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.

out his hand and looked at his hand. There was no

Rank." Noel smirked, feeling challenged. Since there was no demon inside the room, he focused

a deep breath and started pushing the handle down, only to find it stuck. As one would expect, the

the door with brute force, but it would create a lot of noise. So, he 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 until all the

minutes, showing how powerful the ice was. But he finally could open

*Fwoosh!*

chilling breeze instantly escaped

his fire. This was the first time he had experienced this extreme cold.

for his Undying Flame, he would definitely get frozen just

himself to the temperature, he raised his head and found what had actually transpired inside this

out loud. He couldn't believe it. On the opposite side of the room, he could see a lot of humans

were. It

the room he had seen so far, he

the

being at the bottom of the building. Additionally, the spot where he expected to find the other

made of desert animals. They looked like they were trying to run to the left side of the room, but they ended

were looking

grotesque physiques like the ones

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

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 of its Spiritual Energy

for this whole time?" Noel frowned. He entered the room carefully as the

scanned the room. There was one

be placed against each other? They looked like they were arguing before getting frozen. Why would their number be low, not matching the size of this building? Lastly, why

first, he suspected that 'something' had moved the demi-humans and the humans in this place. But when he looked at the demons, he wondered if that something truly existed. If that was the case, that something

might be incorrect. In addition, he couldn't find a

that could easily fit a hundred people. However, there was no way only a hundred people