I kept staring at Dargon. Thoughts swirled in my head like a raging vortex. Dargon seemed to have no idea who or what Mike Orlove was, yet I kept sensing Mike’s presence in him— in his behavior, in his mindset. That greed, that twisted way of thinking… everything was the same. He slowly pushed himself up from the ground.The concussion seemed to be fading. His unfocused gaze cleared as he looked me in the eye. I had been the same when I first woke up in this world: no memory of my past life, just the body of a monster and the will of a seeker desperate to survive.What if his situation was just like mine? What if, even though he was in a human body, he had no memory of his past life?While I was lost in those thoughts, Dargon recovered completely. He raised his hand to his side, palm open as if calling to the sword on the ground. The sword responded. Negative helis churned at its base, mirroring the sparks gathering in his palm, and the blade flew into his hand. My eyes widened.“Ooh.

It had been two weeks since the meeting with Dargon. The capital had sent a letter saying they would arrive today with the egg, along with a hunter party, to venture into the dungeon. I had been busy all week together with my builders.I had created a sensory helis veil near the border of Naturia and Corned. It was Duke’s idea to actively monitor any kind of trespassing. I had also upgraded the domain’s artillery and installed a sentinel system around Duke’s mansion.I assigned Duke the role of handling foreign relations and negotiating with humans. I also learned the name of the village—Corned—through him, as he had proposed something interesting.Corned was treated as a forsaken land by the humans.So, during this opportunity, he wanted to elevate Corned into a separate town, like the others. The humans of Corned were even more excited than he was. With the help of one of my builders, they worked day and night. By the edge of the forest now stood a grand wall with guard posts and mu

Gabriel stared at the crystal. Nobody spoke for a long moment. All of their gazes focused on the floating staircase that hung ahead of them like a mockery of their title as hunters. They hadn’t even reached the dungeon’s gate. Yet the party looked as if they had barely survived a battlefield.Blood stained the grassfield beneath their boots as the pillar spun downward and vanished as the opening closed again over the ground. The brawler clenched his fist.“So that’s it…?”His eyes turned to Gabriel. His voice carried frustration.“We just leave?”Gabriel didn’t glance at him. His palm rubbed his chin as his eyes sank deeper.“There are no other alternatives. Even if we had a stronger party, we wouldn’t be able to reach that gate.”Kiria whispered.“Yeah. The dungeon seems to have its own intelligence.”The party members remained silent as Kiria continued.“The shooting started just as we stepped to the mid-level of the staircase. Not before that.”Gabriel shook his head.“Yes! It was

Toruous sat to my right in front of the egg as I placed my palms over the blue shell. Toruous had briefed me on the concept of extraction. Basically, I had to push my own helis through the shell, and the negative helis should repel like a magnetic effect. Now the Key was to keep the shell from breaking when the negative helis tried to force themselves out due to repulsion.I also had to maintain the amount of helis I poured into it, else the shell would break from excessive helis. The shell felt cold and fragile under my palm. I could feel the life throbbing inside it. The n-reactor heart flickered in my chest, trembling my fingers a little.I activated helis vision to monitor every single particle of helis in it. Then I channelled my own helis through my palm to the egg.“Helis Sustainment.”My helis sustainment was already at level 100, but I was still worried about control. Slowly, particles of helis seeped into the egg through its shell. The golden polka dots scattered across the

I had no idea how long I was asleep. My eyes fluttered open with the noise of a light crack spreading nearby. I jolted awake over the platform as the sound felt very familiar. It reminded me of the time when I hatched from the egg in this world. My head snapped to my right, gasping out.“The mermaid’s egg…”But the egg was already crowded. Karguran, Krileekit, and Toruous sat near it over the platform, and the mermaids had gathered by the edge of the platform. I could barely see the egg. I slowly stood up, walking toward them. With a light touch of my palm on his shoulder, Krileekit snapped his head with a wide smile.“My lord, the baby is hatching!”Then I saw the egg. Thin lines of cracks spread slowly from the center of the blue egg as the golden polka dots hummed with golden energy. The same golden energy radiated through the slowly widening cracks. And a voice echoed in my head, cute and childish.“I want to see the world…”I froze in my tracks. Every strand of hair on my arms sp