After completing his morning training for the day Ray decided he was going to venture to the library for some content browsing when he ran into Claire and Tia studying through books intensely.

Ray walked over to the pair, and they looked up at him.

“Hey Ray. What brings you here today.”, Claire says jovially.

“I had nothing to do today so I decided to browse some of the books, since I was done with morning training and have nothing left to do. What about you?”.

“Well, I’m helping Tia learn Demilang, which she’s picking up quite well whilst also trying to read up more on demons. Did you know that during the ages of demons, it was stated that anywhere the Demon lord lingered for long, bits of hell was left. It's just a legend though so I have no idea.”.

“Hmmmm. Guess that could be useful for trying to follow his movements.”.

“If that was the case, then the human capital should look like hell accordioning to this.”, Ray thought to himself.

“Did the capital look any different when you were there 5 years ago? Like bits of hell had begun to grow.”, Ray asked aloud.

“No, so if this thing is right, then that means thankfully the demon we’re facing currently is no Demon lord.”.

“Y-yeah thankfully.”, Ray said. He was acting calm, but deep down his mind was in a frenzy. If that was indeed all true, that means that the demon that had taken over the capital wasn’t the demon lord. The being that brought him here, which means that there’s more than one demon out there... this world very well could be infested with demons as we speak. What the hell was going on in this world.

“How are you holding up Tia?”, Ray asked tentatively. Although he had saved her, he was sure she still held a grudge against him, after all he had aided Ken who had killed the young master of the household, she served.

“I’m fine thanks to you and miss Claire, thanks to your aid I have finally broken out of that awful hypnosis... it was like torture. I was in a cage of my own mind, unable to move or control my own body. For so many years... all there was nothingness.”, she said, beginning to shake.

Claire put her hand on her shoulder to help calm her down which seemed to work.

“Don’t worry. We're gonna do everything in our power to save this world from the terror of this demon. Mark my words.”, Claire said in a motivating tone.

“However, there's still the capability of there being more of them. If what you said about the capital not resembling hell. That means the demon isn’t the demon lord. Which means it is still out there.”, Ray said.

“How do you know that there's a demon lord...”, Claire asked, slight panic in her voice.

“How else do you think a demon got here.”, Ray said simply.

There was a long silence before Claire spoke up.

“Let's just hope and pray that such a calamity has not returned to this world.”, Claire said simply.

“By the way Tia, I’d like to apologise about our first encounter. You were just doing your job and you lost a lot of men.”.

“It's ok, we were only there because we were ordered, we didn’t really care for the duke or the young master, they’re arrogant, selfish, sexist and creeps. As for my men, If I had a nugget for every time one of them made a comment about my body, or my looks, well I'd have a coin. To me it was honestly good riddance and now I'm in a much better spot. So, thank you.”, she said sincerely.

“Y-your welcome I guess.”, Ray said.

“Girls really must have it rough. Especially in a world more reminiscent to Tudor England, though I’ll give it to this world. The housing seems a lot more modern than it was back then.”, Ray thinks to himself.

“Oh yeah, Ray, do you mind having an extra when we start your sword training? Tia has a lot of potential and I believe she could be ALOT of help in the future.”, Claire asks.

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“Of course, the more the merrier.”, Ray responds.

“Perfect. Well, you have training in the morning so how about evening sessions? Does that work for you?”.

“Perfect.”, Ray says

“I’m gonna Die.”, Ray thinks to himself.

Just then a butler came into the Library.

“Sir Ray, a young boy arrived here not long ago with a message for you. Apparently, Mr Alex has found a strange dungeon in the jungle and is requesting that you meet him, he is located to the east and says he will be waiting for you near there.”, the butler relays.

“You guys have been cooped up in here for a while. Do you want to have an adventure?”, Ray asks the girls.

After telling Lilly and getting her on board and informing Mary, Luke, Arthur, Anna and Regi of this and being given permission for Claire and Tia to leave the capital from the back entrance and for the group to be their elite investigation unit. The group suit up into their gear.

Ray puts on his new adventure's clothes, which are a copy of Luke's clothing just with a red shoulder cover instead. Lilly also follows suit as she wears a green dress that flows at the bottom, a custom-made breast plate, arm guards and boots made from that incredibly tough metal That Ray had been breaking. It seems they had been benefiting from his training. Tia had also been given a basic suit of armour she could wear for protection.

Once the group were ready, they bid their farewells and exited out the back of the castle, over the back wall, it was easy for them to leap over and in the direction of where Alex was stated to be waiting for them.

As they walked and talked, they informed each other of their currently levels, Ray hadn’t managed to level up much recently and was only level 139, Claire was still level 350, at her level it took a lot to level up, Lilly was level 88 and Tia was level 103.

“I wonder what level Alex is now.”, Ray thought to himself, he had been out there training for a while now, he was probably close to his next evolution. Ray really needed catchup and begin levelling up again.

When they arrive at the west side of the jungle, they could see a figure standing in the shadows. It raised its hand and waved and then a familiar voice called out to them telling them to hurry.

As they walked over to Alex he greeted Ray with a giant hug.

“Long time no see, how have you been.”, Alex asks.

“I-I’m good, it's good to see you again, seems you’ve gotten stronger.”, Ray says, he could feel it, there was a stronger presence around Ken.

Ken let go of him.

“I could say the same to you. Although your level hasn’t gone up, I can feel a raging beast within you. Dangerous.”, Alex says smiling.

“Yeah, I’ve been learning a few new things, but don’t worry, can’t let one of my rivals get too far ahead now can I.”.

After greeting Lilly and Claire and introducing himself to Tia, Alex explains the situation to the group.

“So, obviously right now the demons are a big problem and one of the meaning reasons we’re all training is to defeat them, right?”.

The group nod in agreement.

“Well, this dungeon I found... it gives me an extremely bad vibe... If i had to describe it. It would be like... like hell had sprouted into this world or something. It's a newly formed dungeon. But not like one I’ve ever seen.”.

At these words, Ray and Claire look at each other in shock. Both thinking the same thing. Both remembering the fact that Claire had told him.

As they walked a little further the group began to feel chills down their spine, there was something sinister in the air. And then they saw it, it was definitely the entrance to a dungeon, but it definitely was not something of this world. The entrance was in the shape of a skull, the mouth being the entrance, the rock, if that's what it was, that formed the entrance was bright red. And on each side of the head, were dark black branches, that grew out. Like the horns of a demon.

“This... is straight out of hell.”, Ray says, a mixture of fear and excitement in his voice.