Monster Integration

The white metal door appeared in front of me as the four weeks in the place were over; seeing that, I turned off the projection I was watching from crystal and placed it back on its shelf.

Step!

I took one last look at this amazing place which has given me so much, before stepping out through the door and appearing outside, with once again the golden door of celestial inheritance in front of me.

The one month inside the door had been beyond productive; I have not only gathered data that I will need to study for centuries, but I have also got the inspiration I needed to finish off my inheritance.

My clone had already begun working on it; it will study and, at the same time, will work on the inheritance. If I had a huge time on my hand, I would have studied everything for years before even thinking of making a breakthrough, but unfortunately, I did not.

The war of survival is raging outside, and I need to make a breakthrough as soon as possible.

With no keys remaining in my possession, I begin to make my way toward the exit. It would have been great if I could snatch the keys from others, but I could not. I would need to earn them again, which will take time because now the extra challenges would be even harder.

There are very few people who have been able to enter the palace of wonder for the second time, but I will try; I have already seen the kind of benefits it could offer me.

Within a minute, I came across a Grimm again, a familiar one; it got surprised seeing me and even opened its mouth but closed it and glared at me with hate, seeing me not spare more than a glance at it.

A few minutes after that, I come across the two humans staring at golden doors. I had stopped for a few minutes to make a polite conversation, which turned out fruitful as I got to know about a few interesting things.

There are thousands of people who have entered this place, and everyone is improving by the day; even barely surviving the challenges will continue to increase one strength, and as for those who excel, they are flying fast.

Thousands of people have improved, and from what I could tell, more than 50% of the masters who have entered and remained have already leveled up to the Grandmaster class.

Though many have died, I am sure the number of those dying had already reached above a thousand, but there is nothing that could be done about it; those who entered knew the risks.

Still, the fatalities here are not even 1% of what we might be suffering outside; I am sure, every day, the war was getting more and more intense by the day. Those who left this place might not be gotten even a day of rest before they were sent back to fight the war.

The golden doors ended, and silver began; I came across more humans and Grimms staring at doors with keys in their hands.

Ten some minutes passed when suddenly I stopped as I came across the woman who was staring at two doors intently with a golden key in her hand.

“Stumped, are we?” I asked, surprising her greatly, “Yes, I have been standing here for more than ten minutes, deciding which door to choose,” she replied.

“Have you checked the golden doors?” I asked, seeing the golden key in her hand, to which she rolled her eyes. “I am not an idiot, Michael. So, of course, I have checked the golden doors, but they did not have what I needed,” she answered.

“And these two have?” I have, despite knowing they have; when I passed by these two doors, I had thought of her; they are suitable for her given her bloodline.

I don’t know much about her bloodline, but I know it is the most powerful bloodline in the world. She is Ellen, and since I had seen her two months ago, there did not seem to be much difference in her; she is still a Grandmaster.

Others might get fooled by it, but I am not. She may be a Grandmaster but is powerful enough that no one besides the Grand Lord would be able to kill her; even with all my abilities, I don’t have much confidence in defeating her.

“The door of divinity and door of radiance both suits you, and since you have the golden key, you could enter both,” I said, but I shouldn’t have stated such an obvious fact.

“You think I don’t know that; I could choose both, but it is very important to choose the right one at first,” she said, and the way she said it made me realize that there may be more to it than I am seeing, but I did not ask about.

“You should take the door of divinity then; your bloodline is divine by nature, and radiance produced through it,” I said.

She did not say anything for nearly a minute before finally nodding. “You are right; the door of divinity should be the first,” she said, and the next moment she moved with a speed that my eyes were barely able to capture and appeared beside the giant key.

Click!

She inserted the key, and the next second, a clicking sound rang out as she twisted the key. She began to push open the door, and soon, it had opened enough that she could comfortably pass through it.

“It’s nice seeing you again, Michael,” she said and walked inside the gate, and the gate closed behind her.

I once again sighed; it had been quite a while since I had to get to talk to my friend like we used to when we were young. There are so many things I have to talk about and many things I have to ask, especially about her bloodline, which is a treasure trove of data.

I had wanted to sneak my seed inside her but did not do that; I had sensed a powerful layer around her that, that I did not think my seed would be passed through without being discovered.

It is the same with jill.

These two are really different from each other, but they give me the same feeling; whenever I am close to them and think of fighting them, all the hair on my body stands up.

I did not stay further, watching the door closing, and again started my journey toward the exit. Soon, the silver doors finished, and the irons began.

I come across more humans and Grimms; their numbers have surprised me. Compared to a week ago, there are at least five times more numbers, a huge change in a matter of days, and it is not like getting keys is easy.

It seemed like I had been judging them too harshly, underestimating them too much.

I am not the only one who has a talent, people have them, too, and this place gives you ample opportunity to show them with its extra challenges.

Finally, I passed through the last iron door and reached the exit, with giant blue and grey doors standing in front of me.