In the outskirts of the city, the mountain stood the tallest among the trees. If it wasn't for human ritual purposes, no one actually came here at any time.
Max, along with the others, was cautiously led towards the mountain by the orcs behind them. All the way, Billy and his gang couldn't stop feeling sarcastic about the situation.
"Tell me, Mr. Maximus, say if your wife sees you captured, you gon' be like... I did it for you, honey, empress, my love... bwahaha," said Billy.
Regardless of whether it was funny or not, his gang would always laugh at it, while Max tried losing himself, but the orc's hold on his wrist was hurting.
And if he tried outsmarting them, there were chances his shoulder would be dislocated.
As if trying to say they were making one hell of a noise, the orcs shoved Billy inside the mountain cave.
Inside the cave, blue flames were etched on the wall, leading towards a straight, narrow path. As they continued, the orcs stopped and began growling in their language.
But XS could understand they were talking about Aiden, because now, Aiden was getting split away from the group.
"Aiden," she muttered, but couldn't do anything as the line continued.
They brought them to another cave hole, but walking towards this one, they could hear screams of monsters as if celebrating.
"Holy shit," Billy gasped.
The moment they walked through the hole, underneath them, they saw hundreds of giant red orcs, and ahead was obviously the boss with a goat mask, sitting comfortably on his throne.
As of now, Billy, who thought he could handle things, was now feeling frightened. Without saying anything, they were pushed down from the small cliff.
Kweeuk'
But it was still hard enough to make the lady groan, and the rest squeezed their faces after eating dirt. Overall, looking at them, the orcs were jumping with excitement.
"They're gonna kill us," Max muttered.
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Meanwhile...
The orc led Aiden into a prison cell, with someone in it, standing and gazing at the red sky. From her posture, Aiden already knew it was Belle.
"Why are you doing this to yourself?" Belle muttered. The orc was no longer with them.
"Doing what?" asked Aiden. Belle turned around with a worried expression.
"Coming outside to fight your own creation, your own apocalypse—it doesn't make sense."
"Then when the true Ragnarok comes, how do you expect me to maneuver?"
Aiden got her. She couldn't defend her words after Aiden had said that, but still, she kept dragging on about his safety.
"But since you're the creator of the tutorial, if you die, the tutorial ends and you're finished."
"Either way it happens, the savior is still out there... Wait, how did you make the orc not attack you and bring me here?"
"I'm half demoness."
"Yeaaa, I forgot you're a witch," said Aiden, as if teasing her. She squeezed her baby face and replied,
"I'm not a witch, Aiden," said Belle childishly, and Aiden reacted by smiling with his teeth exposed and eyes closed.
And he didn't expect Belle would dive into him, hugging him very tight. "Promise me you'll be careful," she muttered.
The mask with a cracked left eye appeared on Aiden's palm. With a smile, he put it on, and his companion formed from his shadow.
Through the mask, Aiden's voice sounded like a cold killer, detached from emotions and fear. Aiden smirked behind it and was about to leave.
"Aiden," Belle called him. Then she helped him rip off his black sleeve. Revealing only his muscular body, her fingers crawled on it as she whispered, "Be quick."
With that, she turned into a bat and flew out through the window. "System, change my class to assassin."
-{Ding: Class Altered}
-{Class: Assassin Lv Max}
-[System: All stats of this class have been fully maxed out and weaponry has been fully accessed}
-[Enjoy the rest run}
And that was the talent Aiden created for himself: the ability to change from different classes, using them at their peakest of levels.
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Back at the throne room, Billy and the rest were made to kneel in front of Grook, the masked boss growling as if sensing something among them.
On top of his head, they could see he was a level 60 boss, while most of them hadn't even gotten past 15. In other words, this monster could crush them.
This discovery was already causing the fat one among Billy's friends to shamelessly cry with a running nose.
"Fools, stand up and face me if you dare."
Having heard the boss talk, their eyes widened to know they could understand the boss monster. And he was referring to Billy.
While the rest were still kneeling, Billy stood up, and the chain cuffs around his wrists came off, landing between his legs.
He scoffed while massaging his wrist. From mid-air, his golden spear appeared in his palm. Billy took a step, another step, then he started running towards the boss.
"Hehehe... I'm fucking rip you apart. Come on, Falcon, boost me," Billy muttered.
The other of his friends gave a nod, a purple light covering his palm was also encasing Billy's form and weapon, making Billy surge with enough power boost that made him grin.
-[System Notification: You have been boosted]
-[Boost: All stats and levels have temporarily reached maxed for 10 minutes}
Billy didn't even have time to stare at the screen. He just knew he was all maxed out, because this wasn't the first time he felt this much power—but he enjoyed the feeling every time.
"What are you doing?" asked Max. XS, on the other hand, could already see it, and the man couldn't even reply—he was more focused, eyes closed.
"There was no way he was at level 99 before. This guy boosted him," said XS, astonished by the theory. Her dad's eyes widened with a smile.
"At least we have the edge now."
Grook had his hands under his jaw, while Billy was charging towards him like a bull. As he reached the little stairwells—
Boom'
Billy leaped up with tremendous force that ripped the ground. In mid-air, he had his spear readied to be projected.
However—sway', a simple movement of Grook's palm downward—kaboom... kweuk', Billy coughed out blood the moment he felt a force slamming him so hard on the ground, slamming him hard enough that the ground cracked. As he coughed out blood, so did the booster.
The monsters surrounding them yelled in joy. Max couldn't believe his eyes.
And as if that wasn't enough, Grook raised his palm, causing the bloodied Billy to float for a second and—boom, kweuk.
Slammed hard against the ceiling, then at the corners of the wall. Each impact drew out blood mixed with tears from his face, and finally—Bam', he was slammed at the feet of Grook.
The purple aura around Billy instantly died, and his companion collapsed, while the others couldn't stop crying.
"What's... what's that?" Max stuttered, unable to steady his words. Something had entered the atmosphere, and it was pressing the weak ones down.
"You're unusually stronger than your level. Must be from your rituals."
The moment the figure jumped down the mini cliff, Grook had to stand up from his seat. As Max and XS turned around, it was now they felt fear.
"Is... is... isn't that the guy?"