Shuttling Between the Two Worlds

"The highest Ranked is.. C Rank."

"C Rank, I see. I'm able to handle it."

Red became a C- Rank after a month of cultivation. It didn't seem surprising for me, but it did for the others who had tried cultivating before.

"There's also a bunch of D Ranks, plus E Ranks. F Ranks are the majority, though."

Keith, another classmate of us who had a [Detection] trait, finished speaking.

"Overall, the largest battle that we'll ever face. Just before returning."

"The demons should've sensed thw approximate location of this place. Thankfully, they only sent those C Ranks, as if to play with us."

Since there are the possibility that S Rank demons might be here, Red is cautious.

"We only need to get pass through this and we'll be able to go back!"

Red said to every Order member inside the room.

We'll be able to get pass through this, though we might encounter some twists. I trust the protagonist.

What dawned on me during my past 11 years of training is that, I shouldn't be conscious of affecting Red's plan that much.

Sometimes, his plans might be worse than what I could do, so I decided.

Even though I'll still follow his plan, I'll intervene if necessary.

***

I'm back to the other world. Seeing the snowy sight that I'm now familiar with, I opened a prompt.

Since this might be the final battle there, it's not wrong to assume that something out of Red's league would pop up. There might be also a SSS Rank Demon that could pop up.

That's why..

[Comprehending <Sword of Destruction> at Initiate-Level Mastery costs 5M Exp. Continue?]

'Continue.'

Instantly, I gained a very huge amount of Understanding, far surpassing the ones that I've experienced.

In my radius, its as if an illusionary world exists. 

Starry skies and a swordsman. My teacher is executing this move in the projection. Countless Heaven's Force flooded in his sword, but it doesn't end with that.

I felt that he also added "something else" on his sword. The fifth level of Mental Aspects, the one that I do not have a clue on how it works.

He then slashed towards the star cluster. Instantly, everything turned black and white. It then can be seen that the star cluster is cut into 2, before generating a supernova explosion.

The scene ended there. The highest level of this technique can cut through star clusters. That level of power is something that I've nit even imagined.

As I couldn't move, I stood there in place for about 4 hours before opening my eyes.

"You've Comprehended it already?"

"Yes, master."

Shock appeared in his face.

"Even I back then estimated that you would need around 30 to 50 years just to comprehend that to Initiate-Level Mastery. That's also taking into account your Comprehension. And you've done it in 11 years."

"I've just lucked out, master. I entered an Enlightenment State just now.."

Enlightenment State, the Epiphany State of the Cultivators.

"Still, that doesn't downplay your achievements.."

Me and Master talked for a while. Since I Restrained myself less in our world, I'll even be more liberated here since I didn't even know the protagonist here.

If I truly make things hard for him, I'll just help him. This is also the result of my 11 years of deliberation.

****

"They're here."

The long awaited horde arrived. Numbering over 500, the strongest among them is a C+ Rank, just as Red had said.

During the past 30 days, most who had a control-type trait can finally launch projectiles just as a real mage would.

The Order members also has some spell templates that Red had given them, thus we finally formed a highly-awaited mage squad.

They all stay at the 3rd floor, the most optimal distance. As for us close-combatants, we obviously stayed on the ground.

Red takes the helm as usual, but Dan(Aria) told me that I should stay near the middle and not the front. I didn't accept though.

I imagined the action that the myself without the [Panel] would do, and he definitely wouldn't stay in the safety, as he'll feel that many would die but he'll just stay in the safety. It'll be unfair.

I just know myself too well.

'Xiao Song, is there any S Ranks out here?'

{Using the Domain Detection module.. Confirmed. There's none within the 10,000m radius, but there's one after that. A place that the demons gather.}

[Domain Detection (A+)]

-Emitting a special type of energy wave to detect lifeforms.

-Currently, the range of this module is ⅓ of a planet.

'Thanks.'

"Fire!"

Immediately, the mage squad unleashed their traits. Fire balls, lightning bolts, earth spikes, and so on. Red even reminded the Fire trait holders to specifically aim for the trees, as it will help to our advantage.

I'm sorry to the environment, but it has to be done

As the trees burned, some of the weaker F+ Ranks died immediately. Since the trees here are magical trees, they burned even more intensely than the normal trees.

The fire spread on the forest, starting from the our radius.

When the magical creatures arrived, they're only around 200. But these 200 are the higher combat power.

Hobgoblins, werewolves, orcs, and so on. It'll be very hard for the others to fight them..

"Move according to plan! 7:1!"

7:1 means, 7 people will gang up on 1 E+ monster. As for the D Ranks and higher..

Slash!

Red beheaded one just now. Not only him, but there's also them.

Boom!

Anna, who had just turned D Rank within this month, casted a barrage of [Fusion Spears(Fire and Wind)] towards the monsters, killing 5 instantly.

Fzzz!

Meanwhile, Aria, who had turned D Rank, casted her Frost Spells towards an orc. It slipped down before getting its head stabbed.

Stab! Stab!

Scarlet, who had turned D Rank, can finally freely eviscerate the heads of those mobs. She even did so with ease towards smaller mobs but higher in rank.

"This is what we call fun!"

Er, just ignore that.

Swoosh! Swoosh!

Lastly, Maria, who had also turned D Rank, enhanced her rapier with Wind Control before piercing the heads of each monster. It only took one thrust for them to turn into corpses.

What's more important to note is that, they're killing D+ Ranks with ease, and some were even C- Ranks.

It's not just them who benefitted from the energy here, but also their weapons. I saw that they're greatly damaged due to the fact that there's only thin energies back on our planet, but they're slowly getting repaired right now, thus their combat prowess skyrocketed.

I expected that our advantage will last for a while, but I was proven wrong.

{Master, there's an A+ Rank flying into this direction. The estimated time of contact is 5 minutes.}

5 minutes later, it did appear.

"Livestocks."

An AoE intimidation effect was achieved, spreading fear among the people in the building. The only exceptions were Red, the D Ranks, and me.

"Demon."

Yes, it's a demon. A demon with black wings, pale white skin, and black-red eyes.

"I didn't expect for there to be some livestocks who had escaped. Still, you're just livestocks."

Red didn't speak further, but his aura became stronger.

Since he's originally at C- Rank, he wouldn't be able to fight the A+ Rank Demon, thus the power up.

B- Rank, B+ Rank.. A- Rank.

It's starting. The boss battle.