Chapter 503 Finally Escaped!
'Such a genius. Is he the one who broke the records of our leader?' Erica suddenly remembered the genius of a young genius from the South, which caused waves to the degu community.
Erica realized that their intruder this time might be the so-called genius... 'Hmmm... It seems that he's here to kill me. But why? Is it related to some people that I killed in the past?'
If it was revenge, Erica won't be surprised. After all, she killed a lot of people and provoked a lot of forces in the past. Now, her only choice was to face the intruder. Although Fein has an SS-rank comprehensive power, Erica wasn't afraid. She has confidence in her power. She just has to use the SS-rank curse technique on her arsenal.
'Hahaha, let me see if he would be able to reach the last floor.' A grin stretched across Erica's face.
The Order of the Witches' base wasn't that simple. It wasn't really a manmade base, but a secret realm that Niki sealed with his space power and made as his own base. A secret realm which wasn't any worse than the Monster World Secret Realm that Fein and Sofia went to that has an abundant monsters of S-rank realm and above. 𝐟𝒓𝚎𝘦we𝐛𝐧𝐨vℯ𝚕. c𝘰ｍ
The name of the secret realm was the Dark Dominion Secret Realm. Niki didn't kill high-level monsters. Even Niki was hesitant to confront the monsters of the 10th floor to the 15th floor because of their numbers.
Just like in the Monster World Secret Real, there are SS-rank and SSS-rank creatures in the Dark Dominion Secret Realm. And their numbers were comparable to cabbage in the market. The only difference between the two secret realms was, the Monster World has all kinds of monsters mixed in it. While the Dark Dominion Secret Realm is the home of dark monsters.
Dark monsters have a high affinity for the dark element. They are particularly good at stealth and sneak attacks, plus they have the power of darkness that could produce weird effects.
Erica was beside Niki when he simply sealed the secret realm without fighting the monsters inside. Erica knew that if her boss really fought the monsters on the upper floors, he would win. But he also has to pay a price.
In actuality, the fifteenth floor, or the last floor, only has one monster. A monster with a realm beyond SS rank. It was also the ultimate boss of the Dark Dominion Secret Realm. The Dark Minotaur is unparalleled in strength and power among the SSS ranks in the Dark Dominion Secret Realm. In the end, he was the guardian of the last floor, but he was killed by Niki.
Then Niki offered the Dark Dominion as their base when the Order of the Witches was first established. From the first floor to the sixth floor, the witches completely controlled all the dark monsters. But from the seventh floor to the fourteenth, the monsters were too strong to be controlled. The witches couldn't even come and go to those floors willfully because the dark monster there would just kill them.
Niki treated the monster as an inside security system of the witch base. On the fifteenth floor, he offered it to Erica. It was where Erica conducted her experiments and research.
That's why Erica was completely assured that Fein won't be able to go to the final floor. With the strength of SS-rank, could Fein fight the powerful dark monsters on the 10th and 14th floor? Even her boss wouldn't necessarily claim that he can.
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Fein didn't know that Erica already thought of him as dead. If Fein knew that there were SS-rank creatures in the Dark Domain, he would surely become ecstatic. After all, he needs a large number of experience points to upgrade his S-rank talent to SS-rank talent.
Fein was now with Sofia and resumed their journey after he returned. Though, he spent one hour just to find the holes above him in the middle of the darkness. Fortunately, his perception, although severely restricted, still helped him to navigate himself in the middle of the darkness.
Along the way, Fein didn't even pay attention to the different scenes. He was still absent-minded, thinking of his encounter with the witch. Although he could feel that Erica could threaten him. Fein didn't intend to give up. He must avenge his captain!
But first, he has to climb from the first floor up to the fifteenth floor. Through the witch's tone, Fein knew that it won't be an easy task.
"Fein, you're absent-minded again. What did you see below?"
Fein woke up in his daze as he heard Sofia's voice in his ears. Then he saw Voli and Aoi who have a look of concern on their faces. So, he just told them the process.
"Huh? Did you meet your target? Then why didn't you kill her?" When Sofia heard the entire process, she found that Fein have a chance to kill the woman.
"I got carried away by our conversation, in short, talk no jutsu. Talk no jutsu is really powerful." Fein sighed helplessly. "And I really intend to kill her at that time, but she used a weird escape ability. I don't know if it's also a curse technique. Regardless, I don't think that I could kill that witch in such a short time. She managed to play us like she was in a playground with her infinite loop. Really, a terrible technique. I don't know what kind of curse techniques she has on her sleeve. We gotta be careful."
"That's probably an S-rank curse technique." Sofia could only guess since she wasn't sure about the ranking of course technique since Fein only told her a brief summary.
"Or higher," Fein added.
After they finished their conversation. The group quietly continued their pace. Sofia and Fein were on top of Voli, as Voli galloped with lightning on his feet.
Just like that, they passed the narrow passageway again. However, this time, they didn't come back to the starting point. A different scenery unfolded itself in their sight.
"Thank god! Finally escaped! It seems that the witch didn't lie. Her infinite loop has a huge restriction on its duration. We finally came out of the damned loop!" Fein rarely gets excited. A faint smile appeared on his face, as he was really sick of the vicious cycle.
Even Sofia, Voli, and Aoi had relief on their faces. The infinite loop from before just lets them experience what is despair.