-Vol 3: Enemies in The dark-

-The Bad luck of Three-Eyed Monkeys-

Kenshin wasn’t satisfied after causing mass destruction on the first floor. Even after burning everything to the ground, he searched the whole place like a police dog to find out if he had anything missed.

After a few minutes of intensive search, he found nothing. There was not a single monster left on the first floor. There wasn’t even a semblance of a garden left. Everything was charred black from his fire.

“Hpmh!” snorting in disdain, Kenshin stepped on the teleportation portal. He was ready to go to the second floor.

With a flash of purple light, he was teleported to the second floor.

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When he opened his eyes, he found himself standing on a sea beach, under a beach shade. There was a vast expanse of sky above him. Behind him was an uninhabited island. The shade was big enough to accommodate at least fifty people.

He heard about this island. It was named the Forgotten Island. In reality, the dungeon gates were, actually, space cracks that appeared out of nowhere. These space cracks lead to a different space altogether. Those space collectively were named dungeons.

When these space cracks first appeared, all the scientists went into overdrive, thinking to get some scientific breakthroughs. But even after so many years, there were no new inventions regarding this matter.

It was entirely beyond the current human understandings.

Kenshin looked towards the island while a crazed light flashed through his eyes. It was the habitat of the very monkeys who had tried kill him a weeks ago.

This island was actually a treasure trove of various unique plants and herbs. Some of those herbs were used for creating miracle medicines for some incurable diseases. The fruits from the trees of this island were used to create expensive wines, selling for thousands of golds in the market. These wines had an effect of increasing one’s magic capacity.

By luck, Kenshin had also tried that wine. It was from a wealthy hunter with whom he had worked once. He had shared his wine with him. It indeed had an effect of increasing one’s mana. But, to have a better effect, one has to drink it regularly.

But to the current Kenshin, it didn’t matter. His crazed mind only had one thought, destroy these damn monkeys. Kenshin decided to use the same tactics as the first floor, to burn down the whole damn place until all the monkeys were dead.

He didn’t even care of there were some hunters inside, he simply wanted to kill those monkeys and get over his trauma. The trauma gave birth to anger; that anger was so intense that it had clouded his mind.

Normally, Kenshin wouldn’t have taken decisions like this on a regular day.

Kenshin lifted both his hands above his head, gathering a large amount of fire, he molded it into the shape of dragons. Above him, four massive flaming dragons swirled around as if they had a mind of their own. Creating these four dragons had drained 60% of his total MP.

As the dragons swirled around him, the very air itself began to feel hot. Kenshin willed one of the dragons to enter the forest. The massive ten-meter long dragon swirled around him once before entering the forest.

After that, he similarly sent all the remaining dragons to do their job.

The dragons entered the forest one after another from different directions, burning everything to ashes. Kenshin had inserted enough mana into those dragons to last a while. He took a seat on the sands, watching the burning forest. The crazed gleam in his eyes had diminished a little.

[Ding* You have killed a Three-eyed Ape]

[You have gained 150 EXP]

[Ding* You have killed a Three-eyed Ape]

[You have gained 150 EXP]

[Ding* You have killed a Three-eyed Ape]

[You have gained 150 EXP]

…

The notification popped one after another as rapidly spreading fire killed many monkeys. This island was filled only with monkey species. Three-eyed Apes were the dominant species and most commonly found ones.

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While Kenshin was busy burning down everything in his path. At a certain place on the island; a very foul event was on the verge of happening.

Below a palm-like tree, a little girl’s tied using ropes. She had her mouth gagged while her ankles were also bound in ropes. She had her eyes widen at the scene unfolding in front of her. A group of men, age around 45 to 50, looking at her hungrily.

Tears were streaming down from her cheeks, as her big watery eyes were looking at these men in absolute fear.

“Oi, Oi young girl, why are you crying? We uncles will take very good care of you!”

“That’s right. You don’t have to fear us. We all will take very good care of you.”

“Haha!! The taste of a young girl!! Kuh!!! I can’t get enough of it!”

“I wonder if she will taste better than her!”

As the girl heard about these filthy beats’ talks, she discreetly looked at a badly mutilated corpse atop a bonfire. Several hours ago, that corpse used to be a beautiful young girl like her.

These beasts, first they defiled and humiliated her. Then, they killed her and mutilated her corpse beyond recognition. Now they placed her atop a fire, intending to eat her. The little girl was beyond horrified after seeing all this.

She and that girl used to be friends. They were not from Mito. They came to Mito to explore dungeons. These girls were, actually, students of a private hunter’s university under the Pegasus guild. The Pegasus guild was a very massive guild that had taken many cities in Japan under their rule.

She, her dead friend and a few more girls had come here to explore dungeons and gain experience. They all had entered the dungeon together. But, who would have thought, that they would separate from the group! Later while wandering around the island, they met these old men.

At first, they showed a very kind attitude and won the naïve girls’ trusts. Later, at night, they suddenly turned into these horrifying beasts that didn’t have a shred of humanity in them.

Looking at those hungry eyes, the girl cried in fright. She cried for herself, cried for her dead friend. She cried for her parents, whom she would no longer meet.

“Haha! That’s the face! That’s the face I wanted to see!!”

“Ahh! That despair filled face! It was making me hard!!”

“Hurry boss!! I can’t wait anymore. I am watching to taste her!”

“Shut up!! You fools, it will be me, who gets to taste her first!! Hahaha!!!”

The girl closed her eyes in fright as she waited for the approaching horror. Her mouth was stuffed to prevent her from committing suicide. She could only wait for her torturous death in the hands of these human-shaped beasts.

‘Someone! Someone, help me!!’ the girl prayed in her heart, for anyone to help her out of this situation.