" What? Are you now gonna say that you suddenly tore the space or you became a god? I know I'm a bad person, but even I wouldn't go as far as that just to fool someone, you know there is a limit to eve- "

But he was interrupted by Jayden's gaze, he silently sat back and waited for him to continue: " Sorry, I got a bit emotional there, you can continue... "

With a nod, Jayden asks: " Do you have more wine? Something that isn't filled with poison? "

Displaying an embarrassed expression, Ardino lowered his head and from his backpack took out one more flask of wine, while speaking:

" This is the last one that I have, since I did something wrong, think of this as compensation from me, I wouldn't have done that if it wasn't for my parents and my younger sister since if I didn't go back they would all die because of demons and hunger- "

Jayden again stopped his banter by taking the flask away from Ardino, with a wave of his finger the flask flew towards him, Ardino was stunned but he didn't say anything more.

" Is that a spatial bag? Don't you have storage rings? " Jayden asked he opened the flask and took a small sip, it had been so long since he had drunk something good, he had actually forgotten to bring anything like this with him when he left the beginning kingdom.

The two red swords were still plunged into the skin of the 3rd zone demon, on either sides of Jayden.

" Uh... Don't you know that storage rings are quite expensive, it took a lot of money to just buy this small bag, but I will definitely be able to buy such a ring when I join the academy. " He answered with ambitious eyes.

" Hmm good for you, but look at this. " While speaking, he took out a couple dozen of storage rings that he had on himself, he had taken these when he was in Alice's world and after taking out their treasures he just kept them with himself, when Ardino saw them his eyes widened in shock, and he almost fell from his seat.

" S- So much, where did you even get them all? C- C- Can I have one too, please you can take anything you like from me too. " Ardino spoke, his eyes never moving away from all the rings.

Just then a very loud explosion sounded, and immediately a hole that was even bigger than the one created one year ago, appeared in the black smoke wall, and on the other side because of the explosion many of the demons were instantly killed.

From the previous battle, Jayden was able to collect more than two thousand cores that he had obtained from the demons, and since he was completely focused on his training previously he hadn't asked about their usage yet.

This time again, the divine beast have gathered the same kind of demons, there were mind demons, sucking demons, penguin like demons and the zebra demons, but their number this time was much greater than the previous time, it seemed that the divine beast have also been preparing for this clash.

" Heh, I shouldn't have expected more from a beast, no matter if it's divine or not, a beast is a beast after all, utterly stupid. " Jayden said shaking his head, his voice was loud and clear, the divine beast heard these words and it then produced a loud screeching sound as if it had understood each of his words.

" Because of your attack just now, the protective layer around that wall had completely destroyed so be careful, the divine beast would now be able to enter inside the Kingdom. " Goddess Damuda informed him.

Jayden nodded nonchalantly, it is what he wanted after all, he wanted to bring that beast inside the Kingdom and make it feel what actual pain is, after a second he replied:

" I know, don't worry it is just a puny beast, if even after preparing for two years I can't even defeat it then it would be better for me to just take a bowl of water and commit suicide in it. "

"..."

Goddess Damuda couldn't say anything further, everyone around him had already noticed the changes that had appeared in his behaviour and personality, and his look of contempt towards the beast made it clear that Jayden wasn't the least bit worried because of this beast.

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