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Chapter 576

"Kh...Huuu...huuu..."

My chest burned with every breath I took. The pain was unbearable. It almost felt as though I was breathing fire, but...

"Keep breathing."

The familiar voice and hand pressing against my back prompted me to keep breathing in the same manner as before.

It was hard.

Very hard.

In the process of dropping the boulders into the hole, I almost passed out from overexertion.

It would have been catastrophic if Han Yufei hadn't dragged me away and hidden me in a corner to help me. Fortunately, as this seemed to be a common scene, none of the demons took particular notice of me.

"...You're almost there."

Han Yufei's voice echoed out once more. Clenching my teeth, sweat dripped down from the side of my face as it sizzled on the steaming hot ground.

"Ugh."

Despite the pain, I persisted through the pain as I felt myself progressing. A slow but steady increase in strength and recovery was occurring in my muscles.

In spite of the fact that I had no mana inside my body, my body was slowly recovering.

It was nothing short of miraculous.

"Don't lose focus."

Han Yufei's voice once again echoed inside of my head as he helped me master the first stage of his family martial manual.

[Body Hardening.]

Compared to the other two sections, it sounded like the most lack-luster stage of his martial manual, but I begged to differ.

At the moment, I find it to be the most effective method.

There was a simple reason for this.

'With it, I might be able to increase the power and time of my last skill.'

Limit Breaker.

The most ominous skill that I had, but also my biggest reassurance.

With every use, I knew that I would have to follow my other self's arrangements, but I also knew that I would be able to live longer through this skill.

Especially since I was still quite weak compared to my enemies, and I ended up facing enemies that tended to be way above my rank nowadays.

"There are four phases to the [Body Hardening] method. Bronze body, Silver body, Gold body, and Diamond body. You've currently achieved the Bronze body, and you're close to achieving the Silver body. If you keep practicing as I told you, then you won't have any problems breaking through to the next level any time soon."

I slowly turned around as I felt Han Yufei's hand leave my body.

The sensation of cooling that was coursing through my body vanished at that moment.

'A pity...'

I thought as I slowly stood up and stretched my body.

"How's his condition?"

Crouching down next to Jin and Emma who were sitting not so far from where we were, I carefully examined Smallsnake's condition.

"He seems to be fine."

Emma replied as she examined his body carefully. Placing her finger over his wrist, she closed her eyes for several seconds.

"His heartbeat is a bit weak, and his complexion is a bit pale, but for now, he isn't in any danger. He is just exhausted."

"That's good."

relief once I heard her

was my responsibility

couldn't forgive myself if anything happened to

"Let's get going."

he stood up and

like

"...You're right."

general

least they're not

commented as

nodded slightly as I turned to

"Yeah."

camp, the demons were rather lax. Or rather, they weren't stupid

to recover our stamina.

long, about ten minutes long, but it was still nonetheless

the rocks, some of the people from the other races were also taking short breaks and quietly eating some of the strange

the deaths over here are mostly

stepped over the corpses beneath

churn, but I simply endured it and headed for the

lot easier if

as I

wasn't sealed, I would've been able to finish my task faster and more efficiently, but apparently, the ores inside of the boulders reacted

as though I

"Haaa..."

rocks in the

to

***

placed their

the others and checked whether they had placed their hands on Kevin. It was the necessary condition in order for the teleportation

"Yes."

"Yup."

"Ready."

placed their hands on

"Alright, do your thing."

twitched as he felt Melissa's

a soft voice,

I, a

"Yes."

nodded, clearly

the head again, she turned to look at the pyramid in the

We don't have much

"Fine, fine."

face the pyramid and pressed the air. His actions caused the others to look at each other with a weird look on their

particles, and

***

Clank

too familiar rock grating sound was complete darkness

"Haaa...Haaa.."

body was completely exhausted and I barely felt any energy inside of my

"Shit."

a curse while covering my face

not the time

my body, I sat cross-legged on the floor. Then I started breathing rhythmically, recalling Han Yufei's

for everything, and now was not the time for me to relax.

through the exhaustion and pain, as Han Yufei said, my body will continue to improve,

I would be after learning the skill

"Just you w—"

across the room, forcing me to add more strength

"Are we here?"

it

the lights

"Where is my cigarette?"

familiar voices echoed after the bright light as darkness returned

"Huh?!"

in shock as I recognized

in the world

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