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Chapter 56 - Warden

Aeolous, Drei, Nixxin, and Util stopped walking in the tunnel; they're eating their dinner. Aeolous opened a bag and grabbed a bottle; he twisted it to open and drank. After drinking, he wondered, "Why? Why do you guys have family problems?"

Nixxin looks at the three of them. Util looks away at the darkness. Aeolus stares at the floor. "You see, my family isn't that happy, as it shows, of course. Just like other families, we have our own problems; my dad was a retired hero."

Util looks back at Aeolous. Aeolous continues, "He retired because we were in danger. When we were kids, my father got blackmailed for killing us because another clan got outranked by him."

Drei took a bite of his chicken "Well, I don't have a family, only my girlfriend know about this, but we didn't see each other these days, I left my family since I was young, I live alone, because, I don't feel like I was in a family, my mother after she got married, she got raped by a man, not just a man it is a Paladin, a Apostle rank, it's sounds unreal, but it's true, Apostle John the blind, he doesn't fit the title of Apostle, although, they're just business names, and not actually their names, it is still disgusting to know that there's a sinner in a church, although when I enter it, I know I was a sinner too, but that sin is too much, my real name is Johan, it is base on my real father, John".

Util stands up. "Let's walk again; the tunnel is long; we won't reach morning if we stop for so long."

They continued to walk; they still followed the light in the wall. It took a turn to the right. Util smiled. While walking, Nixxin wondered, "Aeolous, did you know how I used magic earlier, although I don't know anything about it?"

Aeolus smiles widely. "Of course, man, it's because you're under an ascension. What you did earlier is just an ascension from level 0 to level 1; you don't know anything, so you let your brain pick up information. Although knowing you don't know anything about magic, you can ascend your magic. My magic level is currently level 1, but in the game I have so much blood; that's why in the game I can destroy skyscrapers and cityscapes."

Drei looks at Aeolous. "You're just lucky; I didn't use my magic that time."

Util continues to walk; when he stops and signs to us with his arm, we stop walking and look, confused.

Util is looking at something in front of him; he cannot understand anything. Aeolous follows up with Util. "What's wrong?"

Util looks at me. "Nixxin, come up in here and use your magic."

While Util's blood comes out of his body and floats, it seems to form goggles. After a second the goggles form, and Util wears them. Then Nixxin and Drei walk in front. Then Nixxin slices my hand with a rock. The three of them, Nixxin, Aeolous, and Drei, close their eyes as the blood lights. While Util looks at the top of them, he's terrified by what he has seen; there's a monster looking at them below, its eyes red. Util's not sure if it's a monster or Satan's Beast, because the monster looks like a cat with its whole head covered by thick fur, its mouth reaches up to its abdomen, it has 10 legs, its tail is covered by a thick layer of armor, and at its end there's a huge head of a gigantic cat. This cat was like two bodies fused together, forming two tails with heads side by side when the lights faded.

Util could not move an inch; his jaw clenched. Drei opened his eyes. "What did you see?"

Drei wondered about what had happened. "Man? Did you get blind?"

Aeolus laughs, "He didn't hear you, and you're asking if he got blinded."

Then Nixxin waved his hand in Util's eyes. Util stepped back and said silently, "There's... a beast, around a 6 or 7 tier individually ranked, in front of us."

Aeolous continues to walk. Nixxin looks at Aeolous, "Aeo—" but Drei covers Nixxin's mouth, and Utill puts out the fire.

Meanwhile, Aeolus knows it all: "Calm down, guys, because I'm free!"

He shouts to them as the monster beside him is looking directly at him, then they hear a monstrous loud sound, "Grrrr." Aeolus feels it in his front and back, but he steps back to his right. After he steps back, he feels air, sounding like a slash, in his head. Huh! I knew it; I'm so free. Aeolus smiles as he continues to walk. He tilts his head; air from a slash of the cat's paw almost hits him. Falling debris from the tunnel falls beside him, and he still continues to run. As he runs, he feels air; the air pushes him, making him faster. The air feels like a line, a line that he can jump over. As the tunnel becomes louder and louder as more debris falls, he sees a light, a moonlight, from the end of the tunnel. When he steps out into the light, he smiles and hides in a garden, but as the cat steps out, a huge hand picks up the cat. It meows like a cute cat, as if it were a rat that needs to be hunted in a sewer, and he looks up at a towering man in full armor with roses on it; it's playing with the cat.

Aeolous steps out and runs back to Util, Nixxin, and Drei. As he sees them in a corner, he is exhausted. Nixxin notices him. "Congrats! You're alive!"

Drei looks at him and asks, "What happened to the tiger? Util says it was a beast."

Aeolus calmed himself. "It wasn't a tiger—it's a cat."

Util looks at him confused. "What?"

Aeolous sat down. "It is a cat, yes, you're right; it was around a 6-7 tier, which means it could destroy cities, but there's more outside."

Nixxin got scared. "There are many cats outside?"

Aeolous looks down as his sweat drops on the ground. "There's a titan inside, as everyone knew; all titans are around tiers 8 to 9, the strongest of them being near 10."

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