few times violently.

After the shaking stops, they come out of the tent and find they are in the middle of the desert with three suns above them. All they see in the surrounding is only yellowish brown sand without end.

Dismantling the tent, they decide to move again. However, unlike before, they already lost their way and could only choose to take one direction.

After they dismantle the tent, the sand below them moves. Whip-like sand is coming towards them. Fortunately, both Angus and Jayna already noticed this before. They immediately move their way and escape from the whip sand attack.

Using [Mana echolocation, Angus could detect a dozen sand whips coming towards them from the sand and nearby. All of this sand whip already surrounded them.

"Jayna, we are surrounded. We need to fight back!!." shouted Angus.

However, they couldn't harm the sand whip physically because all of them are immediately regenerated back with the surrounding endless sand.

Looking at this, they decide to run away from them rather than fighting nonstop against these unknown creatures. Although the sand whip creature couldn't hurt them, Angus and Jayna also couldn't give any significant damage to this strange creature.

Annoyed by their persistence in pursuing Angus and Jayna, Jayna throws a big [Flame Bomb] towards the sand creatures.

"Take this!! [2nd Circle - Flame Bomb]" shouted Jayna.

*Bom* After Jayna merged with the phoenix. All her fire-based spells increased significantly.

The temperature of her fire spell is increasing by a terrifying degree. The increase is not in the density or quantity of the spell. It is more towards the quality of her fire itself.

At first, the [Fire Bomb] didn't affect the sand whip creature, but Angus could see some of them move slower than before because their body became crystallized.

Seeing this phenomenon, "Jayna, bombard them with a hotter flame!!" said Angus.

"Ehh.. Alright." replied Jayna.

Then, Jayna gathers the fire element nearby and shoots a few balls of fire towards the sand [2nd Circle - Fireball]. *BOM* *BOM* *BOM* The temperature near the sand creatures rises significantly and roasting them.

In a matter of seconds, all of the sand whip creatures become stone-like sculptures. Despite being a stone, Angus could still feel mana coming from the creatures inside, indicating that all of them are still alive.

Finding this fact, Angus became more intrigued about the creature and decided to learn more about them.

"Jayna, let's turn all of them into stones." said Angus.

Then, both of them begin to burn and roast the nearby sand whip creature with fire spells. At first, Angus's fire spells are not hot enough to turn them into stone.

However, using his superb mana control and mind speed, Angus modified his fire spell into a hotter flame.

The downside, he needs to expend a little bit more mana. Still, one thing that Angus didn't lack is mana. During the past few days, his mana reached another bottleneck at the 300 marks. He needed to reach second grade before his mana could increase more.

Three hundred points of mana is a lot for him. Moreover, he also has high regeneration mana that is enough to keep spamming low-circle spells for a few minutes.

Soon, Angus and Jayna turn this battle into a challenge to who is the one that is making more stone.

Feeling that their kind is turning into stone and cannot move, the nearby sand whip creature dispersed. Jayna and Angus also stop spamming low-level fire spells nearby.

"So, how many did you get?" asked Jayna.

"I don't know, around 20-30 stones maybe. They ran away before I could turn them into stone." replied Angus.

"Yes, that means I win. I got around 50. Now, you owe me one." said Jayna.

"Yeah-yeah... Anyway, let's find out about this strange creature." said Angus.

Then, he cut one of the stone whip creatures nearby. Inside the stone, he could see a slime-like creature wriggling around. Suddenly, it attacks Angus by turning its body slime into something pointy.

Angus dodges them easily and burns the slimes using [Flame]. Unexpectedly, the slime was quite resistant to it. Seeing this, Angus becomes grinning evilly and begins to use other types of elemental spells to deal with this slime.

Seeing Angus grin, Jayna begins to remember when Master Valeron found something new in the royal library. Both of their grinning smiles are similar and quite creepy. After testing for a while, Angus found that the smile is weak to the lightning element.

The moment lightning touches their body, they wriggling violently and stop moving become a puddle of slime in the sand.

"Hmm.. Interesting slime. They are also leaving a mana core behind." said Angus analyzing the puddle slime.

During this time, the sand below them moved violently. Not only the sand below them but also the surrounding sand. Soon, they feel like being raised high up to the sky. Angus immediately cast [Great Mana Echolocation] at full power to ascertain their situation.

Receiving the feedback from his skill, "Err.. the hell is this?!" said Angus.

"Huh.. What happened, Angus? Are we in danger?" asked Jayna.

"Err.. I don't know. No, I am sure." replied Angus.

"Then, what happened?" asked Jayna again.

"I am not sure. But…" before Angus finished his sentence, a loud sound was heard from the horizon.

"GRAAAAAA…." The sound is so loud that Angus and Jayna need to close their ears and protect them with mana.

After the sound recedes, "I think we are on the top of a gigantic creature." said Angus.

Then, the huge creatures begin moving while ignoring that someone is on top of its shell. The creature has the same appearance as a turtle. Angus and Jayna are on top of its shell and feeling the shaking around as the turtle starts to move.

Fortunately, the turtle movement is relatively steady, and they didn't need to worry about the severe shaking during its move other than the initial move. Unlike the top of its shell, the nearby sand desert moved violently because of the gigantic turtle.

Every step it takes, the nearby surrounding receives an earthquake and creates a small sandstorm towards the surrounding area. Even though the sandstorm is not as horrible as Angus and Jayna experience before, it is still quite a sight to behold.

While on top of the shell, Angus and Jayna could see all the horrible sandstorm the turtle left behind its step. They also found a few monsters or beasts running away from the sandstorm produced by the turtle.

After a while of the shock, "Angus, what should we do now?" said Jayna.

"I think we need to stay here for a while, at least until the turtle stops moving. Besides, there are also others." said Angus.

Hearing this, Jayna immediately feels a few presences nearby coming at them. A moment later, a few people wrapped in clothes came towards them.

"(Two Kids? What are they doing here?)." said one of the people in a different language.

Hearing the language, Angus begins to know that they are different races.

"Greetings, we are travelers from Firuman. Can you understand us?" said Angus in a common language that everyone in Firuman uses.

Hearing this, "(This language.. Firuman.)" said the other person.

Then, another person approaches Angus and Jayna. "Are you perhaps coming from the Firuman?" asked the person in a common language.

"Ahh yes, We are coming from the Firuman. We are part of the human race of the Heart Kingdom." said Angus.

"Human race, it is the same as the Clan Head. Well, if you don't mind, why don't you follow us towards our settlement." said the person who seems to be the leader.

Hearing this, both Angus and Jayna look at each other before Angus gives a silent nod.

"Alright, lead the way. We are also searching for a place to rest." said Angus.

"Then, Follow us." said the leader.

All of them begin to move in one direction. Despite being in the back of the turtle shell, there is still a lot of sand on top of it. All of this is because the turtle shell is enormous.

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A few hours later, Angus and Jayna keep following the group wrapped in cloth until they can see the settlement. Rather than a settlement, it is more like a village. However, all the buildings are made out of tents that could withstand the sandstorm and the heat.

Angus could find that the tent is enchanted with various enchantments that are not lost to their special tent. Otherwise, all these tents will not survive in this hot temperature and harsh environment.

Arriving at the village's border, the group leader says something in their language towards the nearby guard and its leader. As they chat with the others while occasionally looking at Angus and Jayna, They wait for them patiently.

"Angus, did you think this is okay?" asked Jayna.

"It's fine. I also want to know about this Clan Head they are talking about. Besides, we could escape anytime we want." said Angus.

According to their knowledge, there is no civilization inside the Endless Battlefield dimension. Yet, now they found one which picks Angus's interest.

After waiting for a while, the guard leader approaches Angus and Jayna. Looking at the two kids for a moment, the guard leader opened his cloth that wrapped his head and revealed a man with a scaled face.

"Sorry for the wait. My name is Abet, a lizardman, and leader of the Sur clan guard. I hear you come from the Firuman. What is your purpose coming towards this treacherous land?" said the lizardmen straightforwardly.

Hearing this, Jayna wants to say something, but Angus already cuts her off.

"We are travelers in search of certain herbs." replied Angus shortly.

"Herbs? What kind of herbs?" asked the Abet.

"Fire Dragon's Tongue herb. Have you ever heard of it?" asked Angus.

"Hmm… Never heard of it. But maybe the Clan Head knows about that. Alright, I will guide you to meet the Clan Head. Welcome to the Sur Village." said Abet.

Then, Angus and Jayna enter the village while following Abet. On the way, Angus and Jayna could see that the village consisted of mixed races. But, the relation of one race with others is very harmonious.

Moreover, Angus also found that most of them are high-grade combatants while only children are low-grade level.

After walking for a while, they arrive at the biggest tent in the village. Arriving at the entrance, Abet talks to the guard beside the tent. Suddenly, a deep voice was heard from inside the tent.

"Abet, bring the two guests inside." said the voice.

Angus could feel the strong mana imbued in the voice he heard.

'A strong combatant.' thought Angus inwardly.

Then, all of them entered the tent. Inside the tent, A man without upper clothes and blonde hair looking at Angus and Jayna. The man's gaze is sharp and releases pressure towards the surrounding. Abet approaches the man and whispers something towards the man.

Looking at the man in front of him, Angus knows that this man is strong. He guesses he is in the middle of sixth or seventh grade.

His instinct tells him that he is stronger than his father but weaker than King Leon. Whatever it is, Angus is confident that the man in front of him is powerful and could kill both of them in the blink of an eye.

After looking at Angus and Jayna for a while, especially Angus, "I hear you search for the Fire Dragon's tongue herb. Why did you search for such a rare and almost extinct herb?" said the blonde-haired man.

"We need it to cure Frozen Sleep disease." replied Angus.

"I see.. Unfortunately, we didn't have such a rare herb. If I am not wrong, you are coming from the Heart Kindom. Who is your current king?" said the man.

"King Leon Heart." said Angus shortly.

Hearing this, "Kuhahaha…." the man laughed very hard and made the air tremble.

"That bastard really did it. It seems my hard sacrifice is worth it." said the man while touching the black-colored wound in the lower stomach.

After a while, the man looked again at Angus and Jayna.

"Anyway, judging by the high-quality clothes you two wear. It seems you are two parts of the noble. Which family are you coming from?" asked the man.

"Why do you want to know that?" asked Angus nervously.

"Well, there are two reasons for people entering this treacherous land. First, they are completely mad and desperate. Second, they are in search of power."

"Although you said that you are in search of Fire Dragon's Tongue herb, you two didn't look like desperate people. Rather you two belong towards the second category, people that crave power." explained the man.

"So, tell me which noble you belong to?" asked the clan head once again.

Both Angus and Jayna look at each other before nodding. They are already sure that the man in front of them has some relationship with King Leon.

"My name is Angus Victory, the third son of the Duke Victory. This is the Fourth Princess of the Heart Kingdom, Jayna Heart." said Angus.

"Victory!? Tell me, kid, who is your father?" asked the man.

"Err.. Jacob Victory." replied Angus.

"Hmm.. Never heard of it. Probably, he was born long after I entered this world." said the man.

"Hold on, don't tell me. Y-You are…" said the man.

"Yeah, that's right. If I am not wrong, I should be your uncle, kid. My name is Jade Victory, the previous right hand of King Leon." said the man proudly.

"Uncle Jade…" said Angus.

"I-Impossible.. you are uncle Jade." said Jayna.

Everyone in the room was also surprised at the guest relation with their clan head.

"Hahahaha… This is a good day. Abet tell others, we are going to have a feast today." said Jade happily.

Then, both the nephew and uncle begin to exchange some stories about the Heart Kingdom. Jayna also tells the current condition of the Heart Kingdom.

Based on the Jade story, Angus found that the Heart Kingdom in the past was very weak and at war with various small kingdoms nearby. Unlike the current prosperous Heart Kingdom, in the past, they didn't have any seventh-grade combatants.

The strongest combatant in the kingdom is only two six-grade combatants who often clash because of power struggle. In this desperate situation, King Leon and Jade entering the Endless Battlefield in search of power.

Since King Leon rose as the seventh-grade combatant and destroyed few other nearby hostile kingdoms, the Heart Kingdom rose and finally became the strongest human kingdom in Firuman.

After talking for a while, "Say, nephew. Neither of you seemed to be in a bad situation. Why did you search for power? Based on my observation, the two of you are incredibly talented. I suspect that you could reach sixth or possibly seventh grade in the future."

"So, why did you come to this treacherous land? Didn't you hear the rumor about this place?" asked Jade curiously.

"Actually, we…" said Angus.

Before he could finish his sentence, "It's because of me." said Jayna.

"Jayna… You.. " said Angus.

"No, it's okay. Uncle Jade needs to know about this matter." said Jayna.

Then, Jayna begins to tell Jade about the soul-bound contract between other countries. She also tells him her predicament of not wanting to become a plaything for others. Hearing this, Jade could only release a sigh.

"Haa… Even after Leon managed to become the seventh grade, our past still haunts you, the future pillar of the kingdom." said Jade.

After being silent for a while, "Alright, I have decided. I will accompany you two and survive in this world." said Jade.

Hearing this, the surrounding people panic, "Clan Head.. You can't possibly…."

"Enough!!" as Jade raises his hand and makes everyone silent.

"My old wound starts to gnaw my body and makes me weaker. I guess in a few years. My strength will keep deteriorating. Now, my body and strength are at their peak. I want to do the last thing for my race, pride, and kingdom." said Jade resolutely.

"B-But… Clan head.. I mean, father, if you are gone, who is going to lead us?" said a woman in red-colored skin and long blonde hair.

"Jane, didn't you already prepare all your life for that?" said Jade.

"But, father... I am still.." said Jane.

Before she could finish her sentence, "Don't worry, Jane. Nobody is born ready. When I was your age, I also didn't know anything about the clan and leading people. However, I always improve, adapt, and overcome." said Jade.

"Alright, enough of this sad discussion. Now, let's have a feast to welcome my nephew and the fourth princess." said Jade.

"Yes, Leader." said all the people in the room.

Then, Jade went back, looking at Angus and Jayna.

"Sorry about this." said Jade.

"No problem, uncle. Besides, they seem to respect you a lot as the leader." said Angus.

"Hahaha.. I am just a small clan head in this treacherous land." replied Jade.

"Anyway, did you know where the exit portal is?" Asked Jade.

"Yes… we.." before Angus finish his sentence *Brak*

"Father, I hear there is a guest. Who are they?" said a teenage boy that suddenly entered the tent.

At this moment, the teenage boy notices Jayna, who is sitting beside Angus. The boy immediately started looking blankly at Jayna and ignoring the others while drooling.

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Looking at the teenage boy staring blankly like a fool towards Jayna, the woman named Jane smacks the boy's head. *Slap

"Ouchh.." said the boy.

"Neil, mind your manners. You are in front of an important guest." rebuked Jane.

"Ehh.. b-but.. " said the boy.

Before the boy finished his sentence, "Shut up and behave. Before I smack your dumb head." rebuked Jane again.

"Y-Yes.." said the boy.

Looking at this kind of banter, Jade, as their father, is feeling embarrassed.

"I apologize for this kind of behavior, my lady. Anyway, This is my youngest son, Neil. Although he is still young, he is already a second-grade combatant despite his age." said Jade introducing the teenage boy.

Before Angus and Jayna could reply, "Yeah, I am Neil, the most genius kid around here. So, who is this beautiful lady that I see here?" said Neil trying to flirt with Jayna.

Hearing this, the old man Jade feels like he wants to kill himself for his shameless youngest son. But, Jayna didn't react at all and completely ignored Neil with a cold expression.

Being ignored by the girl, "Hey, I am talking to you." said Neil.

"Shut up, Neil!! Don't embarrass me any further and go into the corner." rebuked Jade.

"Ehh.. Why?? Didn't father say that you will search for a girl for me before? Since she is already in grade two like me, I guess she is the one.." said Neil.

*Slap* another huge slap coming from Jade himself. Right now, Jade is furious and embarrassed because of Neil's act.

"I said shut up. It means shut the hell up. Guard, bring this imbecile out now!!" shout Jade.

The guards begin to bring Neil out while Neil is still feeling confused about what happened. Then, once again, Jade apologizes to Angus and Jayna for Neil's behavior.

Although it's been hundred years since he last had contact with the nobles and Heart kingdom, he knows that the act of Neil is vulgar, especially towards royalty like Jayna.

If it happens at the Heart Kingdom, all his family will be immediately executed for such behavior.

"Don't worry about it, uncle Jade. Besides, I also already have someone that will stay by my side." said Jayna while looking at Angus.

Feeling the stare of Jayna, Angus could only roll his eyes. He knows that Jayna wants to reveal their relationship with his uncle.

Looking at the interaction of the two teenage kids in front of him, Jade also realizes that the two of them have a deeper relationship than he thought.

"Alright, let's get back to the topic. Did you say you know the exit?" asked Jade.

"Yeah, actually, we are coming here with a few other people. One of them has a magical map of this dimension. However, we got scattered by some unfortunate events. According to the map, there is an exit here." said Angus while showing his marked map.

"Magical map of Endless Battlefield. That's very rare even for those of us who have lived here for years. All these years, we could only acquire one. Let's match the one you had with ours." said Jade as he also brought out his magical map.

After comparing the map, "Hmm.. Looks like your friend map is also accurate. However, I suggest you choose another route. If you still want to enter this exit. Along this path..." as Jade explains the dangerous path Angus and Jayna choose before.

Based on Jade's experience living inside the Endless Battlefield for years, there is a dangerous monster or beast along the path Angus chose before.

After thinking for a while, they decide to reroute their map. The newly chosen route is becoming longer and full of uncertainty.

After thinking for a while, "Actually, we could shorten the path by entering this place." said Jade while pointing to the center of Endless Battlefield.

From the magical map Jade had, Angus could see a pitch-black area in the middle of the land. At first, Angus thought this was a hazardous area, so he never thought of going there.

"This place is why this dimension is called Endless Battlefield. This place will open to the outsider every few years, and somehow there will be a bloody fight for everyone. Moreover, this place is always enveloped by rainstorms without stopping."

"But, one thing is certain. Every person that survives from this place will become very strong. One of the reasons I could survive all these years is by coincidently entering this place. However, even at that time, I already lost count of how many times I almost died."

"They say only the blessed one with a strong fate could survive this place. So, are you interested in entering this place?" asked Jade.

Before Angus and Jayna could reply, "Oh yeah, just for your information, this place is literally hell."

"Among the other places that I already visit inside this dimension, this place is the most dangerous. Even now, I still do not understand why I could survive in that place." explained Jade.

Hearing this, "Uncle Jade, What is this place exactly?" asked Angus curiously.

"It's a battlefield. No endless battlefield, to be exact. Anyway, you should think carefully about this. You could still change your mind when we arrive there. Now, our current position is here..." said Jade while explaining the current place they stay.

According to Jade, Angus and Jayna are all in the middle of the Desert called the Surya desert. This desert shape resembles a river and is connected with a lot of areas.

Furthermore, by living at the top of gigantic sand turtles, they didn't need to worry about other monsters or beasts. Sand turtles are famous for being docile beasts but also strong enough to frighten monsters.

Unless it is monster overlord caliber or seventh-grade beast, they didn't dare to attack sand turtles. Moreover, even they attack it. They couldn't break the shell of the sand turtle and kill it. So, not many monster overlords and beasts want to fight sand turtles.

Because of their docile and peaceful nature, sand turtles also always search for a relatively safe place for them to bathe in the sand. According to the normal behavior of a sand turtle, it will take a few weeks or days before it stops moving and bathing in the sand.

Angus found that in the next stop, there will be an ancient ruin nearby. This ancient ruin is the place for adult ceremonies for teenagers in the Sur Clan. The ceremony will consist of trials that will happen in the ancient ruin site.

Hearing this, both Jayna and Angus become interested in this ceremony. Both of their main reasons for them coming to this dimension are searching for power. Now, they found a ruin that could possibly boost their combat power.

They also learn that some other clans or groups reside in the Endless Battlefield besides the Sur Clan. Like the Sur Clan, the others also use the seventh-grade gigantic beasts to protect their village and have a kind of wanderer lifestyle.

Then, all of them begin to exchange some information about various things while having a feast. Despite their harsh environment, they have pretty extravagant food made of monster meat.

Angus even found third-grade monster meat food that was supposed to be very hard to make. Based on his observation and familiarity with miasma, the food didn't contain any miasma and was quite safe to consume.

Looking at the stare of the two teenagers in front of him, "Hahaha… Don't worry, all this food is safe to consume. Inside this treacherous world, the most basic thing you need to learn is cooking monster meat."

"Inside our village, there are a handful of people that could process monster meat at this kind of level. I could even cook some monster meat myself." explained Jade.

Hearing this, Angus and Jayna begin to taste the third-grade monster meat. The moment they take a bite, both of them feel like their body is energized.

Angus could feel his mana core become more saturated and in the middle of breaking through. But, he suppressed the feeling as he didn't want to break through now.

Seeing their reaction, "Hahaha… Judging by your reaction, both of you rarely eat third-grade monster meat. Well, if you eat more of this kind of meat, it will lessen the effect. Still, this proves that both of you are very talented people."

"I bet even my idiotic youngest son is inferior in terms of talent." said Jade with a kind smile while drinking some special drink.

"You are overpraising us, uncle. We don't have that kind of talent." said Angus humbly.

"Kuhahahaha… If a person like you says that, it means that everyone in the world is talentless and thrash." said Jade while laughing.

"Dear nephew, you may hide your true strength from others. But, I am someone on the border of the seventh grade. I could easily see through your powerful body strength and your enormous mana inside your body."

"Just based on this fact alone, I bet you could even fight some third-grade combatant in frontal combat. As for Lady Jayna, I don't know, but I could feel a strange power inside your body that keeps improving your body." explained Jade.

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Seeing through Jade from one glance, Angus and Jayna couldn't help but be surprised. Even Jane, Jade's daughter, was also surprised at their guest's strength.

All the people inside the tent could see that Angus and Jayna are still very young. Yet their clan head tells them that Angus could even fight third-grade combatants despite having a grade one mana core.

Furthermore, they couldn't even detect Angus's grade mana core if it is not from their clan head.

Looking at their surprised expression, "Hahaha… Don't be too surprised, you will become good at judging people when you lead a clan for more than a hundred years inside this land." said Jade happily while chucking down more drink.

"Haa.. I thought I could hide my strength, but it seems people like uncle could still see through it. Even His Majesty King Leon also managed to see through my strength from one glance." said Angus.

"Don't bother about it too much, my dear nephew. Hiding one strength is good, but sometimes it is also better to show some of your true strength." said Jade.

"Uncle is right. I still have much to learn." said Angus.

"Good, it seems my little brother nurtured you correctly not to tarnish our Victory name. Although it's been a long time since I mentioned this family name, I feel no regret that there is still such a young genius like you in the family." said Jade.

Hearing this, Angus couldn't help but remember how his father only gives him some harsh sparring rather than guidance.

Then, all of them were chatting about many things while having a feast. Along the time, People who called the elders of the clan also joined the feast and asked many things about Firuman.

Apparently, for the Sur clan, food is the last thing for their problem. The only thing they lack in this desert is water.

But, since most of the people here have strong fire affinity, they could withstand the heat from the enormous three suns in the sky without being dehydrated.

"Hahaha… I can't believe it. You two managed to get out of the monster and beast territory unscathed. It seems you have strong luck and fate." said Jade.

"Yeah, we are fortunate. I hope our friend also still survives." said Angus.

Hearing Angus, the Sur Clan Head unconsciously touches his old wound in his stomach.

"Hahaha… Don't worry about it, nephew. If they are strong and lucky enough, they may get some fortune and opportunity." said Jade.

During this time, Angus decides to look at his uncle's wound. The wound may already be ingrained in Jade's body, but he still wants to help his uncle by sheltering them and welcoming them with the feast.

Furthermore, Angus still feels a sense of familiarity with Jade.

"Uncle, Can I take a look at your old wound?" asked Angus out of nowhere.

"Huh.. What for?" asked Jade back.

"You may not know this, but I am quite familiar with miasma wounds." said Angus while not giving out the entire truth.

"Really?? Then, come here. See it for yourself." said Jade.

Angus immediately approaches Jade and looks closely at the black-skinned wound in Jade's lower right stomach. Inspecting the wound with [Mana Eye] without touching it, Angus knows the gist of the miasma wound.

"Uncle, I guess you got this wound from a long time ago, right?" asked Angus.

"Yes, if it is not because of this wound. I may already break through the seventh grade. But, it seems fate is not with me. Hahaha.." said Jade while laughing his way.

"I see.. Did you still remember what grade the monster left you with this wound?" asked Angus again.

"I am not too sure, but It should be around three or four grade monsters. Otherwise, I could not suppress this wound, and I will be dead already." said Jade.

"Hmm… It's possible." muttered Angus.

Looking at Angus's confident face, "Angus, could you do it?" asked Jayna.

"It's possible but will take time and a lot of pain." replied Angus.

"Hmm… What are you talking about?" asked Jade curiously.

Before answering, "Ermm… I think we need to speak privately first." while looking at the others.

Seeing Angus act, Jade notices that this is a very important matter.

"Alright, everyone. Please go out for a while. I want to talk to my nephew and Lady Jayna for a while." said Jade loudly to dismiss everyone.

Likewise, the others stop their feast and obey their clan head. Looking at this, Angus knows that his uncle is a great leader for all these people.

There are two reasons why people could obey someone without questioning their leader. First, they obey because of fear of the leader. The second one is they obey because they trust their leader and his judgment.

From the look of the other people inside the Sur Clan, Angus knows that they obey his uncle because of his leadership, not out of fear.

While everyone goes out, "Jane, you stay here. I think this is also important for you as the next clan head. Is that okay, nephew?" asked Jade.

"If it is only her. It's alright, uncle. I trust your judgment." replied Angus.

"Good. Now, what do you want to talk about?" asked Jade as everyone got out of the tent.

"Uncle Jade, I may heal your miasma wound." said Angus.

"You could do what?!!" said Jade.

"I may heal your miasma wound." said Angus.

"Really?? This is great. No.. wonderful news." said Jade.

"Yeah, however, it may take time and bring a lot of pain." said Angus.

"I see.. Nothing free in this world. But, a little pain is nothing if you could reach the legendary realm." said Jade with a hopeful eye.

Suddenly, Jane approaches Angus, "Can you really cure the miasma wound?" asked Jane.

"Yes and no." replied Angus.

"What do you mean?" asked Jane again.

"I have a potion that cures miasma wounds. However, the wound must not be longer than a week or two. As long as the wound is within one or two weeks, it could be cured."

"But, for an old miasma wound as uncle had. It needs a lot of factors to consider. Such as the wound degree, monster grade, location, and many others. It also needs extensive care from me to keep it for some time." explained Angus.

"That's amazing…" said Jane.

"Don't get your high hopes. I didn't say it will be successful since it is a very old wound. Moreover, I also don't know how long it will need my extensive care. It depends on the uncle's body itself. There is also a chance it will fail and kill uncle. " said Angus.

"Do it, nephew." said Jade resolutely.

"But, father.. " said Jane.

"It's okay, Jane. I have already lived for too long and experienced a lot of things. My only last wish is to reach the seventh-grade realm." said Jade.

"I see. Then, let me prepare something first before I do the medication. Also, please don't tell anybody about this matter. Even in the Heart Kingdom, this is a national secret with only a few people knowing about it." said Angus.

"Don't worry, nephew. We know how important this matter is." said Jade.

Then, Angus and Jayna excuse themself to rest in one of the empty tents. Since there is no night and day inside the Surya Desert, they could only rely on their watch to estimate the time.

Looking at the time, they know that now it is already night in the Heart Kingdom. Although Angus and Jayna didn't feel too tired, they still need to preserve their energy, especially inside this dangerous land.

Angus and Jayna found a teenage boy in the middle of the street along the way towards their tent. Abet, the guard leader, who is escorting Angus and Jayna, also notices the teenage boy.

"Neil, why are you here?" asked Abet.

"Hmph.. I am a genius. I could be wherever I want to be. Anyway, I already hear that they come from the Firuman. They must not know about this place well. So, why don't you hand them over to me to guide them." said Neil arrogantly.

Hearing this, Abet knows that Neil is plotting something, "Neil, they are the important guests of the clan head. Don't do anything harsh!!" said Abet.

"Shut up, old man. You are just a leader of the guard. Nothing else!!" said Neil.

Hearing this, Abet wants to rebuke the young master in front of him. However, Angus walked calmly at this moment while ignoring Neil. Everyone became curious about him.

Noticing the stare, "Huhh?? Why are all of you stopping?" asked Angus as he didn't notice Neil at all.

At this moment, only Jayna understands what Angus is thinking. It's like when they deal with Ian's annoying persistent challenge. They just need to ignore Neil.

"Err..." said Abet.

"Yeah, Angus is right. Please continue to show the way, master Abet." said Jayna while walking, following Angus.

Feeling totally ignored by Angus, Neil becomes angry and launches a punch towards him.

"How dare weaklings like you ignore me?" shouted Neil.

Before the punch reaches Angus, a hand catches the punch.

"That's enough!! Guard, bring young master Neil to his residence." command Abet.

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"That's enough!! Guard, bring young master Neil to his residence." command Abet.

As the guard starts to apprehend Neil, "You can't do this. I am the most talented son of the Clan Head." said Neil while struggling.

"Yes, but I am also the guard leader of the Sur Clan. Guard brought him away." said Abet sternly.

Hearing this, the guard immediately catches Neil and drags him away. Even Neil is already a grade two combatant, his body strength is still inferior to the clan guard, who is majority grade four and consists of other races.

After Neil was dragged away, "Young master Angus, Lady Jayna, I am sorry for this kind of inconvenience." said Abet apologizing to Angus and Jayna.

"Don't worry about it. We already get used to ignoring annoying people." said Angus shortly.

"Yeah, as long as he didn't overstep his boundary, we could just ignore him." replied Jayna.

"I-I see, then let's move along." said Abet.

Meanwhile, inside the beast territory, Ian has been sneezing non-stop for a while.

"Urgg.. Someone must be thinking of my greatness." said Ian.

Soon, Angus and Jayna arrive at two small tents that have already been prepared before. The tent is not too shabby but also not too luxurious compared to the clan head tent. There are also few guards patrolling around the tent, which makes it relatively safe.

'It seems uncle really thought highly of us.' thought Angus.

As Angus wanted to enter his tent, "Hmph… Why do they prepare two different tents?" asked Jayna.

"Err.. Jayna.." said Angus.

"They should prepare one just one tent. Hmph…" grumbling Jayna.

Ignoring Jayna's remark, he enters his own tent. Entering his tent, he immediately put on some simple protective rune. Although their location is relatively safe, his experience during the past week told him that there is no such thing as being over cautious.

Finishing laying some simple trap rune, "Draven, please watch the surroundings." said Angus telepathically.

"Alright, Master." replied Draven shortly.

Then, Angus begins to sit and meditate. He focuses on his mana core that is on the verge of breaking through. During the feast, he already feels his mana core is in the middle of upgrading.

But, he suppresses it as upgrading his mana core needs a lot of preparation and couldn't be done half-heartedly.

Unlike normal mana cores, Angus designed his mana core to be superior in many things to other normal mana cores. It may not feel different during the lower grade stage, but its true capability will start to show up after entering the upper grade.

However, there is a downside for this mana core. It needs a complete upgrade to retain all this benefit, not just half-heartedly like doing it during the fight. Complete upgrade means he needs to be ready in body and mind along with the mana core itself.

Gathering all his mana at one point, he sends it towards the mana core to nurture it. He feels his mana core that usually regenerates his mana stop and begins to absorb the mana during this time. The mana core absorbs all the nearby mana like a bottomless hole.

A dozen minutes later, the mana core becomes more saturated after basking in the mana. Suddenly, it creates an invisible shockwave towards the surroundings. Fortunately, Angus already set up some barrier runes before.

Otherwise, the guard outside will notice the mana turbulence in the air. During this time, his mana core suddenly works at full power and produces purer mana than before. The sudden change makes Angus feel like soaking in warm water.

It feels relaxing yet also energizing. Angus feels like a dry wasteland that is being flooded by water after many years. Still, Angus keeps in control of his mana and circulates it properly. The last thing he wants at this moment is his mana going out of control.

A few hours later, his mana started to calm down. Angus could feel that he has become stronger than before going into the upgrade. Moreover, he could feel the presence of his mana core become thinner than before, yet the regeneration is faster.

After that, Angus summons his status panel to look at his growth properly.

Host: Angus Victory

Age: 14 Years Old

MP: 347/347

Heritage chi: ???

Strength: 38

Dexterity: 38

Intelligence: 41

Vitality: 43

Soul Point: 123

Looking at his status, he couldn't help admiring his mana core upgrade. First, his mana has increased by 47 points. Since last year, his mana point has already risen at a slow speed.

Forty-seven points are almost like a whole year worth of refining mana to increase his capacity. Furthermore, he also feels that his mana regeneration is twice than before. Having this kind of regeneration means he could fight longer than others.

Furthermore, he feels this regeneration will be increased along with each mana core upgrade. He didn't need to worry about such a thing called mana deficiency in the future. The weakness of every combatant up to now is their low mana regeneration.

Even the high-grade combatant also couldn't regenerate their mana quickly. But, Angus designed his mana core to overcome this limit, making him a walking human mana generator.

Besides the mana, Angus also got an increase in Strength and Dexterity by three points. Now, both of these stats need a whole 320 soul points just to increase one. This is an enormous point even after he got ten points a day through the automatic battle system.

Because of this, every single increase in status is significant for him. The only downside is he could not control his power to the smallest detail like before. However, this is only a small setback. What he needs now is a significant power boost over some most negligible control.

After checking his growth, Angus opened his eyes and found that a few hours had already passed since the start of his breakthrough. His body is still full of sweat from trying to control his mana circulation before.

If Jayna's [Arctic Heart] mana circulation is a delicate thing that could hurt oneself, Angus mana circulation is another level. One wrong mistake could potentially kill him or seriously wound him.

On the contrary, his body has more refined control over his body and sharp sense. This is one of the primary reasons he could avoid or deflect all attacks. As long as it is not ridiculously overpowered, Angus is confident he could deflect or avoid it.

His mana circulation didn't have a name since it was self-made and tailored to his body. So, if he teaches them to others, it will not bring benefit but only disaster to them. Like the [Arctic Heart, his mana circulation also made him sensitive to emotion.

He even could perceive the malicious intent of other people without looking at them, like when he perceived the fire phoenix intent previously.

Then, Angus begins cleaning himself with a simple cleaning spell. The basic thing to survive in the wilderness is learning this spell. Although it is not as good as taking a real bath, it is still good enough to maintain hygiene.

After cleaning himself, he also didn't forget to resupply Draven's food. Apparently, Draven could store things in his shadow. However, Angus has his own pocket storage, which makes it useless for him.

So, Draven decides to fill up his shadow storage with food. This way, Angus didn't need to keep feeding Draven every single time. Of course, he didn't give a lot of food at once to not make Draven too docile.

Draven is a Mundus that not even King Leon and Jade could perceive. So, Angus decided to make it one of his trump cards. A being like Mundus is a cheat existence since it could be anywhere as long as there is a shadow.

Done resupplying Draven food, Angus decides to rest for a while. Despite his body not feeling tired and energized, he still feels mental fatigue and becomes a little bit sluggish. After sleeping for a few hours, Angus could hear a commotion nearby.

"What do you mean I can't approach the tent? Don't you know who I am?!" asked Neil from outside the tent.

'It seems that Neil still didn't give up and decided to approach us despite being stopped by the nearby guard.' thought Angus inwardly.

Hearing this commotion, Jayna and Angus couldn't help but get out of their tent. At this time, Jayna looks at Angus and feels there is something different about him. Her phoenix instinct tells her that Angus is becoming stronger.

Approaching Angus, "Morning, Angus. Or should I call it afternoon?" asked Jayna.

"Well, it is quite hard to differentiate the time with this kind of strange climate. Anyway, did you have a good rest?" said Angus.

"Yup, although it is not as good as when I am with you." said Jayna.

"Err... " as Angus becomes speechless at his girlfriend.

"Anyway, Angus, did you breakthrough?" asked Jayna curiously.

"Huh.. How did you know?" asked Angus back.

"I don't. It's just my instinct telling me you are getting stronger than before. I guess this is the perk of merging with Fire Phoenix." said Jayna.

While the two converse with each other, "Oii... You two.. How dare you flirt in front of me!!"

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"Oii... You two.. How dare you flirt in front of me!!" shouted Neil from far away.

While completely ignoring Neil, "So, what are you planning today?" asked Angus.

"I planned to train a little bit. Since this place is quite safe for now, I want to try a few things." said Jayna.

"Oii.. Don't ignore me." said Neil once more while being blocked by the nearby guards.

"Hmm.. Mind if I tag along? I also want to test my power a little bit." said Angus.

Hearing this, Jayna's expression became ecstatic. "Alright, then like usual?" asked Jayna back.

"Yup, like usual. But, first, let's ask uncle Jade if he has any training area we could use." said Angus.

Then, both of them walk towards Jade's tent while completely ignoring Neil on the way. Fortunately, Neil got stopped before entering the tent and did not do complicated things.

Arriving inside Jade's tent, "Ahh.. My nephew, is the preparation done? or you need something else… Wait… you managed to break through?" Jade was surprised at this revelation.

"Yes, uncle. After yesterday's feast, I felt on the brink of breaking through and managed to do it yesterday." said Angus.

"Hahaha… this is a joyous event." laughed Jade happily.

It is common knowledge that people who live inside the Endless Battlefield dimension are stronger than people in the Firuman. Furthermore, their mana core is upgraded faster than normal because of the thick mana in the air.

Still, to become a grade two at the age of 14 is already showing one talent and considering that most people in this world reach grade two at 18-19 years old.

Unlike Jayna, who is merged with phoenix and becomes stronger every minute, Angus needs to rely on his talent. However, nobody knows that Angus has such a cheat existence like the idle system and heritage chi.

The major reason why he could grow very fast is because of the heritage chi. By refining the heritage chi, Angus could increase his mana to nurture his body and mana core.

Unlike other people who need to let their bodies grow passively, Angus is like a healthy person with unlimited good supplements. The difference between the two becomes more apparent when they start to reach a higher grade.

Seeing that his nephew is also a prodigy in both medical and combatant, Jade couldn't help but be proud of Angus.

"Umm.. Uncle, this is actually not what we come for," said Angus.

"Uh yeah, that's right. I was just a little bit overjoyed about your growth. It is not every day you will see such a great talent like you. Damn, now I really want to rope you into the clan as the Clan Head. Anyway, what do you want to talk about?" said Jade.

"Actually, we want to test out our power and train a little bit. Is there a place we could use?" asked Angus.

"Hahaha.. I thought it was something important. We are living in the desert on top of the sand turtle. You can use any place outside the village. Hmm.. Actually, I also want to see your combat capability. Let's get going now." said Jade.

"Err.. okay." replied Angus.

The news about the newcomer wanting to do some training is spread throughout the Sur village. Soon, everybody followed them to look at their guest combat capability. All of them were curious about the two teenagers that were praised by the clan head yesterday.

After a while, Angus and Jayna arrive outside the village. Both of them decide to have a spar to test their newly gained power.

"Hmm… Why did the weakling like him, sparring the genius and beautiful lady like Jayna? I bet he just wants to flirt with her." said Neil.

"Shut up, Neil. Or I will smack your head again." said Jane.

Although the other villagers didn't protest, they were also confused since they couldn't perceive Angus's mana core grade at all. It is like he is an ordinary person that never formed his mana core.

"So, what is the previous record?" asked Jayna.

"It's 9 minutes 12 seconds." replied Angus.

"Alright, I will break the record then," said Jayna.

"Then, like usual. We start the moment the coin touches the ground." said Angus and suddenly toss the coin into the air.

After a while, the coin touched the sand. Jayna immediately uses her movement skill to approach Angus [Fiery Burst]. Unlike before, her fire manipulation increases by leap bound after merging with Phoenix and increasing her skill proficiency.

In the blink of an eye, Jayna managed to arrive at Angus. At this moment, Angus tapped the sandy ground, and a magic circle appeared in the blink of an eye. Then, the sandy ground below Angus rose [2nd Circle - Earth Wall].

Jayna couldn't help but use [Fire Punch] and hit the Earth Wall in front of her. *Bam* Despite the strong momentum and force, the Earth Wall only has a big crack.

Suddenly, below Jayna's ground, a vine comes out and tries to grip her feet [1st Circle - Entangle]. Out of reflex, she retreated by jumping back.

As Jayna jumps back, Angus already prepares another spell. A bright magic circle comes out in front of him and shoots a big water ball towards her [1st Circle – Aqua Ball].

Noticing the incoming [Aqua Ball] and Angus's intent, she quickly dodge the water while once again trying to approach Angus using [Fiery Burst]. As Jayna comes to him, Angus suddenly shoots some fireballs towards her [2nd Circle - Fireball]. *BOM* *BOM* *BOM*

Unlike the slow [Aqua Ball, Angus's [Fireball] could be cast rapidly since it is his own affinity element. Jayna couldn't help but be pushed back since all the [Fireballs] could create small shockwaves nearby.

As Jayna backs away, Angus creates a water arrow and completely freezes it [1st Circle Water Arrow] [1st Circle - Freeze] [Combined spell - Ice Arrow]. Using the gap Angus preparing the spell, Jayna rushed in once again.

The ice arrows are already ready to be launched above Angus's head. Controlling the Ice Arrow, Angus launches it at Jayna. Looking at its trajectory, Jayna managed to dodge the Ice arrow at the last moment.

Suddenly, the Ice Arrow that touches the ground turns the sandy ground into the frozen ground. Soon, the nearby Ice Arrow turns the ground nearby Jayna into slippery ice. The difference in the temperature makes the surrounding area near Jayna humid.

Ignoring all of this, Jayna keeps approaching Angus using the [Fiery Burst]. As she arrives in front of the Earth Wall where Angus stand, she unsheathes her sword and slashes at it [Sword Art - Hundred Cut]

Jayna's sword cut through the Earth Wall like tofu and crumbled it. But, Angus already predicted this and jumped into the air. In the air, he cast another spell [2nd Circle - Binding Chain].

A chain comes out from his hand and binds Jayna. Angus used the delay time between Jayna's skills and managed to bind her. Binding by the chain, Jayna immediately created [Flame Armor] and melted the binding chain.

Looking at this, Angus cast a spell to himself [1st Circle - Light Body] [1st Circle - Agility] and ran away to create a distance. He managed to arrive at the water puddle where he cast the Aqua Ball before.

Using the surrounding water, Angus cast another spell [2nd Circle - Water Lash]. However, Jayna already arrives in front of Angus using [Fiery Burst]. At the last moment, she got slapped by the Water lash towards the frozen ground.

Because of the heat and Jayna's Flame Armor, the frozen ground melted into the water on the sandy ground. Looking at this, Jayna feels a bad premonition. But, Angus already cast another spell [2nd Circle - Lightning Bolt].

The lightning immediately travels rapidly towards Jayna. With such speed, Jayna could only brace herself using her flame armor. But, the soaked water into the surroundings made the electrocution last longer and paralyzed her a little bit.

Using this opportunity, Angus uses all his mind power to cast the next spell while whispering the chanting. A few moments later, a bright magic circle appears below Jayna [3rd Circle – Neverwinter].

A cold temperature came towards the surrounding Jayna and froze her in the blink of an eye. Jayna is entrapped into frozen stone while Angus has a ragged breath after casting multiple spells in a short time.

"Ha.. Ha.. she is faster than before." said Angus.

The surrounding villagers couldn't help but be shocked at Angus's magic display. That not one of them could comment about Angus's expertise in magic.

Normally, magicians could be only proficient at one elemental spell, especially in one frontal battle like this. They need to cast spells as fast as possible.

However, Angus broke this common sense and managed to use various kinds of different elemental spells like he had an affinity with all of them.

They couldn't comprehend how Angus did it. Little did everyone know, it could only happen because of Angus's high calculation ability and transmutation magic circle from the Archmage Bern's legacy.

Using this way, Angus could cast any elemental spell much faster than usual, almost like his fire element spell.

As everyone thought that the battle was finished, the Jayna frozen stone began to crack. *Crack* *Crack* *Pyarr* The frozen sculpture turns into countless ice fragments and a bird cry coming out from Jayna. *PIAAKK*

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*PIAAKK* a hot fiery aura coming out from Jayna's body [Sacred Fire]. The Fire envelops Jayna's body and makes a sort of wing shape on the back of Jayna.

All the audience was surprised at the sudden change of event, especially the clan head Jade. As someone that has been roaming the Endless Battlefield dimension for years, he knows the unique existence such as phoenix.

Still, he is in doubt. The phoenix he knows uses green flame and powerful blue flame. There is no story about another phoenix using a normal red flame over the years he resides inside this land.

While everyone was shocked at Jayna's comeback, "Ready for round two?" said Jayna, grinning towards Angus.

Without waiting for Angus's reply, she holds up her sword, and all the fire elements gather at her sword. Looking at this, Angus couldn't help but have a bad feeling and ready himself.

The sword comes down a moment later and melts everything straight towards Angus [Sword Art - Fiery Wave]. *Blarr* In the blink of an eye, the heatwave was already in front of Angus.

Angus managed to dodge the absurd attack by a hair breath using strange footwork [Rodeo Maneuver]. Angus's body seems to disappear on the spot and appear next to it. Seeing the hot, scorched ground beside him, he couldn't help but gulp his saliva.

'Such an absurd fire element concentration, and that's only at the grade two strength. I should stop teasing her too much from now on. Don't want to get accidentally fried up.' thought Angus.

"Haa.. Ha.. as expected, you still could avoid that?" said Jayna while slumping on the ground, exhausted.

The last move she did contain almost all her mana. Even though her mana is already five times higher than before, the mana consumption of such a skill is still massive.

Furthermore, this is the first time she has used the skill. She believes after becoming more proficient at it. She could reduce mana consumption and control it better.

Looking that the unbelievable spar is done now, *Clap* *Clap* *Clap* Clan Head Jade couldn't help but clap his hand loudly.

"Wonderful, such a great spar. It's like looking at the high-grade spar rather than a lower grade one." praised Jade honestly.

Hearing this, the other villager couldn't help but agree with Jade's evaluation. Both of the teenagers already surpass the level of the lower grade combatant.

Be it Angus's proficiency in a lot of elemental spells along with his enormous mana to cast it or Jayna's last attack that could kill higher combatant, both of them managed to show what is called a true genius.

Moreover, Angus and Jayna's combat capability is really advanced. All the villagers feel like seeing expert fighting but with a lot of limitations.

Neil, who is spectating Angus and Jayna's spar, couldn't help but feel ashamed. Yet, he also feels jealousy at such power.

'Impossible… They must be an adult with the appearance of a teenager. There is no way they have that kind of strength. It should be me that has that kind of attention!!' thought Neil while gritting his teeth before leaving the area.

Seeing Neil's behavior, Clan Head Jade could only sigh at his youngest son.

'I hope with this you could learn something from this. In this world, there is always a sky above the sky. Otherwise, you will never survive in this treacherous land.' thought Clan Head Jade.

"So, Did I break the previous record?" asked Jayna excitedly despite her exhaustion.

"Err… I think we should not measure it with time anymore." said Angus.

"Eh.. That means I have already reached the next step?" asked Jayna.

"Nope, it's just that our mana consumption is higher when we use more advanced spells/skills. So, I think it will be better to change it to how many you got hit. How about it? Of course, if you could land a hit on me, we will move on to the next step." said Angus.

"Boohoo… But, it means I have become better. Alright, deals." said Jayna before going on meditation to recover her mana.

Seeing the spar is over, all the villagers start to disperse while expressing their goodwill towards the two teenagers. As for the two teenagers, they couldn't help but wait for Jayna's body to recover.

Her last move has a strong recoil towards her body and makes her body keep shaking and feeling weak for a while. Moreover, she also needs to recover a little bit of mana.

As the villagers start to disperse, leaving the two teenagers alone, Clan Head Jade approaches them.

"Hahaha… That's a wonderful spar. However, I still feel you hide some of your strength, my dear nephew." said Jade.

"Well, we should not reveal all of our hidden cards." replied Angus nonchalantly.

"Anyway, there is something that is bothering me. It is about Lady Jayna. I couldn't help but feel her power is the same as the phoenixes that I know." said Jade.

Hearing this, "Uncle Jade knows about the phoenix?" asked Angus.

"Yes, not one but two. Inside the Endless Battlefield, there are two immortal entities called green phoenix and blue phoenix. I never clash directly with both of them, but I still could feel their aura when they fight nearby and hear some stories about it."

"Both of these two entities are ridiculously strong only below the seventh-grade realm. Even among the sixth grade, they are in the category of the upper class." explained Jade more.

Then, Jade tells the characteristics of the two phoenixes and their strength. Based on Jade's experience, the green phoenix has a strong hot green flame. The flame not only burns but also contains the force of nature.

Once there was a fight between a green phoenix and a high-grade monster. After being hit by the green flame, the monster's body grows a vine and strong branches that restrain it.

In the end, the monster's body dies because of its vitality absorbed by the branch and green fire on it.

As for the blue phoenix, it has territory in the coldest place of Endless Battlefield. Based on the story circulated among the other clans inside this dimension, the Blue phoenix has absurd fire properties.

Its fire is scorching hot, unlike normal fire, but it also could freeze the things it touches. Both of the victims of the blue phoenix fire will get burn wounds along with the freezing wound. Based on this fact, the blue phoenix is more dangerous than the green phoenix.

Furthermore, both of these beasts have already been living inside the Endless battlefield for a long time. It could be said that both of them are immortal.

For all the seventh-grade beings and monster overlords inside this dimension, fighting both of them is only wasting time and power.

Both of the phoenixes could easily be resurrected from the dead. Furthermore, they could also fly very fast and escape any trap with their current strength.

Hearing this, Angus couldn't help feeling that both Jayna and Angus were lucky to escape from the two phoenixes. Since Jade may come with them from now, Angus decides to tell the story about Jayna's current condition.

Hearing Jayna's condition, Jade couldn't help but be surprised at this revelation.

After thinking for a while, "Hmm… Don't worry, my nephew. Lady Jayna is King Leon's daughter. I will give my best to protect her. Still, it is a surprise that there is another phoenix that is stronger than those two." said Jade.

Then, both of them begin to chat about various things before Jade goes back to the village to take care of some things. As for Angus, he is still waiting for Jayna to end her meditation to recover her mana.

Mana recovering is a slow process if they do not have cheat-like existence like heritage chi. However, Jayna, who is already merged with the fire phoenix, has superior mana regeneration.

The downside is her mana will contain fire elements than attributeless normal mana. She could use fire skills/spells more easily but harder to use other elemental spells/skills, including attributeless elemental spells/skills.

After recovering a little bit, both teenagers go back to the village and rest in their tent. Angus wants to prepare some tools for his uncle's medication.

The medication of old wound miasma is tedious work since the wound is already ingrained with the body for too long. It is like removing a tumor in the medical field. A lot of tools and preparation need to be done before the practice.

Angus begins to create a few tools that will help his medication. Fortunately, his space storage contains various kinds of raw materials to be used. Using his expertise in crafting, Angus began to create a series of medical tools and sterile needles.

Another week passed by in the blink of an eye. During these weeks, Angus continued to focus on creating his medical tools. Besides that, he also occasionally accompanies Jayna's training.

In the nighttime, he will enter his manual battle system to accumulate more points. Since he arrived at the Endless Battlefield dimension, Angus didn't have time and a safe place to enter the manual battle system.

During the last few weeks, his soul point only came from his automatic battle system. Only now, he has time to enter the manual battle system and accumulate his soul points.

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Inside Angus's tent, "Haa… I think I have no problem killing all the assassins before in a frontal battle." said Angus while sweating.

Angus was just having a fierce battle inside the manual battle system. He fights with some of the assassins he apprehended before, who had the power of grade two with its grade three leaders.

Although they didn't specialize in frontal battle, fighting them all at once was still difficult. Angus even needs the help of Draven and rune card magic along with potions to win.

Still, the rewards are tremendous. Just by fighting all of them at once, Angus could accumulate around 100 soul points.

This is an enormous reward, considering he only gets around 4-6 soul points for fighting one of them beside the assassin leader. Based on this fact, Angus could summarize the soul points he gets when according to the grade.

The first-grade combatant only gives 1-2 points, but it takes some time to win the battle since their endurance is also upgraded. Second-grade combatant gives 4-6 soul points. Still, it takes more time to win than fighting first grade.

Not only that, when Angus faced multiple opponents in second grade, all of them could use some sort of simple teamwork and make the battle harder. During this time, Angus was often forced to use his rune magic card to help him.

As for the third-grade combatant, such as the assassin leader gives around 12-15 souls points. Angus needs to fight with all his strength and use a rune magic card to beat them.

The problem he faced when fighting third-grade combatants is their resilience. They could protect their body with their mana. Furthermore, unlike normal people, the opponent inside the manual battle system is like an optimized robot.

They will use anything to defeat Angus in the most efficient way. None of the taunting or tricks will work towards them. He also feels that the higher the grade, the more intelligent they become.

The most ridiculous thing that happens is they even managed to use combination spells or skills. Angus knows how difficult it is to use this technique since it needs high concentration and mind power.

Yet the grade three opponent still could do it with the help of mana. Still, it is not without repercussions. Normally, this kind of technique will damage the brain and mind in the long term. But, the black humanoid monster didn't care about that.

He speculated that the higher the grade, the more reckless technique it could use. Angus feels he needs to wait for a while before fighting the grade four opponent, such as the teacher Oswalt, the spy of the Nergal kingdom.

He didn't know what kind of strange reckless technique it would use. Besides that, Angus decided to fight a battle with a winning chance percentage upper than 60 percent.

At this winning percentage, he already needs potions and various other stuff to win the battle, such as the fight he just did. Unlike his rune magic card that he could recharge, the potion is very precious, especially in this dangerous land.

Fortunately, a merchant in the village sells some of the potions along with its ingredients. This way, Angus could re-supply his ingredients and make his own potion. Because of this, Angus didn't need to worry about expending his potion for now.

However, the village didn't use gold coins like in the Firuman. They use the barter system along with the mana core as currency.

The price of the ingredient is also higher than in the Firuman. Angus needs to pay two to three first-grade mana cores to gather ingredients for a lesser-grade mana potion. As for the one lesser grade mana potion, it cost around fifteen first grade mana cores.

According to the seller, it is harder to get the ingredients and make potions than hunting mana core. Fortunately, Angus collected a lot of mana core during his way towards the Surya Desert. Besides that, Angus could also harvest some first-grade monsters through his system.

Although it will not always drop a mana core, it is still better than nothing. Angus also found that fighting a second-grade monster is almost the same as fighting a third-grade human combatant.

Their body is so ridiculously strong that most of Angus's attacks could be endured by them. Unless Angus uses a strong skill attack, the monster could definitely withstand Angus's attack.

Furthermore, they also still retain some of their wisdom. Unlike normal monsters, they could use tactics. He didn't want to think about fighting a third-grade monster who is more resilient than it.

After calming his breath and resting for a while, Angus went out of his tent. The current Sur village environment is quite rowdy. Angus heard from the nearby guard that the hunter squad managed to bring back some big monsters for village supply.

During the time the sand turtle moves its body, the Sur Clan will send a team towards a nearby area to subjugate any monster or beast that managed to get on top of the sand turtle's shell. One of the hunter teams is also the one that found Angus and Jayna.

Ignoring this news, Angus decides to go towards Jayna's tent but only to find she is already going out to train by herself. Then, he chose to visit her later and went towards his uncle's tent.

He planned to start to medicate his uncle's old wound. The faster his uncle healed, the better situation for them. Arriving in front of the clan head tent, Angus found a few people inside the tent.

Looking that they are still having a discussion, Angus decides to wait for them. After Angus waited outside for a while, Angus got called by his uncle, who already noticed his presence.

"Angus, come in." said Jade in a deep voice.

Entering the tent, Angus found a red-skinned man with yellow hair and a red-haired man with the same skin tone looking at him.

"Angus, my dear nephew, let me introduce you to them. The one with red hair is Kurvan, my first son. And the one with yellow hair is Isvel, my second son. There should be another, but It seems he is late."

"So, you are the one that is called more genius than our youngest brother?" said the red-haired man.

"Don't be too serious, brother. Hello, Name is Isvel, but everyone here calls me Lightning since I am fast as lightning." chatter the yellow-haired man.

"Hello, I am Angus Victory. As you know, I am from Firuman and nephew of the clan head." replied Angus.

"Well, At least you are not too dumb like my youngest brother." said Kurvan.

"Or boring like the third brother." replied Isvel.

"Alright, both of you could rest first. Angus, is there something you need?" asked the clan head Jade.

As the two brothers went out of the tent, "Yes, I have done all the necessary preparation." replied Angus.

"Already?? Then, let's do it tonight. Many hunter squads will return these days, and I need to be there for their report." said the clan head.

"Alright, where are we doing it?" asked Angus.

"How about here?" replied Jade.

"Good, there are a lot of isolation runes in the tent. It will create less hassle in case uncle is screaming out loud." said Angus.

"Hahaha… There is no way I will scream like that." said Jade.

"Well, the last patient that healed with miasma potion screaming like hell even though he was already in the seventh-grade realm." said Angus.

Hearing this, the clan head couldn't help but have a cold sweat, "Err.. You are joking, right?" said Jade.

"Nope, that's the truth. So, I hope uncle will also prepare himself." said Angus before going outside towards Jayna's location.

On the way, Angus found a yellow-haired guy waiting for him in the middle of the road.

"Hey, cousin. Go out for training? Can I tag along?" asked Isvel.

"Hmm… Sure." said Angus shortly.

Then, both of them begin to walk towards Jayna's location. On the way, Angus starts to regret his decision to accept the yellow-haired guy accompanying him. It is because Isvel is someone that could not shut his mouth.

He is the one that could be called a chatterbox. Just a moment, Angus walks with Isvel, he is already telling his story about his life inside the village without stopping.

Fortunately, the distance towards Jayna's location is not too far. After a while of enduring the chatterbox, Angus arrives at the clearing where Jayna is training. At this moment, a heatwave will occasionally come out from Jayna's body.

Looking at the intense heatwave, "Uwahh.. What a strong fire element." commented Isvel beside Angus.

Suddenly, Jayna, who closes her eyes while standing, opens her eyes and a crimson fire envelops her body. A phoenix silhouette is coming out behind her, along with the bird's cry. *Piaakk* [Sacred Fire]

The surrounding temperature immediately rose to a high degree. The ground below Jayna even turns into molten lava from the scorching heat. Despite this, Jayna itself seems completely fine, along with her clothes and sword.

Out of nowhere, Jayna slashes her sword horizontally and creates an arc of crimson fire towards the horizon [Sword Art - Fiery Wave].

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[Sword Art - Fiery Wave] a scorching heatwave spread horizontally towards the sandy ground. Unlike the first time, Jayna used the [Fiery Wave] and slashed it vertically.

Now, she tried to slash it horizontally and create a large-scale area of attack towards the surrounding area.

However, since the [Fiery Wave] is spread around, it also decreases its temperature and destructiveness. Still, this skill is enough to burn down someone along the perimeter.

Even Angus couldn't help but use a third circle spell or dodge away using [Beast Walk] to avoid such a skill.

"Woahh… What kind of absurd skill is that? It's like a fourth circle spell." exclaimed Isvel beside Angus.

Rather than replying, Angus ignores the chatterbox and approaches Jayna, who is exhausted.

Looking at Angus approaching her, "Haa… Haa… It seems it will take some time to become proficient at this skill." said Jayna while calming her breath.

"Yeah, the concentrated fire mana from [Sacred Fire] is good. But releasing it is like breaking a dam. Once you let loose, there is no other way to control it. I can't help but be curious how the fire phoenix managed to control all this much fire mana." said Angus.

From Jayna's story [Sacred Fire] is one of the fire phoenix's original skills. Because Jayna managed to devour the fire phoenix, she also inherited all of her skills.

"No, you are wrong, Angus. The original fire phoenix never tried to control this concentrated fire mana. She is.. just let everything loose without care." explained Jayna.

"Whatt… she never tries to control this kind of strength. That's kind of a waste…" exclaimed Angus.

Angus believes a power without proper control is like giving tremendous energy to a baby. It is a waste of energy since the energy could be used efficiently.

Hearing her boyfriend's remark, Jayna could only smile. Over the years, she knows that Angus is a control freak. However, it doesn't mean she doesn't like it since Angus never tries to control people but only things he could control perfectly.

She is also somewhat affected by him having good control over power and energy. However, this kind of thing is harder to achieve. Not everyone has the talent to control their body and energy like Angus.

Still, she is trying to control the fire phoenix's skill. She believes if she could have better control over them, it will increase her overall combat prowess.

During the time Angus and Jayna are discussing a little bit to control this skill, Isvel comes towards them.

"Ahh.. Jayna, this is my cousin, Isvel. This is the 4th princess of the Heart Kingdom, Jayna Heart." Angus introduced both of them.

"Hello, you could call me Lady Jayna like everyone else." said Jayna.

"Woahh… A princess.. That means you are royalty. Is it the same as being the son of a clan head? Or is it a higher ranking than it? Anyway, this is the first time I have met a princess before…" said Isvel as he turned into chatterbox mode.

Hearing this, Angus and Jayna could only silently hear the chatterbox talking without replying. It is not because they don't want to respond, but they didn't have a chance to reply.

After a while, "Say, since you two are quite strong, why don't we have a little bit of spar?" asked Isvel out of nowhere.

"Errmm… we.." replied Angus.

Before Angus could finish his sentence, "Don't worry, I will hold back a little bit. I hear…" as Isvel once again talked nonstop.

Both Angus and Jayna could only look at each other without knowing what to do.

During this moment, "Woaahh.. what a concentrated fire mana. Is this a spell? No, the fire mana is too wild to be a spell." said a man with goggles while inspecting the scorched area from Jayna's skill.

Hearing this, all of them immediately look at the man who keeps inspecting. During this time, Angus is the one that is surprised the most since he couldn't even feel the guy approaching them.

"Ohh.. Brother Gil, you are back already." said Isvel.

But, the person named Gil ignored Isvel's call and kept inspecting the scorched ground.

Looking at this, "Oii.. Nerd, You could inspect that damned scorched ground later!!" As Isvel disappears from his spot and does a flying kick towards Gil.

Gil immediately got kicked by Isvel and thrown a few meters away. Then, Isvel dragged Gil like a dead body towards Angus and Jayna, who are looking at the attic of the two people.

"Ahh.. Sorry about that. He is my younger brother, Gilford, a nerd who likes to meddle with some boring stuff." said Isvel.

Suddenly, Gil recovered and countered his brother, "Hey, that's not boring stuff. It's called science and technology." rebuked Gil.

"Yeah-yeah.. Boring stuff.." said Isvel.

"Hmph.. a chatterbox like you will never know the true value of my stuff. Anyway, I hear you two are from the Firuman? Do you happen to bring some books?" asked Gil.

Hearing this, Jayna couldn't help but look at Angus. She knows that Angus must bring a few books on this journey as reading books is one of Angus's hobbies besides lazing around.

"Hmm.. what book do you want?" replied Angus.

"Ehh.. you really have some books? That's awesome. Could I borrow it? Ahh.. My name is Gilford, by the way." exclaimed Gilford.

"I am Angus Victory. I am sorry, but I can't lend the book for free. Let's say why don't we have an exchange." said Angus.

"Exchange? What do you want?" asked Gilford.

"Since you want to borrow books, let's exchange them for lending your other books." said Angus.

Hearing this, Gilford immediately smiles happily, "I see you are a man of the culture as well. Say why don't you come towards my home..." as Gilford and Angus chatting on their own.

Looking at this, "Urrgg.. I never knew that my cousin was also a nerd." commented Isvel nearby.

"Anyway, I hear from my father that you will try to medicate his old wound. Could I spectate it?" asked Gilford out of nowhere.

"Hm… Well, as long as you don't disturb me and get uncle Jade's permission, you could spectate it." said Angus.

"Really?? That's good. Yey.." said Gilford happily.

"Woah-Woah.. Hold on.. What do you mean by medicating father? Did father get sick?" asked Isvel out of nowhere.

"No, dumbass.. It's his old wound. Apparently, our cousin here will try to heal his miasma wound." said Gilford.

"Oii.. What did you call me, Nerd?" replied Isvel while smacking his brother's head.

"Stop hitting my head. I don't want to become a scatterbrain like you." said Gilford while running away.

The two brothers begin a game of cat and mouse while leaving Angus and Jayna alone.

"Well, it seems you get a good cousin with the same interests as you." said Jayna.

"Same interest? That will be good if that's the case. I think that Gilford is the most dangerous out of Uncle Jade's children." said Angus.

"Ehh.. How come?" replied Jayna.

"Because of the four children only, he reeks of blood. Anyway, let's go back now. Tonight, I need to medicate Uncle Jade." said Angus.

'Reeks of blood??' thought Jayna before following Angus back towards Sur village.

As time goes by, night comes. Because of the sunny weather in the Surya desert, the Sur Village is still as bright as day despite the nighttime. Still, most of the villagers already rest in their own tent.

Now, Angus stays in the clan head tent. There are few people inside the tent, such as Clan head Jade, Jane, Gilford, Angus, and Jayna. Beside them, all the nearby guards are ordered to wait outside.

Sitting on the chair in the middle of the tent, Angus is doing the last-minute inspection towards Uncle Jade's old wound.

After a while, "Alright, let me explain what I am going to do." said Angus.

Angus intends to open the old wound first and purify the outer layer of the miasma wound. During this time, Jade needs to keep repelling the miasma from the inside while drinking the miasma curing potion.

This moment is also the most painful moment, like when Angus cures King Nexus' wound. The miasma inside the wound will go wildly and become aggressive upon the contact of the miasma curing wound.

After explaining what uncle Jade needs to do, Angus takes out a few enchanted steel needles along with a few medical tools.

"Uncle, you ready?" asked Angus while holding a scalpel.

"Yes, let's do it." replied Jade while holding the miasma-curing potion.

After both of them taking a deep breath, Angus cut open the black-skinned wound on the lower stomach of uncle Jade's body.

The moment the wound cuts open, Uncle Jade feels like being scorching in the wounded area. Without wasting any moment, "Drink the potion now!!" said Angus while stabbing the enchanted needle around the wound area.

The moment Uncle Jade drinks the potion, he feels burned from the inside. However, his suffering is only in the beginning.

After Angus stabs the needles around the wound, "Keep repelling the miasma!!" said Angus and took out a bottle of miasma curing potion.

The moment Angus applies the potion towards the wound, "ARRGGHHH!!!"

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"ARRGGHHH!!!" the Clan Head Jade screamed as his life depended on it.

Jade feels like unimaginable pain from his lower stomach to his whole body. All his veins showing up like it is going to rupture anytime.

Hearing the clan head scream, everyone inside the room becomes worried but still holding themself to not interrupt the medication process since Angus already reminds them before.

After applying the potion, Angus produces a blue flame on one of his hands. Then, he takes another bottle on the other hand. Using a series of fast hand movements, Angus tapped a few parts of Jade's body with a burning blue flame hand.

While all of this happens, he keeps applying the potion to the wounded area. A series of miasma gas keeps coming out from the wound.

Healing old miasma wounds is more complicated because of this reason. The miasma was already integrated as part of the body and could multiply using the host body mana and vitality.

It is already a blessing for Jade to reach his current power despite having such a miasma wound. Normally, with this kind of wound, one's combat strength and progress will stagnate.

A few moments later, Angus stops applying the potion and replaces the steel needle that has already turned into black color.

After replacing the steel needle, "Uncle, can you still continue?" asked Angus.

"Haa.. Ha.. Don't worry. Ha.. Just do it!!" said uncle Jade with a haggard breath.

Then, Angus does the same process applying the potion while pushing the miasma inside Uncle Jade's body using the blue flame.

During this time, Uncle Jade could barely hold on to the pain and almost fell unconscious. At this moment, Angus stops applying the potion and begins to write a rune near the wounded area.

Angus decides to stop the medication and trap the miasma in the wounded area for the time being using the rune. After a while, Angus activated the rune, and Uncle Jade immediately fell unconscious.

Fortunately, the other nearby people are ready to hold Jade's body and lay him down to the nearby prepared bed.

Angus didn't expect that the healing of the old miasma wound would be this difficult. Just from one of these sessions, he already uses five bottle miasma cure potions.

Furthermore, the pain the patient receives is more than he thought. The patient needs to keep conscious while holding the miasma to prevent it from spreading around. Otherwise, it will be useless since the miasma will attack the other area.

From this one session, Angus thought he needed around ten to fifteen times using the same procedure. Moreover, there is also long rehabilitation after the medication ends.

After checking that Uncle Jade's condition is okay, Angus looked at the black-colored needle, and without hesitation, he burned them down using his blue flame.

"Hmm.. Why did you burn it down?" asked Gilford, who kept silent from the start.

Hearing this, Angus looked at Gilford before replying, "Why not? Did you want to use it?" asked Angus back.

"Well, no. But, we could at least research it a little bit." said Gilford.

"Nothing good will come out of it." replied Angus.

Looking that Gilford still couldn't accept it, "Say cousin, What is miasma? Is it a curse? poison? or another type of energy?" asked Angus towards Gilford.

"Hmm.. Some books say it is a kind of curse, but if a monster could use it, then it means another type of energy." replied Gilford.

"No, Miasma is actually mana. Corrupted mana. As for how this mana could be corrupted, I am not sure myself. However, since it is corrupted mana, you should never play with it unless you plan not to use mana anymore." explained Angus.

"As a researcher, I understand the thirst for knowledge and curiosity over something. Yet, if we are not going to use it or are not committed enough to throw everything for it, why bother to do it in the first place.

"Cousin, to get a certain knowledge, you need to be ready to pay for the right price. Please think carefully about this." said Angus while going out of the tent with Jayna leaving Gilford.

On the way towards their tent, "It's not like you giving someone lengthy advice." said Jayna.

"Well, I found that cousin Gilford is quite similar to myself. However, he is like searching for a needle in the middle of a haystack. He didn't know what his current ambition was. Even for someone that is thirsty for knowledge, they have their interest and ambition." replied Angus.

"I see… Then, what is your ambition?" asked Jayna.

"Didn't it clear already?" replied Angus.

"Ehh.. What is it?" asked Jayna.

"To stand at the top and become the strongest. No matter how I deny it, I always had this kind of ambition from the start in my heart. Of course, it will be good to have a peaceful life with a beautiful girl, like you, Jayna." said Angus.

Hearing this, Jayna becomes blushing and embarrassed.

Looking at the blushing, Jayna, "Say, Jayna, want to rest at my tent?" said Angus.

"O-Okay.. B-But.. I am still not ready yet." said Jayna.

"Hahaha… What are you thinking about? we are only resting." said Angus while patting Jayna's head.

"Hmph.. Stupid Angus!!" said Jayna while pouting.

Then the following day, Angus went back to Jade's tent to check his condition. Currently, Jade has a pale expression, yet he feels more energetic than before. After careful inspection, Angus will not do the same medication for a few days to let uncle Jade's body rest.

The medication method Angus uses is very forceful and gives quite a burden to Uncle Jade's body. Without proper rest, his body may get more hidden injuries and risk his life.

During the next few days, Angus continues training inside his system and accompanies Jayna's training. All this time, it was very peaceful. Even Neil didn't bother them again and trained on his own for the upcoming age ceremony test.

Another day passed by, and today a colossal sandstorm came to envelop the whole gigantic turtle sand. Despite that, the turtle sand kept moving forward like there was no sandstorm. The sandstorm lasted for an entire day.

Looking at this sandstorm, Angus knows that he is still inside the dangerous land and needs to keep getting stronger. After a whole day of a sandstorm, it finally ended and left a lot of sand dunes near the village.

Angus meditated inside his tent as usual. Suddenly, an alarm was heard all over Sur Village. Soon, various explosions were heard all over the village. *Bom* *Bom* *Bom* Fortunately, a barrier around the village holds the explosion.

"Intruder!! Prepare for a fight!!" shout Abet.

Suddenly, a whispering chant could be heard in the air. An enormous magic circle appears above the Sur village.

"There.. There is a group in the brown cloak!!" said one of the guards.

"Isvel!! Get them!!" said Kurvan, Jade's eldest son.

"Hmph… Dare to attack the Sur Clan. Let's see how many lives they have." said Isvel before lightning covered his body and disappeared from his spot [Lightning Strike].

A moment later, Isvel is already in front of the cloaked group and cancels the chanting spell.

"Tch.. It's the lightning of the Sur clan." said the cloaked man.

"Since you are already here, Die!!" said the other cloaked man.

Suddenly, from the ground appeared a few more cloaked men surrounded Isvel.

At this moment, Kurvan, who is flying in the air, also does not stay still. He raised his hand, and a few pillars of fire arose from out of nowhere [3rd Circle - Fire Totem]. Each of the Fire Totem is spiraling and moving toward the brown cloaked man.

Looking at the Fire Totem, coming from all directions, "Tch.. prepare the barrier." said one of the brown cloaked men.

Using this chance, Isvel ran back towards the village. However, on the way, all the nearby sand dunes move and reveal a few other brown cloaked people ambushing Isvel.

During this time, Isvel couldn't help but need to fight back. Suddenly, a few spells land on Isvel [1st Circle - Stone Skin] [1st Circle - Agility] [1st Circle - Power Up].

Looking at Angus, who is casting spells from far away, Isvel couldn't help but smile while feeling his body buffed with energy. Using his enchanted speed, Isvel dodges all the nearby attacks and runs towards the village.

"There is another capable magician inside the village." said one of the intruders.

However, before they could do anything, a human-sized fire hit them [Godak Fire]. *BLAM* The fire heat immediately engulfed the surrounding area.

A blonde-haired man with a long greatsword stood majestically inside the burning fire.

"Dare to attack my village?!! Sur Clan.. Attack!!" shouted the clan head Jade.

"Woww!!" replied the nearby guard.

"It's the clan head, retreat!!" said one of the intruders.

As the intruder retreated, a sandstorm appeared near the horizon. Looking at this, Jade knows that the intruder is coming and going using the sandstorm as its cover.

'This sandstorm is probably an artificial one.' thought Jade.

Not wanting to let the intruders go away, "Jane, block that sandstorm!!" command Jade.

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"Jane, block that sandstorm!!" command Jade

Hearing the clan Head, Jane, the eldest daughter of Jade, immediately gathers some of the villagers. All of them take out a great axe and spin rapidly on their spot.

A moment later, flames came out from their great axe. Using the spinning centrifugal force, they jump high in the air along with their great blazing axe with Jane on the lead.

While in the air, they kept rotating and covered in fire. Later, their entire body is covered with fire and keeps approaching the sandstorm.

"Release, Now!! [Fire Axe 1st style - Flame wheel]" yelled Jane as she shot a massive fire from her great axe.

Following Jane's lead, the other villagers also shot their own [Flame Wheel] towards the sandstorm. Although their [Flame wheel] is not as big as Jane had, they soon merged together and created a giant firewall towards the sandstorm.

*BOOMM* The fire and sandstorm clash and create a huge disturbance nearby. Since the sandstorm contains a lot of wind, the fire becomes more extensive and makes a big zone within the sandstorm.

While all of this is happening, the Clan Head Jade leads the other people to hunt down all the retreating intruders.

Looking at this, Angus feels something is wrong and immediately uses [Great Mana Echolocation] to detect everything nearby. Suddenly, Angus feels something big is coming towards the village from the other direction.

"This is… What the hell is this?" said Angus.

Angus tries to warn the other guard that running towards the intruder, but the nearby wind is too strong for his voice to be heard. Leaving with no choice, Angus ran towards the other direction of the village while sending a few villagers towards the Clan Head for help.

Along the way, Angus meets with Jayna. Looking at Angus's serious face, she immediately knows something is wrong and decides to follow him.

"Jayna, there is something big approaching the village in the other direction." shouted Angus while running.

Soon, they arrive at the other side of the village that is lacking people since most of them fight the intruder or help the other villagers evacuate.

While waiting for the things to appear, "Huhh.. I thought I was here first. It seems my cousin's insight is not bad." said Gilford, who emerged from behind them.

"Ahh.. Cousin Gilford, there is something big approaching the village from that direction." said Angus.

"Ehh.. How did you know? I don't see anything besides these sand dunes. I only thought the intruder's behavior was a little bit weird and checked the least guarded area in the village." replied Gilford.

"I just use a big detecting spell." replied Angus.

"Hmm… I see.. Anyway, what kind of things is it? Can you describe it to me?" asked Gilford.

"It has a lot of protruding like spikes all over its body and has quite a long body. I am not sure, but it doesn't seem to have a face and is moving towards the village like a snake." explained Angus.

Hearing Angus's explanation, Gilford became solemn, "Hmm… if what you say is true, we couldn't let that thing come near the village." said Gilford.

"Cousin, Did you happen to know that thing?" asked Angus.

"Yes, but it should not be living here. Based on your description, it should be Plague Worm. It is a monster that should be living in the toxic wasteland far away from here." explained Gilford.

"The problem is that this big worm is very resilient towards any environment and could spread various dangerous diseases nearby by its mucus. Since it is a monster, it probably attracts towards this way as there is a strong mana disturbance here." said Gilford.

"We can't let this monster come near the village, or it will turn the whole village into a plague zone. Fortunately, you found this monster first. Otherwise, it will be too late." added Gilford.

"I agree… But, that thing is so huge, around a few hundred meters. I don't know what grade it is. However, I think we should call uncle Jade to fend it away." said Angus.

"There is no time for that. Besides, I think other people come with the Plague Worm. Say, cousin, how far is that Plague worm from this village?" asked Gilford.

"Around two to three kilometers. Wait, don't tell me?" replied Angus.

"Yes, they use some sort of camouflage to hide the approaching Plague Worm." said Gilford.

"Tch.. they really think this attack thoroughly." said Angus.

'Yes, this kind of attack at this scale couldn't be done by an ordinary group. It's probably from another village.' thought Gilford.

"Well, cousin, Lady Jayna. We can't let the worm approach the village any further. I could handle the worm myself, but if the other intruder interferes, it will be difficult to hold it."

"Do you think you two could hold the other intruder until I was done with the Plague Worm?" said Gilford with a smile.

Hearing this, both Angus and Jayna look at each other before nodding their head. "Leave them to us." said Angus.

After Gilford sent a notice about the current situation towards the nearby guard, they went to the Plague Worm location.

While running on the sand, Angus keeps using [Great Mana Echolocation] and finally detects the other intruders coming towards them at a fast speed.

"Five people are approaching us from the other direction." warned Angus.

"Five? Can you two hold them down?" asked Gilford.

"Don't worry. We are good at taunting people and running away. Just focus on the Plague Worm." said Angus confidently.

After a while, "They are here. The worm is only a few hundred meters away." said Angus as he shot a few [Firebolt] towards each of the intruders and the Plague Worm. *Bang* *Bang* *Bang*

The intruders managed to withstand the [Firebolt, but their disguise became undone from Angus's firebolt. As A magician, Angus knows that camouflage is hard to maintain. It only needs a 1st Circle Spell like [Firebolt] to undo them.

All the intruders were wearing a gas mask while looking at the Angus group wearily.

"Tch.. it seems one of them has a detection method. Let's eliminate them first!!" said one of the intruders.

Suddenly, Gilford flares up his mana and reveals his grade four strength.

"Angus, Lady Jayna, I leave them to you two." said Gilford before running in the other direction.

Feeling Gilford's mana, the Plague Worm monster instinctively attracted to him and changed its course.

"Damn it, Kill him first!!" yelled one of the intruders.

Before they could follow Gilford, [Fiery Burst] Jayna appeared on their path and brandished her sword.

"I will not let you get in the way." said Jayna coldly.

"Tch.. Just a kid like you should shut up and get away." as the intruder attacks Jayna.

However, at this moment, Angus shot a few [Fireball] toward the intruder. *Bom* *Bom* *Bom*

The intruders couldn't help but be pushed back by the exploded [Fireball] and retread back.

"This is getting annoying. But, you are not the only one with a Magician." said the intruder.

Suddenly, an earth spike appeared from the ground towards Jayna [2nd Circle - Earth Spike]. At the last second, Jayna managed to dodge the earth spike calmly. Using this opportunity, the other intruder already launched their attack.

Before they approach Jayna, an earth wall appears on their path [2nd Circle - Earth Wall]. The intruder managed to break through the earth wall easily. Because of the delay, Jayna uses this chance to get away from the intruder.

"Dual Element magician, Sure enough, the Sur Clan is the cradle of genius. It's a shame. You will die here." said one of the intruders approaching Angus.

Then, Angus takes out his Sky Thorn and parries the intruder sword.

"Who said I am a magician?" said Angus with a taunting smile.

The other intruders were surprised at Angus's sudden performance. Suddenly, a scream was heard from behind the intruder.

"Arrghh" screamed the magician in the intruder group.

The magician is slumping down on the ground lifelessly as his heart is penetrated by something in black color that came out from his shadow.

"What's that?" exclaimed the other intruder.

Using this opportunity, Angus and Jayna regroup together. While regrouping, Angus didn't miss his chance to shoot out a spell towards his opponent [2nd Circle - Flame Wave]. A wall of fire pushes his opponent back away.

"Keep focus!! Eliminate the brats first!!" said one of the intruders while approaching Angus and Jayna.

"Got you!!" said Angus as he took out his rune magic card.

The magic card shone brightly and cast a burst of cold aura [3rd Circle - Freezing Blast]. Looking at this, the intruder couldn't help deciding to dodge the incoming spell.

While dodging the [Freezing Blast, a few earth spikes rise from the ground and stab his feet [2nd Circle - Earth Spike].

"Arrghh!!" scream the intruder in pain.

The other intruder wanted to help him, but a hot crimson wave turned them away [Sword Art - Crimson Slash]. Jayna brandished her sword and fended off the other intruder.

The injured intruder imbues his feet with mana and destroys the earth spike before regrouping with the other intruders.

"Ehh.. why come back so early? Didn't you say you wanted to kill me?" taunting Angus.

*BOOM*

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*BOOM* A loud explosion was heard from far away, along with a massive tremor from Gilford's direction.

Hearing this, the intruder has a bad premonition, while Angus and Jayna keep observing the intruder calmly.

'As expected, Gilford is the most dangerous one. To think he has that thing. No wonder he said he could handle the Plague Worm alone.' thought Angus inwardly while keeping his playful face.

While Angus deliberately taunts the intruders, Jayna keeps her cold expression and looks at the intruder seriously. After fighting with Angus for a long time, she learned never to let her guard down in front of the enemy.

"Tch.. you two go check the Plague Worm! We can't lose that monster now!!" said the injured intruder that seemed like the leader.

"Yes, sir." said the two intruders before running towards Angus and Jayna's direction.

"Ohh.. You are not going away." said Angus playfully.

But, the other two intruders were also coming towards Angus. At this moment, Jayna brandished her sword and created a fire wave [Sword Art - Crimson Slash].

The intruders didn't bother to dodge and only covered their bodies with mana to withstand the weak fire wave. Looking at this, Angus immediately takes out another rune magic card. The card flashes brightly and produces a tremendous amount of oil [2nd Circle - Fire Oil].

The fire oil mixed up with the Crimson slash and became an enormous fire before exploding. The intruders also noticed, "Shit!! Retreat!!" yelled the injured intruder.

Still, their reaction was a little bit too late, and two of the intruders got caught out of the fire. Since the fire is mixed up with oil, the fire burns and sticks to the intruder's body longer.

Left with no choice, the burned intruder flared up their mana to disperse the fire on their body. *Whoosh* However, they still got some severe burn marks on their body.

Looking at this, "Oi.. Oi.. if you release that much mana, the Plague Worm attracts you." said Angus playfully.

The intruder couldn't apprehend Angus and Jayna despite having higher grades because they didn't want to use too much mana and attracted the Plague Worm. Plague Worm is a monster, and by nature, they are attracted to mana.

They even use enchanted clothes to hide their mana from the Plague Worm. However, they don't care about it anymore since there is a chance the Plague Worm will die before being attracted to them, making them fail their mission.

They didn't bother to hide their strength anymore, all the intruders coming towards Angus and Jayna again seriously. Now, they are learning their lesson and will not let down their guard against Angus's trick.

During this time, Angus also didn't stay still and cast various enchantment spells on himself and Jayna. [1st Circle - Stone Skin] [1st Circle - Agility] two different bright color aura could be seen in both of their bodies.

"No more playing around, kid. Die!!" said the intruder.

Before Angus could cast another spell, the intruder was already approaching them. Both Angus and Jayna take out rune magic cards and immediately activate them [3rd Circle – Fire Barrier]. A reddish fire barrier envelopes both of them.

The four intruder's weapons clashed with the [Fire barrier]. *Bom* *Bom* Angus and Jayna are forced to be thrown away in another direction. As they flew away, the [Fire Barrier] cracked and dispelled.

The two burned intruders are blinded by rage and decide to chase them fervently. As they brandish their weapon towards Angus and Jayna.

During this moment, Angus shot his own Sky Thorn's end towards the intruder. *Bam* The Sky Thorn traveled in the blink of an eye and instantly penetrated one of the two intruder's bodies. The penetrated intruder couldn't help but be instantly dead from such force.

As for Jayna, she immediately used [Sacred Fire] and enveloped her body with a hot crimson flame. The incoming intruder's weapon immediately melted down from the [Sacred Fire] and nullified its force.

Using the accumulated Fire Mana, Jayna brandished her sword and cut the intruder's body [Sword Art - Fiery Wave]. The two intruder's bodies and the path behind them turn into a hot burning area.

Fortunately, the other two intruders managed to sense the attack and escape the [Fiery Wave] area. Looking at the melted two intruders turned into ash from Jayna's attack, the other intruders couldn't help but feel nervous.

'Such a strong fire mastery.' thought the intruder.

After doing the [Fiery Wave, Jayna immediately kneels on the ground, exhausted. Looking at the drained Jayna, the two intruders feel relief as they know Jayna couldn't use that kind of skill often.

However, they also didn't expect two of their people to get killed by the kids in front of them. Especially Angus, he has many tricks on his sleeve to continuously annoy and manage to kill one of their teammates.

Seeing that the intruder becomes hesitant, Jayna takes out a potion bottle and chucks it down. Looking at this, the two intruders left once again charged towards Angus and Jayna. Now, decide to eliminate these two kids in front of them first as they feel the threat.

However, Angus immediately creates a massive tall Earth Wall below them from his prepared spell and raises both of them into the sky.

Seeing that the two kids are trying to run away through the Earth Wall, they immediately destroy the Earth Wall] using their weapons.

Looking at the destroyed Earth Wall at its base, Angus and Jayna jump up in the other direction. At this moment, the Earth Wall shadow covered both of the two intruders.

While jumping, Angus cast a few Fireballs towards the two intruders. *BOM* *BOM* The Fireball hit the nearby sand dunes and made the whole area covered by sand.

At this moment, *Clang* *Bang* *Argghh* a series of clashing weapons heard from the intruder's location.

While all of this happens, Angus and Jayna already make quite a distance from the intruder. After the dust settled down and the view cleared, one of the intruders was already on the ground getting his heart pierced lifelessly.

As for the leg injured intruder, he is fighting against the Draven, who is coming and going from the shadow.

"Shit!! What the hell is this guy?!!" curse the last intruder.

After the dust settled down, Draven entered back towards the shadow and disappeared. Using this opportunity, Angus shot [2nd Circle - Lightning Bolt] towards the intruder.

Didn't expect Angus could use another element such as [Lightning Bolt]. The intruder couldn't react properly and get electrocuted. However, he managed to resist the spell and flare up his mana to reduce his numb body.

A brown mana aura envelops the intruder's body and makes him bulkier than before. His injured leg is also closing up.

'Earth element!!' thought Angus inwardly and ready his Sky Thorn.

"I didn't want to use this since it consumes a lot of mana. However, it seems we are underestimating both of you too much." said the intruder while looking at his dead teammate.

Wielding its sword, the intruder runs towards Angus and Jayna. In the blink of an eye, the intruder managed to arrive in front of Angus and Jayna.

Once again, Angus cast Earth Wall on the intruder's path to block them. But, the intruder destroys the wall quickly like it never even existed.

"No more tricks, kid." said the intruder coldly and brandished the sword towards Angus.

Angus shot his Sky Thorn's end and clashed with the intruder's sword at this critical moment. The intruder was forced to take a few steps back before coming towards Angus again.

Looking at the determined intruder to kill him, Angus takes out another rune magic card to stall the intruder.

'I need to stall him until Jayna recovers.' thought Angus inwardly.

Before the intruder could move further, a yellowish flash appeared beside the intruder [Lightning Strike]. *Blam* The intruders immediately got hit and thrown a few meters away.

"My.. My… Are you not ashamed of fighting against kids? Why don't you fight against someone on your level." said Isvel while his body occasionally created an electrical spark.

Looking at the newcomer is Isvel, both Angus and Jayna feel relieved. Since Isvel is here, it means others will be coming to help them soon.

"Sorry for being late, cousin. Good job holding on this long. I will take care of him now." said Isvel while looking at the dead intruder.

Looking at the intruder's lifeless body nearby, 'It seems the news about both of them being strong is not exaggerated.' thought Isvel before disappearing on his spot.

In the blink of an eye, Isvel appeared before the intruder and slashed him with his twin dagger. However, the last intruder could resist the attack using his sturdy body.

Looking at this, "Hee… So you are an earth element combatant. Let's see how many slashes you could withstand." said Isvel before disappearing again on his spot.

Soon, many shallow wounds continuously appear on the intruder's body [Light dagger 1st style - Omnislash].

"Urrgh... HAA!!" roared the intruder while slamming his hand towards the ground. *BOM*

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*BOM* The intruder's hand slam on the ground creates a shockwave towards the surroundings and makes Isvel stop his attack.

"Huft.. huft... " the intruder's breath becomes rough while his body is covered with various kinds of small cuts.

'I need to retreat first.' thought the intruder.

As the intruders try to move, he feels his body gets paralyzed and kneeled on the ground.

'Poison.. Damn it!! It seems this mission has failed. All of this because of those two kids and that strange shadow creature.' cursed the intruder inwardly.

"Wooo… you have a quite strong body to be able to keep moving for a while despite getting that many poisoned cuts." said Isvel with a playful smile in front of the intruders.

"Tch.. this is not the end.." before the intruder finished his sentences, Isvel knocked out the intruder.

"Bla.. Bla.. Bla.. You talk too much." said Isvel.

After ensuring the intruder is restrained correctly, he seals the mana in the intruder's body before checking up on Angus and Jayna.

"You two alright? It's not every day you will fight a grade four combatant with elemental mastery." said Isvel.

"Yeah, we are fine. We just need a little bit of rest. How about Gil?" asked Angus since Gil already left his [Mana Echolocation] range long ago.

"Gil, Nahh… Don't worry about him. If it is Gil, nobody could beat him unless it is a monster overlord or seventh-grade combatant. Still, he should kill all these people first before stopping the Plague Worm. Well, I guess his little habit is still not gone." said Isvel.

Meanwhile, far away from Angus's location. A booming sound could be heard occasionally, along with a slight tremor. *BOMMM* Another loud explosion sound was heard and dark green liquid spread towards the surrounding area.

Few moments after Gilford lures the Plague Worm far away from the village direction, "Hmm… I think this is far enough. I hope the two of them are not disappointing me like Neil." said Gilford while running away from Plague Worm.

"Now, which one should I use? Argh... too many options, let's just use this." said Gilford while bringing out a metallic gold-colored ball.

Without wasting any moment, Gilford throws the metallic ball towards the Plague Worm direction.

"Go, Alfredo." yelled Gilford.

In the middle of the air, the metallic Ball opens and starts to reassemble in the blink of an eye. *Clak* *Clak* *Clak* At this moment, the Plague Worm arrives in front of the ball.

Suddenly, a huge metallic hand punches the gigantic Plague Worm's body and creates a shock wave nearby. *BAAM* The Plague Worm couldn't help but stop on its track while getting punched by the gigantic expressionless armored machine in front of it [Colossus].

Colossus is one of the magical engineering products. After the battle golem, Colossus is the next level. Be it intelligence, strength, power, and even its combat capability, Colossus is many times more sophisticated and better than Battle Golem.

Unlike battle golem, Colossus has almost the flexibility of an ordinary person despite being made of machinery. To this day, only the Gremlin race possess the capability to make this sophisticated yet complex artificial intelligence machine.

Because of this, the total number of Colossus is very few and could be counted by hand. Now, one of these masterpieces appears in this treacherous land.

Looking that his Colossus handle managed to hold down the Plague Worm, Gilford couldn't help but smile. The Colossus keeps punching the Plague Worm with tremendous force and sends the gigantic worm body flying away. *Bam* *Bam* *Bam*

"It seems choosing Alfredo is the right thing," said Gilford while looking at his Colossus.

Suddenly, the Plague Worm mucus that spread around the nearby desert begins to tremble. Looking at this, Gilford's playful smile turns into a solemn expression.

"Tch.. No wonder this guy is categorized as a disaster monster type. Its reproduction is too fast. Alright, babies time to work." said Gilford while taking out a series of small-size metallic balls from his space storage.

Soon, all the metallic balls change into battle golem with various kinds of shapes. Some have the shape of a horse with a shield. Some are like panthers, some are like high-tech drones and many others.

After all his golem reassembles itself from the metallic ball form, Gilford begins chanting, "Wish.. Kyo.. Shu.. For…" Gilford is chanting in an unknown language.

A moment later, A bright magic circle encompasses all the golems [3rd Circle - Auto Control]. A small magic circle also appeared on Gilford Forehead. Using this spell, Gilford could easily control all his golems at once.

Fixing his black google, "Time to party, baby." yelled Gilford as the golem moves and eliminates all the newborn plague worms that are coming out from the green mucus nearby.

Plague Worms not only spread dangerous diseases through their mucus and body. It will also lay eggs in case of danger or fight like now. This is also the reason why Toxic Wasteland becomes one of the most dangerous places in the Endless Battlefield dimension.

Just one of these gigantic sizes of Plague Worm, it could lay thousands of eggs at once. Furthermore, its newborn worm also carries the same dangerous disease as its parent. One of them could potentially spread disease to the whole Sur village.

Combined with its ability to survive in the most hazardous environment, it is already a miracle that this kind of monster didn't occupy the whole dimension.

However, nature itself works in mysterious ways. Along with its high reproduction ability, it also has many natural predators in monster circles or other beasts. Many poison-based monsters and beasts even consider them as high nutrition food.

Gilford begins to control the golem and kill all the nearby newborn worms. Since all of them are machines, they didn't even need to be afraid to get the plague the worm brought.

Still the newborn worm number is enormous. Just a few seconds after its birth, it immediately tries to scatter away while becoming bigger at a fast rate.

Seeing this, Gilford begins chanting another spell, "Earth, Lightning, Fire here my call…" A moment later, Gilford shot a bright light ball to the sky [4th Circle - Orion].

After casting the spell, Gilford drinks a mana potion to replenish his mana before casting other spells [2nd Circle - Auto Detect] [2nd Circle - Lock On]. A wave of invisible mana spread towards the surrounding area makes the newborn worm.

[Auto Detect] creates invisible mana waves towards the surrounding. While [Lock On] targets every single newborn worm that is detected.

Feeling the invisible mana wave made all the scattered worms turn back and attack Gilford Although the scattered worms want to save themself, they are still a monster and always attracted towards mana.

At this moment, the bright ball in the sky shines brightly and shoots thousands of small laser beams towards the surrounding newborn worm. *Bam* *Bam* *Bam*

[Orion] keeps firing small beams without stopping while Gilford's head begins to sweat trying to control it.

'The hell… What's with this enormous worm number? Don't tell me it is a grade-five Plague Worm. It seems I really could not help those two.' thought Gilford while keeping killing the nearby newborn worm.

After a while, a bright crimson pillar appears and kills the newborn worm [3rd Circle - Fire Totem].

Looking at Kurvan flying in the sky, "What took you so long? Anyway, how about our young cousin? I leave them to fight the intruder." asked Gilford.

"Isvel already takes care of them." replied Kurvan shortly before burning the newborn worm from above.

"Alright, then I leave this newborn worm to you. Alfredo, Here I come!!" said Gilford before riding his horse-like golem towards his colossus direction along with the other golem.

The battle between the Plague Worm and Colossus is reaching a stalemate. After using its full powered strike, the colossus notices that it could not kill its opponent with its fist.

As a sophisticated artificial intelligence, Colossus could adapt in the middle of the battle in a certain way. *SSSTTSS* a lot of steam erupted from its body. Then, it turns one of its arms into a sword and begins slashing down the gigantic Plague Worm.

However, the worm skin is very thick and too strong to be cut directly. Despite the might of the colossus, it cut only, leaving a small wounded cut on the worm's body.

The Worm also does not stay still. Noticing that its opponent is immune to its pathogen and acidic mucus, It begins to slap the Colossus with its gigantic spiked body. *BAM*

The colossus managed to push back a few meters away. Some part of its body and armor is cracked but quickly repaired by itself. *SSSTTSS* Another steam erupted from its body and charged towards the Plague Worm while brandishing its sword. *Bam* *Bam* *Slash*

Each step of the colossus creates a slight tremor nearby. Using the charge momentum, it brandished each sword towards the Plague Worm body.

However, the sword stopped in the middle of its body and cannot go further. A burst of the green colored mucus and blood sprouted from the wound. The Plague Worm's entire body wriggled in pain and struggle around. *Bam*

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*Bam* Once again, the Colossus gets slapped from Plague Worm's gigantic body after the Colossus pulls out its sword hand from it. Like before, the Colossus only pushed back a little bit and got small cracks all over its armor.

As a battle machine, Colossus is famous for its defense and endurance. Combined with the ability to repair itself, Colossus is like a massive ultimate shield.

At this moment, Gilford arrived at the location. Looking at the nearby area covered with green fumes and mucus from the Plague Worm, he couldn't help but shake his head.

"*Sigh* this is going to be a pain in the ass to clean." said Gilford helplessly.

Gilford takes a gas mask from his space storage while casting a simple barrier to repel any dangerous pathogens in the air.

"Hmm… No matter how I think about it, I couldn't fathom how they could bring such a disastrous monster into this place without us noticing." said Gilford before starting casting the spell.

While Gilford is casting his spell, his battle golem begins to kill all the newborn worms nearby. The two giant figures keep clashing with each other without getting the upper hand. A moment later, a giant magic circle appears in the sky above the Plague Worm.

"Alfredo, hold the Plague Worm on its spot!!" shouted Gilford.

Hearing its master command, the colossus Alfredo immediately erupted some steam and grabbed the Plague worm body. Looking that Plague Worm managed to stop moving around, Gilford activated his spell [4th Circle - Arcana Totem].

Few massive black pillars appear from the magic circle and come down towards the Plague Worm. [Arcana Totem] immediately pierced the Plague Worm's body and made it wriggling in pain.

After casting the spell, Gilford kneels on the ground with a rough breath and heavy sweat. Maintaining various spells and releasing a large-scale four-circle spell exhausted almost all his mana.

"Haaa.. Haa.. Let's end this already." said Gilford before taking out his gas mask to drink another mana potion.

The Plague Worm's body is restrained by the Arcana Totem and couldn't move its body. It even couldn't sprout any acidic green mucus towards the surrounding area. It feels like every single cell inside its body is being restrained.

Using this opportunity, the colossus brandished its sword towards the wounded head. *Bam* However, the Plague Worm's muscle managed to endure the Colossus's sword.

The sword could only make the wound deeper little by little while the Plague Worm struggled in pain. At this moment, all of the [Arcana Totem] slowly cracked couldn't withstand the Plague Worm's struggle.

Couldn't let the Plague Worm set free, Gilford gives up his [Auto Control] spell and gathers his remaining mana to cast another spell.

"Everyone, protect me!!" command Gilford towards all his battle golem nearby.

Hearing their master command, the battle golem surrounds Gilford and prevents any newborn worm from approaching him.

"Rus.. Agul.. Sol.. Fami.. Nemu…" as Gilford begins focusing on the chanting spell.

A moment later, another magic circle appeared above the Plague Worm wounded head. From the magic circle appears a gigantic sharp sword coming down towards it [3rd Circle - Arcana Sword].

Looking at the shining sword, Alfredo immediately jumps in the air and grabs the sword before stabbing Plague Worm's wounded head using all its might. The Arcana Sword managed to puncture the gigantic worm and cut off its monster core circulation.

Then, the Plague Worm finally stops moving around and turns into a corpse.

"Haa.. Ha.. Damn.. I use more mana than I expected." said Gilford while kneeling on the ground.

As Gilford rests on the sandy ground, the clan head Jade observes the whole fight silently nearby. He is ready to help Gilford in case Gilford fails to kill the monster. After a moment, some villagers and a hunter squad arrive at the battle spot.

Looking that the villagers become absent-minded at the scale of Plague Worm and Alfredo, "What are you waiting for? Get your ass to work and start cleaning all this mess!! Don't let every single worm escape." command the clan head Jade.

"Yes, sir." replied the villager.

The villager and hunter squad begin to clean up all the green mucus and newborn worms by burning them from a distance.

While the villager is cleaning, Jade approaches Gilford, who commands the colossus, to dissect the gigantic Plague Worm's body. Gilford will not waste this chance to research more about such a unique monster in front of him.

"Who do you think could bring such a monster into our territory unnoticed?" asked Jade towards Gilford seriously.

"I am not sure. But, it is those other villages. Although Plague Worm is a disastrous monster, it still takes more than this to eliminate the whole Sur Village. So, the main suspect is those other villages."

"As for the hidden organizations, they will never use such a roundabout method just to harm our village." replied Gilford honestly.

"Haa.. Those villages will never give up." said Jade.

After a while, Angus, Jayna, and Isvel, bringing the last intruder, arrive at their location. Looking at the two kids safely, Gilford couldn't help but smile and thought something.

"Father, I think this guy is one of the intruder leaders. He is a grade-four combatant." said Isvel while throwing the bounded intruder.

"Grade four??" asked Jade back.

Even though the Endless Battlefield dimension is covered with thick mana and helps people advance their mana core faster, Grade Four combatant is still rare. Not everyone could reach this kind of level.

For the Sur Village itself, it is like elite manpower. So, Jade was quite surprised to see a Grade Four combatant in this kind of attack. It means this kind of attack is very important from the other perspective.

After thinking for a while, "Good, send him to Abet to be interrogated later." said Jade.

"Wait, father. Can I play with him after the interrogation is done?" chimed Gilford with a playful smile.

"Do what you want." replied Jade nonchalantly.

"Yey.. This time I will manage to create it." muttered Gilford.

"Anyway, I owe you one for this nephew. I hear you are the one that found the Plague Worm first. If it is not for your timely action, the whole Sur village will be turned into a dead zone." said Jade.

"You are overpraising me too much, uncle. Besides, the Sur village already helps us a lot by sheltering us in this dangerous land. So, it is our right to repay you with this." replied Angus.

"You're too humble, cousin. You just withstand the might of a grade four combatant and few other lower grade combatants. You should be proud of yourself." said Isvel nearby.

'Withstand the grade four and other lower grade combatants?!!' thought both Jade and Gilford, who heard it nearby.

"Good, as expected as the genius of my family and Leon's daughter. Alright, you can go back to the village with Isvel now. Leave all this clean up to us." said Jade.

Hearing Angus and Jayna feat, Gilford seems to think about something but not saying anything until the end.

Angus and Jayna go back to the village along with Isvel without any obstruction. Arriving at the village, they immediately rested at their respective places.

Soon, their news about surviving grade four spread around the Sur village. Everyone in the village often talks about their achievements. Some even blew up the story and said they managed to kill the grade four combatant.

While Angus and Jayna's reputation is soaring in the village, a person feels disgusted and jealousy hearing this kind of news. This person is none other than Neil. *Brak* Some furniture is destroyed in Neil's hand.

"Damn it!! Those outsiders!! It should be me that they are talking about. Why do they keep talking about those outsiders." yelled Neil while flaring up his mana.

"Son, calm down. It's just a story." said the mature woman inside the tent.

"But, mother… They are outsiders, yet they get more attention than me. It was supposed to be me that hailed as a genius, not those outsiders." said Neil angrily.

Hearing this, the mature woman couldn't help but shake her head. As someone who has survived in this dangerous land for a long time, she knows that her son will never survive with this kind of personality.

There is a reason why Sur village could grow into now despite living in the harsh conditions. It is because they never try to bluntly provoke the other group or community inside the Endless Battlefield.

For Sur village, Pride may be important. But, it is not as important as their life. Because of this, Sur village could grow silently without anyone noticing until now.

Still looking at the rapid growth of Sur village also creates some jealousy among the other villages, leading them to use many underhanded tactics like the Plague Worm.

Despite her son's behavior, the mature woman still couldn't abandon her youngest child and loves him deeply.

"Son, you are still a genius and growing further. Besides, once you enter the Ancestral Ruin during the coming of age ceremony, you could have a chance to get a legacy like your older siblings." said the mature woman trying to soothe her son.

"Ancestral Ruin. Yes, if I could get something like a colossus, I could beat those two outsiders. Hahaha..." Laughed Neil while imagining himself controlling colossus.

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Few days passed since the attack in Sur village. Because of the attack, the whole Sur village is more alert than before. Many hunting squads could be seen coming and going to the Sur village.

Learn from the previous attack, many guard and hunting squads patrolling the perimeter and nearby areas.

Besides that, the cleaning up process of the Plague Worm also takes a lot of time. The most difficult thing about Plague Worm is not the newborn worm, but its green mucus and corpse.

The Plague Worm body carries a dangerous disease pathogen that makes the cleaning up process very difficult. They could only burn the Pathogen at a high degree from a distance. This process needs a lot of manpower and effort for the whole Sur village.

Even Angus and Jayna decide to help them on the pretext of training their fire mastery. At first, the clan head Jade refuses them, but Angus and Jayna prove to have some fire mastery that could produce high-temperature fire.

Furthermore, Jayna already merged with the fire phoenix. She could produce a high-temperature fire easily. Still, her control over them is very poor. So, this cleaning up also serves her as training to control her fire mana.

As for Angus, although he needs more mana to make a high-temperature fire, he could still train his fire mastery. Angus feels that his mastery over his fire element is still quite lacking.

While Angus and Jayna are doing some cleaning, the clan head Jade thoroughly investigates the intruder's identity. However, their investigation is becoming fruitless. All the captured intruders lay dead as a self-destruct rune in their body detonated.

The only surviving intruder is the grade four leader that Angus fought before. A grade four combatant has a strong body and resilience, especially the one with earth element mastery. Even if his self-destruct rune is active, there is a chance he withstands it and survives.

Unfortunately, the last surviving intruder gets his head damaged and turns into a coma for who knows how long. Then, it is decided that Gilford will take care of him. Hearing this news, Gilford becomes happy and has a creepy smile for a few days.

Despite his intelligence, Gilford is famous for having a weird habit. He likes to do some strange thing that he calls an experiment. Sometimes, he even tortured a monster for no reason, which made others distancing him.

Still, Gilford didn't care about that and continued what he was doing. As for the fate of the intruder, they could only hope he has a better life and fortune in the next life.

Their investigation was also forced to stop since they received a dead-end while tracking the Plague Worm's origin path.

They found that the green mucus track suddenly appeared out of nowhere before it moved towards the Sur Village direction.

This makes the whole village think that the preparator is using teleportation or coming from the sky. Still, no one could transport the giant Plague Worm from the sky easily.

The only one that could do it is another beast or monster. But, they will never approach the sand turtle as the sand turtle itself keeps releasing a seventh-grade aura that is a deterrent towards all nearby creatures.

Besides being busy cleaning up, Angus also continues the clan head Jade medication. Each time the medication is done, the clan head Jade feels his body is getting stronger. Still, each process is excruciating, and sometimes he feels wants to stop the medication process.

However, he knows that he could reach that legendary realm that everyone could look up to but not reach if he could pass this process. The other village will also think twice to attack the Sur village from that point.

While everyone is busy doing their own business, another week has passed by. Suddenly, the sand turtle roared a loud sound. *GRROOOAAAA* The roar is so loud that it creates a huge shockwave nearby.

Then, everyone feels the ground descend rapidly. At this moment, Angus and Jayna are still in the middle of training and are also surprised at the sudden action of the sand turtle. Despite this, the Sur villagers keep their calm as this is a regular occurrence for them.

The only difference is they start to prepare packing their things. Some villagers even dismantle their tents.

Looking at this, "It seems that we have arrived." said Angus.

According to their uncle Jade, the next time a sand turtle stops and burying itself into the sand means they already arrive near the Ancestral Ruin. Ancestral Ruin is the place where they perform the upcoming age ceremony every year.

From the Jade explanation, the ancestral ruin is one of the mysterious places in the endless Battlefield that open once a year for a month. It is divided into two areas. The first area is the outer area and the second area is the inner area.

The outer area is where everyone gathers and stays. It has also become a sort of place where people from various backgrounds gather and exchange. Many of the surrounding groups and villages also drop by to do some trade ordeals during this time.

The Sur village also uses this opportunity to exchange for some supplies. Although the place is kind of a lawless place where everyone is trying to get an advantage over the others, it is quite a safe place than any other place inside the Endless Battlefield dimension.

All of this could happen because of the contract. Normally, people who have transactions here will not believe one with the others, so they always resort to having a contract for each deal.

In front of the contract, nobody will dare to do some underhanded tactic except they are complete newcomers who don't know anything about the contract. In this place, there is even a saying that never trusts anyone, even yourself but the contract.

Still, there is some hidden group that managed all this exchange. This hidden group is very powerful and the true lord of the Endless Battlefield dimension.

Rumor said that this hidden group consists of seven-grade combatants. As for why they still stay inside this treacherous land, nobody knows the real reason. No matter what it is, nobody dares to cause real trouble in this place.

If the outer area is sort of a trading hub, the inner area is where the true treasure trove for everyone. The inner area is a sort of independent space that is vastly filled with treasure.

Inside this space, people could get some legacy, strange power, artifact, skills/spells formula, and many others.

However, there are also restrictions to this place. Only grade three below could enter, and they could only enter this inner area once. This place is unique since many people, even after more than a hundred years of being plundered. It is never truly empty.

This also piques curiosity in Angus and Jayna to venture over this inner area. Fortunately, there is no limit to how many people can enter the inner area. So, they also could participate in this event.

However, not everyone will get something precious from the inner area. Among Jade's children, only Gilford receives something significant. The others only get weapons, spells, or skills formulas.

Based on the rumor, Gilford is not a very strong person and talented among his siblings. When he is going through the upcoming age ceremony, he is barely reaching the first grade.

At that time, no one thought highly that he would get something significant from the ancestral ruin. However, by some sheer luck or fate, he comes out with his Colossus Alfredo and a few others battle golem.

At that time, the other village even bluntly attacked him to snatch his colossus. However, all of them were decimated in front of Alfredo's might.

Even till now, the villagers could still remember the scene where Alfredo took down more than a dozen high-grade people at once using its punch alone.

Fortunately, the conflict was finally resolved peacefully after one of the hidden group representatives came out.

Still, this means that the ancestral inner area never judges people's talent. However, people need at least combat capability to survive since many monsters infest the inner area.

After the sand turtle buries itself deep into the sandy ground and stops moving, the tremor ends. Angus and Jayna decide to go back to the village only to find that everyone is already packing their things.

Almost more than half of the Sur villagers will go this time. Only a dozen people choose to stay behind. While everyone is packing their things, Angus and Jayna go towards the clan head Jade.

"Uncle, when are we going?" asked Angus.

"We will go as soon as everyone is ready. According to our guide, the sand turtle this time stopped quite far from the ancestral ruin. It will take time to reach it." replied Jade.

Then, Angus and Jayna decide to wait for the others since all their belongings are already inside their space storage. Both of them are already ready to leave anytime. They even already recharge their rune magic card and are prepared to fight anytime.

Before long, all the other villagers are ready to depart with clan head Jade on the lead.

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After checking their equipment for the last time, Angus and the Sur Clan depart towards the ancestral ruin with the clan head Jade as the leader.

The journey is relatively peaceful, if not because of the monster that tries to attack the group. However, none of the monsters posed a threat to them. They decide to stop every few hours to keep their stamina and mana in check in case they need to go all-out fighting.

Living inside this treacherous land for a long time, everyone already has the habit of becoming cautious. Every step they take may cause a great disaster for their group. Fortunately, the journey came to an end after a whole day of running.

From far away, they could see the end of the sand desert and stone wall. The stone wall covers a very vast area like an ancient city. This stone wall is the entrance of the ancestral ruin.

At this moment, everyone could see that many people were entering the stone wall entrance orderly. Despite the lack of the guard nearby, none of these people create a ruckus since all of them know it is not worthy of such trouble.

After a while, the Sur clan group also managed to enter the Ancestral ruin without any trouble. Behind the stone wall, there is a vast plot of land with a stone floor. Some of them are already occupied by people that come before them.

Since there is enough space for everyone, people never truly bother about the area they get in this place. After looking for an appropriate location, the Sur Clan started to build their living space.

The villagers also didn't forget to build their merchant stall since this is their true reason for coming into this place. The Sur village may be located in the Surya desert with a little bit of supply. However, they have their own specialty.

One of these specialties is Fire Ore that is produced by the Surya desert. The hot temperature of the Surya desert makes it a good place for Fire Ore to be naturally formed. Fire Ore is precious ore that is comparable to Manatium.

It is said that it needs a dry yet hot place for it to form. Even in the Surya desert, people need to carefully look around the hot desert before they can find a few grams of it. For many years, Sur Village has been one of the main suppliers for this ore.

On the contrary, the Sur village will trade the Fire Ore with many other supplies, especially freshwater. Although they could create freshwater with magic, most of the Sur villagers have an affinity towards fire elements, making them expend more mana in creating water.

Besides, having more water while living in the desert is always never wrong. With this transaction, they could support their lives for a few years without worrying about freshwater.

Of course, trading Fire Ore with only freshwater is a loss for the Sur village, so they sometimes also exchange with various products from the other village or zone.

Besides the Fire Ore, Sur villages are also famous for their Sand Slime. The Sand Slime is a creature that Angus and Jayna encounter when they arrive at the Surya desert. This creature's body actually has many uses for alchemy purposes.

In the hand of the excellent alchemist, this slime could turn into many useful alchemist products. One of them is a booster for the potion. Using the sand slime as one of its ingredients could boost the potion's potency by 1,2 to 1,5.

Although it does not always work for every potion, it could still be applied to common potions such as mana and other healing potions. Fortunately, the sand slime only lives on the top of the sand turtle shell, which nobody knows besides the Sur village.

The Sur village becomes the sole provider of the sand slime for the people that reside in the Endless Battlefield.

Even the hidden group that oversees the Ancestral Ruin also procures sand slime from Sur village occasionally in return for the safety inside the outer area of Ancestral Ruin.

Not truly interested in trading between villages, Angus and Jayna decide to explore the outer area on their own.

Since everyone knows about their strength, the clan head Jade permits them to venture on their own. Besides, nobody is foolish enough to create trouble inside this area.

Besides the trading hub, the outer area also held a few gambling attractions with the mana core as currency. One of the famous gambling attractions is the battlefield arena. This is a place where people bet on a fighter to fight each other.

Angus and Jayna may not indeed be interested in trading. But, they are still interested in this battlefield arena. Apparently, they also hear that after surviving inside the inner area, they need to fight inside this arena as part of the ceremony.

This will test the survivor's combat capability and show everyone that they are worthy of the things they got inside the inner area. Many people already lose their lives and the things they got inside the inner area from this arena.

Although the outer area is quite lawless, the battlefield arena has its own rules. First, they could only fight people that have different grades to themself by one. So, Angus and Jayna could only fight people from grades one to three.

However, the majority of fighters are mostly grade three combatants. It is even rare to find a grade two combatant in this arena.

Besides that, the fighter could surrender but need to pay some compensation to the winner. It is also possible to kill the opponent and win the match. The winner will take any possession of their opponent.

Until one of the fighters surrenders or is killed, there will be no interruption from the outside. Once the fight is interrupted, the fight is null and not counted.

On the contrary, the fighter could use anything to win the fight, be it a potion, poison, or other artifacts. This rule is posed to every fighter bound with contracts so no one will dare to break it.

Along the way, Angus also hears that the Battlefield Arena also will hold a sort of tournament after the inner area event with a grand prize from the hidden group. This news attracted many people since most of them want to have a connection with the hidden group.

Each year, the prize is different from one with the others. But, mostly, it is a priceless treasure. From the rumor, the tournament is only for the grade three below as it is mainly for the people who have been entering the inner area.

Arriving at the arena, Angus and Jayna could see a stone building resembling a colosseum from Angus's past life. The building is big and various kinds of cheers could be heard from it.

Entering the building entrance, they found inside a sort of giant circular colosseum with a large podium. In the middle of this building is a big arena field that is divided into many battle arenas.

Right now, many fighters are fighting for their life inside this divided battlefield. Curse, cheers, booing, yelling, all sorts of reactions are coming from the audience while the fighter fights like a bloody animal.

Taking an empty spot, Angus and Jayna decide to observe the battle. Most of the fight is quite dull for Angus if he does not include the brutality part. After watching for a while, Angus found a particular fighter with a masked and slender figure.

Judging from her figure, Angus guesses the fighter is a woman. However, what he finds amusing is not her female figure but her aura. Her aura is icy and could easily freeze the entire arena.

She wields a long staff as her weapon and regular clothes. At the same time, her opponent wears a full-body enchanted armor, a typical warrior type. From his observation, Angus knows that her opponent is a veteran at fighting.

After a moment of introduction, Angus found that her name is Ice Maiden and her opponent's name is The Grounder. Both of them are grade three combatants.

After a brief introduction, the referee gets out of the arena and starts the fight. The moment the battle starts, the Grounder dash towards the ice maiden without hesitation. The speed is relatively fast, and in a few moments, he arrives in front of the Ice Maiden.

But, the ice maiden does not stay idle either. She points her wooden staff to the approaching Grounder and shoots many [2nd Circle - FrostBolt] towards the grounder. *Whoosh* *Whossh* *Whossh*

All the pointed [Frost Bolt] come towards the Grounder. Looking at the incoming attack, the grounder imbues his axe with mana and slashes them down [Axe Art - Ravaging Cleave].

The grounder attack managed to destroy the frost bolt easily while keeping his incoming momentum. Suddenly, an ice wall appeared in front of the grounder [2nd Circle - Ice Wall].

The grounder once again brandished his axe towards the ice wall, but it stuck at it and couldn't manage to break it down. Without notice, there is a layer of fragmented ice in the grounder body from the leftover of [Frost Bolt]

Then, A bright circle comes from below the grounder [2nd Circle - Water Torrent].

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[2nd Circle - Water Torrent] A burst of water sprouting from the ground below the grounder spot. Still, the grounder managed to detect this earlier and retreat from the location.

Then, the grounder decides to approach the ice maiden from the side where there is no ice wall. While the grounder took a detour, he failed to notice the [Water Torrent] slowly becoming a cold mist and making the arena colder.

At this moment, the ice maiden already prepares another few [Frost Bolt] in the air, ready to be launched. Looking at the incoming [Frost Bolt, the grounder coats his weapon with mana and throws it [Axe art - Axe Boomerang].

The grounder's axe flies and destroys all the ice maiden [Frost Bolts] in the air before catching it again. All of this happens while the grounder keeps approaching Ice maiden.

As he arrives a few meters away from the Ice Maiden, the grounder suddenly feels he loses his balance and falls to the ground. At this moment, he couldn't feel his feet. When he looks at his feet, it is already rooted in his previous spot, completely frozen.

Because of his running momentum, he broke his own frozen feet without his notice. A moment later, he finally felt the acute pain from losing his feet. *Arrggh* screamed the grounder.

Before the grounder could say another word, a few [Frost Bolt] impaled him and froze his inner organ. In the end, he finally turned into a frozen sculpture.

Looking at the veteran grounder killed without any chance to say a word, the audience immediately reacted loudly. Some of them are cheering the ice maiden as they win the bet. Some of them booed her as they lost the bet.

While some other people look at the ice maiden with interest, like Angus. An ice elemental affinity is quite rare, especially with a great mastery like the Ice Maiden.

After the battle ends, the Ice maiden loots the grounder's belongings before getting out of the arena. At this time, Angus only looked at her for a while before finding Jayna beside him, pouting at him.

"Err.. Jayna, is something wrong?" asked Angus.

"N-Nothing." replied Jayna coldly.

Knowing that he did something wrong and made her angry. Angus tries to pacify her, but she keeps ignoring Angus while grumbling.

"Jayna, I am sorry. How about I accompany you to sleep tonight?" said Angus.

Hearing this, Jayna was startled a little bit, "W-Who wants to sleep with a pervert who looks at another woman like you?!!" replied Jayna.

'I see.. So, it is because I look at that woman. Haa.. How troublesome. She could just say it in the first place.' thought Angus inwardly.

Suddenly, a man approached the two of them. "Oh my, what a beauty? Did this boy happen to annoy you? I could take care of him if you want." said the man with blue hair and a fit body.

Hearing this, Angus and Jayna immediately ignored the blue-haired baboon and continued to watch the arena.

Getting ignored by the two of them, the blue-haired man feels an awkward situation. However, he couldn't do anything excessive inside the arena.

The blue-haired man immediately tried to relieve the awkwardness, "Hey, beauty. I have never seen you here before. Are you a newcomer?" asked the person again to Jayna.

But, Jayna didn't respond to him. Suddenly, the man tries to grab Jayna's hand forcefully. At this moment, another hand grips the man's hand. *Crack* *Arrgghh*

The man's wrist breaks under Angus's grip. The scream from the man creates some commotion towards the surrounding. Some arena guards immediately appear in their location.

"What's going on here?" said one of the guards.

"H-He attacked me. Look, he broke my wrist out of nowhere." said the blue-haired man while pointing at Angus.

'Hehehe… Let's see how you get out of this, newcomer?' thought the man.

Hearing the blue-haired man's accusation, the guard looked at each other before observing Angus. However, they couldn't even feel his strength besides the aura of grade one mana core.

After some suggestion from uncle Jade, Angus decided to only reveal a grade one aura rather than completely hide it.

Based on uncle Jade's experience, someone that could conceal their mana core aura is unique and getting more unwanted attention. So, Angus decides to reveal only his first-grade mana core.

Considering that Angus is only a first-grade combatant, "Sir, is that true that you broke his wrist?" asked the guard.

"I am not sure about it. I just grab his hand casually since he seems to want to shake hands with me. But, suddenly, he screamed like a lady. So, I am not sure what happened." said Angus.

Hearing this, "Y-You.. Lying!! How could you say that kind of strength is casually grabbing??" yelled the blue-haired man.

The guard also looked at Angus's ridiculous reason. All the guard knows that the blue-haired man is a third-grade combatant. It is not possible to break his hand easily.

Looking at the guard also siding with the blue-haired baboon, "Hmmm… Then, why don't we shake hands? Let's see if my casual grip is strong or not?" said Angus with an evil smile while sticking out his hand.

At this moment, the guard's instinct tells them that if they shake hands with Angus, their hand will break. Just looking at the hand makes all of them have a cold sweat. It feels like Angus's hand could rip them apart just with its strength alone.

"Err… Sir, this is a battlefield arena. If you have a conflict, please settle them down in the arena." said the guard while having a bad feeling about the man in front of him.

"What if I don't want to?" replied Angus.

"Then, we will be forced to detain both of you because you cause a commotion here." replied the guard.

Despite the bad feeling he got from Angus, the guard still believed that he could not do anything in front of the Battlefield Arena.

Hearing this, Jayna realizes that she is finally a complication to Angus. As she approaches Angus, he suddenly holds her hand and looks at her with a confident smile. Looking at this, Jayna feels kind of safe and relieved.

Didn't want to complicate the matter any further, "Alright then, let's settle this in the arena." said Angus lazily.

"You are dead, boy." said the blue-haired man.

Soon both of them came down to the arena after signing the contract prepared by the Arena's staff.

During the way down, "Fufufu.. Don't worry, after I kill you, I will take care of your girl." said the blue-haired man.

At this moment, Angus's expression becomes cold for a second before turning expressionless. After waiting for a while, they finally get an empty arena for their fight.

The arena is made of stone slabs around 15 square meters big. It is not too huge but also not too small for one person to fight.

The referee started to do some introduction and a few basic rules. During this time, the blue-haired man keeps provoking Angus but Angus ignores him with an expressionless face.

At this moment, the man's hand already healed with the help of the potion and his own healing spell.

Then, the referee went out of the arena and erected a barrier along the arena before starting the fight. As the battle starts, the blue-haired man immediately starts casting a spell.

The blue-haired man thought of Angus as a warrior from their previous encounter and decided to prepare a long-distance spell.

During his casting, he sees a small blue ball coming towards him [1st Circle Spell - Mana Ball]. Unlike an ordinary mana ball, the mana ball travels fast like a paintball shot.

Although it is not quite fast, it is still fast enough not to be avoided easily. *Bum* The blue mana ball hit the man's abdomen and left a red bruise on his stomach.

"Y-You are a magician?" asked the blue-haired man.

But, Angus already shot many enhanced blue mana towards him. *Bum* *Bum* *Bum* The mana ball keeps hitting the man's body and leaving many bruises. Even though he enhanced himself with mana, the mana ball still hurt him.

While all of this happens, Angus walks slowly towards the blue-haired man with an expressionless face. Angus keeps firing the mana ball nonstop towards the man without mercy.

Even the man trying to avoid them, the mana ball always seems to follow him since Angus perfectly grasped his movement.

Can't stand of such situation and torture, "ARRGGHH" roared the blue-haired man while flaring up his body. The mana offset the pain in his body.

However, this also makes him a vulnerable target to Angus. Using this split second, Angus shot the small mana ball towards his throat and hit his adam's apple, making him lose control of his mana along with an uncomfortable pain in his throat.

Then, Angus continues to torture the vulnerable blue-haired man under his mana ball attack. After a while of torture, "Stop.. St…" *Bum* Once again, Angus shot his throat, not letting him speak.

Angus also shot his hand to prevent him from covering his vital part. Finally, Angus arrived in front of him. At this moment, The man's face is already covered with tears, snot, and bleeding along with various bruises.

Angus aimed his finger at his eye with an expressionless face and shot another mana ball at point-blank range. *Bum*

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*Bum* "Arrghh… My Eye!!" screamed the blue-haired man.

Before the man could get away, Angus shoved his two fingers into the man's mouth. A moment later, a bright blue light came from his finger [1st Circle Spell - Overcharge Mana Ball]. *Bum*

The entire head of the blue-haired man exploded from the overcharged mana ball and killed him. Looking at this, all the nearby audience was silent for a moment before cheering up.

"Hahahaha… That's unexpected. The rookie crusher got crushed instead."

"To think the rookie crusher gets bullied and killed by a basic spell. I am not sure whether to pity him or not."

"Although I lost some money, I never knew that basic spells such as [Mana Ball] could be used like that."

"Could you even call that a [Mana Ball]?."

"Yess... Once again, I was right to bet on the newcomer."

"Damn, I lost again. What's up with these newcomers this year?"

Many different reactions could be seen from the Angus battle. In the battlefield Arena, they were already used to the gruesome scene. So, they didn't bother Angus coldly killing his opponent. Some terrible fighters even enjoy torturing their opponent.

However, they never see a grade three combatant killed by only basic spells such as [Mana Ball]. Everyone knows that besides their basic elemental spells such as flame, spark, etc., Mana ball is the most basic spell that everyone could cast.

Even the most foolish warrior combatant could cast it after a bit of practice. The only reason it is categorized as 1st Circle spell is for training casting purposes. Be it for aiming, mana control, or casting training purposes.

Nobody will guess that the harmless [Mana Ball] could become so deadly. Some veterans in the audience immediately know that Angus is an extraordinary person and an expert like themself.

In the hand of an expert, anything could be a deadly weapon, be it harmless [Mana Ball] or a fucking damn cup of tea.

Not only that, but these veterans also don't know the true strength of Angus except his exceptional casting skill of [Mana Ball] spell. None of them dare to test him after seeing Angus's performance.

Fighting an unknown enemy is more dangerous, especially with an expert such as Angus. It could be said that his performance also became a sort of warning to other people that might try to take advantage of him.

This way, people will think twice to try making trouble for him. Unless they are truly stupid, mad, or braindead, no one will dare to provoke Angus easily.

After looting the things in the blue-haired man's corpse and cleaning the blood in his body, Angus gets out of the arena.

In the lawless zone like Ancestral Ruin, thieving is the most major problem. Everyone always keeps their belongings to themselves rather than leaving them in their tent or residence.

Getting out of the arena, Angus approaches Jayna, who immediately runs towards him. Then, Jayna hugs Angus.

"Angus, are you okay? You are not hurt, right?" asked Jayna worriedly.

"It's okay. He could not even retaliate." replied Angus.

"Yeah... Angus, I-I am sorry." said Jayna in a low voice.

"Don't worry about it. People like him will always search for trouble for us. Besides, Didn't you trust me?" said Angus.

"Y-Yeah.. B-But.." said Jayna.

"If you are still feeling bad. How about this? Why don't we sleep together tonight? This way, you could repay your mistake." whispering Angus in Jayna's ear.

"O-Okay.. B-But.. We are only sleeping and not doing anything." said Jayna in a low voice while blushing.

"Huh.. Did you want to do something else?" teased Angus.

"N-No.. I mean.." At this moment, Jayna looks at Angus's playful smile and knows that he is teasing her.

"Hmph.. stupid Angus." Jayna is stomping her feet but not getting away from Angus's embrace.

Although their two interactions are very intimate in public, nobody cares about them. In this place, they sometimes could even see people having more shameless acts than the two of them. Moreover, Angus already shows his strength and makes him not an easy target.

Then, Angus and Jayna decide to go back to the Sur Clan camp. Along the way, they see many people setting up stalls to sell their things. Using this opportunity, they decided to do window shopping.

Unfortunately, they didn't find anything interesting. Most of the item is some enchanted weapon and overpriced potion. Others are raw monster/beast meat or basic necessity.

In the end, they found a particular shop selling bathing tools. They found this shop to be quite unique and decided to look around.

"Welcome, to my humble shop. Please look around." said the female shopkeeper.

After looking around, they found a water space storage that was filled with water. Apparently, they sell the water for people to take a bath. Although it is rare, some people still prefer to have a proper bath rather than using a cleaning spell.

Besides that, the warrior combatant who could not do cleaning spells often used this way to maintain their hygiene. Still, most people didn't bother about it since having a relaxing bath usually dulls their instinct and makes them vulnerable.

Looking at Jayna's interest in all this stuff, "Shopkeeper, how much are these bath tools?" asked Angus.

As a royalty princess, Jayna is used to a luxury lifestyle where she could have a proper bath anytime she wants. However, she could not even have a proper cleaning in this dangerous land until she arrived at the Sur Village.

Even in Sur village, she could only do the basic cleaning without having a nice relaxing bath since water is precious in their village. For people like her, these bathing tools are the same as heavenly tools.

There is a different feeling about having a proper bath and using a cleaning spell. Seeing that the two customers were interested in her merchandise, the shopkeeper immediately gave them more attention.

In her experience, only people that care for proper hygiene will ask for her product. Judging by the clean looks of the two young customers, the shopkeeper knows that she is getting a jackpot.

In the end, Angus and Jayna buy the whole heavenly bathing set along with a lot of clean water. Not only that, but Angus also bought many different types of water.

He found that each of these waters has unique properties and is interesting for further research. After finding Absolute Blue water in the Fire Phoenix prison, he feels interested in researching such particular water.

Based on the Jayna, Absolute Blue is a very rare water that could counter and suppress all the fire entities. It is an ultimate bane towards all fire entities. She didn't even know how they managed to gather that much Absolute Blue since a drop of it was already precious.

Fortunately, Angus managed to fill one of his empty pocket pouches with Absolute Blue during their exploration in the Fire Phoenix prison. Still, he only has a limited amount of Absolute Blue.

It will be a significant weapon when they clash with the other phoenixes if they meet in the future. Based on Jayna's story, Fire Phoenix and her siblings are a very prideful entity and quite stubborn.

Their relationship with the others is irreparable to the point of wanting to kill each other completely. If it is not because of their immortal ability, all of them already died a long time ago from fighting each other.

However, according to Jayna, the fire phoenix never died even once in her long life besides being sealed. During her peak strength, the Absolute Blue water could only suppress her a little bit before finally evaporating from her fire.

This shows how ridiculously strong the Fire Phoenix was. If she is not weakened for being sealed in a long time and just taking over Jayna's body, they don't have any hope to defeat her even with the help of [Possession].

Jayna didn't know how strong the fire phoenix was since there is no such thing about grades in the past. However, based on Jayna's description, Fire Phoenix should be no weaker than a seventh-grade combatant.

Moreover, she seems to be using a sort of incomprehensible power to control fire without mana. She could even control the fire in her siblings' bodies using this power.

Unfortunately, Jayna is still too weak to use her full ability. Like the Fire Phoenix said when she took over Jayna's body, she is too weak and young for her.

After making a heavy purchase for the heavenly bath tools, Angus and Jayna return to the Sur Village camp. Jayna couldn't help wanting to use the heavenly tools as soon as possible, while Angus just wanted to relax.

During his window shopping, there are already many people looking and stalking at them. Based on their capability to hide, most of them seem to be thieves looking for easy prey.

So, Angus always keeps his vigilance every time someone approaches him. He didn't even let other people touch both of them to avoid being stolen.

After walking for a while, they finally arrive at the Sur village camp. The villagers already set up some merchant shops in the front while the sleeping tents in the back. There are also many people in the shop buying and selling things.

Arriving at the Sur camp, "Ahh.. It looks like our famous little guest is back."

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"Ahh.. It looks like our famous little guest is back." said Isvel at the Sur camp entrance.

"Famous??" replied Angus.

"Well, I hear a black-haired youngster killing a third-grade combatant in the arena with only fucking [Mana Ball]. The story of your performance has already spread around." said Isvel.

"Well, I was just lucky to find an easy opponent." replied Angus nonchalantly.

"Still, that's a great feat. Maybe I should learn [Mana Ball] from you, dear cousin? Anyway.." Isvel once again turned into chatterbox mode.

Hearing Isvel's rambling, both Angus and Jayna could only roll their eyes while trying to ignore him.

Fortunately, a guard came towards them, saving both Angus and Jayna from Isvel's rambling.

"Excuse me, young master Angus and Lady Jayna. The clan head asked for your presence in his tent." said the guard politely.

"Sure.. then, cousin, I will excuse myself." said Angus before escaping with Jayna from Isvel without waiting for his response.

Arriving at the clan head tent, Angus and Jayna enter without any obstruction from the guard.

"Ahh.. So, you are back, my dear nephew and Lady Jayna. You make quite a reputation around here." said the clan head Jade who looks younger and healthier than their first time meeting.

This is proof that Angus's medication is slowly working. Not only that, the clan head Jade's aura is calmer than before. Before the medication, the clan head Jade looks like an aggressive wounded beast. Now, his aura is calmer, almost like a sleeping dragon.

Angus also notices the changed temperament in his uncle. He didn't know it was because he became more familiar with Angus or because of the medication. Whatever the reason, it is a good thing for both Angus and Jayna.

"I just got lucky, uncle." replied Angus.

"Hahahaha… Humble as always. Anyway, I just got news about the inner area. Apparently, it will be open in a few days. So, make sure you get proper rest during these few days." said uncle Jade.

"Although with your capability, you could easily survive the inner area, there is nothing wrong with being over cautious." added Uncle Jade.

Then, they begin chatting about various things. Uncle Jade suggested that they didn't need to follow the same ceremony to fight in the Battlefield Arena. However, both Angus and Jayna want to test themself and gain more experience.

In the end, Uncle Jade could only reluctantly agree with them. He knows that a raw gem will never show its true value until it gets polished. Both Angus and Jayna are true geniuses that only appear once in a hundred million people.

Because of this, Uncle Jade is quite protective of both of them more than his own child. Especially since he couldn't find the depth of Angus's capability.

From his experience, he knows that Angus is still hiding his true strength. He feels like Angus is never going all out during all this time.

After chatting for a little miscellaneous stuff, both Angus and Jayna decide to rest in their own tent. Arriving at the tent, Jayna immediately set up her own heavenly bath tools. At the same time, Angus rest owns his own tent.

He decided to check his current status before entering his manual battle system.

Host: Angus Victory

Age: 14 Years Old

MP: 284/358

Heritage chi: ???

Strength: 39

Dexterity: 39

Intelligence: 41

Vitality: 43

Soul Point: 13

Looking at his status, he couldn't help but sigh. Despite his effort in farming soul points during the last few weeks, he could only increase his strength and dexterity by one.

The soul points requirement for each stat is so huge that even with his daily gain is not enough. Now, he would get around ten soul points from his automatic battle system, which is insufficient to support his need.

According to his observation, his growth is already incredible, even exceeding his own expectations. However, ever since arriving in this dimension, he feels his current power is never enough.

Now, he could fight a frontal battle with weak third-grade combatants with ease using the assistance of spells. But if he meets a capable fourth-grade combatant in a frontal battle, he still needs to reveal all his power to survive.

There is a massive difference between grade four and grade three. Grade four is also called the realm of specialization since all the people that managed to enter this stage are experts at something.

Every grade four combatant specializes in something. Be it weapon art, spells, elemental mastery, and many others.

This is also the reason grade four combatant is very precious and considered as elite. Not everyone could reach this grade without accumulating a lot of experience.

Grade four is also called the border of the upper-grade combatant. Since the requirement of getting into grade four is mastery, many people failed to reach this. Only the one with true talent could overcome these grade-four walls.

Of course, there is a different case where people got external help with potions, legacy, or god's blessing. But, none of them could be compared to the combatant that managed to reach this stage with their own effort.

It's like comparing an amateur wielding a gun and a veteran sharpshooter wielding a gun. They can shoot the gun, but their precision and quality are different, with the latter being more superior.

As for fighting grade five, it is a grade that is already above Angus's current fighting capability. Unless he used forbidden techniques and sacrificed himself, he could not win against them in a frontal battle.

This could only be seen when Angus sparred with the old dwarf Balrug. Although the old dwarf Balrug is very old and retired from the battle, he never used his mana when sparring Angus.

He only used his physical strength to replicate the power of his skill. Angus would immediately be squashed into a meat paste if he used just a little bit of mana. The fifth-grade mana is purer and stronger than grade four.

Furthermore during the spar, Balrug only used 10% of his strength. This is also the reason Balrug sometimes couldn't hold his strength properly when sparring with Angus. Using and controlling too little physical strength is an arduous task.

This shows how ridiculously strong a Fifth-grade combatant is. Moreover, compared to the retired Balrug, the active grade five people are stronger.

Still, grades are also not the indicator of winning and strength. Some races that specialized in combat or physical strength cannot be measured with this. These races are like the beast race, orc race, dwarf race, and many others.

Based on Balrug's explanation, his combat capability was comparable to the grade six combatant before he retired. All of this is thanks to his enormous physical strength.

Balrug already managed to open the third gate of life and has a superior strength than most people. If he is not limited with his age, he may open the fourth gate of life.

Thinking about this, Angus begins to remember the requirement to open his next gate of life. The gate of life is one of the great sources to become stronger faster.

Based on Balrug's explanation, Angus needed to reach his physical limit before opening the second gate of life. Fortunately, he didn't need to melt and reconstruct his own body again through iron and fire to open the next gate.

He could open the gate through meditation. However, he will never enter the gate of life space unless his body is ready. Remembering the gate of life, he also remembers the last word of his inner self before he managed to open the first gate of life.

'Hmm.. What did he mean by that word?' thought Angus.

Shooking his head, Angus cleared some unnecessary thoughts before deciding to enter his manual battle system. Although his mana is not yet fully regenerated, it is already enough for a few easy fights.

Using enhanced [Mana Ball] a few times consumes more mana than he thought. Based on Angus's calculation, it is like casting three fire-based third circle spells. This is quite wasting mana for mana efficiency, but it didn't fatigue his mind like casting a third circle spell.

Still, using one third circle spell could easily kill the blue-haired man. So, it is not quite practical to use enhanced [Mana Ball] continuously.

However, it also creates a good image towards the audience and people that want to target him. So, it is also not a waste for him.

Entering the manual battle system, Angus decided to train in it rather than accumulate soul points. There are only a few days before the inner area opens. So rather than exhaust himself trying to earn soul points, Angus decided to train his spells.

Like skills, the more he familiarized himself with spells, the more effective he used them in the battle. Furthermore, as he gets more familiar with spells, his casting time will be reduced.

Normally, reducing the casting time of one spell needs a lot of practice and time. However, Angus has an enhanced mind to memorize all his progress when he constructs his spell.

So, he just applies the same calculation when he constructs his spell before adjusting it a little bit. As he got more familiar with adjusting, his casting speed also increased.

As someone who could cast many different elemental spells, Angus knows this is an advantage and could enhance his combat capability.

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Few days passed by since Angus battled in the Battlefield Arena. During these few days, a lot of people came from all over the Endless Battlefield.

Despite the dangerous and harsh environment of the Endless Battlefield, there are still many people living in this dangerous dimension.

Most of them are powerful groups since they could survive in this harsh environment for a long time.

Since the ancestral ruin is for the lower grade people, the real powerhouse of this dimension is not interested in coming to this place. Usually, they only send a representative or their younger generation.

Still, Angus could find a lot of high-grade people from various kinds of races in this place. He could find many different kinds of races, from the orc race to the halfling race, in this place.

The most interesting thing Angus found is all of them are harmonious and never look down on one another based on their race.

This kind of situation is very rare in Firuman, where war and fight between races often occur. If it is not because of the Elf race, Angus suspects that there will be many world wars based on the racial conflict.

Thinking about the Elf race, Angus begins to remember a certain rumor he heard from a few days ago. Apparently, there is an elf race in this dimension. But, not an ordinary one. It is the dark elf.

It is quite a surprise since every elf is precious to the elven race, even dark elves. Normally, the youngsters of the elven race will stay inside their territory before reaching upper grade.

Based on the rumor, she entered the combat arena and managed to kill her opponent in under 1 minute. This shows her combat capability is not low.

Still, this is only a rumor since nobody could see her face since she wore a helmet to cover her face and her signature pointed ear. The reason that the rumor started is that somebody managed to recognize the skill she used.

The skill she used is one of the dark elf's signature skills. Combined with her dark skin and her slim figure, many people are starting to speculate she is a dark elf.

Even though they know she is a dark elf, everyone only cares little about her. Usually, everyone always had a bad prejudice against dark elves. It is because of the myth that said they are the sign of calamity. Her presence is always identical to calamity and bad omen.

Because of this, everyone never wants to meet someone from the dark elf race. However, in this treacherous land, calamity and disaster always occur.

Moreover, This is a land where some beast and monster overlord often fight each other for petty reasons. Each of these fights always creates destruction towards the surroundings.

Angus even hears that a monster overlord is fighting near the Sur village long ago and almost annihilate the whole Sur village. If it is not because the sand turtle decides to escape the area at the right time, they may have already been eradicated.

In the end, no one truly cares about this kind of superstition about dark elves in this treacherous land.

Besides meeting many different kinds of races, Angus also met the other villages or clans besides the Sur clan. Many of these clans create their own village or settlement like the Sur clan.

According to Angus's chatterbox cousin Isvel, some of these villages are hostile towards them, such as Black Rock Village, Clear Blue Village, Sky Wing Village, and Infernal Village.

All of them are strong and big villages that reside in the Endless Battlefield dimension. However, none of them is comparable to the hidden group that stays from the light and secludes themself like the one that governs over the Ancestral Ruin.

Based on Uncle Jade, the one that could send Plague Worm to attack them is either Black Rock Village or Sky Wing Village.

Black Rock Village is located near the Toxic Wasteland, while Sky Wing Clan is the only village with the rare space attribute combatant.

Like the Sur villages, all these villages also specialized in something. Sur Villages itself is specialized in their fire elemental mastery. Moreover, most of the Sur Clan villagers are from the Berston race, a race that is famous for its fire mastery and poison resistance.

The other villages also consist of one or two races like the Sur Clan. This way, it lessens their disagreement and conflict inside their village. Each of these villages also has its own leader, like the clan head Jade.

Most of this leader has the same combat capability like uncle Jade himself and in the border of the legendary seventh-grade realm.

During these past few days, Angus could see that many of these villages try to provoke the Sur Village's members. Because it is only a verbal conflict, Angus didn't bother to intervene and escalated the conflict further.

Besides this also Sur Villages internal problem, so Angus didn't have the right to intervene as the outsider. Unless it is a truly critical situation, he will not intervene in this conflict.

Moreover, Angus is also surprised at how the Sur villagers handle the conflict. The villagers managed to keep their calm and always solve the conflict peacefully in the end.

If it happens to Angus, he will just turn the table and use force to suppress anyone. Angus may seem like a calm and rational person, but he never lets someone who steps on his tail purposely go.

He will never have mercy for someone that responds badly to him despite his kindness. Because at the end of the escalated conflict, one of them will be dead.

As someone that already claims more than thousands of lives, Angus is always ready to have a deathmatch every time. One of the lessons when he worked as an assassin in his past life is before you are prepared to kill someone, you must be ready to be killed.

Having this mindset to the extreme, Angus is never afraid to have a big conflict and offend everyone. This is a habit, and pride is the primary thing that he retains from his past life. However, he was also someone that didn't like any unnecessary conflict.

Rather than having conflict, most of the time, he decides to escape from them or completely ignore it.

That's why Angus is quite interested in the Sur Villagers's behavior. Despite the conflict with the other villagers, they never get to the point of a life-and-death conflict. All the conflicts always end in calm and peaceful.

There are some reasons for that, but it is mainly because the other villages watch each other. The moment one village tries to attack the others, the other will seize the opportunity for it.

Currently, all these villages gather at the Ancestral Ruin. Like every year, they send their younger generation to the inner area for their own upcoming ceremony.

Fortunately, there are no rumors about Angus and Jayna being part of the Sur Clan. Otherwise, they will be forced to be part of the village's conflict.

Now, everyone gathers around and looks at the big stone gate in the deepest part of the outer area. This stone gate is the one that will connect them with the inner area.

Based on what Angus gathers, the inner area is sort of a restricted dungeon. Unlike normal dungeons where people could come and go easily, it has restrictions, such as only lower grade combatants could enter it once.

Moreover, the remaining monster corpses in this area will turn into miasma after a certain time, like how regular dungeons work.

Still, based on the story he heard about the inner area, the scale of this inner area dungeon is extremely huge. Besides that, this inner area is only open for three days. After three days, every single living being inside it will be trapped there for a year.

Nobody ever survives after being trapped there for a year. So everyone should come back before the three days have passed.

During the waiting time, Angus could see the majority of them were grade three combatants. He could find the Ice Maiden from the battlefield arena, beast race, orc, the rumored dark elves, and many others people that give a strong impression.

After waiting for a while, everyone could feel a slight tremor, and the gate towards the inner area finally opened slowly.

Looking at this, "Start counting the time!!" command the clan head Jade.

Hearing the command, the nearby guard begins to start their clock watch. Angus also starts his own watch. This is to keep as a reminder before the gate's time closes.

Later, the big stone gate finally opens completely, and a bluish wavy thing appears in the middle of it like a sort of big portal.

Without wasting any moment, everyone immediately ran towards the bluish portal. Every single second is precious for this kind of time-limited place.

Angus and Jayna, along with the other youngsters of the Sur Clan, also run into the gate. There is also Neil, who is in the lead with an excited smile.

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Looking at Neil at the front, Angus could only shake his head. During Uncle Jade's last medication, he asked Angus to take care of Neil inside the inner area.

Uncle Jade is afraid that the other villages might be plotting something since Neil is famous for being the most talented among his sons.

Despite having a shitty personality, Uncle Jade believes that he will become more mature when he gets more experience like his brothers and sister.

However, Angus didn't promise him. He only said that if he could help, he would help. If not, he will leave him alone on his own.

One thing that Angus hates is babysitting someone. He never even went easy at Jayna during her training, much less another person with a bad relationship with him.

Sometimes, he even thought that the real reason his brother hated him in the past is this kind of habit and personality. Even if it is from his brother, Nobody likes to be treated in harsh, cold, and brutal ways during training.

However, he did not regret his action and will still do so. He believes only through hard experience could someone survive, be it in this world or his past world. At least, Jayna never complained about the harsh training he gave her all this time.

Entering the portal, Angus and Jayna once again feel space disorientation, but they could still withstand them since they are weaker than the disorientation they got in the past.

They arrive at an endless stone platform with a lot of the same style and shape of stone buildings scattered everywhere.

The sky is covered with thick clouds that make this place have a gloomy atmosphere. No one could see through behind the thick cloud besides hearing the occasional rumbling of thunder.

On the horizon, they could see a big stone pyramid-like building with a portal on the top. According to the information they gather, this should be the exit of this inner area.

After getting used to the disorientation, many people start to scatter in different directions. They didn't want to waste any more time and begin their treasure hunt. However, just as they spread away, a few loud roaring sounds are heard from everywhere. *Roarr* *Roarr*

Many different types of monsters start to attack the group that just arrived at this inner area. Looking at this, everyone immediately readies their weapon.

Fortunately, most of this monster is only grade one, with grade two being the strongest. Moreover, there are more people here than the incoming monster.

The nearby people start butchering the monster without mercy. During this time, Angus decided to use [Great Mana Echolocation]. After getting the feedback, he could help but marvel at this place.

Despite using [Great Mana Echolocation, he still couldn't find the border of this place. However, as he gets the feedback from his skill, he realizes that this place seems like a big abandoned city.

"So, which way should we go?" asked Jayna after Angus digested all the information from his skill.

"Hmm… Let's pick a random direction. I want to try to map out this place first, or do you want to go for a treasure hunt now?" asked Angus back.

"Nahh.. Let's just go along with your idea. I still have a little bit of trauma from our last treasure hunt. Besides, we could always find something interesting during the mapping out." said Jayna.

"Great, then I leave the monster for you to handle." said Angus before picking one direction.

"Alright, I also need something to target for my practice." replied Jayna while following Angus.

Both of them keep running in one direction for a while. While running, Angus occasionally uses [Great Mana Echolocation] to map out the inner area. Sometimes, he will stop to digest the information and wait for Jayna to kill the monster before continuing.

Angus also takes a path with fewer monsters on the way and avoids being surrounded by a group of monsters. They keep this feat until half day before they stop for rest.

Currently, there are a dozen or more stone buildings in their vicinity. Angus also finally found the border of this area. The inner area is bigger than he thought. It takes more time than he expected for them to reach the border of this area.

He truly marvels at this place and is curious at how they managed to build it. As he suspects, the area's border is made of the space barrier like in the usual dungeon.

After thinking and digesting the information he got, Angus feels like this place is unique and seems to hide a secret.

"So, where should we go now?" asked Jayna, who just finished killing the incoming monster.

"Jayna, how is your [Fiery Burst] mastery?" asked Angus.

"Good, I could use all day long without being exhausted." said Jayna.

"Excellent, now ignore the monster and try to keep up with me." said Angus before going in one direction using [Beast Walk]. *Whoosh*

Looking at this, Jayna begins to follow him with her own movement skill [Fiery Burst]. Unlike Angus's usual [Beast Walk, he lowered his speed to match with Jayna. Otherwise, she will be left behind.

While running using [Beast Walk, Angus also keeps mapping out the area. Soon, another day passed by since Angus started mapping out the whole area.

The area is more massive than he thought, and it needs more than a day for him to map out the whole area despite keep moving nonstop. Currently, both of them are exhausted from continuing to run at high speed.

Especially Jayna, she couldn't regenerate mana as fast as Angus despite having almost the same mana capacity. Moreover, she didn't have enormous stamina like Angus.

As for Angus himself, he was also exhausted both physically and mentally. He keeps spamming [Great Mana Echolocation] to the limit while he keeps running.

Fortunately, in the end, they managed to map out the entire area thoroughly despite the need to increase their speed along the way.

After mapping out the whole area, he realizes that all this stone building is not put randomly. The entire area has a square shape with many buildings on it. These buildings seem to be making a sort of pattern. But because of its huge scale, it is getting harder to see the pattern.

Only people like Angus that managed to map the whole area and memorize them managed to see the pattern. However, he didn't know the meaning of the pattern even when he managed to reveal it.

While Angus rests his body and racks his brain to solve the pattern, Jayna sits on the ground, trying to recover her mana as much as possible.

A few hours later, "So, did you finally solve the pattern?" asked Jayna after recovering some considerable mana.

"Urgghh… I still don't get it. There is still something that I miss, but I didn't quite get it." replied Angus.

"Hmm… Did you want to go around once more?" asked Jayna.

"Nah, it will probably be the same. It seems we need to search the building like everyone else." replied Angus after half giving up.

"Well, Don't worry about it. It's not like I expected to get something from here. Anyway, how much time left do we have?" asked Jayna.

Angus looked at his wristwatch, "We have.. Time.. Yes, that's it. Hahaha… Jayna, you are my lucky star." said Angus while hugging Jayna, who was confused at Angus's sudden behavior.

Looking at the confused Jayna, "Jayna, this whole place is actually a gigantic clock. The pyramid in the center is the center of the clock while the building is the place to indicate something like hours, minutes, or seconds." explained Angus.

"Now, what we need is to find the clock arm to read the whole area. However, this area didn't have a normal kind of arm clock. But, there is something that is always moving from this place." added Angus.

"Keep moving around in this place, Don't tell me.. The monster." said Jayna as she came to her own realization.

"Yes, however, it is not the ordinary monster. The monster must be moved in a set pattern and must be quite a high grade to work as a clock arm." explained Angus.

"Fortunately, during our mapping, I remember detecting the highest grade monster position." said Angus as he started drawing something on a piece of paper.

Angus draws a clock with some clock arms based on the few highest-grade monster positions. Matching the map in his head with the clock arms, he finally found that each of the clock arms pointed towards the specific building.

Angus speculates that there is something in the building. After explaining to Jayna about this discovery, both of them once again check the monster's position since some time has passed since their first read.

Fortunately, they only need to know their location and not fight them since most monsters are in the third grade. Unlike the beast and civilian race, the monster of third grade is equivalent to the fourth-grade combatant.

Knowing which path to take, both of them once again could read the clock arms in a few hours of running. Without wasting more time, they immediately go towards one of the nearest clock arms buildings.

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