System vs Rebirth

Noel continued to the next floor.

He found something slightly different on this floor. Instead of all the tubes with demon corpses, he actually found a lot of big machines. He didn't understand their function.

Next to the door were two big machines: one was a big cylinder-shaped machine, and the other was a cube. There were a few more complicated machines scattered in the room. However, they did have one thing in common. All of them were not active.

Considering this facility was a thousand years old buildings, there was no way the energy source could still provide them.

There was one more thing that piqued his interest.

"It's getting cold here." Noel measured the temperature with his bare skin. If not for the fact that he had both ice and fire spirits, he would have trouble adjusting to it.

He could only think of one possible reason. "It seems that I'm about to reach the bottom floor. I wonder what will await me."

Noel still didn't sense a single demon lying nearby. Since the ones he had found were dead, the Demon Hunter Medal didn't pick it up. So, if there was really another demon lying in the ambush, they should have died.

"Still, it's quite surprising that even with a facility like this, they don't install any booby traps." Noel looked around. After confirming that he couldn't find a single record, Noel continued to the next floor.

The temperature decreased even further. This time, the floor was filled with a lot of items. He could recognize some because it was a part of his job when he was with the Demon Relief Squad.

Noel easily recognized the room as storage. There were many shelves storing all kinds of items. Unfortunately, he couldn't find anything useful. Hence, Noel left the floor, heading to the next one.

And in this place, he finally saw the end of the stairs.

"Hmm?" Noel examined the stair. Since there were no more stairs, the area was turned into small storage. There was nothing suspicious among the items, so Noel headed to the door leading to the last room.

But when he held the door handle, he noticed it was so cold that even his hand almost got frozen.

his hand and looked at his hand. There was no frostbite, but the fact

a Humanoid Rank." Noel smirked, feeling challenged. Since there was no demon inside the room, he focused his energy on his fire element to fight

but…" Noel took a deep breath and started pushing the handle down, only to find it stuck. As

wrapped the entire door with his Undying Fire. Instead of pouring too much to melt it, he only used enough Spiritual Energy to warm up the door

minutes, showing how powerful the ice was. But

*Fwoosh!*

escaped

into his fire. This was the first time he had experienced this extreme cold. "What's wrong with this

gritted his teeth. If not for his Undying Flame, he would definitely get frozen

adjusted himself to the temperature, he raised his

gasped out loud. He couldn't believe it. On the opposite side of the room,

realized where all the people in this area were. It

size of the room he had seen so far, he suspected that the rest were hiding behind the wall

entered the room, seeking out the

wasn't as big as the rest despite it being at the bottom of the building. Additionally, the spot where he expected to find the other humans that maintained this giant structure was actually filled

find demons and demi-humans getting frozen in this place. The demons seemed to be made of desert animals. They looked like they were trying to run to

his left stood a few statues made of frozen demi-humans. They were looking angry

grotesque physiques like the ones he found on the upper floor. He realized that they were the failed

the room, especially the demons. It seemed that they were trying

he followed their vision, he found a small floating gem. The gem was like a blue jade. It was polished cleanly, but it didn't let out any light, making it hard to find if there was no clue. In fact, Noel couldn't find any trace

that I've been looking for this whole time?" Noel frowned. He entered the room carefully as the cold started attacking him, trying to freeze him like the others in this

room. There was one thing

the humans and the demi-humans be placed against each other? They looked like they were arguing before getting frozen. Why would their number be low, not

looked at the demons, he wondered

addition, he couldn't

that could easily fit a hundred people. However, there was no way only a hundred people could maintain this building. They should have other