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But here, nothing happened. Kain could not sense any change in his surroundings.

It was as if... the moment Kain closed his eyes, the monster was like a sticker that was peeled off the world, then pasted back but in a different position. This was the principle of low-dimensional space displacement.

For the flat plane, this is just like the monster moving around without any reason. But for the higher plane, this is similar to the cut and paste principle mentioned above.

[Space Magic]?

Or perhaps, in the moment Kain closed his eyes. The monster's time had accelerated. Kain could sense the precise changes coming from the outside world, but those were only physical factors after all. His senses could not perceive the changes in time because his senses were still borrowing time to exist and perceive. Therefore, what he saw and could be used to deduce back to the source was only the final result of the monster's "acceleration in time" action.

[Time Magic]?

Previously, Kain had read some miscellaneous books about things like [Space Magic] and [Time Magic]. This deduction was more like an intuition, although Kain didn't understand why he would associate these two ultimate magics with a monster on the third floor of a small Dungeon.

"I should observe a little more."

Kain retreated, his eyes still fixed on the limping figure of the Skeleton. He kept retreating, and retreating, until he finally stepped out of the territory of the guardian monster's room.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

Backing up a bit further, until he was near the end of the hallway, Kain blinked once more.

Suddenly, the monster moved again and advanced. But this time, its head and two arms were already sticking into the beginning of the transitional corridor. That is, this thing had passed through the guardian monster's room, breaking a rule that guardian monsters should have followed.

This was not without reason, the pile of white bones that had not been cleaned up outside seemed to be proof that the rules of the Dungeon inside the third floor had been shaken, and it was also a rather serious permanent damage. So the fact that this monster could break the rules was not beyond Kain's expectations, especially with such a strange monster.

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Moreover, this travel distance…

Kain silently recalled in his mind, the distance this monster traveled in the second time Kain blinked had actually doubled.

So theoretically, in the third blink of an eye, the monster could be closing in on him as soon as he opened the stone door behind him.

Very risky.

Regardless of whether this thing had [Space Magic] or [Time Magic], it was adapting to its power. And Kain couldn't stop this.

However, Kain was not worried.

Lightning suddenly flew out around him.

[Thunder Summon].

Then, those messy lightning bolts seemed to be controlled in a systematic way, starting to swirl and condense into spheres.

[Thunder Bullet].

"No matter how advanced your magic is. Your weakness, your weak physical body, is always present before me. Do you really think I can't kill you?"

Earlier, the [Fire Bullet] attack had given Kain a visual glimpse of how tough this Skeleton was.

Very tough, but not indestructible.

After all, it showed signs of damage, not that it didn't.

But if it was damaged by one [Fire Bullet], how could it withstand seven attacks of an "incomplete mid-class magic skill"?

Although the strange appearance of this monster had aroused Kain's curiosity, above all, he took pleasure in knowledge, but was not foolish enough to die for it. That would be too stupid.

Seven lightning balls connected into a line, flying around in a spiral orbit and then flying straight towards the stationary monster.

The magic exploded, engulfing the entire Skeleton with a huge commotion, the light from the lightning flashed through, illuminating the dark corridor. For a moment, Kain seemed to see something flicker in the Skeleton's empty eye sockets before his magic destroyed them.

And then, Kain's eyes shifted.

The surrounding scenery disappeared, his vision seemed to have been deflected to another time and space.

The world within Kain's vision was an extremely strange place.

Here, the world seems to be only black and white, without any other shades.

The sky is black and the mountains are white.

This mountain is a mountain of bones, made from perhaps countless billions of bones, infinitely wide and infinitely high.

Compared to this mountain, the "mountain of bones" that Kain called on the third floor of the Dungeon was just like a small mound of dirt.

Here, when Kain looked around, he discovered countless creatures, or more precisely, Skeleton monsters, slowly walking on the mountain of bones.

They come in many different shapes, every kind of monstrous shape imaginable to the human mind. But they all have one thing in common, and that is... they move upwards.

Going up the mountain?

What is it on the mountain top that attracts these monsters?

And why... are they bowing their heads?

With questions arising in his mind, Kain raised his head.

The mountain of bones was indeed impossibly high, but Kain thought he might be able to glean some information.

However, as Kain did so and turned his gaze upwards, it seemed his consciousness had recognized something so terrifying that his consciousness forcibly collapsed, obscuring all images and memories.

And Kain was blown back to reality.

Not knowing when, sweat started pouring from his head.

Kain had never been so afraid, a fear so terrible that it penetrated his bones.

A fear more primal than anything else in existence. Vague, haunting, but also easy to recognize.

What did he see at the top of the mountain?

Kain couldn't remember, but even though his consciousness had completely erased it, there still seemed to be a certain sound echoing deep within his soul.

Did that sound like a call? A chant? No, it sounded like... a scream.

A scream, just one word, as if warning all those unfortunate enough to hear.

"Death."