Chapter 152 - E-39 (2) (1/2)

The next day, Aleen and Aya were guided to an enormous hall.

When they arrived at the hall, they noticed it was filled with people. They were around one hundred other people seated in the hall, all of them of different forms and shapes.

Aleen saw humans, elves, a demon-like person, a gigantic man, a green-skinned beautiful girl, a man covered in a strange suit, and many other different and strange people. He counted around forty different races.

Every one of them was wearing serious expressions. Aleen could felt a kind of intangible pressure coming from them. The combined pressure was comparable to the pressure emitted by a level-four creature!

Once Aleen and Aya entered the hall, all the eyes turned towards them. Some of the eyes showed curiosity, others friendliness. But most of the gazes showed caution.

Aleen was startled when he felt the gazes, but he quickly composed himself. After experiencing so many life and death situations on Dimensional Paradise, he was not going to be intimidated for a few gazes.

Aya, on the other hand, showed a weaker reaction. She hugged Lily tightly and hid behind Aleen's back. Aleen could only smile wryly while thinking that she seemed like a timid kid.

At that moment, someone approached them.

It was a human male. The man looked pretty young, around twenty-three or twenty-four years old. He walked slowly towards Aleen and Aya while showing a friendly smile.

"Two more human friends, huh? Very good. I never expected that so many humans would be here."

Aleen looked warily at the man without answering. The man smiled wryly seeing it and extended his hand. "Clane Greia, a cultivator. Pleased to meet you."

"… Aleen Hamill, enlightened. She is Aya." Aleen hesitated for a moment before shaking his hand.

The man nodded in a friendly manner. "You two don't know much about this place, right?" Aleen showed a surprised expression, but the man put on an it-showed-on-your-face expression and pointed to a table nearby.

"Come with me, I'll introduce you to some other people and explain things to you if you want."

Aleen looked at Aya to ask for her opinion and saw her nodding slightly, so he agreed.

The man then guided them toward the table. Another five people were there, three men and two women, all humans. They looked at Aleen and Aya curiously and nodded as a greeting.

"They are George, Azula, Reirna, Clara, and Itwuld. All of them powerful level-two." Clane pointed to the five people and introduced them. Aleen nodded to each one of them with a neutral expression. He then looked at Clane asking for the reason because he invited him here.

Clane smiled wryly and opened his lips. "Maybe you don't know, but although the place where we are going is a great opportunity, it's also a great danger. Every time a group enters the singularity, half of them die inside, sometimes even more. You see, the singularity is a whole new world, and it's filled with every kind of monster. Of course, the place where we are going doesn't have any powerful monster, but it would not be strange if we face a level-three. If we are unlucky, even a level-four monster can appear."

Aleen's expression changed. Facing a level-four monster, he can only escape, and even that is not completely certain.

However, Clane's next words made him frown.

Looking at the different races reunited in the hall, Clane put on a complicated expression. "Actually, monsters are not the greatest danger inside. Instead, it's the other participants."

"… What do you mean?" Aleen asked.