Chapter 104 The Offer

[You shall be ejected out of the dungeon in 3 minutes...]

"You three!" Klive called out, causing them to snap toward him in worry.

"Quickly take all the corpses. The dungeon will close soon, so make it quick!" He shouted, making them widen their eyes before they began to panic while running around and grabbing everything on their way. I could see slight spacial distortion when they touched the corpses of the bears, and my eyes widened a second after I watched the bears turn into particles before entering the ring on their fingers.

"A spacial ring?" I asked aloud by accident, unaware I had spoken loud enough to catch Klive's attention.

"Yes, do you not have one?" He asked with a raised eyes brow.

Hearing his question, I narrowed my eyes before making the most logical answer within my mind. A second later, I replied with-

"Well, sort of..." And a second later, I appeared in front of the mini-boss and the main boss before touching their forehead and absorbing them into my inventory. I still had only 4 spots in my inventory, but my spear and Reaper blades only took the 'Main weapon' and 'Secondary weapon' spots, therefore making it, so they didn't take any of my precious four inventory spots.

Klive raised a brow after seeing that I didn't have a spacial ring, but after a second glance, he shrugged and assumed I had another item that worked the same way as a spacial ring, unlike Blanca, who had assumed I had a spacial affinity the first time I met her.

A few minutes passed, and I stood there silently, pondering on 6 things simultaneously while making several calculations that depended on my knowledge of this world.

While a part of my mind was wondering if I had accidentally left the fireplace burning, another part was wondering how long it would take to move from the dungeon portal to my home. However, the other 4/6 of my brain was thinking about my recent encounter.

Recently, I had seen a lot of movement in the forest, something I could discern from all the beasts and wild animals running away from the center of the forest at their highest speed. I didn't think much of it at first, but now that I thought back on the encounters, one thing started to make sense.

'I'm at the end of the forest since it takes me about 2 to 3 days to reach the areas where the beasts reach the average strength of a liquidous rank and above. it would only make sense for a civilization to be created in or near a forest since they would have the ability to capitalize on the natural recoursed of the forest right next to them.'

After a minute of everyone trying to make small talk with me, they all gave up. All I would do was reply with one-word answers, and while they might have thought that I didn't like talking to them, in reality, I just found it a little hard to talk to them. These were people who talked to others of their age every day for the last few years of their lives, and to someone like me who hasn't spoken openly to anyone but Blanca in the last 8 months, I could not help but struggle.

The struggle became more apparent after I felt my hesitance when trying to speak to them. My voice would have become cold and uncaring if not laced with hatred. Speaking to them reminded me of the betrayal I had suffered and made my blood boil, but even if I wanted to lash out because of my anger, I chose not to for one simple reason.

No matter how much I suffered, I didn't want others who had done nothing wrong to suffer with me.

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[You shall be ejected in 30 seconds]

Looking down at the girl who was happily conversing with the other three boys, Klive included, I could not help but raise a brow. I couldn't understand the reason, but I felt like she was special and was, for some odd reason, hiding her true capabilities.

When she had seen Zyder almost die, all she did was look down and cover her eyes while sobbing endlessly, something that only made me more suspicious of the feeling I got from her.

It wasn't a feeling of threat, no... I knew that I could easily kill her if I wanted, and due to having lived around only beasts for the majority of the last year, my senses had been honed to the degree that not even Blanca would have the capability of rivaling.

Countless theories flowed in and out of my mind, but one of them stood out more than the rest.

'She has a hidden bloodline... Blanca-' My thoughts paused for a moment before I inhaled a deep breath and continued- 'would have been capable of making a rune formation to find out what the hidden bloodline was. She tried it on me once, but all she saw was the trace of the abomination bloodline that I had absorbed from the abomination she defeated.'

'The thing is, I will need to learn how to use tier 4 runes, and now that I don't have anyone to help me learn runic formations, I'm still struggling to try to learn tier 3 runes, let alone actually constructing a formation out of them.'

[You are being ejected]

As we all felt the spacial pull, the 4 beastkin held each other tightly for reasons I could not understand, but a few seconds later, my vision shifted into a colorful blur before I had once again appeared in front of a now fluctuating portal.

[You have left the Blizzard dungeon]

A few seconds later, I saw a group of four appear beside me, making me shift my faze towards them with a raised eyebrow.

*Ching*

The portal became unstable and finally shattered into a million pieces.

As they stood up, they looked at me with shocked yet grateful smiles that I could understand from a mile away.

"You seem to be well." Klive smiled.

"Yeah, why?" I asked, perplexed by their shocked expression.

"Well, it's not every day that you see someone capable of entering a spacial tunnel without feeling unwell. You must be quite used to the feeling." He laughed.

"Oh that?" I raised a brow and quickly lost interest.

"Hey, how about this." Klive waved at me to come closer, but instead of doing so, I looked at him with a side glance causing him to sigh in defeat.

"While the other three aren't well known, I am one of the best up-and-coming assassins in the city. I don't assassinate, but my abilities all point towards me being an agile warrior who could kill people with a single attack which makes me very sought after when conquering dungeons." He explained, but I could not help but feel like he was gloating.

"So, I have the permission to bring anyone into the city with me no matter what race they are from, and since you have saved our lives today, I'd like to ask you one question. Would you like to come with us and stay in our city with us for a few weeks?" He asked, causing the other two to open their mouths in shock.