In the forest, in the air, there were a sharp claw burning in fire, a red-black slash and a green colour storm.
Alvin and Charles were surrounded by the cloud spells.
"There is... no way out." Alvin mumbled to himself.
Alvin squinted his eyes as the fire claw almost reached him. He turned around and shielded Charles with his body.
*bbbooommm
An explosion happened. There was a bright red light shone around Alvin and Charles. Dust filled the air.
Even though the explosion was powerful, it seemed like they were protected by a mysterious power.
After a moment, Alvin opened his eyes and glanced around. At first he thought that he was going to die. He felt surprised that he didn't get hurt.
Turning his head, Alvin saw tree branches extended in front of him, blocking the enemy.
Alvin blinked. In front of him stood a mysterious man in a white mask, blue shirt, holding a tree branch.
"Did he just save us?" Alvin felt surprised that a tree branch could stop the powerful fire. Indeed, it was a strange phenomenon for him.
The next moment, Alvin saw the mysterious man appear in front of the member of the Infernal Order. It wasn't that the mysterious man knew teleport, just that he was so fast that it looked like a teleport.
The mysterious man swung the tree branch. With a slash, the member of Infernal Order was pushed away for 1 kilometers before he hit a tree and fainted.
Then, the mysterious man appeared in front of another member of Infernal Order.With another slash, the mysterious man knocked him out.
The same thing happened for the third member of the Infernal Order.
Alvin's jaw dropped. By flying around, this mysterious man just defeated three members of Infernal Order in two seconds.
Although Alvin didn't know who he was, Alvin knew that the mysterious man was probably the strongest person he ever met.
Then, under Alvin's gaze, the mysterious man flew and disappeared in the forest, without uttering a word. The mysterious man was so fast that Alvin couldn't even tell which direction he went.
Alvin raised his head and glanced around. Yet, he couldn't find the mysterious man.
"Did you see that?" Alvin asked.
"Ya. A strong swordman that uses a tree branch. Ah, I thought I was going to die. " Charles said, breathing heavily.
"Thank you sir for helping." Alvin glanced around and shouted.
After waiting for a few seconds, Alvin didn't get any response.
"Let's go, Faster" Alvin didn't dare to stay here. He quickly picked up the storage ring on the ground and ran towards the cave. Charles was following from behind.
While running they were chit-chatting.
"Did you see his face?"
"No, I was blocked by you. The only thing I saw was the powerful slash."
"I suspect he is more than level 60. He just defeated them with a tree branch."
"Why did he help us?"
"hmm.. no idea. Charles, is he your friend? "
"No way, I don't know anyone who is so high level."
After running for 6 minutes, They heard Elias's voice call out at them.
"Alvin, Charles" Beside a tree stood the teacher Elias. Elias was waving his hand at them with a smile.
"Teacher Elias" Alvin greeted and ran to Elias. He felt relief as he saw teacher Elias. Fighting alone in the spire was difficult and scary.
"You ok?" Elias coughed a few times before asking with a gentle smile.
"Ya, not really, but we are quite lucky. We almost got killed by the Infernal Order."
While walking to the cave, Alvin told Elias and Charles the story, from getting the storage ring to the fighting.
Elias was listening with a casual attitudes.
"Keep the storage ring safe, don't let anyone know about it. Not even the Ms Grace" Elias said.
" Understand." Alvin gave Elias a nod.
With that, they headed to the cave. One of the safe places in the spire. Most of the Daylight Order members were there.
30 minutes later, they reached the cave.
Outside the cave. The huge scorpion was bleeding heavily. Ms Grace and her member surrounded the scorpion and attacked it from all directions. Many cloud spells were formed in the air, creating waves of cloud energy.
Of course, there were some people lying on the ground, injured.
It seemed like Ms Grace and Daylight Order were able to handle this monster king. Of course, it was due to the absence of Infernal Order. If not, Ms Grace won't be able to focus on fighting the scorpion. Yet, this was the exact reason why Ms Grace dared to use her most powerful cloud spell that needed some preparation time.
"Teacher, why did they want to kill the monster king?" Alvin asked, curious. Charles also looking at Elias, curious.
"To go to the next layer. Look" Elias said. He gestured at the Scorpion.
Alvin and Charles moved their gaze to the scorpion.
*Boooooommmmmm
Another round of attack reached the huge scorpion. After a fire blast stretched across the sky, the scorpion was burning and bleeding because of all the cloud spells. Soon, it collapsed on the ground.
A bright blue light shimmered around the scorpion. Slowly, the scorpion turned into a door.
"A door?" Alvin murmured.
"Yes, this world is split into three levels. We call it a cloud layer. The cloud layer that we are in is called Ground Layer. The one above us is called Sky Layer. The one at the top is called Heaven Layer. The only way to enter the cloud layer is through this door."
"There is another layer above us?" Alvin asked
"We need to defeat the monster king to open the door?" Charles asked
"Yes. There are two cloud layers above us. When a new spire is found, there will be a monster king. Only when we defeat the monster king, we can open the door to the next cloud layer. For Ground Layer, the highest level cloud monster was around level 30. For Sky Layer, most of the cloud monsters were around level 30 to level 60. For Heaven Layer, most of the cloud monsters were around level 60 to level 99." Looking at the door that was shimmering in blue light, Elias explained at a slow pace.