'Is that supposed to be the way outside?'

Briefly after the dark gate appeared to my front, a green gate appeared behind my back, which meant that one of them was supposed to be the 'way of transport' out of this gate as a whole, also known as the key to the Lightning Capital's destruction…

Of course, that was only the case if I were to use it as an exit before exterminating the demons inside, otherwise, it will only act as my way out in case the special second floor had no corruption core, that was also only applicable if I had a way out of the second floor to this space to begin with…

In a way, the gate mechanism in this gate seemed very random instead of complex, which only made it had to predict any outcome easily, but it wasn't my trouble to worry about, it was a certain pseudo-dragon's!

"Hey Long…"

"Hey! Come out already! You have resting all the time inside my ring like it's some sort of a luxury car, are you sure you were supposed to be a reward last time?..."

[Alright...Alright, I will come out, can't you depend on yourself more…Sigh…]

"Hmm? Alright then, you are indeed right, I shouldn't spend my attribute points on you anyway, you can go away now, I want to think thoroughly on how to distribute these points…"

[Wait! I was just kidding of course you can rely on me for your trouble that's why I'm accompanying you to begin with, you are just too self reliant that I became lazy from having no one to help...Sigh…]

It seemed like Long's persona this time was a bit smarter and creative with its imagination, of course, but in the end taking the bait quite expectedly, it somehow became one of my relief times to interact with this mode-changing lizard, ahem, I mean dragon…

"I see, first help me check if this gate is really our way out of the gate completely or not."

[What about the po… I mean, of course, let me see…]

[Hmmmm… it's indeed your way out but also the demons' way out, I didn't stop you from entering this gate earlier because I believed you stand a chance at this with your strange classes, but I won't really stop you from leaving now, in fact I only care about your survivability and not the Lightning Capital's citizens…]

"No need to be so dramatic about it, I already decided I will head down to the next floor, I was just making sure if it's going to be useless in case I didn't use it right now."

[Of course not, this is not your normal generic gate, as the first one to enter this 'gate' going through the dark gate ahead of you will still leave you a way to come back to this current space with the ability to access the green gate, only that it would have some requirements… In short, it won't be as easy as if you left now.]

It seemed like I would still be given the choice to abandon everything and leave, which only confirmed the difficulty of surviving inside the demon-inhabited second floor...

"Alright then… now let's talk about your points…"

[Yes! Ahem… of course, what ability of mine do you exactly need?]

"You said that the whole second floor would be filled with demons, do you think your 'Illusion' ability can disguise to look have similar looks to them…?"

[Well… if it's just the looks that's easy, that would only require me 1 more point in 'Illusion' to make the details look more surreal and accurate, and 1 in another ability called 'Share' so I can share the ability with you, but the demons can easily differentiate between their own kin through aura and elemental confirmation, just one of them could easily blow away your cover…]

'I guess it turned out as expected…'

"Let me ask you then, hypothetically speaking, if I were to be a human who has just achieved forceful demonification and managed to survive the side effects would my aura being more human-like, wouldn't that be quite expected?"

[What? Why would you demonify yourself forcefully… Wait! You mean… Of course! That would actually work!]

"As for the elemental confirmation…"

[Of course! I'm not stupid, we have the both elemental arts left behind by that guy! I would only need one or two points in my 'Elemental Manipulation' ability to make a hazy and weak elemental halo similar to his arts, this is the best cover ever! You are indeed a genius user! ]