Chapter 130: A Very Shocking Discovering

The demons instantly jumped back in fear, their expressions filled with disbelief as they stared at Reiji.

"Just who in the hell are you?" the demons asked in unison.

Reiji didn’t answer. His figure moved instantly, appearing behind them before either demon could even sense his presence. In the next moment, their world seemed to turn upside down as they saw their own bodies still standing before them, completely separated from their heads.

"When did he move?"

Thud!

Both heads landed on the floor and rolled to a stop, leaving trails of blood behind them. Reiji stared at the two heads and immediately knew they weren’t truly dead yet, because the system hadn’t given him any notification confirming their deaths.

’Will burning them work?’ Reiji wondered inwardly as he felt a strange sensation rising from his chest. It was both hot and cold at the same time, an unfamiliar flame seemingly waiting to burst out of him.

’This must be a dragon’s flame. There’s no harm in trying it out.’

"Quickly fuse with me so we can kill this bastard," the larger demon urged the smaller one.

"I can’t let you do that. Even if it might not be troublesome for me, I still know letting you fuse would be a bad idea. But I’ll let you people be my first test subjects." A wicked grin spread across Reiji’s face, causing the demon’s heads to tremble slightly.

’I don’t think we deserve the title of being called demons. He is the real one.’

The two demons seemed to share the same thought as they closed their eyes and awaited their deaths. Instead, Reiji walked over to their bodies and dug his hand into the flesh of the smaller demon. After searching for a moment, he pulled out a core.

"As I suspected, you’re the main body. My trip here wasn’t futile, as I’ve now obtained a Monster Core," Reiji muttered before swallowing the core.

[You have consumed an A+ Rank Monster Core. Do you wish to absorb?]

"Yes."

[Monster Core successfully absorbed. You’ve gained the Skills – Sound Wave (A+) and Reverse Sound Wave (A+).]

"Two skills. Hahaha." Reiji’s gaze landed on the two demon heads as an amused expression appeared on his face. "As for my experiment, what happens when sound and fire combine? That is, using Reverse Sound Wave and Sound Wave plus fire?"

Reiji took in a deep breath as he felt the fire rising from within his throat.

[Sound Wave!]

[Reverse Sound Wave!]

"This person is insane," one of the demons muttered under its breath as flames suddenly burst out of Reiji’s mouth.

Then something amazing happened.

The bodies and heads of the demons were instantly pulled toward the flames as if they had been caught by an invisible gravitational force. The moment their bodies touched the fire, they instantly broke down into multiple pieces, and then...

BOOOOOM!

The entire floor exploded, and everything the flames touched instantly disintegrated. The force of the explosion swept across the room, leaving nothing behind except the walls and floor, which had been badly scorched but somehow remained standing.

"Holy... This is the first time one of my experiments hasn’t disappointed me and has even gone beyond my expectations!" Reiji exclaimed with a grin as he stared at the floor, which had been reduced to almost nothing.

Ding!

[Your comprehension of the skills Sound Wave and Reverse Sound Wave has improved, thereby obtaining the skill Sound Resonance!]

[You have obtained the Skills Dragon’s Breath and Dragonfire due to the effects of the Imperial Dragon Bloodline.]

[Your comprehension of the skill Dragon’s Breath has improved, thereby obtaining the Skill Dragonfire Sound Resonance!]

"Dragonfire Sound Resonance, huh? What a long but flashy name." Reiji muttered to himself before suddenly noticing something about his own behavior. "I guess this is an effect, huh? It’s changing my personality. I just hope it isn’t dangerous."

Reiji climbed up the stairs and headed toward the next floor. This time, he wanted to use the power of the Twin Nine-Tailed Fox Bloodline.

As soon as Reiji reached the eleventh floor, he felt a powerful presence approaching from upstairs.

’I guess Dragonfire Sound Resonance really caused a ruckus,’ Reiji muttered under his breath as he wiped his hands, instantly killing all the approaching demons and mutated beasts. The strength of the person approaching was definitely not simple, and Reiji could tell from the pressure alone that it was far stronger than the small monsters he had just slaughtered.

"A++? Or just a very strong A+?" Reiji continued killing the small monsters while his eyes remained fixed on the staircase. "If you’re distracted, you won’t know when your enemies would strike."

A man dressed in black robes appeared behind Reiji and instantly slashed at his throat. However, Reiji’s head rolled across the ground before suddenly turning into a puff of smoke.

"An illusion?" the demon muttered in disbelief at the scene.

"Fufu, to think I’ll be attacked while being occupied with killing small fries." Reiji’s voice came from behind as he fanned himself while sitting casually on a chair across from the demon.

"You manipulate space and time... No, it’s not quite that. Dimensional movement, that’s it." Reiji muttered in amusement as he studied the demon.

’This fox bloodline has the most personality influence. Not only that, the quick thinking, illusions, mind manipulation, and seduction are clearly skills that I can feel now. Plus, my Charm skill must originate from a fox skill, right? So with the bloodline influence, the skill must be several times its normal effect.’

Reiji continued staring at the demon as he considered trying out a little experiment, but as a straight man, he refused to seduce another male.

The demon stared at Reiji in disbelief before finally speaking. "No wonder just now it was really you. The one with the fox and dragon blood, and both of pure quality. But why meddle in the affairs of the demons of Anders? Do you have a death wish?"

Reiji’s eyes narrowed as he stared at the demon in front of him. "Demon of Anders... Ugly dog, now tell me about the Ander."

"Who do you think you’re calling ugly?" The demon immediately used its dimensional power and moved behind Reiji, instantly going for his neck.

If this had been the Reiji from two hours ago, he would have been killed in no time. But Reiji calmly raised his hand and caught the demon’s dagger with his claws. The demon’s eyes widened in surprise at the sight.

Snap!

Reiji snapped his fingers, and the dagger instantly shattered into pieces. "Now sit down like an obedient dog and tell me about Ander, or else the next thing shattering is your ugly face."

The demon gritted its teeth at the words, clearly irritated by being called ugly. However, it quietly sat in front of Reiji, who still had a fan from who knew where covering part of his face.

"Now then, you insignificant fly, tell me what I wish to know. Tell me about Ander."

"For a cocky bastard, I guess you weren’t educated about common things. I guess your master kicked you out for your stupid arro—"

The demon’s words trailed off as the world suddenly flipped upside down. It saw Reiji’s cold stare before realizing that its neck had been severed, blood gushing from the wound.

’I didn’t even see him move. How? I thought he was just a cocky bastard, but he’s much stronger than he looks. He might even be stronger than the Guardian of the Upper Floor at Floor 35.’

Reiji settled back into the chair and crossed his legs while the demon stared at him in surprise and fear. Then he spoke calmly, "I guess you don’t like your head being attached to your body. Also, if you say any stupid things, I’ll make sure you experience torture to the point you’ll regret ever being born, ugly cockroach. Now tell me what Ander is and how many floors there are."

The demon remained silent for a brief second before finally responding. "Anders is an unjoined country. Precisely, Ander is a country where each city is located away from the others, with their cities spread across the continent."

Reiji listened carefully without interrupting. There were a lot of questions in his mind that he wanted to ask, but he wanted the demon to finish what it was saying first.

"But it was not always so. It was several thousand years ago when calamity befell Ander, and all the men of Ander disappeared without a trace. At that time, there was an impending internal conflict between the people of Anders, so they chose to split and separate. But because they were still one tribe after all, they remained close until this day. No words about those missing Anderite men were ever found, well, not until recently, when I heard certain claims that those men from thousands of years ago had returned."

Reiji’s pupils shrank.

He had an overwhelming feeling that something about this incident was connected. It hadn’t been that long since the disappearance of males on Earth, yet here was a story about an entire population of men disappearing thousands of years ago.

However, Reiji couldn’t trust everything the demon was saying. If the information proved to be true, then another question immediately came to mind.

Why hadn’t all the men of the Ander vanished?

"What was the population of men several thousand years ago?"

"How do you expect me to know that, you stu—"

The demon quickly stopped itself from saying anything more when it saw the serious expression on Reiji’s face. It could tell that Reiji was no longer joking, so it immediately changed its tone and continued speaking.

"Well, if I had to say, knowing how large the Anderite population was, I would say close to or more than a hundred billion men. Also, this place is one of the abandoned settlements of the Anderites, and this building was built by them. There are fifty floors."

’Close to a hundred billion, huh...’

Reiji remained silent as he processed the information. Considering all the dead men, the unborn, the young, the old, and everyone else who had vanished, that number could easily be close to a hundred billion or even more.

’I can’t shake off this feeling that whatever happened to the Anderite tribe back then had something to do with what happened on Earth.’