[Your level has increased to level 47, granting you two skill points and boost in stats]
[Your level has increased to level 48, granting you two skill points and boost in stats]
‘Phew…’ it had been an hour since Stark defeated the [Elite Guard], yet there had been no additional deaths or any other announcements, everyone was truly just waiting for someone to unlock the door or trying to find the key themselves.
He had encountered more [sublevel 4 Guards] on his way, along with some other types of monsters like [Skeleton Prisoners] and [Threat Robots], but they were all taken care of rather easily by… the clone.
Yep, it was still there, walking behind Stark, a wide smile on its face, and the more they killed, the happier it seemed to be, the way it was walking also became weirder as it was leaning left or right after each step.
“KRAKAKRA~” yet again they met two more [sublevel 4 Guards], at first he had somewhat struggled against them, but now they were a piece of cake both to him and his clone.
“DOMI-CHAINS RESTRAIN!” Stark shouted, and a giant crimson chain came out of the ground beneath, heading toward one of the monsters.
It enrolled itself around its arm and continued to roll slowly like a snake trapping its prey.
Domi-Chain Restrain or Domi-Chain in short was an extremely powerful skill against single enemies or large ones, as most of the time they were really easy to restrain.
~CLING, CLANG~
The chain immediately headed toward its second arm and restrained it as well, all of this in the span of two seconds, meaning it didn’t have the time to react.
And now that both is arms were out… it couldn’t do anything but watch as the chain quickly but surely took out its other limbs and soon enough life force.
“AURA SMASH… MERGE!” the clone sent a giant fist toward the second guard.
“-169382!” its body exploded in a thousand pieces as the first hit it and left a giant hole.
As for the other guard, it couldn’t its arms, legs, and now even move its torso as they were all being slowly chained by the crimson chain, which was expanding from the ground beneath Stark, with seemingly no end to it.
~THUMP~
The guard lost its balance and fell, its face full of pain as its energy was drained by the chain.
And then…
[Enemy fell unconscious because of the chain!]
‘You do you…’ he looked at his clone, and it smiled as it rushed toward the guard, stopping right in front of its head.
And then…
~SLAM, SLAM~
It began to punch it.
Stark didn’t know why, but it enjoyed torturing monsters and taking them out slowly gave it the most pleasure, so he just let it do that.
And so after thirty seconds…
[You have slain ‘sublevel 4 Guard lv95’, gained 128392 EXP!]
[You have slain ‘sublevel 4 Guard lv95’, gained 126930 EXP!]
But this wasn’t all, since the moment the guard being held by the chain died, it retracted on itself really fast and went back to its original spot of apparition.
[Successful bind, chain regained!]
It was a perk he had learned after using the chain a few times: if the chain manages to completely restrain an opponent for Stark to kill it, or if it knocked them out, then he wouldn’t need to wait for 10 minutes, the chain would immediately be usable again.
[Experience: 439281/1140000]
There wasn’t anything left to do, so they just kept going, hoping their luck would be better as they had just been wandering aimlessly now, and their stamina wasn’t infinite (well, at least Stark’s wasn’t, he didn’t know about the clone).
But… after only ten minutes…
‘…’ Stark turned around yet another corner that looked the same as all the others and… ‘…!’
He saw four people standing against the walls, sitting, or just walking in circles, all the while talking to one another!
In the middle of them was a giant bronze-textured door with a sign reading ‘sublevel 3’ next to it.
‘Found it…’ he smiled, but it was weird why so many people were there, and none of them were killing each other?
~THUMP~
He took a single step in that hall, and all eyes fell on him.
“Oh! If it’s not Chosen…!” Officer laughed, his guns still in hand.
The people present were: Officer, the white-haired lady Stark saw as she was in front of his cell, and… the two others he hadn’t seen.
Stark stopped in his tracks, wanting to speak to them over some distance to make sure this wasn’t a trap, and his clone obviously stopped behind, not revealing itself to the public as it was at the corner of the hallway.
“Oh!” Officer nodded, “I guess you didn’t get to know them since they stayed in their cells then immediately ran through the metal door…”
“I guess…” Stark shrugged, he didn’t care much.
“HEY!” a man with dark gray eyes that had a white star-shaped detail in the irises, and scraggly hair with a mixture of two colors: pale reddish pink and apple green, suddenly got up and shouted, taking Stark aback, “NAME’S YURI!”
He was wearing a dark teal blazer with gold buttons over a long-sleeved white dress shirt and a gold and black striped tie.
“…?” Stark had frankly expected those to have stayed inside their cells to be of the mysterious type or at least be super cautious of everything, yet… this guy seemed extremely extroverted.
Stark’s gaze then moved on to the person next to him, it was a woman with yellow eyes and short, unkempt taupe brown hair with two long ear-like hair locks that stick up on both sides of her head.
She was wearing a pair of round, metal-rimmed red eyeglasses, and a had a device resembling a tablet between her hands.
She was wearing a maroon sweater and a long pair of black jeans.
After realizing it was her turn to introduce herself, she taped a few letters on the tablet and…
“Kokoro!” a blue panel emanated from the tablet like a hologram, showing whatever she wrote.
“Oh yeah, Kokoro doesn’t talk much she told us, so don’t even bother, I tried haha…” Officer nervously joked.
“And her?” the white-haired girl didn’t even give him a single glance.
“Oh, she didn’t tell us her name either, so yeah…” Officer shrugged.
She was sitting against the wall, wearing an elegant long black dress with a semi-long skirt that reached her tights.
These were all the people present here.
[7 participants remain!]
Akira, the guy who killed two people, probably was still alive, and he couldn’t see the sect leader dying so fast after being so calm all this time, meaning that the person that had died was probably… Lolia.
“What are you doing here?” he asked the group.
“Just taking a break as we’ve been searching for that key for a very long time!” Yuri shouted again in response.
“Hm~” Stark finally felt comfortable taking a step forward as he wanted to open the next floor already.
But the moment he did that, the clone followed closely after him.
And so when the clone showed itself to the others, its powerful and overwhelming aura could be sensed by all the people in the hall: they saw it as clear killing intent.
~FWISH, BOOOM~
All of them activated their auras, even the white-haired woman, and although she didn’t move from her spot, she finally looked in Stark’s direction, which could be seen as her acknowledging the threat.
‘…’ the clone’s smile grew wider as it saw the participants activate their auras and summon their weapons the moment they saw it.
‘What the hell is happening…’ Stark sighed, would he really have to fight these people because his clone was just… twisted?
