After the studies with Gray, Thomas got a call from Johnson. He invited him to have tea with him and his daughter. Thomas had to refuse because his system was moments to finish the update. Thomas asked him if he was free on Monday evening.
[System updating 00:00:02]
[System update finished]
And what now? Thomas was curious about what kind of new features it will have.
[System will now allow the host to go on a quest to get new abilities]
Can't I just learn them from other people?
[No, these abilities are demon kind's abilities.]
So, what do I have to do? And what kind of an ability you can give me now?
[Ability - Evil spirit form.]
What does it do?
[It will allow you to dematerialize your body and move as an Evil spirit]
[It will also make you immune to physical attacks ]
[And you will be able to move through solid objects]
Well, let's do this! What do I have to do?
[System asks for permission to begin the quest]
[Yes/No]
Huh? Again with permission? Well, let's do this!
[Host will be transferred into shadow dungeon in 3..2…]
WHAT?
[1…]
White light blinded Thomas, he closed his eyes, but the light still went through his eyelids. When the light was gone, Thomas slowly opened his eyes. "What? Where in the world am I?"
Thomas found himself surrounded by large trees. And even tho it was still far from the evening, the sky seemed to be pitch black. If not for Thomas's demonic eyesight, he would have been completely blind. A few moments later, he heard someone breaking the tree branches.
The system, where am I?
[System is unavailable during shadow dungeon quest]
Then he heard a roar. When he turned back, he saw a huge mutated bear. "So, I have to fight these huh?"
Thomas created a fireball, but then he changed his mind. He realized, due to his lack of control of energy, if he used this in the forest, he might set the forest on fire. He absorbed the fireball back into his palm, and instead created an ice spear. "This should be enough"
He threw the spear, and it pierced a huge bear's head. "This is pretty easy!"
Thomas walked around and met up with many creatures. Mutated wolves, mutated rabits, mutated bears. A few hours later, he came into something unexpected. It was a village. It was completely on fire. Women and girls were screaming. Soon Thomas saw something, that completely horrified him "What… is this…"
When he came into the village, he saw hundreds of dead men's bodies. All of them were torn to pieces. For some reason, whoever or should he say whatever did this, it left the women and girls alive. When he walked around, a woman ran to him.
"Young man, you must hide. Whatever that is, he is targeting men. Even… *sob* even my six-year-old baby boy was killed by it" the woman cried. She sincerely tried to help at least one man to survive this massacre.
"I suppose you don't know what that is… Do you?" he asked that woman. Soon he felt shivers down his spine. He felt the sense of danger, that he hadn't felt ever since he has reincarnated as Thomas. He soon heard houses being destroyed. Before he knew it, he ran into the place to see what's going on.
"No, young man. Stay away from there" the woman begged him. And Thomas realized something. How the hell this is a dungeon? These people here are real!!! Thomas's demonic sense felt the souls in those women. He realized, he wanted to save as many people as he can! But when he came to the source of all this destruction, Thomas was left horrified. All his senses were telling him to run but all he could do was stand there and tremble. He once again heard a terrifying roar, it was not a normal roar, it echoed and created small earthquakes that destroyed many of the village's houses.
"Oh… My… God…" Thomas stared into the creature. He wanted to run, but he couldn't. Out of shock at what he saw, he was frozen in fear. He was staring at the evil spirit. Catlike creature. He was staring at his past self!