Roth jumps into the steep hole that kept the two safe from the crashing wyvern. He helps Mina by lifting her up out onto the ledge and soon gave Katsumi a boost. He Then swiftly and elegantly floats up with his wind magic out of the crater.

"You know Roth just when I thought I have seen everything, you keep throwing fast one's way over my head you know that?"

"Yeah... and it's going to get a lot weirder, just watch."

He slowly walked to the thrashed and decimated camp site. It was a gruesome sight to see as bodies twisted and mangled were scattered across. Katsumi's eyes widen as slowly, out of the mangle corpses, a golden mist of light began to pour out and slowly seeped into Roth as he passed by them. The light followed as more and more rays of golden mists of light began to pour into Roth. Katsumi's eyes were fixated, never leaving Roth's sight. Mina giggled and jumped into Katsumi's field of view breaking her concentration.

"Isn't big brother the best there is? He always keeps surprising me too."

She giggles and runs towards Roth side as she playfully runs her fingers through the golden mist as it softly breaks like water. Katsumi stares for just a bit longer only for it to be broken by a soft chuckle and smile. Roth now stands in front of the dead wyvern as its chest is torn open and organs leaking out. The golden mists finally settled into his body making him feel more invigorating. He sticks out his hand and waits for the golden mist to come pouring out of the dead animal, but to no avail. This is the second time a wyvern has died by his hands and not once has the golden mist came out. He was starting to question if the reason for this was in that mountain top.

"What's wrong big brother?"

"I honestly have no idea. Back in Ezhine, the dead wyverns that I killed didn't emit the golden mist that came out. Now it's doing it again, and it has me stumped."

Katsumi finally reaches the two and chimes in, " What does that mean if no mist comes out? What does it even do anyways?"

"Well as far as I know it kind of fills my mana and makes me feel more rejuvenated."

Yet another lie being told because, leveling up to become even more powerful, would not make sense to them at all. All of a sudden, a low gruff moaning can be heard. The three all heard it and looked around to see where it was coming from. After a moment of searching, they spotted a mound of rubble made from wood, cloth, and buried underneath snow. Roth walks slowly towards the rubble as the crunch of the snowy powder can be heard underneath his boots. Lifting each piece one by one he sees one of the men badly hurt and bleeding profusely from his face. Roth appraises the man and sees his level is just above forty. His legs show a dark blackish red color indicating that they are crushed beyond repair. Near his abdomen showed a vibrant red color and the aurora of the red seems to be growing brighter each second, indicating massive internal bleeding.

It was the same man who was interrogating the person that was eaten by the wyvern. He looked at the three with great disgust in his facial expression. He tried to speak, but he could only muster a few words, "What... the fuck... have you done...?"

Roth kneels and looks directly into his eyes, emotionless and cold," I need information, and you're going to give it to me, and I can help with those injuries."

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"Fuck...YOU! You have... any idea... who we are kid? You'll regret doing this..."

"Yeaaaaah I really don't care. I'm already in a skirmish with the Fidelity so you're basically just throwing empty threats."

Roth stands up and places his foot onto his stomach resting his entire body weight. The man screams in agonizing pain.

"If you won't tell me then I'll just leave you out here in the cold. Tick tock, what's it going to be?"

"FUUUUUCK! Alright, alright! I'll talk, just get the fuck off of me!"

He steps off and let the man catches his breathe. He regains his composure and is ready to speak.

"What is the sanguineous fluid? What even is that stuff?"

"ARHHH, it's a drug we created, a limiter enhancer... It breaks the natural law of... natural human strength. We were supposed to get a full shipment worth of the vials... but that measly cocksucker merchant stole from us..."

"How the hell would you even know he stole from you. He was begging, pleading for his life and you toyed with him."

"The real world isn't sunshine and rainbows son... If you fail to deliver with us, you will pay."

"And where do you make this fluid huh? Where do you get it from?"

"I don't know! The higher ups know more I'm just a fucking... look out guard and interrogator... I don't know where this shit is made..."

Roth scoffs and leans down for his second question, "If you're guarding then what's in that mountain then? I doubt the fidelity just sent random thugs to guard and empty mountain top."

"I don't... know..."

"You really don't know much of anything do you?" As he steps on his abdomen again.

"ARGHHHH YOU FUCKER! I DON'T! ALL THEY SAID WAS TO GUARD THE AREA THAT'S IT!!!!"

Roth scoffs again but he lets go his footing off of him. The man murmurs to himself again of the amount of pain swelling inside him. He thinks to himself now wondering with even more questions.

"For heaven's sake kid... heal me already..." Roth takes a moment in silence and nods to himself agreeing to his request. Mina sees his nod and walks towards the man only to be stopped by Roth.

"I'll do it Mina don't worry."

"Oh, okay then big brother..." Mina was confused but followed his request. Roth aimed his palm at the man to heal but instead of Roth's light magic, a sharp, fast-moving icicle shot out and impaled the man directly into his forehead. The man's eyes were wide open of shock and the sounds of slight gasping can be heard until finally, the man stopped moving entirely. Mina clenches her teeth as she looked away at the unpleasant sight.

"For a moment Roth, I thought you were actually going to heal that monster."

"These guys don't deserve to be healed, not after we've just seen."

She agreed and spat at the corpse as she walked away. The three worked their way up to the peak and found their way into a large cavern opening with natural rock formations acting as steps. No surprised to them there were more men inside the caverns guarding whatever this thing that led Roth here. They pushed their way through fighting anyone who stood in their way. Mina dodging and weaving each attack and using small barriers to smack her opponents off their balance. Katsumi used the bow Roth had given her to pick off as many as they could before they could reach them. To Roth's surprise she was a very skilled martial artist. Roth could've easily used his magic against them but held it off not knowing how unstable this massive cavern was. After slicing and fight the guards off they finally manage to defeat the last men guarding this summit.

Mina bends down with her hands on her knees gasping for air as she is exhausted from all that relentless fighting. Katsumi was even trying to catch her breath as she was leaning against the moist cavern walls. Roth however wasn't feeling any fatigue at all. With all the people he has been fighting off kept him from getting exhausted with the golden mists. He even leveled up a few times. After walking down the pathways of the caverns, Roth felt extreme goosebumps and a chill went down his spine. The more he walked down the more queasy and uneasy he felt in his stomach. The other two were starting to get the same feeling as he was, and they were silent the whole way. Until finally they made it to two large dark iron gates. They were as tall as a giant office building. Rust streaks dripping from the very top of the gates. The two were in awe seeing the behemoth, but Roth just stared at the miasmic gates and the gates stared back.