Chapter 101: A C-Rank World
"It’s time," I hummed, standing in front of a large blue swirling portal, simply glancing back at Tiamat, "Just stay here for half an hour. If I haven’t come back to request backup after that long, then you can leave."
"If you haven’t come back?" Tiamat raised an eyebrow at me, her expression looking a bit doubtful. "If you don’t come back, wouldn’t it make more sense for me to come through and help you? What if something unexpected happens?"
"What, are you worried that I’ll die in there? Or that I’ll be captured and unable to return?" I smirked lightly at her, teasing the Dragon King a bit, "Though, it’s nice to know you care so much about me. I didn’t know you could be this cute."
My words were confident, bordering on arrogant, but I had a reason to be. The C-Rank World would be much more difficult than the E-Rank one, but it shouldn’t actually give me that much trouble - at least in the beginning.
The ’C’ ranking the world had meant it would be a balanced difficulty for the previous me - the one who had defeated Sirzechs and conquered the Underworld. At this point, I was a lot stronger than I had been before, as getting literal hundreds of thousands of stat points from quests tended to do that, not to mention all the devil clan skills I got.
Essentially, besides the top-tier beings, who were the strongest in the entire C-Rank World, there shouldn’t be anyone who could pose a serious threat to me. Tiamat was just here because I didn’t know where the portal would initially appear, as there was always a chance, even a small one, that I would appear near one of those top-tier beings. If I needed to fight right away, having Tiamat on standby would be nice.
"I-I just don’t want the kingdom to suddenly be king-less! I’d have way more work to do!" Tiamat huffed at my words, blushing as she glanced away annoyedly, "I’ll stay for 15 minutes! No more!"
"Sure you will," I just grinned at her, knowing the woman would probably actually stick around for more than an hour to ensure I was safe, then turned back to the portal without another word.
I stepped forward, feeling the air around me shift as I went through the portal. I shivered a bit, and blinked rapidly as I did, still not entirely used to the feeling of traveling between universes. When I stepped through, for a second, as I glanced around, I felt like I hadn’t even moved.
Well, I obviously had, as instead of a massive open cavern, I was now in a small stone room, but my overall surroundings didn’t change much. I was still in a dimly lit cave, which did the incredible feat of having even worse lighting than the portal room being lit up solely by a few lanterns.
At least, I first thought I was in some type of cave, but quickly realized that wasn’t quite the case. While there was a smooth stone wall behind me, as well as to my right, my left, and there even was a stone roof above my head and a stone floor below my feet, not the entire room was stone.