Chapter 245: Stage 2

The rest of the ride home was silent and Adam was reviewing all the events that led up until that point, while Jannet was arguing with herself about whether it was worth it to hang onto morals that seemed to be worthless and a chain in the cruel world that didn't show mercy to anybody.

Adam parked the motorcycle and led his aunt who seemed quite shaken by everything that had happened and sat her down in the living room of their apartment.

"Are you just going to leave them there?" asked his aunt as she took a sip of the water that Adam handed to her.

"Yes, if they die of thirst or hunger, then they got what they deserved. If they were found, released or arrested, then I am sure that they will get what they deserve somehow" answered Adam who was confused by why his aunt was so curious about it.

"Aunt, do you want to relax for the next few days. I think you have experienced a change today and although it is good to adapt and develop, you should still stick to who you are" advised Adam, who didn't want to shackle his aunt, but also didn't want to allow her to do certain things.

As the one that revealed cultivation to her, and as her son, it was his responsibility to deal with the effects of him telling and showing her some of what cultivation was like.

"Okay son, I am going to sleep. I am too tired and today has been a long day" said his aunt as she walked off to her room.

It was a bit too early to be sleeping and they also hadn't eaten dinner, but Adam let her do as she pleased as he ordered himself a large meal.

Adam checked in with Elizabeth and Chase and they had already cleaned everything up and Elizabeth had already begun liquidising all her assets and disbanding the Silver Moon Auction House.

Hearing how quickly she had begun acting on his orders, Adam was pleased and instructed her to keep the contact with the strongest and most useful out of her subordinates and to tell them that they would be recruited to her new faction soon.

Adam knew that they would be relatively useless and he would be able to kill them all even if they were armed with automated weapons, but he needed manpower and wanted to grow his faction as quickly as he could.

He hadn't thought of a name, a crest or badge to identify as someone from his faction, but with an aim and drive, he was on track to forming a powerful faction.

Adam after eating his fill and relaxing with Ava for a while within his mind, decided that it was fine to enter his dungeon. Everything was fine with Elizabeth and Chase, while it seemed as though his aunt was sleeping, so he felt that it was safe to do so.

Chase would stay with Elizabeth and since they had become comrades on the same level as they were both direct subordinates of Adam, they cooperated with each other.

He didn't use his spiritual sense to directly see what she was doing, but with his physical senses alone, he was sure that she wasn't moving and was most likely sleeping.

Even if one was an ordinary human that wasn't a cultivator, if one were to use their spiritual sense to observe somebody, the individual would be able to sense it and would feel as though they were being watched.

It was their own spiritual sense, that everyone had, and although it was much weaker, was still able to sense that another was watching their body.

The spiritual sense could be thought of as a sixth sense and since Adam didn't want his aunt to think that he was watching her, didn't use it on her and decided to enter the dungeon.

[Ava, take me into the dungeon] instructed Adam.

{Yes Adam, you will be transferred into the dungeon immediately} affirmed Ava as Adam felt his soul be sucked out of his body.

Appearing in the mountainous region, Adam was greeted with cold and powerful winds along with the air around him being scarce, however, he instantly adapted to the environment.

"Ava, did you also feel that something changed about my aunt?" asked Adam as he headed deeper into the mountainous region where he expected to find stage 2 of the dungeon floor.

{Yes, it seems as though she has snapped. She must be feeling so many things and being tricked and kidnapped by someone that she must have fallen for must have been her final straw. But I am sure that she will be alright and I am hoping that she understands your perspective} answered Ava.

"I hope so," said Adam who wasn't convinced and couldn't shake off the bad feeling that he had.

"I won't hunt for more than 16 hours today as I don't want to and also want to keep an eye on my aunt" decided Adam as he entered stage 2.

The beasts that Adam found on Stage 2 were very interesting beasts and after killing one, collected the beast type into his beastpedia using the collector skill after experiencing their Special Trait for himself.

It was Ice Wildcats and their special trait was known as Ice Claws. Once slashed by their claws, even if it was the smallest wound, the victim's speed would lower by a few stat points.

If Adam was slashed many times, without the Step Skip Skill, he would be ripped apart by the Ice Wildcat beasts that looked like large cats that were a light blue colour with icy jade claws.

Their size, speed and intelligence stat were all very useful for Adam and what amazed Adam the most was their Special Trait, so he collected the beast type without a second thought and it became the base beast for his Felidae Summon.

Withdrawing a spear from his inventory, which would be effective in combat against such fast beasts and would also allow him to keep his distance, Adam began to hunt the Ice Wildcat beasts with his full power.