After the white clouds monsters assembled around Kyle.
He knew it was going to be a tough fight because there was no path leading outside.
The only thing he could see behind himself was white light.
On the other hand, with teary eyes, Bia had the urge to slap her past self.
-‘Why the fuck did I choose to follow Kyle.’
Still, in the end, she swallowed back the tears threatening to emerge from her eyes and started flying.
Kyle also unsheathed his sword. He knew the moment he took another step forward, all the monsters in his surroundings would immediately pounce at him.
After getting ready, he stepped forward with a serious expression, and just like he thought all the monsters lunged forward directly at him.
He slashed his sword at one of the nearby white monsters that was similar to a bear.
-SLASH!
To his surprise, the bear-type fog monster disappeared after his sword slashed its body into two.
Kyle narrowed his eyes looking at the few white particles disappearing into the air.
He didn’t feel any resistance from the monster, it was like his sword passed through butter. It was too easy to kill!
Kyle’s expression gradually relaxed a little. There were hundreds of monsters but if he tried, he could kill them all because their bodies weren’t as hard as an actual monster nor did they have any skill.
They were just pouncing at him with their huge bodies.
With another swing of his sword, Kyle slashed two more white monsters.
Meanwhile, Bia gazed at the flying monsters around her with seriousness.
She didn’t care and just started throwing fireballs at them.
Under her gaze, a single fireball killed two white fog monsters.
Kyle didn’t use any skill and just slashed his sword left and right continuously to kill the monsters around him.
Seeing the weak monsters dying one by one under his sword, he was baffled.
Killing them wasn’t difficult at all. It’s just they were too many.
Suddenly a thought flashed through Kyle’s mind, for some time he had been thinking of practicing the second move of his sword Art but because the second move required a lot of practice targets that’s why Kyle left it for the future.
But now seeing so many targets in front of him his sword rhythm suddenly changed.
Huge Mana surged out from his body directly entering the sword. A whitish-grey hue enveloped his sword completely before Kyle hurriedly took a step back.
As he grabbed his sword more tightly between his fingers a small black color vortex formed on the tip of his sword.
Kyle wasn’t expecting anything grand as it was the first time he was using the second move of ‘Void Shattering Strikes’.
The vortex on the tip of the sword was barely visible but when Kyle saw it, his eyes lit up and he swung his sword vertically on the monster pouching toward him. All this transpired within a few seconds.
With a cracking sound, a huge amount of mana poured out from his sword.
-BOOM!
As his sword struck the ground and the white fog monsters in front of him. Kyle was stunned when he saw the aftereffects of his attack.
A large few-meter gap formed between the wave of monsters coming at him, eliminating almost 100 monsters in one go.
With a serious expression, Kyle mumbled under his breath.
“That’s the effect of the Second strike: Eradicate.”
Compared to the first strike ‘eliminate’ which was only used to kill a single enemy the second strike was a large-range attack. It was used for killing multiple enemies at the same time.
“Still, it consumed too much of my mana.”
Kyle sighed while he slashed some more white monsters.
The single strike caused him almost 50 percent of his total mana which means he can only use it twice right now.
Bia who was fighting above his head was also surprised to see the effect of Kyle’s sword strike.
More than four hours later, both of them were finally able to kill all of the white fog monsters.
Kyle was lying on the white ground while breathing heavily. Bia was also sitting beside him, she used all of her mana during the battle.
Even though Kyle have no power left within his body, he made himself stand up after lying around for ten minutes.
With a smile, he looked at the white book hovering at the end of the room.
He approached the book with slow steps, right now there wasn’t a single white fog monster around him.
After arriving in front of the book. Kyle creased his fingers on top of the silver words written on the book cover.
“Ancient Arrays.”
He sighed. It wasn’t very useful because Kyle knew nothing about arrays.
Then suddenly the face of his ‘master’ flashed through Kyle’s eyes.
“I will ask the old man, he should probably know something about it.”
He tossed the book inside his storage ring.
The moment he placed the book inside his storage ring, the white room shook and the image in front of Kyle became distorted again before he and Bia both appeared in the same area from where they parted with the others.
Kyle looked back and the tunnel with the number 1 engraved on it was nowhere to be found.
He looked at the other five tunnels and tried to enter the one with the number 6 but the tunnel entrance was blocked by some invisible screen that’s why he wasn’t able to enter.
Kyle sighed and simply sat down at a side, waiting for the Nine and Tainin to come out from the tunnels.
He didn’t have to wait a lot as after twenty minutes, Tainin came out from the tunnel where number two was engraved.
Compared to Kyle whose clothes were intact Tainin’s clothes were tattered.
Kyle could even see some holes in various places.
After dusting his clothes, Kyle approached Tainin and asked him how did it go.
In answer, Tainin sighed and said that after entering the tunnel he appeared inside an empty white room filled with fog-type monsters and all of them pounced at him the moment he stepped forward.
After Tainin was done defeating the monsters he appeared outside.
While Kyle and Tainin were talking Nine also emerged from the middle tunnel. His condition was even worse than Tainin’s.
His whole upper shirt was torn, making him half-naked.
Seeing Nine condition, Bia immediately took back all of her past words where she was thinking of following him instead of Kyle.
On the other hand, Nine had tears in his eyes when he looked at Kyle and Tainin.
He also encountered an empty white room filled with fog monsters.
Nine was fine killing the fog monsters but then suddenly a big huge white monster appeared out of thin air. It was too strong and started beating Nine up like a ball.
After Nine was done telling his sad story, he looked at Kyle and Tainin and asked them if they found something.
Tainin immediately shook his head, indicating he didn’t find anything.
Meanwhile, a big smirk appeared on Kyle’s face as he looked at Nine tattered condition.
Nine saw his smirk and cursed before looking at Kyle with pleading eyes.
“What did you find?”
With a humble smile, Kyle showed both of them the white book for a second before throwing the book back inside his storage ring in front of their regretful eyes.
Nine wanted to cry. He placed his hand around Kyle’s neck and showed him a genuine smile.
“Next time, I am definitely going to follow you bro.”
Afterward, all of them immediately walked out of the tunnel.
There wasn’t anything left inside the tunnel so there was no point in staying there.
Also, even after trying a few times, they weren’t able to enter the other tunnels.
When they left the tunnel, the sun was already setting down the horizon, indicating the end of the day.
They spent the night on the mountain and the next day early morning Kyle decided to say farewell to Nine and Tainin.
He wanted to go toward the other golden cross marks.
Nine sighed but agreed.
After Kyle, Tainin also said he wanted to go in a different direction to search for more opportunities.
And all three of them went in different directions after entering the forest.