VERSATILE: ALTERNATE WORLD

The masked girl is screaming intensely as the chains tighten up in her body. She is even coughing up blood as the chains continue to squeeze her more.

"Wow, I was expecting you to beg for your life now but I guess you are tough to endure such pain huh? Then don't mind me ramping up the pain you are experiencing then. Don't blame me if you die."

The chains got visibly bigger and starts to tighten up once more. The masked girl gurgles out blood in her mouth as the chains continue to squish her body slowly.

"W-whatever...gah...you do...ugh... I will... not yield... we-we would...aghhhh...rather die...than spill...gak...the secrets! AGGHHHHHH!"

Queen Tanya stopped the tightening of the chains and sighed.

"Based on her reactions, she is ready to die rather than spill the beans. Guess we will have to do it the easy way."

Queen Tanya opened a portal on her side and put the two masked individuals inside it before she closes them.

"What did you do to them? What was that portal earlier that you just opened up?" I asked.

"It's one of my abilities, Void Realm. There, all kinds of malevolent creatures ran rampant under my control. With them tied up and nowhere to go, they will be forced to face the malevolent creatures there and suffer there until they give up. They will die and resurrect there again and again but they cannot fight them. They will either remain there forever or they could just reveal what they are trying to do.

eαglesn?νel Endless death huh? For us players, endless death is not even that bad, as long as you revive again, then it's fine. However, the NPCs who don't know the feeling we feel will go crazy not too long after that. They are at the mercy of Queen Tanya and its either Queen Tanya releases them or they suffer for eternity. It's pitiful but I guess that was the fitting end of them.

"Then, we shall continue destroying this place. Without anyone trying to stop us, we can now proceed with what was previously agreed upon."

Everyone nodded to my notion. I told everyone to exit the ruins while I plant all of the bombs around the ruins. That way. this place will collapse and the machines will be destroyed by the explosion as well as the falling debris. Lucia asked me if it is alright to gather the remaining ashes of Sandro. After his body turned to ashes after the two masked individuals toasted his dead body, I agreed with Lucia on taking them out even though they have been turned to ashes. They might not return back to being a skeleton, but he still needed to be outside of the ruins even in that state.

Using her telekinesis ability, I lend her a bottle used for putting XL-sized potions and let her use it as a container. There, she used her ability and gather all of the remains that is currently gathered in one place after Sandro's body turned to ashes and controlled them to go into the container, creating a jar of urn for the body. He was cremated as a result. Lucia keeps the bottle and left with Queen Tanya so that I could focus on putting all the bombs needed for the demolition explosion.

The facility is big but I needed to be strategic in putting the dynamites and remote-controlled explosives as they might explode but fail at their job of demolition and will instead be wasted. I scope out the rest of the place and once I found the ideal spots, I started producing the explosives and put them in their rightful places. I also put some explosives in the walls and ceilings as well. They are absolutely necessary if I want to see explosive damage happening.

After littering the whole area with bombs, I went to the previous floor, scoped it out, and did the same as the other. That way, it's not just the bottom floor that gets destroyed but this place as well. I added all bombs in all areas and after putting a lot of them, I can say now that I am satisfied.

I didn't bother to put more explosives on the very first floor since it lacks any devices and it is at the very top of the ruins. If it collapses at the bottom, the top follows.

All of the bombs are placed and they are nicely put alongside the remote-controlled explosives. Once they explode, this place is gone. I went outside the ruins and saw everyone are waiting for me.

"Done?" Queen Tanya asked.

"Yep. We just needed to go a little bit farther from here. With the explosion that might occur, the place might collapse and we might be among the victims of the collapse. We should just get far enough that we can see what will happen."

Everyone started packing up. Lucia turned at the place one last time. I pat her back and gave her a thumbs up. "We will find more clues in the future, Lucia."

She smiled and nodded and we followed Queen Tanya and the crew to the higher place where we can safely view the explosion and the collapse of the ruins.

"You guys ready? This will be a big explosion and it might even affect us here standing far. Brace yourselves."

"Let's do this then," Queen Tanya nodded, giving me the signal to go ham and boom.

Lucia also nodded as well, so I pulled out the remote for the explosives and press the detonate button. At first, we didn't feel anything, then we feel a little bit of shaking, and then...

BOOOOOMMMMM!

The whole facility exploded. It was like a mini volcano minus the lava erupting out of the ruins. Debris came flying down and just as expected from the explosion, the land where the ruins were situated collapsed, and everything around the place was gone from the explosion. After the explosion and the collapse, the sand slowly falls through the remains of the explosion, the flames still burning the place. However, it is now confirmed everything there is destroyed and no longer salvageable. The place is officially gone.

"I still can't believe the explosives you make are that strong. If only that are useful against monsters then we could have explosive parties in the Frozen Region with my sis. Too bad, they don't even hold a candle to what those motherf*ckers can easily absorb and resist."

I can only chuckle at how Queen Tanya describes the monsters in the frozen region. Given how hard they are to fight and the fact that we needed a lot of firepower and force to eventually slay the smallest monster present in that area, then how hard do the bigger monsters are? Even if I put all explosives in the body of a monster, the explosions might just tickle the sh*t out of them.

"So, what are you planning on doing to the masked people? I doubt they won't surrender at all," I asked.

"Right now, I want to imprison them. I also want to employ you for a short time on helping me with the extraction of information for them as well. Seeing how they are unfazed about being tortured by the chains, they might be a hard nut to crack. Therefore, I needed help as well. You guys can stay in the castle as well for the time being. I would love to have a good spar with you too. Don't worry, I will be rewarding you for helping out so that your time will be worth it."

"That would be great. Don't worry about the reward thing, you should treat it as a treat from a friend instead, ya know?"

"Thanks. Anyways, it's time for us to go back, it's getting late, and with the explosion that happened, the beasts will start prowling here to check on what happened. It's best we go on our way."

And with that, our trip to the ruins ended. We got some valuable information and few diaries that Lucia is still going to decode and read, and two prisoners that seems to hold some information about the ruins. And as for their reasons, we still don't know. All I can say is that this is a tiresome day indeed.

Still, there are some clues that I have received and that is the reason why monsters exist. So the main reason they exist is to win the war against the goddess of death, resulting in their creation. It does make sense as she is the goddess of life and she can create life at a whim compared to the goddess of death who governs the death of living beings. This discovery seems to be going to be an important key in the future and knowing that the primordial war is something that happened way before the development of this world, perhaps they are going to be connected to the Tree of Life. Maybe trying to learn about what happened during the Primordial wars might also allow me to get some info about the tree of life as well.