Ch4

With the mage letting out occasional ice spikes as his mana replenished and Jin limiting its movements by cutting its exposed tendons and ligaments, around 15 minutes later, she managed to land a fatal hit, letting the beast drop to the floor, dead.

With the comprehensive planning and experience they had, the team managed to finish the fight without any unexpected circumstances and were promptly healed by the healers. As everyone began catching their breaths, the entire cave began to rumble.

Everyone’s faces immediately paled.

“The gate’s closing! We need to get out of here!” Yelled one of the tankers as he ran with all his might.

Everyone else soon followed as even Damien had to continuously teleport to reach the gate. Being trapped in a dungeon usually meant death with no escape.

Once the gate closes, there is no connection left to Earth, so even if one manages to escape the dungeon, they’re trapped in a completely different world.

As Damien ran, he looked around for Elena and noticed her falling behind.

“Elena! What are you doing?” Damien yelled before abruptly realizing the situation.

The gate closed out of nowhere, and as the one who did most of the work to kill the 2nd class beast, she must’ve used most of her mana. Without being given time to rest, she was basically on the verge of fainting.

“Fuck!” Damien cursed as he ran back to grab her. He put his arm around Elena’s waist, which she subconsciously rejected before realizing it was him, then without pause began spamming his short-distance teleportation to flee.

As the gate came into sight, Damien felt his mana draining at a rapid rate, and his body began to break down. His blood churned and leaked through his pores, but he kept going.

He remembered his ominous feeling, and he remembered his resolve. And just as his internal organs were going to rupture, he made it out of the gate.

As he set Elena on the ground, he smiled. Although it felt a bit anti-climactic, he was glad he managed to get both of them out of the gate without issues.

And then, just as he was about to ask Elena, who had regained some vigor, how she was doing, he felt his body flying backward.

‘Huh? Backward? What’s going on?’ Damien thought as his mind failed to understand what caused such a bizarre situation. As reality sunk in, he began to panic.Aall 𝒏𝒆west ch𝒂pt𝒆rs on n.o./v𝒆l𝒃i/n/(.)c𝒐m

He knew that what was behind him was a gate that was on the verge of closing, but he had no means to save himself.

His mana was overdrawn, his body was at its limit, and his consciousness was already weak.

As he felt the mana current of the gate graze his back, the last thing he saw was Elena’s horrified expression and a certain bastard smiling at him and waving.

And then, everything went dark.

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