"That was the last!"

Arlene get hype when they had done wiped out Echidna's monsters. 

The field that was previously filled with monsters, being cleared and transformed into an empty field as originally.

Skadi had joined the team and was standing at the very front.

Skadi and Arlene were still having their energy and spirit to continue on fighting. But for the youngster, they got beaten up. 

Lian and the other took the chance to take a breath and rest a moment. 

"Haha! Now where are your monster?!"

Having proven their strength in the presence of a Virtue, Arlene became arrogant.

"We are only two Diamond and five Platinum! But your monsters are nothing to us!"

Arlene became arrogant at the point of provoking Echidna. 

Yes, Echidna would not come herself to them since she is a Summoner. 

But one thing, Arlene and the other also could not provide an attack to Echidna. Because Echidna being protected by a really strong barrier. 

Arlene might can pierce Echidna's barrier. But that would make her have to stop the Black Sky Spine from stopping for a minute, and that minute could already put them in high danger.

But that only applies in the previous fight, where the monster could not stop for coming to them. At that time, they had eliminated all of Echidna's monsters. So Arlene could show the Black Sky Spine's true strength if she wanted.

"Don't you have any more monsters? That means now there is only you alone, right?"

"Um, Missy. I don't think you should provoke her like that?"

Recalling the previous incident, Bradley was afraid that Echidna would be angry because of Arlene provoking her.

"Actually."

"Aw, no! Please, no more monsters!"

Echidna finally open her mouth, and that was already frustate Bradley. 

"I still have two Demon King General in my hand."

"Demon King General?"

Demon King General is one rank lower than Demon King Commander. 

"No, more monster? Just two Demon King General? We are okay with that, right?"

No more monster. Just two Demon King General left. 

Lian and the other are still tired from the previous battle. 

"But, the battle is not ended yet."

Lian stands up once again. 

The other stand up too, to have their last fight of the day.

"Well, at least there is no more monster."

"I am ready with my greatest Arts."

"I-I will do my best to support you guys."

The team once more ready to fight the Black Hunter group. 

Echidna is proud of that.

"You are a solid team. Reminded me of when I was still active in participating in the conquest expedition."

"Then give up, old lady! We young people will continue on that mission!"

Arlene is starting to sound like the second Ars. Only she is a woman and still could control her words. 

"No, I can't. A mission based on worldly desire' will not give you anything good. Father is right. The Staff Saint is the one who got lost. If in the past that lost sheep had given up and let us rise to the surface, this battle would not have happened. We can return to our original world. We don't have to feel the misery any longer in this hell."

Echidna begins to talk about the past and philosophy. Lian and his party couldn't understand what she was talking about. For Arlene and Skadi, they know very well what Echidna mentioned is because they both saw firsthand the big incident happened. 

An incident involving a battle between Soul Saint versus Staff and Sword Saint. But the Soul Saint lost badly in that battle because the Sword Saint was way stronger.

"If it weren't for that short one, Soul Saint would have taken our rights as 'Rebels' and made our way to the surface!"

"Haha, that's funny of how you call Sword Saint as short one because that is true."

Sword Saint might be the shortest among the four. But he is the strongest among them.

"But that Lost Sheep now is dead. And that Short One is nowhere to be found. I've also got the strongest man's power in my hands. After I finish with you, we will definitely go to the surface, to claim our rights as 'the Summoned'."

Echidna was serious in her words.

In the ensuing pause, a rumble came from behind, as a huge battle was still taking place between the Greedy Young Master versus the Wrath Samurai.

The red explosions continued. The sound of the curving of the sword swinging through the wind rang out.

Large-scale battles that beat the Catastrophe scale in Land of Honor.

"They are both strong. But, how much energy do they really have?" asked Bradley.

The battle between the two emperors had been going on for three hours since they started. There was indeed one moment they took to breathe beforehand. But after that they didn't stop, and it didn't seem like they would stop until one of them lost or one of them won.

"All of you! Ready your weapon!"

Arlene's order came along with a black thunderous lightning striking and stopped at under Echidna. 

"Why is it took you so long to recover?" asked Echidna to Unheil. 

"I am sorry, My Lady. It seems I have underestimated the power of the Black Sky Spine."

Unheil had just regenerated his right chest, which previously had a hole in it. The hole caused by the Black Sky Spine's shot. 

"If she managed to shoot my Seed earlier, I might die."

"You will not die. Because you have two Seed on your body. Just like him."

After Unheil's arrival, something swam underground from the direction of the North Coast Palace. A demon head in the body of a snake with the size of a horse carriage.

"That! That is monste - !"

The demon-headed snake fired several dark mana balls towards the Hunter's side. 

Due to the dark mana ball moving at high speed and in all directions, Arlene and the others responded slowly and reflexively received the arrival of the several attacks.

Their positions were hit by several inevitable explosions.

Fortunately, Ars gave equip them with his sword barrier. So they survived the attack.

Skadi pointed her Silver Sky Staff at front, but she is inside the sword barrier, so the Silver Sky Staff power could not be used. 

"Luckily, Ars gave us this barrier."

"But, don't you think the barrier is getting thinner, Missy?"

Just like Xian Ling said, the barrier's color is fading away, and the mana is getting thinner. 

"Then we can't allow this barrier to be hit again!"

After Arlene's word, another creature came out from the North Coast Palace field. At that time, what came out was a creature that only had a body and hands. A huge creature about the size of an elephant.

That giant hand creature running with its two hands to Echidna's side. 

That wasn't over yet. One more creature came out of the ground. This time it was huge legs with a body that only had rotten flesh that seemed like it could explode at any moment.

Sara shivered violently, even only seeing the creature from a distance.

"What happened, Sara?" asked Xian Ling. 

"That monster contains so many Polluted Mana. If it explodes. A huge explosion that was more dangerous than High Cast Arts was about to occur."

That monster walks to them, slowly, but horribly dreadfully. 

"They are so ugly!"

Unheil protested at his colleague's ugly body. 

"They are my extraordinary Masterpieces. Created from a useless trash. Became a strong weapon."

"I know that, but, could you make them, like, more proper?"

A Demonic Serpent, Demonic Giant Hand, and Demonic Moving Nuclear. Together with Unheil, them four will be their next opponent.

"They are monster, right?! They are definitely monster, right?! She said there will be no more monster, right?! But all of them are monster! And why do they all always come from underground?! I can take it anymore!"

Their battle is still continuing. 

"I want to die!"

Continued from difficulty hard to very hard.

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"Say, what is your purpose?"

"What's yours then?!"

Ars swung the Blue Sky Sword vertically from top to bottom. Sending [Blue Clarity] to Yamato which h could hold with his katana.

Blue Clarity was run out, and it didn't even manage to inflict a small wound on Yamato.

"Fuuuuckk!"

Ars was run out of breath, and rage quit to rest. He once again took out a sofa and drink water and order Arlene to give Elisa drink too. 

"The ability to get everything you need with just from your hand. Is that your Blessing?"

"Blessing? I don't recall the figure that gave me this power call it a Blessing. Then, what about you? Is that f*cking tremendous strength is your Blessing?"

At that question, Yamato looking at his katana in dilemma. 

"I don't know if this power supposed to be called a Blessing or not. Because, if this is a Blessing, why can't I save the people I care about. Why did they all have to die on this journey and ask me to stay on moving forward?"

Yamato was lost in bitter memories for a moment. Then return to battle mode to continue his mission.

"But Soul Saint had made me realizes. That all of this was wrong and our destination is not supposed to be to the depth of Abyss."

"Then where are we supposed to go if not to the bottom of this hell?"

"To the Surface of Abyss."

"Buhahaha! Isn't that the opposite of this story title?!"

"In the past, the Abyss, the Original World of this place, gave us a message, that the end goal of all this is the beginning of the journey. All the Saint knows that message too. But only Soul Saint who took that message seriously. That is why, I will take my second chance to complete that mission!"

"In that case, you have to beat me first which you can't."