Chapter 15: Corrupted Rank
"I can feel her presence now. I'll meet you later, kid. No, seriously, if I ever meet you again, I'll kill you. That's what I thought. But it seemed you possessed a high affinity for us, beasts. Is the snake I sensed earlier I couldn't control yours? Alright, forget about it."
Kaiju didn't know when to reply as quickly as he could, now falling into puzzlement hearing the endless yapping of the Overlord beast. Out of nowhere, he felt like the telepathy he had with the Overlord beast vanished, but the feeling of intense gaze still lingered above him.
He had a slight idea it did not come from the Overlord beast, but rather, only his subordinate. Perhaps, one of his strongest aides.
Since the Overlord beast said it himself, his life would have to be spared... It depends on how the person the Overlord beast was talking about reacted to his presence.
'Seriously, who is she? He said she is one of my kind, so that means she is human. Are there humans living on the Hellish Trial? It's possible. They must have been stuck here since there was no specific time when the mission would end – the Tower said, the deadline only depended on the awakening of the vampire king, or some sort. If that's the case, then there is really a human here...
But...'
Kaiju's sweat trickled on his forehead.
'How can a participant in a trial become a Pseudo-Ranker? I heard that only once the Trial ended would the player become awakened since the Trial itself served as a trial for obtaining classes that would aid them in their awakening. Is it because this is the Hellish Trial? It would make sense, but not totally.
I mean, why are there even an Overlord beast in a Trial-
Nevermind, this is the Hellish Trial, after all. The difficulty there is, possible. It's difficult to fathom this place since the humans haven't explored a lot about this Trial.'
Kaiju felt a headache coming whenever he tried to grasp the Trial and the information about the person that even made the Overlord feared her. In the end, he had reached many assumptions but not a solid conclusion. Hence, for now, he continued to search for a way to steal fruits under the terrifying watchful eyes of the Overlord beast's strongest aide.