I was finally free.

[Remaining time (Odin’s Absolute Warzone): 23 hours 22 minutes 49 seconds]

The message changed two seconds after we escaped the second stage. Though only two seconds passed here, it felt so long in the mental world.

Yeon-Hee had been silent and seemed to be trying to adapt to the reality that we had returned to. As soon as she saw Aslan, who she hadn’t seen in a while, she sent a signal to tell him to stay put. There was no awkwardness in giving orders to Aslan as her mentality was stronger than we had been concerned about.

Srrr-

I moved to the spot in front of the ring. The first thought that came to mind after looking down at it beneath my feet was that I still couldn’t be sure whether Doom Kaos wouldn’t care about me taking it. Even if Doom Kaos didn’t mind, the problem was how Doom Arukuda would react to it.

Arukuda could be different from Entegasto, and he could defy Doom Kaos’s command and try to regain his old possession through some sort of secret plot. I would have done the same thing in his shoes, so I had to keep that possibility in mind.

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