Chapter 29: Another world

Dante fall on the ground here, He sat up slowly.

He looked up at the sky. There was no light—only a deep, swirling vortex of dark fluid clouds that blocked out the tower sectors. The entire area was a ruined world. Broken pillars and shattered walls of ancient stone structures stretched across a desolate plain.

Dante reached for the digital system inside his vision.

[System Error: External Network Sync Failed.]

[Warning: Local Server Signal Unregistered.]

[Gachapon Integration: Glitched... Multiplier Logic: Offline...]

Dante let out a tired breath, "A network lockout. Marcus really thought throwing me this world make him safe ."

He looked at the ruins around him. His mind didn’t panic because his memory of this place was clear. In his past life as the top S-rank hunter of the Radiant Dawn guild, he had read the secret text archives hidden in the central administrative district. The tower records called this place the Black Basin—a blacklisted dimension where the system dropped failed civilisations and ancient alien entities to rot away from the regular floors. He remembered the warning text clearly: No climber has ever found the exit opening.

"An ancient graveyard," Dante muttered to himself, his voice dropping to a dangerous whisper as he stood up. "Marcus thinks I am trapped here to die. He forgets that a ghost doesn’t care about the dark."

Before he could take a single step forward, the ground beneath his feet began to vibrate.

From the openings of the ruined walls around the plain shapes crawled out. They were demons—four-legged bipedal beasts covered in jagged black scales, their jaws lined with rows of long, yellow teeth that dripped with a green, burning acid fluid. Their eyes glowed with an absolute, mindless hunger.

A pack of thirty demons spotted his movement, letting out a collective hiss that shook the dust off the nearby pillars. They lunged simultaneously, their claws tearing through the floor crust as they sprinted straight toward his position.

"Human flesh!" the lead demon rasped, its voice sounding like grinding stones as it drove its front claws straight toward Dante’s throat. "A fresh soul signature has dropped into the pit! Chew his bones!"

Dante didn’t step back. The absolute protection of his shared mind matrix with Yenna was gone, replaced by a cold isolation that only made his burning fury grow heavier.

"You want to chew my bones?" Dante said, his voice flat and uncaring. "Then try to bite."

He did not draw his invisible weapon yet. He simply stood his ground on the crust, letting the lead demon’s massive jaws slam directly onto his shoulder.

BANG.

The physical force of the demon’s S-rank lunge loop was instantly multiplied by two and fired straight back into its own frame. The monster’s teeth violently exploded into tiny chips, and the feedback wave tore its upper torso apart, spraying dark fluid across the ash-covered floor crust. The beast tumbled backward onto the ground, thrashing in pure agony as its own momentum ruined its body.

The other demons paused their movement for a fraction of a second, their yellow teeth grinding together in surprise as they looked at their dying pack leader.

"What... what kind of skin is that?" another demon hissed, its scales tightening as it backed toward the walls. "He did not use a mana shield! His body is a mirror!"

"It doesn’t matter what my skin is," Dante said, slowly pulling his right hand out of his pocket. His fingers closed tightly around the invisible leather grip of the Seven-Sins Asura Blade. "What matters is that your life force belongs to my weapon now."

Dante didn’t run. He used his Void Step to launch his body through the air like a spear, his empty hand moving in a rapid, brutal blur of clean horizontal strikes.

SLASH.

The weapon cut straight through the second demon’s armored neck scales like soft paper. The beast didn’t even have time to release a scream before its life force was violently pulled directly into the hilt of his weapon. Because the system was glitched, no text notification appeared to show his stat growth, but Dante could feel the raw, warm current of energy expanding directly into his baseline muscles, making his physical frame even heavier.

"Kill him! Surround the human!" the remaining demons roared, their claws moving in a frantic frenzy as they tried to tear his black clothing.

Dante glided through the center of the charging pack like a ghost, his step making zero noise on the ground. His empty hand moved in a rapid blur of clean diagonal strikes, ignoring their thick scales entirely and cutting through limbs, joints, and spiritual cores with terrifying precision. One demon tried to spray acid fluid at his face, but Dante simply turned his torso to the left, letting the liquid hit a pillar behind him, and drove his invisible blade straight through the monster’s teeth, splitting its head down the center.

Within five minutes of absolute, brutal violence, the remaining three demons broke their formation, scrambling in pure panic to hide inside the dark cracks of the stone walls. But Dante pursued them without mercy, his empty hand delivering the final cuts that silenced the plain completely.

The battle ended, leaving the ruined plaza quiet once again. Thirty demon carcasses lay scattered across the ground, their life forces fully harvested by the Seven Sins Asura Blade .

Dante wiped his hand , his breathing completely steady. He looked out at the infinite expanse of the dead, ruined landscape stretching before him toward the distant mountains.

"Marcus thinks this world is my prison," Dante said , started walking forward into the deep unknown world, "I am going to find the master core of this floor, rewrite the text code, and rip this whole dimension open until I reach his throat."

"Nobody can stop me until i will take revenge " Dante said.