The Primal Hunter

Chapter 681

A sudden burst of heat hit Jake as he stepped out of the gateway and appeared on the thirty-fifth floor. One thing was already different about this floor from any of those prior: there was no difficulty selection with Minaga. Instead, they had appeared already within the Demon Lord’s castle.

Before anything else, Jake released a Pulse of Perception to get a lay of the land. What he saw was probably the smallest floor they had encountered so far.

The entire floor was just one unrealistically giant castle. It consisted of three different sections of note: the massive central throne room, a large circular hallway surrounding it, and three towers that each had hallways extending from the large circular hallway. Jake also spotted a certain someone hidden in a room pretty much right next to where they appeared.

As Jake was still looking through the mental map from his Pulse, they got the usual welcome message to the floor.

Welcome to the Thirty-Fifth floor of Nevermore: Minaga’s Labyrinth (Demon Lord’s Castle)

Main objective: Reach the end of the Labyrinth.

Bonus objectives: Slay the three Tower Demons (0/3)

Current progress: Tower Demons (0/3). End reached (0/1)

Note: More hidden events, achievements, or objectives may be hidden on the floor.

Current Nevermore Points: 23123

Minaga had even bothered to name this floor and didn’t just call it part five. Using his mental map, it was easy to spot all three Tower Demons, as each was within their respective towers. Moreover, each Tower Demon seemed to be guarding something, and Jake couldn’t help but make the connection between the three Secret Scrolls and the three towers.

Speaking of the secret scrolls.

A small pedestal was right in front of them where they appeared. All three Secret Scrolls were stacked on top of each other, with a letter placed on top of them all.

“Ree?” Sylphie asked as she shuffled a bit on his shoulder, uncomfortable with the heavy fire affinity in the air.

“Yeah, sure,” Jake agreed. Sylphie released a small gust of wind that made the letter fly over to him, and they all looked at Jake as he cleared his voice and read it aloud.

“Dear heroes.

I hope you all have arrived at the Demon Lord’s castle safely, and I hope this letter reached you in time. Throughout the years of plotting to take down the Demon Lord, I managed to obtain the schematics of the Demon Lord’s castle and memorize them, and I wish to share my findings with you. For now, avoid the central throne room and, instead, head to the three outer towers. You must defeat the three Tower Demons atop each tower and gain access to each Sealstone up there. These Sealstones are attuned to the artifacts, and you need to read out the incarnation written on each corresponding Secret Scroll. Remember to read the correct phrase to sabotage the artifacts of the Demon Lord. If you read the other one, you may accidentally empower the Demon Lord, making beating Gubrothas nearly impossible.

May you succeed in your quest for righteousness.

- Second Mistress.”

Jake finished reading it, and just as he did, they heard shuffling footsteps and the sound of something impacting the tiled floors. Out of a small hidden room walked the old demon, now with a cane in hand, as he shuffled in their direction.

“Heroes! I could not help but hear you read the letter from the Second Mistress, and I came out as soon as I could. I am glad to see you arrived at the evil Demon Lord Gubrothas’ castle in one piece. You even managed to obtain all three Secret Scrolls! Truly impressive,” the old demon smiled at them.

Things were as expected, and Jake smiled at the old demon. “I found your message at your old residence. Say, how did you manage to find a secret entrance to the castle? Could you not have told us about it?”

opening, and the evil Demon Lord Gubrothas found the flaw in the defenses right after I managed to sneak inside. Also, it may have interfered with your quest to obtain the Secret Scrolls. In the

not actually here to

how off the demon was, it was pretty damn

Mistress. What say you? How do you think we should

you are truly confident in your victory, then you can simply choose to face the

bringing the evil Demon Lord to justice,” Jake said, trying to sound as

to offer my

go, Jake

in what way?”

reason as he spoke. “Could you lend

Jake readily agreed but then seemed to back down as he turned

far. No need to be suspicious,” the Sword Saint said with a

never be too safe,”

the demon showed acting talent on par with the average child actor as he received the scrolls

if that is alright with you all, right? I may need your slight assistance,” the

insight into magic circles also instantly let

both Dina and Jake poured in a bit of mana as the old demon was not strong enough to do the ritual himself. Then, suddenly, to the surprise of absolutely everyone, the secret scrolls were all teleported away as

the incantations to empower the artifacts, and unless you manage to kill them all and

as he tried to

muttered. “What will we

Tower Demons and reverse the process! Just because you can recover the scrolls and read the incantation to sabotage the artifacts and reverse any empowering doesn’t mean you will be able to accomplish it! Of course, you can also face the Demon Lord in his strongest state possible in an impossible battle that you would only ever be able to overcome if you true talents sitting at the peak of the multiverse! And it isn’t like

were truly bamboozled,”

over the entire multiverse, and unless you manage to somehow kill the Demon Lord in his empowered state or go and slay the three

kill him already?”the Fallen

“Sure.”

“Go ahead.”

“Please do.”

“Ree.”

had barely been C-grade and was honestly so weak it wasn’t

“So…”

Demon Lord with all of his power and ignore these Tower Demons,” the Fallen King said. “Perhaps

I don’t think that will be necessary. Video game logic dictates they will join the Demon Lord fight anyway, so we should

you mean?” the Sword Saint

“Come on. Three mini-bosses, each guarding a method to empower the final boss? What do you think will happen when you ignore them and allow them to fully empower the boss? Of course they will join in on the fight in

do you believe it wise to make assumptions based on Earth’s video

Jake said, fully

the Sword

planning time. The general layout of the room

arena, they would adapt. Luckily for them, the throne room was utterly massive. It was a giant hall more than ten kilometers across, with four giant pillars around a hundred meters in diameter surrounding a large throne in the middle. Right above the throne, suspended by large meter-thick chains extending from the four pillars, hung a red

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