Through the gloomy mist and forest filled with gigantic ominous black trees, Michael followed her towards the teleportation array that was supposed to teleport them back to somewhere in the Ozer Continent.

The baby dragon was still asleep in Michael's arms having no ideas of the dangers around him. They both uttered no words as although they had the Demon Dragon heart's aura around them, they took no chance by chit-chatting. Therefore the journey was pretty gloomy and silent.

Eventually, after walking for several hours, they walked out of the forest in the middle region of the Treacherous Ocean. After walking out of the forest, they were welcomed by a narrow path between two gigantic mountains.

After pondering slightly, she said, "If I recall correctly, this path between the Ostium mountains will lead us to the Twilight ground, and from there we can go to the teleportation array.? Remember it's extremely dangerous inside it. Many Soul Refining and even Fusion Stage mutated beings will be there"

"Ostium mountains?" he was slightly surprised to hear the name because Ostium ore was one of the requirements to upgrade the Dommbringer to level 2.

"Lady Lailah, is it possible for me to collect some Ostium ore here?"

After pondering slightly, she said, "Ostium ore should only exist in the Twilight ground, you can't mine these mountains, are you looking to forge a weapon?"

Michael nodded seeing her correctly guess his intention of seeking the Ostium ore. Since she didn't look too surprised he realized using Ostium to forge a weapon was not a rare thing in this world and it did make sense as it was required to upgrade the Doombringer to only level 2.

"Where is this Twilight ground?" he asked.

"The Twilight ground is not in the depths of the island but under an extremely hidden cliff in the middle region. It tunnels straight into the ground and is extremely deep,"

After wiggling through the narrow cliff for another hour, they finally found the entrance of the pit under a cliff according to the geography described by Lailah.

The entrance to the pit was a huge hole a hundred meters wide. The hole directly sunk into the earth and was pitch-black. When the duo stood at the edge of the unfathomably deep pit, they could sense a ghastly, bone-chilling wind from it.

He stood at the edge, staring into the darkness with curiosity and cautiousness. His eyebrows were furrowed and his calm expression instantly became rather stern. " When we go down, we should be cautious. I'll help you gather some ore but remember, you can't take too much of it as it might draw some unwanted attraction towards us"N0v3lTr0ve served as the original host for this chapter's release on N0v3l--B1n.

"Understood, Lady Lailah,"

"Good, let's go down," she said confidently, before leaping down first. Following her, he jumped into the pitch-black hole, quickly descending into the darkness.

" Those Ostium ores floating in the sky are purer than the ores on the ground." She said and then she moved away from him to quench her curiosity about this place.

Glancing at the ores in his hand, he hesitated slightly. He did not throw them away but instead, he put them into his system storage. Then, he began to collect the Ostium ores floating in the sky.

As the ores in the air were extremely well-dispersed, his speed of collecting them was not great and their small size did not help him.

A while after he was collecting the ores, Lailah's voice came from the distance

"come over here"

Michael immediately stopped his collection, walking in Lailah's direction to see why she called him in the middle of his treasure hunt.

When he got there, he saw Lailah standing in front of a human corpse. They did not know how long it had been dead for but its appearance had not changed at all.

Lailah was examining the corpse curiously while he sensed the weird energy in the surroundings constantly entering the corpse and slowly fusing into its bones. This weird energy just happened to be produced when the extremely hot and extremely cold energies fused.

" Looking at it, he's already been dead for thousands of years but there's no sign of decomposition at all," she said with a deep voice.

Michael too stared at the corpse with interest. "Lady Alden, I can feel that there are some changes currently occurring in its body. I think this weird energy is mutating the body"

At this very moment, the corpse on the ground snapped open its eyes without any prior signs. Its eyes were dull without any signs of life. It immediately produced a great roar, echoing through the entire pit. Afterward, it slowly stood up from the ground and turned its head like it was scanning its surroundings. His hands were already reaching for the swords but Lailah shook her head, wordlessly telling him not to do anything.

"Let's back away" She whispered to him, slowly backing away from the mutated being while the mutated being started to wander around the place mindlessly.

Although she had fulfilled what she needed in coming here, she had no intention of leaving immediately unlike she pretended. She ventured onward in the Twilight ground with Michael as she was extremely curious about the transformation of the island that occurred all those years ago. Of course, she had no idea of telling him everything, especially the fact that she was leading him a long way instead of a short way to the teleportation array.

The area of the Twilight ground was unknown to Michael, therefore, he could only trust that she knew the path and follow her behind. They traveled for a dozen or so kilometers in one direction but still had not reached the end. As they traveled, figures of the mutated beings gradually appeared in their sights.

Since she said not to collect too much Ostium ores, he sighed helplessly and kept walking past all the ores floating in the sky. However, after walking behind her for several hours, he creased his brows

"We've actually come back to where we were before"