Primordial Soul's Rebirth

As the raiders from the Crimson Lotus kept walking deeper into the gate the temperature kept getting higher, though it was not much of a problem to them as they were all A-rank or higher.

But what attracted their attention was that the dry cracks on the ground were now getting wider and some of those cracks had red lava flowing inside them.

Looking at the situation, it was easy to tell that they were soon going to find a volcano in this territory, and just like they had thought, after some time they found it.

It was a large volcano that reached close to 1000 meters in height as for its width, they couldn't tell. But that volcano was visible to them, even though they were quite far from it.

The volcano had the same dry cracks over it as the ground below them and there was lava leaking out of some cracks.

There was smoke coming out from the top of the volcano, but even though it looked like the volcano was about to erupt, they could somehow tell that it had been like that for a long time.

There were dark clouds thundering above the volcano, crackling with lightning. They could see thunder crashing on the top of the volcano from time to time.

Just looking at the large volcano, they could tell that if this was the boss's territory, then that volcano was the boss's layer, and they were sure of it.

They kept moving toward the volcano and although there were still no beasts in sight, they could feel the tension in the air rising.

It might be their imagination, but the raiders felt that their moves were being watched.

If they asked Alex about it, then he would've told them – 'Yeah, there's a beast flying above us, keeping an eye on us'.

As they moved forward, they were getting closer to the volcano, which meant that they were getting under the dark clouds as well. The beast that Alex was observing, or the beast that was keeping an eye on them, was flying inside those clouds crackling with thunder.

The area was rocky, and they couldn't see more than 5 meters ahead of them without their view being blocked by one of those rocks, so they didn't know what was ahead of them or what were they walking into.

But they could feel the air getting more tense, it was like they could cut the tension in the air with a knife.

They didn't know the reason for that but they grew more apprehensive as it was not a good sign.

After a while, they finally heard some noises when they were around a kilometer or so away from the volcano. They could hear some distant noises such as low huffs, growls, screeches, and hisses.

"We are being surrounded….." Alex suddenly spoke and the raiders quickly formed a circular formation with their attacks ready.

They knew that the situation had just turned into the worst they could hope for.

Alex had given them two guesses and one of them was that the boss was territorial, but if they were being surrounded then that was out of option, which leaves only one option...

They trembled a bit as they thought about the possibility of facing each and every beast of an entire territory at the same time.

They didn't know the exact number of beasts there would be in a territory, but they knew that they would be larger than the herd they had to fight against. The same heard that took them around 20 minutes to clear.

Being in an area where they could not see what was coming didn't help either....

"Is there an open area close to us, an area where we can look at our surroundings and not see rocks everywhere?" Alice asked Alex with the most serious face she could make.

She didn't want to fight in a place where some kind of beast could just jump out of the rock next to you and kill you. She would be fine, she also knew that Alex, Ann, and Noctura would be fine as well, but she didn't want to risk her subordinates' lives.

"Yes, and if we make a run for it, we can reach there in 2 seconds," Alex spoke as he pointed to the direction they needed to run.

The direction was actually straight ahead, the path they were following till now.

No one said anything or questioned, and everyone just ran the fastest they could, reaching the said spot in a second. But just as they came out of the rocky air and entered the 'field', they stood there petrified.

They couldn't move for many reasons such as shock, fear, denial, etc. but it was all justified as the scene in front of them could make the weak raiders die just from the pressure.

Just as they entered the field, they could see thousands of beasts staring at them. All of the beasts in front of them were at least A-ranked with many S-ranked beasts among them.

The pressure they could feel from the beasts was a bit too much for the raiders who were just A-ranked. They would be fine against one or two A-ranked beasts, they might survive against 3 as well, but what about a thousand of them?

Even Frank was standing there frozen in his place as he could sense more than 10 S-ranked beasts.

But the thing that made them feel the most fear was the 10-meter-long dragon-like beast that was standing behind the crowd. It was looking at them as if they were already dead, they could see arrogance in its eyes.

They would've been angry if it was a normal situation and if the one looking at them wasn't some beast that could finish them in a single strike.

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The beast was standing behind all of them as if it were a king and the beasts in front of it were its pawns.

All of them knew that they stood no chance, it was a fight against an army...

They knew why it was called a special gate, and they felt that even if they came in with a raiding team, the result would've been the same.

But then…..

"Finally, I can use some 'real' spells...." Alex spoke with a smile, making the raiders turn their heads comically toward Alex with a dumbfounded expression.

Their eyes, on the other hand, betrayed their expression as it was filled with hope.

They knew that the only people they could rely on right now were Alice and Alex, so when they heard Alex's words they hoped that he had the power to get out of this situation.

But when they saw the smile on Alex's face which was far from gentle, they somehow felt that Alex had no plan of getting out of here.

"I will stay back and protect them, you can go wild," Alice spoke as she pointed at the raiders.

The raiders just looked at Alice and Alex as if they were aliens.

'Are you for real?!?!' They wanted to shout at them, but for better or worse, they couldn't even move right now.

"All right, I'll be going ahea-" Alex couldn't complete his words as a rough voice interrupted him midway.

"Arrogant human, you are already dea-" A dark-brown scaled T-rex who was standing in front of the army of beasts spoke up, but it couldn't complete its words...

*Swish**Ssssssss*

An arrow made of red-black energy swished through the air, and directly pierced the T-rex's head, killing it in the process.

The T-rex didn't even get a chance to complete its words or understand what happened, but it didn't end there as the T-rex's body started to disintegrate into nothingness until there was no trace of the T-rex left....

"Don't interrupt me, beast..."

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