A few minutes later.Gabe opened his eyes and found himself in the wooden room.Seeing that ceiling, he was immediately disappointed with himself for losing against the apes.He looked to his right.The senile lady was sitting next to the bed, drinking what looked like sparkling, glowing water.The shocking thing was that she was drinking from a wooden glass, but he was able to see the light coming through the glass.It wasn’t harsh on the eye but was soothing.“What’s that scarlet drink?” he asked. “Is it the monkey’s blood?”“Why would I drink blood?” she glanced at him rather coldly. “Where are you from, boy? You don’t seem like you’re from this city. Did you come from the outside world?”Gabe sat up. “How did you realize that?”“It’s just a guess,” she poured the same scarlet liquid in another glass and gave it to him.“What’s this for?” he couldn’t help but ask.“If you want to be healed faster, then you better drink it,” she replied.Nodding, Gabe drank it. It tasted similar to

“There are rabbits everywhere,” Gabe said as they walked down the road. “More rabbits than people. Thankfully, the rabbits aren’t big like the apes and lemurs.”There were houses and shops on either side, built with wood, and there were bird nests on some rooftops.“This is called Rabbit town,” Reveria explained. “Rabbits grow and populate fast, so they qualify for a constant supply of meat.”Gabe wasn’t surprised. “There’s enough vegetation here, so the rabbits can grow fast.”“My granddaughter bought a rabbit from this town and raised it,” Reveria said. “One day, she visited this town, but she made a mistake. She brought her rabbit with her. The rabbit went missing. She searched everywhere for it, and she found the rabbit’s locket at the house of the mayor. It was the mayor’s son who killed her rabbit.”“Why would he do that?” Gabe couldn’t help but ask.“He once proposed to my granddaughter, but she refused,” Reveria said. “He fought her and lost. He suffered a humiliation.”“He di

“Dragon Chomp!”The mayor’s arm created an illusion that looked like a vine stretching forth toward its prey, like a living dragon’s mouth that sought to devour anything in its path.“Not so fast!” Gabe leaped forth and struck the incoming claw with his lightning-clad foot.The resulting explosion sent everything in the garden flying away. The walls of the house cracked and broke. Half of it crumbled.Only Reveria was the one standing. The others in the vicinity were all knocked off their feet.“Haha,” the mayor laughed. “You’re not bad. This is going to be fun!” He swung his other hand at Gabe’s face.“I didn’t come here to play games with you,” Gabe struck the mayor’s forearm first with his forefinger. “Veinstrike!”It sent lightning through the arm and spread through to the whole body, momentarily freezing the mayor’s body. (A lightning ability? And he managed to get past my aural skin?)“Galvanic Chain!” A series of nerve-bludgeoning punches rained down on the mayor, each strike e

A few hours later.They arrived at the eightieth realm. Reveria’s wanted poster was also posted on the walls with a reward of 1000 gold.But Gabe’s poster was just a drawing of him. And it didn’t look anything close to him. But the bounty on his head was also 1000 gold.Covering their faces, both of them came to an alley and knocked on a hidden door in the ground.“Fish,” Reveria said and knocked four times on the door.A few seconds passed, and the door opened. A masked man was staring at them. “We don’t sell any fish down here. Get lost.”“We are the fish,” Reveria replied.The masked man’s voice changed, “Come inside.” He went down the ladder in one sliding motion.Reveria mimicked him well, but Gabe didn’t. He climbed it down normally.“Everybody here is skilled with ladders,” Gabe said.The masked man guided them to a hall full of shelves where all kinds of items were available. From guns to artifacts, it looked like a vault of sorts.“We will need two face masks,” Reveria said.

On the 82nd realm.Gabe and Reveria were in an alley not far from the elevator that would take them to the higher realms.“If we can enter that elevator, we’ll go all the way to the 88th realm,” she said. “But the problem is that we are using fake identities. We’ll need someone who can carry us with them.”“So, we’ll have to wait until we find someone who’ll do that for us,” Gabe said.“Indeed.”“But why would some random person help us?”“I’m afraid we’ll have to threaten them.”Gabe forced out a smile. “Are you serious?”“Did I ever make a joke with you?” she asked back.Gabe went silent.Just then, they heard the loud noise of a horn.“What’s this?” Gabe looked toward the end of the street. There was a procession coming with the blue flags of orange swans everywhere.“It’s the Swanmere family,” Reveria said. “They’re one of the noble families of Elderwood.”Gabe could smell the perfume fragrance from at least over a thousand feet away. “Where are they coming from?”“There’s been a