Casimin already dealt with the poison in Euegne's arm.

After hours when Eugene saw that everyone regain their spirits, he decided to go back to the south and grab the spot near the seirgn forest.

Audience: Finally they move.

Timber still has fruits in his arms and kept eating while being held in the waist by Eugene. That action made Kaizer dissatisfied and couldn't help but deride Timber's action, saying that Timber would end up being fat if he continue eating. Once become fat, everyone would dislike him, and won't be able to get married.

This made Timber shocked and stare at the fruits in his arm with teary eyes.

What to do if he can't find a wife?

Looking at Timber's wrong expression, Eugene sighed and said, "Don't mind him, keep eating. If no one marries you, I'll do."

Kaizer: "!!!" Did he just make a wrong move?

Kaizer sulked in the corner while tailing behind Eugene. Casimin on the side could only massage his forehead and couldn't bear to look at his friend who is like a dog fighting with a cat for its owner's attention. What to do? He's sure that the grand duke is watching the game, if he sees his son like this, wouldn't he get angry?

Rasiel burst out laughing.

"Look at you hahaha---ack" Rasiel fell to the ground "Kaizer!"

Rasiel gritted his teeth while being helped by Zaoran and Reign.

Others are meters away because they don't want to get in the eyes of Kaizer. After all, they're not stupid like Raisel who would always mock the proud son of a grand duke. They could only watch in silence wondering when will their fight end. Nonetheless, it was actually also surprising seeing that the son of the grand duke is easy to get along with now compared to the past.

"ATTENTION MEZA EUSTO'S"

Everyone stops and raises their head.

The scoreboard was replaced and Professor Dennis appeared, grinning: "I just want to announce that an invisible dungeon gate opened without notice and some team accidentally enter the dungeon which causes half of the observers to leave teams to rescue the missing teams. However, we found out that the dungeon contains no danger and since it appeared everyone will need to enter that dungeon before the first round end."

"Huh?"

Audience: "!!!" A dungeon gate?

"This dungeon is a clue for the second-round game. Make sure to survive an illusion and get out without triggering mana exhaustion because those who will fail this test, despite having enough points will not pass for the second round."

Players: "!!!" Illusion?

Everyone looks at each other in confusion.

"At a time like this? A dungeon gate?"

Kaizer frown. Dungeon gates are rare, ever since the last war with demons, the only remaining dark existence in this world is the demonized beasts that keep respawning and a dungeon that is full of danger and past histories. Every dungeon appearing is dangerous because there is a high probability that some sealed demons in the dungeon are still existing. However, the dungeon that unexpectedly appeared now actually shows no danger. He refuses to believe it.

Sanciel: "Commander, the dungeon..."

Eugene waves his hand, "Don't t panic. If you have good mental power there are no worries. Unless you are mentally unstable then the probability of being caught in the illusion is eighty percent, the rest is up to your willpower to overcome your fear inside the dungeon."

Kaizer raises an eyebrow: "Do you have an idea what kind of dungeon is it?"

Eugene chuckled: "A mere test of courage."

Kaizer immediately understand his meaning and nodded his head, glancing at his team before saying: "The dungeon is not dangerous because there's no creature that can physically hurt you. But you can't lower your guard since this dungeon will target your mentality that can cause mana exhaustion which is basically a life-threatening condition."

"Does that mean we will face our greatest fear inside that dungeon?"

Eugene: "Well, that is what I mean when I said it targets your mental power."

Everyone fell into silence.

Who doesn't have fear? No wonder no observers come to Eugene when he was poisoned because almost half of the observers go to the dungeon to save some students who fell into illusion and are suffering mentally.

Now, only teams two, three, five, and seven are remaining outside.

The rest accidentally entered the dungeon.

Casimin: "Eugene are you on the way to find the gate?"

Eugene shook his head: "I'll have something to do so I would enter the dungeon tomorrow."

Kaizer: "Then we'll do it too."

Eugene eyed Kaizer and look at him [Kaizer] as if looking at someone crazy. Still, he didn't say anything because Casimin and Raisel also agreed. They don't want to be trapped in illusion this early because it will affect their strength and probably won't be able to hunt beasts after getting out of the dungeon. They rather collect enough points first to secure their rank before entering the gate.

Theoran: "Commander the card..."

Eugene: "Keep it. I don't want to hold something."

Theoran suddenly feels complicated. The card he's holding was given to them because when the card is being issued, their leader is still not present. He forgot to give it to Eugene earlier so he wanted to give it back now but their leader actually entrusts the team card to him? What if he lost this card? No! This card when swiped contains the information of their team within the games so it can't be lost or they'll be disqualified.

What to do, such an important thing in his hand.

Sanciel patted Theoran and said: "Good luck, don't lose it."

Theoran: "..." Why does he feel like Sanciel is having it easy despite being the vice-commander?

Rasiel also patted Theoran and show him the card between his finger proudly, saying "Don't look so devastated, look at me holding this card knowing I'll lose this anytime." clicking his tongue, he show a thumbs up and wink, "Don't give up, we can do this for our good for nothing commander---- ack."

Both Eugene and Kaizer glare at Rasiel after throwing the apple at the person's head.

Timber who saw that the two apples disappeared look confused.

Strange, it's in my arms but after eating my grapes it disappeared?

Eugene covers Timber's eyes and whispers, "I'm sorry, I'll get you new ones later."

Kaizer gritted his teeth upon seeing that kind of scene.

In Casimin's eyes, Kaizer is like a concubine, biting his handkerchief while watching the favored madam of the house get pampered, full of jealousy.

Really, he doesn't know what to do.

Rasiel: "Kaizer, you are too much! You do nothing but hurt me!"

Eugene paused and frowned, looking back at Rasiel, raising his eyebrow, saying "Deserve."

Rasiel froze and look at Eugene unbelievably and shouted: "What kind of concubine is this? Daring to fight favor with me! I don't accept! Why a mere Marquis son dares to disrespect me! A son of a Duke!"

Everyone: "..." What kind of theatre again is this? A palace fights.

Kaizer pulls his sword and points it at Rasiel in anger: "What Duke house! I can destroy it if you dare to scold my wife!"

Eugene: "..."

Everyone: "!!!" Can you please stop?!

Timber opens his mouth in surprise, "Wife? Whose wife?! Kaizer you are so shameless! I'm obviously the legal husband! You dare covet someone from me!"

Audience: "..." Here they go again.

Eugene massage his forehead and saw that Casimin is just like him.

Just how are these kids so lively?

Timber/Kaizer/Rasiel: I'm not a kid, thank you.

Eugene ignores the two and drags Timber forward. Seeing Eugene walking away, everyone decided to join team four and leave the two persons who is having a catfight. Just, can anyone tell them why the infamous son of the Marquis is so popular that the son of the grand duke would act and look like that?

Thinking of the grand duke who is so ruthless, everyone shivers.

Forget it. They still love their life.

Rasiel can do it but they dare not.

Everyone finally reaches the south after one hour and a half but when Eugene proposed to leave with his team, Kaizer refuses to let go and followed him upon walking.

"What are you--"

"ROAR!"

A defeating roar of a beast resounds in the entire forest and everyone covers their ears while looking straight at the top of high rockery perplexed. Everyone step back when they saw a level 10 white lion with blue eyes, looking so majestic. It looks so beautiful yet dangerous as the strong beasts seem to see them as prey.

What the hell?

They can handle level 7 below beast but above that is beyond their capability.

Only...

Turning their head, Eugene saw that everyone is looking at Kaizer.

He knew, because the level 10 demonized beast is strong, so strong that Eugene in the past got heavily injured. He can deal with it now but's afraid to leave Timber's side. What to do if Timber got hunted? With the beast's loud roar, it's calling a same race companion and is threatening other beasts' race since it's their prey.

Eugene sigh. What a bad luck.

A14: "Gosh why is a high-level demonized beast in the south?!"

A16: "It's over! B-But the son of a grand duke is there, they could be saved."

A20: "Are you stupid? That beast let out a loud roar, it means the same beast will appear and attack them!"

A14: "My god! What bad luck is this?!"

Reign and others have their heart racing fast: "W-Why would a high-level demon beast doing here in the s-south?!"

Casimin and Rasiel frown.

Eugene: "A dungeon gate appeared, it's probably located in the south near east. Where the dungeon exists, many high-level demonized beasts will get attracted to it because the dungeon is the home of other demon beasts. In short, they see us as a threat and to remove the threat they intend to kill us and offer our body so a new gate can be opened."

"O-Offer body for a gate? This is the first time I heard that."

"Because only the demon beast can do that."

Eugene: "They wanted to go back to their nests but it's dangerous to let outside demon beast come inside the dungeon. I'm afraid the demons will get resurrected if that happens."

Casimin's expression turn gloomy: "Dungeoun and demons are connected, If the demon beast outside enters the dungeon then they will either get stronger or be sucked out by the existing demons that were sealed in the dungeon."

"D-Demons still exist?"

Rasiel snorts: "How naive, it is said in history that the dungeon is sealed and the demons disappeared on the land but it doesn't mention that the demons are wiped out. They are probably sealed together inside the dungeon and couldn't go out. So, only by getting the blessing of the saint can the empire be saved from the darkness."

Eugene held his chin in contemplation.

He never saw demons in his past life, only demonized beasts. After his death and also probably the death of Eullian who is the saint, he doubted if the demons got away from their restrains.

Now, he's curious.

What are the events after his death?

"ROAR!"

"Focus!" Eugene pulls out his sword and carries Timber, jumping away when the white lion throws a black ball [dark energy]. Kaizer glance at the two and purses his lips, hating to see how Eugene thinks of Timber first rather than himself [Eugene] when it comes to danger.

From level seven to higher beast's ability is to use dark magic.

This is why they're hard to deal with without magicians besides knights.

Thankfully, there is Casimin to create a barrier that could protect them from the white lion's attack. So, seeing the sphere-shaped barrier, Eugene flew over and put Timber inside, while saying: "Stay here and don't step out. I'll go and help them."

Timber nodded: "B-Be safe."

"Good."

Holding Timber's cheek, Eugene leaned forward and kiss Tmber's forehead.

Kaizer who is watching Eugene's every move clench his fist and swing his sword hard in anger, staring in Eugene's direction with red eyes, as if any minute, he will go and teleport to separate the two.

"Kaizer control your powers! Are you trying to destroy this forest?!"

Casimin bit his lips.

He knew the root of Kaizer's anger because he also saw it but so what? There's no time to think of other things or else their teams will be in danger.

Rasiel rushed forward when he saw how the white lion was damaged by Kaizer's attack and see this as the opportunity to set another attack to weaken the opponent before its companion arrive. However, he calculated it wrong because the moment he run forward, a lion appeared, jumping at him, and ended up being bitten in his hands.

"Ughh!"

Rasiel uses his left hand to push the head of the lion in pain.

Casimin: "Rasiel!"

Kaizer averted his gaze and teleported near Rasiel, raising his leg and kicking the lion that flew and hit the rock five meters away with a strong impact as Kaizer vented his anger.

Everyone's jaw dropped.

Audience: "..." So strong.

╰┈➤ ❝ [The author has something to say.] ❞

➊ Copyright 2022
➋ The writing is horrible. The logic is chaotic. Perfectionists should be careful.
➌ [Highlighted] Basically the paranoid shou villain hurting the female protagonist in the name of love and gets retaliated by the male protagonist and main villain, ended up transmigrating to another dimension in realization of his wrongdoing and decided to be a good person to pay back his past life sins. However, he was killed and travel back to his past only to wish for redemption.
➍ This story is self-abuse (basically the protagonist drowning in his past and can't get over it).
➎ 1v1 HE, a mix of sweetness and bitterness.

[Little Note]

Let's be friends, come follow me [IG:ckhimira]