Everyone was laughing at that moment, and Alan told everyone to explore more into this tunnel, and then we will set a small camp to stay in this dungeon.
Haruto thought we might find more powerful opponents from then.
But Haruto was completely disappointed that after the knight battle, they got some pretty weak creatures such as wolfs and goblins.
Even Haruto could defeat them with his hands.
They explored more and more.
After one hour of exploration, it was already night time.
Then Alan told his team to set a camp, and after that, their team set a camp.
Haruto, Ryuk, and Leo were going to sleep in the same tent.
Haruto also knew that Ozwa could cook food.
Then they took their dinner.
After that, Haruto, Leo, and Ryuk went to their tent.
Then Haruto revealed something to them.
"Ryuk, did you know why I touch everyone during the fight?" Haruto asked.
"AHH, no I don't know," Ryuk said. "Why did you do that?"
"Actually, when I touch them with my gloves, which has the Lizam artifact stone, as you know, Lizam artifact stores any ritual and keeps it in it and kind of copies that and stores it," Haruto explained.
"And when Lizam artifact gets a little heat, then it releases any random ritual, but for the gloves, Lizam artifact touches my skin."
"So a small energy from Lizam artifact releases and goes through my brain, so during that time I can select which ritual I want to use."
"That's the reason I touched everyone to absorb their special eco energy," Haruto explained.
"Damn, you actually did it. Now you have many rituals," Ryuk said.
"I could get more if I touch them during different rituals," Haruto said. "There is only one downside: I can't store very powerful rituals that I can't handle by myself."
"Okay, now you can help us," Haruto said.
Leo was sleeping already.
After some hours, they woke up.
Then they started to go deeper into the tunnel.
During that, they found multiple monsters like goblins, wolfs, weird-looking monsters, and many more.
Alan and his team and Dygn's team defeated all the monsters.
This time, Ryuk, Leo, and Haruto also helped Alan's team.
When any monsters came, Ryuk showed his swordsman skills, and Leo also killed multiple monsters with his wolf cleaver.
But Leo wasn't satisfied with that.
He wanted stronger opponents.
And Haruto also used his gloves to use rituals for the first time.
Alan's team was shocked that every ritual Haruto did was their rituals they had used before.
"How did you do our rituals?" Ozwa asked.
"I knew them from the beginning," Haruto said.
"That's fine because Haruto right now can help us," Alan said.
Everyone agreed.
"Why did Haruto lie to everyone? If he tells them about what he did, what even would have happened?" Ryuk thought.
Ryuk asked Haruto secretly, "Why did you lie to them?"
"Did you have any problem with it?" Haruto asked.
"AHH, not actually," Ryuk replied.
"Then just shut your mouth," Haruto said.
"What type of boy is this? No emotions, not even feeling anything. I have never ever seen anything on his face. How calm even a person could be?" Ryuk thought. "A person like Leo haruto is still being so calm that I sometimes don't even feel him. He is just so calm, I can't understand this boy."
Then, after some time, they reached a dead end.
"I guess now we have to go a different way," Alan said.
Then out of nowhere, 100 weird-looking creatures appeared there.
Seeing that, Alan shouted, "Retreat!"
Everyone started to run to the opposite of the creatures.
Then suddenly, a man appeared there.
In his hands, he had two daggers.
Now they were surrounded from both sides.
"As I got new rituals, I should practice them on him," Haruto said.
"Alan and others fight with the weird creatures. I will handle this man," Haruto said.
"Are you sure?" Alan asked.
"Yeah," Haruto replied.
Then Leo wanted to fight with the man, so he said he would fight with him.
But Haruto looked at Leo.
"Don't interfere here," Haruto said calmly.
But this voice was so heavy to feel that even Leo became afraid of him.
"I don't know why, if he is talking calmly, still his presence and his way of talking is very different to hear," Leo thought.
The battle began.
Alan and others went towards the creatures, and Haruto went to the man.
That man looked at Haruto and started to scream.
Then that man rushed towards Haruto.
Haruto roughened his hands.
Then energy glowed from the gloves.
Haruto used a fireball ritual.
That man dodged that.
He attacked with his daggers.
Haruto again roughened his gloves, then he used the Winstruck ritual.
For that reason, that man's balance got unbalanced.
Then that man used a long-distance attack with his daggers.
Haruto countered it with an earth wall ritual.
Haruto then used a waterball ritual.
But that man hit a blow on Haruto.
But the waterball ritual hit that man.
Then that man's daggers flew away from him, but he slipped on the ground.
However, that man didn't attack Haruto.
"I found it," Haruto said, and went towards his daggers.
Then that man used multiple hits on Haruto.
But how to dodge all slashes with his combat skills?
"You are pretty fast," that man said.
Haruto didn't reply.
Then Haruto used a flamethrower ritual on that person.
That man dodged that.
Haruto again attacked with his fireball ritual.
But that man cut the fireball in half.
"His daggers are pretty strong weapons that could even cut my rituals," Haruto thought.
Then he used the lightning strike ritual.
But that man dodged that.
Then that man got a sudden headache.
He started to scream in pain.
"Ahhhhhhhh!!!"
A voice screamed in his mind: "You have to kill that boy any way or you will die here!!"
Then that man attacked Haruto.
But this time, he was extremely fast, and Haruto had some trouble with his attacks.
At one point, it became so intense that Haruto actually got hit by many slashes.
After that, that man kicked Haruto.
Haruto got kicked away into the air and landed beside Mono by touching his clothes.
"Are you okay?" Mono asked.
"I am okay," Haruto said.
During that time, Mono used a rock thrower ritual.
So Haruto understood that he was currently able to use the rock thrower ritual as well.
Then he got an idea.
He understood that that man had become crazy.
So with only gloves, it would be hard for Haruto.
But he had an idea.
During that time, others were fighting with the creatures.
Then Haruto asked Alan if he could give him his staff.
Alan agreed and gave Haruto his staff for some time.
Then Haruto went towards that man.
"Ahhhhhhhh"
"Uhhhh"
"Uhhh"
"I swear I will kill you anyway possible!"
"This pain!"
"This pain is because of youuuuuu!!"
"Shut up, you idiot," Haruto said.
Haruto then used a healing ritual on himself.
Then he roughened his gloves on the staff.
The staff was quite long, with a red mystical stone attached at the top.
When Haruto selected a ritual, the ritual symbol appeared on the staff's red stone.
Right now, Haruto selected the rock thrower ritual.
Then he tried an experiment.
When Haruto used the rock thrower ritual, a rock started to float in the air.
Haruto tried something with the staff.
He controlled the rock with his staff.
Then suddenly, that rock turned into a drill spike shape.
Then he changed that attack on that man.
It was fast.
It hit that man and created a hole in his body.
That man started bleeding.
"I was right, the staff actually helps rituals to control and manipulate the ritual easily," Haruto said.
"As I used the ritual from gloves, that means it actually absorbed in it, and I can control it with my will, not with eco energy," Haruto said.
"Hey, you..." that man said.
"What are your last words?" Haruto asked.
That man didn't understand.
Then Haruto used the rock thrower ritual again, but this time with multiple rocks.
He transformed all rocks into spiky drill shapes.
He used all of them on that man.
That man dodged many, but others hit him, and some even hit his daggers.
For this reason, his daggers got destroyed.
Then that man became angry and started to cast a spell.
Haruto got an idea.
He dropped the staff.
Ran towards him.
And punched him with power.
That man coughed blood.
So ritual canceled.
Haruto punched again and again with full power, making the person barely able to stand properly.
Haruto then raised a storm of multiple powerful fists on that person.
Then he slipped on the ground.
That man got almost exhausted.
Then Haruto did something unexpected.
He came towards him.
"If you are a dagger user, then what are you without it?" Haruto asked.
"What do you mean?" that man asked with anger.
"At least accept that you are nothing without daggers."
"I just use my raw strength and nothing more."
"No ritual, no sword, no weapon, only fist."
"Are you always that weak, or were you born to become weak?"
"Or were you born as a failure?" Haruto asked everything.
That man tried to attack Haruto, but he was so weak that he couldn't move his body.
During that time, Haruto's words actually made sense to him.
That man thought if he had his daggers, then he might have been able to kill him.
"Are you actually that useless?"
"Even trash is better than you."
"If you still thought you are strong without daggers, then show me," Haruto said.
That man still couldn't move his body because of heavy punch hits.
"So that means you are a failure. Accept it."
"In this world, there is no place for useless people like you."
Haruto's words broke that man so badly that he thought he was useless.
Haruto then put his hand on that man's face and ripped out his face skin, eyeballs, and half of his head skull with his strength.
Then that man died brutally, thinking he was useless.
Then Alan and others were done with their fight.
Everyone was impressed at how Haruto handled everything and the death of that man.
They then thought to go back to find a different way.
Then suddenly, a shadow appeared on them.
They were shocked.
Everyone prepared for battle.
The shadow looked at Haruto and said,
"The Watcherrrrr…!"
Then he started to cast a spell.
Seeing that, Leo rushed towards him.
But the shadow completed his spell.
Ritual casted.
"Teleportation Ritual," Shadow said.
Then suddenly, everyone got teleported into different parts of the dungeon.
They were divided into three groups:
Group 1 – Alan, Haruto, AON, Kerion
Group 2 – Leo, Ozwa, EMA
Group 3 – Ryuk, Mono, Kari
Everyone was shocked and confused, except Haruto.
What had just happened?
Haruto quickly understood everything.
"That boy… Ahhhhhh!!!… That boy… That boy… When I look at the boy, my brain starts to get pain rapidly."
"And I don't… Ahhh… Let that Watcher stay alive!!!!"