Chapter 32: Rift[2]
Four cloaked figures stood on a cliff, a little further away from the crimson rift in the sky in the middle of the valley of mountains.
Minutes had passed since the train was dragged inside the rift.
All four were staring at the Rift when the one on the far right spoke, "Leader, who are we targeting this time? We even had to use a Primal-Rank Monster to kill them; isn't that a bit excessive?".
Hearing those words, the other subordinates except the leader were curious; they were not told anything regarding the mission.
The cloaked figure, who was ahead of the three of them, laughed at his subordinate's question.
"We aren't after a target; we are here to test the new artifacts and, at the same time, have this primal rank monster get killed."
He extended his hand as a pulsing dark orb materialized in his palm, the catalyst for the crimson rift, and one that had opened a rift in the sky.
His subordinates gasped at their true objective; they thought the target would be a highly influential figure or a powerful ranker.
"Leader, isn't it a bit too much to use a primal rank monster as cannon fodder for an experiment and get killed as well?" The other two nodded at their colleague's words.
Their leader was silent for a moment before he answered them, "Wasteful, perhaps, but this monster has defied his own lord. He's called Moss the Ice-Armed Centipede."
"A year ago he was assigned to a very important mission; but he let his subordinates run amok in the eastern region of Starborne, he ignored his mission, got himself in trouble with his highness, and—-".