Preview: But deep down, he also knew that he was just comforting himself. He knew he was slowly turning into a demon. And it was only his human side confronting his current self, not willing to let go of his past attachments as a human.

Darkness. Thick and heavy darkness filled the entire space as Sunirae felt her cells dance in joy. She could feel that the once hard to control Mana became easier to manipulate and refine here. With the thick mana concentration in the air, she could even absorb some directly and refine them to augment herself.

She was joyful at this news and momentarily forgot about her teammates. Sounds of chewing echoed from behind but it did not disturb her at all as she tried experimenting and absorbing the thick dark mana in the air.

“Mmm. DELISH!” The mana in this Level was so thick that it had a special and unique taste. It reminded her of delicacies she had tasted before but she couldn’t associate it with any dishes she had.

The taste and aroma of mana was simply different. It was no longer in the same category as food and seemed to be more of a combination of food and energy, becoming an edible energy.

Thick smell of blood pervaded in the air and attracted 3 Shadow Demons from the distance.

“What’s here?”

“Seems like someone died recently.”

“I sense a large number of lifeforces. Their strength is low and doesn’t seem to be much.”

Whispers exchanged information and communicated in the darkness as they felt the lifeforce from the new batch of guests. They felt like they had hit the jackpot today and could possibly eat a feast here and take off.

The two of them were about to advance and reach the middle stages of Level 3 Mid-Rank Demons while the leader among the three was at the middle stage. They were tempted and drooling at the perspective of hundreds of prey gathered together in one spot.

“I don’t think we can kill them all together. We should invite more.”

“I agree, I don’t want any of them to escape.”

“Let’s call the other teams hunting outside the Darkstone City.”

They communicated once again as they retreated from the place and rushed towards the city’s direction. Although the distance was huge, it was no problem for them as they had the ability to travel through the darkness and shadows.

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And their ability is specially maximized in a special plane like the Third Level of Hell where darkness enveloped the whole place.

Pendra felt hungry looking at the fellas devouring their kins greedily as it got off its master carefully. It knew that it couldn’t disturb its master at the moment as she was busy practicing with controlling the mana in the atmosphere.

He slowly slithered towards the untouched corpses as there were too many of them and started eating. Buzzing sounds rang out and startled the others as they watched the legs of one of the Lords, Pendra, turn into a blur. It spun clockwise in his body and made him move very quickly, then he dismembered the corpses into parts.

He ran around the corpses he had picked as his and quickly circled around them with his saw-like legs and cut them apart. He cut open their stomachs and blood gushed out. Intestines spilled on the floor as Pendra happily scuttled towards them. His mandibles opened wide and splat! The intestines and innards were crushed into pieces and delivered into his mouth for further processing.

Despite the small body he had, he actually moved swiftly and devoured large amounts of meat in a short period of time.

The others could only stare blankly as they realized that this usually lowkey Lord of theirs indeed has a reason why he was put on pedestal with the other two. Just the ability to cut through their defenses like nothing and chew on the hard muscles and bones was enough of a testament that its strength was top-tier.

The Magma Golems trembled in fear as they remembered the nightmare of being dominated by this little creature. They couldn’t forget the way it fought and how it sneaked up on them one by one. Now that it had possessed such a strange and strong offensive ability, their future enemies would definitely suffer miserably.

They only felt a small amount of comfort at the thought that they no longer needed to fight and confront him in the future and would instead stand on the same side.

The buzzing sound of the centipede’s chainsaw legs continued echoing but no one complained. They wouldn’t complain even if Pendra came and stole their food. They were only wishing that they don't offend the little thing as they were afraid of being cut and dismembered into pieces then eaten from the inside.

The sight of it cutting the belly horrified them greatly and they knew that although this centipede was small, it had the terrifying ability to cut through their defenses like butter and invade the insides of their bodies and kill them slowly.

Pendra was satisfied with the food he was eating. Despite no longer improving much from inferior flesh like these, he still loved the taste of meat. Plus, he had been hibernating for a long time and felt hungry even before arriving at the Third Level of Hell.

Although happy, it was also slightly dissatisfied with the environment of this floor. It was completely unlike the first floor with a rich biodiversity and geodiversity. It had forests, rocky mountains and many exciting places.

The Second Level didn’t have as many exciting places but they had a unique theme of volcanoes and flammable demons and objects. It couldn’t forget the scene of Pizon blowing up the surrounding 500 meters and melting them into magma.

The unique scenery and use of powers in the 2nd Level of Hell was far more interesting to the Sunflower. He loved the sight of flames releasing light and heat during battles but was afraid to participate.

It only joined in battles it was sure of winning. It especially loved the battle against Magma Golems as they posed quite a bit of challenge but he still slaughtered a lot. He had been wishing for the day they’d rebel and allow him to kill a bit more, but alas, that day was considered a common trauma every Rock Demons had. They don't even dare to form a thought of rebelling.

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“Huff. Huff. Brother, let’s take a rest! I’m tired and my mana reserves are running out. Let’s find a place to hide today and take shelter.” a feminine voice sounded along with panting as the owner was obviously tired.

“Just a little bit more, don’t stop now. We only need to run a bit further to lose their trails.” a slightly young male voice sounded and replied to the previous voice as his tone had an underlying sense of hurry and nervousness.

Two figures shuttled in the dark environment of the Third Level of Hell as they navigated through the pitch-black ocean. Not even their emerald-green eyes that possess extraordinary vision could see through the darkness. They could only burn their mana to light a small emerald-green flame to light their path.

Damn it! Why did we have to come here! The elders didn’t mention anything about this!