"I welcome you all to the Heavenly Furnace!"
Made for the purpose of smelting and reforming, refining the useless into the useful, this was precisely why the deep caves under Mount Heaven were collectively given the name of the Heavenly Furnace!
"Since everyone here had the courage to remain, you could be said to have passed the first test. The real test starts from now on… However, this will be all for today."
As soon as the gentle-looking man finished his words and turned around, the guards clad in black appeared once more, surrounding the clueless children. Not knowing if their fate would still be the same as the 'departed', every single one of them was shivering in fear… aside from some exceptions.
'Here comes the carrot.'
Confidently grasping the shaken hand that was clinging to him, Leo inwardly smiled. The events he was currently experiencing were all depicted in the second chapter of the novel. Naturally, he knew what was going to happen next.
"Move."