Chapter 197: Spawn - Kai vs the Girls of White Serpent Pirates!
1st floor,
Teleportation zone of newbie Contestants
Kai felt odd, as he stood there in the dry bleakness.
Once again, he was standing on the earth where he had begun his journey many months ago. In front of him, there were hundreds of caves; dark tunnels running down into the pit of the earth.
This was where she would come out from.
"It was her Soul-Blood drop," Kai told Meg, who was standing by his side. "I don't know who that flaming being was, but he had forcefully claimed half her soul, and along with it, half of my control over her. I can feel her. She is coming.
"And if she doesn't bend to my Will, then we will have to kill her. The curse has lost its meaning to me weeks ago already. Only Karma remains. And I think I can deal with my Karmic Cycle by myself too."
"It will be difficult, master," Meg replied. "Our Stats are restricted, and we can't use Mana, Spiritual Energy, and even the complete extent of our Abilities. Our Skills are locked, and though you can use your Glitch, it is nothing without the Abilities. We can use Items, but we don't have the strength to back them up. Our City Passes allowed us to come here unhindered, and our pretense of bringing the newbies to the City of Assignments might work as well. But if even two or three of the newbies grouped against us, then..."
Kai knew what would happen then. "They are here."
A gust of dry, hot air breezed over the open mouths of the tunnels, and newbie Contestants came out one after another.
Two, three, ten, forty...