Mikey wakes up to the sound of Lucy shouting at him to wake up. There are hundreds of monster bodies lying all around the ravine. Lucy must have killed them.

"My head hurts." Mikey says. His clothes are kind of torn apart and his wounds haven't fully healed yet.

"What the hell happened?!" Lucy asks him.

"Andrew was undercover, just like Ragnar said, there was more to him than just being an average guy. He's the fifth highest ranked person right now." Mikey answers and gets up. "He tried to kill me..." Mikey brushes off the dust on his torn clothes.

"Anyways, how did you find me?" Mikey asks as he is brushing off the dust.

"With my attribute, obviously. Then I summoned a dragon and flew down the ravine, saw you lying on the ground, surrounded by countless monsters." Lucy replies, her clothes are completely drenched.

"But now that you have woken up, come, we need to hurry before more monsters spawn."

(Few minutes later)

"I sure didn't expect someone to start hunting you down this fast." Zoro says.

"Yeah, me neither." Lucy looks at Mikey, Mikey realizes that it's about time he told them.

"Guys, I have a confession to make. I am being hunted down by the 2nd strongest player aswell, not just Andrew." Mikey says. "It all started in the hot springs..."

Mikey goes on to explain everything, one thing he leaves out is how the third highest ranked player saved him, as he is not sure himself if that wasn't just some hallucination.

"Seriously?" Zoro asks.

"Why didn't you tell us?!" Christina says angrily.

"I wasn't really worried about it. But the bounties have started now, this means that I can easily die against someone if they set up their attack correctly. And so can all of you, watch out. Including you two." Mikey looks at Ragnar and Christina.

"We don't even have bounties, so I don't think it will be any problem." Ragnar says carefree.

"I know, well, I am definitely not worried about you Ragnar, your attribute will keep you safe." Mikey replies.

"Well, they hopefully won't come after us too..." Christina says somewhat worried.

(Half an hour later, after everyone passed the hotzone)

"You think we are going to run into that second highest ranked person?" Lucy asks Mikey.

"Very likely, I wonder how long will it ta-"

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The second highest ranked player appears right in front of Mikey. She touches him, and chants:

"The Shadow Sanctum."

The second strongest player, who's name is unknown, has already unlocked her domain, and used it on Mikey right here and now.

Now then, to explain domains a little bit further. This is also something that Ronnie (the ghost king) mentioned to Mikey.

Domains are a completely separate space from the real world. They exist in another dimension. Once someone enters the Domain, no one else can enter the domain until the user is killed, releases the domain, or someone breaks the domain from inside. Domain is an extension of one's soul, and attributes.

The woman's domain is a single target domain. This allows her to take only one other person into the domain with herself. She chose Mikey in this case.

The surrounding area changes completely. Mikey seems to be in a maze of sort. The walls of the labyrinth are black... pitch black. And so is everything in this domain, except the sky, which is red.

What now? Mikey is standing in the middle of the labyrinth, he starts walking around it, searching for the woman, when suddenly, something passes by him at an incredible rate, and a cut appears on his hand. The wound stings badly.

The same thing happens FIVE TIMES, in the following two seconds. More and more cuts appear on Mikey's body throughout the next ten seconds. Those were some of the longest seconds in his life.

[You have activated an ability of the "Durable Fighter"]

Mikey keeps getting cut, but now he can actually move forward, the attacks aren't affecting him as much as before at all.

[You have activated an ability of the "Persistent Fighter"]

Mikey's wounds start healing a little bit.

Eventually, the attacks stop, Mikey makes his way through the labyrinth and finds himself infront of the woman. She throws a knife at Mikey and dissapears. She reappears behind him and tries to stab him.

[You have activated an ability of the "Adaptive Fighter"]

Mikey turns around and blocks her attack. The woman touches Mikey and dissapears again. Mikey starts getting cut by the invisible force again.

I have to get this over with, I will lose if this keeps up. Mikey thinks calmly while not thinking about the painful cuts. He's trying to spot the woman who turned invisible.

Eventually, Mikey finds a distortion in the air. He is convinced that this must be the woman.

He uses his dusk step and teleports behind her, he swings at the distorted air and the woman reappears with a dagger in her hand, she tries to block Mikey's attack, but is unable to do so, because of their physical strenght difference.

She sidesteps and Mikey manages to only slightly cut her. The woman jumps back and creates distance between them.

"Why did you attack me?" Mikey asks. "Is it because of the bounty? No, that can't be right can it? You threatened me before this event started." He adds.

The woman doesn't answer. Her cold blue eyes are piercing through Mikey.

"If you don't answer, I'll just have to make you talk." Mikey says and summons five pirates around him.

After fighting with the ghost king and Arthur, his pirate skill has evolved. This granted the summoned pirates not only swords, but also flintknock pistols.

Two of the pirates shoot their flintknocks at the woman. She just simply dissapears and the bullets miss her.

Mikey is searching for a distortion in the air again, when suddenly, he starts sinking into the ground, quite literally.

The ground below him turns into something like a quicksand and Mikey can't get out. The pirates aren't affected for some reason, so they start slowly pulling Mikey out.

"Alright, I know what to do now." Mikey says with large confidence in his eyes as he recalls something that the Ghost King told him.

"Every domain has its strenghts and weaknesses, analyzing a domain and its strenghts will also grant you a small insight on its weaknesses. The weaknesses of a domain have usually something to do with its strenght."

This is a domain that starts targeting Mikey whenever he isn't moving around, and it also seems to affect only one person at a time. Just like how the quicksand affected only him and not his pirates.

With this in mind, he tries summoning ten more pirates but fails, he is probably still recovering from his fight.

Mikey manages to summon five pirates and orders everyone to run around and wreck havoc. Mikey himself starts jumping from one wall to another, and runs through the entire labyrinth.

This domain has to do with assasination. Assasination can be acomplished only when the person either isn't expecting it, or when he isn't moving around... because it is obviously hard to assasinate someone who just keeps running around like a rabbit. It is also harder to assasinate multiple targets at once, even more so, if they're all in a different place!

Which is exactly why, I can shatter her domain!

This is Mikey's thought process. As he keeps running around, the labyrinth starts slowly shattering, but he needs to hurry, because eight of his pirates have already been killed by the woman.