In the deep darkness, a dim light flickered, revealing a bulky youth with a squirrel on his shoulder exploring the ce.


    "Go now," Aur whispered as the squirrel moved at lightning-quick pace,unching itself directly out of the body and into the deep darkness that seemed darker than the void itself.


    Swish! Swish!


    Just as the squirrel steeped into the eerie darkness, its nose started to twitch, causing it to backflip.


    The squirrel felt its scalp tingling mid-air as its hair stood up in fright.


    "Aur, right now."


    Aur quickly moved before the squirrel even finished speaking, casually punching.


    Boom!


    A sickening thud of a body crashing into the wall echoed throughout the ce.


    "Come back," Aur ordered, and the squirrel instantly went towards his shoulder obediently.


    The dim glowing light from his jar, buzzing with the burning bug, slightly revealed the ce.


    Therey a fattened body of an adult human-sized monkey, as if it was hit by a truck-kun, its bloody red fur shining in the dim light with the distinctive symbol of a star on its head.


    However, Aur didn''t have the luxury to look at the red monkey, as his crimson eyes narrowed.


    Thousands of gazes were drawn towards him and the squirrel, all looking at them violently and bloodthirst.


    "This will be troublesome," Aur muttered as he looked at the flickering light and then nced at the deep darkness that surrounded him with a bitter expression.


    "That presence there is definitely a tier-one beast or even higher," his crimson eyes flickered with a thoughtful frown.


    "We should leave here, Aur," the squirrel said tentatively while looking around, feeling the countless malevolent gazes.


    Aur nonchntly nodded his head and returned, his footsteps decisive and determined, quickly leaving the ce.


    The moment Aur walked out of the ce, his vision returned to the simple man-made cave room where he had previously obtained the spell.


    "That was close." The squirrel heaved a sigh of relief and hopped off Aur''s shoulder, quickly climbing onto the only table in the room,ying t with his fat belly.


    "Oh," Aur raised his eyebrows at the darn squirrel.


    "Umm… hehe." The squirrel only iled his chubby arms helplessly.


    "That ce might be a little dangerous even for your great master."


    Aur remained silent, his expression thoughtful.


    "From the diary I have, the details indicate that there was only one tier-one beast in the cave when Sebastian first entered the second area. However, the timeline doesn''t match with the time when Sebastian went."


    After all, Aur immediately departed to get the inheritance; however, the crybaby Sebastian took two years just toe here after Hanma pushed him.


    Aur couldn''t help but imagine the frustration Hanma must have felt to push the guy and build up his confidence to enter the ce. It must have been an amusing sight for sure.


    "However, I wasn''t informed about this…" Aur looked at the jar again.


    The bug was burning simultaneously, and its bright light covered the whole roompletely, unlike the previous scene where it barely lit up in the second area.


    "There must be something in that ce which was suppressing the light…" his eyes narrowed.


    This thing was never written in Sebastian''s diary either. When he had entered the cave, these features were already washed away with time or it was too trivial to be recorded in the diary. Maybe he forgot to record it as well…


    Either way, now Aur was in a conundrum. The light wasn''t an actual problem; his senses were suppressed in that area as well, and from what Aur could tell, these monkeys'' home was in the darkness.


    "Should I enter again ore back after preparing myself?" Aur thought for a moment before he shook his head. "Haste makes waste."


    "I should prepare myself properly beforeing here again; there is no hurry. No one is going to find this ce anyway."


    With that said, Aur decisively left.


    "Hey, wait for me, did you forget me?" The squirrel''s squeaking sound came from behind Aur, which made him pause.


    Aur patiently waited, and the squirrel finally came back to him while huffing and puffing.


    "How did you be so fat?" Aur asked with a frown on his face.


    The squirrel was shocked when he heard this. "Hey, I ain''t fat."


    However, the crimson gaze of Aur as he silently stared at him made the poor squirrel sweat.


    "Well, I ate too much," the squirrel said in a loud voice.


    "Didn''t you drink only blood?"


    Aur''s expression morphed into an even stranger one.


    "Our body is simr to the one that you humans have. We need to release the excessive energy from our body either through exercise or something; however, I was toozy-"


    The squirrel smiled sheepishly.


    "A vampire who is fat, huh…" Aur mused to himself.


    The squirrel scratched the back of his head. "Hey, I don''t want to go to that ce ever again."


    "Oh, you mean the pet space?" Aur said with a chuckle.


    "Yes, that ce is too packed for my big body. I couldn''t even move in that ce."


    "Well, you have to get used to that in the future." Aur smiled mysteriously while leaving.


    "Hey, what do you mean by that?"


    The squirrel said angrily while following Aur.


    ….


    Inside the second area that Aur had just retreated from, countless blood-red furry monkeys filled the space, their eyes aze with rage as if it were inherent in their nature.


    However, at the centre of these human-sized monkeys, two giant monkeysy, silently observing each other.


    These two monkeys could easily bepared to at least three of the normal-sized monkeys in terms of height alone.


    Their fur was coated in a striking red hue, and they had distinctive tails with a golden colour, as if proiming their majesty differentiating them from the other monkeys. story by m|v_l,e,m,p,y,r


    They were however now entirely silent without uttering a single word; a strange tension lingered in the air as these two giants faced off against each other.