Chapter 148: Taunting The S ranked
Mike's jaw tightened visibly, suppressed excitement and anxious hope bubbling hot inside his chest, his grip tightening hard around the handle of his firearm.
A quiet part of him clung to a desperate fragile possibility, his missing friend Bart, whose body had been hijacked by unknown dark forces months prior, might be trapped under demon control inside this core.
Yet cold rationality weighed down his optimism, a bitter realization settling in his bones, if Bart truly was possessed and held captive within the demon's domain, escaping the core chamber alive would become a near impossible task for their entire scouting party.
Hannah's group lingered at the branch's dead end, mere paces away from the core's pulsing corrupted glow, and paused to hash out their next course of action after picking up on Ren's warning of a hidden demonic presence within the core chamber.
