Chapter 109: Nightmare City
The blow directly impacted the bear’s neck, severing it almost completely. The bear whimpered, staggering back while trying to hold its head with its paws, but an ice spear pierced it, finally separating its head from its body. The bear fell with a heavy impact to the ground and began to turn into gray smoke.
Upon landing, William approached the corpse and began to absorb it again with his ring. The gray energy flooded into his body. After a moment, his entire body burned with power. Despite that, he fell back onto the ground as he recovered. His whole body screamed in pain. The last time he had used that ability, all his muscles had broken, and now, with this combination ability, he expected to suffer a much more violent reaction. But to his surprise, his body was still intact; he only felt some pain, nothing serious.
"We did excellent, Angel. We got lucky, but we did it."
"It was risky, but there was no other option. Fortunately, it was a slow beast, otherwise, it would have killed us. Compared to the other two, this is the strongest beast we’ve faced, too bad even its skin disappeared or else we could have made armor."
"It’s true, but I feel my body becoming more and more powerful. At this rate, things will change soon, and I’ll be able to finish off anyone."
"The bear increased your stats by 0.05. At this rate, it won’t be long until you reach the next level."
Hours later, the forest began to thin, and the blood-red sky of the Nightmare Realm appeared again.
Before them, at the foot of a gray mountain, a strange city loomed. But it wasn’t a city like those in the real world. It looked like an abandoned mine growing towards the sky with precarious structures made of black rock, twisted metal, and bones. From a distance, William and Angel could see dozens of creatures working.
There were minotaurs with their large muscles dragging giant rocks, stone golems, large armies of skeletons, four-legged creatures with human faces screaming incessantly. All of them were lifting materials towards a central tower that seemed made of all the world’s trash.