Chapter 57. Task Completed

57 57. Task Completed

As Orion strengthened his resolve, his eyes darted towards the hand mark etched on the wall.

Then, without any hesitation, he moved and placed his hand on the mark.

Nothing seemed to happen for a moment before his figure began to glow with blue light particles.

Seeing that, a visible frown appeared on Isis's face.

"You know you will die, and yet you released the boss monster," she sighed.

Hearing what she said, Orion turned to her.

"There are some things I just can't run away from," he said to her. "Either way, thanks for the warning. I'll see what I can do."

As he finished speaking, the blue particles of light floating around him coalesced around him, forming a beam of blue light that tore through the wooden ceiling and shot into the sky.

With that, Orion's soul form disappeared from this place.

Staring at the blue light that started to fade away, Isis thought to herself.

'He has finally appeared. I have waited long enough.'

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Outside the temple, within the enormous red cylindrical force field, Orion's lifeless body, which had lain on the ground for days, suddenly sat up.

Looking around, he found himself back within the cylindrical force field.

'My soul has returned to my body.'

He thought as he observed that everyone else also started to stand up.

'It looks like the task was completed when I put my hand on the marker.'

Standing up, he observed everyone and noticed that not a single one of them died inside the temple.

At that moment, he also noticed something else: he saw that the cylindrical force field started to disintegrate into red particles and disappear into thin air.

And they once again got to see the sun and the blue sky... as well as the temple standing in the distance.

However, as Orion looked at the temple, he caught sight of the two statues, one of a man and another of a woman, stabbing each other.

Before he had entered the temple, he had no idea why they had taken such drastic measures to kill each other, but now he understood everything.

"Trash like you is the reason why some parties heading into the dungeon never come back," he said, his eyes narrowing at the captain of the pirates. "If people like you don't exist, then the casualties over clearing the dungeon should have been all time low."

The captain of the pirates was immediately triggered by Runo's words.

"What did you say, kid?" He yelled at him. "Say that again."

Runo smiled at him and was about to continue when Orion interfered between them.

"Both of you are correct, okay?" He said this as he looked at the two of them. "We will go to the boss monster, but we won't be attacking blindly. We will first see what type of monster it is before discussing its weaknesses and our plan, and then we will go and kill it. Understand?"

The captain of the pirates nodded. Although he felt that there wasn't a need to be so cautious over a bronze-rank dungeon boss, he just couldn't deny Orion.

He had witnessed the battle between the third guardian and Orion firsthand and came to understand that he stood no chance against him. Therefore, he just nodded at him without arguing over it.

As for Runo, he also didn't say anything and just nodded like the captain of pirates.

Seeing them nodding, Orion pondered for a moment. He thought about whether they should go kill the boss or not. If he hadn't heard Isis's warning, he probably wouldn't have hesitated over it, but now that he knew his life would be in danger, he didn't know what the right thing to do was.

'But we have to kill the boss anyway. So, let's just go.'

In the end, he decided to go and see the boss monster, thinking they would have to go there anyway.

But first, he had to see his friends. He didn't know how they were doing on this hellish island.

Thinking of them, Orion took out his sword and engulfed it in flames.

Afterward, he let the burning sword fly in the air like a rocket. It left a trail of red as it zoomed to the sky and returned to him a moment later.

He then looked at the sky as if waiting for something, but as time passed, nothing seemed to happen at all.

'Why aren't they responding?'

Previously, when they had planned to join and follow Liira and Dion, he had a talk with Ryfin about what could go wrong.

Therefore, he had come up with a plan to let Ryfin and Famir escape while he would remain with them since they had to leave this place, and only Runo's team seemed to know about that.

It was also during that time that he asked Ryfin to wait for his signal, and if they saw his signal, they would also send a signal with Famir's lightning bolt. That way, they would know each other's location. But now it appeared something had gone wrong with them.

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