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Conquering the Underworld?

About half an hour later, the whole room went quiet.

The figure of Ark whose entire body was covered in blood came out from inside the prison cell. Seeing his appearance, everyone instantly kept quiet. No one dared to speak. It seemed to fear that the demon was angry and came to them.

“Do any of you want to escape?”

Hearing Ark's question, no one dared to retaliate at all. They were really scared because what happened before was still imprinting on their minds.

Seeing that, Ark shook his head. He was about to leave, but stopped in front of the children's prison cell. Seeing all of them shivering in the corner, the young man's hands clenched tightly. He took a deep breath, and became calmer a moment later.

Klang's!

Ark slashed the padlock and opened the door of the children's prison cell. By the time he entered, they all instantly held onto the ears while closing their eyes. They were clearly crying, but absolutely no one dared to make a sound.

Seeing such a scene, Ark immediately saw his own hands filled with blood.

‘Hero who saves people ... really doesn't fit me.’

Having a blank expression behind his mask, Ark shook his head. He no longer tried to entertain the children. Instead, the young man instead walked out of the prison cell while saying in a cold tone.

“Exit from this place. After ascending to the top, immediately go to the west, there the least amount of fighting occurs. Try to run as far as possible from the center of the Crux of Shadow headquarters if you do not want to die.

Life and death are in your own hands.”

Hearing his words, many children were confused. Seeing Ark's back growing farther away, one of the boys stood up and ventured out of the prison cell. After that, absolutely nothing happened.

One by one the children tried to get out. After nothing happened, they looked confused. They initially continued to stare at the stairs leading upwards in the distance but did not dare to try to escape.

The boy who was first standing up and seemed to be the leader of the children suddenly knelt towards Ark while shouting in a childish tone.

“Thank you for this rescue grace, Mr. Hades!”

Seeing the boy kneeling, the other children also followed him.

“Thank you, Mr. Hades!”

After which, they all stood up then fled with small steps.

Ark who was walking towards the prison cell of the girls was stunned for a moment. Just then, unbeknownst to anyone, the young man smiled gently behind his mask. He then directly cut the door of the girls' prison cell and said.

“You can also run. Remember to go west. You two hours. As a more mature person, if you do have responsibilities, try to help those kids.”

Hearing Ark's words, the girls looked at each other. They all knelt down and thanked him. Then, the girls immediately ran away following the children who left first.

Ark then cut the door of the last prison cell. In contrast to before, the elderly did not move from their place at all. Seeing such a scene, the young man could not help but ask.

“You don't want to go out?”

“As you say, Young man. Even if we go out, we'll die. Even if we can survive, life will be more difficult. Just delaying death for parents like us.”

One of the old men said in a sincere tone. Hearing that, Ark let out a long sigh. Then he asked them.

“Do you guys have last request?”

Seeing many of them shake their heads, Ark once again let out a long sigh. At that moment, the old man opened his mouth again.

“If you may, will you listen to this old man's selfish request, Young man?”

“If you don't mind. Can you give us a short and more comfortable death, young man? Although it did not mind to die, but being bitten by a monster and torn to death was still rather frightening. So ...

Can you end us quickly?”

Seeing the pleading gazes from those seniors, Ark was stunned. The young man then said.

“You guys are really selfish, Old Man.”

Saying that, Ark pulled out his sword. Looking towards the elderly who were staring at him with grateful and apologetic expressions, the young man let out a long sigh.

Moments later, Ark is released from his prison cell. He then sat on the ground right in front of a large wooden door.

“Truly sucks.”

Although Ark often killed people, killing the elderly like before still made him feel some burden of thought. That is why he said that they are too selfish because they like to give burden of mind to others.

Sitting in front of the large wooden door, the young man said.

“Let's wait one and a half hours to rest and recover energy.”

Glancing towards the rungs of stairs that led upwards in the distance, the young man once again muttered.

“Hopefully they can manage to escape.”

***

An hour and a half later.

Ark walked towards the prison cell of the rebels. There, there appeared to be more than twenty people still alive. They all lost two legs and two hands. Seeing his arrival, they all immediately shivered and howled sadly.

Ignoring the sad cries of all of them, Ark instantly used telekinesis to lift up their bodies all. The young man then took them all out of the prison cell of the rebels. After that, they went to the front of the giant wooden door.

Kicking the wooden door open, Ark was immediately greeted with a fairly long hallway. Without the slightest bit of hesitation, he immediately walked in. After walking for some time, the young man finally reached the end of the place.

Now Ark felt he was standing on a cliff. Underneath, there was a vast lake underground. The place was truly so vast that it was impossible for anyone to think there would be such a place beneath the city. The problem was that the black lake a few meters below was not a real lake.

If you look carefully, the object that looks like water is thousands, even tens of thousands of creatures that gather together. They had black bodies and were filled with strange liquids. There are some color lines that become less visible due to their evolutionary process. Those creatures have heads like hammerheads, and yes ...

What Ark meant as ‘danau’ was actually tens of thousands of hammerhead worms that kept fighting and trying to devour each other. The smallest ones are as thick as the feet of an adult male, but many of them are barrel-sized, or even larger.

Seeing the brain-tickling scene, Ark immediately threw more than twenty frightened people right into the middle of the black ‘lake’. Many hammerhead worms surrounded them. But at that time, the lake began to churn and several different creatures with hammerhead worms appeared to the surface.

Some of the creatures had one body, but had more than one head. Two of them have three heads, and the largest one has six. With a long neck, a dreadful head that has a mouth full of sharp teeth ...

The three creatures were slightly similar, but more repulsive compared to the Hydra in the legends.

Seeing twelve heads with necks over a meter in diameter scrambling over prey, cold sweat drenched Ark's forehead and back. Pulling out his two swords, the young man muttered.

“Maybe this is what people imagine about the River Styx in the underworld where the Hydra is in legend, isn't it? Really ...”

Ark opened and removed the mask and wiped the sweat off his forehead. Having a cold grin on his face, the young man again said.

“It feels like I really did travel to conquer the underworld.”

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