Chapter 197 Light At The End Of The Tunnel

Nathan became wary after seeing the bunch of demonic energy crystals lying on the ground.

Nathan has only seen a demon once in his current life, and that was Temer, a demon that Nathan doesn't have a clue of his true power.

He can only conclude that Temer has an overwhelming difference in strength compared to him.

'I will be in danger if someone like Temer is really around here!'

With that thought in mind, Nathan heightened his senses so that he can immediately notice if there's something wrong within his vicinity.

After doing that, Nathan turned his eyes back at the demonic energy crystals on the floor and smiled.

"All of these are precious resources, I should pack it all up and purify it so that it can be used."

All of the information that Nathan has about demonic energy crystals came from the data from the control room.

From the information he got, demonic energy crystals are filled with strong evil intent and whoever tries to absorb it, that isn't a demon, will be contaminated by it.

Anyone who becomes contaminated by the strong evil intent will desire destruction and slowly lose their sanity.

And so, absorbing demonic energy crystals is only possible if you're a demon.

Unless, you purify the demonic energy crystal and eliminate the evil intent in it.

Luckily, there's lots of ways of purifying items written on the database as well.

So that is just what Nathan plans to do.

With a small grin on his face, Nathan walked closer to the demonic energy crystals.

Without hesitation, Nathan bent down and started harvesting the demonic energy crystal that grew inside this room.

Since he doesn't have a mining pick, Nathan just used his sword that was stored inside the storage to harvest the energy crystals.

For some time, the sound of metal hitting 'metal' echoed inside the room.

But even though Nathan has been making quite some noise, weirdly enough, no one came towards him.

About 10 minutes later, Nathan came out of the room with a big smile on his face.

"I did not expect that I would get hundreds of demonic energy stones. I can use this for a lot of things in the future!"

Energy crystals have a lot of places where they can be used such as an energy source, tradable currency, fertilizer, etc.

As for how Nathan plans to use it, well, that's up to him.

After confirming that there's nothing else around here anymore, Nathan left the room and walked back into the forked path.

This time, he went straight to the other pathway without hesitation.

This path is noticeably longer than the previous one because after walking for more than 10 minutes, Nathan still did not see the end of it.

Nathan walked for quite some time and as he continues to move forward, the path becomes wider and wider to the point that the tunnel that allows 2 people walk side by side can now fit in an 18-wheeler truck.

Finally, after walking for a couple more minutes, Nathan saw light ahead and also felt a cool breeze of air hitting his face.

Nathan's eyes lit up and he hurriedly moved forward.

Gradually, the view ahead came into Nathan's sight.

"Woah…" he softly exclaimed as he stared at the scenery in front of him with surprise and amazement.

Lush trees swaying by the wind, peculiar birds flying through the sky, a purple colored sun in the sky and a huge castle that seems to be from the Middle-age stood far in a distant mountain.

Looking at all of this, Nathan can't help but feel that he seems to have entered into a whole new world.

When he snapped out of his fascination, Nathan started to look around him.

He found himself standing on a cliff and the tunnel that he just came from was like a gigantic cave that stood tall directly across the castle in the distance.

Nathan walks around and notices some weird creatures running here and there from time to time such as horned-rabbit, flaming wild boar, big ear squirrel and many more.

Since Nathan is still under his stealth skill, those creatures did not see him and just passed by like nothing.

After surveying the surroundings for about half an hour, Nathan finally made a conclusion.

"This place is an independent space just like my dimensional space!"

The reason why Nathan thinks that this place is an independent space is because when he was walking around, surveying his surroundings, he arrived at the end of this independent space.

A layer of blue translucent curtain acts as the wall at the end of this space.

It was an obvious sign that this is not a 'real world'.

This also explains why there is a good looking sky above even though he went through a tunnel underground.

Sighing, Nathan said, "Well, I'm not surprised that something like this exists since I also have it. But the fact that the entrance to this independent space is actually located behind an ice cream shop downtown is really…"

Nathan shook his head, not knowing what to think of all this.

Adding the demonic energy crystals that he got earlier, a few questions as well as guesses can't help but appear inside his head.

Walking back at the cliff, Nathan sat down at the edge of the cliff and felt the wind that blew away his smooth black hair.

He stared at the castle within his eyesight and muttered, "I don't even need to think to guess that the one behind all of this resides in that castle."

Nathan frowned and said, "There's a high chance that I will meet a demon when I set foot in that place. If it's someone powerful like Temer, I have to be prepared for anything that can happen."

Saying that, Nathan stood up and patted the dust that got on his clothes.

With determined eyes, Nathan looked at the castle,

"Fine, let's see what all of this is really about!"

After saying that, Nathan jumped down the cliff and rushed in the direction of the castle!