“I think he let us go on purpose,” James muttered as they traveled through the 41st Layer of the Abyss. “It seems that not all the Abyssal Lords are loyal to this Daniel fellow.”

Lux nodded his head in agreement. When the Half-Elf saw the mischievous smile on the Black Wolf’s face, he knew that Marchosias had already seen through their disguise.

Because of that, he had prepared to summon his Undead Army and attack, not letting a single witness escape. However, Marchosias decided to let them go as if nothing had happened.

“Do you think he will rat us out later?” Lux inquired.

“The possibility exists,” James replied. “But, I am more inclined to think that he will not do such a thing. It’s still a fifty-fifty chance though. What do you think, should we go back and eliminate him just in case?”

Lux pondered for a bit before shaking his head. He liked to believe that not all the Abyssal Lords, as well as the Abyssal Creatures were the bloodthirsty kind. Although he had to admit that Queen Rhiannon and him didn’t have a good start, they were able to move on from that incident, and stand together as allies.

He didn’t know if there were any Pacifists among the Abyssal Lords, but he sure hoped that he wouldn’t have to fight every Abyssal Creature that blocked his path to find his lover, Aurora.

Traveling through the different layers was easy. It was dealing with Daniel’s subordinates that was hard because they needed to kill them quickly, and ensure that they weren’t able to pass word to their Master about what was happening.

Fortunately, they were able to do this without fail, allowing them to continue their journey.

Several hours later, the two finally arrived at the 60th Floor, and decided to take a short rest before they continued their journey.

The number of Abyssal Creatures that were wandering the Abyssal Layers were increasing the deeper they traveled into the Abyss.

Lux knew that it was only a matter of time before they would have to force their way through the portal that would lead them to the One Hundredth Floor, where the Abyssal Nobles resided.

They were the Demigods who decided to rule the Layer they were currently on together. This served as a deterrence, as well as a show of unity on the surface, preventing other Abyssal Lords from getting the wrong idea about them.

Layer by painful Layer, Lux, James, and Sleipnir traveled without fail.

After a few days, they finally arrived at the Hundredth Layer, and saw a magnificent city standing on the Abyssal Plane. As much as they didn’t want to enter the city, they had no choice but to do so.

Why?

It was because the Portal was located in the very center of the city, and protected by Calamity-Ranked Demons, who were making sure that only those with clearance were able to pass through the portal that led to the 101st Layer of the Abyss.

“If we brute force ourselves in, it will definitely cause a commotion, alerting the Abyssal Nobles that rule the city,” Lux said. “But, in order to gain a clearance, we must meet with one of them, which is just as dangerous. It seems that we need to have a plan for how we should approach this.”

In truth, entering the portal wasn’t that difficult. However, Lux knew that the moment the Guards noticed that something was amiss, they would immediately notify their Masters, which would in turn, notify Daniel that a commotion was happening in their Domain.

If that happened, there was a very high possibility that Daniel would personally come and investigate the disturbance.

This increased his chances of crossing paths with Lux, which was the worst case scenario that could happen.

Just as the Half-Elf was desperately thinking of what to do, James hummed and took a blanket out of his storage ring.

“I have an idea,” James stated. “Let’s use my Invisibility Blanket to get past those guards.”

“Invisibility blanket?” Lux blinked once then twice as he looked at the blanket in the old man’s hands.

“Does that even work?”

“Of course.”

As if to prove his point, James wrapped himself up with the blanket, and before Lux could even blink, the old man had disappeared completely.

The Half-Elf extended his senses and tried to see if he could detect the old man’s presence.

He did detect something, but it was very faint and negligible.

Lux believed that unless someone knew where James was and used all of their senses to focus in that location, no one would be able to notice anything.

A few seconds later, James reappeared and looked at the Half-Elf with a smug expression on his face.

“What do you think?” James asked. “I got this Invisibility Blanket from a Hag, who has many Warts. “Although she asked for a steep price, I decided to steal—err buy it from her without even asking for a discount.”

“How about Sleipnir?” Lux asked. “WIll you be able to cover him with a blanket as well?”

“You don’t have to worry about him,” James replied. Sleipnir neighed and walked towards James. The horse’ body slowly shrank until he was only a foot-tall horse.

James calmly picked Sleipnir up as if he was a cat, and nestled him in his arms.

“Unfortunately, the blanket might not be enough to cover us both,” James stated. “Do you have a way to enter the portal undetected?”

Lux nodded. “Come, Draven.”

His fateful Shadow Sovereign extended his shadow, allowing Lux to merge with it. The moment his master was safely inside his shadow, Draven merged with James’ shadow, making the old man smirk.

“You have a lot of tricks under your sleeves, Lux,” James commented before covering his entire body with the blanket. “Now, off we go.”

The Old Man slowly walked towards the gates of the city, hiding in plain sight.

Although there were Guards, who had a strong sense of smell, all of them thought that they were just imagining things when they caught the scent of an Old Scammer in their midsts.

Although it took James an hour to reach their destination, he was able to sneak into the portal, leaving the Hundredth Floor behind.

Now that they were only a few Layers away from the 111th Floor where the Nests of Abyssal Monsters were located, they hoped that the person they were looking for was there.

If possible, they would like to avoid the need to go all the way to the 222nd Layer, where the second nest of Abyssal Creatures was located. ᴛhis chapter is ᴜpdated by NovlFire(.)nt